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Old Testament","Category: History - Ancient","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Religion"],"text":"THE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\nVOLUME I: THE FIRST PART OF THE OLD TESTAMENT\n\n\n\n\nCREDITS\n\n\nWithout the assistance of many individuals and groups, this text of the\nDouay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible would not be available for the\nProject Gutenberg collection. Our most grateful and sincere thanks goes\nto those at 'Catholic Software' who have provided the electronic plain\ntexts of the 73 books of the Bible. 'Catholic Software' also produces a\nDouay Bible program on CD-ROM that features a fully searchable Douay-\nRheims Bible, footnotes, Latin text and dictionary, topical index, maps,\nBiblical art gallery, and other features. For more information of this\nand many other products contact:\n\nCatholic Software\nBox 1914\nMurray, KY 42071\n(502) 753-8198\nhttp://www.catholicity.com/market/CSoftware/\nwaubrey@aol.com\n\nAdditional production assistance has been provided by volunteers from\nthe Atlanta Council of the Knights of Columbus. Tad Book compiled and\nreformatted the texts to Project Gutenberg standards. Dennis McCarthy\nassisted Mr. Book and transcribed selections from the first editions\nincluded as appendices.\n\n\n\n\nHISTORY\n\n\nThis three volume e-text set comes from multiple editions of Challoner's\nrevised Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible. The division of the Old\nTestaments into two parts follows the two tome format of the 1609/1610\nprinting of the Old Testament. In 1568 English exiles, many from\nOxford, established the English College of Douay (Douai/Doway), Flanders,\nunder William (later Cardinal) Allen. In October, 1578, Gregory Martin\nbegan the work of preparing an English translation of the Bible for\nCatholic readers, the first such translation into Modern English.\nAssisting were William Allen, Richard Bristow, Thomas Worthington, and\nWilliam Reynolds who revised, criticized, and corrected Dr. Martin's\nwork. The college published the New Testament at Rheims (Reims/Rhemes),\nFrance, in 1582 through John Fogny with a preface and explanatory notes,\nauthored chiefly by Bristol, Allen, and Worthington. Later the Old\nTestament was published at Douay in two parts (1609 and 1610) by Laurence\nKellam through the efforts of Dr. Worthington, then superior of the\nseminary. The translation had been prepared before the appearance of the\nNew Testament, but the publication was delayed due to financial\ndifficulties. The religious and scholarly adherence to the Latin Vulgate\ntext led to the less elegant and idiomatic words and phrases often found\nin the translation. In some instances where no English word conveyed the\nfull meaning of the Latin, a Latin word was Anglicized and its meaning\ndefined in a glossary. Although ridiculed by critics, many of these\nwords later found common usage in the English language. Spellings of\nproper names and the numbering of the Psalms are adopted from the Latin\nVulgate.\n\nIn 1749 Dr. Richard Challoner began a major revision of the Douay and\nRheims texts, the spellings and phrasing of which had become increasingly\narchaic in the almost two centuries since the translations were first\nproduced. He modernized the diction and introduced a more fluid style,\nwhile faithfully maintaining the accuracy of Dr. Martin's texts. This\nrevision became the 'de facto' standard text for English speaking\nCatholics until the twentieth century. It is still highly regarded by\nmany for its style, although it is now rarely used for liturgical\npurposes. The notes included in this electronic edition are generally\nattributed to Bishop Challoner.\n\nThe 1610 printing of the second tome of the Old Testament includes an\nappendix containing the non-canonical books 'Prayer of Manasses,' 'Third\nBooke of Esdras,' and 'Fourth Booke of Esdras.' While not part of\nChalloner's revision, the 1610 texts are placed in the appendices of\nVol. II of this e-text set. Also included are the original texts of two\nshort books, 'The Prophecie of Abdias' (Vol. II) and 'The Catholike\nEpistle of Iude the Apostle' (Vol. III), to give the reader a sense of\nthe language of the first editions in comparison to the Challoner\nrevision. Further background on the Douay-Rheims version may be found in\na selection from the preface to the 1582 edition and the original\nglossary included in the appendices of Vol. III.\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\nThe First Part of the Old Testament\n\n Book of Genesis\n Book of Exodus\n Book of Leviticus\n Book of Numbers\n Book of Deuteronomy\n Book of Josue\n Book of Judges\n Book of Ruth\n First Book of Samuel, alias 1 Kings\n Second Book of Samuel, alias 2 Kings\n Third Book of Kings\n Fourth Book of Kings\n First Book of Paralipomenon\n Second Book of Paralipomenon\n First Book of Esdras\n Book of Nehemias, alias 2 Esdras\n Book of Tobias\n Book of Judith\n Book of Esther\n Book of Job\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF GENESIS\n\n\n\nThis book is so called from its treating of the GENERATION, that is, of\nthe creation and the beginning of the world. The Hebrews call it\nBERESITH, from the Word with which it begins. It contains not only the\nhistory of the Creation of the world; but also an account of its\nprogress during the space of 2369 years, that is, until the death of\nJOSEPH.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 1\n\n\nGod createth Heaven and Earth, and all things therein, in six days.\n\n1:1. In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.\n\n1:2. And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face\nof the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.\n\n1:3. And God said: Be light made. And light was made.\n\n1:4. And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light\nfrom the darkness.\n\n1:5. And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was\nevening and morning one day.\n\n1:6. And God said: Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters: and\nlet it divide the waters from the waters.\n\nA firmament. . .By this name is here understood the whole space between\nthe earth, and the highest stars. The lower part of which divideth the\nwaters that are upon the earth, from those that are above in the\nclouds.\n\n1:7. And God made a firmament, and divided the waters that were under\nthe firmament, from those that were above the firmament, and it was so.\n\n1:8. And God called the firmament, Heaven; and the evening and morning\nwere the second day.\n\n1:9. God also said; Let the waters that are under the heaven, be\ngathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it\nwas so done.\n\n1:10. And God called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of\nthe waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.\n\n1:11. And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as\nmay seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may\nhave seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.\n\n1:12. And the earth brought forth the green herb, and such as yieldeth\nseed according to its kind, and the tree that beareth fruit, having\nseed each one according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.\n\n1:13. And the evening and the morning were the third day.\n\n1:14. And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of\nheaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and\nfor seasons, and for days and years:\n\n1:15. To shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the\nearth, and it was so done.\n\n1:16. And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day;\nand a lesser light to rule the night: and the stars.\n\nTwo great lights. . .God created on the first day, light, which being\nmoved from east to west, by its rising and setting, made morning and\nevening. But on the fourth day he ordered and distributed this light,\nand made the sun, moon, and stars. The moon, though much less than the\nstars, is here called a great light, from its giving a far greater\nlight to the earth than any of them.\n\n1:17. And he set them in the firmament of heaven to shine upon the\nearth.\n\n1:18. And to rule the day and the night, and to divide the light and\nthe darkness. And God saw that it was good.\n\n1:19. And the evening and morning were the fourth day.\n\n1:20. God also said: let the waters bring forth the creeping creature\nhaving life, and the fowl that may fly over the earth under the\nfirmament of heaven.\n\n1:21. And God created the great whales, and every living and moving\ncreature, which the waters brought forth, according to their kinds, and\nevery winged fowl according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.\n\n1:22. And he blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the\nwaters of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth.\n\n1:23. And the evening and morning were the fifth day.\n\n1:24. And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in\nits kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth,\naccording to their kinds. And it was so done.\n\n1:25. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds,\nand cattle, and every thing that creepeth on the earth after its kind.\nAnd God saw that it was good.\n\n1:26. And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let\nhim have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air,\nand the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that\nmoveth upon the earth.\n\nLet us make man to our image. . .This image of God in man, is not in the\nbody, but in the soul; which is a spiritual substance, endued with\nunderstanding and free will. God speaketh here in the plural number, to\ninsinuate the plurality of persons in the Deity.\n\n1:27. And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he\ncreated him: male and female he created them.\n\n1:28. And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the\nearth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the\nfowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.\n\nIncrease and multiply. . .This is not a precept, as some Protestant\ncontrovertists would have it, but a blessing, rendering them fruitful;\nfor God had said the same words to the fishes, and birds, (ver. 22) who\nwere incapable of receiving a precept.\n\n1:29. And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed\nupon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own\nkind, to be your meat:\n\n1:30. And to all beasts of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and\nto all that move upon the earth, and wherein there is life, that they\nmay have to feed upon. And it was so done.\n\n1:31. And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very\ngood. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 2\n\n\nGod resteth on the seventh day and blesseth it. The earthly paradise,\nin which God placeth man. He commandeth him not to eat of the tree of\nknowledge. And formeth a woman of his rib.\n\n2:1. So the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture\nof them.\n\n2:2. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and\nhe rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.\n\nHe rested, etc. . .That is, he ceased to make or create any new kinds of\nthings. Though, as our Lord tells us, John 5.17, \"He still worketh\",\nviz., by conserving and governing all things, and creating souls.\n\n2:3. And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it\nhe had rested from all his work which God created and made.\n\n2:4. These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they\nwere created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the\nearth:\n\n2:5. And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and\nevery herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not\nrained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth.\n\n2:6. But a spring rose out of the earth, watering all the surface of\nthe earth.\n\n2:7. And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and\nbreathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living\nsoul.\n\n2:8. And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the\nbeginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.\n\n2:9. And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees,\nfair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the\nmidst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.\n\nThe tree of life. . .So called because it had that quality, that by\neating of the fruit of it, man would have been preserved in a constant\nstate of health, vigour, and strength, and would not have died at all.\nThe tree of knowledge. . .To which the deceitful serpent falsely\nattributed the power of imparting a superior kind of knowledge, beyond\nthat which God was pleased to give.\n\n2:10. And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise,\nwhich from thence is divided into four heads.\n\n2:11. The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all\nthe land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.\n\n2:12. And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdellium,\nand the onyx stone.\n\n2:13. And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that\ncompasseth all the land of Ethiopia.\n\n2:14. And the name of the third river is Tigris: the same passeth along\nby the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.\n\n2:15. And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of\npleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.\n\n2:16. And he commanded him, saying: Of every tree of paradise thou\nshalt eat:\n\n2:17. But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not\neat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the\ndeath.\n\n2:18. And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us\nmake him a help like unto himself.\n\n2:19. And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts\nof the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see\nwhat he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature\nthe same is its name.\n\n2:20. And Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls\nof the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not\nfound a helper like himself.\n\n2:21. Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was\nfast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it.\n\n2:22. And the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a\nwoman: and brought her to Adam.\n\n2:23. And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my\nflesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.\n\n2:24. Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave\nto his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.\n\n2:25. And they were both naked: to wit, Adam and his wife: and were not\nashamed.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 3\n\n\nThe serpent's craft. The fall of our first parents. Their punishment.\nThe promise of a Redeemer.\n\n3:1. Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the\nearth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath\nGod commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?\n\n3:2. And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that\nare in paradise we do eat:\n\n3:3. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise,\nGod hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not\ntouch it, lest perhaps we die.\n\n3:4. And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the\ndeath.\n\n3:5. For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof,\nyour eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and\nevil.\n\n3:6. And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the\neyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and\ndid eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat.\n\n3:7. And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived\nthemselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made\nthemselves aprons.\n\nAnd the eyes, etc. . .Not that they were blind before, (for the woman\nsaw that the tree was fair to the eyes, ver. 6.) nor yet that their\neyes were opened to any more perfect knowledge of good; but only to the\nunhappy experience of having lost the good of original grace and\ninnocence, and incurred the dreadful evil of sin. From whence followed\na shame of their being naked; which they minded not before; because\nbeing now stript of original grace, they quickly began to be subject to\nthe shameful rebellions of the flesh.\n\n3:8. And when they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in paradise\nat the afternoon air, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of\nthe Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise.\n\n3:9. And the Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where art thou?\n\n3:10. And he said: I heard thy voice in paradise; and I was afraid,\nbecause I was naked, and I hid myself.\n\n3:11. And he said to him: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked,\nbut that thou hast eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou\nshouldst not eat?\n\n3:12. And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion,\ngave me of the tree, and I did eat.\n\n3:13. And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And\nshe answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.\n\n3:14. And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this\nthing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon\nthy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy\nlife.\n\n3:15. I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and\nher seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her\nheel.\n\nShe shall crush. . .Ipsa, the woman; so divers of the fathers read this\nplace, conformably to the Latin: others read it ipsum, viz., the seed.\nThe sense is the same: for it is by her seed, Jesus Christ, that the\nwoman crushes the serpent's head.\n\n3:16. To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy\nconceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt\nbe under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.\n\n3:17. And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of\nthy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that\nthou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and\ntoil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.\n\n3:18. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt\neat the herbs of the earth.\n\n3:19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to\nthe earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into\ndust thou shalt return.\n\n3:20. And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the\nmother of all the living.\n\n3:21. And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins,\nand clothed them.\n\n3:22. And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and\nevil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of\nthe tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.\n\nBehold Adam, etc. . .This was spoken by way of reproaching him with his\npride, in affecting a knowledge that might make him like to God.\n\n3:23. And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to\ntill the earth from which he was taken.\n\n3:24. And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure\nCherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of\nthe tree of life.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 4\n\n\nThe history of Cain and Abel.\n\n4:1. And Adam knew Eve his wife; who conceived and brought forth Cain,\nsaying: I have gotten a man through God.\n\n4:2. And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a\nshepherd, and Cain a husbandman.\n\n4:3. And it came to pass after many days, that Cain offered, of the\nfruits of the earth, gifts to the Lord.\n\n4:4. Abel also offered of the firstlings of his flock, and of their\nfat: and the Lord had respect to Abel, and to his offerings.\n\nHad respect. . .That is, shewed his acceptance of his sacrifice (as\ncoming from a heart full of devotion): and that, as we may suppose, by\nsome visible token, such as sending fire from heaven upon his\nofferings.\n\n4:5. But to Cain and his offerings he had no respect: and Cain was\nexceeding angry, and his countenance fell.\n\n4:6. And the Lord said to him: Why art thou angry? and why is thy\ncountenance fallen?\n\n4:7. If thou do well, shalt thou not receive? but if ill, shall not sin\nforthwith be present at the door? but the lust thereof shall be under\nthee, and thou shalt have dominion over it.\n\n4:8. And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And\nwhen they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and\nslew him.\n\n4:9. And the Lord said to Cain: Where is thy brother Abel? And he\nanswered: I know not: am I my brother's keeper?\n\n4:10. And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy\nbrother's blood crieth to me from the earth.\n\n4:11. Now, therefore, cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath\nopened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand.\n\n4:12. When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a\nfugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.\n\n4:13. And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that I may\ndeserve pardon.\n\n4:14. Behold thou dost cast me out this day from the face of the earth,\nand from thy face I shall be hid, and I shall be a vagabond and a\nfugitive on the earth: every one, therefore, that findeth me, shall kill\nme.\n\nEvery one that findeth me shall kill me. . .His guilty conscience made\nhim fear his own brothers and nephews; of whom, by this time, there\nmight be a good number upon the earth; which had now endured near 130\nyears; as may be gathered from Gen. 5.3, compared with chap. 4.25,\nthough in the compendious account given in the scriptures, only Cain\nand Abel are mentioned.\n\n4:15. And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever\nshall kill Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark\nupon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.\n\nSet a mark, etc. . .The more common opinion of the interpreters of holy\nwrit supposes this mark to have been a trembling of the body; or a\nhorror and consternation in his countenance.\n\n4:16. And Cain went out from the face of the Lord, and dwelt as a\nfugitive on the earth at the east side of Eden.\n\n4:17. And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and brought forth\nHenoch: and he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of\nhis son Henoch.\n\nHis wife. . .She was a daughter of Adam, and Cain's own sister; God\ndispensing with such marriages in the beginning of the world, as\nmankind could not otherwise be propagated. He built a city, viz. . .In\nprocess of time, when his race was multiplied, so as to be numerous\nenough to people it. For in the many hundred years he lived, his race\nmight be multiplied even to millions.\n\n4:18. And Henoch begot Irad, and Irad begot Maviael, and Maviael begot\nMathusael, and Mathusael begot Lamech,\n\n4:19. Who took two wives: the name of the one was Ada, and the name of\nthe other Sella.\n\n4:20. And Ada brought forth Jabel: who was the father of such as dwell\nin tents, and of herdsmen.\n\n4:21. And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of them that\nplay upon the harp and the organs.\n\n4:22. Sella also brought forth Tubalcain, who was a hammerer and\nartificer in every work of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubalcain\nwas Noema.\n\n4:23. And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella: Hear my voice, ye\nwives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to the\nwounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising.\n\nI have slain a man, etc. . .It is the tradition of the Hebrews, that\nLamech in hunting slew Cain, mistaking him for a wild beast; and that\nhaving discovered what he had done, he beat so unmercifully the youth,\nby whom he was led into that mistake, that he died of the blows.\n\n4:24. Sevenfold vengeance shall be taken for Cain: but for Lamech\nseventy times sevenfold.\n\n4:25. Adam also knew his wife again: and she brought forth a son, and\ncalled his name Seth, saying: God hath given me another seed for Abel,\nwhom Cain slew.\n\n4:26. But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos: this man\nbegan to call upon the name of the Lord.\n\nBegan to call upon, etc. . .Not that Adam and Seth had not called upon\nGod, before the birth of Enos; but that Enos used more solemnity in the\nworship and invocation of God.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 5\n\n\nThe genealogy, age, and death of the Patriarchs, from Adam to Noe. The\ntranslation of Henoch.\n\n5:1. This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God\ncreated man, he made him to the likeness of God.\n\n5:2. He created them male and female; and blessed them: and called\ntheir name Adam, in the day when they were created.\n\n5:3. And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son to his\nown image and likeness, and called his name Seth.\n\n5:4. And the days of Adam, after he begot Seth, were eight hundred\nyears: and he begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:5. And all the time that Adam lived, came to nine hundred and thirty\nyears, and he died.\n\n5:6. Seth also lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enos.\n\n5:7. And Seth lived after he begot Enos, eight hundred and seven years,\nand begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:8. And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and\nhe died.\n\n5:9. And Enos lived ninety years, and begot Cainan.\n\n5:10. After whose birth he lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and\nbegot sons and daughters.\n\n5:11. And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he\ndied.\n\n5:12. And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Malaleel.\n\n5:13. And Cainan lived after he begot Malaleel, eight hundred and forty\nyears, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:14. And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and\nhe died.\n\n5:15. And Malaleel lived sixty-five years and begot Jared.\n\n5:16. And Malaleel lived after he begot Jared, eight hundred and thirty\nyears, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:17. And all the days of Malaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five\nyears, and he died.\n\n5:18. And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Henoch.\n\n5:19. And Jared lived after he begot Henoch, eight hundred years, and\nbegot sons and daughters.\n\n5:20. And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years,\nand he died.\n\n5:21. And Henoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Mathusala.\n\n5:22. And Henoch walked with God: and lived after he begot Mathusala,\nthree hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:23. And all the days of Henoch were three hundred and sixty-five\nyears.\n\n5:24. And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took\nhim.\n\n5:25. And Mathusala lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot\nLamech.\n\n5:26. And Mathlusala lived after he begot Lamech, seven hundred and\neighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:27. And all the days of Mathusala were nine hundred and sixty-nine\nyears, and he died.\n\n5:28. And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begot a son.\n\n5:29. And he called his name Noe, saying: This same shall comfort us\nfrom the works and labours of our hands on the earth, which the Lord\nhath cursed.\n\n5:30. And Lamech lived after he begot Noe, five hundred and ninety-five\nyears, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:31. And all the days of Lamech came to seven hundred and\nseventy-seven years, and he died. And Noe, when he was five hundred\nyears old, begot Sem, Cham, and Japheth.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 6\n\n\nMan's sin is the cause of the deluge. Noe is commanded to build the\nark.\n\n6:1. And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and\ndaughters were born to them,\n\n6:2. The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair,\ntook to themselves wives of all which they chose.\n\nThe sons of God. . .The descendants of Seth and Enos are here called\nsons of God from their religion and piety: whereas the ungodly race of\nCain, who by their carnal affections lay grovelling upon the earth, are\ncalled the children of men. The unhappy consequence of the former\nmarrying with the latter, ought to be a warning to Christians to be\nvery circumspect in their marriages; and not to suffer themselves to be\ndetermined in their choice by their carnal passion, to the prejudice of\nvirtue or religion.\n\n6:3. And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because\nhe is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.\n\nHis days shall be, etc. . .The meaning is, that man's days, which before\nthe flood were usually 900 years, should now be reduced to 120 years.\nOr rather, that God would allow men this term of 120 years, for their\nrepentance and conversion, before he would send the deluge.\n\n6:4. Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons\nof God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth\nchildren, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.\n\nGiants. . .It is likely the generality of men before the flood were of a\ngigantic stature in comparison with what men now are. But these here\nspoken of are called giants, as being not only tall in stature, but\nviolent and savage in their dispositions, and mere monsters of cruelty\nand lust.\n\n6:5. And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth,\nand that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all\ntimes,\n\n6:6. It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being\ntouched inwardly with sorrow of heart,\n\nIt repented him, etc. . .God, who is unchangeable, is not capable of\nrepentance, grief, or any other passion. But these expressions are used\nto declare the enormity of the sins of men, which was so provoking as\nto determine their Creator to destroy these his creatures, whom before\nhe had so much favoured.\n\n6:7. He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of\nthe earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the\nfowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.\n\n6:8. But Noe found grace before the Lord.\n\n6:9. These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man\nin his generations, he walked with God.\n\n6:10. And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.\n\n6:11. And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with\niniquity.\n\n6:12. And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh\nhad corrupted its way upon the earth),\n\n6:13. He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth\nis filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the\nearth.\n\n6:14. Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou shalt make little rooms\nin the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without.\n\n6:15. And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three\nhundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it\nthirty cubits.\n\nThree hundred cubits, etc. . .The ark, according to the dimensions here\nset down, contained four hundred and fifty thousand square cubits;\nwhich was more than enough to contain all the kinds of living\ncreatures, with all necessary provisions: even supposing the cubits\nhere spoken of to have been only a foot and a half each, which was the\nleast kind of cubits.\n\n6:16. Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou\nfinish the top of it: and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the\nside: with lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt thou make\nit.\n\n6:17. Behold, I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth,\nto destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life under heaven. All\nthings that are in the earth shall be consumed.\n\n6:18. And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter\ninto the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy\nsons with thee.\n\n6:19. And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two\nof a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex,\nand the female.\n\n6:20. Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind,\nand of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind:\ntwo of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.\n\n6:21. Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou\nshalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.\n\n6:22. And Noe did all things which God commanded him.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 7\n\n\nNoe with his family go into the ark. The deluge overflows the earth.\n\n7:1. And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the\nark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.\n\n7:2. Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.\n\nOf all clean. . .The distinction of clean and unclean beasts appears to\nhave been made before the law of Moses, which was not promulgated till\nthe year of the world 2514.\n\n7:3. But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the\nfemale. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the\nfemale: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.\n\n7:4. For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth\nforty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I\nhave made, from the face of the earth.\n\n7:5. And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.\n\n7:6. And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood\noverflowed the earth.\n\n7:7. And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons\nwith him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.\n\n7:8. And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing\nthat moveth upon the earth,\n\n7:9. Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the\nLord had commanded Noe.\n\n7:10. And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood\noverflowed the earth.\n\n7:11. In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second\nmonth, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the\ngreat deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened:\n\n7:12. And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.\n\n7:13. In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth, his\nsons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into\nthe ark.\n\n7:14. They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in\ntheir kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth, according to\nits kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that\nfly,\n\n7:15. Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein\nwas the breath of life.\n\n7:16. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as\nGod had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside.\n\n7:17. And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters\nincreased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.\n\n7:18. For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of\nthe earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.\n\n7:19. And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all\nthe high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.\n\n7:20. The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it\ncovered.\n\n7:21. And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of\nfowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that\ncreep upon the earth: and all men.\n\n7:22. And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth,\ndied.\n\n7:23. And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from\nman even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and\nthey were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they\nthat were with him in the ark.\n\n7:24. And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 8\n\n\nThe deluge ceaseth. Noe goeth out of the ark, and offereth a sacrifice.\nGod's covenant to him.\n\n8:1. And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the\ncattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the\nearth, and the waters were abated:\n\n8:2. The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were\nshut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.\n\n8:3. And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and\nthey began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.\n\n8:4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth\nday of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.\n\n8:5. And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month:\nfor in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the\nmountains appeared.\n\n8:6. And after that forty days were passed, Noe opening the window of\nthe ark, which he had made, sent forth a raven:\n\n8:7. Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up\nupon the earth.\n\nDid not return. . .The raven did not return into the ark; but (as it may\nbe gathered from the Hebrew) went to and fro; sometimes going to the\nmountains, where it found carcasses to feed on: and other times\nreturning, to rest upon the top of the ark.\n\n8:8. He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now\nceased upon the face of the earth.\n\n8:9. But she not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him\ninto the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put\nforth his hand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark.\n\n8:10. And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the\ndove out of the ark.\n\n8:11. And she came to him in the evening carrying a bough of an olive\ntree, with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that\nthe waters were ceased upon the earth.\n\n8:12. And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove,\nwhich returned not any more unto him.\n\n8:13. Therefore in the six hundredth and first year, the first month,\nthe first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth,\nand Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face\nof the earth was dried.\n\n8:14. In the second month, the seven and twentieth day of the month,\nthe earth was dried.\n\n8:15. And God spoke to Noe, saying:\n\n8:16. Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons and the wives of\nthy sons with thee.\n\n8:17. All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in\nfowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth,\nbring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply\nupon it.\n\n8:18. So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his\nsons with him.\n\n8:19. And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep\nupon the earth, according to their kinds went out of the ark.\n\n8:20. And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle\nand fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.\n\nHolocausts,. . .or whole burnt offerings. In which the whole victim was\nconsumed by fire upon God's altar, and no part was reserved for the use\nof priest or people.\n\n8:21. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more\ncurse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of\nman's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more\ndestroy every living soul as I have done.\n\nSmelled, etc. . .A figurative expression, denoting that God was well\npleased with the sacrifices which his servant offered.\n\n8:22. All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,\nsummer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 9\n\n\nGod blesseth Noe: forbiddeth blood, and promiseth never more to destroy\nthe world by water. The blessing of Sem and Japheth.\n\n9:1. And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase,\nand multiply, and fill the earth.\n\n9:2. And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the\nearth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the\nearth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand.\n\n9:3. And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you:\neven as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:\n\n9:4. Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.\n\n9:5. For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every\nbeast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his\nbrother, will I require the life of man.\n\n9:6. Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man\nwas made to the image of God.\n\n9:7. But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.\n\n9:8. Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him:\n\n9:9. Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed\nafter you:\n\n9:10. And with every living soul that is with you, as well in all\nbirds, as in cattle and beasts of the earth, that are come forth out of\nthe ark, and in all the beasts of the earth.\n\n9:11. I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no\nmore destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from\nhenceforth a flood to waste the earth.\n\n9:12. And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I give\nbetween me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for\nperpetual generations.\n\n9:13. I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a\ncovenant between me and between the earth.\n\n9:14. And when I shall cover the sky with clouds, my bow shall appear\nin the clouds:\n\n9:15. And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living\nsoul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood\nto destroy all flesh.\n\n9:16. And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall\nremember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every\nliving soul of all flesh which is upon the earth.\n\n9:17. And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant,\nwhich I have established, between me and all flesh upon the earth.\n\n9:18. And the sons of Noe, who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and\nJapheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan.\n\n9:19. These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind\nspread over the whole earth.\n\n9:20. And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a\nvineyard.\n\n9:21. And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his\ntent.\n\nDrunk. . .Noe by the judgment of the fathers was not guilty of sin, in\nbeing overcome by wine: because he knew not the strength of it.\n\n9:22. Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his\nfather's nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren\nwithout.\n\n9:23. But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going\nbackward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were\nturned away, and they saw not their father's nakedness.\n\nCovered the nakedness. . .Thus, as St. Gregory takes notice L. 35;\nMoral. c. 22, we ought to cover the nakedness, that is, the sins, of\nour spiritual parents and superiors.\n\n9:24. And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his\nyounger son had done to him,\n\n9:25. He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be\nunto his brethren.\n\nCursed be Chanaan. . .The curses, as well as the blessings, of the\npatriarchs, were prophetical: And this in particular is here recorded\nby Moses, for the children of Israel, who were to possess the land of\nChanaan. But why should Chanaan be cursed for his father's faults? The\nHebrews answer, that he being then a boy, was the first that saw his\ngrandfather's nakedness, and told his father Cham of it; and joined\nwith him in laughing at it: which drew upon him, rather than upon the\nrest of the children of Cham, this prophetical curse.\n\n9:26. And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his\nservant.\n\n9:27. May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem,\nand Chanaan be his servant.\n\n9:28. And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.\n\n9:29. And all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years:\nand he died.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 10\n\n\nThe genealogy of the children of Noe, by whom the world was peopled\nafter the flood.\n\n10:1. These are the generations of the sons of Noe: Sem, Cham, and\nJapheth: and unto them sons were born after the flood.\n\n10:2. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and\nThubal, and Mosoch, and Thiras.\n\n10:3. And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez and Riphath and Thogorma.\n\n10:4. And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim.\n\n10:5. By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands,\nevery one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.\n\nThe islands. . .So the Hebrews called all the remote countries, to which\nthey went by ships from Judea, to Greece, Italy, Spain, etc.\n\n10:6. And the Sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram, and Phuth, and Chanaan.\n\n10:7. And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, and Sabatha, and Regma,\nand Sabatacha. The sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.\n\n10:8. Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.\n\n10:9. And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb:\nEven as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord.\n\nA stout hunter. . .Not of beasts but of men: whom by violence and\ntyranny he brought under his dominion. And such he was, not only in the\nopinion of men, but before the Lord, that is, in his sight who cannot\nbe deceived.\n\n10:10. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and\nAchad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar.\n\n10:11. Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the\nstreets of the city, and Chale.\n\n10:12. Resen also between Ninive and Chale: this is the great city.\n\n10:13. And Mesraim begot Ludim, and Anamim and Laabim, Nephthuim.\n\n10:14. And Phetrusim, and Chasluim; of whom came forth the Philistines,\nand the Capthorim.\n\n10:15. And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn, the Hethite,\n\n10:16. And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and the Gergesite.\n\n10:17. The Hevite and Aracite: the Sinite,\n\n10:18. And the Aradian, the Samarite, and the Hamathite: and afterwards\nthe families of the Chanaanites were spread abroad.\n\n10:19. And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara\neven to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and\nSeboim even to Lesa.\n\n10:20. These are the children of Cham in their kindreds and tongues,\nand generations, and lands, and nations.\n\n10:21. Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder\nbrother of Japheth, sons were born.\n\n10:22. The sons of Sem: Elam and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and\nAram.\n\n10:23. The sons of Aram: Us, and Hull, and Gether; and Mes.\n\n10:24. But Arphaxad begot Sale, of whom was born Heber.\n\n10:25. And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg,\nbecause in his days was the earth divided: and his brother's name\nJectan.\n\n10:26. Which Jectan begot Elmodad, and Saleph, and Asarmoth, Jare,\n\n10:27. And Aduram, and Uzal, and Decla,\n\n10:28. And Ebal, and Abimael, Saba,\n\n10:29. And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All these were the sons of\nJectan.\n\n10:30. And their dwelling was from Messa as we go on as far as Sephar,\na mountain in the east.\n\n10:31. These are the children of Sem according to their kindreds and\ntongues, and countries in their nations.\n\n10:32. These are the families of Noe, according to their people and\nnations. By these were the nations divided on the earth after the\nflood.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 11\n\n\nThe tower of Babel. The confusion of tongues. The genealogy of Sem down\nto Abram.\n\n11:1. And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech.\n\n11:2. And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the\nland of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.\n\n11:3. And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and\nbake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime\ninstead of mortar:\n\n11:4. And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top\nwhereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we\nbe scattered abroad into all lands.\n\n11:5. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the\nchildren of Adam were building.\n\n11:6. And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue:\nand they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their\ndesigns, till they accomplish them in deed.\n\n11:7. Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their\ntongue, that they may not understand one another's speech.\n\n11:8. And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands,\nand they ceased to build the city.\n\n11:9. And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there\nthe language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the\nLord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.\n\nBabel. . .That is, confusion.\n\n11:10. These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old\nwhen he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood.\n\n11:11. And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and\nbegot sons and daughters.\n\n11:12. And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Sale.\n\n11:13. And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three\nyears, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:14. Sale also lived thirty years, and begot Heber.\n\n11:15. And Sale lived after he begot Heber, four hundred and three\nyears: and begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:16. And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.\n\n11:17. And Heber lived after he begot Phaleg, four hundred and thirty\nyears: and begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:18. Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begot Reu.\n\n11:19. And Phaleg lived after he begot Reu, two hundred and nine years,\nand begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:20. And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Sarug.\n\n11:21. And Reu lived after he begot Sarug, two hundred and seven years,\nand begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:22. And Sarug lived thirty years, and begot Nachor.\n\n11:23. And Sarug lived after he begot Nachor, two hundred years, and\nbegot sons and daughters.\n\n11:24. And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare.\n\n11:25. And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a hundred and nineteen\nyears, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:26. And Thare lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and\nAran.\n\n11:27. And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begot Abram,\nNachor, and Aran. And Aran begot Lot.\n\n11:28. And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his\nnativity in Ur of the Chaldees.\n\n11:29. And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram's wife was\nSarai: and the name of Nachor's wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran,\nfather of Melcha and father of Jescha.\n\n11:30. And Sarai was barren, and had no children.\n\n11:31. And Thare took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son's\nson, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and\nbrought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan:\nand they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.\n\n11:32. And the days of Thare were two hundred and five years, and he\ndied in Haran.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 12\n\n\nThe call of Abram, and the promise made to him. He sojourneth in\nChanaan, and then by occasion of a famine, goeth down to Egypt.\n\n12:1. And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from\nthy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land\nwhich I shall shew thee.\n\n12:2. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee,\nand magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.\n\n12:3. I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse\nthee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.\n\n12:4. So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went\nwith him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from\nHaran.\n\n12:5. And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all\nthe substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had\ngotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And\nwhen they were come into it,\n\n12:6. Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far\nas the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.\n\n12:7. And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will\nI give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had\nappeared to him.\n\n12:8. And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east\nside of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west,\nand Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and\ncalled upon his name.\n\n12:9. And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.\n\n12:10. And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into\nEgypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.\n\n12:11. And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his\nwife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman:\n\n12:12. And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She\nis his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee.\n\n12:13. Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may\nbe well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.\n\nMy sister. . .This was no lie; because she was his niece, being daughter\nto his brother Aran, and therefore, in the style of the Hebrews, she\nmight truly be called his sister, as Lot is called Abram's brother,\nGen. 14.14. See Gen. 20.12.\n\n12:14. And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman\nthat she was very beautiful.\n\n12:15. And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the\nwoman was taken into the house of Pharao.\n\n12:16. And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen\nand he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and\ncamels.\n\n12:17. But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous\nstripes for Sarai, Abram's wife.\n\n12:18. And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou\nhast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?\n\n12:19. For what cause didst thou say, she was thy sister, that I might\ntake her to my wife? Now therefore there is thy wife, take her, and go\nthy way.\n\n12:20. And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram: and they led\nhim away and his wife, and all that he had.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 13\n\n\nAbram and Lot part from each other. God's promise to Abram.\n\n13:1. And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he\nhad, and Lot with him into the south.\n\n13:2. And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver.\n\n13:3. And he returned by the way, that he came, from the south to\nBethel, to the place where before he had pitched his tent between\nBethel and Hai,\n\n13:4. In the place of the altar which he had made before, and there he\ncalled upon the name of the Lord.\n\n13:5. But Lot also, who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and herds\nof beasts, and tents.\n\n13:6. Neither was the land able to bear them, that they might dwell\ntogether: for their substance was great, and they could not dwell\ntogether.\n\n13:7. Whereupon also there arose a strife between the herdsmen of Abram\nand of Lot. And at that time the Chanaanite and the Pherezite dwelled\nin that country.\n\n13:8. Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech\nthee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen:\nfor we are brethren.\n\n13:9. Behold the whole land is before thee: depart from me, I pray\nthee: if thou wilt go to the left hand, I will take the right: if thou\nchoose the right hand, I will pass to the left.\n\n13:10. And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the\nJordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom\nand Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes\nto Segor.\n\n13:11. And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he\ndeparted from the east: and they were separated one brother from the\nother.\n\n13:12. Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan: and Lot abode in the towns,\nthat were about the Jordan, and dwelt in Sodom.\n\n13:13. And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the\nface of the Lord beyond measure.\n\n13:14. And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him:\nLift up thy eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, to the\nnorth and to the south, to the east and to the west.\n\n13:15. All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy\nseed for ever.\n\n13:16. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be\nable to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy\nseed also.\n\n13:17. Arise and walk through the land in the length, and the breadth\nthereof: for I will give it to thee.\n\n13:18. So Abram removing his tent, came, and dwelt by the vale of\nMambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 14\n\n\nThe expedition of the four kings; the victory of Abram; he is blessed\nby Melchisedech.\n\n14:1. And it came to pass at that time, that Amraphel, king of Sennaar,\nand Arioch, king of Pontus, and Chodorlahomor, king of the Elamites,\nand Thadal, king of nations,\n\n14:2. Made war against Bara, king of Sodom, and against Bersa, king of\nGomorrha, and against Sennaab, king of Adama, and against Semeber, king\nof Seboim, and against the king of Bala, which is Segor.\n\n14:3. All these came together into the woodland vale, which now is the\nsalt sea.\n\n14:4. For they had served Chodorlahomor twelve years, and in the\nthirteenth year they revolted from him.\n\n14:5. And in the fourteenth year came Chodorlahomor, and the kings that\nwere with him: and they smote the Raphaim in Astarothcarnaim, and the\nZuzim with them, and the Emim in Save of Cariathaim.\n\n14:6. And the Chorreans in the mountains of Seir, even to the plains of\nPharan, which is in the wilderness.\n\n14:7. And they returned, and came to the fountain of Misphat, the same\nis Cades: and they smote all the country of the Amalecites, and the\nAmorrhean that dwelt in Asasonthamar.\n\n14:8. And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha, and the king of\nAdama, and the king of Seboim, and the king of Bala, which is Segor,\nwent out: and they set themselves against them in battle array, in the\nwoodland vale:\n\n14:9. To wit, against Chodorlahomor king of the Elamites, and Thadal\nking of nations, and Amraphel king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of\nPontus: four kings against five.\n\n14:10. Now the woodland vale had many pits of slime. And the king of\nSodom, and the king of Gomorrha turned their backs, and were overthrown\nthere: and they that remained, fled to the mountain.\n\nOf slime. Bituminis. . .This was a kind of pitch, which served for\nmortar in the building of Babel, Gen. 11.3, and was used by Noe in\npitching the ark.\n\n14:11. And they took all the substance of the Sodomites, and\nGomorrhites, and all their victuals, and went their way:\n\n14:12. And Lot also, the son of Abram's brother, who dwelt in Sodom,\nand his substance.\n\n14:13. And behold one, that had escaped, told Abram the Hebrew, who\ndwelt in the vale of Mambre the Amorrhite, the brother of Escol, and\nthe brother of Aner: for these had made a league with Abram.\n\n14:14. Which when Abram had heard, to wit, that his brother Lot was\ntaken, he numbered of the servants born in his house, three hundred and\neighteen, well appointed: and pursued them to Dan.\n\n14:15. And dividing his company, he rushed upon them in the night, and\ndefeated them: and pursued them as far as Hoba, which is on the left\nhand of Damascus.\n\n14:16. And he brought back all the substance, and Lot his brother, with\nhis substance, the women also, and the people.\n\n14:17. And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned\nfrom the slaughter of Chodorlahomor, and of the kings that were with\nhim in the vale of Save, which is the king's vale.\n\n14:18. But Melchisedech, the king of Salem, bringing forth bread and\nwine, for he was the priest of the most high God,\n\n14:19. Blessed him, and said: Blessed be Abram by the most high God,\nwho created heaven and earth.\n\n14:20. And blessed be the most high God, by whose protection, the\nenemies are in thy hands. And he gave him the tithes of all.\n\n14:21. And the king of Sodom said to Abram: Give me the persons, and\nthe rest take to thyself.\n\n14:22. And he answered him: I lift up my hand to the Lord God the most\nhigh, the possessor of heaven and earth,\n\n14:23. That from the very woof thread unto the shoe latchet, I will not\ntake of any things that are thine, lest thou say: I have enriched\nAbram.\n\n14:24. Except such things as the young men have eaten, and the shares\nof the men that came with me, Aner, Escol, and Mambre: these shall take\ntheir shares.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 15\n\n\nGod promiseth seed to Abram. His faith, sacrifice and vision.\n\n15:1. Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to\nAbram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy\nreward exceeding great.\n\n15:2. And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go\nwithout children: and the son of the steward of my house is this\nDamascus Eliezer.\n\n15:3. And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my\nservant born in my house, shall be my heir.\n\n15:4. And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying : He\nshall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him\nshalt thou have for thy heir.\n\n15:5. And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to\nheaven and number the stars if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall\nthy seed be.\n\n15:6. Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.\n\n15:7. And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of\nthe Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess\nit.\n\n15:8. But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess\nit?\n\n15:9. And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years\nold, and a she-goat of three years. and a ram of three years, a turtle\nalso, and a pigeon.\n\n15:10. And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid\nthe two pieces of each one against the other: but the birds he divided\nnot.\n\n15:11. And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them\naway.\n\n15:12. And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and\na great and darksome horror seized upon him.\n\n15:13. And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed\nshall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them\nunder bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.\n\n15:14. But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after\nthis they shall come out with great substance.\n\n15:15. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a\ngood old age.\n\n15:16. But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as\nyet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this\npresent time.\n\n15:17. And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there\nappeared a smoking furnace, and a lamp of fire passing between those\ndivisions.\n\n15:18. That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed\nwill I give this land, from the river to Egypt even to the great river\nEuphrates.\n\n15:19. The Cineans, and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,\n\n15:20. And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim also,\n\n15:21. And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanites, and the Gergesites, and\nthe Jebusites.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 16\n\n\nAbram marrieth Agar, who bringeth forth Ismael.\n\n16:1. Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but\nhaving a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,\n\n16:2. She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from\nbearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her\nat least. And when he agreed to her request,\n\n16:3. She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they\nfirst dwelt in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to\nwife.\n\nTo wife. . .Plurality of wives, though contrary to the primitive\ninstitution of marriage, Gen. 2.24, was by divine dispensation allowed\nto the patriarchs: which allowance seems to have continued during the\ntime of the law of Moses. But Christ our Lord reduced marriage to its\nprimitive institution. Matt. 19.\n\n16:4. And he went in to her. But she perceiving that she was with\nchild, despised her mistress.\n\n16:5. And Sarai said to Abram: Thou dost unjustly with me: I gave my\nhandmaid into thy bosom, and she perceiving herself to be with child,\ndespiseth me. The Lord judge between me and thee.\n\n16:6. And Abram made answer, and said to her: Behold thy handmaid is in\nthy own hand, use her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai afflicted\nher, she ran away.\n\n16:7. And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of\nwater in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,\n\n16:8. He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and\nwhither goest thou? And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, my\nmistress.\n\n16:9. And the angel of the Lord said to her: Return to thy mistress,\nand humble thyself under her hand.\n\n16:10. And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it\nshall not be numbered for multitude.\n\n16:11. And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt\nbring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the\nLord hath heard thy affliction.\n\n16:12. He shall be a wild man: his hand will be against all men, and\nall men's hands against him: and he shall pitch his tents over against\nall his brethren.\n\n16:13. And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her: Thou\nthe God who hast seen me. For she said: Verily, here have I seen the\nhinder parts of him that seeth me.\n\n16:14. Therefore she called that well, the well of him that liveth and\nseeth me. The same is between Cades and Barad.\n\n16:15. And Agar brought forth a son to Abram: who called his name\nIsmael.\n\n16:16. Abram was four score and six years old when Agar brought him\nforth Ismael.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 17\n\n\nThe Covenant of circumcision.\n\n17:1. And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord\nappeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before\nme, and be perfect.\n\n17:2. And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will\nmultiply thee exceedingly.\n\n17:3. Abram fell flat on his face.\n\n17:4. And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou\nshalt be a father of many nations.\n\n17:5. Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt\nbe called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.\n\nAbram. . .in the Hebrew, signifies a high father: but Abraham, the\nfather of the multitude; Sarai signifies my Lady, but Sara absolutely\nLady.\n\n17:6. And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make\nnations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.\n\n17:7. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between\nthy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to\nbe a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.\n\n17:8. And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy\nsojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I\nwill be their God.\n\n17:9. Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my\ncovenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.\n\n17:10. This is my covenant which you shall observe between me and you,\nand thy seed after thee: All the male-kind of you shall be circumcised.\n\n17:11. And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may\nbe for a sign of the covenant between me and you.\n\n17:12. An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you,\nevery manchild in your generations: he that is born in the house, as\nwell as the bought servant, shall be circumcised, and whosoever is not\nof your stock:\n\n17:13. And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.\n\n17:14. The male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised,\nthat soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken\nmy covenant.\n\n17:15. God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call\nSarai, but Sara.\n\n17:16. And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I\nwill bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall\nspring from him.\n\n17:17. Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart:\nShall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old?\nand shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?\n\n17:18. And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.\n\n17:19. And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son,\nand thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant\nwith him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.\n\n17:20. And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless\nhim, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve\nchiefs, and I will make him a great nation.\n\n17:21. But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall\nbring forth to thee at this time in the next year.\n\n17:22. And when he had left off speaking with him, God went up from\nAbraham.\n\n17:23. And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his\nhouse: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his\nhouse: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the\nvery same day, as God had commanded him.\n\n17:24. Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the\nflesh of his foreskin.\n\n17:25. And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of\nhis circumcision.\n\n17:26. The self-same day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.\n\n17:27. And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his\nhouse, as the bought servants and strangers, were circumcised with him.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 18\n\n\nAngels are entertained by Abraham. They foretell the birth of Isaac.\nAbraham's prayer for the men of Sodom.\n\n18:1. And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was\nsitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day.\n\n18:2. And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three\nmen standing near to him: and as soon as he saw them, he ran to meet\nthem from the door of his tent, and adored down to the ground.\n\n18:3. And he said: Lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, pass not\naway from thy servant.\n\n18:4. But I will fetch a little water, and wash ye your feet, and rest\nye under the tree.\n\n18:5. And I will set a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart,\nafterwards you shall pass on: for therefore are you come aside to your\nservant. And they said: Do as thou hast spoken.\n\n18:6. Abraham made haste into the tent to Sara, and said to her: Make\nhaste, temper together three measures of flour, and make cakes upon the\nhearth.\n\n18:7. And he himself ran to the herd, and took from thence a calf, very\ntender and very good, and gave it to a young man, who made haste and\nboiled it.\n\n18:8. He took also butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled,\nand set before them: but he stood by them under the tree.\n\n18:9. And when they had eaten, they said to him: Where is Sara thy\nwife? He answered: Lo she is in the tent.\n\n18:10. And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time,\nlife accompanying, and Sara, thy wife, shall have a son. Which when\nSara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent.\n\n18:11. Now they were both old, and far advanced in years, and it had\nceased to be with Sara after the manner of women.\n\n18:12. And she laughed secretly, saying: After I am grown old, and my\nlord is an old man, shall I give myself to pleasure?\n\n18:13. And the Lord said to Abraham: Why did Sara laugh, saying: Shall\nI, who am an old woman, bear a child indeed?\n\n18:14. Is there any thing hard to God? According to appointment I will\nreturn to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall\nhave a son.\n\n18:15. Sara denied, saying: I did not laugh: for she was afraid. But\nthe Lord said: Nay; but thou didst laugh.\n\n18:16. And when the men rose up from thence, they turned their eyes\ntowards Sodom: and Abraham walked with them, bringing them on the way.\n\n18:17. And the Lord said: Can I hide from Abraham what I am about to\ndo:\n\n18:18. Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all\nthe nations of the earth shall be blessed?\n\n18:19. For I know that he will command his children, and his household\nafter him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice:\nthat for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he\nhath spoken unto him.\n\n18:20. And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied,\nand their sin is become exceedingly grievous.\n\n18:21. I will go down and see whether they have done according to the\ncry that is come to me; or whether it be not so, that I may know.\n\nI will go down, etc. . .The Lord here accommodates his discourse to the\nway of speaking and acting amongst men; for he knoweth all things, and\nneedeth not to go anywhere for information. Note here, that two of the\nthree angels went away immediately for Sodom; whilst the third, who\nrepresented the Lord, remained with Abraham.\n\n18:22. And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to\nSodom: but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord.\n\n18:23. And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the\nwicked?\n\n18:24. If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish\nwithal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty\njust, if they be therein?\n\n18:25. Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with\nthe wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is\nnot beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this\njudgment.\n\n18:26. And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within\nthe city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.\n\n18:27. And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will\nspeak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.\n\n18:28. What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou\nfor five and forty destroy the whole city: And he said: I will not\ndestroy it, if I find five and forty.\n\n18:29. And again he said to him: But if forty be found there, what wilt\nthou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty.\n\n18:30. Lord, saith he, be not angry, I beseech thee, if I speak: What\nif thirty shall be found there? He answered: I will not do it, if I\nfind thirty there.\n\n18:31. Seeing, saith he, I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord:\nWhat if twenty be found there? He said: I will not destroy it for the\nsake of twenty.\n\n18:32. I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry, Lord, if I speak yet\nonce more: What if ten shall be found there? And he said: I will not\ndestroy it for the sake of ten.\n\n18:33. And the Lord departed, after he had left speaking to Abraham:\nand Abraham returned to his place.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 19\n\n\nLot, entertaining Angels in his house, is delivered from Sodom, which\nis destroyed: his wife for looking back is turned into a statue of\nsalt.\n\n19:1. And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was\nsitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went\nto meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground.\n\n19:2. And said: I beseech you, my lords, turn in to the house of your\nservant, and lodge there: wash your feet, and in the morning you shall\ngo on your way. And they said: No, but we will abide in the street.\n\n19:3. He pressed them very much to turn in unto him: and when they were\ncome into his house, he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread,\nand they ate:\n\n19:4. But before they went to bed, the men of the city beset the house,\nboth young and old, all the people together.\n\n19:5. And they called Lot, and said to him: Where are the men that came\nin to thee at night? bring them out hither, that we may know them:\n\n19:6. Lot went out to them, and shut the door after him, and said:\n\n19:7. Do not so, I beseech you, my brethren, do not commit this evil.\n\n19:8. I have two daughters who, as yet, have not known man; I will\nbring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so\nthat you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the\nshadow of my roof.\n\n19:9. But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in,\nsaid they, as a stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will\nafflict thee more than them. And they pressed very violently upon Lot:\nand they were even at the point of breaking open the doors.\n\n19:10. And behold the men put out their hand, and drew in Lot unto\nthem, and shut the door.\n\n19:11. And them, that were without, they struck with blindness from the\nleast to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.\n\n19:12. And they said to Lot: Hast thou here any of thine? son in law,\nor sons, or daughters, all that are thine bring them out of this city:\n\n19:13. For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud\nbefore the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.\n\n19:14. So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have\nhis daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the\nLord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were\nin jest.\n\n19:15. And when it was morning, the angels pressed him, saying: Arise,\ntake thy wife, and the two daughters that thou hast: lest thou also\nperish in the wickedness of the city.\n\n19:16. And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his\nwife, and of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him.\n\n19:17. And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and\nthere they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither\nstay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain,\nlest thou be also consumed.\n\n19:18. And Lot said to them: I beseech thee, my Lord,\n\n19:19. Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast\nmagnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life,\nand I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I\ndie.\n\n19:20. There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee, it is a\nlittle one, and I shall be saved in it: is it not a little one, and my\nsoul shall live?\n\n19:21. And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy\nprayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.\n\n19:22. Make haste, and be saved there: because I cannot do any thing\ntill thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called\nSegor.\n\nSegor. . .That is, a little one.\n\n19:23. The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Segor.\n\n19:24. And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire\nfrom the Lord out of heaven.\n\n19:25. And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all\nthe inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the\nearth.\n\n19:26. And his wife looking behind her, was turned into a statue of\nsalt.\n\nAnd his wife. . .As a standing memorial to the servants of God to\nproceed in virtue, and not to look back to vice or its allurements.\n\n19:27. And Abraham got up early in the morning, and in the place where\nhe had stood before with the Lord:\n\n19:28. He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and the whole land of that\ncountry: and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a\nfurnace.\n\n19:29. Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering\nAbraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein\nhe had dwelt.\n\n19:30. And Lot went up out of Segor, and abode in the mountain, and his\ntwo daughters with him (for he was afraid to stay in Segor) and he\ndwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.\n\n19:31. And the elder said to the younger: Our father is old, and there\nis no man left on the earth, to come in unto us after the manner of the\nwhole earth.\n\n19:32. Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him,\nthat we may preserve seed of our father.\n\n19:33. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the elder\nwent in, and lay with her father: but he perceived not, neither when\nhis daughter lay down, nor when she rose up.\n\n19:34. And the next day the elder said to the younger: Behold I lay\nlast night with my father, let us make him drink wine also to night,\nand thou shalt lie with him, that we may save seed of our father.\n\n19:35. They made their father drink wine that night also, and the\nyounger daughter went in, and lay with him: and neither then did he\nperceive when she lay down, nor when she rose up.\n\n19:36. So the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.\n\n19:37. And the elder bore a son, and she called his name Moab: he is\nthe father of the Moabites unto this day.\n\n19:38. The younger also bore a son, and she called his name Ammon; that\nis, the son of my people: he is the father of the Ammonites unto this\nday.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 20\n\n\nAbraham sojourned in Gerara: Sara is taken into king Abimelech's house,\nbut by God's commandment is restored untouched.\n\n20:1. Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt\nbetween Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.\n\n20:2. And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the\nking of Gerara sent, and took her.\n\n20:3. And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to\nhim: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath\na husband.\n\n20:4. Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou\nslay a nation that is ignorant and just?\n\n20:5. Did not he say to me: She is my sister: and she say, He is my\nbrother? in the simplicity of my heart, and cleanness of my hands have\nI done this.\n\n20:6. And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere\nheart: and therefore I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I\nsuffered thee not to touch her.\n\n20:7. Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet: and\nhe shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not\nrestore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are\nthine.\n\n20:8. And Abimelech forthwith rising up in the night, called all his\nservants: and spoke all these words in their hearing, and all the men\nwere exceedingly afraid.\n\n20:9. And Abimelech called also for Abraham, and said to him: What hast\nthou done to us? what have we offended thee in, that thou hast brought\nupon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done to us what thou\noughtest not to do.\n\n20:10. And again he expostulated with him, and said: What sawest thou,\nthat thou hast done this?\n\n20:11. Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there\nis not the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the\nsake of my wife:\n\n20:12. Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of\nmy father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.\n\n20:13. And after God brought me out of my father's house, I said to\nher: Thou shalt do me this kindness: In every place, to which we shall\ncome, thou shalt say that I am thy brother.\n\n20:14. And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids,\nand gave to Abraham: and restored to him Sara his wife,\n\n20:15. And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall\nplease thee.\n\n20:16. And to Sara he said: Behold I have given thy brother a thousand\npieces of silver, this shall serve thee for a covering of thy eyes to\nall that are with thee, and whithersoever thou shalt go: and remember\nthou wast taken.\n\n20:17. And when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and\nhis handmaids, and they bore children:\n\n20:18. For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech,\non account of Sara, Abraham's wife.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 21\n\n\nIsaac is born. Agar and Ismael are cast forth.\n\n21:1. And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what\nhe had spoken.\n\n21:2. And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that\nGod had foretold her.\n\n21:3. And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sara bore him,\nIsaac.\n\nIsaac. . .This word signifies laughter.\n\n21:4. And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,\n\n21:5. When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father,\nwas Isaac born.\n\n21:6. And Sara said: God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall\nhear of it will laugh with me.\n\n21:7. And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear\nthat Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age?\n\n21:8. And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great\nfeast on the day of his weaning.\n\n21:9. And when Sara had seen the son of Agar, the Egyptian, playing\nwith Isaac, her son, she said to Abraham:\n\n21:10. Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of the\nbondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.\n\n21:11. Abraham took this grievously for his son.\n\n21:12. And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the\nboy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken\nto her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.\n\n21:13. But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation,\nbecause he is thy seed.\n\n21:14. So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle\nof water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her\naway. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.\n\n21:15. And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy\nunder one of the trees that were there.\n\n21:16. And she went her way, and sat over against him a great way off,\nas far as a bow can carry, for she said: I will not see the boy die:\nand sitting over against, she lifted up her voice and wept.\n\n21:17. And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called\nto Agar from heaven, saying: What art thou doing, Agar? fear not; for\nGod hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is.\n\n21:18. Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand, for I will\nmake him a great nation.\n\n21:19. And God opened her eyes: and she saw a well of water, and went\nand filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink.\n\n21:20. And God was with him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness,\nand became a young man, an archer.\n\n21:21. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a\nwife for him out of the land of Egypt.\n\n21:22. At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army,\nsaid to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost.\n\n21:23. Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my\nposterity, nor my stock: but according to the kindness that I have done\nto thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a\nstranger.\n\n21:24. And Abraham said: I will swear.\n\n21:25. And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water, which his\nservants had taken away by force.\n\n21:26. And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: and thou\ndidst not tell me, and I heard not of it till today.\n\n21:27. Then Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech:\nand both of them made a league.\n\n21:28. And Abraham set apart seven ewelambs of the flock.\n\n21:29. And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewelambs which\nthou hast set apart?\n\n21:30. But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that\nthey may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.\n\n21:31. Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of\nthem did swear.\n\nBersabee. . .That is, the well of oath.\n\n21:32. And they made a league for the well of oath.\n\n21:33. And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, arose and\nreturned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in\nBersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.\n\n21:34. And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 22\n\n\nThe faith and obedience of Abraham is proved in his readiness to\nsacrifice his son Isaac. He is stayed from the act by an angel. Former\npromises are renewed to him. His brother Nachor's issue.\n\n22:1. After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him:\nAbraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.\n\nGod tempted, etc. . .God tempteth no man to evil, James 1.13; but by\ntrial and experiment maketh known to the world, and to ourselves, what\nwe are, as here by this trial the singular faith and obedience of\nAbraham was made manifest.\n\n22:2. He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou\nlovest, and go into the land of vision; and there thou shalt offer him\nfor an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will shew thee.\n\n22:3. So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass, and took with\nhim two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the\nholocaust, he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.\n\n22:4. And on the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar\noff.\n\n22:5. And he said to his young men: Stay you here with the ass; I and\nthe boy will go with speed as far as yonder, and after we have\nworshipped, will return to you.\n\n22:6. And he took the wood for the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac\nhis son; and he himself carried in his hands fire and a sword. And as\nthey two went on together,\n\n22:7. Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What wilt\nthou, son? Behold, saith he, fire and wood: where is the victim for the\nholocaust?\n\n22:8. And Abraham said: God will provide himself a victim for an\nholocaust, my son. So they went on together.\n\n22:9. And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he\nbuilt an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it; and when he had\nbound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.\n\n22:10. And he put forth his hand, and took the sword, to sacrifice his\nson.\n\n22:11. And behold, an angel of the Lord from heaven called to him,\nsaying: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.\n\n22:12. And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do\nthou any thing to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not\nspared thy only begotten son for my sake.\n\n22:13. Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram,\namongst the briers, sticking fast by the horns, which he took and\noffered for a holocaust instead of his son.\n\n22:14. And he called the name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon,\neven to this day, it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see.\n\n22:15. And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from\nheaven, saying:\n\n22:16. By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast\ndone this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake:\n\n22:17. I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of\nheaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall\npossess the gates of their enemies.\n\n22:18. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed,\nbecause thou hast obeyed my voice.\n\n22:19. Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee\ntogether, and he dwelt there.\n\n22:20. After these things, it was told Abraham, that Melcha also had\nborne children to Nachor his brother.\n\n22:21. Hus, the firstborn, and Buz, his brother, and Camuel the father\nof the Syrians,\n\n22:22. And Cased, and Azau, and Pheldas, and Jedlaph,\n\n22:23. And Bathuel, of whom was born Rebecca: these eight did Melcha\nbear to Nachor, Abraham's brother.\n\n22:24. And his concubine, named Roma, bore Tabee, and Gaham, and Tahas,\nand Maacha.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 23\n\n\nSara's death and burial in the field bought of Ephron.\n\n23:1. And Sara lived a hundred and twenty-seven years.\n\n23:2. And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of\nChanaan: and Abraham came to mourn and weep for her.\n\n23:3. And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the\nchildren of Heth, saying:\n\n23:4. I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a\nburying place with you, that I may bury my dead.\n\n23:5. The children of Heth answered, saying:\n\n23:6. My lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy\ndead in our principal sepulchres: and no man shall have power to hinder\nthee from burying thy dead in his sepulchre.\n\n23:7. Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to\nwit, the children of Heth:\n\nBowed down to the people. . .Adoravit, literally adored. But this word\nhere, as well as in many other places in the Latin scriptures, is used\nto signify only an inferior honour and reverence paid to men, expressed\nby a bowing down of the body.\n\n23:8. And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my\ndead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor.\n\n23:9. That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of\nhis field: For as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before\nyou, for a possession of a burying place.\n\n23:10. Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And\nEphron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the\ngate of the city, saying:\n\n23:11. Let it not be so, my lord, but do thou rather hearken to what I\nsay: The field I deliver to thee, and the cave that is therein; in the\npresence of the children of my people, bury thy dead.\n\n23:12. Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.\n\n23:13. And he spoke to Ephron, in the presence of the people: I beseech\nthee to hear me: I will give money for the field; take it, and so will\nI bury my dead in it.\n\n23:14. And Ephron answered:\n\n23:15. My lord, hear me. The ground which thou desirest, is worth four\nhundred sicles of silver: this is the price between me and thee: but\nwhat is this? bury thy dead.\n\n23:16. And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that\nEphron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred\nsicles of silver, of common current money.\n\n23:17. And the field that before was Ephron's, wherein was the double\ncave, looking towards Mambre, both it and the cave, and all the trees\nthereof, in all its limits round about,\n\n23:18. Was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the\nchildren of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.\n\n23:19. And so Abraham buried Sara, his wife, in the double cave of the\nfield, that looked towards Mambre, this is Hebron in the land of\nChanaan.\n\n23:20. And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in\nit, for a possession to bury in, by the children of Heth.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 24\n\n\nAbraham's servant, sent by him into Mesopotamia, bringeth from thence\nRebecca, who is married to Isaac.\n\n24:1. Now Abraham was old, and advanced in age; and the Lord had\nblessed him in all things.\n\n24:2. And he said to the elder servant of his house, who was ruler over\nall he had: Put thy hand under my thigh,\n\n24:3. That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and\nearth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the\nChanaanites, among whom I dwell:\n\n24:4. But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife\nfrom thence for my son Isaac.\n\n24:5. The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into\nthis land, must I bring thy son back again to the place from whence\nthou camest out?\n\n24:6. And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again\nthither.\n\n24:7. The Lord God of heaven, who took me out of my father's house, and\nout of my native country, who spoke to me, and swore to me, saying: To\nthy seed will I give this land: he will send his angel before thee, and\nthou shalt take from thence a wife for my son.\n\nHe will send his angel before thee. . .This shows that the Hebrews\nbelieved that God gave them guardian angels for their protection.\n\n24:8. But if the woman will not follow thee, thou shalt not be bound by\nthe oath: only bring not my son back thither again.\n\n24:9. The servant, therefore, put his hand under the thigh of Abraham,\nhis lord, and swore to him upon his word.\n\n24:10. And he took ten camels of his master's herd, and departed,\ncarrying something of all his goods with him, and he set forward and\nwent on to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nachor.\n\n24:11. And when he had made the camels lie down without the town, near\na well of water, in the evening, at the time when women are wont to\ncome out to draw water, he said:\n\n24:12. O Lord, the God of my master, Abraham, meet me today, I beseech\nthee, and shew kindness to my master, Abraham.\n\n24:13. Behold, I stand nigh the spring of water, and the daughters of\nthe inhabitants of this city will come out to draw water:\n\n24:14. Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall say: Let down thy\npitcher that I may drink: and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give\nthy camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou hast provided for\nthy servant Isaac: and by this, I shall understand that thou hast shewn\nkindness to my master.\n\n24:15. He had not yet ended these words within himself, and behold\nRebecca came out, the daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha, wife to\nNachor the brother of Abraham, having a pitcher on her shoulder:\n\n24:16. An exceeding comely maid, and a most beautiful virgin, and not\nknown to man: and she went down to the spring, and filled her pitcher,\nand was coming back.\n\n24:17. And the servant ran to meet her, and said: Give me a little\nwater to drink of thy pitcher.\n\n24:18. And she answered: Drink, my lord. And quickly she let down the\npitcher upon her arm, and gave him drink.\n\n24:19. And when he had drunk, she said: I will draw water for thy\ncamels also, till they all drink.\n\n24:20. And pouring out the pitcher into the troughs, she ran back to\nthe well to draw water; and having drawn, she gave to all the camels.\n\n24:21. But he musing, beheld her with silence, desirous to know whether\nthe Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.\n\n24:22. And after that the camels had drunk, the man took out golden\nearrings, weighing two sicles; and as many bracelets, of ten sicles\nweight.\n\n24:23. And he said to her: Whose daughter art thou? tell me: is there\nany place in thy father's house to lodge?\n\n24:24. And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of\nMelcha, whom she bore to Nachor.\n\n24:25. And she said, moreover, to him: We have good store of both straw\nand hay, and a large place to lodge in.\n\n24:26. The man bowed himself down, and adored the Lord,\n\n24:27. Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath\nnot taken away his mercy and truth from my master, and hath brought me\nthe straight way into the house of my master's brother.\n\n24:28. Then the maid ran, and told in her mother's house all that she\nhad heard.\n\n24:29. And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban, who went out in haste to\nthe man, to the well.\n\n24:30. And when he had seen the earrings and bracelets in his sister's\nhands, and had heard all that she related, saying, Thus and thus the\nman spoke to me: he came to the man who stood by the camels, and near\nto the spring of water,\n\n24:31. And said to him: Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; why standest\nthou without? I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels.\n\n24:32. And he brought him into his lodging; and he unharnessed the\ncamels, and gave straw and hay, and water to wash his feet, and the\nfeet of the men that were come with him.\n\n24:33. And bread was set before him. But he said: I will not eat, till\nI tell my message. He answered him: Speak.\n\n24:34. And he said: I am the servant of Abraham:\n\n24:35. And the Lord hath blessed my master wonderfully, and he is\nbecome great: and he hath given him sheep and oxen, silver and gold,\nmen servants and women servants, camels and asses.\n\n24:36. And Sara, my master's wife, hath borne my master a son in her\nold age, and he hath given him all that he had.\n\n24:37. And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife\nfor my son of the Chanaanites, in whose land I dwell:\n\n24:38. But thou shalt go to my father's house, and shalt take a wife of\nmy own kindred for my son:\n\n24:39. But I answered my master: What if the woman will not come with\nme?\n\n24:40. The Lord, said he, in whose sight I walk, will send his angel\nwith thee, and will direct thy way: and thou shalt take a wife for my\nson of my own kindred, and of my father's house.\n\n24:41. But thou shalt be clear from my curse, when thou shalt come to\nmy kindred, if they will not give thee one.\n\n24:42. And I came today to the well of water, and said: O Lord God of\nmy master, Abraham, if thou hast prospered my way, wherein I now walk,\n\n24:43. Behold, I stand by the well of water, and the virgin, that shall\ncome out to draw water, who shall hear me say: Give me a little water\nto drink of thy pitcher:\n\n24:44. And shall say to me: Both drink thou, and I will also draw for\nthy camels: let the same be the woman, whom the Lord hath prepared for\nmy master's son.\n\n24:45. And whilst I pondered these things secretly with myself, Rebecca\nappeared, coming with a pitcher, which she carried on her shoulder: and\nshe went down to the well and drew water. And I said to her: Give me a\nlittle to drink.\n\n24:46. And she speedily let down the pitcher from her shoulder, and\nsaid to me: Both drink thou, and to thy camels I will give drink. I\ndrank, and she watered the camels.\n\n24:47. And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter art thou? And she\nanswered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Nachor, whom Melcha\nbore to him. So I put earrings on her to adorn her face, and I put\nbracelets on her hands.\n\n24:48. And falling down, I adored the Lord, blessing the Lord God of my\nmaster, Abraham, who hath brought me the straight way to take the\ndaughter of my master's brother for his son.\n\n24:49. Wherefore, if you do according to mercy and truth with my\nmaster, tell me: but if it please you otherwise, tell me that also,\nthat I may go to the right hand, or to the left.\n\n24:50. And Laban and Bathuel answered: The word hath proceeded from the\nLord: we cannot speak any other thing to thee but his pleasure.\n\n24:51. Behold, Rebecca is before thee, take her and go thy way, and let\nher be the wife of thy master's son, as the Lord hath spoken.\n\n24:52. Which when Abraham's servant heard, falling down to the ground,\nhe adored the Lord.\n\n24:53. And bringing forth vessels of silver and gold, and garments, he\ngave them to Rebecca, for a present. He offered gifts also to her\nbrothers, and to her mother.\n\n24:54. And a banquet was made, and they ate and drank together, and\nlodged there. And in the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let me\ndepart, that I may go to my master.\n\n24:55. And her brother and mother answered: Let the maid stay, at\nleast, ten days with us, and afterwards she shall depart.\n\n24:56. Stay me not, said he, because the Lord hath prospered my way:\nsend me away, that I may go to my master.\n\n24:57. And they said: Let us call the maid, and ask her will.\n\nLet us call the maid, and ask her will. . .Not as to her marriage, as\nshe had already consented, but of her quitting her parents and going to\nher husband.\n\n24:58. And they called her, and when she was come, they asked: Wilt\nthou go with this man? She said: I will go.\n\n24:59. So they sent her away, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and\nhis company.\n\n24:60. Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our\nsister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands; and may thy seed\npossess the gates of their enemies.\n\n24:61. So Rebecca and her maids, being set upon camels, followed the\nman: who with speed returned to his master.\n\n24:62. At the same time, Isaac was walking along the way to the well\nwhich is called Of the living and the seeing: for he dwelt in the south\ncountry:\n\n24:63. And he was gone forth to meditate in the field, the day being\nnow well spent: and when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw camels\ncoming afar off.\n\n24:64. Rebecca also, when she saw Isaac, lighted off the camel,\n\n24:65. And said to the servant: Who is that man who cometh towards us\nalong the field? And he said to her: That man is my master. But she\nquickly took her cloak, and covered herself.\n\n24:66. And the servant told Isaac all that he had done.\n\n24:67. Who brought her into the tent of Sara his mother, and took her\nto wife: and he loved her so much, that it moderated the sorrow which\nwas occasioned by his mother's death.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 25\n\n\nAbraham's children by Cetura; his death and that of Ismael. Isaac hath\nEsau and Jacob twins. Esau selleth his first birthright to Jacob.\n\n25:1. And Abraham married another wife named Cetura:\n\n25:2. Who bore him Zamram, and Jecsan, and Madan, and Madian, and\nJesboc, and Sue.\n\n25:3. Jecsan also begot Saba, and Dadan. The children of Dadan were\nAssurim, and Latusim, and Loomim.\n\n25:4. But of Madian was born Epha, and Opher, and Henoch, and Abida,\nand Eldaa: all these were the children of Cetura.\n\n25:5. And Abraham gave all his possessions to Isaac:\n\n25:6. And to the children of the concubines he gave gifts, and\nseparated them from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, to the east\ncountry.\n\nConcubines. . .Agar and Cetura are here called concubines, (though they\nwere lawful wives, and in other places are so called,) because they\nwere of an inferior degree, and such in scripture are usually called\nconcubines.\n\n25:7. And the days of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five\nyears.\n\n25:8. And decaying he died in a good old age, and having lived a long\ntime, and being full of days: and was gathered to his people.\n\n25:9. And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him in the double cave,\nwhich was situated in the field of Ephron the son of Seor the Hethite,\nover against Mambre,\n\n25:10. Which he had bought of the children of Heth: there was he\nburied, and Sara his wife.\n\n25:11. And after his death, God blessed Isaac his son, who dwelt by the\nwell named Of the living and seeing.\n\n25:12. These are the generations of Ismael the son of Abraham, whom\nAgar the Egyptian, Sara's servant, bore unto him:\n\n25:13. And these are the names of his children according to their\ncalling and generations. The firstborn of Ismael was Nabajoth, then\nCedar, and Adbeel, and Mabsam,\n\n25:14. And Masma, and Duma, and Massa,\n\n25:15. Hadar, and Thema, and Jethur, and Naphis, and Cedma.\n\n25:16. These are the sons of Ismael: and these are their names by their\ncastles and towns, twelve princes of their tribes.\n\n25:17. And the years of Ismael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven,\nand decaying he died, and was gathered unto his people.\n\n25:18. And he dwelt from Hevila as far as Sur, which looketh towards\nEgypt, to them that go towards the Assyrians. He died in the presence\nof all his brethren.\n\n25:19. These also are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraham:\nAbraham begot Isaac:\n\n25:20. Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the\ndaughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.\n\n25:21. And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was\nbarren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.\n\n25:22. But the children struggled in her womb, and she said: If it were\nto be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she went to\nconsult the Lord.\n\n25:23. And he answering, said: Two nations are in thy womb, and two\npeoples shall be divided out of thy womb, and one people shall overcome\nthe other, and the elder shall serve the younger.\n\n25:24. And when her time was come to be delivered, behold twins were\nfound in her womb.\n\n25:25. He that came forth first was red, and hairy like a skin: and his\nname was called Esau. Immediately the other coming forth, held his\nbrother's foot in his hand: and therefore he was called Jacob.\n\n25:26. Isaac was threescore years old when the children were born unto\nhim.\n\n25:27. And when they were grown up, Esau became a skilful hunter, and a\nhusbandman: but Jacob, a plain man, dwelt in tents.\n\n25:28. Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca\nloved Jacob.\n\n25:29. And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the\nfield,\n\n25:30. Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For\nwhich reason his name was called Edom.\n\n25:31. And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.\n\n25:32. He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me?\n\n25:33. Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau swore to him, and sold\nhis first birthright.\n\n25:34. And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and\ndrank, and went on his way; making little account of having sold his\nfirst birthright.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 26\n\n\nIsaac sojourneth in Gerara, where God reneweth to him the promise made\nto Abraham. King Abimelech maketh league with him.\n\n26:1. And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which\nhad happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of\nthe Palestines, to Gerara.\n\n26:2. And the Lord appeared to him, and said: Go not down into Egypt,\nbut stay in the land that I shall tell thee.\n\n26:3. And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee:\nfor to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfil\nthe oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.\n\n26:4. And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will\ngive to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all\nthe nations of the earth be blessed.\n\n26:5. Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and\ncommandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.\n\n26:6. So Isaac abode in Gerara.\n\n26:7. And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his\nwife, he answered: She is my sister: for he was afraid to confess that\nshe was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would kill him because of\nher beauty.\n\n26:8. And when very many days were passed, and he abode there,\nAbimelech, king of the Palestines, looking out through a window, saw\nhim playing with Rebecca, his wife.\n\n26:9. And calling for him, he said: It is evident she is thy wife: why\ndidst thou feign her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I\nshould die for her sake.\n\n26:10. And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceived us? Some man of the\npeople might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a\ngreat sin. And he commanded all the people, saying:\n\n26:11. He that shall touch this man's wife, shall surely be put to\ndeath.\n\n26:12. And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a\nhundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.\n\n26:13. And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and\nincreasing, till he became exceeding great.\n\n26:14. And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great\nfamily. Wherefore the Palestines envying him,\n\n26:15. Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his\nfather, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with earth:\n\n26:16. Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us,\nfor thou art become much mightier than we.\n\n26:17. So he departed, and came to the torrent of Gerara, to dwell\nthere:\n\n26:18. And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his\nfather, Abraham, had digged, and which, after his death, the\nPhilistines had of old stopped up: and he called them by the same\nnames, by which his father before had called them.\n\n26:19. And they digged in the torrent, and found living water:\n\nTorrent. . .That is, a channel where sometimes a torrent or violent\nstream had run.\n\n26:20. But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the\nherdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the\nname of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.\n\n26:21. And they digged also another; and for that they quarrelled\nlikewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity.\n\n26:22. Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which\nthey contended not; therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude,\nsaying: Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase upon\nthe earth.\n\nLatitude. . .That is, wideness, or room.\n\n26:23. And he went up from that place to Bersabee,\n\n26:24. Where the Lord appeared to him that same night, saying: I am the\nGod of Abraham thy father, do not fear, for I am with thee: I will\nbless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.\n\n26:25. And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the\nLord, and pitched his tent; and commanded his servants to dig a well.\n\n26:26. To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and\nPhicol chief captain of his soldiers, came from Gerara,\n\n26:27. Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate,\nand have thrust out from you?\n\n26:28. And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and\ntherefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a\ncovenant,\n\n26:29. That thou do us no harm, as we on our part have touched nothing\nof thine, nor have done any thing to hurt thee; but with peace have\nsent thee away, increased with the blessing of the Lord.\n\n26:30. And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:\n\n26:31. Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac\nsent them away peaceably to their own home.\n\n26:32. And behold, the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him\nof a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water.\n\n26:33. Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was\ncalled Bersabee, even to this day.\n\n26:34. And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the\ndaughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of\nthe same place.\n\n26:35. And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 27\n\n\nJacob, by him mother's counsel, obtaineth his father's blessing instead\nof Esau. And by her is advised to fly to his uncle Laban.\n\n27:1. Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see:\nand he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: My son? And he\nanswered: Here I am.\n\n27:2. And his father said to him, Thou seest that I am old, and know\nnot the day of my death.\n\n27:3. Take thy arms, thy quiver, and bow, and go abroad; and when thou\nhast taken something by hunting,\n\n27:4. Make me a savoury meat thereof, as thou knowest I like, and bring\nit that I may eat: and my soul may bless thee, before I die.\n\n27:5. And when Rebecca had heard this, and he was gone into the field\nto fulfil his father's commandment,\n\n27:6. She said to her son Jacob: I heard thy father talking with Esau,\nthy brother, and saying to him:\n\n27:7. Bring me of thy hunting, and make me meats that I may eat, and\nbless thee in the sight of the Lord, before I die.\n\n27:8. Now therefore, my son, follow my counsel:\n\n27:9. And go thy way to the flock, bring me two kids of the best, that\nI may make of them meat for thy father, such as he gladly eateth.\n\n27:10. Which when thou hast brought in, and he hath eaten, he may bless\nthee before he die.\n\n27:11. And he answered her: Thou knowest that Esau, my brother, is a\nhairy man, and I am smooth:\n\n27:12. If my father should feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he\nwill think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse\ninstead of a blessing.\n\n27:13. And his mother said to him: Upon me be this curse, my son: only\nhear thou my voice, and go, fetch me the things which I have said.\n\n27:14. He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed\nmeats, such as she knew his father liked.\n\n27:15. And she put on him very good garments of Esau, which she had at\nhome with her:\n\n27:16. And the little skins of the kids she put about his hands, and\ncovered the bare of his neck.\n\n27:17. And she gave him the savoury meat, and delivered him bread that\nshe had baked.\n\n27:18. Which when he had carried in, he said: My father? But he\nanswered: I hear. Who art thou, my son?\n\n27:19. And Jacob said: I am Esau, thy firstborn: I have done as thou\ndidst command me: arise, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may\nbless me.\n\nI am Esau thy firstborn. . .St. Augustine (L. Contra mendacium, c. 10),\ntreating at large upon this place, excuseth Jacob from a lie, because\nthis whole passage was mysterious, as relating to the preference which\nwas afterwards to be given to the Gentiles before the carnal Jews,\nwhich Jacob by prophetic light might understand. So far is certain,\nthat the first birthright, both by divine election and by Esau's free\ncession belonged to Jacob: so that if there were any lie in the case,\nit could be no more than an officious and venial one.\n\n27:20. And Isaac said to his son: How couldst thou find it so quickly,\nmy son? He answered: It was the will of God, that what I sought came\nquickly in my way:\n\n27:21. And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and\nmay prove whether thou be my son Esau, or no.\n\n27:22. He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac\nsaid: The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands, are the\nhands of Esau.\n\n27:23. And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to\nthe elder. Then blessing him,\n\n27:24. He said: Art thou my son Esau? He answered: I am.\n\n27:25. Then he said: Bring me the meats of thy hunting, my son, that my\nsoul may bless thee. And when they were brought, and he had eaten, he\noffered him wine also, which after he had drunk,\n\n27:26. He said to him: Come near me, and give me a kiss, my son.\n\n27:27. He came near, and kissed him. And immediately as he smelled the\nfragrant smell of his garments, blessing him, he said: Behold, the\nsmell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field, which the Lord\nhath blessed.\n\n27:28. God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the\nearth, abundance of corn and wine.\n\n27:29. And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou\nlord of thy brethren, and let thy mother's children bow down before\nthee. Cursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be\nfilled with blessings.\n\n27:30. Isaac had scarce ended his words, when, Jacob being now gone out\nabroad, Esau came,\n\n27:31. And brought in to his father meats, made of what he had taken in\nhunting, saying: Arise, my father, and eat of thy son's venison; that\nthy soul may bless me.\n\n27:32. And Isaac said to him: Why! who art thou? He answered: I am thy\nfirstborn son, Esau.\n\n27:33. Isaac was struck with fear, and astonished exceedingly; and\nwondering beyond what can be believed, said: Who is he then that even\nnow brought me venison that he had taken, and I ate of all before thou\ncamest? and I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed.\n\n27:34. Esau having heard his father's words, roared out with a great\ncry; and, being in a consternation, said: Bless me also, my father.\n\n27:35. And he said: Thy brother came deceitfully and got thy blessing.\n\n27:36. But he said again: Rightly is his name called Jacob; for he hath\nsupplanted me lo this second time: My birthright he took away before,\nand now this second time he hath stolen away my blessing. And again he\nsaid to his father: Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing?\n\nJacob. . .That is, a supplanter.\n\n27:37. Isaac answered: I have appointed him thy lord, and have made all\nhis brethren his servants: I have established him with corn and wine,\nand after this, what shall I do more for thee, my son?\n\n27:38. And Esau said to him: Hast thou only one blessing, father? I\nbeseech thee bless me also. And when he wept with a loud cry,\n\n27:39. Isaac being moved, said to him: In the fat of the earth, and in\nthe dew of heaven from above,\n\n27:40. Shall thy blessing be. Thou shalt live by the sword, and shalt\nserve thy brother: and the time shall come, when thou shalt shake off\nand loose his yoke from thy neck.\n\n27:41. Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the blessing wherewith\nhis father had blessed him; and he said in his heart: The days will\ncome of the mourning for my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob.\n\n27:42. These things were told to Rebecca: and she sent and called\nJacob, her son, and said to him: Behold Esau, thy brother, threateneth\nto kill thee.\n\n27:43. Now therefore, my son, hear my voice, arise and flee to Laban,\nmy brother, to Haran:\n\n27:44. And thou shalt dwell with him a few days, till the wrath of thy\nbrother be assuaged,\n\n27:45. And his indignation cease, and he forget the things thou hast\ndone to him: afterwards I will send, and bring thee from thence hither.\nWhy shall I be deprived of both my sons in one day?\n\n27:46. And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life, because of the\ndaughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I\nchoose not to live.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 28\n\n\nJacob's journey to Mesopotamia: his vision and vow.\n\n28:1. And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying:\nTake not a wife of the stock of Chanaan:\n\n28:2. But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house\nof Bathuel, thy mother's father, and take thee a wife thence of the\ndaughters of Laban, thy uncle.\n\n28:3. And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase and\nmultiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people.\n\n28:4. And give the blessings of Araham to thee, and to thy seed after\nthee: that thou mayst possess the land of thy sojournment, which he\npromised to thy grandfather.\n\n28:5. And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to\nMesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, brother\nto Rebecca, his mother.\n\n28:6. And Esau seeing that his father had blessed Jacob, and had sent\nhim into Mesopotamia of Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after\nthe blessing he had charged him, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of\nthe daughters of Chanaan:\n\n28:7. And that Jacob obeying his parents, was gone into Syria:\n\n28:8. Experiencing also, that his father was not well pleased with the\ndaughters of Chanaan:\n\n28:9. He went to Ismael, and took to wife, besides them he had before,\nMaheleth, the daughter of Ismael, Abraham's son, the sister of\nNabajoth.\n\n28:10. But Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran.\n\n28:11. And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it\nafter sunset, he took of the stones that lay there, and putting under\nhis head, slept in the same place.\n\n28:12. And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and\nthe top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and\ndescending by it.\n\n28:13. And the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the\nLord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: The land, wherein\nthou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.\n\n28:14. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt\nspread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to\nthe south: and IN THEE and thy seed, all the tribes of the earth SHALL\nBE BLESSED.\n\n28:15. And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will\nbring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall\nhave accomplished all that I have said.\n\n28:16. And when Jacob awaked out of sleep, he said: Indeed the Lord is\nin this place, and I knew it not.\n\n28:17. And trembling, he said: How terrible is this place? this is no\nother but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.\n\n28:18. And Jacob arising in the morning, took the stone which he had\nlaid under his head, and set it up for a title, pouring oil upon the\ntop of it.\n\n28:19. And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was\ncalled Luza.\n\nBethel. . .This name signifies the house of God.\n\n28:20. And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall\nkeep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat,\nand raiment to put on,\n\n28:21. And I shall return prosperously to my father's house: the Lord\nshall be my God:\n\n28:22. And this stone, which I have set up for a title, shall be called\nthe house of God: and of all things that thou shalt give to me, I will\noffer tithes to thee.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 29\n\n\nJacob serveth Laban seven years for Rachel: but is deceived with Lia:\nhe afterwards marrieth Rachel. Lia bears him four sons.\n\n29:1. Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east\ncountry.\n\n29:2. And he saw a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lying\nby it: for the beasts were watered out of it, and the mouth thereof was\nclosed with a great stone.\n\n29:3. And the custom was, when all the sheep were gathered together, to\nroll away the stone, and after the sheep were watered, to put it on the\nmouth of the well again.\n\n29:4. And he said to the shepherds: Brethren, whence are you? They\nanswered: Of Haran.\n\n29:5. And he asked them, saying: Know you Laban, the son of Nachor?\nThey said: We know him.\n\n29:6. He said: Is he in health? He is in health, say they: and behold,\nRachel, his daughter, cometh with his flock.\n\n29:7. And Jacob said: There is yet much day remaining, neither is it\ntime to bring the flocks into the folds again: first give the sheep\ndrink, and so lead them back to feed.\n\n29:8. They answered: We cannot, till all the cattle be gathered\ntogether, and we remove the stone from the well's mouth, that we may\nwater the flocks.\n\n29:9. They were yet speaking, and behold Rachel came with her father's\nsheep; for she fed the flock.\n\n29:10. And when Jacob saw her, and knew her to be his cousin german,\nand that they were the sheep of Laban, his uncle: he removed the stone\nwherewith the well was closed.\n\n29:11. And having watered the flock, he kissed her: and lifting up his\nvoice wept.\n\n29:12. And he told her that he was her father's brother, and the son of\nRebecca: but she went in haste and told her father.\n\n29:13. Who, when he heard that Jacob his sister's son was come, ran\nforth to meet him: and embracing him, and heartily kissing him, brought\nhim into his house. And when he had heard the causes of his journey,\n\n29:14. He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days\nof one month were expired,\n\n29:15. He said to him: Because thou art my brother, shalt thou serve me\nwithout wages? Tell me what wages thou wilt have.\n\n29:16. Now he had two daughters, the name of the elder was Lia; and the\nyounger was called Rachel.\n\n29:17. But Lia was blear-eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a\nbeautiful countenance.\n\n29:18. And Jacob being in love with her, said: I will serve thee seven\nyears for Rachel, thy younger daughter.\n\n29:19. Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to\nanother man; stay with me.\n\n29:20. So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a\nfew days, because of the greatness of his love.\n\n29:21. And he said to Laban: Give me my wife; for now the time is\nfulfilled, that I may go in unto her.\n\n29:22. And he, having invited a great number of his friends to the\nfeast, made the marriage.\n\n29:23. And at night he brought in Lia, his daughter, to him,\n\n29:24. Giving his daughter a handmaid, named Zelpha. Now when Jacob had\ngone in to her according to custom, when morning was come he saw it was\nLia.\n\n29:25. And he said to his father-in-law: What is it that thou didst\nmean to do? did not I serve thee for Rachel? why hast thou deceived me?\n\n29:26. Laban answered: It is not the custom in this place, to give the\nyounger in marriage first.\n\n29:27. Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee her\nalso, for the service that thou shalt render me other seven years.\n\n29:28. He yielded to his pleasure: and after the week was past, he\nmarried Rachel:\n\n29:29. To whom her father gave Bala, for her servant.\n\n29:30. And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he\npreferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him\nother seven years.\n\n29:31. And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but\nher sister remained barren.\n\n29:32. And she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Ruben,\nsaying: The Lord saw my affliction: now my husband will love me.\n\n29:33. And again she conceived and bore a son, and said: Because the\nLord heard that I was despised, he hath given this also to me: and she\ncalled his name Simeon.\n\n29:34. And she conceived the third time, and bore another son, and\nsaid: Now also my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne\nhim three sons: and therefore she called his name Levi.\n\n29:35. The fourth time she conceived and bore a son, and said: Now will\nI praise the Lord: and for this she called him Juda. And she left\nbearing.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 30\n\n\nRachel, being barren, delivereth her handmaid to Jacob; she beareth two\nsons. Lia ceasing to bear, giveth also her handmaid, and she beareth\ntwo more. Then Lia beareth other two sons and one daughter. Rachel\nbeareth Joseph. Jacob, desirous to return home, is hired to stay for a\ncertain part of the flock's increase, whereby he becometh exceeding\nrich.\n\n30:1. And Rachel seeing herself without children, envied her sister,\nand said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.\n\n30:2. And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath\ndeprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?\n\n30:3. But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that\nshe may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.\n\n30:4. And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,\n\n30:5. When her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son.\n\n30:6. And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my\nvoice, giving me a son; and therefore she called his name Dan.\n\n30:7. And again Bala conceived, and bore another,\n\n30:8. For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I\nhave prevailed: and she called him Nephthali.\n\n30:9. Lia perceiving that she had left of bearing, gave Zelpha, her\nhandmaid, to her husband.\n\n30:10. And when she had conceived, and brought forth a son,\n\n30:11. She said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad.\n\n30:12. Zelpha also bore another.\n\n30:13. And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me\nblessed. Therefore she called him Aser.\n\n30:14. And Ruben going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the\nfield, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel\nsaid: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes.\n\n30:15. She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast\ntaken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son's mandrakes?\nRachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son's\nmandrakes.\n\n30:16. And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to\nmeet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired\nthee for my son's mandrakes. And he slept with her that night.\n\n30:17. And God heard her prayers; and she conceived: and bore a fifth\nson:\n\n30:18. And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid\nto my husband. And she called his name Issachar.\n\n30:19. And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son,\n\n30:20. And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also\nmy husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and\ntherefore she called his name Zabulon.\n\n30:21. After whom she bore a daughter, named Dina.\n\n30:22. The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her\nwomb.\n\n30:23. And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken away\nmy reproach.\n\n30:24. And she called his name Joseph: saying: The Lord give me also\nanother son.\n\n30:25. And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: Send\nme away, that I may return into my country, and to my land.\n\n30:26. Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee,\nthat I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.\n\n30:27. Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have\nlearned, by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.\n\n30:28. Appoint thy wages which I shall give thee.\n\n30:29. But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how\ngreat thy possession hath been in my hands.\n\n30:30. Thou hadst but little before I came to thee, and now thou art\nbecome rich: and the Lord hath blessed thee at my coming. It is\nreasonable, therefore, that I should now provide also for my own house.\n\n30:31. And Laban said: What shall I give thee? But he said: I require\nnothing; but if thou wilt do what I demand, I will feed and keep thy\nsheep again.\n\n30:32. Go round through all thy flocks, and separate all the sheep of\ndivers colours, and speckled; and all that is brown and spotted, and of\ndivers colours, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall be my\nwages.\n\n30:33. And my justice shall answer for me tomorrow before thee, when\nthe time of the bargain shall come; and all that is not of divers\ncolours, and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep as among the\ngoats, shall accuse me of theft.\n\n30:34. And Laban said: I like well what thou demandest.\n\n30:35. And he separated the same day the she-goats, and the sheep, and\nthe he-goats, and the rams of divers colours, and spotted; and all the\nflock of one colour, that is, of white and black fleece, he delivered\ninto the hands of his sons.\n\n30:36. And he set the space of three days journey betwixt himself and\nhis son-in-law, who fed the rest of his flock.\n\n30:37. And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and of almond, and of\nplane-trees, and pilled them in part: so when the bark was taken off,\nin the parts that were pilled, there appeared whiteness: but the parts\nthat were whole, remained green: and by this means the colour was\ndivers.\n\n30:38. And he put them in the troughs, where the water was poured out;\nthat when the flocks should come to drink, they might have the rods\nbefore their eyes, and in the sight of them might conceive.\n\n30:39. And it came to pass, that in the very heat of coition, the sheep\nbeheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of divers colours, and\nspeckled.\n\n30:40. And Jacob separated the flock, and put the rods in the troughs\nbefore the eyes of the rams; and all the white and the black were\nLaban's, and the rest were Jacob's, when the flocks were separated one\nfrom the other.\n\n30:41. So when the ewes went first to ram, Jacob put the rods in the\ntroughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that\nthey might conceive while they were looking upon them.\n\n30:42. But when the later coming was, and the last conceiving, he did\nnot put them. And those that were lateward, became Laban's; and they of\nthe first time, Jacob's.\n\n30:43. And the man was enriched exceedingly, and he had many flocks,\nmaid-servants and men-servants, camels and asses.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 31\n\n\nJacob's departure: he is pursued and overtaken by Laban. They make a\ncovenant.\n\n31:1. But after that he had heard the words of the sons of Laban,\nsaying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and being\nenriched by his substance is become great.\n\n31:2. And perceiving also, that Laban's countenance was not towards him\nas yesterday and the other day.\n\n31:3. Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy\nfathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.\n\n31:4. He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed\nthe flocks,\n\n31:5. And said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards\nme as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been\nwith me.\n\n31:6. And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of\nmy power.\n\n31:7. Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my\nwages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.\n\n31:8. If at any time, he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the\nsheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou\nshalt take all the white one for thy wages: all the flocks brought\nforth white ones.\n\n31:9. And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.\n\n31:10. For after the time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my\neyes, and saw in my sleep, that the males which leaped upon the females\nwere of divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.\n\n31:11. And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob. And I\nanswered: Here I am.\n\n31:12. And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males\nleaping upon the females, are of divers colours, spotted and speckled.\nFor I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee.\n\n31:13. I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and\nmake a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and\nreturn into thy native country.\n\n31:14. And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the\ngoods and inheritance of our father's house?\n\n31:15. Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up\nthe price of us?\n\n31:16. But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to\nus, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded\nthee.\n\n31:17. Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon\ncamels, went his way.\n\n31:18. And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had\ngotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the\nland of Chanaan.\n\n31:19. At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole\naway her father's idols.\n\nHer father's idols. . .By this it appears that Laban was an idolater;\nand some of the fathers are of opinion that Rachel stole away these\nidols to withdraw him from idolatry, removing the occasion of his sin.\n\n31:20. And Jacob would not confess to his father-in-law that he was\nflying away.\n\n31:21. And when he was gone, together with all that belonged to him,\nand having passed the river, was going on towards mount Galaad,\n\n31:22. It was told Laban on the third day, that Jacob fled.\n\n31:23. And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven\ndays; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.\n\n31:24. And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak\nnot any thing harshly against Jacob.\n\n31:25. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he,\nwith his brethren, had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same\nmount of Galaad.\n\n31:26. And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away,\nwithout my knowledge, my daughters as captives taken with the sword?\n\n31:27. Why wouldst thou run away privately, and not acquaint me, that I\nmight have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with\ntimbrels, and with harps?\n\n31:28. Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters; thou\nhast done foolishly; and now indeed,\n\n31:29. It is in my power to return thee evil; but the God of your\nfather said to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly\nagainst Jacob.\n\n31:30. Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a\nlonging after thy father's house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?\n\n31:31. Jacob answered: That I departed unknown to thee, it was for fear\nlest thou wouldst take away thy daughters by force.\n\n31:32. But, whereas, thou chargest me with theft: with whomsoever thou\nshalt find thy gods, let him be slain before our brethren. Search, and\nif thou find any of thy things with me, take them away. Now when he\nsaid this, he knew not that Rachel had stolen the idols.\n\n31:33. So Laban went into the tent of Jacob, and of Lia, and of both\nthe handmaids, and found them not. And when he was entered into\nRachel's tent,\n\n31:34. She, in haste, hid the idols under the camel's furniture, and\nsat upon them: and when he had searched all the tent, and found\nnothing,\n\n31:35. She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before\nthee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of\nwomen. So his careful search was in vain.\n\n31:36. And Jacob being angry, said in a chiding manner: For what fault\nof mine, and for what offence on my part hast thou so hotly pursued me,\n\n31:37. And searched all my household stuff? What hast thou found of all\nthe substance of thy house? lay it here before my brethren, and thy\nbrethren, and let them judge between me and thee.\n\n31:38. Have I, therefore, been with thee twenty years? thy ewes and\ngoats were not barren, the rams of thy flocks I did not eat:\n\n31:39. Neither did I shew thee that which the beast had torn; I made\ngood all the damage: whatsoever was lost by theft, thou didst exact it\nof me:\n\n31:40. Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep\ndeparted from my eyes.\n\n31:41. And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years,\nfourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed\nalso my wages ten times.\n\n31:42. Unless the God of my father, Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had\nstood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld\nmy affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.\n\n31:43. Laban answered him: The daughters are mine, and the children,\nand thy flocks, and all things that thou seest are mine: what can I do\nto my children, and grandchildren?\n\n31:44. Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for\na testimony between me and thee.\n\n31:45. And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title.\n\n31:46. And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they,\ngathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.\n\n31:47. And Laban called it, The witness heap; and Jacob, The hillock of\ntestimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.\n\n31:48. And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee\nthis day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is,\nThe witness heap.\n\n31:49. The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one\nfrom the other.\n\n31:50. If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives\nover them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and\nbeholdeth.\n\n31:51. And he said again to Jacob: Behold this heap, and the stone\nwhich I have set up between me and thee,\n\n31:52. Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for\na testimony, if either I shall pass beyond it going towards thee, or\nthou shalt pass beyond it thinking harm to me.\n\n31:53. The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their\nfather, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father\nIsaac:\n\n31:54. And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called\nhis brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:\n\n31:55. But Laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons and daughters,\nand blessed them: and returned to his place.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 32\n\n\nJacob's vision of angels; his message and presents to Esau; his\nwrestling with an angel.\n\n32:1. Jacob also went on the journey he had begun: and the angels of\nGod met him.\n\n32:2. And when he saw them, he said: These are the camps of God, and he\ncalled the name of that place Mahanaim, that is, Camps.\n\n32:3. And he sent messengers before him to Esau, his brother, to the\nland of Seir, to the country of Edom:\n\n32:4. And he commanded them, saying: Thus shall ye speak to my lord\nEsau: Thus saith thy brother Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and\nhave been with him until this day:\n\n32:5. I have oxen, and asses, and sheep, and menservants, and\nwomenservants: and now I send a message to my lord, that I may find\nfavour in thy sight.\n\n32:6. And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: We came to Esau,\nthy brother, and behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with four\nhundred men.\n\n32:7. Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people\nthat was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the\ncamels, into two companies,\n\n32:8. Saying: If Esau come to one company, and destroy it, the other\ncompany that is left, shall escape.\n\n32:9. And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father\nIsaac: O Lord who saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place of\nthy birth, and I will do well for thee.\n\n32:10. I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy\ntruth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed\nover this Jordan; and now I return with two companies.\n\n32:11. Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly\nafraid of him; lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the\nchildren.\n\n32:12. Thou didst say, that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my\nseed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.\n\n32:13. And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the\nthings which he had, presents for his brother Esau,\n\n32:14. Two hundred she-goats, twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes, and\ntwenty rams,\n\n32:15. Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and twenty\nbulls, twenty she-asses, and ten of their foals.\n\n32:16. And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by\nitself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a\nspace between drove and drove.\n\n32:17. And he commanded the first, saying: If thou meet my brother\nEsau, and he ask thee: Whose art thou? or whither goest thou? or whose\nare these before thee?\n\n32:18. Thou shalt answer: Thy servant Jacob's: he hath sent them as a\npresent to my lord Esau; and he cometh after us.\n\n32:19. In like manner he commanded the second, and the third, and all\nthat followed the droves, saying: Speak ye the same words to Esau, when\nye find him.\n\n32:20. And ye shall add: Thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after\nus; for he said: I will appease him with the presents that go before,\nand afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious to me.\n\n32:21. So the presents went before him, but himself lodged that night\nin the camp.\n\n32:22. And rising early, he took his two wives and his two handmaids,\nwith his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jaboc.\n\n32:23. And when all things were brought over that belonged to him,\n\n32:24. He remained alone; and behold, a man wrestled with him till\nmorning.\n\nA man, etc. . .This was an angel in human shape, as we learn from Osee\n12.4. He is called God, ver. 28 and 30, because he represented the\nperson of the Son of God. This wrestling, in which Jacob, assisted by\nGod, was a match for an angel, was so ordered (ver. 28,) that he might\nlearn by this experiment of the divine assistance, that neither Esau,\nnor any other man, should have power to hurt him.--It was also\nspiritual, as appeareth by his earnest prayer, urging and at last\nobtaining the angel's blessing.\n\n32:25. And when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the\nsinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank.\n\n32:26. And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He\nanswered: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.\n\n32:27. And he said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob.\n\n32:28. But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel; for\nif thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail\nagainst men?\n\n32:29. Jacob asked him: Tell me by what name art thou called? He\nanswered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same\nplace.\n\n32:30. And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have\nseen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.\n\nPhanuel. . .This word signifies the face of God, or the sight, or seeing\nof God.\n\n32:31. And immediately the sun rose upon him, after he was past\nPhanuel; but he halted on his foot.\n\n32:32. Therefore the children of Israel, unto this day, eat not the\nsinew, that shrank in Jacob's thigh: because he touched the sinew of\nhis thigh and it shrank.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 33\n\n\nJacob and Esau meet: Jacob goeth to Salem, where he raiseth an altar.\n\n33:1. And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and with him four\nhundred men: and he divided the children of Lia and of Rachel, and of\nthe two handmaids.\n\n33:2. And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and\nLia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.\n\n33:3. And he went forward and bowed down with his face to the ground\nseven times, until his brother came near.\n\n33:4. Then Esau ran to meet his brother, and embraced him: and clasping\nhim fast about the neck, and kissing him, wept.\n\n33:5. And lifting up his eyes, he saw the women and their children, and\nsaid: What mean these? And do they belong to thee? He answered: They\nare the children which God hath given to me, thy servant.\n\n33:6. Then the handmaids and their children came near and bowed\nthemselves.\n\n33:7. Lia also, with her children, came near and bowed down in like\nmanner; and last of all, Joseph and Rachel bowed down.\n\n33:8. And Esau said: What are the droves that I met? He answered: That\nI might find favour before my lord.\n\n33:9. But he said: I have plenty, my brother, keep what is thine for\nthyself.\n\n33:10. And Jacob said: Do not so I beseech thee, but if I have found\nfavour in thy eyes, receive a little present at my hands: for I have\nseen thy face, as if I should have seen the countenance of God: be\ngracious to me,\n\n33:11. And take the blessing which I have brought thee, and which God\nhath given me, who giveth all things. He took it with much ado at his\nbrother's earnest pressing him,\n\n33:12. And said: Let us go on together, and I will accompany thee in\nthy journey.\n\n33:13. And Jacob said: My lord, thou knowest that I have with me tender\nchildren, and sheep, and kine with young: which if I should cause to be\noverdriven, in one day all the flocks will die.\n\n33:14. May it please my lord to go before his servant: and I will\nfollow softly after him, as I shall see my children to be able, until I\ncome to my lord in Seir.\n\n33:15. Esau answered: I beseech thee, that some of the people, at\nleast, who are with me, may stay to accompany thee in the way. And he\nsaid: There is no necessity: I want nothing else but only to find\nfavour, my lord, in thy sight.\n\n33:16. So Esau returned that day, the way that he came, to Seir.\n\n33:17. And Jacob came to Socoth: where having built a house, and\npitched tents, he called the name of the place Socoth, that is, Tents.\n\n33:18. And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites, which is\nin the land of Chanaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria:\nand he dwelt by the town.\n\n33:19. And he bought that part of the field, in which he pitched his\ntents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem, for a hundred\nlambs.\n\n33:20. And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty\nGod of Israel.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 34\n\n\nDina is ravished, for which the Sichemites are destroyed.\n\n34:1. And Dina the daughter of Lia went out to see the women of that\ncountry.\n\n34:2. And when Sichem the son of Hemor the Hevite, the prince of that\nland, saw her, he was in love with her: and took her away, and lay with\nher, ravishing the virgin.\n\n34:3. And his soul was fast knit unto her; and whereas she was sad, he\ncomforted her with sweet words.\n\n34:4. And going to Hemor his father, he said: Get me this damsel to\nwife.\n\n34:5. But when Jacob had heard this, his sons being absent, and\nemployed in feeding the cattle, he held his peace till they came back.\n\n34:6. And when Hemor the father of Sichem was come out to speak to\nJacob,\n\n34:7. Behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed,\nthey were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel,\nand committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob's daughter.\n\n34:8. And Hemor spoke to them: The soul of my son Sichem has a longing\nfor your daughter: give her him to wife:\n\n34:9. And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your\ndaughters, and take you our daughters.\n\n34:10. And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and\npossess it.\n\n34:11. Sichem also said to her father and to her brethren: Let me find\nfavour in your sight, and whatsoever you shall appoint I will give:\n\n34:12. Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you\nshall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.\n\n34:13. The sons of Jacob answered Sichem and his father deceitfully,\nbeing enraged at the deflowering of their sister:\n\nDeceitfully. . .The sons of Jacob, on this occasion, were guilty of a\ngrievous sin, as well by falsely pretending religion, as by excess of\nrevenge: though otherwise their zeal against so foul a crime was\ncommendable.\n\n34:14. We cannot do what you demand, nor give our sister to one that is\nuncircumcised; which with us is unlawful and abominable.\n\n34:15. But in this we may be allied with you, if you will be like us,\nand all the male sex among you be circumcised:\n\n34:16. Then will we mutually give and take your daughters, and ours;\nand we will dwell with you, and will be one people:\n\n34:17. But if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter\nand depart.\n\n34:18. Their offer pleased Hemor, and Sichem, his son:\n\n34:19. And the young man made no delay, but forthwith fulfilled what\nwas required: for he loved the damsel exceedingly, and he was the\ngreatest man in all his father's house.\n\n34:20. And going into the gate of the city, they spoke to the people:\n\n34:21. These men are peaceable, and are willing to dwell with us: let\nthem trade in the land, and till it, which being large and wide wanteth\nmen to till it: we shall take their daughters for wives, and we will\ngive them ours.\n\n34:22. One thing there is for which so great a good is deferred: We\nmust circumcise every male among us, following the manner of the\nnation.\n\n34:23. And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess,\nshall be ours; only in this let us condescend, and by dwelling\ntogether, we shall make one people.\n\n34:24. And they all agreed, and circumcised all the males.\n\n34:25. And behold the third day, when the pain of the wound was\ngreatest: two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of\nDina, taking their swords, entered boldly into the city and slew all\nthe men.\n\n34:26. And they killed also Hemor and Sichem, and took away their\nsister Dina out of Sichem's house.\n\n34:27. And when they were gone out, the other sons of Jacob came upon\nthe slain; and plundered the city in revenge of the rape.\n\n34:28. And they took their sheep, and their herds, and their asses,\nwasting all they had in their houses and in their fields.\n\n34:29. And their children and wives they took captive.\n\n34:30. And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to\nSimeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the\nChanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few:\nthey will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my\nhouse shall be destroyed.\n\n34:31. They answered: Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 35\n\n\nJacob purgeth his family from idols: goeth by God's commandment to\nBethel, and there buildeth an altar. God appearing again to Jacob\nblesseth him, and changeth his name into Israel. Rachel dieth in\nchildbirth. Isaac also dieth.\n\n35:1. In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and go up to Bethel,\nand dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee\nwhen thou didst flee from Esau, thy brother.\n\n35:2. And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast\naway the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change\nyour garments.\n\n35:3. Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an\naltar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompained\nme in my journey.\n\n35:4. So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings\nwhich were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree,\nthat is behind the city of Sichem.\n\n35:5. And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the\ncities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went\naway.\n\n35:6. And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed\nBethel: he and all the people that were with him.\n\n35:7. And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place,\nThe house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his\nbrother.\n\n35:8. At the same time Debora, the nurse of Rebecca, died, and was\nburied at the foot of Bethel, under an oak, and the name of that place\nwas called, The oak of weeping.\n\n35:9. And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from\nMesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,\n\n35:10. Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel\nshall be thy name. And he called him Israel.\n\nIsrael. . .This name signifieth one that prevaileth with God.\n\n35:11. And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be\nmultiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and\nkings shall come out of thy loins.\n\n35:12. And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to\nthee, and to thy seed after thee.\n\n35:13. And he departed from him.\n\n35:14. But he set up a monument of stone, in the place where God had\nspoken to him: pouring drink-offerings upon it, and pouring oil\nthereon:\n\n35:15. And calling the name of that place Bethel.\n\n35:16. And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the\nland which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,\n\n35:17. By reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the\nmidwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.\n\n35:18. And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at\nhand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my\npain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right\nhand.\n\n35:19. So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to\nEphrata, this is Bethlehem.\n\n35:20. And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulchre: this is the\npillar of Rachel's monument, to this day.\n\n35:21. Departing thence, he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower.\n\n35:22. And when he dwelt in that country, Ruben went, and slept with\nBala the concubine of his father: which he was not ignorant of. Now the\nsons of Jacob were twelve.\n\nThe concubine. . .She was his lawful wife; but, according to the style\nof the Hebrews, is called concubine, because of her servile extraction.\n\n35:23. The sons of Lia: Ruben the first born, and Simeon, and Levi, and\nJuda, and Issachar, and Zabulon.\n\n35:24. The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.\n\n35:25. The sons of Bala, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Nephthali.\n\n35:26. The sons of Zelpha, Lia's handmaid: Gad and Aser: these are the\nsons of Jacob, that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.\n\n35:27. And he came to Isaac his father in Mambre, the city of Arbee,\nthis is Hebron: wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned.\n\n35:28. And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.\n\n35:29. And being spent with age he died, and was gathered to his\npeople, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried\nhim.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 36\n\n\nEsau with his wives and children parteth from Jacob. An account of his\ndescendants, and of the first kings of Edom.\n\n36:1. And these are the generations of Esau, the same is Edom.\n\n36:2. Esau took wives of the daughters of Chanaan: Ada the daughter of\nElon the Hethite, and Oolibama the daughter of Ana, the daughter of\nSebeon the Hevite:\n\nAda. . .These wives of Esau are called by other names, Gen. 26. But it\nwas very common amongst the ancients for the same persons to have two\nnames, as Esau himself was also called Edom.\n\n36:3. And Basemath, the daughter of Ismael, sister of Nabajoth.\n\n36:4. And Ada bore Eliphaz: Basemath bore Rahuel.\n\n36:5. Oolibama bore Jehus, and Ihelon, and Core. These are the sons of\nEsau, that were born to him in the land of Chanaan.\n\n36:6. And Esau took his wives, and his sons and daughters, and every\nsoul of his house, and his substance, and cattle, and all that he was\nable to acquire in the land of Chanaan: and went into another country,\nand departed from his brother Jacob.\n\n36:7. For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwell together:\nneither was the land in which they sojourned able to bear them, for the\nmultitude of their flocks.\n\n36:8. And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: he is Edom.\n\n36:9. And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in\nmount Seir.\n\n36:10. And these the names of his sons: Eliphaz the son of Ada, the\nwife of Esau: and Rahuel, the son of Basemath, his wife.\n\n36:11. And Eliphaz had sons: Theman, Omar, Sepho, and Gatham and Cenez.\n\n36:12. And Thamna was the concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau: and\nshe bore him Amalech. These are the sons of Ada, the wife of Esau.\n\n36:13. And the sons of Rahuel were Nahath and Zara, Samma and Meza.\nThese were the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.\n\n36:14. And these were the sons of Oolibama, the daughter of Ana, the\ndaughter of Sebeon, the wife of Esau, whom she bore to him, Jehus, and\nIhelon, and Core.\n\n36:15. These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, the\nfirstborn of Esau: duke Theman, duke Omar, duke Sepho, duke Cenez,\n\n36:16. Duke Core, duke Gatham, duke Amalech: these are the sons of\nEliphaz, in the land of Edom, and these the sons of Ada.\n\n36:17. And these were the sons of Rahuel, the son of Esau: duke Nahath,\nduke Zara, duke Samma, duke Meza. And these are the dukes of Rahuel, in\nthe land of Edom: these the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.\n\n36:18. And these the sons of Oolibama, the wife of Esau: duke Jehus,\nduke Ihelon, duke Core. These are the dukes of Oolibama, the daughter\nof Ana, and wife of Esau.\n\n36:19. These are the sons of Esau, and these the dukes of them: the\nsame is Edom.\n\n36:20. These are the sons of Seir, the Horrite, the inhabitants of the\nland: Lotan, and Sobal, and Sebeon, and Ana,\n\n36:21. And Dison, and Eser, and Disan. These are dukes of the Horrites,\nthe sons of Seir, in the land of Edom.\n\n36:22. And Lotan had sons: Hori and Heman. And the sister of Lotan was\nThamna.\n\n36:23. And these the sons of Sobal: Alvan, and Manahat, and Ebal, and\nSepho, and Onam.\n\n36:24. And these the sons of Sebeon: Aia and Ana. This is Ana that\nfound the hot waters in the wilderness, when he fed the asses of\nSebeon, his father:\n\n36:25. And he had a son Dison, and a daughter Oolibama.\n\n36:26. And these were the sons of Dison: Hamdan, and Eseban, and\nJethram, and Charan.\n\n36:27. These also were the sons of Eser: Balaan, and Zavan, and Acan.\n\n36:28. And Dison had sons: Hus and Aram.\n\n36:29. These were dukes of the Horrites: duke Lotan, duke Sobal, duke\nSebeon, duke Ana,\n\n36:30. Duke Dison, duke Eser, duke Disan: these were dukes of the\nHorrites that ruled in the land of Seir.\n\n36:31. And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the\nchildren of Israel had a king, were these:\n\n36:32. Bela the son of Beor, and the name of his city Denaba.\n\n36:33. And Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zara, of Bosra, reigned in\nhis stead.\n\n36:34. And when Jobab was dead, Husam, of the land of the Themanites,\nreigned in his stead.\n\n36:35. And after his death, Adad, the son of Badad, reigned in his\nstead, who defeated the Madianites in the country of Boab; and the name\nof his city was Avith.\n\n36:36. And when Adad was dead, there reigned in his stead, Semla, of\nMasreca.\n\n36:37. And he being dead, Saul, of the river Rohoboth, reigned in his\nstead.\n\n36:38. And when he also was dead, Balanan, the son of Achobor,\nsucceeded to the kingdom.\n\n36:39. This man also being dead, Adar reigned in his place; and the\nname of his city was Phau: and his wife was called Meetabel, the\ndaughter of Matred, daughter of Mezaab.\n\n36:40. And these are the names of the dukes of Esau in their kindreds,\nand places, and callings: duke Thamna, duke Alva, duke Jetheth,\n\n36:41. Duke Oolibama, duke Ela, duke Phinon,\n\n36:42. Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke Mabsar,\n\n36:43. Duke Magdiel, duke Hiram: these are the dukes of Edom dwelling\nin the land of their government; the same is Esau, the father of the\nEdomites.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 37\n\n\nJoseph's dreams: he is sold by his brethren, and carried into Egypt.\n\n37:1. And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan, wherein his father\nsojourned.\n\n37:2. And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years\nold, was feeding the flock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he\nwas with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father's wives: and he\naccused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.\n\n37:3. Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in\nhis old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.\n\n37:4. And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more\nthan all his sons, hated hem, and could not speak peaceably to him.\n\n37:5. Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he\nhad dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.\n\nA dream. . .These dreams of Joseph were prophetical, and sent from God;\nas were also those which he interpreted, Gen. 40. and 41.; otherwise\ngenerally speaking, the observing of dreams is condemned in the\nScripture, as superstitious and sinful. See Deut. 18.10; Eccli. 34.2,3.\n\n37:6. And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.\n\n37:7. I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf\narose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down\nbefore my sheaf.\n\n37:8. His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be\nsubject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words\nministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.\n\n37:9. He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren,\nsaying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven\nstars worshipping me.\n\n37:10. And when he had told this to his father, and brethren, his\nfather rebuked him and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast\ndreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the\nearth?\n\nWorship. . .This word is not used here to signify divine worship, but an\ninferior veneration, expressed by the bowing of the body, and that,\naccording to the manner of the eastern nations, down to the ground.\n\n37:11. His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the\nthing with himself.\n\n37:12. And when his brethren abode in Sechem, feeding their father's\nflocks,\n\n37:13. Israel said to him: Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come,\nI will send thee to them. And when he answered:\n\n37:14. I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well\nwith thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is\ndoing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:\n\n37:15. And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what\nhe sought.\n\n37:16. But he answered: I seek my brethren, tell me where they feed the\nflocks.\n\n37:17. And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for\nI heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after\nhis brethren, and found them in Dothain.\n\n37:18. And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they\nthought to kill him:\n\n37:19. And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh.\n\n37:20. Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we\nwill say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear\nwhat his dreams avail him:\n\n37:21. And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their\nhands, and said:\n\n37:22. Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast him into\nthis pit, that is in the wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: now\nhe said this, being desirous to deliver him out of their hands and to\nrestore him to his father.\n\n37:23. And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript\nhim of his outside coat, that was of divers colours:\n\n37:24. And cast him into an old pit where there was not water.\n\n37:25. And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their\nway coming from Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm,\nand myrrh to Egypt.\n\n37:26. And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill\nour brother, and conceal his blood?\n\n37:27. It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our\nhands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren\nagreed to his words.\n\n37:28. And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drew him out of\nthe pit, and sold him to the Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver:\nand they led him into Egypt.\n\n37:29. And Ruben returning to the pit, found not the boy:\n\n37:30. And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and said: The\nboy doth not appear, and whither shall I go?\n\n37:31. And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid,\nwhich they had killed:\n\n37:32. Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we\nhave found: see whether it be thy son's coat, or not.\n\n37:33. And the father acknowledging it, said: It is my son's coat, an\nevil wild beast hath eaten him, a beast hath devoured Joseph.\n\n37:34. And tearing his garments, he put on sackcloth, mourning for his\nson a long time.\n\n37:35. And all his children being gathered together to comfort their\nfather in his sorrow, he would not receive comfort, but said: I will go\ndown to my son into hell, mourning. And whilst he continued weeping,\n\nInto hell. . .That is, into limbo, the place where the souls of the just\nwere received before the death of our Redeemer. For allowing that the\nword hell sometimes is taken for the grave, it cannot be so taken in\nthis place; since Jacob did not believe his son to be in the grave,\n(whom he supposed to be devoured by a wild beast,) and therefore could\nnot mean to go down to him thither: but certainly meant the place of\nrest where he believed his soul to be.\n\n37:36. The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Putiphar, an eunuch of\nPharao, captain of the soldiers.\n\nAn eunuch. . .This word sometimes signifies a chamberlain, courtier, or\nofficer of the king: and so it is taken in this place.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 38\n\n\nThe sons of Juda: the death of Her and Onan: the birth of Phares and\nZara.\n\n38:1. At that time Juda went down from his brethren, and turned in to a\ncertain Odollamite, named Hiras.\n\n38:2. And he saw there the daughter of a man of Chanaan, called Sue:\nand taking her to wife, he went in unto her.\n\n38:3. And she conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Her.\n\n38:4. And conceiving again, she bore a son, and called him Onan.\n\n38:5. She bore also a third: whom she called Sela. After whose birth,\nshe ceased to bear any more.\n\n38:6. And Juda took a wife for Her, his first born, whose name was\nThamar.\n\n38:7. And Her, the first born of Juda, was wicked in the sight of the\nLord: and was slain by him.\n\n38:8. Juda, therefore, said to Onan his son: Go in to thy brother's\nwife and marry her, that thou mayst raise seed to thy brother.\n\n38:9. He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in\nto his brother's wife, he spilled his seed upon the ground, lest\nchildren should be born in his brother's name.\n\n38:10. And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable\nthing:\n\n38:11. Wherefore Juda said to Thamar his daughter-in-law: Remain a\nwidow in thy father's house, till Sela my son grow up: for he was\nafraid lest he also might die, as his brethren did. She went her way,\nand dwelt in her father's house.\n\n38:12. And after many days were past: the daughter of Sue the wife of\nJuda died: and when he had taken comfort after his mourning, he went up\nto Thamnas, to the shearers of his sheep, he and Hiras the Odollamite,\nthe shepherd of his flock.\n\n38:13. And it was told Thamar that her father-in-law was come up to\nThamnas to shear his sheep.\n\n38:14. And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil:\nand changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas:\nbecause Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him.\n\n38:15. When Juda saw her, he thought she was a harlot: for she had\ncovered her face, lest she should be known.\n\n38:16. And going to her, he said: Suffer me to lie with thee: for he\nknew her not to be his daughter-in-law. And she answered: What wilt\nthou give me to enjoy my company?\n\n38:17. He said: I will send thee a kid out of the flock. And when she\nsaid again: I will suffer what thou wilt, if thou give me a pledge,\ntill thou send what thou promisest.\n\n38:18. Juda said: What wilt thou have for a pledge? She answered: Thy\nring and bracelet, and the staff which thou holdest in thy hand. The\nwoman therefore at one copulation conceived.\n\n38:19. And she arose and went her way: and putting off the apparel\nwhich she had taken, put on the garments of her widowhood.\n\n38:20. And Juda sent a kid by his shepherd, the Odollamite, that he\nmight receive the pledge again, which he had given to the woman: but\nhe, not finding her,\n\n38:21. Asked the men of that place: Where is the woman that sat in the\ncross way? And when they all made answer: There was no harlot in this\nplace,\n\n38:22. He returned to Juda, and said to him: I have not found her;\nmoreover, the men of that place said to me, that there never sat a\nharlot there.\n\n38:23. Juda said: Let her take it to herself, surely she cannot charge\nus with a lie, I sent the kid which I promised: and thou didst not find\nher.\n\n38:24. And behold, after three months, they told Juda, saying: Thamar,\nthy daughter-in-law, hath played the harlot, and she appeareth to have\na big belly. And Juda said: Bring her out that she may be burnt.\n\n38:25. But when she was led to execution, she sent to her father in\nlaw, saying: By the man, to whom these things belong, I am with child.\nSee whose ring, and bracelet, and staff this is.\n\n38:26. But he acknowledging the gifts, said: She is juster than I:\nbecause I did not give her to Sela, my son. However he knew her no\nmore.\n\n38:27. And when she was ready to be brought to bed, there appeared\ntwins in her womb: and in the very delivery of the infants, one put\nforth a hand, whereon the midwife tied a scarlet thread, saying:\n\n38:28. This shall come forth the first.\n\n38:29. But he drawing back his hand, the other came forth: and the\nwoman said: Why is the partition divided for thee? and therefore called\nhis name Phares.\n\nPhares. . .That is, a breach or division.\n\n38:30. Afterwards his brother came out, on whose hand was the scarlet\nthread: and she called his name Zara.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 39\n\n\nJoseph hath charge of his master's house: rejecteth his mistress's\nsolicitations: is falsely accused by her, and cast into prison, where\nhe hath the charge of all the prisoners.\n\n39:1. And Joseph was brought into Egypt, and Putiphar, an eunuch of\nPharao, chief captain of the army, an Egyptian, bought him of the\nIsmaelites, by whom he was brought.\n\n39:2. And the Lord was with him, and he was a prosperous man in all\nthings: and he dwelt in his master's house:\n\n39:3. Who knew very well that the Lord was with him, and made all that\nhe did to prosper in his hand.\n\n39:4. And Joseph found favour in the sight of his master, and\nministered to him: and being set over all by him, he governed the house\ncommitted to him, and all things that were delivered to him:\n\n39:5. And the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake,\nand multiplied all his substance, both at home and in the fields.\n\n39:6. Neither knew he any other thing, but the bread which he ate. And\nJoseph was of a beautiful countenance, and comely to behold.\n\n39:7. And after many days, his mistress cast her eyes on Joseph, and\nsaid: Lie with me.\n\n39:8. But he in no wise consenting to that wicked act said to her:\nBehold, my master hath delivered all things to me, and knoweth not what\nhe hath in his own house:\n\n39:9. Neither is there any thing which is not in my power, or that he\nhath not delivered to me, but thee, who art his wife; how then can I do\nthis wicked thing, and sin against my God?\n\n39:10. With such words as these day by day, both the woman was\nimportunate with the young man, and he refused the adultery.\n\n39:11. Now it happened on a certain day, that Joseph went into the\nhouse, and was doing some business, without any man with him:\n\n39:12. And she catching the skirt of his garment, said: Lie with me.\nBut he leaving the garment in her hand, fled, and went out.\n\n39:13. And when the woman saw the garment in her hands, and herself\ndisregarded,\n\n39:14. She called to her the men of her house, and said to them: See,\nhe hath brought in a Hebrew, to abuse us: he came in to me, to lie with\nme; and when I cried out,\n\n39:15. And he heard my voice, he left the garment that I held, and got\nhim out.\n\n39:16. For a proof therefore of her fidelity, she kept the garment, and\nshewed it to her husband when he returned home:\n\nA proof of her fidelity. . .or an argument to gain credit, argumentum\nfidei.\n\n39:17. And said: The Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought, came to me\nto abuse me.\n\n39:18. And when he heard me cry, he left the garment which I held, and\nfled out.\n\n39:19. His master hearing these things, and giving too much credit to\nhis wife's words, was very angry,\n\n39:20. And cast Joseph into the prison, where the king's prisoners were\nkept, and he was there shut up.\n\n39:21. But the Lord was with Joseph, and having mercy upon him gave him\nfavour in the sight of the chief keeper of the prison:\n\n39:22. Who delivered into his hand all the prisoners that were kept in\ncustody: and whatsoever was done, was under him.\n\n39:23. Neither did he himself know any thing, having committed all\nthings to him: for the Lord was with him, and made all that he did to\nprosper.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 40\n\n\nJoseph interpreteth the dreams of two of Pharao's servants in prison:\nthe event declareth the interpretations to be true, but Joseph is\nforgotten.\n\n40:1. After this, it came to pass, that two eunuchs, the butler and the\nbaker of the king of Egypt, offended their lord.\n\n40:2. And Pharao being angry with them, (now the one was chief butler,\nthe other chief baker,)\n\n40:3. He sent them to the prison of the commander of the soldiers, in\nwhich Joseph also was prisoner.\n\n40:4. But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, and he\nserved them. Some little time passed, and they were kept in custody.\n\n40:5. And they both dreamed a dream the same night, according to the\ninterpretation agreeing to themselves:\n\n40:6. And when Joseph was come into them in the morning, and saw them\nsad,\n\n40:7. He asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder today than\nusual?\n\n40:8. They answered: We have dreamed a dream, and there is nobody to\ninterpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Doth not interpretation\nbelong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed:\n\nDoth not interpretation belong to God?. . .When dreams are from God, as\nthese were, the interpretation of them is a gift of God. But the\ngenerality of dreams are not of this sort; but either proceed from the\nnatural complexions and dispositions of persons, or the roving of their\nimaginations in the day on such objects as they are much affected with,\nor from their mind being disturbed with cares and troubles, and\noppressed with bodily infirmities: or they are suggested by evil\nspirits, to flatter, or to terrify weak minds, in order to gain belief,\nand so draw them into error or superstition; or at least to trouble\nthem in their sleep, whom they cannot move when they are awake: so that\nthe general rule, with regard to dreams, is not to observe them, nor to\ngive any credit to them.\n\n40:9. The chief butler first told his dream: I saw before me a vine,\n\n40:10. On which were three branches, which by little and little sent\nout buds, and after the blossoms brought forth ripe grapes:\n\n40:11. And the cup of Pharao was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and\npressed them into the cup which I held, and I gave the cup to Pharao.\n\n40:12. Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The\nthree branches, are yet three days:\n\n40:13. After which Pharao will remember thy service, and will restore\nthee to thy former place: and thou shalt present him the cup according\nto thy office, as before thou was wont to do.\n\n40:14. Only remember me when it shall be well with thee, and do me this\nkindness: to put Pharao in mind to take me out of this prison:\n\n40:15. For I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here\nwithout any fault was cast into the dungeon.\n\n40:16. The chief baker seeing that he had wisely interpreted the dream,\nsaid: I also dreamed a dream, That I had three baskets of meal upon my\nhead:\n\n40:17. And that in one basket which was uppermost, I carried all meats\nthat are made by the art of baking, and that the birds ate out of it.\n\n40:18. Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The\nthree baskets, are yet three days:\n\n40:19. After which Pharao will take thy head from thee, and hang thee\non a cross, and the birds shall tear thy flesh.\n\n40:20. The third day after this was the birthday of Pharao: and he made\na great feast for his servants, and at the banquet remembered the chief\nbutler, and the chief baker.\n\n40:21. And he restored the one to his place, to present him the cup:\n\n40:22. The other he hanged on a gibbet, that the truth of the\ninterpreter might be shewn.\n\n40:23. But the chief butler, when things prospered with him, forgot his\ninterpreter.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 41\n\n\nJoseph interpreteth the two dreams of Pharao: he is made ruler over all\nEgypt.\n\n41:1. After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the\nriver,\n\n41:2. Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they\nfed in marshy places.\n\n41:3. Other seven also came up out of the river, ill-favoured, and lean\nfleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:\n\n41:4. And they devoured them, whose bodies were very beautiful and well\nconditioned. So Pharao awoke.\n\n41:5. He slept again, and dreamed another dream: Seven ears of corn\ncame up upon one stalk full and fair:\n\n41:6. Then seven other ears sprung up thin and blasted,\n\n41:7. And devoured all the beauty of the former. Pharao awaked after\nhis rest:\n\n41:8. And when morning was come, being struck with fear, he sent to all\nthe interpreters of Egypt, and to all the wise men: and they being\ncalled for, he told them his dream, and there was not any one that\ncould interpret it.\n\n41:9. Then at length the chief butler remembering, said: I confess my\nsin:\n\n41:10. The king being angry with his servants, commanded me and the\nchief baker to be cast into the prison of the captain of the soldiers.\n\n41:11. Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream foreboding things\nto come.\n\n41:12. There was there a young man a Hebrew, servant to the same\ncaptain of the soldiers: to whom we told our dreams,\n\n41:13. And we heard what afterwards the event of the thing proved to be\nso. For I was restored to my office: and he was hanged upon a gibbet.\n\n41:14. Forthwith at the king's command Joseph was brought out of the\nprison, and they shaved him: and changing his apparel brought him in to\nhim.\n\n41:15. And he said to him: I have dreamed dreams, and there is no one\nthat can expound them: Now I have heard that thou art very wise at\ninterpreting them:\n\n41:16. Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous\nanswer.\n\n41:17. So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the\nbank of the river,\n\n41:18. And seven kine came up out of the river, exceeding beautiful and\nfull of flesh: and they grazed on green places in a marshy pasture.\n\n41:19. And behold, there followed these, other seven kine, so very\nill-favoured and lean, that I never saw the like in the land of Egypt:\n\n41:20. And they devoured and consumed the former,\n\n41:21. And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and\nill-favoured as before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again,\n\n41:22. And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew up upon one stalk,\nfull and very fair.\n\n41:23. Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stalk:\n\n41:24. And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to\nthe conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it.\n\n41:25. Joseph answered: The king's dream is one: God hath shewn to\nPharao what he is about to do.\n\n41:26. The seven beautiful kine, and the seven full ears, are seven\nyears of plenty: and both contain the same meaning of the dream.\n\n41:27. And the seven lean and thin kine that came up after them, and\nthe seven thin ears that were blasted with the burning wind, are seven\nyears of famine to come:\n\n41:28. Which shall be fulfilled in this order.\n\n41:29. Behold, there shall come seven years of great plenty in the\nwhole land of Egypt:\n\n41:30. After which shall follow other seven years of so great scarcity,\nthat all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall\nconsume all the land,\n\n41:31. And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of\nthe plenty.\n\n41:32. And for that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining\nto the same thing: it is a token of the certainty, and that the word of\nGod cometh to pass, and is fulfilled speedily.\n\n41:33. Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man,\nand make him ruler over the land of Egypt:\n\n41:34. That he may appoint overseers over all the countries: and gather\ninto barns the fifth part of the fruits, during the seven fruitful\nyears,\n\n41:35. That shall now presently ensue: and let all the corn be laid up,\nunder Pharao's hands, and be reserved in the cities.\n\n41:36. And let it be in readiness, against the famine of seven years to\ncome, which shall oppress Egypt, and the land shall not be consumed\nwith scarcity.\n\n41:37. The counsel pleased Pharao, and all his servants.\n\n41:38. And he said to them: Can we find such another man, that is full\nof the spirit of God?\n\n41:39. He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing God hath shewn thee all that\nthou hast said, can I find one wiser and one like unto thee?\n\n41:40. Thou shalt be over my house, and at the commandment of thy mouth\nall the people shall obey: only in the kingly throne will I be above\nthee.\n\n41:41. And again Pharao said to Joseph: Behold, I have appointed thee\nover the whole land of Egypt.\n\n41:42. And he took his ring from his own hand, and gave it into his\nhand: and he put upon him a robe of silk, and put a chain of gold about\nhis neck.\n\n41:43. And he made him go up into his second chariot, the crier\nproclaiming that all should bow their knee before him, and that they\nshould know he was made governor over the whole land of Egypt.\n\n41:44. And the king said to Joseph: I am Pharao: without thy\ncommandment no man shall move hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.\n\n41:45. And he turned his name, and called him in the Egyptian tongue\nthe saviour of the world. And he gave him to wife Aseneth, the daughter\nof Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis. Then Joseph went out to the land of\nEgypt.\n\nThe saviour of the world. . .Zaphnah paaneah.\n\n41:46. (Now he was thirty years old when he stood before king Pharao),\nand he went round all the countries of Egypt.\n\n41:47. And the fruitfulness of the seven years came: and the corn being\nbound up into sheaves, was gathered together into the barns of Egypt.\n\n41:48. And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city.\n\n41:49. And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to\nthe sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure.\n\n41:50. And before the famine came, Joseph had two sons born: whom\nAseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore unto\nhim.\n\n41:51. And he called the name of the firstborn Manasses, saying: God\nhath made me to forget all my labours, and my father's house.\n\nManasses. . .That is, oblivion, or forgetting.\n\n41:52. And he named the second Ephraim, saying: God hath made me to\ngrow in the land of my poverty.\n\nEphraim. . .That is, fruitful, or growing.\n\n41:53. Now when the seven years of plenty that had been in Egypt were\npassed:\n\n41:54. The seven years of scarcity, which Joseph had foretold, began to\ncome: and the famine prevailed in the whole world, but there was bread\nin all the land of Egypt.\n\n41:55. And when there also they began to be famished, the people cried\nto Pharao, for food. And he said to them: Go to Joseph: and do all\nthat he shall say to you.\n\n41:56. And the famine increased daily in all the land: and Joseph\nopened all the barns, and sold to the Egyptians: for the famine had\noppressed them also.\n\n41:57. And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some\nrelief of their want.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 42\n\n\nJacob sendeth his ten sons to buy corn in Egypt. Their treatment by\nJoseph.\n\n42:1. And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons:\nWhy are ye careless?\n\n42:2. I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: Go ye down, and buy us\nnecessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.\n\n42:3. So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:\n\n42:4. Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his\nbrethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.\n\n42:5. And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to\nbuy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.\n\n42:6. And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold\nby his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to\nhim,\n\n42:7. And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers, somewhat\nroughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of\nChanaan, to buy necessaries of life.\n\n42:8. And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.\n\n42:9. And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he\nsaid to them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of\nthe land.\n\nYou are spies. . .This he said by way of examining them, to see what\nthey would answer.\n\n42:10. But they said: It is not so, my lord; but thy servants are come\nto buy food.\n\n42:11. We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men,\nneither do thy servants go about any evil.\n\n42:12. And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider\nthe unfenced parts of this land.\n\n42:13. But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of\none man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the\nother is not living.\n\n42:14. He saith, This is it that I said: You are spies.\n\n42:15. I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao,\nyou shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.\n\n42:16. Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till\nwhat you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by\nthe health of Pharao you are spies.\n\nOr else by the health of Pharao you are spies. . .That is, if these\nthings you say be proved false, you are to be held for spies for your\nlying, and shall be treated as such. Joseph dealt in this manner with\nhis brethren, to bring them by the means of affliction to a sense of\ntheir former sin, and a sincere repentance for it.\n\n42:17. So he put them in prison three days.\n\n42:18. And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as\nI have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.\n\n42:19. If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in\nprison: and go ye your ways, and carry the corn that you have bought,\nunto your houses.\n\n42:20. And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your\nwords to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.\n\n42:21. And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these\nthings, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish\nof his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is\nthis affliction come upon us.\n\n42:22. And Ruben, one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin\nagainst the boy; and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is\nrequired.\n\n42:23. And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to\nthem by an interpreter.\n\n42:24. And he turned himself away a little while, and wept: and\nreturning, he spoke to them.\n\n42:25. And taking Simeon, and binding him in their presence, he\ncommanded his servants to fill their sacks with wheat, and to put every\nman's money again in their sacks, and to give them besides provisions\nfor the way: and they did so.\n\n42:26. But they having loaded their asses with the corn went their way.\n\n42:27. And one of them opening his sack, to give his beast provender in\nthe inn, saw the money in the sack's mouth,\n\n42:28. And said to his brethren: My money is given me again; behold it\nis in the sack. And they were astonished, and troubled, and said to one\nanother: What is this that God hath done unto us?\n\n42:29. And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Chanaan, and\nthey told him all things that had befallen them, saying:\n\n42:30. The lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us to be\nspies of the country.\n\n42:31. And we answered him: We are peaceable men, and we mean no plot.\n\n42:32. We are twelve brethren born of one father: one is not living,\nthe youngest is with our father in the land of Chanaan.\n\n42:33. And he said to us: Hereby shall I know that you are peaceable\nmen: Leave one of your brethren with me, and take ye necessary\nprovision for your houses, and go your ways,\n\n42:34. And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may know you are\nnot spies: and you may receive this man again, that is kept in prison:\nand afterwards may have leave to buy what you will.\n\n42:35. When they had told this, they poured out their corn, and every\nman found his money tied in the mouth of his sack: and all being\nastonished together,\n\n42:36. Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without\nchildren: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin\nyou will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.\n\n42:37. And Ruben answered him: Kill my two sons, if I bring him not\nagain to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will restore him to\nthee.\n\n42:38. But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is\ndead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to\nwhich you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.\n\nTo hell. . .That is, to that place, where the souls then remained, as\nabove, chapter 37. ver. 35.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 43\n\n\nThe sons of Jacob go again into Egypt with Benjamin. They are\nentertained by Joseph.\n\n43:1. In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all the land.\n\n43:2. And when they had eaten up all the corn, which they had brought\nout of Egypt, Jacob said to his sons: Go again, and buy us a little\nfood.\n\n43:3. Juda answered: The man declared unto us with the attestation of\nan oath, saying: You shall not see my face, unless you bring your\nyoungest brother with you.\n\n43:4. If therefore thou wilt send him with us, we will set out\ntogether, and will buy necessaries for thee.\n\n43:5. But if thou wilt not, we will not go: for the man, as we have\noften said, declared unto us, saying: You shall not see my face without\nyour youngest brother.\n\n43:6. Israel said to them: You have done this for my misery, in that\nyou told him you had also another brother.\n\n43:7. But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our\nkindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him\nregularly, according to what he demanded: could we know that he would\nsay: Bring hither your brother with you?\n\n43:8. And Juda said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may\nset forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.\n\n43:9. I take the boy upon me, require him at my hand: unless I bring\nhim again, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against\nthee for ever.\n\n43:10. If delay had not been made, we had been here again the second\ntime.\n\n43:11. Then Israel said to them: If it must needs be so, do what you\nwill: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry\ndown presents to the man, a little balm, and honey, and storax, myrrh,\nturpentine, and almonds.\n\nBalm. . .Literally rosin, resinae; but here by that name is meant balm.\n\n43:12. And take with you double money, and carry back what you found in\nyour sacks, lest perhaps it was done by mistake.\n\n43:13. And take also your brother, and go to the man.\n\n43:14. And may my almighty God make him favourable to you: and send\nback with you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin: and as\nfor me I shall be desolate without children.\n\n43:15. So the men took the presents, and double money, and Benjamin:\nand went down into Egypt, and stood before Joseph.\n\n43:16. And when he had seen them, and Benjamin with them, he commanded\nthe steward of his house, saying: Bring in the men into the house, and\nkill victims, and prepare a feast: because they shall eat with me at\nnoon.\n\n43:17. He did as he was commanded, and brought the men into the house.\n\n43:18. And they being much afraid, said there one to another: Because\nof the money, which we carried back the first time in our sacks, we are\nbrought in: that he may bring upon us a false accusation, and by\nviolence make slaves of us and our asses.\n\n43:19. Wherefore, going up to the steward of the house, at the door,\n\n43:20. They said: Sir, we desire thee to hear us. We came down once\nbefore to buy food:\n\n43:21. And when we had bought, and were come to the inn, we opened our\nsacks, and found our money in the mouths of the sacks: which we have\nnow brought again in the same weight.\n\n43:22. And we have brought other money besides, to buy what we want: we\ncannot tell who put it in our bags.\n\n43:23. But he answered: Peace be with you, fear not: your God, and the\nGod of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks. For the\nmoney, which you gave me, I have for good. And he brought Simeon out to\nthem.\n\n43:24. And having brought them into the house, he fetched water, and\nthey washed their feet, and he gave provender to their asses.\n\n43:25. But they made ready the presents, against Joseph came at noon:\nfor they had heard that they should eat bread there.\n\n43:26. Then Joseph came in to his house, and they offered him the\npresents, holding them in their hands; and they bowed down with their\nface to the ground.\n\n43:27. But he courteously saluting them again, asked them, saying: Is\nthe old man your father in health, of whom you told me? Is he yet\nliving?\n\n43:28. And they answered: Thy servant our father, is in health; he is\nyet living. And bowing themselves, they made obeisance to him.\n\n43:29. And Joseph lifting up his eyes, saw Benjamin, his brother by the\nsame mother, and said: Is this your young brother, of whom you told me?\nAnd he said: God be gracious to thee, my son.\n\n43:30. And he made haste, because his heart was moved upon his brother,\nand tears gushed out: and going into his chamber, he wept.\n\n43:31. And when he had washed his face, coming out again, he refrained\nhimself, and said: Set bread on the table.\n\n43:32. And when it was set on, for Joseph apart, and for his brethren\napart, for the Egyptians also that ate with him apart, (for it is\nunlawful for the Egyptians to eat with the Hebrews, and they think such\na feast profane):\n\n43:33. They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright,\nand the youngest according to his age. And they wondered very much;\n\n43:34. Taking the messes which they received of him: and the greater\nmess came to Benjamin, so that it exceeded by five parts. And they\ndrank, and were merry with him.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 44\n\n\nJoseph's contrivance to stop his brethren. The humble supplication of\nJuda.\n\n44:1. And Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying: Fill their\nsacks with corn, as much as they can hold: and put the money of every\none in the top of his sack.\n\n44:2. And in the mouth of the younger's sack put my silver cup, and the\nprice which he gave for the wheat. And it was so done.\n\n44:3. And when the morning arose, they were sent away with their asses.\n\n44:4. And when they were now departed out of the city, and had gone\nforward a little way: Joseph sending for the steward of his house,\nsaid: Arise, and pursue after the men: and when thou hast overtaken\nthem, say to them: Why have you returned evil for good?\n\n44:5. The cup which you have stolen, is that in which my lord drinketh,\nand in which he is wont to divine: you have done a very evil thing.\n\n44:6. He did as he had commanded him. And having overtaken them, he\nspoke to them the same words.\n\n44:7. And they answered: Why doth our lord speak so, as though thy\nservants had committed so heinous a fact?\n\n44:8. The money, that we found in the top of our sacks, we brought back\nto thee from the land of Chanaan: how then should it be that we should\nsteal out of thy lord's house, gold or silver?\n\n44:9. With whomsoever of thy servants shall be found that which thou\nseekest, let him die, and we will be the bondmen of my lord.\n\n44:10. And he said to them: Let it be according to your sentence: with\nwhomsoever it shall be found, let him be my servant, and you shall be\nblameless.\n\n44:11. Then they speedily took down their sacks to the ground, and\nevery man opened his sack.\n\n44:12. Which when he had searched, beginning at the eldest, and ending\nat the youngest, he found the cup in Benjamin's sack.\n\n44:13. Then they rent their garments, and loading their asses again,\nreturned into the town.\n\n44:14. And Juda at the head of his brethren went in to Joseph (for he\nwas not yet gone out of the place) and they all together fell down\nbefore him on the ground.\n\n44:15. And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that\nthere is no one like me in the science of divining.\n\nThe science of divining. . .He speaks of himself according to what he\nwas esteemed in that kingdom. And indeed, he being truly a prophet,\nknew more without comparison than any of the Egyptian sorcerers.\n\n44:16. And Juda said to him: What shall we answer my lord? or what\nshall we say, or be able justly to allege? God hath found out the\niniquity of thy servants: behold, we are all bondmen to my lord, both\nwe, and he with whom the cup was found.\n\n44:17. Joseph answered: God forbid that I should do so: he that stole\nthe cup, he shall be my bondman: and go you away free to your father.\n\n44:18. Then Juda coming nearer, said boldly: I beseech thee, my lord,\nlet thy servant speak a word in thy ears, and be not angry with thy\nservant: for after Pharao thou art.\n\n44:19. My lord. Thou didst ask thy servants the first time: Have you a\nfather or a brother.\n\n44:20. And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and\na young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother\nis dead; and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him\ntenderly.\n\n44:21. And thou saidst to thy servants: Bring him hither to me, and I\nwill set my eyes on him.\n\n44:22. We suggested to my lord: The boy cannot leave his father: for if\nhe leave him, he will die.\n\n44:23. And thou saidst to thy servants: Except your youngest brother\ncome with you, you shall see my face no more.\n\n44:24. Therefore when we were gone up to thy servant our father, we\ntold him all that my lord had said.\n\n44:25. And our father said: Go again, and buy us a little wheat.\n\n44:26. And we said to him: We cannot go: if our youngest brother go\ndown with us, we will set out together: otherwise, without him we dare\nnot see the man's face.\n\n44:27. Whereunto he answered: You know that my wife bore me two.\n\n44:28. One went out, and you said: A beast devoured him; and hitherto\nhe appeareth not.\n\n44:29. If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you\nwill bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.\n\n44:30. Therefore, if I shall go to thy servant, our father, and the boy\nbe wanting, (whereas his life dependeth upon the life of him,)\n\n44:31. And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy\nservants shall bring down his grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.\n\nHis gray hairs. . .That is, his person, now far advanced in years.--With\nsorrow unto hell. . .The Hebrew word for hell is here sheol, the Greek\nhades: it is not taken for the hell of the damned; but for that place\nof souls below where the servants of God were kept before the coming of\nChrist. Which place, both in the Scripture and in the creed, is named\nhell.\n\n44:32. Let me be thy proper servant, who took him into my trust, and\npromised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin\nagainst my father for ever.\n\n44:33. Therefore I, thy servant, will stay instead of the boy in the\nservice of my lord, and let the boy go up with his brethren.\n\n44:34. For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a\nwitness of the calamity that will oppress my father.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 45\n\n\nJoseph maketh himself known to his brethren: and sendeth for his\nfather.\n\n45:1. Joseph could no longer refrain himself before many that stood by:\nwhereupon he commanded that all should go out, and no stranger be\npresent at their knowing one another.\n\n45:2. And he lifted up his voice with weeping, which the Egyptians, and\nall the house of Pharao heard.\n\n45:3. And he said to his brethren: I am Joseph: Is my father yet\nliving? His brethren could not answer him, being struck with exceeding\ngreat fear.\n\n45:4. And he said mildly to them: Come nearer to me. And when they were\ncome near him, he said: I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into\nEgypt.\n\n45:5. Be not afraid, and let it not seem to you a hard case that you\nsold me into these countries: for God sent me before you into Egypt for\nyour preservation.\n\n45:6. For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land,\nand five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor\nreaping.\n\n45:7. And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth,\nand may have food to live.\n\n45:8. Not by your counsel was I sent hither, but by the will of God:\nwho hath made me as it were a father to Pharao, and lord of his whole\nhouse, and governor in all the land of Egypt.\n\n45:9. Make haste, and go ye up to my father, and say to him: Thus saith\nthy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of the whole land of Egypt; come\ndown to me, linger not.\n\n45:10. And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gessen: and thou shalt be\nnear me, thou and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, thy sheep, and thy\nherds, and all things that thou hast.\n\n45:11. And there I will feed thee, (for there are yet five years of\nfamine remaining) lest both thou perish, and thy house, and all things\nthat thou hast.\n\n45:12. Behold, your eyes, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, see that\nit is my mouth that speaketh to you.\n\n45:13. You shall tell my father of all my glory, and all things that\nyou have seen in Egypt: make haste and bring him to me.\n\n45:14. And falling upon the neck of his brother Benjamin, he embraced\nhim and wept: and Benjamin in like manner wept also on his neck.\n\n45:15. And Joseph kissed all his brethren, and wept upon every one of\nthem: after which they were emboldened to speak to him.\n\n45:16. And it was heard, and the fame was spread abroad in the king's\ncourt: The brethren of Joseph are come; and Pharao with all his family\nwas glad.\n\n45:17. And he spoke to Joseph that he should give orders to his\nbrethren, saying: Load your beasts, and go into the land of Chanaan,\n\n45:18. And bring away from thence your father and kindred, and come to\nme; and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, that you may eat\nthe marrow of the land.\n\n45:19. Give orders also that they take wagons out of the land of Egypt,\nfor the carriage of their children and their wives; and say: Take up\nyour father, and make haste to come with all speed:\n\n45:20. And leave nothing of your household stuff; for all the riches of\nEgypt shall be yours.\n\n45:21. And the sons of Israel did as they were bid. And Joseph gave\nthem wagons according to Pharao's commandment: and provisions for the\nway.\n\n45:22. He ordered also to be brought out for every one of them two\nrobes: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, with\nfive robes of the best:\n\n45:23. Sending to his father as much money and raiment; adding besides,\nten he-asses, to carry off all the riches of Egypt, and as many\nshe-asses, carrying wheat and bread for the journey.\n\n45:24. So he sent away his brethren, and at their departing said to\nthem: Be not angry in the way.\n\n45:25. And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of\nChanaan, to their father Jacob.\n\n45:26. And they told him, saying: Joseph, thy son, is living; and he is\nruler in all the land of Egypt. Which when Jacob heard, he awaked as it\nwere out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe them.\n\n45:27. They, on the other side, told the whole order of the thing. And\nwhen he saw the wagons, and all that he had sent, his spirit revived,\n\n45:28. And he said: It is enough for me if Joseph, my son, be yet\nliving: I will go and see him before I die.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 46\n\n\nIsrael, warranted by a vision from God, goeth down into Egypt with all\nhis family.\n\n46:1. And Israel taking his journey, with all that he had, came to the\nwell of the oath, and killing victims there to the God of his father\nIsaac,\n\nThe well of the oath. . .Bersabee.\n\n46:2. He heard him, by a vision in the night, calling him, and saying\nto him: Jacob, Jacob. And he answered him: Lo, here I am.\n\n46:3. God said to him: I am the most mighty God of thy father; fear\nnot, go down into Egypt, for I will make a great nation of thee there.\n\n46:4. I will go down with thee thither, and will bring thee back again\nfrom thence: Joseph also shall put his hands upon thy eyes.\n\n46:5. And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath: and his sons took\nhim up, with their children and wives in the wagons, which Pharao had\nsent to carry the old man,\n\n46:6. And all that he had in the land of Chanaan: and he came into\nEgypt with all his seed;\n\n46:7. His sons, and grandsons, daughters, and all his offspring\ntogether.\n\n46:8. And these are the names of the children of Israel, that entered\ninto Egypt, he and his children. His firstborn Ruben,\n\n46:9. The sons of Ruben: Henoch and Phallu, and Hesron and Charmi.\n\n46:10. The sons of Simeon: Jamuel and Jamin and Ahod, and Jachin and\nSohar, and Saul, the son of a woman of Chanaan.\n\n46:11. The sons of Levi: Gerson and Caath, and Merari.\n\n46:12. The sons of Juda: Her and Onan, and Sela, and Phares and Zara.\nAnd Her and Onan died in the land of Chanaan. And sons were born to\nPhares: Hesron and Hamul.\n\n46:13. The sons of Issachar: Thola and Phua, and Job and Semron.\n\n46:14. The sons of Zabulon: Sared, and Elon, and Jahelel.\n\n46:15. These are the sons of Lia, whom she bore in Mesopotamia of\nSyria, with Dina, his daughter. All the souls of her sons and\ndaughters, thirty-three.\n\n46:16. The sons of Gad: Sephion and Haggi, and Suni and Esebon, and\nHeri and Arodi, and Areli.\n\n46:17. The sons of Aser: Jamne and Jesua, and Jessuri and Beria, and\nSara their sister. The sons of Beria: Heber and Melchiel.\n\n46:18. These are the sons of Zelpha, whom Laban gave to Lia, his\ndaughter. And these she bore to Jacob, sixteen souls.\n\n46:19. The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.\n\n46:20. And sons were born to Joseph, in the land of Egypt, whom\nAseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore him:\nManasses and Ephraim.\n\n46:21. The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Bechor, and Asbel and Gera, and\nNaaman and Echi, and Ross and Mophim, and Ophim and Ared.\n\n46:22. These are the sons of Rachel, whom she bore to Jacob: all the\nsouls, fourteen.\n\n46:23. The sons of Dan: Husim.\n\n46:24. The sons of Nephthali: Jaziel and Guni, and Jeser and Sallem.\n\n46:25. These are the sons of Bala, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his\ndaughter: and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls, seven.\n\n46:26. All the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt, and that came out\nof his thigh, besides his sons' wives, sixty-six.\n\n46:27. And the sons of Joseph, that were born to him in the land of\nEgypt, two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, that entered\ninto Egypt, were seventy.\n\n46:28. And he sent Juda before him to Joseph, to tell him; and that he\nshould meet him in Gessen.\n\n46:29. And when he was come thither, Joseph made ready his chariot, and\nwent up to meet his father in the same place: and seeing him, he fell\nupon his neck, and embracing him, wept.\n\n46:30. And the father said to Joseph: Now shall I die with joy, because\nI have seen thy face, and leave thee alive.\n\n46:31. And Joseph said to his brethren, and to all his father's house:\nI will go up, and will tell Pharao, and will say to him: My brethren,\nand my father's house, that were in the land of Chanaan, are come to\nme:\n\n46:32. And the men are shepherds, and their occupation is to feed\ncattle; their flocks, and herds, and all they have, they have brought\nwith them.\n\n46:33. And when he shall call you, and shall say: What is your\noccupation?\n\n46:34. You shall answer: We, thy servants, are shepherds, from our\ninfancy until now, both we and our fathers. And this you shall say,\nthat you may dwell in the land of Gessen, because the Egyptians have\nall shepherds in abomination.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 47\n\n\nJacob and his sons are presented before Pharao: he giveth them the land\nof Gessen. The famine forceth the Egyptians to sell all their\npossessions to the king.\n\n47:1. Then Joseph went in and told Pharao, saying: My father and\nbrethren, their sheep and their herds, and all that they possess, are\ncome out of the land of Chanaan: and behold they stay in the land of\nGessen.\n\n47:2. Five men also, the last of his brethren, he presented before the\nking:\n\nThe last. . .xtremos. Some interpret this word of the chiefest, and most\nrightly: but Joseph seems rather to have chosen out such as had the\nmeanest appearance, that Pharao might not think of employing them at\ncourt, with danger of their morals and religion.\n\n47:3. And he asked them: What is your occupation? They answered: We,\nthy servants, are shepherds, both we and our fathers.\n\n47:4. We are come to sojourn in thy land, because there is no grass for\nthe flocks of thy servants, the famine being very grievous in the land\nof Chanaan: and we pray thee to give orders that we thy servants may be\nin the land of Gessen.\n\n47:5. The king therefore said to Joseph: Thy father and thy brethren\nare come to thee.\n\n47:6. The land of Egypt is before thee: and make them dwell in the best\nplace, and give them the land of Gessen. And if thou knowest that there\nare industrious men among them, make them rulers over my cattle.\n\n47:7. After this Joseph brought in his father to the king, and\npresented him before him: and he blessed him.\n\n47:8. And being asked by him: How many are the days of the years of thy\nlife?\n\n47:9. He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty\nyears, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the\npilgrimage of my fathers.\n\n47:10. And blessing the king, he went out.\n\n47:11. But Joseph gave a possession to his father and his brethren in\nEgypt, in the best place of the land, in Ramesses, as Pharao had\ncommanded.\n\n47:12. And he nourished them, and all his father's house, allowing food\nto every one.\n\n47:13. For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had\noppressed the land, more especially of Egypt and Chanaan;\n\n47:14. Out of which he gathered up all the money for the corn which\nthey bought, and brought it in to the king's treasure.\n\n47:15. And when the buyers wanted money, all Egypt came to Joseph,\nsaying: Give us bread: why should we die in thy presence, having now no\nmoney?\n\n47:16. And he answered them: Bring me your cattle, and for them I will\ngive you food, if you have no money.\n\n47:17. And when they had brought them, he gave them food in exchange\nfor their horses, and sheep, and oxen, and asses: and he maintained\nthem that year for the exchange of their cattle.\n\n47:18. And they came the second year, and said to him: We will not hide\nfrom our lord, how that our money is spent, and our cattle also are\ngone: neither art thou ignorant that we have nothing now left but our\nbodies and our lands.\n\n47:19. Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes? we will be thine,\nboth we and our lands: buy us to be the king's servants, and give us\nseed, lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness.\n\n47:20. So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt, every man selling his\npossessions, because of the greatness of the famine. And he brought it\ninto Pharao's hands:\n\n47:21. And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to\nthe other end thereof,\n\n47:22. Except the land of the priests, which had been given them by the\nking: to whom also a certain allowance of food was given out of the\npublic stores, and therefore they were not forced to sell their\npossessions.\n\n47:23. Then Joseph said to the people: Behold, as you see, both you and\nyour lands belong to Pharao; take seed and sow the fields,\n\n47:24. That you may have corn. The fifth part you shall give to the\nking; the other four you shall have for seed, and for food for your\nfamilies and children.\n\n47:25. And they answered: our life is in thy hand; only let my lord\nlook favourably upon us, and we will gladly serve the king.\n\n47:26. From that time unto this day, in the whole land of Egypt, the\nfifth part is paid to the kings, and it is become as a law, except the\nland of the priests, which was free from this covenant.\n\n47:27. So Israel dwelt in Egypt, that is, in the land of Gessen, and\npossessed it; and grew, and was multiplied exceedingly.\n\n47:28. And he lived in it seventeen years: and all the days of his life\ncame to a hundred and forty-seven years.\n\n47:29. And when he saw that the day of his death drew nigh, he called\nhis son Joseph, and said to him: If I have found favour in thy sight,\nput thy hand under my thigh; and thou shalt shew me this kindness and\ntruth, not to bury me in Egypt.\n\n47:30. But I will sleep with my fathers, and thou shalt take me away\nout of this land, and bury me in the burying place of my ancestors. And\nJoseph answered him: I will do what thou hast commanded.\n\n47:31. And he said: Swear then to me. And as he was swearing, Israel\nadored God, turning to the bed's head.\n\nTo the bed's head. . .St. Paul, Heb. 11.21, following the Greek\ntranslation of the Septuagint, reads adored the top of his rod. Where\nnote, that the same word in the Hebrew, according to the different\npointing of it, signifies both a bed and a rod. And to verify both\nthese sentences, we must understand that Jacob leaning on Joseph's rod\nadored, turning towards the head of his bed: which adoration, inasmuch\nas it was referred to God, was an absolute and sovereign worship: but\ninasmuch as it was referred to the rod of Joseph, as a figure of the\nsceptre, that is, of the royal dignity of Christ, was only an inferior\nand relative honour.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 48\n\n\nJoseph visiteth his father in his sickness, who adopteth his two sons\nManasses and Ephraim, and blesseth them, preferring the younger before\nthe elder.\n\n48:1. After these things, it was told Joseph that his father was sick;\nand he set out to go to him, taking his two sons Manasses and Ephraim.\n\n48:2. And it was told the old man: Behold thy son Joseph cometh to\nthee. And being strengthened, he sat on his bed.\n\n48:3. And when Joseph was come in to him, he said: God almighty\nappeared to me at Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, and he blessed\nme,\n\n48:4. And said: I will cause thee to increase and multiply, and I will\nmake of thee a multitude of people: and I will give this land to thee,\nand to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.\n\n48:5. So thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt\nbefore I came hither to thee, shall be mine: Ephraim and Manasses shall\nbe reputed to me as Ruben and Simeon.\n\n48:6. But the rest whom thou shalt have after them, shall be thine, and\nshall be called by the name of their brethren in their possessions.\n\n48:7. For, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died from me in the\nland of Chanaan in the very journey, and it was spring time: and I was\ngoing to Ephrata, and I buried her near the way of Ephrata, which by\nanother name is called Bethlehem.\n\n48:8. Then seeing his sons, he said to him: Who are these?\n\n48:9. He answered: They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this\nplace. And he said: Bring them to me, that I may bless them.\n\n48:10. For Israel's eyes were dim by reason of his great age, and he\ncould not see clearly. And when they were brought to him, he kissed and\nembraced them,\n\n48:11. And said to his son: I am not deprived of seeing thee; moreover\nGod hath shewn me thy seed.\n\n48:12. And when Joseph had taken them from his father's lap, he bowed\ndown with his face to the ground.\n\n48:13. And he set Ephraim on his right hand, that is, towards the left\nhand of Israel; but Manasses on his left hand, to wit, towards his\nfather's right hand, and brought them near to him.\n\n48:14. But he, stretching forth his right hand, put it upon the head of\nEphraim, the younger brother; and the left upon the head of Manasses,\nwho was the elder, changing his hands.\n\n48:15. And Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph, and said: God, in whose\nsight my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, God that feedeth me from my\nyouth until this day:\n\n48:16. The angel that delivereth me from all evils, bless these boys:\nand let my name be called upon them, and the names of my fathers\nAbraham and Isaac; and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.\n\n48:17. And Joseph seeing that his father had put his right hand upon\nthe head of Ephraim, was much displeased: and taking his father's hand,\nhe tried to lift it from Ephraim's head, and to remove it to the head\nof Manasses.\n\n48:18. And he said to his father: It should not be so, my father; for\nthis is the firstborn, put thy right hand upon his head.\n\n48:19. But he refusing, said: I know, my son, I know: and this also\nshall become a people, and shall be multiplied; but his younger brother\nshall be greater than he; and his seed shall grow into nations.\n\n48:20. And he blessed them at that time, saying: In thee shall Israel\nbe blessed, and it shall be said: God do to thee as to Ephraim, and as\nto Manasses. And he set Ephraim before Manasses.\n\n48:21. And he said to Joseph, his son: Behold I die, and God will be\nwith you, and will bring you back into the land of your fathers.\n\n48:22. I give thee a portion above thy brethren, which I took out of\nthe hand of the Amorrhite with my sword and bow.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 49\n\n\nJacob's prophetical blessings of his twelve sons: his death.\n\n49:1. And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves\ntogether, that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the\nlast days.\n\n49:2. Gather yourselves together, and hear, O ye sons of Jacob, hearken\nto Israel, your father:\n\n49:3. Ruben, my firstborn, thou art my strength, and the beginning of\nmy sorrow; excelling in gifts, greater in command.\n\nMy strength, etc. . .He calls him his strength, as being born whilst his\nfather was in his full strength and vigour: he calls him the beginning\nof his sorrow, because cares and sorrows usually come on with the birth\nof children. Excelling in gifts, etc., because the firstborn had a\ntitle to a double portion, and to have the command over his brethren,\nwhich Ruben forfeited by his sin; being poured out as water, that is,\nspilt and lost.\n\n49:4. Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not; because thou wentest\nup to thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch.\n\nGrow thou not. . .This was not meant by way of a curse or imprecation;\nbut by way of a prophecy foretelling that the tribe of Ruben should not\ninherit the pre-eminences usually annexed to the first birthright,\nviz., the double portion, the being prince or lord over the other\nbrethren, and the priesthood: of which the double portion was given to\nJoseph, the princely office to Juda, and the priesthood to Levi.\n\n49:5. Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity waging war.\n\n49:6. Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their\nassembly: because in their fury they slew a man, and in their self-will\nthey undermined a wall.\n\nSlew a man,. . .viz., Sichem the son of Hemor, with all his people, Gen.\n34.; mystically and prophetically it alludes to Christ, whom their\nposterity, viz., the priests and the scribes, put to death.\n\n49:7. Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath,\nbecause it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter\nthem in Israel.\n\n49:8. Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy hand shall be on the\nnecks of thy enemies; the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee.\n\n49:9. Juda is a lion's whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up:\nresting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse\nhim?\n\nA lion's whelp, etc. . .This blessing of Juda foretelleth the strength\nof his tribe, the fertility of his inheritance; and principally that\nthe sceptre and legislative power should not be utterly taken away from\nhis race till about the time of the coming of Christ: as in effect it\nnever was: which is a demonstration against the modern Jews, that the\nMessiah is long since come; for the sceptre has long since been utterly\ntaken away from Juda.\n\n49:10. The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from\nhis thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the\nexpectation of nations.\n\n49:11. Tying his foal to the vineyard, and his ass, O my son, to the\nvine. He shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of\nthe grape.\n\n49:12. His eyes are more beautiful than wine, and his teeth whiter than\nmilk.\n\n49:13. Zabulon shall dwell on the seashore, and in the road of ships,\nreaching as far as Sidon.\n\n49:14. Issachar shall be a strong ass, lying down between the borders.\n\n49:15. He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was\nexcellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant\nunder tribute.\n\n49:16. Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.\n\nDan shall judge, etc. . .This was verified in Samson, who was of the\ntribe of Dan, and began to deliver Israel. Judges 13.5. But as this\ndeliverance was but temporal and very imperfect, the holy patriarch\n(ver. 18) aspires after another kind of deliverer, saying: I will look\nfor thy salvation, O Lord.\n\n49:17. Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that\nbiteth the horse's heels, that his rider may fall backward.\n\n49:18. I will look for thy salvation, O Lord.\n\n49:19. Gad, being girded, shall fight before him: and he himself shall\nbe girded backward.\n\nGad being girded, etc. . .It seems to allude to the tribe of Gad; when\nafter they had received for their lot the land of Galaad, they marched\nin arms before the rest of the Israelites, to the conquest of the land\nof Chanaan: from whence they afterwards returned loaded with spoils.\nSee Jos. 4. and 12.\n\n49:20. Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to\nkings.\n\n49:21. Nephthali, a hart let loose, and giving words of beauty.\n\n49:22. Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold: the\ndaughters run to and fro upon the wall;\n\nRun to and fro, etc. . .To behold his beauty; whilst his envious\nbrethren turned their darts against him, etc.\n\n49:23. But they that held darts, provoked him, and quarrelled with him,\nand envied him.\n\n49:24. His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and\nhis hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence\nhe came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.\n\nHis bow rested upon the strong, etc. . .That is, upon God, who was his\nstrength: who also loosed his bands, and brought him out of prison to\nbe the pastor, that is, the feeder and ruler of Egypt, and the stone,\nthat is, the rock and support of Israel.\n\n49:25. The God of thy father shall be thy helper, and the Almighty\nshall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, with the blessings\nof the deep that lieth beneath, with the blessings of the breasts and\nof the womb.\n\n49:26. The blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings\nof his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come:\nmay they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite\namong his brethren.\n\nThe blessings of thy father, etc. . .That is, thy father's blessings are\nmade more prevalent and effectual in thy regard, by the additional\nstrength they receive from his inheriting the blessings of his\nprogenitors Abraham and Isaac. The desire of the everlasting hills,\netc. . .These blessings all looked forward towards Christ, called the\ndesire of the everlasting hills, as being longed for, as it were, by\nthe whole creation. Mystically, the patriarchs and prophets are called\nthe everlasting hills, by reason of the eminence of their wisdom and\nholiness. The Nazarite. . .This word signifies one separated; and agrees\nto Joseph, as being separated from, and more eminent than, his\nbrethren. As the ancient Nazarites were so called from their being set\naside for God, and vowed to him.\n\n49:27. Benjamin a ravenous wolf, in the morning shall eat the prey, and\nin the evening shall divide the spoil.\n\n49:28. All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: these things their\nfather spoke to them, and he blessed every one with their proper\nblessings.\n\n49:29. And he charged them, saying: I am now going to be gathered to my\npeople: bury me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the\nfield of Ephron the Hethite,\n\nTo be gathered to my people. . .That is, I am going to die, and so to\nfollow my ancestors that are gone before me, and to join their company\nin another world.\n\n49:30. Over against Mambre, in the land of Chanaan, which Abraham\nbought together with the field, of Ephron the Hethite, for a possession\nto bury in.\n\n49:31. There they buried him, and Sara his wife: there was Isaac buried\nwith Rebecca, his wife: there also Lia doth lie buried.\n\n49:32. And when he had ended the commandments, wherewith he instructed\nhis sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was\ngathered to his people.\n\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 50\n\n\nThe mourning for Jacob, and his interment. Joseph's kindness towards\nhis brethren. His death.\n\n50:1. And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face, weeping\nand kissing him.\n\n50:2. And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his\nfather.\n\n50:3. And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty\ndays: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt\nmourned for him seventy days.\n\n50:4. And the time of the mourning being expired, Joseph spoke to the\nfamily of Pharao: If I have found favour in your sight, speak in the\nears of Pharao:\n\n50:5. For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die; thou\nshalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the\nland of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return.\n\n50:6. And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he\nmade thee swear.\n\n50:7. So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of\nPharao's house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.\n\n50:8. And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children,\nand their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.\n\n50:9. He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was a\ngreat company.\n\n50:10. And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated\nbeyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and\nvehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.\n\n50:11. And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is\na great mourning to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place\nwas called, The mourning of Egypt.\n\n50:12. So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.\n\n50:13. And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in\nthe double cave, which Abraham had bought together with the field for a\npossession of a burying place, of Ehpron, the Hethite, over against\nMambre.\n\n50:14. And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that\nwere in his company, after he had buried his father.\n\n50:15. Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with\nanother: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and\nrequite us all the evil that we did to him.\n\n50:16. And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us\nbefore he died,\n\n50:17. That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to\nforget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they\npractised against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of\nthe God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he\nwept.\n\n50:18. And his brethren came to him; and worshipping prostrate on the\nground, they said: We are thy servants.\n\n50:19. And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?\n\n50:20. You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that\nhe might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.\n\n50:21. Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted\nthem, and spoke gently and mildly.\n\n50:22. And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father's house; and lived a\nhundred and ten years. And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third\ngeneration. The children also of Machir, the sons of Manasses, were\nborn on Joseph's knees.\n\n50:23. After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my\ndeath, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he\nswore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.\n\n50:24. And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, carry\nmy bones with you out of this place:\n\n50:25. And he died, being a hundred and ten years old. And being\nembalmed, he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF EXODUS\n\n\n\nThe Second Book of Moses is called EXODUS, from the Greek word EXODOS,\nwhich signifies going out: because it contains the history of the going\nout of the children of Israel out of Egypt. The Hebrews, from the words\nwith which it begins, call it VEELLE SEMOTH: These are the names. It\ncontains transactions for 145 years; that is, from the death of Joseph\nto the erecting of the tabernacle.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 1\n\n\nThe Israelites are multiplied in Egypt. They are oppressed by a new\nking, who commandeth all their male children to be killed.\n\n1:1. These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into\nEgypt with Jacob: they went in every man with his household:\n\n1:2. Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,\n\n1:3. Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,\n\n1:4. Dan, and Nephthali, Gad and Aser.\n\n1:5. And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy:\nbut Joseph was in Egypt.\n\n1:6. After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,\n\n1:7. The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes,\nand growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.\n\n1:8. In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not\nJoseph:\n\n1:9. And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of\nIsrael are numerous and stronger than we.\n\n1:10. Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any\nwar shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome\nus, depart out of the land.\n\n1:11. Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them\nwith burdens: and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom,\nand Ramesses.\n\nOf tabernacles. . .Or, of storehouses.\n\n1:12. But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied\nand increased.\n\n1:13. And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted\nthem and mocked them:\n\n1:14. And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and\nbrick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged\nin the works of the earth.\n\n1:15. And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of\nwhom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,\n\n1:16. Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the\nHebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child,\nkill it: if a woman, keep it alive.\n\n1:17. But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt\nhad commanded, but saved the men children.\n\n1:18: And the king called for them and said: What is it that you meant\nto do, that you would save the men children?\n\n1:19. They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women:\nfor they themselves are skilful in the office of a midwife; and they\nare delivered before we come to them.\n\n1:20. Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people\nmultiplied and grew exceedingly strong.\n\n1:21. And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.\n\nBecause the midwives feared God, etc. . .The midwives were rewarded, not\nfor their lie, which was a venial sin; but for their fear of God, and\ntheir humanity: but this reward was only temporal, in building them\nhouses, that is, in establishing and enriching their families.\n\n1:22. Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall\nbe born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of\nthe female, ye shall save alive.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 2\n\n\nMoses is born and exposed on the bank of the river; where he is taken\nup by the daughter of Pharao, and adopted for her son. He killeth an\nEgyptian, and fleeth into Madian; where he marrieth a wife.\n\n2:1. After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife\nof his own kindred.\n\n2:2. And she conceived, and bore a son: and seeing him a goodly child,\nhid him three months.\n\n2:3. And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of\nbulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe\ntherein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,\n\n2:4. His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be\ndone.\n\n2:5. And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the\nriver: and her maids walked by the river's brink. And when she saw the\nbasket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was\nbrought,\n\n2:6. She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having\ncompassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.\n\n2:7. And the child's sister said to her: Shall I go, and call to thee a\nHebrew woman, to nurse the babe?\n\n2:8. She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother.\n\n2:9. And Pharao's daughter said to her: Take this child, and nurse him\nfor me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took and nursed the\nchild: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharao's\ndaughter.\n\n2:10. And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying:\nBecause I took him out of the water.\n\nMoses. . .Or Moyses, in the Egyptian tongue, signifies one taken or\nsaved out of the water.\n\n2:11. In those days, after Moses was grown up, he went out to his\nbrethren: and saw their affliction, and an Egyptian striking one of the\nHebrews, his brethren.\n\n2:12. And when he had looked about this way and that way, and saw no\none there, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.\n\nHe slew the Egyptian. . .This he did by a particular inspiration of God;\nas a prelude to his delivering the people from their oppression and\nbondage. He thought, says St. Stephen, Acts 7.25, that his brethren\nunderstood that God by his hand would save them. But such particular\nand extraordinary examples are not to be imitated.\n\n2:13. And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling: and\nhe said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour?\n\n2:14. But he answered: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over\nus? wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian? Moses\nfeared, and said: How is this come to be known?\n\n2:15. And Pharao heard of this word, and sought to kill Moses: but he\nfled from his sight, and abode in the land of Madian, and he sat down\nby a well.\n\nMadian. . .A city and country of Arabia, which took its name from Madian\nthe son of Abraham, by Cetura, and was peopled by his posterity.\n\n2:16. And the priest of Madian had seven daughters, who came to draw\nwater: and when the troughs were filled, desired to water their\nfather's flocks.\n\n2:17. And the shepherds came and drove them away: and Moses arose, and\ndefending the maids, watered their sheep.\n\n2:18: And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to them:\nWhy are ye come sooner than usual?\n\nRaguel. . .He had two names, being also called Jethro, as appears from\nthe first verse of the following chapter.\n\n2:19. They answered: A man of Egypt delivered us from the hands of the\nshepherds: and he drew water also with us, and gave the sheep to drink.\n\n2:20. But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him\nthat he may eat bread.\n\n2:21. And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora\nhis daughter to wife:\n\n2:22. And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have\nbeen a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he\ncalled Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper, hath\ndelivered me out of the hand of Pharao.\n\nGersam. . .Or Gershom. This name signifies a stranger there: as Eliezer\nsignifies the help of God.\n\n2:23. Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of\nIsrael groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up\nunto God from the works.\n\n2:24. And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he\nmade with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.\n\n2:25. And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew\nthem.\n\nKnew them. . .That is, he had respect to them, he cast a merciful eye\nupon them.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 3\n\n\nGod appeareth to Moses in a bush, and sendeth him to deliver Israel.\n\n3:1. Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in law, the priest\nof Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and\ncame to the mountain of God, Horeb.\n\n3:2. And the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst\nof a bush: and he saw that the bush was on fire, and was not burnt.\n\nThe Lord appeared. . .That is, an angel representing God, and speaking\nin his name.\n\n3:3. And Moses said: I will go, and see this great sight, why the bush\nis not burnt.\n\n3:4. And when the Lord saw that he went forward to see, he called to\nhim out of the midst of the bush. and said: Moses, Moses. And he\nanswered: Here I am.\n\n3:5. And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from thy\nfeet; for the place, whereon thou standest, is holy ground.\n\n3:6. And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the\nGod of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face: for he durst\nnot look at God.\n\n3:7. And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people\nin Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that\nare over the works;\n\n3:8. And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of\nthe hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a\ngood and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey,\nto the places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and\nPherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.\n\n3:9. For the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have\nseen their affliction, wherewith they are oppressed by the Egyptians.\n\n3:10. But come, and I will send thee to Pharao, that thou mayst bring\nforth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.\n\n3:11. And Moses said to God: Who am I that I should go to Pharao, and\nshould bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?\n\n3:12. And he said to him: I will be with thee; and this thou shalt have\nfor a sign that I have sent thee: When thou shalt have brought my\npeople out of Egypt, thou shalt offer sacrifice to God upon this\nmountain.\n\n3:13. Moses said to God: Lo, I shall go to the children of Israel, and\nsay to them: The God of your fathers hath sent me to you. If they shall\nsay to me: What is his name? What shall I say to them?\n\n3:14. God said to Moses: I AM WHO AM. He said: Thus shalt thou say to\nthe children of Israel: HE WHO IS, hath sent me to you.\n\nI am who am. . .That is, I am being itself, eternal, self-existent,\nindependent, infinite; without beginning, end, or change; and the\nsource of all other beings.\n\n3:15. And God said again to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children\nof Israel: The Lord God of your fathers the God of Abraham, the God of\nIsaac, and the God of Jacob hath sent me to you; this is my name for\never, and this is my memorial unto all generations.\n\n3:16. Go and gather together the ancients of Israel, and thou shalt say\nto them: The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of\nIsaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying: Visiting I\nhave visited you; and I have seen all that hath befallen you in Egypt.\n\n3:17. And I have said the word to bring you forth out of the affliction\nof Egypt, into the land of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite,\nand Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite, to a land that floweth with\nmilk and honey.\n\n3:18: And they shall hear thy voice; and thou shalt go in, thou and the\nancients of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and thou shalt say to him:\nThe Lord God of the Hebrews hath called us; we will go three days'\njourney into the wilderness, to sacrifice unto the Lord our God.\n\n3:19. But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, but by a\nmighty hand.\n\n3:20. For I will stretch forth my hand, and will strike Egypt with all\nmy wonders which I will do in the midst of them: after these he will\nlet you go.\n\n3:21. And I will give favour to this people, in the sight of the\nEgyptians: and when you go forth, you shall not depart empty:\n\n3:22. But every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her that is in\nher house, vessels of silver and of gold, and raiment: and you shall\nput them on your sons and daughters, and shall spoil Egypt.\n\nShall spoil, etc. . .That is, you shall strip, and take away the goods\nof the Egyptians. This was not authorizing theft or injustice; but was\na just disposal made by Him, who is the great lord and master of all\nthings, in order to pay the children of Israel some part of what was\ndue to them from the Egyptians for their labours.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 4\n\n\nMoses is empowered to confirm his mission with miracles: his brother\nAaron is appointed to assist him.\n\n4:1. Moses answered, and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my\nvoice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to thee.\n\n4:2. Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He\nanswered: A rod.\n\n4:3. And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the ground. He cast it down,\nand it was turned into a serpent, so that Moses fled from it.\n\n4:4. And the Lord said: Put out thy hand, and take it by the tail. He\nput forth his hand, and took hold of it, and it was turned into a rod.\n\n4:5. That they may believe, saith he, that the Lord God of their\nfathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,\nhath appeared to thee.\n\n4:6. And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. And when he\nhad put it into his bosom, he brought it forth leprous as snow.\n\n4:7. And he said: Put back thy hand into thy bosom. He put it back, and\nbrought it out again, and it was like the other flesh.\n\n4:8. If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor hear the voice of the\nformer sign, they will believe the word of the latter sign.\n\n4:9. But if they will not even believe these two signs, nor hear thy\nvoice: take of the river water, and pour it out upon the dry land, and\nwhatsoever thou drawest out of the river, shall be turned into blood.\n\n4:10. Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord, I am not eloquent from\nyesterday and the day before; and since thou hast spoken to thy\nservant, I have more impediment and slowness of tongue.\n\n4:11. The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb\nand the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?\n\n4:12. Go therefore, and I will be in thy mouth; and I will teach thee\nwhat thou shalt speak.\n\n4:13. But he said: I beseech thee, Lord, send whom thou wilt send.\n\n4:14. The Lord being angry at Moses, said: Aaron the Levite is thy\nbrother, I know that he is eloquent: behold he cometh forth to meet\nthee, and seeing thee, shall be glad at heart.\n\n4:15. Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy\nmouth, and in his month, and will shew you what you must do.\n\n4:16. He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be thy\nmouth: but thou shalt be to him in those things that pertain to God.\n\n4:17. And take this rod in thy hand. wherewith thou shalt do the signs.\n\n4:18: Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in law, and\nsaid to him; I will go and return to my brethren into Egypt, that I may\nsee if they be yet alive. And Jethro said to him: Go in peace.\n\n4:19. And the Lord said to Moses, in Madian: Go, and return into Egypt;\nfor they are all dead that sought thy life.\n\n4:20. Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an\nass; and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand.\n\n4:21. And the Lord said to him as he was returning into Egypt: See that\nthou do all the wonders before Pharao, which I have put in thy hand: I\nshall harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.\n\nI shall harden, etc. . .Not by being the efficient cause of his sin; but\nby withdrawing from him, for his just punishment, the dew of grace that\nmight have softened his heart; and so suffering him to grow harder and\nharder.\n\n4:22. And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son,\nmy firstborn.\n\n4:23. I have said to thee: Let my son go, that he may serve me, and\nthou wouldst not let him go: behold I will kill thy son, thy firstborn.\n\n4:24. And when he was in his journey, in the inn, the Lord met him, and\nwould have killed him.\n\nThe Lord met him, and would have killed him. . .This was an angel\nrepresenting the Lord, who treated Moses in this manner, for having\nneglected the circumcision of his younger son; which his wife\nunderstanding, circumcised her child upon the spot, upon which the\nangel let Moses go.\n\n4:25. Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the\nforeskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse\nart thou to me.\n\n4:26. And he let him go after she had said: A bloody spouse art thou to\nme, because of the circumcision.\n\n4:27. And the Lord said to Aaron: Go into the desert to meet Moses. And\nhe went forth to meet him in the mountain of God, and kissed him.\n\n4:28. And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had\nsent him, and the signs that he had commanded.\n\n4:29. And they came together, and they assembled all the ancients of\nthe children of Israel.\n\n4:30. And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to Moses:\nand he wrought the signs before the people.\n\n4:31. And the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited\nthe children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction:\nand falling down they adored.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 5\n\n\nPharao refuseth to let the people go. They are more oppressed.\n\n5:1. After these things, Moses and Aaron went in, and said to Pharao:\nThus saith the Lord God of Israel: Let my people go, that they may\nsacrifice to me in the desert.\n\n5:2. But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice,\nand let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.\n\n5:3. And they said: The God of the Hebrews hath called us, to go three\ndays' journey into the wilderness, and to sacrifice to the Lord our\nGod; lest a pestilence or the sword fall upon us.\n\n5:4. The king of Egypt said to them: Why do you Moses and Aaron draw\noff the people from their works? Get you gone to your burdens.\n\n5:5. And Pharao said: The people of the land are numerous; you see that\nthe multitude is increased; how much more if you give them rest from\ntheir works?\n\n5:6. Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the works,\nand the task-masters of the people, saying:\n\n5:7. You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as\nbefore; but let them go and gather straw.\n\n5:8. And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did\nbefore; neither shall you diminish any thing thereof, for they are\nidle, and therefore they cry. saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our\nGod.\n\n5:9. Let them be oppressed with works, and let them fulfil them; that\nthey may not regard lying words.\n\n5:10. And the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters, went out and\nsaid to the people: Thus saith Pharao: I allow you no straw;\n\n5:11. Go, and gather it where you can find it; neither shall any thing\nof your work be diminished.\n\n5:12. And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to\ngather straw.\n\n5:13. And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying: Fulfil your\nwork every day, as before ye were wont to do, when straw was given you.\n\n5:14. And they that were over the works of the children of Israel, were\nscourged by Pharao's taskmasters, saying: Why have you not made up the\ntask of bricks, both yesterday and to day, as before?\n\n5:15. And the officers of the children of Israel came, and cried out to\nPharao, saying: Why dealest thou so with thy servants?\n\n5:16. Straw is not given us, and bricks are required of us as before;\nbehold we, thy servants, are beaten with whips, and thy people is\nunjustly dealt withal.\n\n5:17. And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and\nsacrifice to the Lord.\n\n5:18: Go therefore and work: straw shall not be given you, and you\nshall deliver the accustomed number of bricks.\n\n5:19. And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in\nevil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be\ndiminished of the bricks for every day.\n\n5:20. And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood over against them as they\ncame out from Pharao:\n\n5:21. And they said to them: The Lord see and judge, because you have,\nmade our savour to stink before Pharao and his servants, and you have\ngiven him a sword, to kill us.\n\n5:22. And Moses returned to the Lord, and said: Lord, why hast thou\nafflicted this people? wherefore hast thou sent me?\n\n5:23. For since the time that I went in to Pharao to speak in thy name,\nhe hath afflicted thy people: and thou hast not delivered them.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 6\n\n\nGod reneweth his promise. The genealogies of Ruben, Simon and Levi,\ndown to Moses and Aaron.\n\n6;1. And the Lord said to Moses: Now thou shalt see what I will do to\nPharao: for by a mighty hand shall he let them go, and with a strong\nhand shall he cast them out of his land.\n\n6:2. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am the Lord\n\n6:3. That appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of\nGod Almighty: and my name ADONAI I did not shew them.\n\nMy name Adonai. . .The name, which is in the Hebrew text, is that most\nproper name of God, which signifieth his eternal, self-existent being,\nEx. 3.14, which the Jews out of reverence never pronounce; but, instead\nof it, whenever it occurs in the Bible, they read Adonai, which\nsignifies the Lord; and, therefore, they put the points or vowels,\nwhich belong to the name Adonai, to the four letters of that other\nineffable name Jod, He, Vau, He. Hence some moderns have framed the\nname Jehovah, unknown to all the ancients, whether Jews or Christians;\nfor the true pronunciation of the name, which is in the Hebrew text, by\nlong disuse, is now quite lost.\n\n6:4. And I made a covenant with them, to give them the land of Chanaan,\nthe land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers.\n\n6:5. I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, wherewith the\nEgyptians have oppressed them: and I have remembered my covenant.\n\n6:6. Therefore say to the children of Israel: I am the Lord who will\nbring you out from the work-prison of the Egyptians, and will deliver\nyou from bondage: and redeem you with a high arm, and great judgments.\n\n6:7. And I will take you to myself for my people, I will be your God:\nand you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out\nfrom the work-prison of the Egyptians:\n\n6:8. And brought you into the land, concerning which I lifted up my\nhand to give it to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and I will give it you to\npossess: I am the Lord.\n\n6:9. And Moses told all this to the children of Israel: but they did\nnot hearken to him, for anguish of spirit, and most painful work.\n\n6:10. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n6:11. Go in, and speak to Pharao king of Egypt, that he let the\nchildren of Israel go out of his land.\n\n6:12. Moses answered before the Lord: Behold the children of Israel do\nnot hearken to me: and how will Pharao hear me, especially as I am of\nuncircumcised lips?\n\nUncircumcised lips. . .So he calls the defect he had in his words, or\nutterance.\n\n6:13. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, and he gave them a charge\nunto the children of Israel, and unto Pharao the king of Egypt, that\nthey should bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of\nEgypt.\n\n6:14. These are the heads of their houses by their families. The sons\nof Ruben the firstborn of Israel: Henoch and Phallu, Hesron and Charmi.\n\n6:15. These are the kindreds of Ruben. The sons of Simeon, Jamuel and\nJamin, and Ahod, and Jachin, and Soar, and Saul the son of a\nChanaanitess: these are the families of Simeon.\n\n6:16. And these are the names of the sons of Levi by their kindreds:\nGerson, and Caath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a\nhundred and thirty-seven.\n\n6:17. The sons of Gerson: Lobni and Semei, by their kindreds.\n\n6:18: The sons of Caath: Amram, and Isaar, and Hebron and Oziel. And\nthe years of Caath's life, were a hundred and thirty-three.\n\n6:19. The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. These are the kindreds of\nLevi by their families.\n\n6:20. And Amram took to wife Jochabed his aunt by the father's side:\nand she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of Amram's life, were a\nhundred and thirty-seven.\n\n6:21. The sons also of Isaar: Core, and Nepheg, and Zechri.\n\n6:22. The sons also of Oziel: Mizael, and Elizaphan, and Sethri.\n\n6:23. And Aaron took to wife Elizabeth the daughter of Aminadab, sister\nof Nahason, who bore him Nadab, and Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.\n\n6:24. The sons also of Core: Aser, and Elcana, and Abiasaph. These are\nthe kindreds of the Corites.\n\n6:25. But Eleazar the son of Aaron took a wife of the daughters of\nPhutiel: and she bore him Phinees. These are the heads of the Levitical\nfamilies by their kindreds.\n\n6:26. These are Aaron and Moses, whom the Lord commanded to bring forth\nthe children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies.\n\n6:27. These are they that speak to Pharao, king of Egypt, in order to\nbring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and\nAaron,\n\n6:28. In the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt.\n\n6:29. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am the Lord; speak thou to\nPharao, king of Egypt, all that I say to thee.\n\n6:30. And Moses said before the Lord: Lo I am of uncircumcised lips,\nhow will Pharao hear me?\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 7\n\n\nMoses and Aaron go into Pharao: they turn the rod into a serpent; and\nthe waters of Egypt into blood, which was the first plague. The\nmagicians do the like, and Pharao's heart is hardened.\n\n7:1. And the Lord said to Moses: Behold, I have appointed thee the god\nof Pharao; and Aaron, thy brother, shall be thy prophet.\n\nThe god of Pharao. . .Viz., to be his judge; and to exercise a divine\npower, as God's instrument, over him and his people.\n\n7:2. Thou shalt speak to him all that I command thee; and he shall\nspeak to Pharao, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.\n\n7:3. But I shall harden his heart, and shall multiply my signs and\nwonders in the land of Egypt.\n\nI shall harden, etc. . .not by being the efficient cause of his hardness\nof heart, but by permitting it; and by withdrawing grace from him, in\npunishment of his malice; which alone was the proper cause of his being\nhardened.\n\n7:4. And he will not hear you: and I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and\nwill bring forth my army and my people, the children of Israel, out of\nthe land of Egypt, by very great judgments.\n\n7:5. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, who have\nstretched forth my hand upon Egypt, and have brought forth the children\nof Israel out of the midst of them.\n\n7:6. And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded; so did they.\n\n7:7. And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they\nspoke to Pharao.\n\n7:8. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron:\n\n7:9. When Pharao shall say to you, Shew signs; thou shalt say to Aaron:\nTake thy rod, and cast it down before Pharao, and it shall be turned\ninto a serpent.\n\n7:10. So Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharao, and did as the Lord had\ncommanded. And Aaron took the rod before Pharao and his servants, and\nit was turned into a serpent.\n\n7:11. And Pharao called the wise men and the magicians; and they also\nby Egyptian enchantments and certain secrets, did in like manner.\n\nMagicians. . .Jannes, and Mambres, or Jambres, 2 Tim. 3.8.\n\n7:12. And they every one cast down their rods, and they were turned\ninto serpents: but Aaron's rod devoured their rods.\n\n7:13. And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he did not hearken to them,\nas the Lord had commanded.\n\n7:14. And the Lord said to Moses: Pharao's heart is hardened, he will\nnot let the people go.\n\n7:15. Go to him in the morning, behold he will go out to the waters:\nand thou shalt stand to meet him on the ' bank of the river: and thou\nshalt take in thy hand the rod that was turned into a serpent.\n\n7:16. And thou shalt say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews sent me to\nthee, saying: Let my people go to sacrifice to me in the desert: and\nhitherto thou wouldst not hear.\n\n7:17. Thus therefore saith the Lord: In this thou shalt know that I am\nthe Lord: behold I will strike with the rod, that is in my hand, the\nwater of the river, and it shall be turned into blood.\n\n7:18: And the fishes that are in the river, shall die, and the waters\nshall be corrupted, and the Egyptians shall be afflicted when they\ndrink the water of the river.\n\n7:19. The Lord also said to Moses: Say to Aaron, Take thy rod; and\nstretch forth thy hand upon the waters of Egypt, and upon their rivers,\nand streams and pools, and all the ponds of waters, that they may be\nturned into blood: and let blood be in all the land of Egypt, both in\nvessels of wood and of stone.\n\n7:20. And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded: and lifting up\nthe rod, he struck the water of the river before Pharao and his\nservants: and it was turned into blood.\n\n7:21. And the fishes that were in the river died; and the river\ncorrupted, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river,\nand there was blood in all the land of Egypt.\n\n7:22. And the magicians of the Egyptians with their enchantments did in\nlike manner; and Pharao's heart was hardened, neither did he hear them,\nas the Lord had commanded.\n\n7:23. And he turned himself away, and went into his house, neither did\nhe set his heart to it this time also.\n\n7:24. And all the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to\ndrink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.\n\n7:25. And seven days were fully ended, after that the Lord struck the\nriver.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 8\n\n\nThe second plague is of frogs: Pharao promiseth to let the Israelites\ngo, but breaketh his promise. The third plague is of sciniphs. The\nfourth is of flies. Pharao again promiseth to dismiss the people, but\ndoth it not.\n\n8:1. And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and thou shalt say to\nhim: Thus saith the Lord: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.\n\n8:2. But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I will strike all thy\ncoasts with frogs.\n\n8:3. And the river shall bring forth an abundance of frogs; which shall\ncome up and enter into thy house, and thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed,\nand into the houses of thy servants, and to thy people, and into thy\novens, and into the remains of thy meats:\n\n8:4. And the frogs shall come in to thee, and to thy people, and to all\nthy servants.\n\n8:5. And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron: Stretch forth thy hand\nupon the streams, and upon the rivers and the pools, and bring forth\nfrogs upon the land of Egypt.\n\n8:6. And Aaron stretched forth his hand upon the waters of Egypt, and\nthe frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.\n\n8:7. And the magicians also, by their enchantments, did in like manner,\nand they brought forth frogs upon the land of Egypt.\n\n8:8. But Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Pray ye to\nthe Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will\nlet the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.\n\nPray ye to the Lord, etc. . .By this it appears, that though the\nmagicians, by the help of the devil, could bring frogs, yet they could\nnot take them away: God being pleased to abridge in this the power of\nSatan. So we see they could not afterwards produce the lesser insects;\nand in this restraint of the power of the devil, were forced to\nacknowledge the finger of God.\n\n8:9. And Moses said to Pharao: Set me a time when I shall pray for\nthee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs may be\ndriven away from thee and from thy house, and from thy servants, and\nfrom thy people; and may remain only in the river.\n\n8:10. And he answered: To morrow. But he said: I will do according to\nthy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like to the Lord our\nGod.\n\n8:11. And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy house, and\nfrom thy servants, and from thy people; and shall remain only in the\nriver.\n\n8:12. And Moses and Aaron went forth from Pharao: and Moses cried to\nthe Lord for the promise, which he had made to Pharao concerning the\nfrogs.\n\n8:13. And the Lord did according to the word of Moses: and the frogs\ndied out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields:\n\n8:14. And they gathered them together into immense heaps, and the land\nwas corrupted.\n\n8:15. And Pharao seeing that rest was given, hardened his own heart,\nand did not hear them, as the Lord had commanded.\n\nPharao hardened his own heart. . .By this we see that Pharao was himself\nthe efficient cause of his heart being hardened, and not God.--See the\nsame repeated in ver. 32. Pharao hardened his heart at this time also:\nlikewise chap. 9.7, 35, and chap. 13.15.\n\n8:16. And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron: Stretch forth thy rod,\nand strike the dust of the earth; and may there be sciniphs in all the\nland of Egypt.\n\nSciniphs. . .Or Cinifs, Hebrew Chinnim, small flying insects, very\ntroublesome both to men and beast.\n\n8:17. And they did so. And Aaron stretched forth his hand, holding the\nrod; and he struck the dust of the earth, and there came sciniphs on\nmen and on beasts: all the dust of the earth was turned into sciniphs\nthrough all the land of Egypt.\n\n8:18: And the magicians with their enchantments practised in like\nmanner, to bring forth sciniphs, and they could not: and there were\nsciniphs as well on men as on beasts.\n\n8:19. And the magicians said to Pharao: This is the finger of God. And\nPharao's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them, as the\nLord had commanded.\n\n8:20. The Lord also said to Moses: Arise early, and stand before\nPharao; for he will go forth to the waters: and thou shalt say to him:\nThus saith the Lord: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.\n\n8:21. But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I will send in upon\nthee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy houses, all kind of flies:\nand the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with flies of divers\nkinds, and the whole land wherein they shall be.\n\n8:22. And I will make the land of Gessen wonderful in that day, so that\nflies shall not be there: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord in the\nmidst of the earth.\n\n8:23. And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to\nmorrow shall this sign be.\n\n8:24. And the Lord did so. And there came a very grievous swarm of\nflies into the houses of Pharao and of his servants, and into all the\nland of Egypt: and the land was corrupted by this kind of flies.\n\n8:25. And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go and\nsacrifice to your God in this land.\n\n8:26. And Moses said: It cannot be so: for we shall sacrifice the\nabominations of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: now if we kill those\nthings which the Egyptians worship, in their presence, they will stone\nus.\n\nThe abominations, etc. . .That is, the things they worship for Gods:\noxen, rams, etc. It is the usual style of the scriptures to call all\nidols and false gods, abominations, to signify how much the people of\nGod ought to detest and abhor them.\n\n8:27. We will go three days' journey into the wilderness; and we will\nsacrifice to the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.\n\n8:28. And Pharao said: I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your\nGod in the wilderness, but go no farther: pray for me.\n\n8:29. And Moses said: I will go out from thee, and will pray to the\nLord: and the flies shall depart from Pharao, and from his servants,\nand from his people to morrow: but do not deceive any more, in not\nletting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.\n\n8:30. So Moses went out from Pharao, and prayed to the Lord.\n\n8:31. And he did according to his word: and he took away the flies from\nPharao, and from his servants, and from his people: there was not left\nso much as one.\n\n8:32. And Pharao's heart was hardened, so that neither this time would\nhe let the people go.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 9\n\n\nThe fifth plague is a murrain among the cattle. The sixth, of boils in\nmen and beasts. The seventh, of hail. Pharao promiseth again to let the\npeople go, and breaketh his word.\n\n9:1. And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and speak to him:\nThus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice\nto me.\n\n9:2. But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:\n\n9:3. Behold my hand shall be upon thy fields; and a very grievous\nmurrain upon thy horses, and asses, and camels, and oxen, and sheep.\n\n9:4. And the Lord will make a wonderful difference between the\npossessions of Israel and the possessions of the Egyptians, that\nnothing at all shall die of those things that belong to the children of\nIsrael.\n\n9:5. And the Lord appointed a time, saying: To morrow will the Lord do\nthis thing in the land.\n\n9:6. The Lord therefore did this thing the next day: and all the beasts\nof the Egyptians died, but of the beasts of the children of Israel\nthere died not one.\n\nAll the beasts. . .That is, many of all kinds.\n\n9:7. And Pharao sent to see; and there was not any thing dead of that\nwhich Israel possessed. And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he did not\nlet the people go.\n\n9:8. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Take to you handfuls of\nashes out of the chimney, and let Moses sprinkle it in the air in the\npresence of Pharao.\n\n9:9. And be there dust upon all the land of Egypt: for there shall be\nboils and swelling blains both in men and beasts, in the whole land of\nEgypt.\n\n9:10. And they took ashes out of the chimney, and stood before Pharao,\nand Moses sprinkled it in the air; and there came boils with swelling\nblains in men and beasts.\n\n9:11. Neither could the magicians stand before Moses, for the boils\nthat were upon them, and in all the land of Egypt.\n\n9:12. And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, and he hearkened not unto\nthem, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.\n\nHardened, etc. . .See the annotations above, chap. 4.21, chap. 7.3, and\nchap. 8.15.\n\n9:13. And the Lord said to Moses: Arise in the morning, and stand\nbefore Pharao, and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord, the God\nof the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.\n\n9:14. For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thy heart, and\nupon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayst know that there\nis none like me in all the earth.\n\n9:15. For now I will stretch out my hand to strike thee, and thy\npeople, with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the earth.\n\n9:16. And therefore have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in\nthee, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth.\n\n9:17. Dost thou yet hold back my people; and wilt thou not let them go?\n\n9:18: Behold I will cause it to rain to morrow at this same hour, an\nexceeding great hail; such as hath not been in Egypt from the day that\nit was founded, until this present time.\n\n9:19. Send therefore now presently, and gather together thy cattle, and\nall that thou hast in the field; for men and beasts, and all things\nthat shall be found abroad, and not gathered together out of the fields\nwhich the hail shall fall upon, shall die.\n\n9:20. He that feared the word of the Lord among Pharao's servants, made\nhis servants and his cattle flee into houses:\n\n9:21. But he that regarded not the word of the Lord, left his servants,\nand his cattle in the fields.\n\n9:22. And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand towards\nheaven, that there may be hail in the whole land of Egypt upon men, and\nupon beasts, and upon every herb of the field in the land of Egypt.\n\n9:23. And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the Lord\nsent thunder and hail, and lightnings running along the ground: and the\nLord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.\n\n9:24. And the hail and fire mixt with it drove on together: and it was\nof so great bigness, as never before was seen in the whole land of\nEgypt since that nation was founded.\n\n9:25. And the hail destroyed through all the land of Egypt all things\nthat were in the fields, both man and beast: and the hail smote every\nherb of the field, and it broke every tree of the country.\n\n9:26. Only in the land of Gessen, where the children of Israel were,\nthe hail fell not.\n\n9:27. And Pharao sent and called Moses and Aaron, saying to them: I\nhave sinned this time also, the Lord is just: I and my people, are\nwicked.\n\n9:28. Pray ye to the Lord that the thunderings of God and the hail may\ncease: that I may let you go, and that ye may stay here no longer.\n\n9:29. Moses said: As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will stretch\nforth my hands to the Lord, and the thunders shall cease, and the hail\nshall be no more: that thou mayst know that the earth is the Lord's:\n\n9:30. But I know that neither thou, nor thy servants do yet fear the\nLord God.\n\n9:31. The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley\nwas green, and the flax was now bolled;\n\n9:32. But the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they\nwere lateward.\n\n9:33. And when Moses was gone from Pharao out of the city, he stretched\nforth his hands to the Lord: and the thunders and the hail ceased,\nneither did there drop any more rain upon the earth.\n\n9:34. And Pharao seeing that the rain, and the hail, and the thunders\nwere ceased, increased his sin:\n\n9:35. And his heart was hardened, and the heart of his servants, and it\nwas made exceeding hard: neither did he let the children of Israel go,\nas the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 10\n\n\nThe eighth plague of the locusts. The ninth, of darkness: Pharao is\nstill hardened.\n\n10:1. And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao; for I have hardened\nhis heart, and the heart of his servants: that I may work these my\nsigns in him,\n\n10:2. And thou mayst tell in the ears of thy sons, and of thy\ngrandsons, how often I have plagued the Egyptians, and wrought my signs\namongst them: and you may know that I am the Lord.\n\n10:3. Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him:\nThus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou to\nsubmit to me? let my people go, to sacrifice to me.\n\n10:4. But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go, behold I will bring\nin to-morrow the locusts into thy coasts;\n\n10:5. To cover the face of the earth, that nothing thereof may appear,\nbut that which the hail hath left may be eaten: for they shall feed\nupon all the trees that spring in the fields.\n\n10:6. And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of thy servants,\nand of all the Egyptians: such a number as thy fathers have not seen,\nnor thy grandfathers, from the time they were first upon the earth,\nuntil this present day. And he turned himself away, and went forth from\nPharao.\n\n10:7. And Pharao's servants said to him: How long shall we endure this\nscandal? Iet the men go to sacrifice to the Lord their God. Dost thou\nnot see that Egypt is undone?\n\n10:8. And they called back Moses, and Aaron, to Pharao; and he said to\nthem: Go, sacrifice to the Lord your God: who are they that shall go?\n\n10:9. Moses said: We will go with our young and old, with our sons and\ndaughters, with our sheep and herds: for it is the solemnity of the\nLord our God.\n\n10:10. And Pharao answered: So be the Lord with you, as I shall let you\nand your children go: who can doubt but that you intend some great\nevil?\n\n10:11. It shall not be so. but go ye men only, and sacrifice to the\nLord: for this yourselves also desired. And immediately they were cast\nout from Pharao's presence.\n\n10:12. And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand upon the land\nof Egypt unto the locust, that it come upon it, and devour every herb\nthat is left after the hail.\n\n10:13. And Moses stretched forth his rod upon the land of Egypt: and\nthe Lord brought a burning wind all that day, and night; and when it\nwas morning, the burning wind raised the locusts.\n\n10:14. And they came up over the whole land of Egypt; and rested in all\nthe coasts of the Egyptians, innumerable, the like as had not been\nbefore that time, nor shall be hereafter.\n\n10:15. And they covered the whole face of the earth, wasting all\nthings. And the grass of the earth was devoured, and what fruits soever\nwere on the trees, which the hail had left; and there remained not any\nthing that was green on the trees, or in the herbs of the earth, in all\nEgypt.\n\n10:16. Wherefore Pharao in haste called Moses and Aaron, and said to\nthem: I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.\n\n10:17. But now forgive me my sin this time also, and pray to the Lord\nyour God, that he take away from me this death.\n\n10:18: And Moses going forth from the presence of Pharao, prayed to the\nLord:\n\n10:19. And he made a very strong wind to blow from the west, and it\ntook the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea: there remained not so\nmuch as one in all the coasts of Egypt.\n\n10:20. And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, neither did he let the\nchildren of Israel go.\n\n10:21. And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out thy hand towards heaven:\nand may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that it may\nbe felt.\n\nDarkness upon the land of Egypt, so thick that it may be felt. . .By\nmeans of the gross exhalations, which were to cause and accompany the\ndarkness.\n\n10:22. And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven: and there\ncame horrible darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.\n\n10:23. No man saw his brother, nor moved himself out of the place where\nhe was: but wheresoever the children of Israel dwelt, there was light.\n\n10:24. And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go,\nsacrifice to the Lord: let your sheep only, and herds remain, let your\nchildren go with you.\n\n10:25. Moses said: Thou shalt give us also sacrifices and\nburnt-offerings, to the Lord our God.\n\n10:26. All the flocks shall go with us; there shall not a hoof remain\nof them: for they are necessary for the service of the Lord our God:\nespecially as we know not what must be offered, till we come to the\nvery place.\n\n10:27. And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, and he would not let them\ngo.\n\n10:28. And Pharao said to Moses: Get thee from me, and beware thou see\nnot my face any more: in what day soever thou shalt come in my sight,\nthou shalt die.\n\n10:29. Moses answered: So shall it be as thou hast spoken, I will not\nsee thy face anymore.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 11\n\n\nPharao and his people are threatened with the death of their firstborn.\n\n11:1. And the Lord said to Moses: Yet one plague more will I bring upon\nPharao and Egypt, and after that he shall let you go, and thrust you\nout.\n\n11:2. Therefore thou shalt tell all the people, that every man ask of\nhis friend, and every woman of her neighbour, vessels of silver and of\ngold.\n\n11:3. And the Lord will give favour to his people in the sight of the\nEgyptians. And Moses was a very great man in the land of Egypt, in the\nsight of Pharao's servants, and of all the people.\n\n11:4. And he said: Thus saith the Lord: At midnight I will enter into\nEgypt:\n\n11:5. And every firstborn in the land of the Egyptians shall die, from\nthe firstborn of Pharao who sitteth on his throne, even to the\nfirstborn of the handmaid that is at the mill, and all the firstborn of\nbeasts.\n\n11:6. And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as\nneither hath been before, nor shall be hereafter.\n\n11:7. But with all the children of Israel there shall not a dog make\nthe least noise, from man even to beast; that you may know how\nwonderful a difference the Lord maketh between the Egyptians and\nIsrael.\n\n11:8. And all these thy servants shall come down to me, and shall\nworship me, saying: Go forth thou, and all the people that is under\nthee: after that we will go out.\n\n11:9. And he went out from Pharao exceeding angry. But the Lord said to\nMoses: Pharao will not hear you, that many signs may be done in the\nland of Egypt.\n\n11:10. And Moses and Aaron did all the wonders that are written, before\nPharao. And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, neither did he let the\nchildren of Israel go out of his land.\n\nThe Lord hardened, etc. . .See the annotations above, chap. 4.21, and\nchap. 7.3.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 12\n\n\nThe manner of preparing, and eating the paschal lamb: the firstborn of\nEgypt are all slain: the Israelites depart.\n\n12:1. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:\n\n12:2. This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be\nthe first in the months of the year.\n\n12:3. Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say\nto them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by\ntheir families and houses.\n\n12:4. But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he\nshall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according\nto the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb.\n\n12:5. And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year;\naccording to which rite also you shall take a kid.\n\nA kid. . .The phase might be performed, either with a lamb or with a\nkid: and all the same rites and ceremonies were to be used with the one\nas with the other.\n\n12:6. And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and\nthe whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the\nevening.\n\n12:7. And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon both\nthe side posts, and on the upper door posts of the houses, wherein they\nshall eat it.\n\n12:8. And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and\nunleavened bread with wild lettuce.\n\n12:9. You shall not eat thereof any thing raw, nor boiled in water, but\nonly roasted at the fire; you shall eat the head with the feet and\nentrails thereof.\n\n12:10. Neither shall there remain any thing of it until morning. If\nthere be any thing left, you shall burn it with fire.\n\n12:11. And thus you shall eat it: you shall gird your reins, and you\nshall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you\nshall eat in haste; for it is the Phase (that is the Passage) of the\nLord.\n\n12:12. And I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and will\nkill every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast: and\nagainst all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments; I am the Lord.\n\n12:13. And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses where\nyou shall be; and I shall see the blood, and shall pass over you; and\nthe plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I shall strike\nthe land of Egypt.\n\n12:14. And this day shall be for a memorial to you; and you shall keep\nit a feast to the Lord in your generations, with an everlasting\nobservance.\n\n12:15. Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day\nthere shall be no leaven in your houses; whosoever shall eat any thing\nleavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall\nperish out of Israel.\n\n12:16. The first day shall be holy and solemn, and the seventh day\nshall be kept with the like solemnity: you shall do no work in them,\nexcept those things that belong to eating.\n\n12:17. And you shall observe the feast of the unleavened bread: for in\nthis same day I will bring forth your army out of the land of Egypt,\nand you shall keep this day in your generations by a perpetual\nobservance.\n\n12:18: The first month, the fourteenth day of the month, in the\nevening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth\nday of the same month, in the evening.\n\nUnleavened bread. . .By this it appears, that our Saviour made use of\nunleavened bread, in the institution of the blessed sacrament, which\nwas on the evening of the paschal solemnity, at which time there was no\nleavened bread to be found in Israel.\n\n12:19. Seven days there shall not be found any leaven in your houses:\nhe that shall eat leavened bread, his soul shall perish out of the\nassembly of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land.\n\n12:20. You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your habitations\nyou shall eat unleavened bread.\n\n12:21. And Moses called all the ancients of the children of Israel, and\nsaid to them: Go take a lamb by your families, and sacrifice the Phase.\n\n12:22. And dip a bunch of hyssop in the blood that is at the door, and\nsprinkle the transom of the door therewith, and both the door cheeks:\nlet none of you go out of the door of his house till morning.\n\nSprinkle, etc. . .This sprinkling the doors of the Israelites with the\nblood of the paschal lamb, in order to their being delivered from the\nsword of the destroying angel, was a lively figure of our redemption by\nthe blood of Christ.\n\n12:23. For the Lord will pass through striking the Egyptians: and when\nhe shall see the blood on the transom, and on both the posts, he will\npass over the door of the house, and not suffer the destroyer to come\ninto your houses and to hurt you.\n\n12:24. Thou shalt keep this thing as a law for thee and thy children\nfor ever.\n\n12:25. And when you have entered into the land which the Lord will give\nyou, as he hath promised, you shall observe these ceremonies.\n\n12:26. And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of\nthis service?\n\n12:27. You shall say to them: It is the victim of the passage of the\nLord, when he passed over the houses of the children of Israel in\nEgypt, striking the Egyptians, and saving our houses. And the people\nbowing themselves, adored.\n\n12:28. And the children of Israel going forth, did as the Lord had\ncommanded Moses and Aaron.\n\n12:29. And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn\nin the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his\nthrone, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison,\nand all the firstborn of cattle.\n\n12:30. And Pharao arose in the night, and all his servants, and all\nEgypt: and there arose a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house\nwherein there lay not one dead.\n\n12:31. And Pharao calling Moses and Aaron, in the night, said: Arise\nand go forth from among my people, you and the children of Israel: go,\nsacrifice to the Lord as you say.\n\n12:32. Your sheep and herds take along with you, as you demanded, and\ndeparting bless me.\n\n12:33. And the Egyptians pressed the people to go forth out of the land\nspeedily, saying: We shall all die.\n\n12:34. The people therefore took dough before it was leavened; and\ntying it in their cloaks, put it on their shoulders.\n\n12:35. And the children of Israel did as Moses had commanded: and they\nasked of the Egyptians vessels of silver and gold, and very much\nraiment.\n\n12:36. And the Lord gave favour to the people in the sight of the\nEgyptians, so that they lent unto them: and they stripped the\nEgyptians.\n\n12:37. And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth,\nbeing about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.\n\n12:38. And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them,\nsheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.\n\n12:39. And they baked the meal, which a little before they had brought\nout of Egypt in dough: and they made hearth cakes unleavened: for it\ncould not be leavened, the Egyptians pressing them to depart, and not\nsuffering them to make any stay; neither did they think of preparing\nany meat.\n\n12:40. And the abode of the children of Israel that they made in Egypt,\nwas four hundred and thirty years.\n\n12:41. Which being expired, the same day all the army of the Lord went\nforth out of the land of Egypt.\n\n12:42. This is the observable night of the Lord, when he brought them\nforth out of the land of Egypt: this night all the children of Israel\nmust observe in their generations.\n\n12:43. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the service of the\nPhase; no foreigner shall eat of it.\n\n12:44. But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat.\n\n12:45. The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof.\n\n12:46. In one house shall it be eaten, neither shall you carry forth of\nthe flesh thereof out of the house, neither shall you break a bone\nthereof.\n\n12:47. All the assembly of the children of Israel shall keep it.\n\n12:48. And if any stranger be willing to dwell among you, and to keep\nthe Phase of the Lord, all his males shall first be circumcised, and\nthen shall he celebrate it according to the manner: and he shall be as\nhe that is born in the land: but if any man be uncircumcised, he shall\nnot eat thereof.\n\n12:49. The same law shall be to him that is born in the land, and to\nthe proselyte that sojourneth with you.\n\n12:50. And all the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded\nMoses and Aaron.\n\n12:51. And the same day the Lord brought forth the children of Israel\nout of the land of Egypt by their companies.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 13\n\n\nThe paschal solemnity is to be observed; and the firstborn are to be\nconsecrated to God. The people are conducted through the desert by a\npillar of fire in the night, and a cloud in the day.\n\n13:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n13:2. Sanctify unto me every firstborn that openeth the womb among the\nchildren of Israel, as well of men as of beasts: for they are all mine.\n\nSanctify unto me every firstborn. . .Sanctification in this place means\nthat the firstborn males of the Hebrews should be deputed to the\nministry in the divine worship; and the firstborn of beasts to be given\nfor a sacrifice.\n\n13:3. And Moses said to the people: Remember this day in which you came\nforth out of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage, for with a strong\nhand hath the Lord brought you forth out of this place: that you eat no\nleavened bread.\n\n13:4. This day you go forth in the month of new corn.\n\n13:5. And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the\nChanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hevite, and the\nJebusite, which he swore to thy fathers that he would give thee, a land\nthat floweth with milk and honey, thou shalt celebrate this manner of\nsacred rites in this month.\n\n13:6. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh\nday shall be the solemnity of the Lord.\n\n13:7. Unleavened bread shall you eat seven days: there shall not be\nseen any thing leavened with thee, nor in all thy coasts.\n\n13:8. And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: This is what the\nLord did to me when I came forth out of Egypt.\n\n13:9. And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a memorial before\nthy eyes; and that the law of the Lord be always in thy mouth, for with\na strong hand the Lord hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt.\n\n13:10. Thou shalt keep this observance at the set time from days to\ndays.\n\n13:11. And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the\nChanaanite, as he swore to thee and thy fathers, and shall give it\nthee:\n\n13:12. Thou shalt set apart all that openeth the womb for the Lord, and\nall that is first brought forth of thy cattle: whatsoever thou shalt\nhave of the male sex, thou shalt consecrate to the Lord.\n\n13:13. The firstborn of an ass thou shalt change for a sheep: and if\nthou do not redeem it, thou shalt kill it. And every firstborn of men\nthou shalt redeem with a price.\n\n13:14. And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What is this?\nthou shalt answer him: With a strong hand did the Lord bring us forth\nout of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.\n\n13:15. For when Pharao was hardened, and would not let us go, the Lord\nslew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of man to\nthe firstborn of beasts: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that\nopeneth the womb of the male sex, and all the firstborn of my sons I\nredeem.\n\n13:16. And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a thing hung\nbetween thy eyes, for a remembrance: because the Lord hath brought us\nforth out of Egypt by a strong hand.\n\n13:17. And when Pharao had sent out the people, the Lord led them not\nby the way of the land of the Philistines, which is near; thinking lest\nperhaps they would repent, if they should see wars arise against them,\nand would return into Egypt.\n\n13:18: But he led them about by the way of the desert, which is by the\nRed Sea: and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of\nEgypt.\n\n13:19. And Moses took Joseph's bones with him: because he had adjured\nthe children of Israel, saying: God shall visit you, carry out my bones\nfrom hence with you.\n\n13:20. And marching from Socoth, they encamped in Etham, in the utmost\ncoasts of the wilderness.\n\n13:21. And the Lord went before them to shew the way, by day in a\npillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire; that he might be\nthe guide of their journey at both times.\n\n13:22. There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the\npillar of fire by night, before the people.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 14\n\n\nPharao pursueth the children of Israel. They murmur against Moses, but\nare encouraged by him, and pass through the Red Sea. Pharao and his\narmy following them are drowned.\n\n14:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n14:2. Speak to the children of Israel: Let them turn and encamp over\nagainst Phihahiroth, which is between Magdal and the sea over against\nBeelsephon: you shall encamp before it upon the sea.\n\n14:3. And Pharao will say of the children of Israel: They are\nstraitened in the land, the desert hath shut them in.\n\n14:4. And I shall harden his heart and he will pursue you: and I shall\nbe glorified in Pharao, and in all his army: and the Egyptians shall\nknow that I am the Lord. And they did so.\n\n14:5. And it was told the king of the Egyptians that the people was\nfled: and the heart of Pharao and of his servants was changed with\nregard to the people, and they said: What meant we to do, that we let\nIsrael go from serving us?\n\n14:6. So he made ready his chariot, and took all his people with him.\n\n14:7. And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots\nthat were in Egypt: and the captains of the whole army.\n\n14:8. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharao, king of Egypt, and he\npursued the children of Israel; but they were gone forth in a mighty\nhand.\n\n14:9. And when the Egyptians followed the steps of them who were gone\nbefore, they found them encamped at the sea side: all Pharao's horse\nand chariots and the whole army were in Phihahiroth, before Beelsephon.\n\n14:10. And when Pharao drew near, the children of Israel lifting up\ntheir eyes, saw the Egyptians behind them: and they feared exceedingly,\nand cried to the Lord.\n\n14:11. And they said to Moses: Perhaps there were no graves in Egypt,\ntherefore thou hast brought us to die in the wilderness: why wouldst\nthou do this, to lead us out of Egypt?\n\n14:12. Is not this the word that we spoke to thee in Egypt, saying:\nDepart from us, that we may serve the Egyptians? for it was much better\nto serve them, than to die in the wilderness.\n\n14:13. And Moses said to the people: Fear not: stand, and see the great\nwonders of the Lord, which he will do this day; for the Egyptians, whom\nyou see now, you shall see no more for ever.\n\n14:14. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.\n\n14:15. And the Lord said to Moses: Why criest thou to me? Speak to the\nchildren of Israel to go forward.\n\n14:16. But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch forth thy hand over the\nsea, and divide it: that the children of Israel may go through the\nmidst of the sea on dry ground.\n\n14:17. And I will harden the heart of the Egyptians to pursue you: and\nI will be glorified in Pharao, and in all his host, and in his chariots\nand in his horsemen.\n\n14:18: And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall be\nglorified in Pharao, and in his chariots, and in his horsemen.\n\n14:19. And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel,\nremoving, went behind them: and together with him the pillar of the\ncloud, leaving the forepart,\n\n14:20. Stood behind, between the Egyptians' camp and the camp of\nIsrael: and it was a dark cloud, and enlightening the night, so that\nthey could not come at one another all the night.\n\nA dark cloud, and enlightening the night. . .It was a dark cloud to the\nEgyptians; but enlightened the night to the Israelites by giving them a\ngreat light.\n\n14:21. And when Moses had stretched forth his hand over the sea, the\nLord took it away by a strong and burning wind blowing all the night,\nand turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided.\n\n14:22. And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea\ndried up; for the water was as a wall on their right hand and on their\nleft.\n\n14:23. And the Egyptians pursuing went in after them, and all Pharao's\nhorses, his chariots and horsemen, through the midst of the sea.\n\n14:24. And now the morning watch was come, and behold the Lord looking\nupon the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of the cloud,\nslew their host.\n\n14:25. And overthrew the wheels of the chariots, and they were carried\ninto the deep. And the Egyptians said: Let us flee from Israel; for the\nLord fighteth for them against us.\n\n14:26. And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand over the sea,\nthat the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots\nand horsemen.\n\n14:27. And when Moses had stretched forth his hand towards the sea, it\nreturned at the first break of day to the former place: and as the\nEgyptians were fleeing away, the waters came upon them, and the Lord\nshut them up in the middle of the waves.\n\n14:28. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the\nhorsemen of all the army of Pharao, who had come into the sea after\nthem, neither did there so much as one of them remain.\n\n14:29. But the children of Israel marched through the midst of the sea\nupon dry land, and the waters were to them as a wall on the right hand\nand on the left:\n\n14:30. And the Lord delivered Israel in that day out of the hands of\nthe Egyptians.\n\n14:31. And they saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore, and the\nmighty hand that the Lord had used against them: and the people feared\nthe Lord, and they believed the Lord, and Moses his servant.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 15\n\n\nThe canticle of Moses. The bitter waters of Mara are made sweet.\n\n15:1. Then Moses and the children of Israel sung this canticle to the\nLord, and said: Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously\nmagnified, the horse and the rider he hath thrown into the sea.\n\n15:2. The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation\nto me: he is my God, and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and\nI will exalt him.\n\n15:3. The Lord is as a man of war, Almighty is his name.\n\n15:4. Pharao's chariots and his army he hath cast into the sea: his\nchosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea.\n\n15:5. The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a\nstone.\n\n15:6. Thy right hand, O Lord, is magnified in strength: thy right hand,\nO Lord, hath slain the enemy.\n\n15:7. And in the multitude of thy glory thou hast put down thy\nadversaries: thou hast sent thy wrath, which hath devoured them like\nstubble.\n\n15:8. And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered\ntogether: the flowing water stood, the depths were gathered together in\nthe midst of the sea.\n\n15:9. The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the\nspoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand\nshall slay them.\n\n15:10. Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the\nmighty waters.\n\n15:11. Who is like to thee, among the strong, O Lord? who is like to\nthee, glorious in holiness, terrible and praise-worthy, doing wonders?\n\n15:12. Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the earth swallowed them.\n\n15:13. In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou\nhast redeemed: and in thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy\nhabitation.\n\n15:14. Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows took hold on the\ninhabitants of Philisthiim.\n\n15:15. Then were the princes of Edom troubled, trembling seized on the\nstout men of Moab: all the inhabitants of Chanaan became stiff.\n\n15:16. Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of thy arm:\nlet them become immoveable as a stone, until thy people, O Lord, pass\nby: until this thy people pass by, which thou hast possessed.\n\n15:17. Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy\ninheritance, in thy most firm habitation, which thou hast made, O Lord;\nthy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.\n\n15:18: The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.\n\n15:19. For Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen\ninto the sea: and the Lord brought back upon them the waters of the\nsea: but the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst\nthereof.\n\n15:20. So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in\nher hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with\ndances.\n\n15:21. And she began the song to them, saying: Let us sing to the Lord,\nfor he is gloriously magnified, the horse and his rider he hath thrown\ninto the sea.\n\n15:22. And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went forth\ninto the wilderness of Sur: and they marched three days through the\nwilderness, and found no water.\n\n15:23. And they came into Mara, and they could not drink the waters of\nMara because they were bitter: whereupon he gave a name also agreeable\nto the place, calling it Mara, that is, bitterness.\n\n15:24. And the people murmured against Moses, saying: What shall we\ndrink?\n\n15:25. But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed him a tree, which when\nhe had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he\nappointed him ordinances, and judgments, and there he proved him,\n\n15:26. Saying: If thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do\nwhat is right before him, and obey his commandments, and keep all his\nprecepts, none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon\nthee: for I am the Lord thy healer.\n\n15:27. And the children of Israel came into Elim, where there were\ntwelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped by\nthe waters.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 16\n\n\nThe people murmur for want of meat: God giveth them quails and manna.\n\n16:1. And they set forward from Elim, and all the multitude of the\nchildren of Israel came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim\nand Sinai: the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came out\nof the land of Egypt.\n\n16:2. And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured\nagainst Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.\n\n16:3. And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died\nby the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the\nfleshpots, and ate bread to the full: Why have you brought us into this\ndesert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?\n\n16:4. And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven\nfor you; let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for\nevery day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or\nnot.\n\n16:5. But the sixth day let them provide for to bring in: and let it be\ndouble to that they were wont to gather every day.\n\n16:6. And Moses and Aaron said to the children of Israel In the evening\nyou shall know that the Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of\nEgypt:\n\n16:7. And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord: for he\nhath heard your murmuring against the Lord: but as for us, what are we,\nthat you mutter against us?\n\n16:8. And Moses said: In the evening the Lord will give you flesh to\neat, and in the morning bread to the full: for he hath heard your\nmurmurings, with which you have murmured against him, for what are we?\nyour murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord.\n\n16:9. Moses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole congregation of the\nchildren of Israel: Come before the Lord; for he hath heard your\nmurmuring.\n\n16:10. And when Aaron spoke to all the assembly of the children of\nIsrael, they looked towards the wilderness; and behold the glory of the\nLord appeared in a cloud.\n\n16:11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n16:12. I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, say to\nthem: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall\nhave your fill of bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your\nGod.\n\n16:13. So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up,\ncovered the camp: and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp.\n\n16:14. And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in\nthe wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto\nthe hoar frost on the ground.\n\n16:15. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to\nanother: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what\nit was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread which the Lord hath\ngiven you to eat.\n\n16:16. This is the word that the Lord hath commanded: Let every one\ngather of it as much as is enough to eat; a gomor for every man,\naccording to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent, so shall\nyou take of it.\n\n16:17. And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more,\nanother less.\n\n16:18: And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither had he more\nthat had gathered more; nor did he find less that had provided less:\nbut every one had gathered, according to what they were able to eat.\n\n16:19. And Moses said to them: Let no man leave thereof till the\nmorning.\n\n16:20. And they hearkened not to him, but some of them left until the\nmorning, and it began to be full of worms, and it putrified, and Moses\nwas angry with them.\n\n16:21. Now every one of them gathered in the morning, as much as might\nsuffice to eat: and after the sun grew hot, it melted.\n\n16:22. But on the sixth day they gathered twice as much, that is, two\ngomors every man: and all the rulers of the multitude came, and told\nMoses.\n\n16:23. And he said to them: This is what the Lord hath spoken: To\nmorrow is the rest of the sabbath sanctified to the Lord. Whatsoever\nwork is to be done, do it; and the meats that are to be dressed, dress\nthem; and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning.\n\n16:24. And they did so as Moses had commanded, and it did not putrify,\nneither was there worm found in it.\n\n16:25. And Moses said: Eat it to day, because it is the sabbath of the\nLord: to day it shall not be found in the field.\n\n16:26. Gather it six days; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the\nLord, therefore it shall not be found.\n\n16:27. And the seventh day came; and some of the people going forth to\ngather, found none.\n\n16:28. And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my\ncommandments, and my law?\n\n16:29. See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, and for this\nreason on the sixth day he giveth you a double provision: let each man\nstay at home, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day.\n\n16:30. And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day.\n\n16:31. And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it\nwas like coriander seed, white, and the taste thereof like to flour\nwith honey.\n\n16:32. And Moses said: This is the word which the Lord hath commanded:\nFill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto generations to come\nhereafter; that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed you in the\nwilderness when you were brought forth out of the land of Egypt.\n\n16:33. And Moses said to Aaron: Take a vessel, and put manna into it,\nas much as a gomor can hold; and lay it up before the Lord, to keep\nunto your generations,\n\n16:34. As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle\nto be kept.\n\n16:35. And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came\nto a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached\nthe borders of the land of Chanaan.\n\n16:36. Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 17\n\n\nThe people murmur again for want of drink; the Lord giveth them water\nout of a rock. Moses lifting up his hand in prayer, Amalec is overcome.\n\n17:1. Then all the multitude of the children of Israel setting forward\nfrom the desert of Sin, by their mansions, according to the word of the\nLord, encamped in Raphidim, where there was no water for the people to\ndrink.\n\n17:2. And they chode with Moses, and said: Give us water, that we may\ndrink. And Moses answered them: Why chide you with me? Wherefore do\nyou tempt the Lord?\n\n17:3. So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured\nagainst Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to\nkill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?\n\n17:4. And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this\npeople? Yet a little more and they will stone me.\n\n17:5. And the Lord said to Moses: Go before the people, and take with\nthee of the ancients of Israel: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith\nthou didst strike the river, and go.\n\n17:6. Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb, and\nthou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the\npeople may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:\n\n17:7. And he called the name of that place Temptation, because of the\nchiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord,\nsaying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?\n\n17:8. And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim.\n\n17:9. And Moses said to Josue: Choose out men; and go out and fight\nagainst Amalec: tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill, having\nthe rod of God in my hand.\n\n17:10. Josue did as Moses had spoken, and he fought against Amalec; but\nMoses, and Aaron, and Hur, went up upon the top of the hill.\n\n17:11. And when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel overcame; but if he\nlet them down a little, Amalec overcame.\n\n17:12. And Moses's hands were heavy: so they took a stone, and put\nunder him, and he sat on it: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands on\nboth sides. And it came to pass, that his hands were not weary until\nsunset.\n\n17:13. And Josue put Amalec and his people to flight, by the edge of\nthe sword.\n\n17:14. And the Lord said to Moses: Write this for a memorial in a book,\nand deliver it to the ears of Josue; for I will destroy the memory of\nAmalec from under heaven.\n\n17:15. And Moses built an altar; and called the name thereof, The Lord,\nmy exaltation, saying:\n\n17:16. Because the hand of the throne of the Lord, and the war of the\nLord shall be against Amalec, from generation to generation.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 18\n\n\nJethro bringeth to Moses his wife and children. His counsel.\n\n18:1. And when Jethro the priest of Madian, the kinsman of Moses, had\nheard all the things that God had done to Moses, and to Israel his\npeople, and that the Lord had brought forth Israel out of Egypt:\n\n18:2. He took Sephora, the wife of Moses, whom he had sent back:\n\n18:3. And her two sons, of whom one was called Gersam: his father\nsaying, I have been a stranger in a foreign country.\n\n18:4. And the other Eliezer: For the God of my father, said he, is my\nhelper, and hath delivered me from the sword of Pharao.\n\n18:5. And Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, came with his sons, and his\nwife to Moses into the desert, where he was camped by the mountain of\nGod.\n\n18:6. And he sent word to Moses, saying: I Jethro, thy kinsman, come to\nthee, and thy wife, and thy two sons with her.\n\n18:7. And he went out to meet his kinsman, and worshipped and kissed\nhim: and they saluted one another with words of peace. And when he was\ncome into the tent,\n\n18:8. Moses told his kinsman all that the Lord had done to Pharao, and\nthe Egyptians in favour of Israel: and all the labour which had\nbefallen them in the journey, and that the Lord had delivered them.\n\n18:9. And Jethro rejoiced for all the good things that the Lord had\ndone to Israel, because he had delivered them out of the hands of the\nEgyptians.\n\n18:10. And he said: Blessed is the Lord, who hath delivered his people\nout of the hand of Egypt.\n\n18:11. Now I know, that the Lord is great above all gods; because they\ndealt proudly against them.\n\n18:12. So Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, offered holocausts and\nsacrifices to God: and Aaron and all the ancients of Israel came, to\neat bread with him before God.\n\n18:13. And the next day Moses sat to judge the people, who stood by\nMoses from morning until night.\n\n18:14. And when his kinsman had seen all things that he did among the\npeople, he said: What is it that thou dost among the people? Why\nsittest thou alone, and all the people wait from morning till night?\n\n18:15. And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the\njudgment of God?\n\n18:16. And when any controversy falleth out among them, they come to me\nto judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws.\n\n18:17. But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.\n\n18:18: Thou art spent with foolish labour, both thou, and this people\nthat is with thee; the business is above thy strength, thou alone canst\nnot bear it.\n\n18:19. But hear my words and counsels, and God shall be with thee. Be\nthou to the people in those things that pertain to God, to bring their\nwords to him:\n\n18:20. And to shew the people the ceremonies, and the manner of\nworshipping; and the way wherein they ought to walk, and the work that\nthey ought to do.\n\n18:21. And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in\nwhom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers\nof thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens,\n\n18:22. Who may judge the people at all times: and when any great matter\nsoever shall fall out, let them refer it to thee, and let them judge\nthe lesser matters only: that so it may be lighter for thee, the burden\nbeing shared out unto others.\n\n18:23. If thou dost this, thou shalt fulfil the commandment of God, and\nshalt be able to bear his precepts: and all this people shall return to\ntheir places with peace.\n\n18:24. And when Moses heard this, he did all things that he had\nsuggested unto him.\n\n18:25. And choosing able men out of all Israel, he appointed them\nrulers of the people, rulers over thousands, and over hundreds, and\nover fifties, and over tens.\n\n18:26. And they judged the people at all times: and whatsoever was of\ngreater difficulty they referred to him, and they judged the easier\ncases only.\n\n18:27. And he let his kinsman depart: and he returned and went into his\nown country.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 19\n\n\nThey come to Sinai: the people are commanded to be sanctified. The\nLord, coming in thunder and lightning, speaketh with Moses.\n\n19:1. In the third month of the departure of Israel out of the land of\nEgypt, on this day they came into the wilderness of Sinai:\n\n19:2. For departing out of Raphidim, and coming to the desert of Sinai,\nthey camped in the same place, and there Israel pitched their tents\nover against the mountain.\n\n19:3. And Moses went up to God; and the Lord called unto him from the\nmountain, and said: Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell\nthe children of Israel:\n\nAnd Moses went up to God. . .Moses went up to mount Sinai, where God\nspoke to him.\n\n19:4. You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, how I have\ncarried you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself.\n\n19:5. If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you\nshall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is\nmine.\n\n19:6. And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation.\nThese are the words thou shalt speak to the children of Israel.\n\n19:7. Moses came; and calling together the elders of the people, he\ndeclared all the words which the Lord had commanded.\n\n19:8. And all the people answered together: All that the Lord hath\nspoken, we will do. And when Moses had related the people's words to\nthe Lord,\n\n19:9. The Lord said to him: Lo, now will I come to thee in the darkness\nof a cloud, that the people may hear me speaking to thee, and may\nbelieve thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to the\nLord.\n\n19:10. And he said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify them to day,\nand to morrow, and let them wash their garments.\n\n19:11. And let them be ready against the third day; for on the third\nday the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people, upon Mount\nSinai.\n\n19:12. And thou shalt appoint certain limits to the people round about,\nand thou shalt say to them: Take heed ye go not up into the mount, and\nthat ye touch not the borders thereof: every one that toucheth the\nmount, dying he shall die.\n\n19:13. No hands shall touch him, but he shall be stoned to death, or he\nshall be shot through with arrows: whether it be beast, or man, he\nshall not live. When the trumpet shall begin to sound, then let them go\nup into the mount.\n\n19:14. And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified\nthem. And when they had washed their garments,\n\n19:15. He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not\nnear your wives.\n\n19:16. And now the third day was come, and the morning appeared: and\nbehold thunders began to be heard, and lightning to flash, and a very\nthick cloud to cover the mount, and the noise of the trumpet sounded\nexceeding loud; and the people that was in the camp, feared.\n\n19:17. And when Moses had brought them forth to meet God, from the\nplace of the camp, they stood at the bottom of the mount.\n\n19:18. And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come\ndown upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace:\nand all the mount was terrible.\n\n19:19. And the sound of the trumpet grew by degrees louder and louder,\nand was drawn out to a greater length: Moses spoke, and God answered\nhim.\n\n19:20. And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, in the very top of the\nmount, and he called Moses unto the top thereof. And when he was gone\nup thither,\n\n19:21. He said unto him: Go down, and charge the people; lest they\nshould have a mind to pass the limits to see the Lord, and a very great\nmultitude of them should perish.\n\n19:22. The priests also that come to the Lord, let them be sanctified,\nlest he strike them.\n\n19:23. And Moses said to the Lord: The people cannot come up to Mount\nSinai: for thou didst charge, and command, saying: Set limits about the\nmount, and sanctify it.\n\n19:24. And the Lord said to him: Go, get thee down; and thou shalt come\nup, thou and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people\npass the limits, nor come up to the Lord, lest he kill them.\n\n19:25. And Moses went down to the people and told them all.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 20\n\n\nThe ten commandments.\n\n20:1. And the Lord spoke all these words:\n\n20:2. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt,\nout of the house of bondage.\n\n20:3. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.\n\n20:4. Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness\nof any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of\nthose things that are in the waters under the earth.\n\nA graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing, etc. . .All such images,\nor likenesses, are forbidden by this commandment, as are made to be\nadored and served; according to that which immediately follows, thou\nshalt not adore them, nor serve them. That is, all such as are designed\nfor idols or image-gods, or are worshipped with divine honour. But\notherwise images, pictures, or representations, even in the house of\nGod, and in the very sanctuary so far from being forbidden, are\nexpressly authorized by the word of God. See Ex. 25.15, and etc.; chap.\n38.7; Num. 21.8, 9; 1 Chron. or Paralip. 28.18, 19; 2 Chron. or\nParalip. 3.10.\n\n20:5. Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God,\nmighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the\nchildren, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:\n\n20:6. And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep\nmy commandments.\n\n20:7. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the\nLord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord\nhis God in vain.\n\n20:8. Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.\n\n20:9. Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.\n\n20:10. But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou\nshalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy\nmanservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that\nis within thy gates.\n\n20:11. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and\nall things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore\nthe Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.\n\n20:12. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived\nupon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.\n\n20:13. Thou shalt not kill.\n\n20:14. Thou shalt not commit adultery.\n\n20:15. Thou shalt not steal.\n\n20:16. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.\n\n20:17. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; neither shalt thou\ndesire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his\nass, nor any thing that is his.\n\n20:18. And all the people saw the voices and the flames, and the sound\nof the trumpet, and the mount smoking; and being terrified and struck\nwith fear, they stood afar off,\n\n20:19. Saying to Moses: Speak thou to us, and we will hear: let not the\nLord speak to us, lest we die.\n\n20:20. And Moses said to the people: Fear not; for God is come to prove\nyou, and that the dread of him might be in you, and you should not sin.\n\n20:21. And the people stood afar off. But Moses went to the dark cloud\nwherein God was.\n\n20:22. And the Lord said to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children\nof Israel: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.\n\n20:23. You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make to\nyourselves gods of gold.\n\n20:24. You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer\nupon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in\nevery place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee,\nand will bless thee.\n\n20:25. And if thou make an altar of stone unto me, thou shalt not build\nit of hewn stones; for if thou lift up a tool upon it, it shall be\ndefiled.\n\n20:26. Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy nakedness\nbe discovered.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 21\n\n\nLaws relating to Justice.\n\n21:1. These are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.\n\n21:2. If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in\nthe seventh he shall go out free for nothing.\n\n21:3. With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if\nhaving a wife, his wife also shall go out with him.\n\n21:4. But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and\ndaughters; the woman and her children shall be her master's: but he\nhimself shall go out with his raiment.\n\n21:5. And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and\nchildren, I will not go out free:\n\n21:6. His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to\nthe door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl:\nand he shall be his servant for ever.\n\nTo the gods. . .Elohim. That is, to the judges, or magistrates,\nauthorized by God.\n\n21:7. If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go\nout as bondwomen are wont to go out.\n\n21:8. If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was\ndelivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her\nto a foreign nation, if he despise her.\n\n21:9. But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her\nafter the manner of daughters.\n\n21:10. And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a\nmarriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her\nchastity.\n\n21:11. If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without\nmoney.\n\n21:12. He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to\ndeath.\n\n21:13. But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him\ninto his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee.\n\n21:14. If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait\nfor him: thou shalt take him away from my altar that he may die.\n\n21:15. He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.\n\n21:16. He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the\nguilt, shall be put to death.\n\n21:17. He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.\n\n21:18. If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone,\nor with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:\n\n21:19. If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck\nhim shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and\nfor his expenses upon the physicians.\n\n21:20. He that striketh his bondman, or bondwoman, with a rod, and they\ndie under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.\n\n21:21. But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be\nsubject to the punishment, because it is his money.\n\n21:22. If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child and she\nmiscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much\ndamage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall\naward.\n\n21:23. But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life,\n\n21:24. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,\n\n21:25. Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.\n\n21:26. If any man strike the eye of his manservant or maidservant, and\nleave them but one eye, he shall let them go free for the eye which he\nput out.\n\n21:27. Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant,\nhe shall in like manner make them free.\n\n21:28. If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be\nstoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall\nbe quit.\n\n21:29. But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday, and the\nday before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and\nhe shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, and his\nowner also shall be put to death.\n\n21:30. And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life\nwhatsoever is laid upon him.\n\n21:31. If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under the\nlike sentence.\n\n21:32. If he assault a bondman or bondwoman, he shall give thirty\nsicles of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.\n\n21:33. If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or\nan ass fall into it,\n\n21:34. The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that\nwhich is dead shall be his own.\n\n21:35. If one man's ox gore another man's ox, and he die: they shall\nsell the live ox, and shall divide the price, and the carcass of that\nwhich died they shall part between them:\n\n21:36. But if he knew that his ox was wont to push yesterday, and the\nday before, and his master did not keep him in; he shall pay ox for ox,\nand shall take the whole carcass.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 22\n\n\nThe punishment of theft, and other trespasses. The law of lending\nwithout usury, of taking pledges of reverences to superiors, and of\npaying tithes.\n\n22:1. If any man steal an ox or a sheep, and kill or sell it: he shall\nrestore five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep.\n\n22:2. If a thief be found breaking open a house or undermining it, and\nbe wounded so as to die: he that slew him shall not be guilty of blood.\n\n22:3. But if he did this when the sun is risen, he hath committed\nmurder, and he shall die. If he have not wherewith to make restitution\nfor the theft, he shall be sold.\n\n22:4. If that which he stole be found with him, alive, either ox, or\nass, or sheep: he shall restore double.\n\n22:5. If any man hurt a field or a vineyard, and put in his beast to\nfeed upon that which is other men's: he shall restore the best of\nwhatsoever he hath in his own field, or in his vineyard, according to\nthe estimation of the damage.\n\n22:6. If a fire breaking out light upon thorns, and catch stacks of\ncorn, or corn standing in the fields, he that kindled the fire shall\nmake good the loss.\n\n22:7. If a man deliver money, or any vessel unto his friend to keep,\nand they be stolen away from him that received them: if the thief be\nfound, he shall restore double:\n\n22:8. If the thief be not known, the master of the house shall be\nbrought to the gods, and shall swear that he did not lay his hand upon\nhis neighbour's goods,\n\n22:9. To do any fraud, either in ox, or in ass, or sheep, or raiment,\nor any thing that may bring damage: the cause of both parties shall\ncome to the gods: and if they give judgment, he shall restore double to\nhis neighbour.\n\n22:10. If a man deliver ass, ox, sheep, or any beast, to his\nneighbour's custody, and it die, or be hurt, or be taken by enemies,\nand no man saw it:\n\n22:11. There shall be an oath between them, that he did not put forth\nhis hand to his neighbour's goods: and the owner shall accept of the\noath, and he shall not be compelled to make restitution.\n\n22:12. But if it were taken away by stealth, he shall make the loss\ngood to the owner.\n\n22:13. If it were eaten by a beast, let him bring to him that which was\nslain, and he shall not make restitution.\n\n22:14. If a man borrow of his neighbour any of these things, and it be\nhurt or die, the owner not being present, he shall be obliged to make\nrestitution.\n\n22:15. But if the owner be present, he shall not make restitution,\nespecially if it were hired, and came for the hire of his work.\n\n22:16. If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he\nshall endow her, and have her to wife.\n\n22:17. If the maid's father will not give her to him, he shall give\nmoney according to the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive.\n\n22:18. Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live.\n\n22:19. Whosoever copulateth with a beast; shall be put to death.\n\n22:20. He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save only to\nthe Lord.\n\n22:21. Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for\nyourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt.\n\n22:22. You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan.\n\n22:23. If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their\ncry:\n\n22:24. And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the\nsword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.\n\n22:25. If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor, that\ndwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner,\nnor oppress them with usuries.\n\n22:26. If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt\ngive it him again before sunset.\n\n22:27. For that same is the only thing, wherewith he is covered, the\nclothing of his body, neither hath he any other to sleep in: if he cry\nto me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.\n\n22:28. Thou shalt not speak ill of the gods, and the prince of thy\npeople thou shalt not curse.\n\n22:29. Thou shalt not delay to pay thy tithes and thy firstfruits: thou\nshalt give the firstborn of thy sons to me.\n\n22:30. Thou shalt do the same with the firstborn of thy oxen also and\nsheep: seven days let it be with its dam: the eighth day thou shalt\ngive it to me.\n\n22:31. You shall be holy men to me: the flesh that beasts have tasted\nof before, you shall not eat, but shall cast it to the dogs.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 23\n\n\nLaws for judges; the rest of the seventh year, and day: three principal\nfeasts to be solemnized every year; the promise of an angel, to conduct\nand protect them: idols are to be destroyed.\n\n23:1. Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou\njoin thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.\n\n23:2. Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt\nthou yield in judgment, to the opinion of the most part, to stray from\nthe truth.\n\n23:3. Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment.\n\n23:4. If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to\nhim.\n\n23:5. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lie underneath his\nburden, thou shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up with him.\n\n23:6. Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment.\n\n23:7. Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not\nput to death: because I abhor the wicked.\n\n23:8. Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and\npervert the words of the just.\n\n23:9. Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of\nstrangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.\n\n23:10. Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn\nthereof.\n\n23:11. But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and suffer it to\nrest, that the poor of thy people may eat, and whatsoever shall be\nleft, let the beasts of the field eat it: so shalt thou do with thy\nvineyard and thy oliveyard.\n\n23:12. Six days thou shalt work: the seventh day thou shalt cease, that\nthy ox and thy ass may rest: and the son of thy handmaid and the\nstranger may be refreshed.\n\n23:13. Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of\nstrange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your\nmouth.\n\n23:14. Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me.\n\n23:15. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt\nthou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the\nmonth of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of Egypt: thou shalt\nnot appear empty before me.\n\n23:16. And the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of thy work,\nwhatsoever thou hast sown in the field. The feast also in the end of\nthe year, when thou hast gathered in all thy corn out of the field.\n\n23:17. Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy\nGod.\n\n23:18. Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon leaven,\nneither shall the fat of my solemnity remain until the morning.\n\n23:19. Thou shalt carry the first-fruits of the corn of thy ground to\nthe house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of\nhis dam.\n\n23:20. Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee, and keep\nthee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have\nprepared.\n\n23:21. Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and do not think him one\nto be contemned: for he will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my\nname is in him.\n\n23:22. But if thou wilt hear hi voice, and do all that I speak, I will\nbe an enemy to thy enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee.\n\n23:23. And my angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto\nthe Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherexite, and the Chanaanite,\nand the Hevite, and the Jebuzite, whom I will destroy.\n\n23:24. Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not\ndo their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues.\n\n23:25. And you shall serve the Lord your God, that I may bless your\nbread and your waters, and may take away sickness from the midst of\nthee.\n\n23:26. There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land: I will\nfill the number of thy days.\n\n23:27. I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people\nto whom thou shalt come: and will turn the backs of all thy enemies\nbefore thee:\n\n23:28. Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the Hevite,\nand the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before thou come in.\n\n23:29. I will not cast them out from thy face in one year; lest the\nland be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against\nthee.\n\n23:30. By little and little I will drive them out from before thee,\ntill thou be increased, and dost possess the land.\n\n23:31. And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the\nPalestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the\ninhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from\nbefore you.\n\n23:32. Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods.\n\n23:33. Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps they make thee sin\nagainst me, if thou serve their gods; which, undoubtedly, will be a\nscandal to thee.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 24\n\n\nMoses writeth his law; and after offering sacrifices, sprinkleth the\nblood of the testament upon the people: then goeth up the mountain\nwhich God covereth with a fiery cloud.\n\n24:1. And he said to Moses: Come up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab\nand Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel, and you shall adore\nafar off.\n\n24:2. And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord, but they shall not\ncome nigh; neither shall the people come up with him.\n\n24:3. So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and\nall the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will\ndo all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken.\n\n24:4. And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the\nmorning, he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles\naccording to the twelve tribes of Israel.\n\nTitles. . .That is, pillars.\n\n24:5. And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered\nholocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord.\n\nHolocausts. . .Whole burnt offerings, in which the whole sacrifice was\nconsumed with fire upon the altar.\n\n24:6. Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls; and the\nrest he poured upon the altar.\n\n24:7. And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of\nthe people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken, we\nwill do, we will be obedient.\n\n24:8. And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he\nsaid: This is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with\nyou concerning all these words.\n\n24:9. Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients\nof Israel went up:\n\n24:10. And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a\nwork of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear.\n\n24:11. Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of\nIsrael, that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and\ndrink.\n\n24:12. And the Lord said to Moses: Come up to me into the mount, and be\nthere; and I will give thee tables of stone, and the law, and the\ncommandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.\n\n24:13. Moses rose up, and his minister Josue: and Moses going up into\nthe mount of God,\n\n24:14. Said to the ancients: Wait ye here till we return to you. You\nhave Aaron and Hur with you: if any question shall arise, you shall\nrefer it to them.\n\n24:15. And when Moses was gone up, a cloud covered the mount.\n\n24:16. And the glory of the Lord dwelt upon Sinai, covering it with a\ncloud six days: and the seventh day he called him out of the midst of\nthe cloud.\n\n24:17. And the sight of the glory of the Lord, was like a burning fire\nupon the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel.\n\n24:18. And Moses entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the\nmountain: And he was there forty days and forty nights.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 25\n\n\nOfferings prescribed for making the tabernacle, the ark, the\ncandlestick, etc.\n\n25:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n25:2. Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring firstfruits to\nme: of every man that offereth of his own accord, you shall take them.\n\nFirstfruits. . .Offerings of some of the best and choicest of their\ngoods.\n\n25:3. And these are the things you must take: Gold, and silver, and\nbrass,\n\n25:4. Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and\ngoats' hair,\n\n25:5. And rams' skins dyed red, and violet skins, and setim wood:\n\nSetim wood. . .The wood of a tree that grows in the wilderness, which is\nsaid to be incorruptible.\n\n25:6. Oil to make lights: spices for ointment, and for sweetsmelling\nincense:\n\n25:7. Onyx stones, and precious stones to adorn the ephod and the\nrational.\n\nThe ephod and the rational. . .The ephod was the high priest's upper\nvestment; and the rational his breastplate, in which were twelve gems,\netc.\n\n25:8. And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the midst\nof them:\n\n25:9. According to all the likeness of the tabernacle which I will shew\nthee, and of all the vessels for the service thereof: and thus you\nshall make it:\n\n25:10. Frame an ark of setim wood, the length whereof shall be of two\ncubits and a half; the breadth, a cubit and a half; the height,\nlikewise, a cubit and a half.\n\n25:11. And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, within and\nwithout; and over it thou shalt make a golden crown round about:\n\n25:12. And four golden rings, which thou shalt put at the four corners\nof the ark: let two rings be on the one side, and two on the other.\n\n25:13. Thou shalt make bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them\nwith gold.\n\n25:14. And thou shalt put them in through the rings that are in the\nsides of the ark, that it may be carried on them:\n\n25:15. And they shall be always in the rings, neither shall they at any\ntime be drawn out of them.\n\n25:16. And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony which I will give\nthee.\n\n25:17. Thou shalt make also a propitiatory of the purest gold: the\nlength thereof shall be two cubits and a half, and the breadth a cubit\nand a half.\n\nA propitiatory. . .a covering for the ark: called a propitiatory, or\nmercy seat, because the Lord, who was supposed to sit there upon the\nwings of the cherubims, with the ark for his footstool, from thence\nshewed mercy. It is also called the oracle, ver. 18 and 20; because\nfrom thence God gave his orders and his answers.\n\n25:18. Thou shalt make also two cherubims of beaten gold, on the two\nsides of the oracle.\n\n25:19. Let one cherub be on the one side, and the other on the other.\n\n25:20. Let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their\nwings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the\nother, their faces being turned towards the propitiatory wherewith the\nark is to be covered.\n\n25:21. In which thou shalt put the testimony that I will give thee.\n\n25:22. Thence will I give orders, and will speak to thee over the\npropitiatory, and from the midst of the two cherubims, which shall be\nupon the ark of the testimony, all things which I will command the\nchildren of Israel by thee.\n\n25:23. Thou shalt make a table also of setim wood, of two cubits in\nlength, and a cubit in breadth, and a cubit and a half in height.\n\nA table. . .On which were to be placed the twelve loaves of proposition:\nor, as they are called in the Hebrew, the face bread, because they were\nalways to stand before the face of the Lord in his temple: as a figure\nof the eucharistic sacrifice and sacrament, in the church of Christ.\n\n25:24. And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold: and thou shalt\nmake to it a golden ledge round about.\n\n25:25. And to the ledge itself a polished crown, four inches high; and\nover the same another little golden crown.\n\n25:26. Thou shalt prepare also four golden rings, and shalt put them in\nthe four corners of the same table, over each foot.\n\n25:27. Under the crown shall the golden rings be, that the bars may be\nput through them, and the table may be carried.\n\n25:28. The bars also themselves thou shalt make of setim wood, and\nshalt overlay them with gold, to bear up the table.\n\n25:29. Thou shalt prepare also dishes, and bowls, censers, and cups,\nwherein the libations are to be offered, of the purest gold.\n\nLibations. . .That is, drink offerings.\n\n25:30. And thou shalt set upon the table loaves of proposition in my\nsight always.\n\n25:31. Thou shalt make also a candlestick of beaten work, of the finest\ngold, the shaft thereof, and the branches, the cups, and the bowls, and\nthe lilies going forth from it.\n\nA candlestick. . .This candlestick, with its seven lamps, which was\nalways to give light in the house of God, was a figure of the light of\nthe Holy Ghost, and his sevenfold grace, in the sanctuary of the church\nof Christ.\n\n25:32. Six branches shall come out of the sides, three out of one side,\nand three out of the other.\n\n25:33. Three cups as it were nuts to every branch, and a bowl withal,\nand a lily: and three cups likewise of the fashion of nuts in the other\nbranch, and a bowl withal, and a lily. Such shall be the work of the\nsix branches, that are to come out from the shaft:\n\n25:34. And in the candlestick itself shall be four cups in the manner\nof a nut, and at every one bowls and lilies.\n\n25:35. Bowls under two branches in three places, which together make\nsix, coming forth out of one shaft.\n\n25:36. And both the bowls and the branches shall be of the same beaten\nwork of the purest gold.\n\n25:37. Thou shalt make also seven lamps, and shalt set them upon the\ncandlestick, to give light over against.\n\n25:38. The snuffers also, and where the snuffings shall be put out,\nshall be made of the purest gold.\n\n25:39. The whole weight of the candlestick, with all the furniture\nthereof, shall be a talent of the purest gold.\n\n25:40. Look, and make it according to the pattern that was shewn thee\nin the mount.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 26\n\n\nThe form of the tabernacle with its appurtenances.\n\n26:1. And thou shalt make the tabernacle in this manner: Thou shalt\nmake ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and violet and purple, and\nscarlet twice dyed, diversified with embroidery.\n\n26:2. The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits; the\nbreadth shall be four cubits. All the curtains shall be of one measure.\n\n26:3. Five curtains shall be joined one to another, and the other five\nshall be coupled together in like manner.\n\n26:4. Thou shalt make loops of violet in the sides and tops of the\ncurtains, that they may be joined one to another.\n\n26:5. Every curtain shall have fifty loops on both sides, so set on,\nthat one loop may be against another loop, and one may be fitted to the\nother.\n\n26:6. Thou shalt make also fifty rings of gold, wherewith the veils of\nthe curtains are to be joined, that it may be made one tabernacle.\n\n26:7. Thou shalt make also eleven curtains of goats' hair, to cover the\ntop of the tabernacle.\n\n26:8. The length of one hair-curtain shall be thirty cubits; and the\nbreadth, four: the measure of all the curtains shall be equal.\n\n26:9. Five of which thou shalt couple by themselves, and the six others\nthou shalt couple one to another, so as to double the sixth curtain in\nthe front of the roof.\n\n26:10. Thou shalt make also fifty loops in the edge of one curtain,\nthat it may be joined with the other: and fifty loops in the edge of\nthe other curtain, that it may be coupled with its fellow.\n\n26:11. Thou shalt make also fifty buckles of brass, wherewith the loops\nmay be joined, that of all there may be made one covering.\n\n26:12. And that which shall remain of the curtains, that are prepared\nfor the roof, to wit, one curtain that is over and above, with the half\nthereof thou shalt cover the back parts of the tabernacle.\n\n26:13. And there shall hang down a cubit on the one side, and another\non the other side, which is over and above in the length of the\ncurtains, fencing both sides of the tabernacle.\n\n26:14. Thou shalt make also another cover to the roof of rams' skins\ndyed red: and over that again another cover of violet coloured skins.\n\n26:15. Thou shalt make also the boards of the tabernacle standing\nupright of setim wood.\n\n26:16. Let every one of them be ten cubits in length, and in breadth\none cubit and a half.\n\n26:17. In the sides of the boards shall be made two mortises, whereby\none board may be joined to another board: and after this manner shall\nall the boards be prepared.\n\n26:18. Of which twenty shall be in the south side southward.\n\n26:19. For which thou shalt cast forty sockets of silver, that under\nevery board may be put two sockets at the two corners.\n\n26:20. In the second side also of the tabernacle that looketh to the\nnorth, there shall be twenty boards,\n\n26:21. Having forty sockets of silver, two sockets shall be put under\neach board.\n\n26:22. But on the west side of the tabernacle thou shalt make six\nboards.\n\n26:23. And again other two which shall be erected in the corners at the\nback of the tabernacle.\n\n26:24. And they shall be joined together from beneath unto the top, and\none joint shall hold them all. The like joining shall be observed for\nthe two boards also that are to be put in the corners.\n\n26:25. And they shall be in all eight boards, and their silver sockets\nsixteen, reckoning two sockets for each board.\n\n26:26. Thou shalt make also five bars of setim wood, to hold together\nthe boards on one side of the tabernacle.\n\n26:27. And five others on the other side, and as many at the west side:\n\n26:28. And they shall be put along by the midst of the boards, from one\nend to the other.\n\n26:29. The boards also themselves thou shalt overlay with gold, and\nshalt cast rings of gold to be set upon them, for places for the bars\nto hold together the boardwork: which bars thou shalt cover with plates\nof gold.\n\n26:30. And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the pattern\nthat was shewn thee in the mount.\n\n26:31. Thou shalt make also a veil of violet, and purple, and scarlet\ntwice dyed, and fine twisted linen, wrought with embroidered work and\ngoodly variety:\n\n26:32. And thou shalt hang it up before four pillars of setim wood,\nwhich themselves also shall be overlaid with gold, and shall have heads\nof gold, but sockets of silver.\n\n26:33. And the veil shall be hanged on with rings, and within it thou\nshalt put the ark of the testimony, and the sanctuary and the holy of\nthe holies shall be divided with it.\n\nThe sanctuary, etc. . .That part of the tabernacle, which was without\nthe veil, into which the priests daily entered, is here called the\nsanctuary, or holy place; that part which was within the veil, into\nwhich no one but the high priest ever went, and he but once a year, is\ncalled the holy of holies, (literally, the sanctuary of the\nsanctuaries,) as being the most holy of all holy places.\n\n26:34. And thou shalt set the propitiatory upon the ark of the\ntestimony, in the holy of holies.\n\n26:35. And the table without the veil, and over against the table the\ncandlestick in the south side of the tabernacle: for the table shall\nstand in the north side.\n\n26:36. Thou shalt make also a hanging in the entrance of the tabernacle\nof violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen\nwith embroidered work.\n\n26:37. And thou shalt overlay with gold five pillars of setim wood,\nbefore which the hanging shall be drawn: their heads shall be of gold,\nand the sockets of brass.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 27\n\n\nThe altar; and the court of the tabernacle with its hangings and\npillars. Provision of oil for lamps.\n\n27:1. Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five\ncubits long, and as many broad, that is four square, and three cubits\nhigh.\n\n27:2. And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same: and\nthou shalt cover it with brass.\n\n27:3. And thou shalt make for the uses thereof pans to receive the\nashes, and tongs and fleshhooks, and firepans: all its vessels thou\nshalt make of brass.\n\n27:4. And a grate of brass in manner of a net; at the four corners of\nwhich, shall be four rings of brass,\n\n27:5. Which thou shalt put under the hearth of the altar: and the grate\nshall be even to the midst of the altar.\n\n27:6. Thou shalt make also two bars for the altar, of setim wood, which\nthou shalt cover with plates of brass:\n\n27:7. And thou shalt draw them through rings, and they shall be on both\nsides of the altar to carry it.\n\n27:8. Thou shalt not make it solid, but empty and hollow in the inside,\nas it was shewn thee in the mount.\n\n27:9. Thou shalt make also the court of the tabernacle, in the south\nside whereof southward there shall be hangings of fine twisted linen of\na hundred cubits long for one side.\n\n27:10. And twenty pillars with as many sockets of brass, the heads of\nwhich, with their engraving, shall be of silver.\n\n27:11. In like manner also on the north side there shall be hangings of\na hundred cubits long, twenty pillars, and as many sockets of brass,\nand their heads with their engraving of silver.\n\n27:12. But in the breadth of the court, that looketh to the west, there\nshall be hangings of fifty cubits, and ten pillars, and as many\nsockets.\n\n27:13. In that breadth also of the court, which looketh to the east,\nthere shall be fifty cubits.\n\n27:14. In which there shall be for one side, hangings of fifteen\ncubits, and three pillars, and as many sockets.\n\n27:15. And in the other side, there shall be hangings of fifteen\ncubits, with three pillars, and as many sockets.\n\n27:16. And in the entrance of the court there shall be made a hanging\nof twenty cubits of violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine\ntwisted linen, with embroidered work: it shall have four pillars, with\nas many sockets.\n\n27:17. All the pillars of the court round about shall be garnished with\nplates of silver, silver heads, and sockets of brass.\n\n27:18. In length the court shall take up a hundred cubits, in breadth\nfifty, the height shall be of five cubits, and it shall be made of fine\ntwisted linen, and shall have sockets of brass.\n\n27:19. All the vessels of the tabernacle for all uses and ceremonies,\nand the pins both of it and of the court, thou shalt make of brass.\n\n27:20. Command the children of Israel that they bring thee the purest\noil of the olives, and beaten with a pestle: that a lamp may burn\nalways,\n\n27:21. In the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that hangs\nbefore the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall order it, that it\nmay give light before the Lord until the morning. It shall be a\nperpetual observance throughout their successions among the children of\nIsrael.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 28\n\n\nThe holy vestments for Aaron and his sons.\n\n28:1. Take unto thee also Aaron thy brother with his sons, from among\nthe children of Israel, that they may minister to me in the priest's\noffice: Aaron, Nadab, and Abiu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.\n\n28:2. And thou shalt make a holy vesture for Aaron, thy brother, for\nglory and for beauty.\n\n28:3. And thou shalt speak to all the wise of heart, whom I have filled\nwith the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's vestments, in\nwhich he being consecrated, may minister to me.\n\n28:4. And these shall be the vestments that they shall make: A rational\nand an ephod, a tunic and a strait linen garment, a mitre and a girdle.\nThey shall make the holy vestments for thy brother Aaron and his sons,\nthat they may do the office of priesthood unto me.\n\n28:5. And they shall take gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet\ntwice dyed, and fine linen.\n\n28:6. And they shall make the ephod of gold, and violet, and purple,\nand scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, embroidered with divers\ncolours.\n\n28:7. It shall have the two edges joined in the top on both sides, that\nthey may be closed together.\n\n28:8. The very workmanship also, and all the variety of the work, shall\nbe of gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine\ntwisted linen.\n\n28:9. And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and shalt grave on them the\nnames of the children of Israel:\n\n28:10. Six names on one stone, and the other six on the other,\naccording to the order of their birth.\n\n28:11. With the work of an engraver, and the graving of a jeweller,\nthou shalt engrave them with the names of the children of Israel, set\nin gold and compassed about:\n\n28:12. And thou shalt put them in both sides of the ephod, a memorial\nfor the children of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the\nLord upon both shoulders, for a remembrance.\n\n28:13. Thou shalt make also hooks of gold.\n\n28:14. And two little chains of the purest gold, linked one to another,\nwhich thou shalt put into the hooks.\n\n28:15. And thou shalt make the rational of judgment with embroidered\nwork of divers colours, according to the workmanship of the ephod, of\ngold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted\nlinen.\n\nThe rational of judgment. . .This part of the priest's attire, which he\nwore at his breast, was called the rational of judgment; partly because\nit admonished both priest and people of their duty to God, by carrying\nthe names of all their tribes in his presence; and by the Urim and the\nThummim, that is, doctrine and truth, which were written upon it; and\npartly because it gave divine answers and oracles, as if it were\nrational and endowed with judgment.\n\n28:16. It shall be four square and doubled: it shall be the measure of\na span both in length and in breadth.\n\n28:17. And thou shalt set in it four rows of stones . In the first row\nshall be a sardius stone, and a topaz, and an emerald:\n\n28:18. In the second a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper:\n\n28:19. In the third a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst:\n\n28:20. In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl. They shall be\nset in gold by their rows.\n\n28:21. And they shall have the names of the children of Israel: with\ntwelve names shall they be engraved, each stone with the name of one\naccording to the twelve tribes.\n\n28:22. And thou shalt make on the rational chains, linked one to\nanother, of the purest gold:\n\n28:23. And two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in the two ends at\nthe top of the rational.\n\n28:24. And the golden chains thou shalt join to the rings, that are in\nthe ends thereof.\n\n28:25. And the ends of the chains themselves, thou shalt join together\nwith two hooks, on both sides of the ephod, which is towards the\nrational.\n\n28:26. Thou shalt make also two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in\nthe top parts of the rational, in the borders that are over against the\nephod, and look towards the back parts thereof.\n\n28:27. Moreover also other two rings of gold, which are to be set on\neach side of the ephod beneath, that looketh towards the nether\njoining, that the rational may be fitted with the ephod,\n\n28:28. And may be fastened by the rings thereof unto the rings of the\nephod with a violet fillet, that the joining artificially wrought may\ncontinue, and the rational and the ephod may not be loosed one from the\nother.\n\n28:29. And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the\nrational of judgment upon his breast, when he shall enter into the\nsanctuary, a memorial before the Lord for ever.\n\n28:30. And thou shalt put in the rational of judgment doctrine and\ntruth, which shall be on Aaron's breast, when he shall go in before the\nLord: and he shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his\nbreast, in the sight of the Lord always.\n\nDoctrine and Truth. . .Hebrew, Urim and Thummim: illuminations and\nperfections. These words, written on the rational, seem to signify the\nlight of doctrine and the integrity of life, with which the priests of\nGod ought to approach him.\n\n28:31. And thou shalt make the tunic of the ephod all of violet,\n\n28:32. In the midst whereof above shall be a hole for the head, and a\nborder round about it woven, as is wont to be made in the outmost parts\nof garments, that it may not easily be broken.\n\n28:33. And beneath at the feet of the same tunic, round about, thou\nshalt make as it were pomegranates, of violet, and purple, and scarlet\ntwice dyed, with little bells set between:\n\n28:34. So that there shall be a golden bell and a pomegranate, and\nagain another golden bell and a pomegranate.\n\n28:35. And Aaron shall be vested with it in the office of his ministry,\nthat the sound may be heard, when he goeth in and cometh out of the\nsanctuary, in the sight of the Lord, and that he may not die.\n\n28:36. Thou shalt make also a plate of the purest gold: wherein thou\nshalt grave with engraver's work, Holy to the Lord.\n\n28:37. And thou shalt tie it with a violet fillet, and it shall be upon\nthe mitre,\n\n28:38. Hanging over the forehead of the high priest. And Aaron shall\nbear the iniquities of those things, which the children of Israel have\noffered and sanctified, in all their gifts and offerings. And the plate\nshall be always on his forehead, that the Lord may be well pleased with\nthem.\n\n28:39. And thou shalt gird the tunic with fine linen, and thou shalt\nmake a fine linen mitre, and a girdle of embroidered work.\n\n28:40. Moreover, for the sons of Aaron thou shalt prepare linen tunics,\nand girdles and mitres for glory and beauty:\n\n28:41. And with all these things thou shalt vest Aaron thy brother, and\nhis sons with him. And thou shalt consecrate the hands of them all, and\nshalt sanctify them, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.\n\n28:42. Thou shalt make also linen breeches, to cover the flesh of their\nnakedness, from the reins to the thighs:\n\n28:43. And Aaron and his sons shall use them when they shall go into\nthe tabernacle of the testimony, or when they approach to the altar to\nminister in the sanctuary. lest being guilty of iniquity they die. It\nshall be a law for ever to Aaron, and to his seed after him.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 29\n\n\nThe manner of consecrating Aaron and other priests; the institution of\nthe daily sacrifice of two lambs, one in the morning, the other at\nevening.\n\n29:1. And thou shalt also do this, that they may be consecrated to me\nin priesthood. Take a calf from the herd, and two rams without blemish,\n\n29:2. And unleavened bread, and a cake without leaven, tempered with\noil, wafers also unleavened, anointed with oil: thou shalt make them\nall of wheaten flour.\n\n29:3. And thou shalt put them in a basket, and offer them: and the calf\nand the two rams.\n\n29:4. And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the\ntabernacle of the testimony. And when thou hast washed the father and\nhis sons with water,\n\n29:5. Thou shalt clothe Aaron with his vestments, that is, with the\nlinen garment and the tunic, and the ephod and the rational, which thou\nshalt gird with the girdle.\n\n29:6. And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and the holy plate\nupon the mitre,\n\n29:7. And thou shalt pour the oil of unction upon his head: and by this\nrite shall he be consecrated.\n\n29:8. Thou shalt bring his sons also, and shalt put on them the linen\ntunics, and gird them with a girdle:\n\n29:9. To wit, Aaron and his children, and thou shalt put mitres upon\nthem; and they shall be priests to me by a perpetual ordinance. After\nthou shalt have consecrated their hands,\n\n29:10. Thou shalt present also the calf before the tabernacle of the\ntestimony. And Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon his head,\n\n29:11. And thou shalt kill him in the sight of the Lord, beside the\ndoor of the tabernacle of the testimony.\n\n29:12. And taking some of the blood of the calf, thou shalt put it upon\nthe horns of the altar with thy finger, and the rest of the blood thou\nshalt pour at the bottom thereof.\n\n29:13. Thou shalt take also all the fat that covereth the entrails, and\nthe caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon\nthem, and shalt offer a burn offering upon the altar:\n\n29:14. But the flesh of the calf, and the hide and the dung, thou shalt\nburn abroad, without the camp, because it is for sin.\n\n29:15. Thou shalt take also one ram, upon the head whereof Aaron and\nhis sons shall lay their hands.\n\n29:16. And when thou hast killed him, thou shalt take of the blood\nthereof, and pour round about the altar.\n\n29:17. And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and having washed his\nentrails and feet, thou shalt put them upon the flesh that is cut in\npieces, and upon his head.\n\n29:18. And thou shalt offer the whole ram for a burnt offering upon the\naltar: it is an oblation to the Lord, a most sweet savour of the victim\nof the Lord.\n\n29:19. Thou shalt take also the other ram, upon whose head Aaron and\nhis sons shall lay their hands.\n\n29:20. And when thou hast sacrificed him, thou shalt take of his blood,\nand put upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and of his sons, and\nupon the thumbs and great toes of their right hand and foot, and thou\nshalt pour the blood upon the altar round about.\n\n29:21. And when thou hast taken of the blood that is upon the altar,\nand of the oil of unction, thou shalt sprinkle Aaron and his vesture,\nhis sons and their vestments. And after they and their vestments are\nconsecrated,\n\n29:22. Thou shalt take the fat of the ram, and the rump, and the fat\nthat covereth the lungs, and the caul of the liver, and the two\nkidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder, because\nit is the ram of consecration:\n\n29:23. And one roll of bread, a cake tempered with oil, a wafer out of\nthe basket of unleavened bread, which is set in the sight of the Lord:\n\n29:24. And thou shalt put all upon the hands of Aaron and of his sons,\nand shalt sanctify them elevating before the Lord.\n\n29:25. And thou shalt take all from their hands; and shalt burn them\nupon the altar for a holocaust, a most sweet savour in the sight of the\nLord, because it is his oblation.\n\n29:26. Thou shalt take also the breast of the ram, wherewith Aaron was\nconsecrated, and elevating it thou shalt sanctify it before the Lord,\nand it shall fall to thy share.\n\n29:27. And thou shalt sanctify both the consecrated breast, and the\nshoulder that thou didst separate of the ram,\n\n29:28. Wherewith Aaron was consecrated and his sons, and they shall\nfall to Aaron's share, and his sons', by a perpetual right from the\nchildren of Israel: because they are the choicest and the beginnings of\ntheir peace victims which they offer to the Lord.\n\n29:29. And the holy vesture, which Aaron shall use, his sons shall have\nafter him, that they may be anointed, and their hands consecrated in\nit.\n\n29:30. He of his sons that shall be appointed high priest in his stead,\nand that shall enter into the tabernacle of the testimony to minister\nin the sanctuary, shall wear it seven days.\n\n29:31. And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and shalt boil\nthe flesh thereof in the holy place:\n\n29:32. And Aaron and his sons shall eat it. The loaves also, that are\nin the basket, they shall eat in the entry of the tabernacle of the\ntestimony,\n\n29:33. That it may be an atoning sacrifice, and the hands of the\nofferers may be sanctified. A stranger shall not eat of them, because\nthey are holy.\n\n29:34. And if there remain of the consecrated flesh, or of the bread,\ntill the morning, thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: they shall\nnot be eaten, because they are sanctified.\n\n29:35. All that I have commanded thee, thou shalt do unto Aaron and his\nsons. Seven days shalt thou consecrate their hands:\n\n29:36. And thou shalt offer a calf for sin every day for expiation. And\nthou shalt cleanse the altar when thou hast offered the victim of\nexpiation, and shalt anoint it to sanctify it.\n\n29:37. Seven days shalt thou expiate the altar and sanctify it, and it\nshall be most holy. Every one, that shall touch it, shall be holy.\n\n29:38. This is what thou shalt sacrifice upon the altar: Two lambs of a\nyear old every day continually,\n\n29:39. One lamb in the morning, and another in the evening.\n\n29:40. With one lamb a tenth part of flour tempered with beaten oil, of\nthe fourth part of a hin, and wine for libation of the same measure.\n\n29:41. And the other lamb thou shalt offer in the evening, according to\nthe rite of the morning oblation, and according to what we have said,\nfor a savour of sweetness:\n\n29:42. It is a sacrifice to the Lord, by perpetual oblation unto your\ngenerations, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the\nLord, where I will appoint to speak unto thee.\n\n29:43. And there will I command the children of Israel, and the altar\nshall be sanctified by my glory.\n\n29:44. I will sanctify also the tabernacle of the testimony with the\naltar, and Aaron with his sons, to do the office of priesthood unto me.\n\n29:45. And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and\nwill be their God:\n\n29:46. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who have\nbrought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might abide among them, I\nthe Lord their God.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 30\n\n\nThe altar of incense: money to be gathered for the use of the\ntabernacle: the brazen laver: the holy oil of unction, and the\ncomposition of the perfume.\n\n30:1. Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood.\n\nAn altar to burn incense. . .This burning of incense was an emblem of\nprayer, ascending to God from an inflamed heart. See Ps. 140.2; Apoc.\n5.8, and 8.4.\n\n30:2. It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is,\nfour square, and two in height. Horns shall go out of the same.\n\n30:3. And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, as well the grate\nthereof, as the walls round about, and the horns. And thou shalt make\nto it a crown of gold round about,\n\n30:4. And two golden rings under the crown on either side, that the\nbars may be put into them, and the altar be carried.\n\n30:5. And thou shalt make the bars also of setim wood, and shalt\noverlay them with gold.\n\n30:6. And thou shalt set the altar over against the veil, that hangeth\nbefore the ark of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the\ntestimony is covered, where I will speak to thee.\n\n30:7. And Aaron shall burn sweet smelling incense upon it in the\nmorning. When he shall dress the lamps, he shall burn it:\n\n30:8. And when he shall place them in the evening, he shall burn an\neverlasting incense before the Lord throughout your generations.\n\n30:9. You shall not offer upon it incense of another composition, nor\noblation, and victim, neither shall you offer libations.\n\n30:10. And Aaron shall pray upon the horns thereof once a year, with\nthe blood of that which was offered for sin; and shall make atonement\nupon it in your generations. It shall be most holy to the Lord.\n\n30:11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n30:12. When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel,\naccording to their number, every one of them shall give a price for\ntheir souls to the Lord, and there shall be no scourge among them, when\nthey shall be reckoned.\n\n30:13. And this shall every one give that passeth at the naming, half a\nsicle according to the standard of the temple. A sicle hath twenty\nobols. Half a sicle shall be offered to the Lord.\n\nHalf a sicle. . .A sicle or shekel of silver, (which was also called a\nstater,) according to the standard or weight of the sanctuary, which\nwas the most just and exact, was half an ounce of silver, that is,\nabout half a crown of English money. The obol, or gerah, was about\nthree halfpence.\n\n30:14. He that is counted in the number from twenty years and upwards,\nshall give the price.\n\n30:15. The rich man shall not add to half a sicle, and the poor man\nshall diminish nothing.\n\n30:16. And the money received, which was contributed by the children of\nIsrael, thou shalt deliver unto the uses of the tabernacle of the\ntestimony, that it may be a memorial of them before the Lord, and he\nmay be merciful to their souls.\n\n30:17. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n30:18. Thou shalt make also a brazen laver with its foot to wash in:\nand thou shalt set it between the tabernacle of the testimony and the\naltar. And water being put into it:\n\n30:19. Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet in it:\n\n30:20. When they are going into the tabernacle of the testimony, and\nwhen they are to come to the altar, to offer on it incense to the Lord,\n\n30:21. Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an everlasting law to him,\nand to his seed by successions.\n\n30:22. And the Lord spoke to Moses,\n\n30:23. Saying: Take spices, of principal and chosen myrrh five hundred\nsicles, and of cinnamon half so much; that is, two hundred and fifty\nsicles, of calamus in like manner two hundred and fifty,\n\n30:24. And of cassia five hundred sicles by the weight of the\nsanctuary, of oil of olives the measure hin:\n\n30:25. And thou shalt make the holy oil of unction, an ointment\ncompounded after the art of the perfumer,\n\n30:26. And therewith thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the testimony,\nand the ark of the testament,\n\n30:27. And the table with the vessels thereof, the candlestick and\nfurniture thereof, the altars of incense,\n\n30:28. And of holocaust, and all the furniture that belongeth to the\nservice of them.\n\n30:29. And thou shalt sanctify all, and they shall be most holy: he\nthat shall touch them shall be sanctified.\n\n30:30. Thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and shalt sanctify them,\nthat they may do the office of priesthood unto me.\n\n30:31. And thou shalt say to the children of Israel: This oil of\nunction shall be holy unto me throughout your generations.\n\n30:32. The flesh of man shall not be anointed therewith, and you shall\nmake none other of the same composition, because it is sanctified, and\nshall be holy unto you.\n\n30:33. What man soever shall compound such, and shall give thereof to a\nstranger, he shall be cut off from his people.\n\n30:34. And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and\nonycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all\nshall be of equal weight.\n\n30:35. And thou shalt make incense compounded by the work of the\nperfumer, well tempered together, and pure, and most worthy of\nsanctification.\n\n30:36. And when thou hast beaten all into very small powder, thou shalt\nset of it before the tabernacle of the testimony, in the place where I\nwill appear to thee. Most holy shall this incense be unto you.\n\n30:37. You shall not make such a composition for your own uses, because\nit is holy to the Lord.\n\n30:38. What man soever shall make the like, to enjoy the smell thereof,\nhe shall perish out of his people.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 31\n\n\nBeseleel and Ooliab are appointed by the Lord to make the tabernacle,\nand the things belonging thereto. The observation of the sabbath day is\nagain commanded. And the Lord delivereth to Moses two tables written\nwith the finger of God.\n\n31:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n31:2. Behold, I have called by name Beseleel the son of Uri, the son of\nHur, of the tribe of Juda,\n\n31:3. And I have filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and\nunderstanding, and knowledge in all manner of work,\n\n31:4. To devise whatsoever may be artificially made of gold, and\nsilver, and brass,\n\n31:5. Of marble, and precious stones, and variety of wood.\n\n31:6. And I have given him for his companion Ooliab, the son of\nAchisamech, of the tribe of Dan. And I have put wisdom in the heart of\nevery skilful man, that they may make all things which I have commanded\nthee,\n\n31:7. The tabernacle of the covenant, and the ark of the testimony, and\nthe propitiatory, that is over it, and all the vessels of the\ntabernacle,\n\n31:8. And the table and the vessels thereof, the most pure candlestick\nwith the vessels thereof, and the altars of incense,\n\n31:9. And of holocaust, and all their vessels, the laver with its foot,\n\n31:10. The holy vestments in the ministry for Aaron the priest, and for\nhis sons, that they may execute their office, about the sacred things:\n\n31:11. The oil of unction, and the incense of spices in the sanctuary,\nall things which I have commanded thee, shall they make.\n\n31:12. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n31:13. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See\nthat you keep my sabbath; because it is a sign between me and you in\nyour generations that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctify\nyou.\n\n31:14. keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall\nprofane it, shall be put to death: he that shall do any work in it, his\nsoul shall perish out of the midst of his people.\n\n31:15. Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the sabbath,\nthe rest holy to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work on this\nday, shall die.\n\n31:16. Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate it in\ntheir generations. It is an everlasting covenant\n\n31:17. Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For\nin six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he\nceased from work.\n\n31:18. And the Lord, when he had ended these words in Mount Sinai, gave\nto Moses two stone tables of testimony, written with the finger of God.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 32\n\n\nThe people fall into idolatry. Moses prayeth for them. He breaketh the\ntables: destroyeth the idol: blameth Aaron, and causeth many of the\nidolaters to be slain.\n\n32:1. And the people seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the\nmount, gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods,\nthat may go before us: For as to this Moses, the man that brought us\nout of the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him.\n\n32:2. And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earrings from the ears of\nyour wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me.\n\n32:3. And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings\nto Aaron.\n\n32:4. And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders'\nwork, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy\ngods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.\n\n32:5. And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and made\nproclamation by a crier's voice, saying To morrow is the solemnity of\nthe Lord.\n\n32:6. And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and peace\nvictims, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to\nplay.\n\n32:7. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy\npeople, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned.\n\n32:8. They have quickly strayed from the way which thou didst shew\nthem: and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored\nit, and sacrificing victims to it, have said: These are thy gods, O\nIsrael, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.\n\n32:9. And again the Lord said to Moses: I see that this people is\nstiffnecked:\n\n32:10. Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and\nthat I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation.\n\n32:11. But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why, O Lord, is thy\nindignation enkindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of\nthe land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand?\n\n32:12. Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee: He craftily brought\nthem out, that he might kill them in the mountains, and destroy them\nfrom the earth: let thy anger cease, and be appeased upon the\nwickedness of thy people.\n\n32:13. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou\nsworest by thy own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars\nof heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to\nyour seed, and you shall possess it for ever:\n\n32:14. And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had\nspoken against his people.\n\n32:15. And Moses returned from the mount, carrying the two tables of\nthe testimony in his hand, written on both sides,\n\n32:16. And made by the work of God; the writing also of God was graven\nin the tables.\n\n32:17. And Josue hearing the noise of the people shouting, said to\nMoses: The noise of battle is heard in the camp.\n\n32:18. But he answered: It is not the cry of men encouraging to fight,\nnor the shout of men compelling to flee: but I hear the voice of\nsingers.\n\n32:19. And when he came nigh to the camp, he saw the calf, and the\ndances: and being very angry, he threw the tables out of his hand, and\nbroke them at the foot of the mount:\n\n32:20. And laying hold of the calf which they had made, he burnt it,\nand beat it to powder, which he strewed into water, and gave thereof to\nthe children of Israel to drink.\n\n32:21. And he said to Aaron: What has this people done to thee, that\nthou shouldst bring upon them a most heinous sin?\n\n32:22. And he answered him: Let not my lord be offended; for thou\nknowest this people, that they are prone to evil.\n\n32:23. They said to me: make us gods, that may go before us; for as to\nthis Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not\nwhat is befallen him.\n\n32:24. And I said to them: Which of you hath any gold? and they took\nand brought it to me; and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came\nout.\n\n32:25. And when Moses saw that the people were naked, (for Aaron had\nstripped them by occasion of the shame of the filth, and had set them\nnaked among their enemies)\n\nNaked. . .Having lost not only their gold, and their honour, but what\nwas worst of all, being stripped also of the grace of God, and having\nlost him.--The shame of the filth. . .That is, of the idol, which they\nhad taken for their god. It is the usual phrase of the scripture to\ncall idols filth and abominations.\n\n32:26. Then standing in the gate of the camp, he said: If any man be on\nthe Lord's side, let him join with me. And all the sons of Levi\ngathered themselves together unto him:\n\n32:27. And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Put\nevery man his sword upon his thigh: go, and return from gate to gate\nthrough the midst of the camp, and let every man kill his brother, and\nfriend, and neighbour.\n\n32:28. And the sons of Levi did according to the words of Moses, and\nthere were slain that day about three and twenty thousand men.\n\n32:29. And Moses said: You have consecrated your hands this day to the\nLord, every man in his son and in his brother, that a blessing may be\ngiven to you.\n\n32:30. And when the next day was come, Moses spoke to the people: You\nhave sinned a very great sin: I will go up to the Lord, if by any means\nI may be able to entreat him for your crime.\n\n32:31. And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people\nhath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of\ngold: either forgive them this trespass,\n\n32:32. Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast\nwritten.\n\n32:33. And the Lord answered him: He that hath sinned against me, him\nwill I strike out of my book:\n\n32:34. But go thou, and lead this people whither I have told thee: my\nangel shall go before thee. And I in the day of revenge will visit this\nsin also of theirs.\n\n32:35. The Lord therefore struck the people for the guilt, on occasion\nof the calf which Aaron had made.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 33\n\n\nThe people mourn for their sin. Moses pitcheth the tabernacle without\nthe camp. He converseth familiarly with God. Desireth to see his glory.\n\n33:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee up from this\nplace, thou and thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of\nEgypt, into the land concerning which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and\nJacob, saying: To thy seed I will give it:\n\n33:2. And I will send an angel before thee, that I may cast out the\nChanaanite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and\nthe Hevite, and the Jebusite,\n\n33:3. That thou mayst enter into the land that floweth with milk and\nhoney. For I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiffnecked\npeople; lest I destroy thee in the way.\n\n33:4. And the people hearing these very bad tidings, mourned: and no\nman put on his ornaments according to custom.\n\n33:5. And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the children of Israel: Thou\nart a stiffnecked people, once I shall come up in the midst of thee,\nand shall destroy thee. Now presently lay aside thy ornaments, that I\nmay know what to do to thee.\n\n33:6. So the children of Israel laid aside their ornaments by Mount\nHoreb.\n\n33:7. Moses also taking the tabernacle, pitched it without the camp\nafar off, and called the name thereof, The tabernacle of the covenant.\nAnd all the people, that had any question, went forth to the tabernacle\nof the covenant, without the camp.\n\n33:8. And when Moses went forth to the tabernacle, all the people rose\nup, and every one stood in the door of his pavilion, and they beheld\nthe back of Moses, till he went into the tabernacle.\n\n33:9. And when he was gone into the tabernacle of the covenant, the\npillar of the cloud came down, and stood at the door, and he spoke with\nMoses.\n\n33:10. And all saw that the pillar of the cloud stood at the door of\nthe tabernacle. And they stood and worshipped at the doors of their\ntent.\n\n33:11. And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man is wont to\nspeak to his friend. And when he returned into the camp, his servant\nJosue, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from the tabernacle.\n\nFace to face. . .That is, in a most familiar manner. Though as we learn\nfrom this very chapter, Moses could not see the face of the Lord.\n\n33:12. And Moses said to the Lord: Thou commandest me to lead forth\nthis people; and thou dost not let me know whom thou wilt send with me,\nespecially whereas thou hast said: I know thee by name, and thou hast\nfound favour in my sight.\n\nI know thee by name. . .In the language of the scriptures, God is said\nto know such as he approves and loves: and to know by name, those whom\nhe favours in a most singular manner, as he did his servant Moses.\n\n33:13. If therefore I have found favour in thy sight, shew me thy face,\nthat I may know thee, and may find grace before thy eyes: look upon thy\npeople this nation.\n\n33:14. And the Lord said: My face shall go before thee, and I will give\nthee rest.\n\n33:15. And Moses said: If thou thyself dost not go before, bring us not\nout of this place.\n\n33:16. For how shall we be able to know, I and thy people, that we have\nfound grace in thy sight, unless thou walk with us, that we may be\nglorified by all people that dwell upon the earth?\n\n33:17. And the Lord said to Moses: This word also, which thou hast\nspoken, will I do; for thou hast found grace before me, and thee I have\nknown by name.\n\n33:18. And he said: Shew me thy glory.\n\n33:19. He answered: I will shew thee all good, and I will proclaim in\nthe name of the Lord before thee: and I will have mercy on whom I will,\nand I will be merciful to whom it shall please me.\n\n33:20. And again he said: Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not\nsee me, and live.\n\n33:21. And again he said: Behold there is a place with me, and thou\nshalt stand upon the rock.\n\n33:22. And when my glory shall pass, I will set thee in a hole of the\nrock, and protect thee with my righthand till I pass:\n\n33:23. And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts:\nbut my face thou canst not see.\n\nSee my back parts. . .The Lord by his angel, usually spoke to Moses in\nthe pillar of the cloud; so that he could not see the glory of him that\nspoke familiarly with him. In the vision here mentioned he was allowed\nto see something of him, in an assumed corporeal form: not in the face,\nthe rays of which were too bright for mortal eye to bear, but to view\nhim as it were behind, when his face was turned from him.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 34\n\n\nThe tables are renewed: all society with the Chanaanites is forbid:\nsome precepts concerning the firstborn, the sabbath, and other feasts:\nafter forty days' fast, Moses returneth to the people with the\ncommandments, and his face appearing horned with rays of light, he\ncovereth it, whensoever he speaketh to the people.\n\n34:1. And after this he said: Hew thee two tables of stone like unto\nthe former, and I will write upon them the words, which were in the\ntables, which thou brokest.\n\n34:2. Be ready in the morning, that thou mayst forthwith go up into\nMount Sinai, and thou shalt stand with me upon the top of the mount.\n\n34:3. Let no man go up with thee, and let not any man be seen\nthroughout all the mount; neither let the oxen nor the sheep feed over\nagainst it.\n\n34:4. Then he cut out two tables of stone, such as had been before; and\nrising very early he went up into the Mount Sinai, as the Lord had\ncommanded him, carrying with him the tables.\n\n34:5. And when the Lord was come down in a cloud, Moses stood with him,\ncalling upon the name of the Lord.\n\n34:6. And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God,\nmerciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true,\n\n34:7. Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and\nwickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. Who\nrenderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the\ngrandchildren unto the third and fourth generation.\n\n34:8. And Moses making haste, bowed down prostrate unto the earth, and\nadoring,\n\n34:9. Said: If I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, I beseech thee\nthat thou wilt go with us, (for it is a stiffnecked people) and take\naway our iniquities and sin, and possess us.\n\n34:10. The Lord answered: I will make a covenant in the sight of all, I\nwill do signs such as were never seen upon the earth, nor in any\nnations; that this people, in the midst of whom thou art, may see the\nterrible work of the Lord which I will do.\n\n34:11. Observe all things which this day I command thee: I myself will\ndrive out before thy face the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the\nHethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite.\n\n34:12. Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of\nthat land, which may be thy ruin:\n\n34:13. But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their\ngroves:\n\n34:14. Adore not any strange god. The Lord his name is jealous, he is a\njealous God.\n\n34:15. Make no covenant with the men of those countries; lest, when\nthey have committed fornication with their gods, and have adored their\nidols, some one call thee to eat of the things sacrificed.\n\n34:16. Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son,\nlest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy\nsons also to commit fornication with their gods.\n\n34:17. Thou shalt not make to thyself any molten gods.\n\n34:18: Thou shalt keep the feast of the unleavened bread. Seven days\nshalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee in the time of the\nmonth of the new corn: for in the month of the spring time thou camest\nout from Egypt.\n\n34:19. All of the male kind that openeth the womb, shall be mine. Of\nall beasts; both of oxen and of sheep, it shall be mine.\n\n34:20. The firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a sheep: but if\nthou wilt not give a price for it, it shall be slain. The firstborn of\nthy sons thou shalt redeem: neither shalt thou appear before me empty.\n\n34:21. Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease to\nplough and to reap.\n\n34:22. Thou shalt keep the feast of weeks with the firstfruits of the\ncorn of thy wheat harvest, and the feast when the time of the year\nreturneth that all things are laid in.\n\n34:23. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear in the sight\nof the almighty Lord the God of Israel.\n\n34:24. For when I shall have taken away the nations from thy face, and\nshall have enlarged thy borders, no man shall lie in wait against thy\nland when thou shalt go up, and appear in the sight of the Lord thy God\nthrice in a year.\n\n34:25. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice upon leaven;\nneither shall there remain in the morning any thing of the victim of\nthe solemnity of the Phase.\n\n34:26. The first of the fruits of thy ground thou shalt offer in the\nhouse of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his\ndam.\n\n34:27. And the Lord said to Moses: Write thee these words, by which I\nhave made a covenant both with thee and with Israel.\n\n34:28. And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights: he\nneither ate bread nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tables the ten\nwords of the covenant.\n\n34:29. And when Moses came down from the Mount Sinai, he held the two\ntables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from\nthe conversation of the Lord.\n\nHorned. . .That is, shining, and sending forth rays of light like horns.\n\n34:30. And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses\nhorned, were afraid to come near.\n\n34:31. And being called by him, they returned, both Aaron and the\nrulers of the congregation. And after that he spoke to them,\n\n34:32. And all the children of Israel came to him: and he gave them in\ncommandment all that he had heard of the Lord on Mount Sinai.\n\n34:33. And having done speaking, he put a veil upon his face.\n\n34:34. But when he went in to the Lord, and spoke with him, he took it\naway until he came forth, and then he spoke to the children of Israel\nall things that had been commanded him.\n\n34:35. And they saw that the face of Moses when he came out was horned,\nbut he covered his face again, if at any time he spoke to them.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 35\n\n\nThe sabbath. Offerings for making the tabernacle. Beseleel and Ooliab\nare called to the work.\n\n35:1. And all the multitude of the children of Israel being gathered\ntogether, he said to them: These are the things which the Lord hath\ncommanded to be done:\n\n35:2. Six days you shall do work; the seventh day shall be holy unto\nyou, the sabbath and the rest of the Lord: he that shall do any work on\nit, shall be put to death.\n\n35:3. You shall kindle no fire in any of your habitations on the\nsabbath day.\n\n35:4. And Moses said to all the assembly of the children of Israel:\nThis is the word the Lord hath commanded, saying:\n\n35:5. Set aside with you firstfruits to the Lord. Let every one that is\nwilling and hath a ready heart, offer them to the Lord: gold, and\nsilver, and brass,\n\n35:6. Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, goats'\nhair,\n\n35:7. And rams' skins dyed red, and violet coloured skins, setim wood,\n\n35:8. And oil to maintain lights, and to make ointment, and most sweet\nincense,\n\n35:9. Onyx stones, and precious stones, for the adorning of the ephod\nand the rational.\n\n35:10. Whosoever of you is wise, let him come, and make that which the\nLord hath commanded:\n\n35:11. To wit, the tabernacle, and the roof thereof, and the cover, the\nrings, and the board-work with the bars, the pillars and the sockets:\n\n35:12. The ark and the staves, the propitiatory, and the veil that is\ndrawn before it:\n\n35:13. The table with the bars and the vessels, and the loaves of\nproposition:\n\n35:14. The candlestick to bear up the lights, the vessels thereof and\nthe lamps, and the oil for the nourishing of fires:\n\n35:15. The altar of incense, and the bars, and the oil of unction, and\nthe incense of spices: the hanging at the door of the tabernacle:\n\n35:16. The altar of holocaust, and its grate of brass, with the bars\nand vessels thereof: the laver and its foot:\n\n35:17. The curtains of the court, with the pillars and the sockets, the\nhanging in the doors of the entry.\n\n35:18. The pins of the tabernacle, and of the court, with their little\ncords:\n\n35:19. The vestments that are to be used in the ministry of the\nsanctuary, the vesture of Aaron the high priest, and of his sons, to do\nthe office of priesthood to me.\n\n35:20. And all the multitude of the children of Israel going out from\nthe presence of Moses,\n\n35:21. Offered firstfruits to the Lord with a most ready and devout\nmind, to make the work of the tabernacle of the testimony. Whatever was\nnecessary to the service and to the holy vestments,\n\n35:22. Both men and women gave bracelets and earrings, rings and\ntablets: every vessel of gold was set aside to be offered to the Lord.\n\n35:23. If any man had violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, fine\nlinen and goats' hair, ramskins dyed red, and violet coloured skins,\n\n35:24. Metal of silver and brass, they offered it to the Lord, and\nsetim wood for divers uses.\n\n35:25. The skilful women also gave such things as they had spun,\nviolet, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen,\n\n35:26. And goats' hair, giving all of their own accord.\n\n35:27. But the princes offered onyx stones, and precious stones, for\nthe ephod and the rational,\n\n35:28. And spices and oil for the lights, and for the preparing of\nointment, and to make the incense of most sweet savour.\n\n35:29. All, both men and women, with devout mind offered gifts, that\nthe works might be done which the Lord had commanded by the hand of\nMoses. All the children of Israel dedicated voluntary offerings to the\nLord.\n\n35:30. And Moses said to the children of Israel: Behold, the Lord hath\ncalled by name Beseleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe\nof Juda,\n\n35:31. And hath filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and\nunderstanding, and knowledge, and all learning,\n\n35:32. To devise and to work in gold and silver and brass,\n\n35:33. And in engraving stones, and in carpenters' work. Whatsoever can\nbe devised artificially,\n\n35:34. He hath given in his heart: Ooliab also, the son of Achisamech,\nof the tribe of Dan:\n\n35:35. Both of them hath he instructed with wisdom, to do carpenters'\nwork, and tapestry, and embroidery in blue and purple, and scarlet\ntwice dyed, and fine linen, and to weave all things, and to invent all\nnew things.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 36\n\n\nThe offerings are delivered to the workmen, the curtains, coverings,\nboards, bars, veil, pillars, and hanging are made.\n\n36:1. Beseleel therefore, and Ooliab, and every wise man, to whom the\nLord gave wisdom and understanding, to know how to work artificially,\nmade the things that are necessary for the uses of the sanctuary, and\nwhich the Lord commanded.\n\n36:2. And when Moses had called them, and every skilful man, to whom\nthe Lord had given wisdom, and such as of their own accord had offered\nthemselves to the making of the work,\n\n36:3. He delivered all the offerings of the children of Israel unto\nthem. And while they were earnest about the work, the people daily in\nthe morning offered their vows.\n\n36:4. Whereupon the workmen being constrained to come,\n\n36:5. Said to Moses: The people offereth more than is necessary.\n\n36:6. Moses therefore commanded proclamation to be made by the crier's\nvoice: Let neither man nor woman offer any more for the work of the\nsanctuary. And so they ceased from offering gifts,\n\n36:7. Because the things that were offered did suffice, and were too\nmuch.\n\n36:8. And all the men that were wise of heart, to accomplish the work\nof the tabernacle, made ten curtains of twisted fine linen, and violet,\nand purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with varied work, and the art of\nembroidering:\n\n36:9. The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the\nbreadth four: all the curtains were of the same size.\n\n36:10. And he joined five curtains, one to another, and the other five\nhe coupled one to another.\n\n36:11. He made also loops of violet in the edge of one curtain on both\nsides, and in the edge of the other curtain in like manner,\n\n36:12. That the loops might meet one against another, and might be\njoined each with the other.\n\n36:13. Whereupon also he cast fifty rings of gold, that might catch the\nloops of the curtains, and they might be made one tabernacle.\n\n36:14. He made also eleven curtains of goats' hair, to cover the roof\nof the tabernacle:\n\n36:15. One curtain was thirty cubits long, and four cubits broad: all\nthe curtains were of one measure.\n\n36:16. Five of which he joined apart, and the other six apart.\n\n36:17. And he made fifty loops in the edge of one curtain, and fifty in\nthe edge of another curtain, that they might be joined one to another.\n\n36:18. And fifty buckles of brass wherewith the roof might be knit\ntogether, that of all the curtains there might be made one covering.\n\n36:19. He made also a cover for the tabernacle of rams' skins dyed red;\nand another cover over that of violet skins.\n\n36:20. He made also the boards of the tabernacle of setim wood\nstanding.\n\n36:21. The length of one board was ten cubits; and the breadth was one\ncubit and a half.\n\n36:22. There were two mortises throughout every board, that one might\nbe joined to the other. And in this manner he made for all the boards\nof the tabernacle.\n\n36:23. Of which twenty were at the south side southward,\n\n36:24. With forty sockets of silver, two sockets were put under one\nboard on the two sides of the corners, where the mortises of the sides\nend in the corners.\n\n36:25. At that side also of the tabernacle, that looketh towards the\nnorth, he made twenty boards,\n\n36:26. With forty sockets of silver, two sockets for every board.\n\n36:27. But against the west, to wit, at that side of the tabernacle,\nwhich looketh to the sea, he made six boards,\n\n36:28. And two others at each corner of the tabernacle behind:\n\n36:29. Which were also joined from beneath unto the top, and went\ntogether into one joint. Thus he did on both sides at the corners:\n\n36:30. So there were in all eight boards, and they had sixteen sockets\nof silver, to wit, two sockets under every board.\n\n36:31. He made also bars of setim wood, five to hold together the\nboards of one side of the tabernacle,\n\n36:32. And five others to join together the boards of the other side;\nand besides these, five other bars at the west side of the tabernacle\ntowards the sea.\n\n36:33. He made also another bar, that might come by the midst of the\nboards from corner to corner.\n\n36:34. And the boards themselves he overlaid with gold casting for them\nsockets of silver. And their rings he made of gold, through which the\nbars might be drawn: and he covered the bars themselves with plates of\ngold.\n\n36:35. He made also a veil of violet, and purple, scarlet and fine\ntwisted linen, varied and distinguished with embroidery:\n\n36:36. And four pillars of setim wood, which with their heads he\noverlaid with gold, casting for them sockets of silver.\n\n36:37. He made also a hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of violet,\npurple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, with the work of an\nembroiderer.\n\n36:38. And five pillars with their heads, which he covered with gold,\nand their sockets he cast of brass.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 37\n\n\nBeseleel maketh the ark: the propitiatory, and cherubims, the table,\nthe candlestick, the lamps, and the altar of incense, and compoundeth\nthe incense.\n\n37:1. And Beseleel made also, the ark of setim wood: it was two cubits\nand a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth, and the height\nwas of one cubit and a half: and he overlaid it with the purest gold\nwithin and without.\n\n37:2. And he made to it a crown of gold round about,\n\n37:3. Casting four rings of gold at the four corners thereof: two rings\nin one side, and two in the other.\n\n37:4. And he made bars of setim wood, which he overlaid with gold,\n\n37:5. And he put them into the rings that were at the sides of the ark\nto carry it.\n\n37:6. He made also the propitiatory, that is, the oracle, of the purest\ngold, two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in\nbreadth.\n\n37:7. Two cherubims also of beaten gold, which he set on the two sides\nof the propitiatory:\n\n37:8. One cherub in the top of one side, and the other cherub in the\ntop of the other side: two cherubims at the two ends of the\npropitiatory,\n\n37:9. Spreading their wings, and covering the propitiatory, and looking\none towards the other, and towards it.\n\n37:10. He made also the table of setim wood, in length two cubits, and\nin breadth one cubit, and in height it was a cubit and a half.\n\n37:11. And he overlaid it with the finest gold, and he made to it a\ngolden ledge round about,\n\n37:12. And to the ledge itself he made a polished crown of gold, of\nfour fingers breadth, and upon the same another golden crown.\n\n37:13. And he cast four rings of gold, which he put in the four corners\nat each foot of the table,\n\n37:14. Over against the crown: and he put the bars into them, that the\ntable might be carried.\n\n37:15. The bars also themselves he made of setim wood, and overlaid\nthem with gold.\n\n37:16. And the vessels for the divers uses of the table, dishes, bowls,\nand cups, and censers of pure gold, wherein the libations are to be\noffered.\n\n37:17. He made also the candlestick of beaten work of the finest gold.\nFrom the shaft whereof its branches, its cups, and bowls, and lilies\ncame out:\n\n37:18: Six on the two sides: three branches on one side, and three on\nthe other.\n\n37:19. Three cups in manner of a nut on each branch, and bowls withal\nand lilies: and three cups of the fashion of a nut in another branch,\nand bowls withal and lilies. The work of the six branches, that went\nout from the shaft of the candlestick was equal.\n\n37:20. And in the shaft itself were four cups after the manner of a\nnut, and bowls withal at every one, and lilies:\n\n37:21. And bowls under two branches in three places, which together\nmade six branches going out from one shaft.\n\n37:22. So both the bowls, and the branches were of the same, all beaten\nwork of the purest gold.\n\n37:23. He made also the seven lamps with their snuffers, and the\nvessels where the snuffings were to be put out, of the purest gold.\n\n37:24. The candlestick with all the vessels thereof weighed a talent of\ngold.\n\n37:25. He made also the alter of incense of setim wood, being a cubit\non every side foursquare, and in height two cubits: from the corners of\nwhich went out horns.\n\n37:26. And he overlaid it with the purest gold, with its grate, and the\nsides, and the horns.\n\n37:27. And he made to it a crown of gold round about, and two golden\nrings under the crown at each side, that the bars might be put into\nthem, and the altar be carried.\n\n37:28. And the bars themselves he made also of setim wood, and overlaid\nthem with plates of gold.\n\n37:29. He compounded also the oil for the ointment of sanctification,\nand incense of the purest spices, according to the work of a perfumer.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 38\n\n\nHe maketh the altar of holocaust. The brazen laver. The court with its\npillars and hangings. The sum of what the people offered.\n\n38:1. He made also the altar of holocaust of setim wood, five cubits\nsquare, and three in height:\n\n38:2. The horns whereof went out from the corners, and he overlaid it\nwith plates of brass.\n\n38:3. And for the uses thereof, he prepared divers vessels of brass,\ncauldrons, tongs, fleshhooks, pothooks and firepans.\n\n38:4. And he made the grate thereof of brass, in manner of a net, and\nunder it in the midst of the altar a hearth,\n\n38:5. Casting four rings at the four ends of the net at the top, to put\nin bars to carry it:\n\n38:6. And he made the bars of setim wood, and overlaid them with plates\nof brass:\n\n38:7. And he drew them through the rings that stood out in the sides of\nthe altar. And the altar itself was not solid, but hollow, of boards,\nand empty within.\n\n38:8. He made also the laver of brass, with the foot thereof, of the\nmirrors of the women that watched at the door of the tabernacle.\n\n38:9. He made also the court, in the south side whereof were hangings\nof fine twisted linen of a hundred cubits.\n\n38:10. Twenty pillars of brass with their sockets, the beads of the\npillars, and the whole graving of the work, of silver.\n\n38:11. In like manner at the north side the hangings, the pillars, and\nthe sockets and heads of the pillars were of the same measure, and work\nand metal.\n\n38:12. But on that side that looketh to the west, there were hangings\nof fifty cubits, ten pillars of brass with their sockets, and the heads\nof the pillars, and all the graving of the work, of silver.\n\n38:13. Moreover, towards the east he prepared hangings of fifty cubits:\n\n38:14. Fifteen cubits of which, were on one side with three pillars,\nand their sockets:\n\n38:15. And on the other side (for between the two he made the entry of\nthe tabernacle) there were hangings equally of fifteen cubits, and\nthree pillars, and as many sockets.\n\n38:16. All the hangings of the court were woven with twisted linen.\n\n38:17. The sockets of the pillars were of brass, and their heads with\nall their gravings of silver: and he overlaid the pillars of the court\nalso with silver.\n\n38:18. And he made in the entry thereof an embroidered hanging of\nviolet, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, that was twenty cubits\nlong, and five cubits high, according to the measure of all the\nhangings of the court.\n\n38:19. And the pillars in the entry were four, with sockets of brass,\nand their heads and gravings of silver.\n\n38:20. The pins also of the tabernacle and of the court round about he\nmade of brass.\n\n38:21. These are the instruments of the tabernacle of the testimony,\nwhich were counted according to the commandment of Moses, in the\nceremonies of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son of Aaron the\npriest:\n\n38:22. Which Beseleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur of the tribe of\nJuda, had made, as the Lord commanded by Moses.\n\n38:23. Having for his companion Ooliab, the son of Achisamech, of the\ntribe of Dan: who also was an excellent artificer in wood, and worker\nin tapestry and embroidery in violet, purple, scarlet, and fine linen.\n\n38:24. All the gold that was spent in the work of the sanctuary, and\nthat was offered in gifts, was nine and twenty talents, and seven\nhundred and thirty sicles according to the standard of the sanctuary.\n\n38:25. And it was offered by them that went to be numbered, from twenty\nyears old and upwards, of six hundred and three thousand five hundred\nand fifty men able to bear arms.\n\n38:26. There were moreover a hundred talents of silver, whereof were\ncast the sockets of the sanctuary, and of the entry where the veil\nhangeth.\n\n38:27. A hundred sockets were made of a hundred talents, one talent\nbeing reckoned for every socket.\n\n38:28. And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five he made the\nheads of the pillars, which also he overlaid with silver.\n\n38:29. And there were offered of brass also seventy-two thousand\ntalents, and four hundred sicles besides,\n\n38:30. Of which were cast the sockets in the entry of the tabernacle of\nthe testimony, and the altar of brass with the grate thereof, and also\nthe vessels that belong to the use thereof.\n\n38:31. And the sockets of the court as well round about as in the entry\nthereof, and the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 39\n\n\nAll the ornaments of Aaron and his sons are made. And the whole work of\nthe tabernacle is finished.\n\n39:1. And he made, of violet and purple, scarlet and fine linen, the\nvestments for Aaron to wear when he ministered in the holy places, as\nthe Lord commanded Moses.\n\n39:2. So he made an ephod of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet\ntwice dyed, and fine twisted linen,\n\n39:3. With embroidered work, and he cut thin plates of gold, and drew\nthem small into threads, that they might be twisted with the woof of\nthe foresaid colours,\n\n39:4. And two borders coupled one to the other in the top on either\nside,\n\n39:5. And a girdle of the same colours, as the Lord had commanded\nMoses.\n\n39:6. He prepared also two onyx stones, fast set and closed in gold,\nand graven, by the art of a lapidary, with the names of the children of\nIsrael:\n\n39:7. And he set them in the sides of the ephod, for a memorial of the\nchildren of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n39:8. He made also a rational with embroidered work, according to the\nwork of the ephod, of gold, violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and\nfine twisted linen:\n\n39:9. Foursquare, double, of the measure of a span.\n\n39:10. And he set four rows of precious stones in it. In the first row\nwas a sardius, a topaz, an emerald.\n\n39:11. In the second, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper.\n\n39:12. In the third, a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst.\n\n39:13. In the fourth, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl, set and\nenclosed in gold by their rows.\n\n39:14. And the twelve stones, were engraved with the names of the\ntwelve tribes of Israel, each one with its several name.\n\n39:15. They made also in the rational little chains, linked one to\nanother, of the purest gold,\n\n39:16. And two hooks, and as many rings of gold. And they set the rings\non either side of the rational,\n\n39:17. On which rings the two golden chains should hang, which they put\ninto the hooks that stood out in the corners of the ephod.\n\n39:18. These both before and behind so answered one another, that the\nephod and the rational were bound together,\n\n39:19. Being fastened to the girdle, and strongly coupled with rings,\nwhich a violet fillet joined, lest they should flag loose, and be moved\none from the other, as the Lord commanded Moses.\n\n39:20. They made also the tunic of the ephod all of violet,\n\n39:21. And a hole for the head in the upper part at the middle, and a\nwoven border round about the hole:\n\n39:22. And beneath at the feet pomegranates of violet, purple, scarlet,\nand fine twisted linen:\n\n39:23. And little bells of the purest gold, which they put between the\npomegranates at the bottom of the tunic round about:\n\n39:24. To wit, a bell of gold, and a pomegranate, wherewith the high\npriest went adorned, when he discharged his ministry, as the Lord had\ncommanded Moses.\n\n39:25. They made also fine linen tunics with woven work for Aaron and\nhis sons:\n\n39:26. And mitres with their little crowns of fine linen:\n\n39:27. And linen breeches of fine linen:\n\n39:28. And a girdle of fine twisted linen, violet, purple, and scarlet\ntwice dyed, of embroidery work, as the Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n39:29. They made also the plate of sacred veneration of the purest\ngold, and they wrote on it with the engraving of a lapidary: The Holy\nof the Lord:\n\n39:30. And they fastened it to the mitre with a violet fillet, as the\nLord had commanded Moses.\n\n39:31. So all the work of the tabernacle and of the roof of the\ntestimony was finished: and the children of Israel did all things which\nthe Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n39:32. And they offered the tabernacle, and the roof, and the whole\nfurniture, the rings, the boards, the bars, the pillars and their\nsockets,\n\n39:33. The cover of rams' skins dyed red, and the other cover of violet\nskins,\n\n39:34. The veil, the ark, the bars, the propitiatory,\n\n39:35. The table, with the vessels thereof, and the loaves of\nproposition:\n\n39:36. The candlestick, the lamps, and the furniture of them, with the\noil:\n\n39:37. The altar of gold, and the ointment, and the incense of spices:\n\n39:38. And the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle:\n\n39:39. The altar of brass, the grate, the bars, and all the vessels\nthereof: the laver, with the foot thereof: the hangings of the court,\nand the pillars, with their sockets:\n\n39:40. The hanging in the entry of the court, and the little cords, and\nthe pins thereof. Nothing was wanting of the vessels, that were\ncommanded to be made for the ministry of the tabernacle, and for the\nroof of the covenant.\n\n39:41. The vestments also, which the priests, to wit, Aaron and his\nsons, use in the sanctuary,\n\n39:42. The children of Israel offered, as the Lord had commanded.\n\n39:43. And when Moses saw all things finished, he blessed them.\n\n\n\nExodus Chapter 40\n\n\nThe tabernacle is commanded to be set up and anointed. God filleth it\nwith his majesty.\n\n40:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n40:2. The first month, the first day of the month, thou shalt set up\nthe tabernacle of the testimony,\n\n40:3. And shalt put the ark in it, and shalt let down the veil before\nit:\n\n40:4. And thou shalt bring in the table, and set upon it the things\nthat are commanded according to the rite. The candlestick shall stand\nwith its lamps,\n\n40:5. And the altar of gold, whereon the incense is burnt before the\nark of the testimony. Thou shalt put the hanging in the entry of the\ntabernacle,\n\n40:6. And before it the altar of holocaust.\n\n40:7. The laver between the altar and the tabernacle, and thou shalt\nfill it with water.\n\n40:8. And thou shalt encompass the court with hangings, and the entry\nthereof.\n\n40:9. And thou shalt take the oil of unction and anoint the tabernacle\nwith its vessels, that they may be sanctified:\n\n40:10. The altar of holocaust and all its vessels:\n\n40:11. The laver with its foot: thou shalt consecrate all with the oil\nof unction, that they may be most holy.\n\n40:12. And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the\ntabernacle of the testimony, and having washed them with water,\n\n40:13. Thou shalt put on them the holy vestments, that they may\nminister to me, and that the unction of them may prosper to an\neverlasting priesthood.\n\n40:14. And Moses did all that the Lord had commanded.\n\n40:15. So in the first month of the second year, the first day of the\nmonth, the tabernacle was set up.\n\n40:16. And Moses reared it up, and placed the boards and the sockets\nand the bars, and set up the pillars,\n\n40:17. And spread the roof over the tabernacle, putting over it a\ncover, as the Lord had commanded.\n\n40:18. And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath,\nand the oracle above.\n\n40:19. And when he had brought the ark into the tabernacle, he drew the\nveil before it to fulfil the commandment of the Lord.\n\n40:20. And he set the table in the tabernacle of the testimony, at the\nnorth side, without the veil,\n\n40:21. Setting there in order the loaves of proposition, as the Lord\nhad commanded Moses.\n\n40:22. He set the candlestick also in the tabernacle of the testimony,\nover against the table on the south side,\n\n40:23. Placing the lamps in order, according to the precept of the\nLord.\n\n40:24. He set also the altar of gold under the roof of the testimony,\nover against the veil,\n\n40:25. And burnt upon it the incense of spices, as the Lord had\ncommanded Moses.\n\n40:26. And he put also the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of\nthe testimony,\n\n40:27. And the altar of holocaust in the entry of the testimony,\noffering the holocaust, and the sacrifices upon it, as the Lord had\ncommanded.\n\n40:28. And he set the laver between the tabernacle of the testimony and\nthe altar, filling it with water.\n\n40:29. And Moses and Aaron, and his sons, washed their hands and feet,\n\n40:30. When they went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and went to\nthe altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n40:31. He set up also the court round about the tabernacle and the\naltar, drawing the hanging in the entry thereof. After all things were\nperfected,\n\n40:32. The cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory\nof the Lord filled it.\n\n40:33. Neither could Moses go into the tabernacle of the covenant, the\ncloud covering all things, and the majesty of the Lord shining, for the\ncloud had covered all.\n\n40:34. If at any time the cloud removed from the tabernacle, the\nchildren of Israel went forward by their troops:\n\n40:35. If it hung over, they remained in the same place.\n\n40:36. For the cloud of the Lord hung over the tabernacle by day, and a\nfire by night, in the sight of all the children of Israel throughout\nall their mansions.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF LEVITICUS\n\n\n\nThis Book is called LEVITICUS, because it treats of the Offices,\nMinistries, Rites and Ceremonies of the Priests and Levites. The\nHebrews call it VAICRA, from the word with which it begins.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 1\n\n\nOf holocausts or burnt offerings.\n\n1:1. And the Lord called Moses, and spoke to him from the tabernacle of\nthe testimony, saying:\n\n1:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The\nman among you that shall offer to the Lord a sacrifice of the cattle,\nthat is, offering victims of oxen and sheep:\n\n1:3. If his offering be a holocaust, and of the herd, he shall offer a\nmale without blemish, at the door of the testimony, to make the Lord\nfavourable to him.\n\nA holocaust. . .That is, a whole burnt offering (olokauston), so called,\nbecause the whole victim was consumed with fire; and given in such\nmanner to God as wholly to evaporate, as it were, for his honour and\nglory; without having any part of it reserved for the use of man. The\nother sacrifices in the Old Testament were either offerings for sin, or\npeace offerings: and these latter again were either offered in\nthanksgiving for blessings received; or by way of prayer for new\nfavours or graces. So that sacrifices were then offered to God for four\ndifferent ends or intentions, answerable to the different obligations\nwhich man has to God: 1. By way of adoration, homage, praise, and glory\ndue to his divine majesty. 2. By way of thanksgiving for all benefits\nreceived from him. 3. By way of confessing and craving pardon for sins.\n4. By way of prayer and petition for grace and relief in all\nnecessities. In the New Law we have but one sacrifice, viz., that of\nthe body and blood of Christ: but this one sacrifice of the New\nTestament perfectly answers all these four ends; and both priest and\npeople, as often as it is celebrated, ought to join in offering it up\nfor these four ends.\n\n1:4. And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim: and it\nshall be acceptable, and help to its expiation.\n\n1:5. And he shall immolate the calf before the Lord: and the priests\nthe sons of Aaron shall offer the blood thereof, pouring it round about\nthe altar, which is before the door of the tabernacle.\n\n1:6. And when they have flayed the victim, they shall cut the joints\ninto pieces:\n\n1:7. And shall put fire on the altar, having before laid in order a\npile of wood.\n\n1:8. And they shall lay the parts that are cut out in order thereupon:\nto wit, the head, and all things that cleave to the liver;\n\n1:9. The entrails and feet being washed with water. And the priest\nshall burn them upon the altar for a holocaust, and a sweet savour to\nthe Lord.\n\n1:10. And if the offering be of the flocks, a holocaust of sheep or of\ngoats, he shall offer a male without blemish.\n\n1:11. And he shall immolate it at the side of the altar that looketh to\nthe north, before the Lord: but the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood\nthereof upon the altar round about.\n\n1:12. And they shall divide the joints, the head, and all that cleave\nto the liver: and shall lay them upon the wood, under which the fire is\nto be put.\n\n1:13. But the entrails and the feet they shall wash with water. And the\npriest shall offer it all and burn it all upon the altar for a\nholocaust, and most sweet savour to the Lord.\n\n1:14. But if the oblation of a holocaust to the Lord be of birds, of\nturtles, or of young pigeons:\n\n1:15. The priest shall offer it at the altar: and twisting back the\nneck, and breaking the place of the wound, he shall make the blood run\ndown upon the brim of the altar.\n\n1:16. But the crop of the throat, and the feathers he shall cast beside\nthe altar at the east side, in the place where the ashes are wont to be\npoured out.\n\n1:17. And he shall break the pinions thereof, and shall not cut, nor\ndivide it with a knife: and shall burn it upon the altar, putting fire\nunder the wood. It is a holocaust and oblation of most sweet savour to\nthe Lord.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 2\n\n\nOf offerings of flour, and firstfruits.\n\n2:1. When any one shall offer an oblation of sacrifice to the Lord, his\noffering shall be of fine flour: and he shall pour oil upon it, and put\nfrankincense,\n\n2:2. And shall bring it to the sons of Aaron the priests. And one of\nthem shall take a handful of the flour and oil, and all the\nfrankincense; and shall put it a memorial upon the altar for a most\nsweet savour to the Lord.\n\n2:3. And the remnant of the sacrifice shall be Aaron's, and his sons',\nholy of holies of the offerings of the Lord.\n\nHoly of holies. . .That is, most holy, as being dedicated to God, and\nset aside by his ordinance for the use of his priests.\n\n2:4. But when thou offerest a sacrifice baked in the oven of flour, to\nwit, loaves without leaven, tempered with oil, and unleavened wafers,\nanointed with oil:\n\n2:5. If thy oblation be from the fryingpan, of flour tempered with oil,\nand without leaven:\n\n2:6. Thou shalt divide it into little pieces, and\nshalt pour oil upon it.\n\n2:7. And if the sacrifice be from the gridiron, in like manner the\nflour shall be tempered with oil.\n\n2:8. And when thou offerest it to the Lord, thou shalt deliver it to\nthe hands of the priest.\n\n2:9. And when he hath offered it, he shall take a memorial out of the\nsacrifice, and burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour to the Lord.\n\n2:10. And whatsoever is left, shall be Aaron's, and his sons': holy of\nholies of the offerings of the Lord.\n\n2:11. Every oblation that is offered to the Lord shall be made without\nleaven: neither shall any leaven or honey be burnt in the sacrifice to\nthe Lord.\n\nWithout leaven or honey. . .No leaven nor honey was to be used in the\nsacrifice offered to God; to signify that we are to exclude from the\npure worship of the gospel, all double dealing and affection to carnal\npleasures.\n\n2:12. You shall offer only the firstfruits of them and gifts: but they\nshall not be put upon the altar, for a savour of sweetness.\n\n2:13. Whatsoever sacrifice thou offerest, thou shalt season it with\nsalt: neither shalt thou take away the salt of the covenant of thy God\nfrom thy sacrifice. In all thy oblations thou shalt offer salt.\n\nSalt. . .In every sacrifice salt was to be used, which is an emblem of\nwisdom and discretion, without which none of our performances are\nagreeable to God.\n\n2:14. But if thou offer a gift of the firstfruits of thy corn to the\nLord, of the ears yet green, thou shalt dry it at the fire, and break\nit small like meal; and so shalt thou offer thy firstfruits to the\nLord:\n\n2:15. Pouring oil upon it and putting on frankincense, because it is\nthe oblation of the Lord.\n\n2:16. Whereof the priest shall burn for a memorial of the gift, part of\nthe corn broken small and of the oil, and all the frankincense.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 3\n\n\nOf peace offerings.\n\n3:1. And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offerings, and he will\noffer of the herd, whether male or female: he shall offer them without\nblemish before the Lord.\n\nPeace offerings. . .Peace, in the scripture language, signifies\nhappiness, welfare or prosperity; in a word, all kind of\nblessings.--Such sacrifices, therefore, as were offered either on\noccasion of blessings received, or to obtain new favours, were called\npacific or peace offerings. In these, some part of the victim was\nconsumed with fire on the altar of God; other parts were eaten by the\npriests and by the persons for whom the sacrifice was offered.\n\n3:2. And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his victim, which shall\nbe slain in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony: and the sons\nof Aaron the priests shall pour the blood round about upon the altar.\n\n3:3. And they shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings, for an\noblation to the Lord: the fat that covereth the entrails, and all the\nfat that is within,\n\n3:4. The two kidneys with the fat wherewith the flanks are covered, and\nthe caul of the liver with the two little kidneys.\n\n3:5. And they shall burn them upon the altar, for a holocaust, putting\nfire under the wood: for an oblation of most sweet savour to the Lord.\n\n3:6. But if his oblation and the sacrifice of peace offering be of the\nflock, whether he offer male or female, they shall be without blemish.\n\n3:7. If he offer a lamb before the Lord:\n\n3:8. He shall put his hand upon the head of the victim. And it shall be\nslain in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony: and the sons of\nAaron shall pour the blood thereof round about upon the altar.\n\n3:9. And they shall offer of the victim of peace offerings, a sacrifice\nto the Lord: the fat and the whole rump,\n\n3:10. With the kidneys, and the fat that covereth the belly and all the\nvitals and both the little kidneys, with the fat that is about the\nflanks, and the caul of the liver with the little kidneys.\n\n3:11. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of\nthe fire, and of the oblation of the Lord.\n\n3:12. If his offering be a goat, and he offer it to the Lord:\n\n3:13. He shall put his hand upon the head thereof: and shall immolate\nit in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony. And the sons of\nAaron shall pour the blood thereof round about upon the altar.\n\n3:14. And they shall take of it for the food of the Lord's fire, the\nfat that covereth the belly, and that covereth all the vital parts:\n\n3:15. The two little kidneys with the caul that is upon them which is\nby the flanks, and the fat of the liver with the little kidneys.\n\n3:16. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of\nthe fire, and of a most sweet savour. All the fat shall be the Lord's.\n\n3:17. By a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your\nhabitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.\n\nFat. . .It is meant of the fat, which by the prescription of the law was\nto be offered on God's altar; not of the fat of meat, such as we\ncommonly eat.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 4\n\n\nOf offerings for sins of ignorance.\n\n4:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n4:2. Say to the children of Israel: The soul that sinneth through\nignorance, and doth any thing concerning any of the commandments of the\nLord, which he commanded not to be done:\n\nIgnorance. . .To be ignorant of what we are bound to know is sinful; and\nfor such culpable ignorance, these sacrifices, prescribed in this and\nthe following chapter, were appointed.\n\n4:3. If the priest that is anointed shall sin, making the people to\noffend, he shall offer to the Lord for his sin a calf without blemish.\n\n4:4. And he shall bring it to the door of the testimony before the\nLord: and shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall sacrifice\nit to the Lord.\n\n4:5. He shall take also of the blood of the calf: and carry it into the\ntabernacle of the testimony.\n\nThe blood. . .As the figure of the blood of Christ shed for the\nremission of our sins, and carried by him into the sanctuary of heaven.\n\n4:6. And having dipped his finger in the blood, he shall sprinkle with\nit seven times before the Lord, before the veil of the sanctuary.\n\n4:7. And he shall put some of the same blood upon the horns of the\naltar of the sweet incense most acceptable to the Lord, which is in the\ntabernacle of the testimony. And he shall pour all the rest of the\nblood at the foot of the altar of holocaust in the entry of the\ntabernacle.\n\n4:8. And he shall take off the fat of the calf for the sin offering, as\nwell that which covereth the entrails, as all the inwards:\n\n4:9. The two little kidneys, and the caul that is upon them, which is\nby the flanks, and the fat of the liver with the little kidneys:\n\n4:10. As it is taken off from the calf of the sacrifice of peace\nofferings. And he shall burn them upon the altar of holocaust.\n\n4:11. But the skin and all the flesh with the head and the feet and the\nbowels and the dung:\n\n4:12. And the rest of the body, he shall carry forth without the camp\ninto a clean place where the ashes are wont to be poured out: and he\nshall burn them upon a pile of wood. They shall be burnt in the place\nwhere the ashes are poured out.\n\n4:13. And if all the multitude of Israel shall be ignorant, and through\nignorance shall do that which is against the commandment of the Lord,\n\n4:14. And afterwards shall understand their sin: they shall offer for\ntheir sin a calf, and shall bring it to the door of the tabernacle.\n\n4:15. And the ancients of the people shall put their hands upon the\nhead thereof before the Lord. And the calf being immolated in the sight\nof the Lord:\n\n4:16. The priest that is anointed shall carry of the blood into the\ntabernacle of the testimony.\n\n4:17. And shall dip his finger in it and sprinkle it seven times before\nthe veil.\n\n4:18. And he shall put of the same blood on the horns of the altar that\nis before the Lord, in the tabernacle of the testimony. And the rest of\nthe blood he shall pour at the foot of the altar of holocaust, which is\nat the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.\n\n4:19. And all the fat thereof he shall take off, and shall burn it upon\nthe altar:\n\n4:20. Doing so with this calf, as he did also with that before. And the\npriest praying for them, the Lord will be merciful unto them.\n\n4:21. But the calf itself he shall carry forth without the camp, and\nshall burn it as he did the former calf: because it is for the sin of\nthe multitude.\n\n4:22. If a prince shall sin, and through ignorance do any one of the\nthings that the law of the Lord forbiddeth,\n\n4:23. And afterwards shall come to know his sin: he shall offer a buck\ngoat without blemish, a sacrifice to the Lord.\n\n4:24. And he shall put his hand upon the head thereof: and when he hath\nimmolated it in the place where the holocaust is wont to be slain\nbefore the Lord, because it is for sin,\n\n4:25. The priest shall dip his finger in the blood of the victim for\nsin, touching therewith the horns of the altar of holocaust, and\npouring out the rest at the foot thereof.\n\n4:26. But the fat he shall burn upon it, as is wont to be done with the\nvictims of peace offerings. And the priest shall pray for him, and for\nhis sin: and it shall be forgiven him.\n\n4:27. And if any one of the people of the land shall sin through\nignorance, doing any of those things that by the law of the Lord are\nforbidden, and offending,\n\n4:28. And shall come to know his sin: he shall offer a she goat without\nblemish.\n\n4:29. And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim that is for\nsin: and shall immolate it in the place of the holocaust.\n\n4:30. And the priest shall take of the blood with his finger, and shall\ntouch the horns of the altar of holocaust: and shall pour out the rest\nat the foot thereof.\n\n4:31. But taking off all the fat, as is wont to be taken away of the\nvictims of peace offerings, he shall burn it upon the altar, for a\nsweet savour to the Lord: and he shall pray for him, and it shall be\nforgiven him.\n\n4:32. But if he offer of the flock a victim for his sin, to wit, an ewe\nwithout blemish:\n\n4:33. He shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall immolate\nit in the place where the victims of holocausts are wont to be slain.\n\n4:34. And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger,\nand shall touch the horns of the altar of holocaust: and the rest he\nshall pour out at the foot thereof.\n\n4:35. All the fat also he shall take off, as the fat of the ram that is\noffered for peace offerings is wont to be taken away: and shall burn it\nupon the altar, for a burnt sacrifice of the Lord. And he shall pray\nfor him and his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 5\n\n\nOf other sacrifices for sins.\n\n5:1. If any one sin, and hear the voice of one swearing, and is a\nwitness either because he himself hath seen, or is privy to it: if he\ndo not utter it, he shall bear his iniquity.\n\n5:2. Whosoever toucheth any unclean thing, either that which hath been\nkilled by a beast, or died of itself, or any other creeping thing: and\nforgetteth his uncleanness, he is guilty, and hath offended.\n\n5:3. And if he touch any thing of the uncleanness of man, according to\nany uncleanness wherewith he is wont to be defiled: and having\nforgotten it, come afterwards to know it, he shall be guilty of an\noffence.\n\n5:4. The person that sweareth, and uttereth with his lips, that he\nwould do either evil or good, and bindeth the same with an oath, and\nhis word: and having forgotten it afterwards understandeth his offence,\n\n5:5. Let him do penance for his sin:\n\n5:6. And offer of the flocks an ewe lamb, or a she goat, and the priest\nshall pray for him and for his sin.\n\n5:7. But if he be not able to offer a beast, let him offer two turtles,\nor two young pigeons to the Lord, one for sin, and the other for a\nholocaust,\n\n5:8. And he shall give them to the priest: who shall offer the first\nfor sin, and twist back the head of it to the little pinions, so that\nit stick to the neck, and be not altogether broken off.\n\n5:9. And of its blood he shall sprinkle the side of the altar: and\nwhatever is left, he shall let it drop at the bottom thereof, because\nit is for sin.\n\n5:10. And the other he shall burn for a holocaust, as is wont to be\ndone. And the priest shall pray for him, and for his sin, and it shall\nbe forgiven him.\n\n5:11. And if his hand be not able to offer two turtles, or two young\npigeons, he shall offer for his sin the tenth part of an ephi of flour.\nHe shall not put oil upon it, nor put any frankincense thereon, because\nit is for sin.\n\n5:12. And he shall deliver it to the priest, who shall take a handful\nthereof, and shall burn it upon the altar for a memorial of him that\noffered it:\n\n5:13. Praying for him and making atonement. But the part that is left,\nhe himself shall have for a gift.\n\n5:14. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n5:15. If any one shall sin through mistake, transgressing the\nceremonies in those things that are sacrificed to the Lord, he shall\noffer for his offence a ram without blemish out of the flocks, that may\nbe bought for two sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary.\n\n5:16. And he shall make good the damage itself which he hath done, and\nshall add the fifth part besides, delivering it to the priest, who\nshall pray for him, offering the ram: and it shall be forgiven him.\n\n5:17. If any one sin through ignorance, and do one of those things\nwhich by the law of the Lord are forbidden, and being guilty of sin,\nunderstand his iniquity:\n\n5:18. He shall offer of the flocks a ram without blemish to the priest,\naccording to the measure and estimation of the sin. And the priest\nshall pray for him, because he did it ignorantly: And it shall be\nforgiven him,\n\n5:19. Because by mistake he trespassed against the Lord.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 6\n\n\nOblation for sins of injustice: ordinances concerning the holocausts\nand the perpetual fire: the sacrifices of the priests, and the sin\nofferings.\n\n6:1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n6:2. Whosoever shall sin, and despising the Lord, shall deny to his\nneighbour the thing delivered to his keeping, which was committed to\nhis trust; or shall by force extort any thing, or commit oppression;\n\n6:3. Or shall find a thing lost, and denying it, shall also swear\nfalsely, or shall do any other of the many things, wherein men are wont\nto sin:\n\n6:4. Being convicted of the offence, he shall restore\n\n6:5. All that he would have gotten by fraud, in the principal, and the\nfifth part besides, to the owner, whom he wronged.\n\n6:6. Moreover for his sin he shall offer a ram without blemish out of\nthe flock: and shall give it to the priest, according to the estimation\nand measure of the offence.\n\n6:7. And he shall pray for him before the Lord: and he shall have\nforgiveness for every thing in doing of which he bath sinned.\n\n6:8. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n6:9. Command Aaron and his sons: This is the law of a holocaust. It\nshall be burnt upon the altar, all night until morning: the fire shall\nbe of the same altar.\n\n6:10. The priest shall be vested with the tunick and the linen\nbreeches; and he shall take up the ashes of that which the devouring\nfire hath burnt: and putting them beside the altar,\n\n6:11. Shall put off his former vestments, and being clothed with\nothers, shall carry them forth without the camp, and shall cause them\nto be consumed to dust in a very clean place.\n\n6:12. And the fire on the altar shall always burn, and the priest shall\nfeed it, putting wood on it every day in the morning: and laying on the\nholocaust, shall burn thereupon the fat of the peace offerings.\n\n6:13. This is the perpetual fire which shall never go out on the altar.\n\nThe perpetual fire. . .This fire came from heaven, (infra. chap. 9.24,)\nand was always kept burning on the altar, as a figure of the heavenly\nfire of divine love, which ought to be always burning in the heart of a\nChristian.\n\n6:14. This is the law of the sacrifice and libations, which the\nchildren of Aaron shall offer before the Lord, and before the altar.\n\n6:15. The priest shall take a handful of the flour that is tempered\nwith oil, and all the frankincense that is put upon the flour: and he\nshall burn on the altar for a memorial of most sweet odour to the Lord.\n\n6:16. And the part of the flour that is left, Aaron and his sons shall\neat, without leaven: and he shall eat it in the holy place of the court\nof the tabernacle.\n\n6:17. And therefore it shall not be leavened, because part thereof is\noffered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord. It shall be most holy, as\nthat which is offered for sin and for trespass.\n\n6:18. The males only of the race of Aaron shall eat it. It shall be an\nordinance everlasting in your generations concerning the sacrifices of\nthe Lord: Every one that toucheth them shall be sanctified.\n\n6:19. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n6:20. This is the oblation of Aaron, and of his sons, which they must\noffer to the Lord, in the day of their anointing. They shall offer the\ntenth part of an ephi of flour for a perpetual sacrifice, half of it in\nthe morning, and half of it in the evening.\n\n6:21. It shall be tempered with oil, and shall be fried in a fryingpan.\n\n6:22. And the priest that rightfully succeedeth his father, shall offer\nit hot, for a most sweet odour to the Lord: and it shall he wholly\nburnt on the altar.\n\n6:23. For every sacrifice of the priest shall be consumed with fire:\nneither shall any man eat thereof.\n\n6:24. And the Lord spoke to Moses. saying:\n\n6:25. Say to Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the victim for sin.\nIn the place where the holocaust is offered, it shall be immolated\nbefore the Lord. It is holy of holies.\n\n6:26. The priest that offereth it, shall eat it in a holy place, in the\ncourt of the tabernacle.\n\n6:27. Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof, shall be sanctified. If\na garment be sprinkled with the blood thereof, it shall be washed in a\nholy place.\n\n6:28. And the earthen vessel, wherein it was sodden, shall be broken:\nbut if the vessel be of brass, it shall be scoured, and washed with\nwater.\n\n6:29. Every male of the priestly race shall eat of the flesh thereof,\nbecause it is holy of holies.\n\n6:30. For the victim that is slain for sin, the blood of which is\ncarried into the tabernacle of the testimony to make atonement in the\nsanctuary, shall not be eaten, but shall be burnt with fire.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 7\n\n\nOf sacrifices for trespasses and thanks offerings. No fat nor blood is\nto be eaten.\n\n7:1. This also is the law of the sacrifice for a trespass: it is most\nholy.\n\nTrespass. . .Trespasses, for which these offerings were to be made, were\nlesser offences than those for which the sin offerings were appointed.\n\n7:2. Therefore where the holocaust is immolated, the victim also for a\ntrespass shall be slain: the blood thereof shall be poured round about\nthe altar.\n\n7:3. They shall offer thereof the rump and the fat that covereth the\nentrails:\n\n7:4. The two little kidneys, and the fat which is by the flanks, and\nthe caul of the liver with the little kidneys.\n\n7:5. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the burnt\nsacrifice of the Lord for a trespass.\n\n7:6. Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy\nplace, because it is most holy.\n\n7:7. As the sacrifice for sin is offered, so is also that for a\ntrespass: the same shall be the law of both these sacrifices. It shall\nbelong to the priest that offereth it.\n\n7:8. The priest that offereth the victim of holocaust, shall have the\nskin thereof.\n\n7:9. And every sacrifice of flour that is baked in the oven, and\nwhatsoever is dressed on the gridiron, or in the fryingpan, shall be\nthe priest's that offereth it.\n\n7:10. Whether they be tempered with oil, or dry, all the sons of Aaron\nshall have one as much as another.\n\n7:11. This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that is\noffered to the Lord.\n\n7:12. If the oblation be for thanksgiving, they shall offer loaves\nwithout leaven tempered with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with\noil, and fine flour fried, and cakes tempered and mingled with oil.\n\n7:13. Moreover loaves of leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanks,\nwhich is offered for peace offerings:\n\n7:14. Of which one shall be offered to the Lord for firstfruits, and\nshall be the priest's that shall pour out the blood of the victim.\n\n7:15. And the flesh of it shall be eaten the same day: neither shall\nany of it remain until the morning.\n\n7:16. If any man by vow, or of his own accord offer a sacrifice, it\nshall in like manner be eaten the same day. And if any of it remain\nuntil the morrow, it is lawful to eat it.\n\n7:17. But whatsoever shall be found on the third day shall be consumed\nwith fire.\n\n7:18. If any man eat of the flesh of the victim of peace offerings on\nthe third day, the oblation shall be of no effect: neither shall it\nprofit the offerer. Yea rather, whatsoever soul shall defile itself\nwith such meat, shall be guilty of transgression.\n\n7:19. The flesh that hath touched any unclean thing, shall not be\neaten: but shall be burnt with fire. He that is clean shall eat of it.\n\n7:20. If any one that is defiled shall eat of the flesh of the\nsacrifice of peace offerings, which is offered to the Lord, he shall be\ncut off from his people.\n\n7:21. And he that hath touched the uncleanness of man, or of beast, or\nof any thing that can defile, and shall eat of such kind of flesh:\nshall be cut off from his people.\n\n7:22. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n7:23. Say to the children of Israel: The fat of a sheep, and of an ox,\nand of a goat you shall not eat.\n\n7:24. The fat of a carcass that hath died of itself, and of a beast\nthat was caught by another beast, you shall have for divers uses.\n\n7:25. If any man eat the fat that should be offered for the burnt\nsacrifice of the Lord, he shall perish out of his people.\n\n7:26. Moreover you shall not eat the blood of any creature whatsoever,\nwhether of birds or beasts.\n\n7:27. Every one that eateth blood, shall perish from among the people.\n\n7:28. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n7:29. Speak to the children of Israel, saying: He that offereth a\nvictim of peace offerings to the Lord, let him offer therewith a\nsacrifice also, that is, the libations thereof.\n\n7:30. He shall hold in his hands the fat of the victim, and the breast.\nAnd when he hath offered and consecrated both to the Lord, he shall\ndeliver them to the priest,\n\n7:31. Who shall burn the fat upon the altar. But the breast shall be\nAaron's and his sons'.\n\n7:32. The right shoulder also of the victim, of peace offerings shall\nfall to the priest for firstfruits.\n\n7:33. He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood, and the fat:\nhe shall have the right shoulder also for his portion.\n\n7:34. For the breast that is elevated and the shoulder that is\nseparated I have taken of the children of Israel, from off their\nvictims of peace offerings: and have given them to Aaron the priest,\nand to his sons, by a law for ever, from all the people of Israel.\n\n7:35. This is the anointing of Aaron and his sons, in the ceremonies of\nthe Lord, in the day when Moses offered them, that they might do the\noffice of priesthood,\n\n7:36. And the things that the Lord commanded to be given them by the\nchildren of Israel, by a perpetual observance in their generations.\n\n7:37. This is the law of holocaust, and of the sacrifice for sin, and\nfor trespass, and for consecration, and the victims of peace offerings:\n\n7:38. Which the Lord appointed to Moses in mount Sinai, when he\ncommanded the children of Israel, that they should offer their\noblations to the Lord in the desert of Sinai.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 8\n\n\nMoses consecrateth Aaron and his sons.\n\n8:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n8:2. Take Aaron with his sons, their vestments, and the oil of unction:\na calf for sin, two rams, a basket with unleavened bread.\n\n8:3. And thou shalt gather together all the congregation to the door of\nthe tabernacle.\n\n8:4. And Moses did as the Lord had commanded. And all the multitude\nbeing gathered together before the door of the tabernacle:\n\n8:5. He said: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded to be done.\n\n8:6. And immediately, he offered Aaron and his sons. And when he had\nwashed them,\n\n8:7. He vested the high priest with the strait linen garment, girding\nhim with the girdle, and putting on him the violet tunick: and over it\nhe put the ephod.\n\n8:8. And binding it with the girdle, he fitted it to the rational, on\nwhich was Doctrine and Truth.\n\n8:9. He put also the mitre upon his head: and upon the mitre over the\nforehead, he put the plate of gold, consecrated with sanctification, as\nthe Lord had commanded him.\n\n8:10. He took also the oil of unction, with which he anointed the\ntabernacle, with all the furniture thereof.\n\n8:11. And when he had sanctified and sprinkled the altar seven times,\nhe anointed it, and all the vessels thereof: and the laver with the\nfoot thereof, he sanctified with the oil.\n\n8:12. And he poured it upon Aaron's head: and he anointed and\nconsecrated him.\n\n8:13. And after he had offered his sons, he vested them with linen\ntunicks, and girded them with girdles: and put mitres on them as the\nLord had commanded.\n\n8:14. He offered also the calf for sin: and when Aaron and his sons had\nput their hands upon the head thereof,\n\n8:15. He immolated it: and took the blood, and dipping his finger in\nit, he touched the horns of the altar round about. Which being\nexpiated, and sanctified, he poured the rest of the blood at the bottom\nthereof.\n\n8:16. But the fat that was upon the entrails, and the caul of the\nliver, and the two little kidneys, with their fat, he burnt upon the\naltar.\n\n8:17. And the calf with the skin, and the flesh and the dung, he burnt\nwithout the camp, as the Lord had commanded.\n\n8:18. He offered also a ram for holocaust. And when Aaron and his sons\nhad put their hands upon its head:\n\n8:19. He immolated it, and poured the blood thereof round about the\naltar.\n\n8:20. And cutting the ram into pieces, the head thereof, and the\njoints, and the fat he burnt in the fire.\n\n8:21. Having first washed the entrails, and the feet, and the whole ram\ntogether he burnt upon the altar: because it was a holocaust of most\nsweet odour to the Lord, as he had commanded him.\n\n8:22. He offered also the second ram, in the consecration of priests:\nand Aaron, and his sons put their hands upon the head thereof.\n\n8:23. And when Moses had immolated it, he took of the blood thereof,\nand touched the tip of Aaron's right ear, and the thumb of his right\nhand, and in like manner also the great toe of his right foot.\n\n8:24. He offered also the sons of Aaron: and when with the blood of the\nram that was immolated, he had touched the tip of the right ear of\nevery one of them, and the thumbs of their right hands, and the great\ntoes of their right feet, the rest he poured on the altar round about.\n\n8:25. But the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that covereth the\nentrails, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys with their\nfat, and with the right shoulder, he separated.\n\n8:26. And taking out of the basket of unleavened bread, which was\nbefore the Lord, a loaf without leaven, and a cake tempered with oil\nand a wafer, he put them upon the fat, and the right shoulder:\n\n8:27. Delivering all to Aaron, and to his sons. Who having lifted them\nup before the Lord,\n\n8:28. He took them again from their hands, and burnt them upon the\naltar of holocaust: because it was the oblation of consecration, for a\nsweet odour of sacrifice to the Lord.\n\n8:29. And he took of the ram of consecration, the breast for his\nportion, elevating it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded him.\n\n8:30. And taking the ointment, and the blood that was upon the altar,\nhe sprinkled Aaron, and his vestments, and his sons, and their\nvestments with it.\n\n8:31. And when he had sanctified them in their vestments, he commanded\nthem, saying: Boil the flesh before the door of the tabernacle, and\nthere eat it. Eat ye also the loaves of consecration, that are laid in\nthe basket, as the Lord commanded me, saying: Aaron and his sons shall\neat them.\n\n8:32. And whatsoever shall be left of the flesh and the loaves, shall\nbe consumed with fire.\n\n8:33. And you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle for seven\ndays, until the day wherein the time of your consecration shall be\nexpired. For in seven days the consecration is finished:\n\n8:34. As at this present it hath been done, that the rite of the\nsacrifice might be accomplished.\n\n8:35. Day and night shall you remain in the tabernacle observing the\nwatches of the Lord, lest you die. For so it hath been commanded me.\n\n8:36. And Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord spoke by the\nhand of Moses.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 9\n\n\nAaron offereth sacrifice for himself and the people. Fire cometh from\nthe Lord upon the altar.\n\n9:1. And when the eighth day was come, Moses called Aaron and his sons,\nand the ancients of Israel, and said to Aaron:\n\n9:2. Take of the herd a calf for sin, and a ram for a holocaust, both\nwithout blemish, and offer them before the Lord.\n\n9:3. And to the children of Israel thou shalt say: Take ye a he goat\nfor sin, and a calf, and a lamb, both of a year old, and without\nblemish for a holocaust.\n\n9:4. Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings. And immolate them\nbefore the Lord, offering for the sacrifice of every one of them flour\ntempered with oil: for to day the Lord will appear to you.\n\n9:5. They brought therefore all things that Moses had commanded before\nthe door of the tabernacle: where when all the multitude stood,\n\n9:6. Moses said: This is the word, which the Lord hath commanded. Do\nit, and his glory will appear to you.\n\n9:7. And he said to Aaron: Approach to the altar, and offer sacrifice\nfor thy sin. Offer the holocaust, and pray for thyself and for the\npeople: and when thou hast slain the people's victim, pray for them, as\nthe Lord hath commanded.\n\n9:8. And forthwith Aaron, approaching to the altar, immolated the calf\nfor his sin.\n\n9:9. And his sons brought him the blood of it: and he dipped his finger\ntherein, and touched the horns of the altar, and poured the rest at the\nfoot thereof.\n\n9:10. And the fat, and the little kidneys, and the caul of the liver,\nwhich are for sin, he burnt upon the altar, as the Lord had commanded\nMoses.\n\n9:11. But the flesh and skins thereof he burnt with fire without the\ncamp.\n\n9:12. He immolated also the victim of holocaust: and his sons brought\nhim the blood thereof, which he poured round about on the altar.\n\n9:13. And the victim being cut into pieces, they brought to him the\nhead and all the members: all which he burnt with fire upon the altar.\n\n9:14. Having first washed the entrails and the feet with water.\n\n9:15. Then offering for the sin of the people, he slew the he goat: and\nexpiating the altar,\n\n9:16. He offered the holocaust.\n\n9:17. Adding in the sacrifice the libations, which are offered withal,\nand burning them upon the altar, besides the ceremonies of the morning\nholocaust.\n\n9:18. He immolated also the bullock and the ram, and peace offerings of\nthe people: and his sons brought him the blood, which he poured upon\nthe altar round about.\n\n9:19. The fat also of the bullock, and the rump of the ram, and the two\nlittle kidneys with their fat, and the caul of the liver,\n\n9:20. They put upon the breasts. And after the fat was burnt upon the\naltar,\n\n9:21. Aaron separated their breasts, and the right shoulders, elevating\nthem before the Lord, as Moses had commanded.\n\n9:22. And stretching forth his hands to the people, he blessed them.\nAnd so the victims for sin, and the holocausts, and the peace offerings\nbeing finished, he came down.\n\n9:23. And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the testimony,\nand afterwards came forth and blessed the people. And the glory of the\nLord appeared to all the multitude.\n\n9:24. And, behold, a fire, coming forth from the Lord, devoured the\nholocaust, and the fat that was upon the altar: which when the\nmultitude saw, they praised the Lord, falling on their faces.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 10\n\n\nNadab and Abiu for offering strange fire, are burnt by fire. Priests\nare forbidden to drink wine, when they enter into the tabernacle. The\nlaw of eating the holy things.\n\n10:1. And Nadab and Abiu, the sons of Aaron, taking their censers, put\nfire therein, and incense on it, offering before the Lord strange fire:\nwhich was not commanded them.\n\n10:2. And fire coming out from the Lord destroyed them: and they died\nbefore the Lord.\n\n10:3. And Moses said to Aaron: This is what the Lord hath spoken. I\nwill be sanctified in them that approach to me: and I will be glorified\nin the sight of all the people. And when Aaron heard this, he held his\npeace.\n\n10:4. And Moses called Misael and Elisaphan, the sons of Oziel, the\nuncle of Aaron, and said to them: Go and take away your brethren from\nbefore the sanctuary, and carry them without the camp.\n\n10:5. And they went forthwith and took them as they lay, vested with\nlinen tunicks, and cast them forth, as had been commanded them.\n\n10:6. And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons:\nUncover not your heads, and rend not your garments, lest perhaps you\ndie, and indignation come upon all the congregation. Let your brethren,\nand all the house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord has\nkindled.\n\n10:7. But you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle: otherwise\nyou shall perish, for the oil of the holy unction is on you. And they\ndid all things according to the precept of Moses.\n\n10:8. The Lord also said to Aaron:\n\n10:9. You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou\nnor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest\nyou die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your\ngenerations:\n\n10:10. And that you may have knowledge to discern between holy and\nunholy, between unclean and clean:\n\n10:11. And may teach the children of Israel all my ordinances which the\nLord hath spoken to them by the hand of Moses.\n\n10:12. And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons\nthat were left: Take the sacrifice that is remaining of the oblation of\nthe Lord, and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is\nholy of holies.\n\n10:13. And you shall eat it in a holy place: which is given to thee and\nthy sons of the oblations of the Lord, as it hath been commanded me.\n\n10:14. The breast also that is offered, and the shoulder that is\nseparated, you shall eat in a most clean place, thou and thy sons, and\nthy daughters with thee. For they are set aside for thee and thy\nchildren, of the victims of peace offerings of the children of Israel.\n\n10:15. Because they have elevated before the Lord the shoulder and the\nbreast, and the fat that is burnt on the altar: and they belong to thee\nand to thy sons by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded.\n\n10:16. While these things were a doing, when Moses sought for the buck\ngoat, that had been offered for sin, he found it burnt. And being angry\nwith Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, he said:\n\n10:17. Why did you not eat in the holy place the sacrifice for sin,\nwhich is most holy, and given to you, that you may bear the iniquity of\nthe people, and may pray for them in the sight of the Lord.\n\n10:18. Especially, whereas none of the blood thereof hath been carried\nwithin the holy places: and you ought to have eaten it in the\nsanctuary, as was commanded me?\n\n10:19. Aaron answered: This day hath been offered the victim for sin,\nand the holocaust before the Lord: and to me what thou seest has\nhappened. How could I eat it, or please the Lord in the ceremonies,\nhaving a sorrowful heart?\n\n10:20. Which when Moses had heard he was satisfied.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 11\n\n\nThe distinction of clean and unclean animals.\n\n11:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:\n\n11:2. Say to the children of Israel: These are the animals which you\nare to eat of all the living things of the earth.\n\nAnimals which you are to eat, etc. . .The prohibition of so many kinds\nof beasts, birds, and fishes, in the law, was ordered, 1st, to exercise\nthe people in obedience, and temperance; 2ndly, to restrain them from\nthe vices of which these animals were symbols; 3rdly, because the\nthings here forbidden were for the most part unwholesome, and not\nproper to be eaten; 4thly, that the people of God, by being obliged to\nabstain from things corporally unclean, might be trained up to seek a\nspiritual cleanness.\n\n11:3. Whatsoever hath the hoof divided, and cheweth the cud among the\nbeasts, you shall eat.\n\nHoof divided, and cheweth the cud. . .The dividing of the hoof and\nchewing of the cud, signify discretion between good and evil, and\nmeditating on the law of God; and where either of these is wanting a\nman is unclean. In like manner fishes were reputed unclean that had not\nfins and scales: that is, souls that did not raise themselves up by\nprayer and cover themselves with the scales of virtue.\n\n11:4. But whatsoever cheweth indeed the cud, and hath a hoof, but\ndivideth it not, as the camel, and others: that you shall not eat, but\nshall reckon it among the unclean.\n\n11:5. The cherogrillus which cheweth the cud, but divideth not the\nhoof, is unclean.\n\nThe cherogrillus. . .Some suppose it to be the rabbit, others the\nhedgehog. St. Jerome intimates that it is another kind of animal common\nin Palestine, which lives in the holes of rocks or in the earth. We\nchoose here, as also in the names of several other creatures that\nfollow (which are little known in this part of the world,) to keep the\nGreek or Latin names.\n\n11:6. The hare also: for that too cheweth the cud, but divideth not the\nhoof.\n\n11:7. And the swine, which, though it divideth the hoof, cheweth not\nthe cud.\n\n11:8. The flesh of these you shall not eat, nor shall you touch their\ncarcasses, because they are unclean to you.\n\n11:9. These are the things that breed in the waters, and which it is\nlawful to eat. All that hath fins, and scales, as well in the sea, as\nin the rivers, and the pools, you shall eat.\n\n11:10. But whatsoever hath not fins and scales, of those things that\nmove and live in the waters, shall be an abomination to you,\n\n11:11. And detestable. Their flesh you shall not eat: and their\ncarcasses you shall avoid.\n\n11:12. All that have not fins and scales, in the waters, shall be\nunclean.\n\n11:13. Of birds these are they which you must not eat, and which are to\nbe avoided by you: The eagle, and the griffon, and the osprey.\n\nThe griffon. . .Not the monster which the painter represent, which hath\nno being upon earth; but a bird of the eagle kind, larger than the\ncommon.\n\n11:14. And the kite, and the vulture, according to their kind.\n\n11:15. And all that is of the raven kind, according to their likeness.\n\n11:16. The ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according\nto its kind.\n\n11:17. The screech owl, and the cormorant, and the ibis.\n\n11:18. And the swan, and the bittern, and the porphyrion.\n\n11:19. The heron, and the charadroin according to its kind, the houp\nalso, and the bat.\n\n11:20. Of things that fly, whatsoever goeth upon four feet, shall be\nabominable to you.\n\n11:21. But whatsoever walketh upon four feet, but hath the legs behind\nlonger, wherewith it hoppeth upon the earth,\n\n11:22. That you shall eat: as the bruchus in its kind, the attacus, and\nophimachus, and the locust, every, one according to their kind.\n\n11:23. But of flying things whatsoever hath four feet only, shall be an\nabomination to you.\n\n11:24. And whosoever shall touch the carcasses of them, shall be\ndefiled: and shall be unclean until the evening:\n\n11:25. And if it be necessary that he carry any of these things when\nthey are dead: he shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until\nthe sun set.\n\n11:26. Every beast that hath a hoof, but divideth it not, nor cheweth\nthe cud shall be unclean: and he that toucheth it, shall be defiled.\n\n11:27. That which walketh upon hands of all animals which go on all\nfour, shall be unclean: he that shall touch their carcasses shall be\ndefiled until evening.\n\n11:28. And he that shall carry such carcasses, shall wash his clothes,\nand shall be unclean until evening: because all these things are\nunclean to you.\n\n11:29. These also shall be reckoned among unclean things, of all that\nmove upon the earth. The weasel, and the mouse, and the crocodile,\nevery one according to their kind:\n\n11:30. The shrew, and the chameleon, and the stellio, and the lizard,\nand the mole.\n\n11:31. All these are unclean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be\nunclean until the evening.\n\n11:32. And upon what thing soever any of their carcasses shall fall, it\nshall be defiled, whether it be a vessel of wood, or a garment, or\nskins or haircloths: or any thing in which work is done. They shall be\ndipped in water, and shall be unclean until the evening, and so\nafterwards shall be clean.\n\n11:33. But an earthen vessel, into which any of these shall fall, shall\nbe defiled: and therefore is to be broken.\n\n11:34. Any meat which you eat, if water from such a vessel be poured\nupon it, shall be unclean; and every liquor that is drunk out of any\nsuch vessel, shall be unclean.\n\n11:35. And upon whatsoever thing any of these dead beasts shall fall,\nit shall be unclean. Whether it be oven, or pots with feet, they shall\nbe destroyed, and shall be unclean.\n\n11:36. But fountains and cisterns, and all gatherings together of\nwaters shall be clean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be\ndefiled.\n\n11:37. If it fall upon seed corn, it shall not defile it.\n\n11:38. But if any man pour water upon the seed, and afterwards it be\ntouched by the carcasses, it shall be forthwith defiled.\n\n11:39. If any beast die, of which it is lawful for you to eat, he that\ntoucheth the carcass thereof, shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n11:40. And he that eateth or carrieth any thing thereof, shall wash his\nclothes, and shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n11:41. All that creepeth upon the earth shall be abominable: neither\nshall it be taken for meat.\n\n11:42. Whatsoever goeth upon the breast on four feet, or hath many\nfeet, or traileth on the earth, you shall not eat, because it is\nabominable.\n\n11:43. Do not defile your souls, nor touch aught thereof, lest you be\nunclean,\n\n11:44. For I am the Lord your God. Be holy because I am holy. Defile\nnot your souls by any creeping thing, that moveth upon the earth.\n\n11:45. For I am the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,\nthat I might be your God.\n\n11:46. You shall be holy, because I am holy. This is the law of beasts\nand fowls, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and\ncreepeth on the earth:\n\n11:47. That you may know the differences of the clean, and unclean, and\nknow what you ought to eat, and what to refuse.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 12\n\n\nThe purification of women after childbirth.\n\n12:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n12:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: If a\nwoman having received seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean\nseven days, according to the days of separation of her flowers.\n\n12:3. And on the eighth day the infant shall be circumcised:\n\n12:4. But she shall remain three and thirty days in the blood of her\npurification. She shall touch no holy thing: neither shall she enter\ninto the sanctuary, until the days of her purification, be fulfilled.\n\n12:5. But if she shall bear a maid child, she shall be unclean two\nweeks, according to the custom of her monthly courses. And she shall\nremain in the blood of her purification sixty-six days.\n\n12:6. And when the days of her purification are expired, for a son, or\nfor a daughter, she shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of the\ntestimony, a lamb of a year old for a holocaust, and a young pigeon or\na turtle for sin: and shall deliver them to the priest.\n\n12:7. Who shall offer them before the Lord, and shall pray for her: and\nso she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law\nfor her that beareth a man child or a maid child.\n\n12:8. And if her hand find not sufficiency, and she is not able to\noffer a lamb, she shall take two turtles, or two young pigeons, one for\na holocaust, and another for sin: and the priest shall pray for her,\nand so she shall be cleansed.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 13\n\n\nThe law concerning leprosy in men, and in garments.\n\n13:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:\n\n13:2. The man in whose skin or flesh shall arise a different colour or\na blister, or as it were something shining, that is the stroke of the\nleprosy, shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or any or of his sons.\n\n13:3. And if he see the leprosy in his skin, and the hair turned white\nand the place where the leprosy appears lower than the skin and the\nrest of the flesh: it is the stroke of the leprosy, and upon his\njudgment he shall be separated.\n\n13:4. But if there be a shining whiteness in the skin, and not lower\nthan the other flesh, and the hair be of the former colour, the priest\nshall shut him up seven days.\n\n13:5. And the seventh day he shall look on him: and if the leprosy be\ngrown no farther, and hath not spread itself in the skin, he shall shut\nhim up again other seven days.\n\n13:6. And on the seventh day, he shall look on him. If the leprosy be\nsomewhat obscure, and not spread in the skin, he shall declare him\nclean, because it is but a scab: and the man shall wash his clothes,\nand shall be clean.\n\n13:7. But, if the leprosy grow again, after he was seen by the priest\nand restored to cleanness, he shall be brought to him:\n\n13:8. And shall be condemned of uncleanness.\n\n13:9. If the stroke of the leprosy be in a man, he shall be brought to\nthe priest:\n\n13:10. And he shall view him. And when there shall be a white colour in\nthe skin, and it shall have changed the look of the hair, and the\nliving flesh itself shall appear:\n\n13:11. It shall be judged an inveterate leprosy, and grown into the\nskin. The priest therefore shall declare him unclean: and shall not\nshut him up, because he is evidently unclean.\n\n13:12. But if the leprosy spring out running about in the skin, and\ncover all the skin from the head to the feet, whatsoever falleth under\nthe sight of the eyes:\n\n13:13. The priest shall view him, and shall judge that the leprosy\nwhich he has is very clean: because it is all turned into whiteness,\nand therefore the man shall be clean.\n\n13:14. But when the live flesh shall appear in him:\n\n13:15. Then by the judgment of the priest he shall be defiled, and\nshall be reckoned among the unclean. For live flesh, if it be spotted\nwith leprosy, is unclean.\n\n13:16. And if again it be turned into whiteness, and cover all the man:\n\n13:17. The priest shall view him, and shall judge him to be clean.\n\n13:18. When also there has been an ulcer in the flesh and the skin, and\nit has been healed:\n\n13:19. And in the place of the ulcer, there appeareth a white scar, or\nsomewhat red, the man shall be brought to the priest.\n\n13:20. And when he shall see the place of the leprosy lower than the\nother flesh, and the hair turned white: he shall declare him unclean,\nfor the plague of leprosy is broken out in the ulcer.\n\n13:21. But if the hair be of the former colour, and the scar somewhat\nobscure, and be not lower than the flesh that is near it: he shall shut\nhim up seven days.\n\n13:22. And if it spread, he shall judge him to have the leprosy:\n\n13:23. But if it stay in its place, it is but the scar of an ulcer: and\nthe man shall be clean.\n\n13:24. The flesh also and skin that hath been burnt, and after it is\nhealed hath a white or a red scar:\n\n13:25. The priest shall view it, and if he see it turned white, and the\nplace thereof is lower than the other skin: he shall declare him\nunclean, because the evil of leprosy is broken out in the scar.\n\n13:26. But if the colour of the hair be not changed, nor the blemish\nlower than the other flesh, and the appearance of the leprosy be\nsomewhat obscure: he shall shut him up seven days,\n\n13:27. And on the seventh day he shall view him. If the leprosy be\ngrown farther in the skin, he shall declare him unclean.\n\n13:28. But if the whiteness stay in its place, and be not very clear,\nit is the sore of a burning: and therefore he shall be cleansed,\nbecause it is only the scar of a burning.\n\n13:29. If the leprosy break out in the head or the beard of a man or\nwoman, the priest shall see them,\n\n13:30. And if the place be lower than the other flesh, and the hair\nyellow, and thinner than usual: he shall declare them unclean, because\nit is the leprosy of the head and the beard;\n\n13:31. But if he perceive the place of the spot is equal with the flesh\nthat is near it, and the hair black: he shall shut him up seven days,\n\n13:32. And on the seventh day he shall look upon it. If the spot be not\ngrown, and the hair keep its colour, and the place of the blemish be\neven with the other flesh:\n\n13:33. The man shall be shaven all but the place of the spot: and he\nshall be shut up other seven days.\n\n13:34. If on the seventh day the evil seem to have stayed in its place,\nand not lower than the other flesh, he shall cleanse him: and his\nclothes being washed he shall be clean.\n\n13:35. But if after his cleansing the spot spread again in the skin:\n\n13:36. He shall seek no more whether the hair be turned yellow, because\nhe is evidently unclean.\n\n13:37. But if the spot be stayed, and the hair be black, let him know\nthat the man is healed: and let him confidently pronounce him clean.\n\n13:38. If a whiteness appear in the skin of a man or a woman,\n\n13:39. The priest shall view them. If he find that a darkish whiteness\nshineth in the skin, let him know that it is not the leprosy, but a\nwhite blemish, and that the man is clean.\n\n13:40. The man whose hair falleth off from his head, he is bald and\nclean:\n\n13:41. And if the hair fall from his forehead, he is bald before and\nclean.\n\n13:42. But if in the bald head or in the bald forehead there be risen a\nwhite or reddish colour:\n\n13:43. And the priest perceive this, he shall condemn him undoubtedly\nof leprosy which is risen in the bald part.\n\n13:44. Now whosoever shall be defiled with the leprosy, and is\nseparated by the judgment of the priest:\n\n13:45. Shall have his clothes hanging loose, his head bare, his mouth\ncovered with a cloth: and he shall cry out that he is defiled and\nunclean.\n\n13:46. All the time that he is a leper and unclean he shall dwell alone\nwithout the camp.\n\n13:47. A woollen or linen garment that shall have the leprosy\n\n13:48. In the warp, and the woof: or skin, or whatsoever is made of a\nskin:\n\n13:49. If it be infected with a white or red spot, it shall be\naccounted the leprosy, and shall be shewn to the priest.\n\n13:50. And he shall look upon it and shall shut it up seven days.\n\n13:51. And on the seventh day when he looketh on it again, if he find\nthat it is grown, it is a fixed leprosy. He shall judge the garment\nunclean, and every thing wherein it shall be found.\n\n13:52. And therefore it shall be burnt with fire.\n\n13:53. But if he see that it is not grown,\n\n13:54. He shall give orders, and they shall wash that part wherein the\nleprosy is: and he shall shut it up other seven days.\n\n13:55. And when he shall see that the former colour is not returned,\nnor yet the leprosy spread, he shall judge it unclean: and shall burn\nit with fire, for the leprosy has taken hold of the outside of the\ngarment, or through the whole.\n\n13:56. But if the place of the leprosy be somewhat dark, after the\ngarment is washed, he shall tear it off, and divide it from that which\nis sound.\n\n13:57. And if after this there appear in those places that before were\nwithout spot, a flying and wandering leprosy: it must be burnt with\nfire.\n\n13:58. If it cease, he shall wash with water the parts that are pure,\nthe second time: and they shall be clean.\n\n13:59. This is the law touching the leprosy of any woollen or linen\ngarment, either in the warp or woof, or any thing of skins: how it\nought to be cleaned, or pronounced unclean.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 14\n\n\nThe rites of sacrifices in cleansing the leprosy. Leprosy in houses.\n\n14:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n14:2. This is the rite of a leper, when he is to be cleansed. He shall\nbe brought to the priest:\n\n14:3. Who going out of the camp, when he shall find that the leprosy is\ncleansed,\n\n14:4. Shall command him that is to be purified, to offer for himself\ntwo living sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and cedar wood, and\nscarlet, and hyssop.\n\n14:5. And he shall command one of the sparrows to be immolated in an\nearthen vessel over living waters.\n\nLiving waters. . .That is, waters taken from a spring, brook, or river.\n\n14:6. But the other that is alive, he shall dip, with the cedar wood,\nand the scarlet and the hyssop, in the blood of the sparrow that is\nimmolated:\n\n14:7. Wherewith he shall sprinkle him that is to be cleansed seven\ntimes, that he may be rightly purified. And he shall let go the living\nsparrow, that it may fly into the field.\n\n14:8. And when the man hath washed his clothes, he shall shave all the\nhair of his body, and shall be washed with water: and being purified he\nshall enter into the camp, yet so that he tarry without his own tent\nseven days.\n\n14:9. And on the seventh day he shall shave the hair of his head, and\nhis beard and his eyebrows, and the hair of all his body. And having\nwashed again his clothes, and his body,\n\n14:10. On the eighth day, he shall take two lambs without blemish, and\nan ewe of a year old without blemish, and three tenths of flour\ntempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil apart.\n\nA sextary. . .Heb. log: a measure of liquids, which was the twelfth part\nof a hin; and held about as much as six eggs.\n\n14:11. And when the priest that purifieth the man, hath presented him,\nand all these things before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of\nthe testimony:\n\n14:12. He shall take a lamb, and offer it for a trespass offering with\nthe sextary of oil. And having offered all before the Lord,\n\n14:13. He shall immolate the lamb, where the victim for sin is wont to\nbe immolated, and the holocaust, that is, in the holy place. For as\nthat which is for sin, so also the victim for a trespass offering\npertaineth to the priest: it is holy of holies.\n\n14:14. And the priest taking of the blood of the victim that was\nimmolated for trespass, shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of\nhim that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand and the\ngreat toe of his right foot.\n\nTaking of the blood, etc. . .These ceremonies used in the cleansing of a\nleper, were mysterious and very significative. The sprinkling seven\ntimes with the blood of the little bird, the washing himself and his\nclothes, the shaving his hair and his beard, signify the means which\nare to be used in the reconciliation of a sinner, and the steps by\nwhich he is to return to God, viz., by the repeated application of the\nblood of Christ: the washing his conscience with the waters of\ncompunction: and retrenching all vanities and superfluities, by\nemploying all that is over and above what is necessary in alms deeds.\nThe sin offering, and the holocaust or burnt offering, which he was to\noffer at his cleansing, signify the sacrifice of a contrite and humble\nheart, and that of adoration in spirit and truth, with gratitude and\nthankfulness, for the forgiveness of sins, with which we are ever to\nappear before the Almighty. The touching the right ear, the thumb of\nthe right hand, and the great toe of the right foot, first with the\nblood of the victim, and then with the remainder of the oil, which had\nbeen sprinkled seven times before the Lord, signify the application of\nthe blood of Christ, and the unction of the sevenfold grace of the Holy\nGhost; to the sinner's right ear, that he may duly hearken to and obey\nthe law of God; and to his right hand and foot, that the works of his\nhands, and all the steps or affections of his soul, signified by the\nfeet, may be rightly directed to God.\n\n14:15. And he shall pour of the sextary of oil into his own left hand,\n\n14:16. And shall dip his right finger in it, and sprinkle it before the\nLord seven times.\n\n14:17. And the rest of the oil in his left hand, he shall pour upon the\ntip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his\nright hand and the great toe of his right foot, and upon the blood that\nwas shed for trespass:\n\n14:18. And upon his head.\n\n14:19. And he shall pray for him before the Lord, and shall offer the\nsacrifice for sin. Then shall he immolate the holocaust.\n\n14:20. And put it on the altar with the libations thereof: and the man\nshall be rightly cleansed.\n\n14:21. But if he be poor, and his hand cannot find the things\naforesaid: he shall take a lamb for an offering for trespass, that the\npriest may pray for him, and a tenth part of flour tempered with oil\nfor a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil:\n\n14:22. And two turtles or two young pigeons, of which one may be for\nsin, and the other for a holocaust.\n\n14:23. And he shall offer them on the eighth day of his purification to\nthe priest, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the\nLord.\n\n14:24. And the priest receiving the lamb for trespass, and the sextary\nof oil, shall elevate them together.\n\n14:25. And the lamb being immolated, he shall put of the blood thereof\nupon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the\nthumb of his right hand, and the great toe of his right foot.\n\n14:26. But he shall pour part of the oil into his own left hand,\n\n14:27. And dipping the finger of his right hand in it, he shall\nsprinkle it seven times before the Lord.\n\n14:28. And he shall touch the tip of the right ear of him that is\ncleansed, and the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his\nright foot, in the place of the blood that was shed for trespass.\n\n14:29. And the other part of the oil that is in his left hand, he shall\npour upon the head of the purified person, that he may appease the Lord\nfor him.\n\n14:30. And he shall offer a turtle, or young pigeon:\n\n14:31. One for trespass, and the other for a holocaust, with their\nlibations.\n\n14:32. This is the sacrifice of a leper, that is not able to have all\nthings that appertain to his cleansing.\n\n14:33. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:\n\n14:34. When you shall come into the land of Chanaan, which I will give\nyou for a possession, if there be the plague or leprosy in a house:\n\n14:35. He whose house it is, shall go and tell the priest, saying: It\nseemeth to me, that there is the plague of leprosy in my house,\n\n14:36. And he shall command, that they carry forth all things out of\nthe house, before he go into it, and see whether it have the leprosy,\nlet all things become unclean that are in the house. And afterwards he\nshall go in to view the leprosy of the house.\n\n14:37. And if he see in the walls thereof as it were little dints,\ndisfigured with paleness or redness, and lower than all he rest:\n\n14:38. He shall go out of the door of the house, and forthwith shut it\nup seven days,\n\n14:39. And returning on the seventh day, he shall look upon it. If he\nfind that the leprosy is spread,\n\n14:40. He shall command, that the stones wherein the leprosy is, be\ntaken out, and cast without the city into an unclean place:\n\n14:41. And that the house be scraped on the inside round about, and the\ndust of the scrapings be scattered without the city into an unclean\nplace:\n\n14:42. And that other stones be laid in the place of them that were\ntaken away, and the house be plastered with other mortar.\n\n14:43. But if after the stones be taken out, and the dust scraped off,\nand it be plastered with other earth.\n\n14:44. The priest going in perceive that the leprosy is returned, and\nthe walls full of spots, it is a lasting leprosy, and the house is\nunclean.\n\n14:45. And they shall destroy it forthwith, and shall cast the stones\nand timber thereof, and all the dust without the town into an unclean\nplace.\n\n14:46. He that entereth into the house when it is shut, shall be\nunclean until evening,\n\n14:47. And he that sleepeth in it, and eateth any thing, shall wash his\nclothes.\n\n14:48. But if the priest going in perceive that the leprosy is not\nspread in the house, after it was plastered again, he shall purify it,\nit being cured.\n\n14:49. And for the purification thereof he shall take two sparrows, and\ncedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.\n\n14:50. And having immolated one sparrow in an earthen vessel, over\nliving waters,\n\n14:51. He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet,\nand the living sparrow, and shall dip all in the blood of the sparrow\nthat is immolated, and in the living water: and he shall sprinkle the\nhouse seven times.\n\n14:52. And shall purify it as well with the blood of the sparrow, as\nwith the living water, and with the living sparrow, and with the cedar\nwood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet.\n\n14:53. And when he hath let go the sparrow to fly freely away into the\nfield, he shall pray for the house: and it shall be rightly cleansed.\n\n14:54. This is the law of every kind of leprosy and stroke.\n\n14:55. Of the leprosy of garments and houses,\n\n14:56. Of a scar and of blisters breaking out of a shining spot, and\nwhen the colours are diversely changed:\n\n14:57. That it may be known when a thing is clean or unclean.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 15\n\n\nOther legal uncleannesses.\n\n15:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:\n\n15:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: The man that\nhath an issue of seed, shall be unclean.\n\nIssue of seed shall be unclean. . .These legal uncleannesses were\ninstituted in order to give the people a horror of carnal impurities.\n\n15:3. And then shall he be judged subject to this evil, when a filthy\nhumour, at every moment, cleaveth to his flesh, and gathereth there.\n\n15:4. Every bed on which he sleepeth, shall be unclean, and every place\non which he sitteth.\n\n15:5. If any man touch his bed, he shall wash his clothes and being\nwashed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:6. If a man sit where that man hath sitten, he also shall wash his\nclothes: and being washed with water, shall be unclean until the\nevening.\n\n15:7. He that toucheth his flesh, shall wash his clothes: and being\nhimself washed with water shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:8. If such a man cast his spittle upon him that is clean, he shall\nwash his clothes: and being washed with water, he shall be unclean\nuntil the evening.\n\n15:9. The saddle on which he hath sitten shall be unclean.\n\n15:10. And whatsoever has been under him that hath the issue of seed,\nshall be unclean until the evening. He that carrieth any of these\nthings, shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, he shall\nbe unclean until the evening.\n\n15:11. Every person whom such a one shall touch, not having washed his\nhands before, shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water,\nshall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:12. If he touch a vessel of earth, it shall be broken: but if a\nvessel of wood, it shall be washed with water.\n\n15:13. If he who suffereth this disease be healed, he shall number\nseven days after his cleansing: and having washed his clothes, and all\nhis body in living water, he shall be clean.\n\n15:14. And on the eighth day he shall take two turtles, or two young\npigeons, and he shall come before the Lord, to the door of the\ntabernacle of the testimony, and shall give them to the priest.\n\n15:15. Who shall offer one for sin, and the other for a holocaust: and\nhe shall pray for him before the Lord, that he may be cleansed of the\nissue of his seed.\n\n15:16. The man from whom the seed of copulation goeth out, shall wash\nall his body with water: and he shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:17. The garment or skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water:\nand it shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:18. The woman, with whom he copulateth, shall be washed with water:\nand shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:19. The woman, who at the return of the month, hath her issue of\nblood, shall be separated seven days.\n\n15:20. Every one that toucheth her, shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:21. And every thing that she sleepeth on, or that she sitteth on in\nthe days of her separation, shall be defiled.\n\n15:22. He that toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes: and being\nhimself washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:23. Whosoever shall touch any vessel on which she sitteth, shall\nwash his clothes: and himself being washed with water, shall be defiled\nuntil the evening.\n\n15:24. If a man copulateth with her in the time of her flowers, he\nshall be unclean seven days: and every bed on which he shall sleep,\nshall be defiled.\n\n15:25. The woman that hath still issue of blood many days out of her\nordinary time, or that ceaseth not to flow after the monthly courses,\nas long as she is subject to this disease, shall be unclean, in the\nsame manner as if she were in her flowers.\n\n15:26. Every bed on which she sleepeth, and every vessel on which she\nsitteth, shall be defiled.\n\n15:27. Whosoever toucheth them shall wash his clothes: and himself\nbeing washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:28. If the blood stop and cease to run, she shall count seven days\nof her purification:\n\n15:29. And on the eighth day she shall offer for herself to the priest,\ntwo turtles, or two young pigeons, at the door of the tabernacle of the\ntestimony:\n\n15:30. And he shall offer one for sin, and the other for a holocaust,\nand he shall pray for her before the Lord, and for the issue of her\nuncleanness.\n\n15:31. You shall teach therefore the children of Israel to take heed of\nuncleanness, that they may not die in their filth, when they shall have\ndefiled my tabernacle that is among them.\n\n15:32. This is the law of him that hath the issue of seed, and that is\ndefiled by copulation.\n\n15:33. And of the woman that is separated in her monthly times, or that\nhath a continual issue of blood, and of the man that sleepeth with her.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 16\n\n\nWhen and how the high priest must enter into the sanctuary. The feast\nof expiation.\n\n16:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of\nAaron when they were slain upon their offering strange fire:\n\n16:2. And he commanded him, saying: Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he\nenter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before\nthe propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I\nwill appear in a cloud over the oracle),\n\nEnter not. . .No one but the high priest, and he but once a year, could\nenter into the sanctuary; to signify that no one could enter into the\nsanctuary of heaven, till Christ our high priest opened it by his\npassion. Heb. 10.8.\n\n16:3. Unless he first do these things. He shall offer a calf for sin,\nand a ram for a holocaust.\n\n16:4. He shall be vested with a linen tunick: he shall cover his\nnakedness with linen breeches: he shall be girded with a linen girdle,\nand he shall put a linen mitre upon his head. For these are holy\nvestments: all which he shall put on, after he is washed.\n\n16:5. And he shall receive from the whole multitude of the children of\nIsrael two buck goats for sin, and one ram for a holocaust.\n\n16:6. And when he hath offered the cattle and prayed for himself and\nfor his own house:\n\n16:7. He shall make the two buck goats to stand before the Lord in the\ndoor of the tabernacle of the testimony.\n\n16:8. And casting lots upon them both, one to be offered to the Lord,\nand the other to be the emissary goat:\n\n16:9. That whose lot fell to be offered to the Lord, he shall offer for\nsin.\n\n16:10. But that whose lot was to be the emissary goat, he shall present\nbefore the Lord, that he may pour prayers upon him, and let him go into\nthe wilderness.\n\n16:11. After these things are duly celebrated, he shall offer the calf:\nand praying for himself and for his own house, he shall immolate it.\n\n16:12. And taking the censer, which he hath filled with the burning\ncoals of the altar, and taking up with his hands the compounded perfume\nfor incense, he shall go in within the veil into the holy place:\n\n16:13. That when the perfumes are put upon the fire, the cloud and\nvapour thereof may cover the oracle, which is over the testimony, and\nhe may not die.\n\n16:14. He shall take also of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle with\nhis finger seven times towards the propitiatory to the east.\n\n16:15. And when he hath killed the buck goat for the sin of the people,\nhe shall carry in the blood thereof within the veil, as he was\ncommanded to do with the blood of the calf, that he may sprinkle it\nover against the oracle:\n\n16:16. And may expiate the sanctuary from the uncleanness of the\nchildren of Israel, and from their transgressions, and all their sins.\nAccording to this rite shall he do to the tabernacle of the testimony,\nwhich is fixed among them in the midst of the filth of their\nhabitation.\n\n16:17. Let no man be in the tabernacle when the high priest goeth into\nthe sanctuary, to pray for himself and his house, and for the whole\ncongregation of Israel, until he come out.\n\n16:18. And when he is come out to the altar that is before the Lord,\nlet him pray for himself: and taking the blood of the calf, and of the\nbuck goat, let him pour it upon the horns thereof round about.\n\n16:19. And sprinkling with his finger seven times, let him expiate, and\nsanctify it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.\n\n16:20. After he hath cleaned the sanctuary, and the tabernacle, and the\naltar, then let him offer the living goat.\n\n16:21. And putting both hands upon his head, let him confess all the\niniquities of the children of Israel, and all their offences and sins.\nAnd praying that they may light on its head, he shall turn him out by a\nman ready for it, into the desert.\n\n16:22. And when the goat hath carried all their iniquities into an\nuninhabited land, and shall be let go into the desert:\n\n16:23. Aaron shall return into the tabernacle of the testimony, and\nputting off the vestments, which he had on him before when he entered\ninto the sanctuary, and leaving them there,\n\n16:24. He shall wash his flesh in the holy place, and shall put on his\nown garments. And after that he is come out and hath offered his own\nholocaust, and that of the people, he shall pray both for himself, and\nfor the people.\n\n16:25. And the fat that is offered for sins, he shall burn on the\naltar.\n\n16:26. But he that hath let go the emissary goat, shall wash his\nclothes, and his body with water, and so shall enter into the camp.\n\n16:27. But the calf and the buck goat, that were sacrificed for sin,\nand whose blood was carried into the sanctuary, to accomplish the\natonement, they shall carry forth without the camp, and shall burn with\nfire: their skins and their flesh, and their dung.\n\n16:28. And whosoever burneth them shall wash his clothes, and flesh\nwith water: and so shall enter into the camp.\n\n16:29. And this shall be to you an everlasting ordinance. The seventh\nmonth, the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and\nshall do no work, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger\nthat sojourneth among you.\n\n16:30. Upon this day shall be the expiation for you, and the cleansing\nfrom all your sins. You shall be cleansed before the Lord.\n\n16:31. For it is a sabbath of rest: and you shall afflict your souls by\na perpetual religion.\n\n16:32. And the priest that is anointed, and whose hands are consecrated\nto do the office of the priesthood in his father's stead, shall make\natonement. And he shall be vested with the linen robe and the holy\nvestments.\n\n16:33. And he shall expiate the sanctuary and the tabernacle of the\ntestimony and the altar: the priest also and all the people.\n\n16:34. And this shall be an ordinance for ever, that you pray for the\nchildren of Israel, and for all their sins once a year. He did\ntherefore as the Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 17\n\n\nNo sacrifices to be offered but at the door of the tabernacle: a\nprohibition of blood.\n\n17:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n17:2. Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel,\nsaying to them: This is the word, which the Lord hath commanded,\nsaying:\n\n17:3. Any man whosoever of the house of Israel, if he kill an ox, or a\nsheep, or a goat in the camp, or without the camp,\n\nIf he kill, etc. . .That is, in order to sacrifice. The law of God\nforbids sacrifices to be offered in any other place but at the\ntabernacle or temple of the Lord; to signify that no sacrifice would be\nacceptable to God, out of his true temple, the one holy, catholic,\napostolic church.\n\n17:4. And offer it not at the door of the tabernacle an oblation to the\nLord, shall be guilty of blood. As if he had shed blood, so shall he\nperish from the midst of his people.\n\n17:5. Therefore the children of Israel shall bring to the priest their\nvictims, which they kill in the field, that they may be sanctified to\nthe Lord before the door of the tabernacle of the testimony: and they\nmay sacrifice them for peace offerings to the Lord.\n\n17:6. And the priest shall pour the blood upon the altar of the Lord,\nat the door of the tabernacle of the testimony: and shall burn the fat\nfor a sweet odour to the Lord.\n\n17:7. And they shall no more sacrifice their victims to devils, with\nwhom they have committed fornication. It shall be an ordinance for ever\nto them and to their posterity.\n\n17:8. And thou shalt say to them: The man of the house of Israel, and\nof the strangers who sojourn among you, that offereth a holocaust or a\nvictim,\n\n17:9. And bringeth it not to the door of the tabernacle of the\ntestimony, that it may be offered to the Lord, shall perish from among\nhis people.\n\n17:10. If any man whosoever of the house of Israel, and of the\nstrangers that sojourn among them, eat blood, I will set my face\nagainst his soul, and will cut him off from among his people.\n\nEat blood. . .To eat blood was forbidden in the law; partly, because God\nreserved it to himself, to be offered in sacrifices on the altar, as to\nthe Lord of life and death; and as a figure of the blood of Christ; and\npartly, to give men a horror of shedding blood. Gen. 9.4, 5, 6.\n\n17:11. Because the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given\nit to you, that you may make atonement with it upon the altar for your\nsouls, and the blood may be for an expiation of the soul.\n\n17:12. Therefore I have said to the children of Israel: No soul of you,\nnor of the strangers that sojourn among you, shall eat blood.\n\n17:13. Any man whosoever of the children of Israel, and of the\nstrangers that sojourn among you, if by hunting or fowling, he take a\nwild beast or a bird, which is lawful to eat, let him pour out its\nblood, and cover it with earth.\n\n17:14. For the life of all flesh is in the blood. Therefore I said to\nthe children of Israel: you shall not eat the blood of any flesh at\nall, because the life of the flesh is in the blood, and whosoever\neateth it, shall be cut off.\n\n17:15. The soul that eateth that which died of itself, or has been\ncaught by a beast, whether he be one of your own country or a stranger,\nshall wash his clothes and himself with water, and shall be defiled\nuntil the evening: and in this manner he shall be made clean.\n\n17:16. But if he do not wash his clothes, and his body, he shall bear\nhis iniquity.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 18\n\n\nMarriage is prohibited in certain degrees of kindred: Anda all\nunnatural lusts.\n\n18:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n18:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I am\nthe Lord your God.\n\n18:3. You shall not do according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in\nwhich you dwelt: neither shall you act according to the manner of the\ncountry of Chanaan, into which I will bring you. Nor shall you walk in\ntheir ordinances.\n\n18:4. You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and\nshall walk in them. I am the Lord your God.\n\n18:5. Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live\nin them, I am the Lord.\n\n18:6. No man shall approach to her that is near of kin to him, to\nuncover her nakedness. I am the Lord.\n\n18:7. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father, or the\nnakedness of thy mother: she is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her\nnakedness.\n\n18:8. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife: for it\nis the nakedness of thy father.\n\n18:9. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy sister by father or\nby mother: whether born at home or abroad.\n\n18:10. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy son's daughter, or\nthy daughter's daughter: because it is thy own nakedness.\n\n18:11. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife's\ndaughter, whom she bore to thy father: and who is thy sister.\n\n18:12. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister:\nbecause she is the flesh of thy father.\n\n18:13. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister:\nbecause she is thy mother's flesh.\n\n18:14. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother:\nneither shalt thou approach to his wife, who is joined to thee by\naffinity.\n\n18:15. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law:\nbecause she is thy son's wife, neither shalt thou discover her shame.\n\n18:16. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife:\nbecause it is the nakedness of thy brother.\n\n18:17. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy wife and her\ndaughter. Thou shalt not take her son's daughter or her daughter's\ndaughter, to discover her shame: because they are her flesh, and such\ncopulation is incest.\n\n18:18. Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for a harlot, to rival\nher: neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet\nliving.\n\n18:19. Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers: neither\nshalt thou uncover her nakedness.\n\n18:20. Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife: nor be defiled\nwith mingling of seed.\n\n18:21. Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the\nidol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God. I am the Lord.\n\n18:22. Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: because it is\nan abomination.\n\n18:23. Thou shalt not copulate with any beast: neither shalt thou be\ndefiled with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor copulate\nwith it: because it is a heinous crime.\n\nBecause it is a heinous crime. . .In Hebrew, this word heinous crime is\nexpressed by the word confusion, signifying the shamefulness and\nbaseness of this abominable sin.\n\n18:24. Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all\nthe nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,\n\n18:25. And with which the land is defiled: the abominations of which I\nwill visit, that it may vomit out its inhabitants.\n\n18:26. Keep ye my ordinances and my judgments: and do not any of these\nabominations. Neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that\nsojourneth among you.\n\n18:27. For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have\ndone, that were before you, and have defiled it.\n\n18:28. Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you\ndo the like things: as it vomited out the nation that was before you.\n\n18:29. Every soul that shall commit any of these abominations, shall\nperish from the midst of his people.\n\n18:30. Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done,\nthat have been before you: and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord\nyour God.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 19\n\n\nDivers ordinances, partly moral, partly ceremonial or judicial.\n\n19:1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n19:2. Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel. And thou\nshalt say to them: Be ye holy, because I the Lord your God am holy.\n\n19:3. Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths.\nI am the Lord your God.\n\n19:4. Turn ye not to idols: nor make to yourselves molten gods. I am\nthe Lord your God.\n\n19:5. If ye offer in sacrifice a peace offering to the Lord, that he\nmay be favourable:\n\n19:6. You shall eat it on the same day it was offered, and the next\nday. And whatsoever shall be left until the third day, you shall burn\nwith fire.\n\n19:7. If after two days any man eat thereof, he shall be profane and\nguilty of impiety:\n\n19:8. And shall bear his iniquity, because he hath defiled the holy\nthing of the Lord. And that soul shall perish from among his people.\n\n19:9. When thou reapest the corn of thy land, thou shalt not cut down\nall that is on the face of the earth to the very ground: nor shalt thou\ngather the ears that remain.\n\n19:10. Neither shalt thou gather the bunches and grapes that fall down\nin thy vineyard: but shalt leave them to the poor and the strangers to\ntake. I am the Lord your God.\n\n19:11. You shall not steal. You shall not lie: neither shall any man\ndeceive his neighbour.\n\n19:12. Thou shalt not swear falsely by my name, nor profane the name of\nthy God. I am the Lord.\n\n19:13. Thou shalt not calumniate thy neighbour, nor oppress him by\nviolence. The wages of him that hath been hired by thee shall not abide\nwith thee until the morning.\n\n19:14. Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf, nor put a stumbling block\nbefore the blind: but thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, because I am\nthe Lord.\n\n19:15. Thou shalt not do that which is unjust, nor judge unjustly.\nRespect not the person of the poor: nor honour the countenance of the\nmighty. But judge thy neighbour according to justice.\n\n19:16. Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people.\nThou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord.\n\n19:17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: But reprove him\nopenly, lest thou incur sin through him.\n\n19:18. Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens.\nThou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord.\n\n19:19. Keep ye my laws. Thou shalt not make thy cattle to gender with\nbeasts of any other kind. Thou shalt not sow thy field with different\nseeds. Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of two sorts.\n\nDifferent seeds, etc. . .This law tends to recommend simplicity and\nplain dealing in all things, and to teach the people not to join any\nfalse worship or heresy with the worship of the true God.\n\n19:20. If a man carnally lie with a woman that is a bondservant and\nmarriageable, and yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free: they\nboth shall be scourged: and they shall not be put to death, because she\nwas not a free woman.\n\n19:21. And for his trespass he shall offer a ram to the Lord, at the\ndoor of the tabernacle of the testimony.\n\n19:22. And the priest shall pray for him: and for his sin before the\nLord: and he shall have mercy on him, and the sin shall be forgiven.\n\n19:23. When you shall be come into the land, and shall have planted in\nit fruit trees, you shall take away the firstfruits of them. The fruit\nthat comes forth shall be unclean to you: neither shall you eat of\nthem.\n\nFirstfruits. . .Proeputia, literally, their foreskins; it alludes to\ncircumcision, and signifies that for the first three years the trees\nwere to be as uncircumcised, and their fruit unclean: till in the\nfourth year their increase was sanctified and given to the Lord, that\nis, to the priests.\n\n19:24. But in the fourth year, all their fruit shall be sanctified, to\nthe praise of the Lord.\n\n19:25. And in the fifth year you shall eat the fruits thereof,\ngathering the increase thereof. I am the Lord your God.\n\n19:26. You shall not eat with blood. You shall not divine nor observe\ndreams.\n\n19:27. Nor shall you cut your hair roundwise: nor shave your beard.\n\n19:28. You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead:\nneither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks. I am the\nLord.\n\n19:29. Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be\ndefiled, and filled with wickedness.\n\n19:30. Keep ye my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.\n\n19:31. Go not aside after wizards: neither ask any thing of\nsoothsayers, to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.\n\n19:32. Rise up before the hoary head, and honour the person of the aged\nman: and fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord.\n\n19:33. If a stranger dwell in your land, and abide among you, do not\nupbraid hin:\n\n19:34. But let him be among you as one of the same country. And you\nshall love him as yourselves: for you were strangers in the land of\nEgypt. I am the Lord your God.\n\n19:35. Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in\nmeasure.\n\n19:36. Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just,\nand the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of\nthe land of Egypt.\n\n19:37. Keep all my precepts, and all my judgments: and do them. I am\nthe Lord.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 20\n\n\nDivers crimes to be punished with death.\n\n20:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n20:2. Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: If any man of the\nchildren Israel, or of the strangers that dwell in Israel, give of his\nseed to the idol Moloch, dying let him die. The people of the land\nshall stone him.\n\n20:3. And I will set my face against him: and I will cut him off from\nthe midst of his people, because he hath given of his seed to Moloch,\nand hath defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my holy name.\n\n20:4. And if the people of the land neglecting, and as it were little\nregarding my commandment, let alone the man that hath given of his seed\nto Moloch, and will not kill him:\n\n20:5. I will set my face against that man, and his kindred, and will\ncut off both him and all that consented with him, to commit fornication\nwith Moloch, out of the midst of their people.\n\n20:6. The soul that shall go aside after magicians, and soothsayers,\nand shall commit fornication with them: I will set my face against that\nsoul, and destroy it out of the midst of its people.\n\n20:7. Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy: because I am the Lord your\nGod.\n\n20:8. Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you.\n\n20:9. He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die. He hath\ncursed his father, and mother: let his blood be upon him.\n\n20:10. If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile\nhis neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and\nthe adulteress.\n\n20:11. If a man lie with his stepmother, and discover the nakedness of\nhis father, let them both be put to death: their blood be upon them.\n\n20:12. If any man lie with his daughter in law: let both die, because\nthey have done a heinous crime. Their blood be upon them.\n\n20:13. If any one lie with a man as with a woman, both have committed\nan abomination: let them be put to death. Their blood be upon them.\n\n20:14. If any man after marrying the daughter, marry her mother, he\nhath done a heinous crime. He shall be burnt alive with them: neither\nshall so great an abomination remain in the midst of you.\n\n20:15. He that shall copulate with any beast or cattle, dying let him\ndie: the beast also ye shall kill.\n\nThe beast also ye shall kill. . .The killing of the beast was for the\ngreater horror of the crime, and to prevent the remembrance of such\nabomination.\n\n20:16. The woman that shall lie under any beast, shall be killed\ntogether with the same. Their blood be upon them.\n\n20:17. If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the\ndaughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her\nbrother's shame: they have committed a crime. They shall be slain, in\nthe sight of their people, because they have discovered one another's\nnakedness. And they shall bear their iniquity.\n\n20:18. If any man lie with a woman in her flowers, and uncover her\nnakedness, and she open the fountain of her blood: both shall be\ndestroyed out of the midst of their people.\n\n20:19. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy aunt by thy mother,\nand of thy aunt by thy father. He that doth this, hath uncovered the\nshame of his own flesh: both shall bear their iniquity.\n\n20:20. If any man lie with the wife of his uncle by the father, or of\nhis uncle by the mother, and uncover the shame of his near akin, both\nshall bear their sin. They shall die without children.\n\n20:21. He that marrieth his brother's wife, doth an unlawful thing: he\nhath uncovered his brother's nakedness. They shall be without children.\n\n20:22. Keep my laws and my judgments, and do them: lest the land into\nwhich you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit you also out.\n\n20:23. Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out\nbefore you. For they have done all these things: and therefore I\nabhorred them.\n\n20:24. But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for\nan inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your\nGod, who have separated you from other people.\n\n20:25. Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean,\nand the clean fowl from the unclean. Defile not your souls with beasts,\nor birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn\nyou to be unclean:\n\n20:26. You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy: and I\nhave separated you from other people, that you should be mine.\n\n20:27. A man, or woman, in whom there is a pythonical or divining\nspirit, dying let them die. They shall stone them. Their blood be upon\nthem.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 21\n\n\nOrdinances relating to the priests.\n\n21:1. The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests the sons of\nAaron, and thou shalt say for them: Let not a priest incur an\nuncleanness at the death of his citizens.\n\nAn uncleanness. . .Viz., such as was contracted in laying out the dead\nbody, or touching it; or in going into the house, or assisting at the\nfuneral, etc.\n\n21:2. But only for his kin, such as are near in blood: that is to say,\nfor his father and for his mother, and for his son, and for his\ndaughter, for his brother also:\n\n21:3. And for a maiden sister, who hath had no husband.\n\n21:4. But not even for the prince of his people shall he do any thing\nthat may make him unclean.\n\n21:5. Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make\nincisions in their flesh.\n\n21:6. They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane his name.\nFor they offer the burnt offering of the Lord, and the bread of their\nGod: and therefore they shall be holy.\n\n21:7. They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor\none that has been put away from her husband: because they are\nconsecrated to their God,\n\n21:8. And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy\nbecause I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them.\n\n21:9. If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom and dishonour\nthe name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.\n\n21:10. The high priest, that is to say, the priest who is the greatest\namong his brethren, upon whose head the oil of unction hath been\npoured; and whose hands have been consecrated for the priesthood; and\nwho hath been vested with the holy vestments. He shall not uncover his\nhead: he shall not rend his garments.\n\n21:11. Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his\nfather, or his mother, shall he be defiled.\n\n21:12. Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the\nsanctuary of the Lord: because the oil of the holy unction of his God\nis upon him. I am the Lord.\n\n21:13. He shall take a virgin unto his wife.\n\n21:14. But a widow or one that is divorced, or defied, or a harlot, he\nshall not take: but a maid of his own people.\n\n21:15. He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common\npeople of this nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.\n\n21:16. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n21:17. Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families,\nhath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.\n\n21:18. Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind; if\nhe be lame; if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose;\n\n21:19. If his foot, or if his hand be broken;\n\n21:20. If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye,\nor a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture.\n\n21:21. Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish: he\nshall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his\nGod.\n\n21:22. He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves that are offered in the\nsanctuary.\n\n21:23. Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the\naltar: because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary.\nI am the Lord who sanctify them.\n\n21:24. Moses, therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and to all\nIsrael, all the things that had been commanded him.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 22\n\n\nWho may eat the holy things: and what things may be offered.\n\n22:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses saying:\n\n22:2. Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they beware of those things\nthat are consecrated of the children of Israel: and defile not the name\nof the things sanctified to me, which they offer. I am the Lord.\n\n22:3. Say to them and to their posterity: Every man of your race, that\napproacheth to those things that are consecrated, and which the\nchildren of Israel have offered to the Lord, in whom there is\nuncleanness, shall perish before the Lord. I am the Lord.\n\nApproacheth, etc. . .This is to give us to understand, with what purity\nof soul we are to approach to the blessed sacrament of which these\nmeats that had been offered in sacrifice were a figure.\n\n22:4. The man of the seed of Aaron, that is a leper, or that suffereth\na running of the seed, shall not eat of those things that are\nsanctified to me, until he be healed. He that toucheth any thing\nunclean by occasion of the dead: and he whose seed goeth from him as in\ngeneration:\n\n22:5. And he that toucheth a creeping thing, or any unclean thing, the\ntouching of which is defiling:\n\n22:6. Shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat those\nthings that are sanctified. But when he hath washed his flesh with\nwater,\n\n22:7. And the sun is down, then being purified, he shall eat of the\nsanctified things, because it is his meat.\n\n22:8. That which dieth of itself, and that which was taken by a beast,\nthey shall not eat, nor be defiled therewith. I am the Lord.\n\n22:9. Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and\ndie in the sanctuary, when they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord\nwho sanctify them.\n\n22:10. No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner of\nthe priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of them.\n\n22:11. But he whom the priest hath bought, and he that is his servant,\nborn in his house, these shall eat of them.\n\n22:12. If the daughter of a priest be married to any of the people, she\nshall not eat of those things that are sanctified nor of the\nfirstfruits.\n\n22:13. But if she be a widow, or divorced, and having no children\nreturn to her father's house, she shall eat of her father's meats, as\nshe was wont to do when she was a maid. No stranger hath leave to eat\nof them.\n\n22:14. He that eateth of the sanctified things through ignorance, shall\nadd the fifth part with that which he ate, and shall give it to the\npriest into the sanctuary.\n\n22:15. And they shall not profane the sanctified things of the children\nof Israel, which they offer to the Lord:\n\n22:16. Lest perhaps they bear the iniquity of their trespass, when they\nshall have eaten the sanctified things. I am the Lord who sanctify\nthem.\n\n22:17. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n22:18. Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of\nIsrael, and thou shalt say to them: The man of the house of Israel, and\nof the strangers who dwell with you, that offereth his oblation, either\npaying his vows, or offering of his own accord, whatsoever it be which\nhe presenteth for a holocaust of the Lord,\n\n22:19. To be offered by you: it shall be a male without blemish of the\nbeeves, or of the sheep, or of the goats.\n\n22:20. If it have a blemish you shall not offer it: neither shall it be\nacceptable.\n\n22:21. The man that offereth a victim of peace offerings to the Lord,\neither paying his vows, or offering of his own accord, whether of\nbeeves or of sheep, shall offer it without blemish, that it may be\nacceptable. There shall be no blemish in it.\n\n22:22. If it be blind, or broken, or have a scar or blisters, or a\nscab, or a dry scurf: you shall not offer them to the Lord, nor burn\nany thing of them upon the Lord's altar.\n\n22:23. An ox or a sheep, that hath the ear and the tail cut off, thou\nmayst offer voluntarily: but a vow may not be paid with them.\n\n22:24. you shall not offer to the Lord any beast that hath the\ntesticles bruised, or crushed, or cut and taken away: neither shall you\ndo any such things in your land.\n\n22:25. you shall not offer bread to your God, from the hand of a\nstranger, nor any other thing that he would give: because they are all\ncorrupted, and defiled. You shall not receive them.\n\n22:26. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n22:27. When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, they\nshall be seven days under the udder of their dam: but the eighth day,\nand thenceforth, they may be offered to the Lord.\n\n22:28. Whether it be a cow, or a sheep, they shall not be sacrificed\nthe same day with their young ones.\n\n22:29. If you immolate a victim for thanksgiving to the Lord, that he\nmay be favourable,\n\n22:30. You shall eat it the same day. There shall not any of it remain\nuntil the morning of the next day. I am the Lord.\n\n22:31. Keep my commandments, and do them. I am the Lord.\n\n22:32. Profane not my holy name, that I may be sanctified in the midst\nof the children of Israel. I am the Lord who sanctify you:\n\n22:33. And who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might be\nyour God. I am the Lord.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 23\n\n\nHoly days to be kept.\n\n23:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n23:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them:\nThese are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call holy.\n\n23:3. Six days shall ye do work: the seventh day, because it is the\nrest of the sabbath, shall be called holy. You shall do no work on that\nday: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your habitations.\n\n23:4. These also are the holy days of the Lord, which you must\ncelebrate in their seasons.\n\n23:5. The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is\nthe phase of the Lord.\n\n23:6. And the fifteenth day of the same month is the solemnity of the\nunleavened bread of the Lord. Seven days shall you eat unleavened\nbread.\n\n23:7. The first day shall be most solemn unto you, and holy: you shall\ndo no servile work therein.\n\n23:8. But you shall offer sacrifice in fire to the Lord seven days. And\nthe seventh day shall be more solemn, and more holy: and you shall do\nno servile work therein.\n\n23:9. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n23:10. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them:\nWhen you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, and\nshall reap your corn, you shall bring sheaves of ears, the firstfruits\nof your harvest to the priest.\n\n23:11. Who shall lift up the sheaf before the Lord, the next day after\nthe sabbath, that it may be acceptable for you, and shall sanctify it.\n\n23:12. And on the same day that the sheaf is consecrated, a lamb\nwithout blemish of the first year shall be killed for a holocaust of\nthe Lord.\n\n23:13. And the libations shall be offered with it: two tenths of flour\ntempered with oil, for a burnt offering of the Lord, and a most sweet\nodour. Libations also of wine, the fourth part of a hin.\n\n23:14. You shall not eat either bread, or parched corn, or frumenty or\nthe harvest, until the day that you shall offer thereof to your God. It\nis a precept for ever throughout your generations, and all your\ndwellings.\n\n23:15. You shall count therefore from the morrow after the sabbath,\nwherein you offered the sheaf of firstfruits, seven full weeks.\n\n23:16. Even unto the morrow after the seventh week be expired, that is\nto say, fifty days: and so you shall offer a new sacrifice to the Lord.\n\n23:17. Out of all your dwellings, two loaves of the firstfruits, of two\ntenths of flour leavened, which you shall bake for the firstfruits of\nthe Lord.\n\n23:18. And you shall offer with the loaves seven lambs without blemish\nof the first year, and one calf from the herd, and they shall be for a\nholocaust with their two rams: and they shall be for a holocaust with\ntheir libations for a most sweet odour to the Lord.\n\n23:19. You shall offer also a buck goat for sin, and two lambs of the\nfirst year for sacrifices of peace offerings.\n\n23:20. And when the priest hath lifted them up with the loaves of the\nfirstfruits before the Lord, they shall fall to his use.\n\n23:21. And you shall call this day most solemn, and most holy. You\nshall do no servile work therein. It shall be an everlasting ordinance\nin all your dwellings and generations.\n\n23:22. And when you reap the corn of your land, you shall not cut it to\nthe very ground: neither shall you gather the ears that remain. But you\nshall leave them for the poor and for the strangers. I am the Lord your\nGod.\n\n23:23. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n23:24. Say to the children of Israel: The seventh month, on the first\nday of the month, you shall keep a sabbath, a memorial, with the sound\nof trumpets, and it shall be called holy.\n\n23:25. You shall do no servile work therein, and you shall offer a\nholocaust to the Lord.\n\n23:26. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n23:27. Upon the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the day of\natonement. It shall be most solemn, and shall be called holy: and you\nshall await your souls on that day, and shall offer a holocaust to the\nLord.\n\n23:28. You shall do no servile work in the time of this day: because it\nis a day of propitiation, that the Lord your God may be merciful unto\nyou.\n\n23:29. Every soul that is not afflicted on this day, shall perish from\namong his people.\n\n23:30. And every soul that shall do any work, the same will I destroy\nfrom among his people.\n\n23:31. You shall do no work therefore on that day: it shall be an\neverlasting ordinance unto you in all your generations, and dwellings.\n\n23:32. It is a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls\nbeginning on the ninth day of the month. From evening until evening you\nshall celebrate your sabbaths.\n\n23:33. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n23:34. Say to the children of Israel: From the fifteenth day of this\nsame seventh month, shall be kept the feast of tabernacles, seven days\nto the Lord.\n\n23:35. The first day shall be called most solemn and most holy: you\nshall do no servile work therein. And seven days you shall offer\nholocausts to the Lord.\n\n23:36. The eighth day also shall be most solemn and most holy: and you\nshall offer holocausts to the Lord. For it is the day of assembly and\ncongregation. You shall do no servile work therein.\n\n23:37. These are the feasts of the Lord which you shall call most\nsolemn and most holy, and shall offer on them oblations to the Lord:\nholocausts and libations according to the rite of every day.\n\n23:38. Besides the sabbaths of the Lord, and your gifts, and those\nthings that you offer by vow, or which you shall give to the Lord\nvoluntarily.\n\n23:39. So from the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you shall\nhave gathered in all the fruits of your land, you shall celebrate the\nfeast of the Lord seven days. On the first day and the eighth shall be\na sabbath: that is a day of rest.\n\n23:40. And you shall take to you on the first day the fruits of the\nfairest tree, and branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees,\nand willows of the brook: And you shall rejoice before the Lord your\nGod.\n\n23:41. And you shall keep the solemnity thereof seven days in the year.\nIt shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. In the\nseventh month shall you celebrate this feast.\n\n23:42. And you shall dwell in bowers seven days. Every one that is of\nthe race of Israel, shall dwell in tabernacles:\n\n23:43. That your posterity may know, that I made the children of Israel\nto dwell in tabernacles, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.\nI am the Lord your God.\n\n23:44. And Moses spoke concerning the feasts of the Lord to the\nchildren of Israel.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 24\n\n\nThe oil for the lamps. The loaves of proposition. The punishment of\nblasphemy.\n\n24:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n24:2. Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee the\nfinest and clearest oil of olives, to furnish the lamps continually,\n\n24:3. Without the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of the\ncovenant. And Aaron shall set them from evening until morning before\nthe Lord, by a perpetual service and rite in your generations.\n\n24:4. They shall be set upon the most pure candlestick before the Lord\ncontinually.\n\n24:5. Thou shalt take also fine flour, and shalt bake twelve loaves\nthereof, two tenths shall be in every loaf.\n\n24:6. And thou shalt set them six and six, one against another, upon\nthe most clean table before the Lord.\n\n24:7. And thou shalt put upon them the clearest frankincense, that the\nbread may be for a memorial of the oblation of the Lord.\n\n24:8. Every sabbath they shall be changed before the Lord: being\nreceived of the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.\n\n24:9. And they shall be Aaron's and his sons', that they may eat them\nin the holy place: because it is most holy of the sacrifices of the\nLord by a perpetual right.\n\n24:10. And behold there went out the son of a woman of Israel, whom she\nhad of an Egyptian, among the children of Israel: and fell at words in\nthe camp with a man of Israel.\n\n24:11. And when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was\nbrought to Moses. (Now his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of\nDabri, of the tribe of Dan.)\n\n24:12. And they put him into prison, till they might know what the Lord\nwould command.\n\n24:13. And the Lord spoke to Moses,\n\n24:14. Saying: Bring forth the blasphemer without the camp: and let\nthem that heard him, put their hands upon his head: and let all the\npeople stone him.\n\n24:15. And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel: The man that\ncurseth his God, shall bear his sin:\n\n24:16. And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die.\nAll the multitude shall stone him, whether he be a native or a\nstranger. He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die.\n\n24:17. He that striketh and killeth a man: dying let him die.\n\n24:18. He that killeth a beast, shall make it good that is to say,\nshall give beast for beast.\n\n24:19. He that giveth a blemish to any of his neighbours: as he hath\ndone, so shall it be done to him:\n\n24:20. Breach for breach, eye for ere, tooth for tooth, shall he\nrestore. What blemish he gave, the like shall he be compelled to\nsuffer.\n\n24:21. He that striketh a beast, shall render another. He that striketh\na man shall be punished.\n\n24:22. Let there be equal judgment among you, whether he be a stranger,\nor a native that offends: because I am the Lord your God.\n\n24:23. And Moses spoke to the children of Israel. And they brought\nforth him that had blasphemed, without the camp: and they stoned him.\nAnd the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 25\n\n\nThe law of the seventh and of the fiftieth year of jubilee.\n\n25:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying:\n\n25:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When\nyou shall have entered into the land which I will give you, observe the\nrest of the sabbath of the Lord.\n\n25:3. Six years thou shalt sow thy field and six years thou shalt prune\nthy vineyard, and shalt gather the fruits thereof.\n\n25:4. But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath to the land, of\nthe resting of the Lord. Thou shalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy\nvineyard.\n\n25:5. What the ground shall bring forth of itself, thou shalt not reap:\nneither shalt thou gather the grapes or the firstfruits as a vintage.\nFor it is a year of rest to the land.\n\n25:6. But they shall be unto you for meat, to thee and to thy\nmanservant, to thy maidservant and thy hireling, and to the strangers\nthat sojourn with thee.\n\n25:7. All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy\ncattle.\n\n25:8. Thou shalt also number to thee seven weeks of years: that is to\nsay, seven times seven, which together make forty-nine years.\n\n25:9. And thou shalt sound the trumpet in the seventh month, the tenth\nday of the month, in the time of the expiation in all your land.\n\n25:10. And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim\nremission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of\njubilee. Every man shall return to his possession, and every one shall\ngo back to his former family:\n\nRemission. . .That is, a general release and discharge from debts and\nbondage, and a reinstating of every man in his former possessions.\n\n25:11. Because it is the jubilee and the fiftieth year. You shall not\nsow, nor reap the things that grow in the field of their own accord,\nneither shall you gather the firstfruits of the vines,\n\n25:12. Because of the sanctification of the jubilee. But as they grow\nyou shall presently eat them.\n\n25:13. In the year of the jubilee all shall return to their\npossessions.\n\n25:14. When thou shalt sell any thing to thy neighbour, or shalt buy of\nhim: grieve not thy brother. But thou shalt buy of him according to the\nnumber of years from the jubilee.\n\n25:15. And he shall sell to thee according to the computation of the\nfruits.\n\n25:16. The more years remain after the jubilee, the more shall the\nprice increase: and the less time is counted, so much the less shall\nthe purchase cost. For he shall sell to thee the time of the fruits.\n\n25:17. Do not afflict your countrymen: but let every one fear his God.\nBecause I am the Lord your God.\n\n25:18. Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them: that you\nmay dwell in the land without any fear.\n\n25:19. And the ground may yield you its fruits, of which you may eat\nyour fill, fearing no man's invasion.\n\n25:20. But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow\nnot, nor gather our fruits?\n\n25:21. I will give you my blessing the sixth year: and it shall yield\nthe fruits of three years.\n\n25:22. And the eighth year you shall sow, and shall eat of the old\nfruits, until the ninth year: till new grow up, you shall eat the old\nstore.\n\n25:23. The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine,\nand you are strangers and sojourners with me.\n\n25:24. For which cause all the country of your possession shall be\nunder the condition of redemption.\n\n25:25. If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession,\nand his kinsman will: he may redeem what he had sold.\n\n25:26. But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to\nredeem it:\n\n25:27. The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time when he\nsold it. And the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall\nreceive his possession again.\n\n25:28. But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the\nbuyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in\nthat year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the\nancient possessor.\n\n25:29. He that selleth a house within the walls of a city, shall have\nthe liberty to redeem it, until one year be expired.\n\n25:30. If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer\nshall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be\nredeemed, not even in the jubilee.\n\n25:31. But if the house be in a village, that hath no walls, it shall\nbe sold according to the same law as the fields. If it be not redeemed\nbefore, in the jubilee it shall return to the owner.\n\n25:32. The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be\nredeemed.\n\n25:33. If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they shall all return to\nthe owners: because the houses of the cities of the Levites are for\ntheir possessions among the children of Israel.\n\n25:34. But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual\npossession.\n\n25:35. If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou\nreceive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee:\n\n25:36. Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest. Fear thy God,\nthat thy brother may live with thee.\n\n25:37. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury: nor exact of him\nany increase of fruits.\n\n25:38. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of\nEgypt, that I might give you the land of Chanaan, and might be your\nGod.\n\n25:39. If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee:\nthou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants.\n\n25:40. But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work\nwith thee until the year of the jubilee.\n\n25:41. And afterwards he shall go out with his children: and shall\nreturn to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers.\n\n25:42. For they are my servants, and I brought them out of the land of\nEgypt: let them not be sold as bondmen.\n\n25:43. Afflict him not by might: but fear thy God.\n\n25:44. Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are\nround about you:\n\n25:45. And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born\nof them in your land. These you shall have for servants:\n\n25:46. And by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity,\nand shall possess them for ever. But oppress not your brethren the\nchildren of Israel by might.\n\n25:47. If the hand of a stranger or a sojourner grow strong among you,\nand thy brother being impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of\nhis race:\n\n25:48. After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren\nshall redeem him:\n\n25:49. Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, or his kinsman, by blood,\nor by affinity. But if he himself be able also, he shall redeem\nhimself:\n\n25:50. Counting only the years from the time of his selling unto the\nyear of the jubilee: and counting the money that he was sold for,\naccording to the number of the years and the reckoning of a hired\nservant.\n\n25:51. If there be many years that remain until the jubilee, according\nto them shall he also repay the price.\n\n25:52. If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the\nnumber of the years: and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of\nthe years.\n\n25:53. His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not\nafflict him violently in thy sight.\n\n25:54. And if by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the year of the\njubilee he shall go out with his children.\n\n25:55. For the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought forth\nout of the land of Egypt.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 26\n\n\nGod's promises to them that keep his commandments. And the many\npunishments with which he threatens transgressors.\n\n26:1. I am the Lord your God. You shall not make to yourselves any idol\nor graven thing: neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a\nremarkable stone in your land, to adore it. For I am the Lord your God.\n\n26:2. Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.\n\n26:3. If you walk in my precepts, and keep my commandments, and do\nthem, I will give you rain in due seasons.\n\n26:4. And the ground shall bring forth its increase: and the trees\nshall be filled with fruit.\n\n26:5. The threshing of your harvest shall reach unto the vintage, and\nthe vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and you shall eat your\nbread to the full, and dwell in your land without fear.\n\n26:6. I will give peace in your coasts: you shall sleep, and there\nshall be none to make you afraid. I will take away evil beasts: and the\nsword shall not pass through your quarters.\n\n26:7. You shall pursue your enemies: and they shall fall before you.\n\n26:8. Five of yours shall pursue a hundred others: and a hundred of you\nten thousand. Your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.\n\n26:9. I will look on you, and make you increase: you shall be\nmultiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.\n\n26:10. You shall eat the oldest of the old store: and, new coming on,\nyou shall cast away the old.\n\n26:11. I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you: and my soul shall\nnot cast you off.\n\n26:12. I will walk among you, and will be your God: and you shall be my\npeople.\n\n26:13. I am the Lord your God: who have brought you out of the land of\nthe Egyptians, that you should not serve them: and who have broken the\nchains of your necks, that you might go upright.\n\n26:14. But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments:\n\n26:15. If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do\nthose things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant:\n\n26:16. I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you\nwith poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and\nconsume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be\ndevoured by your enemies.\n\n26:17. I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before\nyour enemies: and shall be made subject to them that hate you. You\nshall flee when no man pursueth you.\n\n26:18. But if you will not yet for all this obey me: I will chastise\nyou seven times more for your sins.\n\n26:19. And I will break the pride of your stubbornness: and I will make\nto you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass.\n\n26:20. Your labour shall be spent in vain: the ground shall not bring\nforth her increase: nor the trees yield their fruit.\n\n26:21. If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will\nbring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins.\n\n26:22. And I will send in upon you the beasts of the field, to destroy\nyou and your cattle, and make you few in number: and that your highways\nmay be desolate.\n\n26:23. And if even so you will not amend, but will walk contrary to me:\n\n26:24. I also will walk contrary to you, and will strike you seven\ntimes for your sins.\n\n26:25. And I will bring in upon you the sword that shall avenge my\ncovenant. And when you shall flee into the cities, I will send the\npestilence in the midst of you. And you shall be delivered into the\nhands of your enemies,\n\n26:26. After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten\nwomen shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and\nyou shall eat, and shall not be filled,\n\n26:27. But if you will not for all this hearken to me, but will walk\nagainst me\n\n26:28. I will also go against you with opposite fury: and I will\nchastise you with seven plagues for your sins,\n\n26:29. So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your\ndaughters.\n\n26:30. I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall\nfall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.\n\n26:31. Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness: and I\nwill make your sanctuaries desolate: and will receive no more your\nsweet odours.\n\n26:32. And I will destroy your land: and your enemies shall be\nastonished at it, when they shall be the inhabitants thereof.\n\n26:33. And I will scatter you among the Gentiles: and I will draw out\nthe sword after you. And your land shall be desert, and your cities\ndestroyed.\n\n26:34. Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her\ndesolation. When you shall be\n\n26:35. In the enemy's land, she shall keep a sabbath, and rest in the\nsabbaths of her desolation: because she did not rest in your sabbaths,\nwhen you dwelt therein.\n\n26:36. And as to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in\ntheir hearts in the countries of their enemies. The sound of a flying\nleaf shall terrify them: and they shall flee as it were from the sword.\nThey shall fall, when no man pursueth them.\n\n26:37. And they shall every one fall upon their brethren as fleeing\nfrom wars: none of you shall dare to resist your enemies.\n\n26:38. You shall perish among the Gentiles: and an enemy's land shall\nconsume you.\n\n26:39. And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their\niniquities, in the land of their enemies: and they shall be afflicted\nfor the sins of their fathers, and their own.\n\n26:40. Until they confess their iniquities, and the iniquities of their\nancestors, whereby they have transgressed against me, and walked\ncontrary unto me.\n\n26:41. Therefore I also will walk against them, and bring them into\ntheir enemies' land until their uncircumcised mind be ashamed. Then\nshall they pray for their sins.\n\n26:42. And I will remember my covenant, that I made with Jacob, and\nIsaac, and Abraham. I will remember also the land:\n\n26:43. Which when she shall be left by them, shall enjoy her sabbaths,\nbeing desolate for them. But they shall pray for their sins, because\nthey rejected my judgments, and despised my laws.\n\n26:44. And yet for all that when they were in the land of their\nenemies, I did not cast them off altogether. Neither did I so despise\nthem that they should be quite consumed: and I should make void my\ncovenant with them. For I am the Lord their God.\n\n26:45. And I will remember my former covenant, when I brought them out\nof the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, to be their God. I\nam the Lord. These are the judgments, and precepts, and laws, which the\nLord gave between him and the children of Israel, in mount Sinai, by\nthe hand of Moses.\n\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 27\n\n\nOf vows and tithes.\n\n27:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n27:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The\nman that shall have made a vow, and promised his soul to God, shall\ngive the price according to estimation.\n\n27:3. If it be a man from twenty years old unto sixty years old, he\nshall give fifty sicles of silver, after the weight of the sanctuary:\n\n27:4. If a woman, thirty.\n\n27:5. But from the fifth year until the twentieth, a man shall give\ntwenty sicles: a woman ten.\n\n27:6. From one month until the fifth year, for a male shall be given\nfive sicles: for a female three.\n\n27:7. A man that is sixty years old or upward, shall give fifteen\nsicles: a woman ten.\n\n27:8. If he be poor, and not able to pay the estimation, he shall stand\nbefore the priest: and as much as he shall value him at, and see him\nable to pay, so much shall he give.\n\n27:9. But a beast that may be sacrificed to the Lord, if any one shall\nvow, shall be holy,\n\n27:10. And cannot be changed: that is to say, neither a better for a\nworse, nor a worse for a better. And if he shall change it: both that\nwhich was changed, and that for which it was changed, shall be\nconsecrated to the Lord.\n\n27:11. An unclean beast, which cannot be sacrificed to the Lord, if any\nman shall vow, shall be brought before the priest:\n\n27:12. Who judging whether it be good or bad, shall set the price.\n\n27:13. Which, if he that offereth it will give, he shall add above the\nestimation the fifth part.\n\n27:14. If a man shall vow his house, and sanctify it to the Lord, the\npriest shall consider it, whether it be good or bad: and it shall be\nsold according to the price, which he shall appoint.\n\n27:15. But if he that vowed, will redeem it, he shall give the fifth\npart of the estimation over and above: and shall have the house.\n\n27:16. And if he vow the field of his possession, and consecrate it to\nthe Lord, the price shall be rated according to the measure of the\nseed. If the ground be sown with thirty bushels of barley, let it be\nsold for fifty sicles of silver.\n\n27:17. If he vow his field immediately from the year of jubilee that is\nbeginning: as much as it may be worth, at so much it shall be rated.\n\n27:18. But if some time after, the priest shall reckon the money\naccording to the number of years that remain until the jubilee, and the\nprice shall be abated.\n\n27:19. And if he that had vowed, will redeem his field, he shall add\nthe fifth part of the money of the estimation, and shall possess it.\n\n27:20. And if he will not redeem it, but it be sold to any other man,\nhe that vowed it, may not redeem it any more.\n\n27:21. For when the day of jubilee cometh, it shall be sanctified to\nthe Lord, and as a possession consecrated, pertaineth to the right of\nthe priest.\n\n27:22. If a field that was bought, and not of a man's ancestors'\npossession, be sanctified to the Lord:\n\n27:23. The priest shall reckon the price according to the number of\nyears, unto the jubilee. And he that had vowed, shall give that to the\nLord.\n\n27:24. But in the jubilee, it shall return to the former owner, who had\nsold it, and had it in the lot of his possession.\n\n27:25. All estimation shall be made according to the sicle of the\nsanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.\n\n27:26. The firstborn, which belong to the Lord, no man may sanctify and\nvow: whether it be bullock, or sheep, they are the Lord's.\n\n27:27. And if it be an unclean beast, he that offereth it shall redeem\nit, according to thy estimation, and shall add the fifth part of the\nprice. If he will not redeem it, it shall be sold to another for how\nmuch soever it was estimated by thee.\n\n27:28. Any thing that is devoted to the Lord, whether it be man, or\nbeast, or field, shall not be sold: neither may it be redeemed.\nWhatsoever is once consecrated shall be holy of holies to the Lord.\n\n27:29. And any consecration that is offered by man, shall not be\nredeemed, but dying shall die.\n\n27:30. All tithes of the land, whether of corn, or of the fruits of\ntrees, are the Lord's, and are sanctified to him.\n\n27:31. And if any man will redeem his tithes, he shall add the fifth\npart of them.\n\n27:32. Of all the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and goats, that pass under\nthe shepherd's rod, every tenth that cometh shall be sanctified to the\nLord.\n\n27:33. It shall not be chosen neither good nor bad, neither shall it be\nchanged for another. If any man change it: both that which was changed,\nand that for which it was changed, shall be sanctified to the Lord, and\nshall not be redeemed.\n\n27:34. These are the precepts which the Lord commanded Moses for the\nchildren of Israel in mount Sinai.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF NUMBERS\n\n\n\nThis fourth Book of Moses is called NUMBERS, because it begins with the\nnumbering of the people. The Hebrews, from its first words, call it\nVAIEDABBER. It contains the transactions of the Israelites from the\nsecond month of the second year after their going out of Egypt, until\nthe beginning of the eleventh month of the fortieth year; that is, a\nhistory almost of thirty-nine years.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 1\n\n\nThe children of Israel are numbered: the Levites are designed to serve\nthe tabernacle.\n\n1:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai in the\ntabernacle of the covenant, the first day of the second month, the\nsecond year of their going out of Egypt, saying:\n\n1:2. Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel by\ntheir families, and houses, and the names of every one, as many as are\nof the male sex,\n\n1:3. From twenty years old and upwards, of all the men of Israel fit\nfor war, and you shall number them by their troops, thou and Aaron.\n\n1:4. And there shall be with you the princes of the tribes, and of the\nhouses in their kindreds,\n\n1:5. Whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur.\n\n1:6. Of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.\n\n1:7. Of Juda, Nahasson the son of Aminadab.\n\n1:8. Of Issachar, Nathanael the son of Suar.\n\n1:9. Of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon.\n\n1:10. And of the sons of Joseph: of Ephraim, Elisama the son of Ammiud:\nof Manasses, Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.\n\n1:11. Of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon.\n\n1:12. Of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.\n\n1:13. Of Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran.\n\n1:14. Of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Duel.\n\n1:15. Of Nephtali, Ahira the son of Enan.\n\n1:16. These are the most noble princes of the multitude by their tribes\nand kindreds, and the chiefs of the army of Israel:\n\n1:17. Whom Moses and Aaron took with all the multitude of the common\npeople:\n\n1:18. And assembled them on the first day of the second month,\nreckoning them up by the kindreds, and houses, and families, and heads,\nand names of every one from twenty years old and upward,\n\n1:19. As the Lord had commanded Moses. And they were numbered in the\ndesert of Sinai.\n\n1:20. Of Ruben the eldest son of Israel, by their generations and\nfamilies and houses and names of every head, all that were of the male\nsex, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go forth to\nwar,\n\n1:21. Were forty-six thousand five hundred.\n\n1:22. Of the sons of Simeon by their generations and families, and\nhouses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names and heads of\nevery one, all that were of the male sex, from twenty years old and\nupward, that were able to go forth to war,\n\n1:23. Fifty-nine thousand three hundred.\n\n1:24. Of the sons of Gad, by their generations and families and houses\nof their kindreds were reckoned up by the names of every one from\ntwenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,\n\n1:25. Forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.\n\n1:26. Of the sons of Juda, by their generations and families and houses\nof their kindreds, by the names of every one from twenty years old and\nupward, all that were able to go forth to war,\n\n1:27. Were reckoned up seventy-four thousand six hundred.\n\n1:28. Of the sons of Issachar, by their generations and families and\nhouses of their kindreds, by the names of every one from twenty years\nold and upward, all that could go forth to war,\n\n1:29. Were reckoned up fifty-four thousand four hundred.\n\n1:30. Of the sons of Zabulon, by the generations and families and\nhouses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one\nfrom twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to\nwar,\n\n1:31. Fifty-seven thousand four hundred.\n\n1:32. Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons of Ephraim, by the\ngenerations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up\nby the names of every one, from twenty years old and upward, all that\nwere able to go forth to war,\n\n1:33. Forty thousand five hundred.\n\n1:34. Moreover of the sons of Manasses, by the generations and families\nand houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every\none from twenty years old and upward, all that could go forth to war,\n\n1:35. Thirty-two thousand two hundred.\n\n1:36. Of the sons of Benjamin, by their generations and families and\nhouses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one\nfrom twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to\nwar,\n\n1:37. Thirty-five thousand four hundred.\n\n1:38. Of the sons of Dan, by their generations and families and houses\nof their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from\ntwenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,\n\n1:39. Sixty-two thousand seven hundred.\n\n1:40. Of the sons of Aser, by their generations and families and houses\nof their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from\ntwenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,\n\n1:41. Forty-one thousand and five hundred.\n\n1:42. Of the sons of Nephtali, by their generations and families and\nhouses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one\nfrom twenty years old and upward, were able to go forth to war,\n\n1:43. Fifty-three thousand four hundred.\n\n1:44. These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron, and the\ntwelve princes of Israel, every one by the houses of their kindreds.\n\n1:45. And the whole number of the children of Israel by their houses\nand families, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go to\nwar,\n\n1:46. Were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men.\n\n1:47. But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered\nwith them.\n\n1:48. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n1:49. Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put down the sum\nof them with the children of Israel:\n\n1:50. But appoint them over the tabernacle of the testimony, and all\nthe vessels thereof, and whatsoever pertaineth to the ceremonies. They\nshall carry the tabernacle and all the furniture thereof: and they\nshall minister, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.\n\n1:51. When you are to go forward, the Levites shall take down the\ntabernacle: when you are to camp, they shall set it up. What stranger\nsoever cometh to it, shall be slain.\n\n1:52. And the children of Israel shall camp every man by his troops and\nbands and army.\n\n1:53. But the Levites shall pitch their tents round about the\ntabernacle, lest there come indignation upon the multitude of the\nchildren of Israel, and they shall keep watch, and guard the tabernacle\nof the testimony.\n\n1:54. And the children of Israel did according to all things which the\nLord had commanded Moses.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 2\n\n\nThe order of the tribes in their camp.\n\n2:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:\n\n2:2. All the children of Israel shall camp by their troops, ensigns,\nand standards, and the houses of their kindreds, round about the\ntabernacle of the covenant.\n\n2:3. On the east Juda shall pitch his tents by the bands of his army:\nand the prince of his sons; shall be Nahasson the son of Aminadab.\n\n2:4. And the whole sum of the fighting men of his stock, were\nseventy-four thousand six hundred.\n\n2:5. Next unto him they of the tribe of Issachar encamped, whose prince\nwas Nathanael, the son of Suar.\n\n2:6. And the whole number of his fighting men were fifty-four thousand\nfour hundred.\n\n2:7. In the tribe of Zabulon the prince was Eliab the son of Helon.\n\n2:8. And all the army of fighting men of his stock, were fifty-seven\nthousand four hundred.\n\n2:9. All that were numbered in the camp of Juda, were a hundred and\neighty-six thousand four hundred: and they by their troops shall march\nfirst.\n\n2:10. In the camp of the sons of Ruben, on the south side, the prince\nshall be Elisur the son of Sedeur:\n\n2:11. And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were\nforty-six thousand five hundred.\n\n2:12. Beside him camped they of the tribe of Simeon: whose prince was\nSalamiel the son of Surisaddai.\n\n2:13. And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were\nfifty-nine thousand three hundred.\n\n2:14. In the tribe of Gad the prince was Eliasaph the son of Duel.\n\n2:15. And the whole army of his righting men that were numbered, were\nforty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.\n\n2:16. All that were reckoned up in the camp of Ruben, were a hundred\nand fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty, by their troops: they\nshall march in the second place.\n\n2:17. And the tabernacle of the testimony shall be carried by the\nofficers of the Levites and their troops. As it shall be set up, so\nshall it be taken down. Every one shall march according to their\nplaces, and ranks.\n\n2:18. On the west side shall be the camp of the sons of Ephraim, whose\nprince was Elisama the son of Ammiud.\n\n2:19. The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were\nforty thousand five hundred.\n\n2:20. And with them the tribe of the sons of Manasses, whose prince was\nGamaliel the son of Phadassur.\n\n2:21. And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were\nthirty-two thousand two hundred.\n\n2:22. In the tribe of the sons of Benjamin the prince was Abidan the\nson of Gedeon.\n\n2:23. And the whole army of fighting men, that were reckoned up, were\nthirty-five thousand four hundred.\n\n2:24. All that were numbered in the camp of Ephraim, were a hundred and\neight-thousand one hundred by their troops: they shall march in the\nthird place.\n\n2:25. On the north side camped the sons of Dan: whose prince was\nAhiezar the son of Ammisaddai.\n\n2:26. The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were\nsixty-two thousand seven hundred.\n\n2:27. Beside him they of the tribe of Aser pitched their tents: whose\nprince was Phegiel the son of Ochran.\n\n2:28. The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were\nforty-one thousand five hundred.\n\n2:29. Of the tribe of the sons of Nephtali the prince was Ahira the son\nof Enan.\n\n2:30. The whole army of his fighting men, were fifty-three thousand\nfour hundred.\n\n2:31. All that were numbered in the camp of Dan, were a hundred and\nfifty-seven thousand six hundred: and they shall march last.\n\n2:32. This is the number of the children of Israel, of their army\ndivided according to the houses of their kindreds and their troops, six\nhundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.\n\n2:33. And the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel:\nfor so the Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n2:34. And the children of Israel did according to all things that the\nLord had commanded. They camped by their troops, and marched by the\nfamilies and houses of their fathers.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 3\n\n\nThe Levites are numbered and their offices distinguished. They are\ntaken in the place of the firstborn of the children of Israel.\n\n3:1. These are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the\nLord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai.\n\n3:2. And these the names of the sons of Aaron: his firstborn Nadab,\nthen Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.\n\n3:3. These the names of the sons of Aaron the priests that were\nanointed, and whose hands were filled and consecrated, to do the\nfunctions of priesthood.\n\n3:4. Now Nadab and Abiu died, without children, when they offered\nstrange fire before the Lord, in the desert of Sinai: and Eleazar and\nIthamar performed the priestly office in the presence of Aaron their\nfather.\n\n3:5. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n3:6. Bring the tribe of Levi, and make them stand in the sight of Aaron\nthe priest to minister to him, and let them watch,\n\n3:7. And observe whatsoever appertaineth to the service of the\nmultitude before the tabernacle of the testimony,\n\n3:8. And let them keep the vessels of the tabernacle, serving in the\nministry thereof.\n\n3:9. And thou shalt give the Levites for a gift,\n\n3:10. To Aaron and to his sons, to whom they are delivered by the\nchildren of Israel. But thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons over the\nservice of priesthood. The stranger that approacheth to minister, shall\nbe put to death.\n\n3:11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n3:12. I have taken the Levites from the children of Israel, for every\nfirstborn that openeth the womb among the children of Israel, and the\nLevites shall be mine.\n\n3:13. For every firstborn is mine: since I struck the firstborn in the\nland of Egypt: I have sanctified to myself whatsoever is firstborn in\nIsrael both of man and beast, they are mine: I am the Lord.\n\n3:14. And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, saying:\n\n3:15. Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their\nfamilies, every male from one month and upward.\n\n3:16. Moses numbered them as the Lord had commanded.\n\n3:17. And there were found sons of Levi by their names, Gerson and\nCaath Merari.\n\n3:18. The sons of Gerson: Lebni and Semei.\n\n3:19. The sons of Caath: Amram, and Jesaar, Hebron and Oziel:\n\n3:20. The sons of Merari, Moholi and Musi.\n\n3:21. Of Gerson were two families, the Lebnites, and the Semeites:\n\n3:22. Of which were numbered, people of the male sex from one month and\nupward, seven thousand five hundred.\n\n3:23. These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on the west,\n\n3:24. Under their prince Eliasaph the son of Lael.\n\n3:25. And their charge shall be in the tabernacle of the covenant:\n\n3:26. The tabernacle itself and the cover thereof, the hanging that is\ndrawn before the doors of the tabernacle of the covenant, and the\ncurtains of the court: the hanging also that is hanged in the entry of\nthe court of the tabernacle, and whatsoever belongeth to the rite of\nthe altar, the cords of the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof.\n\n3:27. Of the kindred of Caath come the families of the Amramites and\nJesaarites and Hebronites and Ozielites. These are the families of the\nCaathites reckoned up by their names:\n\n3:28. All of the male sex from one month and upward, eight thousand six\nhundred: they shall have the guard of the sanctuary,\n\n3:29. And shall camp on the south side.\n\n3:30. And their prince shall be Elisaphan the son of Oziel:\n\n3:31. And they shall keep the ark, and the table and the candlestick,\nthe altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary, wherewith they minister,\nand the veil, and all the furniture of this kind.\n\n3:32. And the prince of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar, the son of\nAaron the priest, shall be over them that watch for the guard of the\nsanctuary.\n\n3:33. And of Merari are the families of the Moholites, and Musites,\nreckoned up by their names:\n\n3:34. All of the male kind from one month and upward, six thousand two\nhundred.\n\n3:35. Their prince Suriel the son of Abihaiel: their shall camp on the\nnorth side.\n\n3:36. Under their custody shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and\nthe bars, and the pillars and their sockets, and all things that\npertain to this kind of service:\n\n3:37. And the pillars of the court round about with their sockets, and\nthe pins with their cords.\n\n3:38. Before the tabernacle of the covenant, that is to say on the east\nside shall Moses and Aaron camp, with their sons, having the custody of\nthe sanctuary, in the midst of the children of Israel. What stranger\nsoever cometh unto it, shall be put to death.\n\n3:39. All the Levites, that I Moses and Aaron numbered according to the\nprecept of the Lord, by their f families, of the male kind from one\nmonth and upward, were twenty-two thousand.\n\n3:40. And the Lord said to Moses: Number the firstborn of the male sex\nof the children of Israel, from one month and upward, and thou shalt\ntake the sum of them.\n\n3:41. And thou shalt take the Levites to me for all the firstborn of\nthe children of Israel, I am the Lord: and their cattle for all the\nfirstborn of the cattle of the children of Israel:\n\n3:42. Moses reckoned up, as the Lord had commanded, the firstborn of\nthe children of Israel:\n\n3:43. And the males by their names, from one month and upward, were\ntwenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.\n\n3:44. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n3:45. Take the Levites for the firstborn of the children of Israel, and\nthe cattle of the Levites for their cattle, and the Levites shall be\nmine. I am the Lord.\n\n3:46. But for the price of the two hundred and seventy-three, of the\nfirstborn of the children of Israel, that exceed the number of the\nLevites,\n\n3:47. Thou shalt take five sicles for every bead, according to the\nweight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.\n\n3:48. And thou shalt give the money to Aaron and his sons, the price of\nthem that are above.\n\n3:49. Moses therefore took the money of them that were above, and whom\nthey had redeemed from the Levites,\n\n3:50. For the firstborn of the children of Israel, one thousand three\nhundred and sixty-five sicles, according to the weight of the\nsanctuary,\n\n3:51. And gave it to Aaron and his sons according to the word that the\nLord had commanded him.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 4\n\n\nThe age and time of the Levites' service: their offices and burdens.\n\n4:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, and Aaron, saying:\n\n4:2. Take the sum of the sons of Caath from the midst of the Levites,\nby their houses and families.\n\n4:3. From thirty years old and upward, to fifty years old, of all that\ngo in to stand and to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.\n\n4:4. This is the service of the sons of Caath:\n\n4:5. When the camp is; to set forward, Aaron and his sons shall go into\nthe tabernacle of the covenant, and the holy of holies, and shall take\ndown the veil that hangeth before the door, and shall wrap up the ark\nof the testimony in it,\n\n4:6. And shall cover it again with a cover of violet skins, and shall\nspread over it a cloth all of violet, and shall put in the bars.\n\n4:7. They shall wrap up also the table of proposition in a cloth of\nviolet, and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the cups\nand bowls to pour out the libations: the loaves shall be always on it:\n\n4:8. And they shall spread over it a cloth of scarlet, which again they\nshall cover with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars.\n\n4:9. They shall take also a cloth of violet wherewith they shall cover\nthe candlestick with the lamps and tongs thereof and the snuffers and\nall the oil vessels, which are necessary for the dressing of the lamps:\n\n4:10. And over all they shall put a cover of violet skins and put in\nthe bars.\n\n4:11. And they shall wrap up the golden altar also in a cloth of\nviolet, and shall spread over it a cover of violet skins, and put in\nthe bars.\n\n4:12. All the vessels wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, they\nshall wrap up in a cloth of violet, and shall spread over it a cover of\nviolet skins, and put in the bars.\n\n4:13. They shall cleanse the altar also from the ashes, and shall wrap\nit up in a purple cloth,\n\n4:14. And shall put it with all the vessels that they use in the\nministry thereof, that is to say, firepans, fleshhooks and forks,\npothooks and shovels. They shall cover all the vessels of the altar\ntogether with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars.\n\n4:15. And when Aaron and his sons have wrapped up the sanctuary and the\nvessels thereof at the removing of the camp, then shall the sons of\nCaath enter in to carry the things wrapped up: and they shall not touch\nthe vessels of the sanctuary, lest they die. These are the burdens of\nthe sons of Caath: in the tabernacle of the covenant:\n\n4:16. And over them shall be Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, to\nwhose charge pertaineth the oil to dress the lamps, and the sweet\nincense, and the sacrifice, that is always offered, and the oil of\nunction, and whatsoever pertaineth to the service of the tabernacle,\nand of all the vessels that are in the sanctuary.\n\n4:17. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:\n\n4:18. Destroy not the people of Caath from the midst of the Levites:\n\n4:19. But do this to them, that they may live, and not die, by touching\nthe holies of holies. Aaron and his sons shall go in, and they shall\nappoint every man his work, and shall divide the burdens that every man\nis to carry.\n\n4:20. Let not others by any curiosity see the things that are in the\nsanctuary before they be wrapped up, otherwise they shall die.\n\n4:21. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n4:22. Take the sum of the sons of Gerson also by their houses and\nfamilies and kindreds.\n\n4:23. From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old. Number\nthem all that go in and minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.\n\n4:24. This is the office of the family of the Gersonites:\n\n4:25. To carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the roof of the\ncovenant, the other covering, and the violet covering over all, and the\nhanging that hangeth in the entry of the tabernacle of the covenant,\n\n4:26. The curtains of the court, and the veil in the entry that is\nbefore tabernacle. All things that pertain to the altar, the cords and\nthe vessels of the ministry,\n\n4:27. The sons of Gerson shall carry, by the commandment of Aaron and\nhis sons: and each man shall know to what burden he must be assigned.\n\n4:28. This is the service of the family of the Gersonites in the\ntabernacle of the covenant, and they shall be under the hand of Ithamar\nthe son of Aaron the priest.\n\n4:29. Thou shalt reckon up the sons of Merari also by the families and\nhouses of their fathers,\n\n4:30. From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that\ngo in to the office of their ministry, and to the service of the\ncovenant of the testimony.\n\n4:31. These are their burdens: They shall carry the boards of the\ntabernacle and the bars thereof, the pillars and their sockets,\n\n4:32. The pillars also of the court round about, with their sockets and\npins and cords. They shall receive by account all the vessels and\nfurniture, and so shall carry them.\n\n4:33. This is the office of the family of the Merarites, and their\nministry in the tabernacle of the covenant: and they shall be under the\nhand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.\n\n4:34. So Moses and Aaron and the princes of the synagogue reckoned up\nthe sons of Caath, by their kindreds and the houses of their fathers,\n\n4:35. From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that\ngo in to the ministry of the tabernacle of the covenant:\n\n4:36. And they were found two thousand seven hundred and fifty.\n\n4:37. This is the number of the people of Caath that go in to the\ntabernacle of the covenant: these did Moses and Aaron number according\nto the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.\n\n4:38. The sons of Gerson also were numbered by the kindreds and houses\nof their fathers,\n\n4:39. From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that\ngo in to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant:\n\n4:40. And they were found two thousand six hundred and thirty.\n\n4:41. This is the people of the Gersonites, whom Moses and Aaron\nnumbered according to the word of the Lord.\n\n4:42. The sons of Merari also were numbered by the kindreds and houses\nof their fathers,\n\n4:43. From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that\ngo in to fulfil the rites of the tabernacle of the covenant:\n\n4:44. And they were found three thousand two hundred.\n\n4:45. This is the number of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron\nreckoned up according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of\nMoses.\n\n4:46. All that were reckoned up of the Levites, and whom Moses and\nAaron and the princes of Israel took by name, by the kindreds and\nhouses of their fathers,\n\n4:47. From thirty years old and upward, until fifty years old, that go\ninto the ministry of the tabernacle, and to carry the burdens,\n\n4:48. Were in all eight thousand five hundred and eighty.\n\n4:49. Moses reckoned them up according to the word of the Lord, every\none according to their office and burdens, as the Lord had commanded\nhim.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 5\n\n\nThe unclean are removed out of the camp: confession of sins, and\nsatisfaction: firstfruits and oblations belonging to the priests: trial\nof jealousy.\n\n5:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n5:2. Command the children of Israel, that they cast out of the camp\nevery leper, and whosoever hath an issue of seed, or is defiled by the\ndead:\n\n5:3. Whether it be man or woman, cast ye them out of the camp, lest\nthey defile it when I shall dwell with you,\n\n5:4. And the children of Israel did so, and they cast them forth\nwithout the camp, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.\n\n5:5. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n5:6. Say to the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall have\ncommitted any of all the sins that men are wont to commit, and by\nnegligence shall have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and\noffended,\n\n5:7. They shall confess their sin, and restore the principal itself,\nand the fifth part over and above, to him against whom they have\nsinned.\n\nShall confess. . .This confession and satisfaction, ordained in the Old\nLaw, was a figure of the sacrament of penance.\n\n5:8. But if there be no one to receive it, they shall give it to the\nLord, and it shall be the priest's, besides the ram that is offered for\nexpiation, to be an atoning sacrifice.\n\n5:9. All the firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer,\nbelong to the priest:\n\n5:10. And whatsoever is offered into the sanctuary by every one, and is\ndelivered into the hands of the priest, it shall be his.\n\n5:11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n5:12. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The\nman whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband,\n\n5:13. Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot\ndiscover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by\nwitnesses, because she was not found in the adultery:\n\n5:14. If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife,\nwho either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion,\n\nThe spirit of jealousy, etc. . .This ordinance was designed to clear the\ninnocent, and to prevent jealous husbands from doing mischief to their\nwives: as likewise to give all a horror of adultery, by punishing it in\nso remarkable a manner.\n\n5:15. He shall bring her to the priest, and shall offer an oblation for\nher, the tenth part of a measure of barley meal: he shall not pour oil\nthereon, nor put frankincense upon it: because it is a sacrifice of\njealousy, and an oblation searching out adultery.\n\n5:16. The priest therefore shall offer it, and set it before the Lord.\n\n5:17. And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall\ncast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it.\n\n5:18. And when the woman shall stand before the Lord, he shall uncover\nher head, and shall put on her hands the sacrifice of remembrance, and\nthe oblation of jealousy: and he himself shall hold the most bitter\nwaters, whereon he hath heaped curses with execration.\n\n5:19. And he shall adjure her, and shall say: If another man hath not\nslept with thee, and if thou be not defiled by forsaking thy husband's\nbed, these most bitter waters, on which I have heaped curses, shall not\nhurt thee.\n\n5:20. But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled,\nand hast lain with another man:\n\n5:21. These curses shall light upon thee: The Lord make thee a curse,\nand an example for all among his people: may he make thy thigh to rot,\nand may thy belly swell and burst asunder.\n\n5:22. Let the cursed waters enter into thy belly, and may thy womb\nswell and thy thigh rot. And the woman shall answer, Amen, amen.\n\n5:23. And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wash\nthem out with the most bitter waters, upon which he hath heaped the\ncurses,\n\n5:24. And he shall give them her to drink. And when she hath drunk them\nup,\n\n5:25. The priest shall take from her hand the sacrifice of jealousy,\nand shall elevate it before the Lord, and shall put it upon the altar:\nyet so as first,\n\n5:26. To take a handful of the sacrifice of that which is offered, and\nburn it upon the altar: and so give the most bitter waters to the woman\nto drink.\n\n5:27. And when she hath drunk them, if she be defiled, and having\ndespised her husband be guilty of adultery, the malediction shall go\nthrough her, and her belly swelling, her thigh shall rot: and the woman\nshall be a curse, and an example to all the people.\n\n5:28. But if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear\nchildren.\n\n5:29. This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her\nhusband, and be defiled,\n\n5:30. And the husband stirred up by the spirit of jealousy bring her\nbefore the Lord, and the priest do to her according to all things that\nare here written:\n\n5:31. The husband shall be blameless, and she shall bear her iniquity.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 6\n\n\nThe law of the Nazarites: the form of blessing the people.\n\n6:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n6:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When\na man, or woman, shall make a vow to be sanctified, and will consecrate\nthemselves to the Lord:\n\n6:3. They shall abstain from wine, and from every thing that may make a\nman drunk. They shall not drink vinegar of wine, or of any other drink,\nnor any thing that is pressed out of the grape: nor shall they eat\ngrapes either fresh or dried.\n\n6:4. All the days that they are consecrated to the Lord by vow: they\nshall eat nothing that cometh of the vineyard, from the raisin even to\nthe kernel.\n\n6:5. All the time of his separation no razor shall pass over his head,\nuntil the day be fulfilled of his consecration to the Lord. He shall be\nholy, and shall let the hair of his head grow.\n\n6:6. All the time of his consecration he shall not go in to any dead,\n\n6:7. Neither shall he make himself unclean, even for his father, or for\nhis mother, or for his brother, or for his sister, when they die,\nbecause the consecration of his God is upon his head.\n\n6:8. All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the Lord.\n\n6:9. But if any man die suddenly before him: the head of his\nconsecration shall be defiled: and he shall shave it forthwith on the\nsame day of his purification, and again on the seventh day.\n\n6:10. And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young\npigeons to the priest in the entry of the covenant of the testimony.\n\n6:11. And the priest shall offer one for sin, and the other for a\nholocaust, and shall pray for him, for that he hath sinned by the dead:\nand he shall sanctify his head that day:\n\n6:12. And shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation,\noffering a lamb of one year for sin: yet so that the former days be\nmade void, because his sanctification was profaned.\n\n6:13. This is the law of consecration. When the days which he had\ndetermined by vow shall be expired, he shall bring him to the door of\nthe tabernacle of the covenant,\n\n6:14. And shall offer his oblation to the Lord: one he lamb of a year\nold without blemish for a holocaust, and one ewe lamb of a year old\nwithout blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for a\nvictim of peace offering,\n\n6:15. A basket also of unleavened bread, tempered with oil, and wafers\nwithout leaven anointed with oil, and the libations of each:\n\n6:16. And the priest shall present them before the Lord, and shall\noffer both the sin offering and the holocaust.\n\n6:17. But the ram he shall immolate for a sacrifice of peace offering\nto the Lord, offering at the same time the basket of unleavened bread,\nand the libations that are due by custom.\n\n6:18. Then shall the hair of the consecration of the Nazarite, be\nshaved off before the door of the tabernacle of the covenant: and he\nshall take his hair, and lay it upon the fire, which is under the\nsacrifice of the peace offerings.\n\n6:19. And shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened\ncake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and he shall deliver\nthem into the hands of the Nazarite, after his head is shaven.\n\n6:20. And receiving them again from him, he shall elevate them in the\nsight of the Lord: and they being sanctified shall belong to the\npriest, as the breast, which was commanded to be separated, and the\nshoulder. After this the Nazarite may drink wine.\n\n6:21. This is the law of the Nazarite, when he hath vowed his oblation\nto the Lord in the time of his consecration, besides those things which\nhis hand shall find, according to that which he had vowed in his mind,\nso shall he do for the fulfilling of his sanctification.\n\n6:22. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n6:23. Say to Aaron and his sons: Thus shall you bless the children of\nIsrael, and you shall say to them:\n\n6:24. The Lord bless thee, and keep thee.\n\n6:25. The Lord shew his face to thee, and have mercy on thee.\n\n6:26. The Lord turn his countenance to thee, and give thee peace.\n\n6:27. And they shall invoke my name upon the children of Israel, and I\nwill bless them.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 7\n\n\nThe offerings of the princes at the dedication of the tabernacle. God\nspeaketh to Moses from the propitiatory.\n\n7:1. And it came to pass in the day that Moses had finished the\ntabernacle, and set it up, and had anointed and sanctified it with all\nits vessels, the altar likewise and all the vessels thereof,\n\n7:2. The princes of Israel and the heads of the families, in every\ntribe, who were the rulers of them who had been numbered, offered\n\n7:3. Their gifts before the Lord, six wagons covered, and twelve oxen.\nTwo princes offered one wagon, and each one an ox, and they offered\nthem before the tabernacle.\n\n7:4. And the Lord said to Moses:\n\n7:5. Receive them from them to serve in the ministry of the tabernacle,\nand thou shalt deliver them to the Levites according to the order of\ntheir ministry.\n\n7:6. Moses therefore receiving the wagons and the oxen, delivered them\nto the Levites.\n\n7:7. Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gerson, according\nto their necessity.\n\n7:8. The other four wagons, and eight oxen he gave to the sons of\nMerari, according to their offices and service, under the hand of\nIthamar the son of Aaron the priest.\n\n7:9. But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons or oxen: because they\nserve in the sanctuary and carry their burdens upon their own\nshoulders.\n\n7:10. And the princes offered for the dedication of the altar on the\nday when it was anointed, their oblation before the altar.\n\n7:11. And the Lord said to Moses: Let each of the princes one day after\nanother offer their gifts for the dedication of the altar.\n\n7:12. The first day Nahasson the son of Aminadab of the tribe of Juda\noffered his offering:\n\n7:13. And his offering was a silver dish weighing one hundred and\nthirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight\nof the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:14. A little mortar of ten sicles of gold full of incense:\n\n7:15. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:16. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:17. And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,\nfive he goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of\nNahasson the son of Aminadab.\n\n7:18. The second day Nathanael the son of Suar, prince of the tribe of\nIssachar, made his offering,\n\n7:19. A silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver\nbowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both\nfull of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:20. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:21. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:22. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:23. And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,\nfive buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of\nNathanael the son of Suar.\n\n7:24. The third day the prince of the sons of Zabulon, Eliab the son of\nHelon,\n\n7:25. Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, both full\nof flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:26. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:27. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:28. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:29. And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,\nfive buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This is the oblation of\nEliab the son of Helon.\n\n7:30. The fourth day the prince of the sons of Ruben, Elisur the son of\nSedeur,\n\n7:31. Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the sanctuary,\nboth full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:32. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:33. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old, for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:34. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:35. And for victims of peace offerings two oxen, five rams, five buck\ngoats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Elisur the\nson of Sedeur.\n\n7:36. The fifth day the prince of the sons of Simeon, Salamiel the son\nof Surisaddai,\n\n7:37. Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles after the weight of the sanctuary, both\nfull of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:38. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:39. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:40. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:41. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five\nbuck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Salamiel\nthe son of Surisaddai.\n\n7:42. The sixth day the prince of the sons of Gad, Eliasaph the son of\nDuel,\n\n7:43. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, both full\nof flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:44. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:45. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:46. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:47. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five\nbuck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph\nthe son of Duel.\n\n7:48. The seventh day the prince of the sons of Ephraim, Elisama the\nson of Ammiud,\n\n7:49. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the sanctuary,\nboth full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:50. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:51. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:52. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:53. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five\nbuck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Elisama\nthe son of Ammiud.\n\n7:54. The eighth day the prince of the sons of Manasses, Gamaliel the\nson of Phadassur,\n\n7:55. Offered a silver dish, weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the\nsanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:56. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:57. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:58. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:59. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five\nbuck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel\nthe son of Phadassur.\n\n7:60. The ninth day the prince of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan the son\nof Gedeon,\n\n7:61. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, both full\nof flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:62. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:63. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:64. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:65. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five\nbuck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Abidan\nthe son of Gedeon.\n\n7:66. The tenth day the princes of the sons of Dan, Ahiezer the son of\nAmmisaddai,\n\n7:67. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the\nsanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:68. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:69. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:70. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:71. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five\nbuck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer\nthe son of Ammisaddai.\n\n7:72. The eleventh day the prince of the sons of Aser, Phegiel the son\nof Ochran,\n\n7:73. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the\nsanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:74. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:75. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:76. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:77. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five\nbuck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Phegiel\nthe son of Ochran.\n\n7:78. The twelfth day the prince of the sons of Nephtali, Ahira the son\nof Enan,\n\n7:79. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the\nsanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:80. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:81. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:82. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:83. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five\nbuck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Ahira\nthe son of Enan.\n\n7:84. These were the offerings made by the princes of Israel in the\ndedication of the altar, in the day wherein it was consecrated. Twelve\ndishes of silver: twelve silver bowls: twelve little mortars of gold:\n\n7:85. Each dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles of silver, and\neach bowl seventy sicles: that is, putting all the vessels of silver\ntogether, two thousand four hundred sicles, by the weight of the\nsanctuary.\n\n7:86. Twelve little mortars of gold full of incense, weighing ten\nsicles apiece, by the weight of the sanctuary: that is, in all a\nhundred and twenty sicles of gold.\n\n7:87. Twelve oxen out of the herd for a holocaust, twelve rams, twelve\nlambs of a year old, and their libations: twelve buck goats for sin.\n\n7:88. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, oxen twenty-four, rams\nsixty, buck goats sixty, lambs of a year old sixty. These things were\noffered in the dedication of the altar, when it was anointed.\n\n7:89. And when Moses entered into the tabernacle of the covenant, to\nconsult the oracle, he heard the voice of one speaking to him from the\npropitiatory, that is over the ark between the two cherubims, and from\nthis place he spoke to him.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 8\n\n\nThe seven lamps are placed on the golden candlestick, to shine towards\nthe loaves of proposition: the ordination of the Levites: and to what\nage they shall serve in the tabernacle.\n\n8:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n8:2. Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place\nthe seven lamps, let the candlestick be set up on the south side. Give\norders therefore that the lamps look over against the north, towards\nthe table of the loaves of proposition, over against that part shall\nthey give light, towards which the candlestick looketh.\n\n8:3. And Aaron did so, and he put the lamps upon the candlestick, as\nthe Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n8:4. Now this was the work of the candlestick, it was of beaten gold,\nboth the shaft in the middle, and all that came out of both sides of\nthe branches: according to the pattern which the Lord had shewn to\nMoses, so he made the candlestick.\n\n8:5. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n8:6. Take the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and\nthou shalt purify them,\n\n8:7. According to this rite: Let them be sprinkled with the water of\npurification, and let them shave all the hairs of their flesh. And when\nthey shall have washed their garments, and are cleansed,\n\nLet them be sprinkled with the water of purification. . .This was the\nholy water mixed with the ashes of the red cow, Num. 19., appointed for\npurifying all that were unclean. It was a figure of the blood of\nChrist, applied to our souls by his holy sacraments.\n\n8:8. They shall take an ox of the herd, and for the offering thereof\nfine flour tempered with oil: and thou shalt take another ox of the\nherd for a sin offering:\n\n8:9. And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the\ncovenant, calling together all the multitude of the children of Israel:\n\n8:10. And when the Levites are before the Lord, the children of Israel\nshall put their hands upon them:\n\n8:11. And Aaron shall offer the Levites, as a gift in the sight of the\nLord from the children of Israel, that they may serve in his ministry.\n\n8:12. The Levites also shall put their hands upon the heads of the\noxen, of which thou shalt sacrifice one for sin, and the other for a\nholocaust to the Lord, to pray for them.\n\n8:13. And thou shalt set the Levites in the sight of Aaron and of his,\nand shalt consecrate them being offered to the Lord,\n\n8:14. And shalt separate them from the midst of the children of Israel,\nto be mine.\n\n8:15. And afterwards they shall enter into the tabernacle of the\ncovenant, to serve me. And thus shalt thou purify and consecrate them\nfor an oblation of the Lord: for as a gift they were given me by the\nchildren of Israel.\n\n8:16. I have taken them instead of the firstborn that open every womb\nin Israel,\n\n8:17. For all the firstborn of the children of Israel, both of men and\nof beasts, are mine. From the day that I slew every firstborn in the\nland of Egypt, have I sanctified them to myself:\n\n8:18. And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the\nchildren of Israel:\n\n8:19. And have delivered them for a gift to Aaron and his sons out of\nthe midst of the people, to serve me for Israel in the tabernacle of\nthe covenant, and to pray for them, lest there should be a plague among\nthe people, if they should presume to approach unto my sanctuary.\n\n8:20. And Moses and Aaron and all the multitude of the children of\nIsrael did with the Levites all that the Lord had commanded Moses\n\n8:21. And they were purified, and washed their garments. And Aaron\nlifted them up in the sight of the Lord, and prayed for them,\n\n8:22. That being purified they might go into the tabernacle of the\ncovenant to do their services before Aaron and his sons. As the Lord\nhad commanded Moses touching the Levites, so was it done.\n\n8:23. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n8:24. This is the law of the Levites: From twenty-five years old and\nupwards, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle of the\ncovenant.\n\n8:25. And when they shall have accomplished the fiftieth year of their\nage, they shall cease to serve:\n\n8:26. And they shall be the ministers of their brethren in the\ntabernacle of the covenant, to keep the things that are committed to\ntheir care, but not to do the works. Thus shalt thou order the Levites\ntouching their charge.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 9\n\n\nThe precept of the pasch is renewed: the unclean and travellers are to\nobserve it the second month: the camp is guided by the pillar of the\ncloud.\n\n9:1. The Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, the second year\nafter they were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first month,\nsaying:\n\n9:2. Let the children of Israel make the phase in its due time,\n\nMake the phase. . .That is, keep the paschal solemnity, and eat the\npaschal lamb.\n\n9:3. The fourteenth day of this month in the evening, according to all\nthe ceremonies and justifications thereof.\n\n9:4. And Moses commanded the children of Israel that they should make\nthe phase.\n\n9:5. And they made it in its proper time: the fourteenth day of the\nmonth at evening, in mount Sinai. The children of Israel did according\nto all things that the Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n9:6. But behold some who were unclean by occasion of the soul of a man,\nwho could not make the phase on that day, coming to Moses and Aaron,\n\nBehold some who were unclean by occasion of the soul of a man,\netc. . .That is, by having touched or come near a dead body, out of which\nthe soul was departed.\n\n9:7. Said to them: We are unclean by occasion of the soul of a man. Why\nare we kept back that we may not offer in its season the offering to\nthe Lord among the children of Israel?\n\n9:8. And Moses answered them: Stay that I may consult the Lord what he\nwill ordain concerning you.\n\n9:9. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n9:10. Say to the children of Israel: The man that shall be unclean by\noccasion of one that is dead, or shall be in a journey afar off in your\nnation, let him make the phase to the Lord.\n\n9:11. In the second month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the\nevening, they shall eat it with unleavened bread and wild lettuce:\n\n9:12. They shall not leave any thing thereof until morning, nor break a\nbone thereof, they shall observe all the ceremonies of the phase.\n\n9:13. But if any man is clean, and was not on a journey, and did not\nmake the phase, that soul shall be cut off from among his people,\nbecause he offered not sacrifice to the Lord in due season: he shall\nbear his sin.\n\n9:14. The sojourner also and the stranger if they be among you, shall\nmake the phase to the Lord according to the ceremonies and\njustifications thereof. The same ordinances shall be with you both for\nthe stranger, and for him that was born in the land.\n\n9:15. Now on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, a cloud covered\nit. But from the evening there was over the tabernacle, as it were, the\nappearance of fire until the morning.\n\n9:16. So it was always: by day the cloud covered it, and by night as it\nwere the appearance of fire.\n\n9:17. And when the cloud that covered the tabernacle was taken up, then\nthe children of Israel marched forward: and in the place where the\ncloud stood still, there they camped.\n\n9:18. At the commandment of the Lord they marched, and at his\ncommandment they pitched the tabernacle. All the days that the cloud\nabode over the tabernacle, they remained in the same place:\n\n9:19. And if it was so that it continued over it a long time, the\nchildren of Israel kept the watches of the Lord, and marched not,\n\n9:20. For as many days soever as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle.\nAt the commandment of the Lord they pitched their tents, and at his\ncommandment they took them down.\n\n9:21. If the cloud tarried from evening until morning, and immediately\nat break of day left the tabernacle, they marched forward: and if it\ndeparted after a day and a night, they took down their tents.\n\n9:22. But if it remained over the tabernacle for two days or a month or\na longer time, the children of Israel remained in the same place, and\nmarched not: but immediately as soon as it departed, they removed the\ncamp.\n\n9:23. By the word of the Lord they pitched their tents, and by his word\nthey marched: and kept the watches of the Lord according to his\ncommandment by the hand of Moses.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 10\n\n\nThe silver trumpets and their use. They march from Sinai.\n\n10:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n10:2. Make thee two trumpets of beaten silver, wherewith thou mayest\ncall together the multitude when the camp is to be removed.\n\n10:3. And when thou shalt sound the trumpets, all the multitude shall\ngather unto thee to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant.\n\n10:4. If thou sound but once, the princes and the heads of the\nmultitude of Israel shall come to thee.\n\n10:5. But if the sound of the trumpets be longer, and with\ninterruptions, they that are on the east side, shall first go forward.\n\n10:6. And at the second sounding and like noise of the trumpet, they\nwho lie on the south side shall take up their tents. And after this\nmanner shall the rest do, when the trumpets shall sound for a march.\n\n10:7. But when the people is to be gathered together, the sound of the\ntrumpets shall be plain, and they shall not make a broken sound.\n\n10:8. And the sons of Aaron the priest shall sound the trumpets: and\nthis shall be an ordinance for ever in your generations.\n\n10:9. If you go forth to war out of your land against the enemies that\nfight against you, you shall sound aloud with the trumpets, and there\nshall be a remembrance of you before the Lord your God, that you may be\ndelivered out of the hands of your enemies.\n\n10:10. If at any time you shall have a banquet, and on your festival\ndays, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the\ntrumpets over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace offerings,\nthat they may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord\nyour God.\n\n10:11. The second year, in the second month, the twentieth day of the\nmonth, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the covenant.\n\n10:12. And the children of Israel marched by their troops from the\ndesert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan.\n\n10:13. And the first went forward according to the commandment of the\nLord by the hand of Moses.\n\n10:14. The sons of Juda by their troops: whose prince was Nahasson the\nson of Aminadab.\n\n10:15. In the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince was Nathanael\nthe son of Suar.\n\n10:16. In the tribe of Zabulon, the prince was Eliab the son of Helon.\n\n10:17. And the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gerson and\nMerari set forward, bearing it.\n\n10:18. And the sons of Ruben also marched, by their troops and ranks,\nwhose prince was Helisur the son of Sedeur.\n\n10:19. And in the tribe of Simeon, the prince was Salamiel the son of\nSurisaddai.\n\n10:20. And in the tribe of Gad, the prince was Eliasaph the son of\nDuel.\n\n10:21. Then the Caathites also marched carrying the sanctuary. So long\nwas the tabernacle carried, till they came to the place of setting it\nup.\n\n10:22. The sons of Ephraim also moved their camp by their troops, in\nwhose army the prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud.\n\n10:23. And in the tribe of the sons of Manasses, the prince was\nGamaliel the son of Phadassur.\n\n10:24. And in the tribe of Benjamin, the prince was Abidan the son of\nGedeon.\n\n10:25. The last of all the camp marched the sons of Dan by their\ntroops, in whose army the prince was Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.\n\n10:26. And in the tribe of the sons of Aser, the prince was Phegiel the\nson of Ochran.\n\n10:27. And in the tribe of the sons of Nephtali, the prince was Ahira\nthe son of Enan.\n\n10:28. This was the order of the camps, and marches of the children of\nIsrael by their troops, when they set forward.\n\n10:29. And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, his\nkinsman: We are going towards the place which the Lord will give us:\ncome with us, that we may do thee good: for the Lord hath promised good\nthings to Israel.\n\n10:30. But he answered him: I will not go with thee, but I will return\nto my country, wherein I was born.\n\n10:31. And he said: Do not leave us: for thou knowest in what places we\nshould encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be our guide.\n\n10:32. And if thou comest with us, we will give thee what is the best\nof the riches which the Lord shall deliver to us.\n\n10:33. So they marched from the mount of the Lord three days' journey,\nand the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them, for three\ndays providing a place for the camp.\n\n10:34. The cloud also of the Lord was over them by day when they\nmarched.\n\n10:35. And when the ark was lifted up, Moses said: Arise, O Lord, and\nlet thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee, flee from\nbefore thy face.\n\n10:36. And when it was set down, he said: Return, O Lord, to the\nmultitude of the host of Israel.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 11\n\n\nThe people murmur and are punished with fire. God appointeth seventy\nancients for assistants to Moses. They prophesy. The people have their\nfill of flesh, but forthwith many die of the plague.\n\n11:1. In the mean time there arose a murmuring of the people against\nthe Lord, as it were repining at their fatigue. And when the Lord heard\nit he was angry. And the fire of the Lord being kindled against them,\ndevoured them that were at the uttermost part of the camp.\n\n11:2. And when the people cried to Moses, Moses prayed to the Lord, and\nthe fire was swallowed up.\n\n11:3. And he called the name of that place, The burning: for that the\nfire of the Lord had been kindled against them.\n\nThe burning. . .Hebrew, Taberah.\n\n11:4. For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned\nwith desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being\njoined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?\n\nA mixt multitude. . .These were people that came with them out of Egypt,\nwho were not of the race of Israel; who, by their murmuring, drew also\nthe children of Israel to murmur: this should teach us the danger of\nassociating ourselves with the children of Egypt, that is, with the\nlovers and admirers of this wicked world.\n\n11:5. We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free cost: the\ncucumbers come into our mind, and the melons, and the leeks, and the\nonions, and the garlic.\n\n11:6. Our soul is dry, our eyes behold nothing else but manna.\n\n11:7. Now the manna was like coriander seed, of the colour of bdellium.\n\nBdellium. . .Bdellium, according to Pliny, 1.21, c. 9. was of the colour\nof a man's nail, white and bright.\n\n11:8. And the people went about, and gathering it, ground it in a mill,\nor beat it in a mortar, and boiled it in a pot, and made cakes thereof\nof the taste of bread tempered with oil.\n\n11:9. And when the dew fell in the night upon the camp, the manna also\nfell with it.\n\n11:10. Now Moses heard the people weeping by their families, every one\nat the door of his tent. And the wrath of the Lord was exceedingly\nenkindled: to Moses also the thing seemed insupportable.\n\n11:11. And he said to the Lord: Why hast thou afflicted thy servant?\nWherefore do I not find favour before thee? And why hast thou laid the\nweight of all this people upon me?\n\n11:12. Have I conceived all this multitude, or begotten them, that thou\nshouldst say to me: Carry them in thy bosom as the nurse is wont to\ncarry the little infant, and bear them into the land, for which thou\nhast sworn to their fathers?\n\n11:13. Whence should I have flesh to give to so great a multitude? They\nweep against me, saying: Give us flesh that we may eat.\n\n11:14. I am not able alone to bear all this people, because it is too\nheavy for me.\n\n11:15. But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me,\nand let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so\ngreat evils.\n\n11:16. And the Lord said to Moses: Gather unto me seventy men of the\nancients of Israel, whom thou knowest to be ancients and masters of the\npeople: and thou shalt bring them to the door of the tabernacle of the\ncovenant, and shalt make them stand there with thee,\n\nSeventy men. . .This was the first institution of the council or senate,\ncalled the Sanhedrin, consisting of seventy or seventy-two senators or\ncounsellors.\n\n11:17. That I may come down and speak with thee: and I will take of thy\nspirit, and will give to them, that they may bear with thee the burden\nof the people, and thou mayest not be burthened alone.\n\n11:18. And thou shalt say to the people: Be ye sanctified: to morrow\nyou shall eat flesh: for I have heard you say: Who will give us flesh\nto eat? It was well with us in Egypt. That the Lord may give you flesh,\nand you may eat:\n\n11:19. Not for one day, nor two, nor five, nor ten, no nor for twenty.\n\n11:20. But even for a month of days, till it come out at your nostrils,\nand become loathsome to you, because you have cast off the Lord, who is\nin the midst of you, and have wept before him, saying: Why came we out\nof Egypt?\n\n11:21. And Moses said: There are six hundred thousand footmen of this\npeople, and sayest thou: I will give them flesh to eat a whole month?\n\n11:22. Shall then a multitude of sheep and oxen be killed, that it may\nsuffice for their food? or shall the fishes of the sea be gathered\ntogether to fill them?\n\n11:23. And the Lord answered him: Is the hand of the Lord unable? Thou\nshalt presently see whether my word shall come to pass or no.\n\n11:24. Moses therefore came, and told the people the words of the Lord,\nand assembled seventy men of the ancients of Israel, and made them to\nstand about the tabernacle.\n\n11:25. And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, taking away\nof the spirit that was in Moses, and giving to the seventy men. And\nwhen the spirit had rested on them they prophesied, nor did they cease\nafterwards.\n\n11:26. Now there remained in the camp two of the men, of whom one was\ncalled Eldad, and the other Medad, upon whom the spirit rested; for\nthey also had been enrolled, but were not gone forth to the tabernacle.\n\n11:27. And when they prophesied in the camp, there ran a young man, and\ntold Moses, saying: Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp.\n\n11:28. Forthwith Josue the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, and\nchosen out of many, said: My lord Moses forbid them.\n\n11:29. But he said: Why hast thou emulation for me? O that all the\npeople might prophesy, and that the Lord would give them his spirit!\n\n11:30. And Moses returned, with the ancients of Israel, into the camp.\n\n11:31. And a wind going out from the Lord, taking quails up beyond the\nsea brought them, and cast them into the camp for the space of one\nday's journey, on every side of the camp round about, and they flew in\nthe air two cubits high above the ground.\n\n11:32. The people therefore rising up all that day, and night, and the\nnext day, gathered together of quails, he that did least, ten cores:\nand they dried them round about the camp.\n\n11:33. As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither had that kind\nof meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked\nagainst the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague.\n\n11:34. And that place was called, The graves of lust: for there they\nburied the people that had lusted. And departing from the graves of\nlust, they came unto Haseroth, and abode there.\n\nThe graves of lust. . .Or, the sepulchres of concupiscence: so called\nfrom their irregular desire of flesh. In Hebrew, Kibroth. Hattaavah.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 12\n\n\nMary and Aaron murmur against Moses, whom God praiseth above other\nprophets. Mary being struck with leprosy, Aaron confesseth his fault.\nMoses prayeth for her, and after seven days' separation from the camp,\nshe is restored.\n\n12:1. And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the\nEthiopian,\n\nEthiopian. . .Sephora the wife of Moses was of Madian, which bordered\nupon the land of Chus or Ethiopia: where note, that the Ethiopia here\nspoken of is not that of Africa but that of Arabia.\n\n12:2. And they said: Hath the Lord spoken by Moses only? Hath he not\nalso spoken to us in like manner? And when the Lord heard this,\n\n12:3. (For Moses was a man exceeding meek above all men that dwelt upon\nearth)\n\nExceeding meek. . .Moses being the meekest of men, would not contend for\nhimself; therefore, God inspired him to write here his own defence: and\nthe Holy Spirit, whose dictate he wrote, obliged him to declare the\ntruth, though it was so much to his own praise.\n\n12:4. Immediately he spoke to him, and to Aaron and Mary: Come out you\nthree only to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when they were come\nout,\n\n12:5. The Lord came down in a pillar of the cloud, and stood in the\nentry of the tabernacle calling to Aaron and Mary. And when they were\ncome,\n\n12:6. He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet\nof the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him\nin a dream.\n\n12:7. But it is not so with my servant Moses who is most faithful in\nall my house:\n\n12:8. For I speak to him mouth to mouth: and plainly, and not by\nriddles and figures doth he see the Lord. Why then were you not afraid\nto speak ill of my servant Moses?\n\n12:9. And being angry with them he went away:\n\n12:10. The cloud also that was over the tabernacle departed: and behold\nMary appeared white as snow with a leprosy. And when Aaron had looked\non her, and saw her all covered with leprosy,\n\n12:11. He said to Moses: I beseech thee, my lord, lay not upon us this\nsin, which we have foolishly committed:\n\n12:12. Let her not be as one dead, and as an abortive that is cast\nforth from the mother's womb. Lo, now one half of her flesh is consumed\nwith the leprosy.\n\n12:13. And Moses cried to the Lord, saying O God, I beseech thee heal\nher.\n\n12:14. And the Lord answered him: If her father had spitten upon her\nface, ought she not to have been ashamed for seven days at least? Let\nher be separated seven days without the camp, and afterwards she shall\nbe called again.\n\n12:15. Mary therefore was put out of the camp seven days: and the\npeople moved not from that place until Mary was called again.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 13\n\n\nThe twelve spies are sent to view the land. The relation they make of\nit.\n\n13:1. And the people marched from Haseroth, and pitched their tents in\nthe desert of Pharan.\n\n13:2. And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying.\n\n13:3. Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the\nchildren of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers.\n\n13:4. Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of\nPharan, principal men, whose names are these:\n\n13:5. Of the tribe of Ruben, Sammua the son of Zechur.\n\n13:6. Of the tribe of Simeon, Saphat the son of Huri.\n\n13:7. Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone.\n\n13:8. Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.\n\n13:9. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osee the son of Nun.\n\n13:10. Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of Raphu.\n\n13:11. Of the tribe of Zabulon, Geddiel the son of Sodi.\n\n13:12. Of the tribe of Joseph, of the sceptre of Manasses, Gaddi the\nson of Susi.\n\n13:13. Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.\n\n13:14. Of the tribe of Aser, Sthur the son of Michael.\n\n13:15. Of the tribe of Nephtali, Nahabi the son of Vapsi.\n\n13:16. Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi.\n\n13:17. These are the names of the men, whom Moses sent to view the\nland: and he called Osee the son of Nun, Josue.\n\n13:18. And Moses sent them to view the land of Chanaan, and said to\nthem: Go you up by the south side. And when you shall come to the\nmountains,\n\n13:19. View the land, of what sort it is, and the people that are the\ninhabitants thereof, whether they be strong or weak: few in number or\nmany:\n\n13:20. The land itself, whether it be good or bad: what manner of\ncities, walled or without walls:\n\n13:21. The ground, fat or barren, woody or without trees. Be of good\ncourage, and bring us of the fruits of the land. Now it was the time\nwhen the firstripe grapes are fit to be eaten.\n\n13:22. And when they were gone up, they viewed the land from the desert\nof Sin, unto Rohob as you enter into Emath.\n\n13:23. And they went up at the south side, and came to Hebron, where\nwere Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sons of Enac. For Hebron was\nbuilt seven years before Tanis the city of Egypt.\n\n13:24. And forward as far as the torrent of the cluster of grapes, they\ncut off a branch with its cluster of grapes, which two men carried upon\na lever. They took also of the pomegranates and of the figs of that\nplace:\n\n13:25. Which was called Nehelescol, that is to say, the torrent of the\ncluster of grapes, because from thence the children of Israel had\ncarried a cluster of grapes.\n\n13:26. And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty\ndays, having gone round all the country,\n\n13:27. And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the\nchildren of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And\nspeaking to them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits\nof the land:\n\n13:28. And they related and said: We came into the land to which thou\nsentest us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be\nknown by these fruits:\n\n13:29. But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great\nand walled. We saw there the race of Enac.\n\n13:30. Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hethite and the Jebusite and\nthe Amorrhite in the mountains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea\nand near the streams of the Jordan.\n\n13:31. In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people\nthat rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for\nwe shall be able to conquer it.\n\n13:32. But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not\nable to go up to this people, because they are stronger than we.\n\n13:33. And they spoke ill of the land, which they had viewed, before\nthe children of Israel, saying: The land which we have viewed,\ndevoureth its inhabitants: the people, that we beheld are of a tall\nstature.\n\nSpoke ill, etc. . .These men, who by their misrepresentations of the\nland of promise, discouraged the Israelites from attempting the\nconquest of it, were a figure of worldlings, who, by decrying or\nmisrepresenting true devotion, discourage Christians from seeking in\nearnest and acquiring so great a good, and thereby securing to\nthemselves a happy eternity.\n\n13:34. There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant\nkind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 14\n\n\nThe people murmur. God threateneth to destroy them. He is appeased by\nMoses, yet so as to exclude the murmurers from entering the promised\nland. The authors of the sedition are struck dead. The rest going to\nfight against the will of God are beaten.\n\n14:1. Therefore the whole multitude crying wept that night.\n\n14:2. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron,\nsaying:\n\n14:3. Would God that we had died in Egypt: and would God we may die in\nthis vast wilderness, and that the Lord may not bring us into this\nland, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led away\ncaptives. Is it not better to return into Egypt?\n\n14:4. And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let\nus return into Egypt.\n\n14:5. And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the\nground before the multitude of the children of Israel.\n\n14:6. But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone, who\nthemselves also had viewed the land, rent their garments,\n\n14:7. And said to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land\nwhich we have gone round is very good:\n\n14:8. If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us\na land flowing with milk and honey.\n\n14:9. Be not rebellious against the Lord: and fear ye not the people of\nthis land, for we are able to eat them up as bread. All aid is gone\nfrom them: the Lord is with us, fear ye not.\n\n14:10. And when all the multitude cried out, and would have stoned\nthem, the glory of the Lord appeared over the tabernacle of the\ncovenant to all the children of Israel.\n\n14:11. And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract\nme? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have\nwrought before them?\n\n14:12. I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume\nthem: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier\nthan this is.\n\n14:13. And Moses said to the Lord: That the Egyptians, from the midst\nof whom thou hast brought forth this people,\n\n14:14. And the inhabitants of this land, (who have heard that thou, O\nLord, art among this people, and art seen face to face, and thy cloud\nprotecteth them, and thou goest before them in a pillar of a cloud by\nday, and in a pillar of fire by night,)\n\n14:15. May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were\none man and may say:\n\n14:16. He could not bring the people into the land for which he had\nsworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.\n\n14:17. Let then the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast\nsworn, saying:\n\n14:18. The Lord is patient and full of mercy, by taking away iniquity\nand wickedness, and leaving no man clear, who visitest the sins of the\nfathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.\n\nClear. . .i. e., who deserves punishment.\n\n14:19. Forgive, I beseech thee, the sins of this people, according to\nthe greatness of thy mercy, as thou hast been merciful to them from\ntheir going out of Egypt unto this place.\n\n14:20. And the Lord said: I have forgiven according to thy word.\n\n14:21. As I live: and the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of\nthe Lord.\n\n14:22. But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs\nthat I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me\nnow ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,\n\n14:23. Shall not see the land for which I swore to their fathers,\nneither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it.\n\n14:24. My servant Caleb, who being full of another spirit hath followed\nme, I will bring into this land which he hath gone round: and his seed\nshall possess it.\n\n14:25. For the Amalecite and the Chanaanite dwell in the valleys. To\nmorrow remove the camp, and return into the wilderness by the way of\nthe Red Sea.\n\n14:26. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:\n\n14:27. How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have\nheard the murmurings of the children of Israel.\n\n14:28. Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as\nyou have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.\n\n14:29. In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were\nnumbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against\nme,\n\n14:30. Shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my hand to\nmake you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the\nson of Nun.\n\n14:31. But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey\nto the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you\nhave despised.\n\n14:32. Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.\n\n14:33. Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall\nbear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed\nin the desert,\n\nShall bear your fornication. . .That is, shall bear the punishment of\nyour disloyalty to God, which in the scripture language is here called\na fornication, in a spiritual sense.\n\n14:34. According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed\nthe land: a year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall\nreceive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge:\n\n14:35. For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude,\nthat hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it\nfaint away and die.\n\n14:36. Therefore all the men, whom Moses had sent to view the land, and\nwho at their return had made the whole multitude to murmur against him,\nspeaking ill of the land that it was naught,\n\n14:37. Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.\n\n14:38. But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb had gone to view the land.\n\n14:39. And Moses spoke all these words to all the children of Israel,\nand the people mourned exceedingly.\n\n14:40. And behold rising up very early in the morning, they went up to\nthe top of the mountain, and said: We are ready to go up to the place,\nof which the Lord hath spoken: for we have sinned.\n\n14:41. And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord,\nwhich shall not succeed prosperously with you?\n\n14:42. Go not up, for the Lord is not with you: lest you fall before\nyour enemies.\n\n14:43. The Amalecite and the Chanaanite are before you, and by their\nsword you shall fall, because you would not consent to the Lord,\nneither will the Lord be with you.\n\n14:44. But they being blinded went up to the top of the mountain. But\nthe ark of the testament of the Lord and Moses departed not from the\ncamp.\n\n14:45. And the Amalecite came down, and the Chanaanite that dwelt in\nthe mountain: and smiting and slaying them pursued them as far as\nHorma.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 15\n\n\nCertain laws concerning sacrifices. Sabbath breaking is punished with\ndeath. The law of fringes on their garments.\n\n15:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n15:2. Speak to the children of Israel and thou shalt say to them: When\nyou shall be come unto the land of your habitation, which I will give\nyou,\n\n15:3. And shall make an offering to the Lord, for a holocaust, or a\nvictim, paying your vows, or voluntarily offering gifts, or in your\nsolemnities burning a sweet savour unto the Lord, of oxen or of sheep:\n\n15:4. Whosoever immolateth the victim, shall offer a sacrifice of fine\nflour, the tenth part of an ephi, tempered with the fourth part of a\nhin of oil:\n\n15:5. And he shall give the same measure of wine to pour out in\nlibations for the holocaust or for the victim. For every lamb,\n\n15:6. And for every ram there shall be a sacrifice of flour of two\ntenths, which shall be tempered with the third part of a hin of oil:\n\n15:7. And he shall offer the third part the same measure of wine for\nthe libation, for a sweet savour to the Lord.\n\n15:8. But when thou offerest a holocaust or sacrifice of oxen, to\nfulfil thy vow or for victims of peace offerings,\n\n15:9. Thou shalt give for every ox three tenths of flour tempered with\nhalf a hin of oil,\n\n15:10. And wine for libations of the same measure, for an offering of\nmost sweet savour to the Lord.\n\n15:11. Thus shalt thou do\n\n15:12. For every ox and ram and lamb and kid.\n\n15:13. Both they that are born in the land, and the strangers\n\n15:14. Shall offer sacrifices after the same rite.\n\n15:15. There shall be all one law and judgment both for you and for\nthem who are strangers in the land.\n\n15:16. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n15:17. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them:\n\n15:18. When you are come into the land which I will give you,\n\n15:19. And shall eat of the bread of that country, you shall separate\nfirstfruits to the Lord,\n\n15:20. Of the things you eat. As you separate firstfruits of your\nbarnfloors:\n\n15:21. So also shall you give firstfruits of your dough to the Lord.\n\n15:22. And if through ignorance you omit any of these things, which the\nLord hath spoken to Moses,\n\n15:23. And by him hath commanded you from the day that he began to\ncommand and thenceforward,\n\n15:24. And the multitude have forgotten to do it: they shall offer a\ncalf out of the herd, a holocaust for a most sweet savour to the Lord,\nand the sacrifice and libations thereof, as the ceremonies require, and\na buck goat for sin:\n\n15:25. And the priest shall pray for all the multitude of the children\nof Israel: and it shall be forgiven them, because they sinned\nignorantly, offering notwithstanding a burnt offering to the Lord for\nthemselves and for their sin and their Ignorance:\n\n15:26. And it shall be forgiven all the people of the children of\nIsrael: and the strangers that sojourn among them: because it is the\nfault of all the people through ignorance.\n\n15:27. But if one soul shall sin ignorantly, he shall offer a she goat\nof a year old for his sin.\n\n15:28. And the priest shall pray for him, because he sinned ignorantly\nbefore the Lord: and he shall obtain his pardon, and it shall be\nforgiven him.\n\n15:29. The same law shall be for all that sin by ignorance, whether\nthey be natives or strangers.\n\n15:30. But the soul that committeth any thing through pride, whether he\nbe born in the land or a stranger (because he hath been rebellious\nagainst the Lord) shall be cut off from among his people:\n\n15:31. For he hath contemned the word of the Lord, and made void his\nprecept: therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity.\n\n15:32. And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were in the\nwilderness, and had found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day,\n\n15:33. That they brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole\nmultitude.\n\n15:34. And they put him into prison, not knowing what they should do\nwith him.\n\n15:35. And the Lord said to Moses: Let that man die, let all the\nmultitude stone him without the camp.\n\n15:36. And when they had brought him out, they stoned him, and he died\nas the Lord had commanded.\n\n15:37. The Lord also said to Moses:\n\n15:38. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt tell them to\nmake to themselves fringes in the corners of their garments, putting in\nthem ribands of blue:\n\nFringes. . .The Pharisees enlarged these fringes through hypocrisy,\nMatt. 23.5, to appear more zealous than other men for the law of God.\n\n15:39. That when they shall see them, they may remember all the\ncommandments of the Lord, and not follow their own thoughts and eyes\ngoing astray after divers things,\n\n15:40. But rather being mindful of the precepts of the Lord, may do\nthem and be holy to their God.\n\n15:41. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of\nEgypt, that I might be your God.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 16\n\n\nThe schism of Core and his adherents: their punishment.\n\n16:1. And behold Core the son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of\nLevi, and Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, and Hon the son of\nPheleth of the children of Ruben,\n\n16:2. Rose up against Moses, and with them two hundred and fifty others\nof the children of Israel, leading men of the synagogue, and who in the\ntime of assembly were called by name.\n\nRose up. . .The crime of these men, which was punished in so remarkable\na manner, was that of schism, and of rebellion against the authority\nestablished by God in the church; and their pretending to the\npriesthood without being lawfully called and sent: the same is the case\nof all modern sectaries.\n\n16:3. And when they had stood up against Moses and Aaron, they said:\nLet it be enough for you, that all the multitude consisteth of holy\nones, and the Lord is among them: Why lift you up yourselves above the\npeople of the Lord?\n\n16:4. When Moses heard this, he fell flat on his face:\n\n16:5. And speaking to Core and all the multitude, he said: In the\nmorning the Lord will make known who belong to him, and the holy he\nwill join to himself: and whom he shall choose, they shall approach to\nhim.\n\n16:6. Do this therefore: Take every man of you your censers, thou Core,\nand all thy company.\n\n16:7. And putting fire in them to morrow, put incense upon it before\nthe Lord: and whomsoever he shall choose, the same shall be holy: you\ntake too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.\n\n16:8. And he said again to Core: Hear ye sons of Levi.\n\n16:9. Is it a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath spared\nyou from all the people, and joined you to himself, that you should\nserve him in the service of the tabernacle, and should stand before the\ncongregation of the people, and should minister to him?\n\n16:10. Did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren the sons of Levi\nto approach unto him, that you should challenge to yourselves the\npriesthood also,\n\n16:11. And that all thy company should stand against the Lord? for what\nis Aaron that you murmur against him?\n\n16:12. Then Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab. But\nthey answered: We will not come.\n\n16:13. Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast brought us out of a\nland that flowed with milk and honey, to kill us in the desert, except\nthou rule also like a lord over us?\n\n16:14. Thou hast brought us indeed into a land that floweth with rivers\nof milk and honey, and hast given us possessions of fields and\nvineyards; wilt thou also pull out our eyes? We will not come.\n\n16:15. Moses therefore being very angry, said to the Lord: Respect not\ntheir sacrifices: thou knowest that I have not taken of them so much as\na young ass at any time, nor have injured any of them.\n\nVery angry. . .This anger was a zeal against sin; and an indignation at\nthe affront offered to God; like that which the same holy prophet\nconceived upon the sight of the golden calf, Ex. 32.19.\n\n16:16. And he said to Core: Do thou and thy congregation stand apart\nbefore the Lord to morrow, and Aaron apart.\n\n16:17. Take every one of you censers, and put incense upon them,\noffering to the Lord two hundred and fifty censers: let Aaron also hold\nhis censer.\n\n16:18. When they had done this, Moses and Aaron standing,\n\n16:19. And had drawn up all the multitude against them to the door of\nthe tabernacle, the glory of the Lord appeared to them all.\n\n16:20. And the Lord speaking to Moses and Aaron, said:\n\n16:21. Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may\npresently destroy them.\n\n16:22. They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God\nof the spirits of all flesh, for one man's sin shall thy wrath rage\nagainst all?\n\n16:23. And the Lord said to Moses:\n\n16:24. Command the whole people to separate themselves from the tents\nof Core and Dathan and Abiron.\n\n16:25. And Moses arose, and went to Dathan and Abiron: and the ancients\nof Israel following him,\n\n16:26. He said to the multitude: Depart from the tents of these wicked\nmen, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be involved in their sins.\n\n16:27. And when they were departed from their tents round about, Dathan\nand Abiron coming out stood in the entry of their pavilions with their\nwives and children, and all the people.\n\n16:28. And Moses said: By this you shall know that the Lord hath sent\nme to do all things that you see, and that I have not forged them of my\nown head:\n\n16:29. If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited\nwith a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord\ndid not send me.\n\n16:30. But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth\nswallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down\nalive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord.\n\n16:31. And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth\nbroke asunder under their feet:\n\n16:32. And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all\ntheir substance.\n\n16:33. And they went down alive into hell, the ground closing upon\nthem, and they perished from among the people.\n\n16:34. But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at the cry\nof them that were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow us\nup also.\n\n16:35. And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the two hundred\nand fifty men that offered the incense.\n\n16:36. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n16:37. Command Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the\ncensers that lie in the burning, and to scatter the fire of one side\nand the other: because they are sanctified\n\n16:38. In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates,\nand fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them\nto the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may\nsee them for a sign and a memorial.\n\n16:39. Then Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, wherein they\nhad offered, whom the burning fire had devoured, and beat them into\nplates, fastening them to the altar:\n\n16:40. That the children of Israel might have for the time to come\nwherewith they should be admonished, that no stranger or any one that\nis not of the seed of Aaron should come near to offer incense to the\nLord, lest he should suffer as Core suffered, and all his congregation,\naccording as the Lord spoke to Moses.\n\n16:41. The following day all the multitude of the children of Israel\nmurmured against Moses and Aaron, saying: You have killed the people of\nthe Lord.\n\n16:42. And when there arose a sedition, and the tumult increased,\n\n16:43. Moses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when\nthey were gone into it, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord\nappeared.\n\n16:44. And the Lord said to Moses:\n\n16:45. Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I\ndestroy them. And as they were lying on the ground,\n\n16:46. Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it\nfrom the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to\npray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the\nplague rageth.\n\n16:47. When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst of the\nmultitude which the burning fire was now destroying, he offered the\nincense:\n\n16:48. And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the\npeople, and the plague ceased.\n\n16:49. And the number of them that were slain was fourteen thousand and\nseven hundred men, besides them that had perished in the sedition of\nCore.\n\n16:50. And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the\ncovenant after the destruction was over.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 17\n\n\nThe priesthood is confirmed to Aaron by the miracle of the blooming of\nhis rod, which is kept for a monument in the tabernacle.\n\n17:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n17:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a\nrod by their kindreds, of all the princes of the tribes, twelve rods,\nand write the name of every man upon his rod.\n\n17:3. And the name of Aaron shall be for the tribe of Levi, and one rod\nshall contain all their families:\n\n17:4. And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the covenant\nbefore the testimony, where I will speak to thee.\n\n17:5. Whomsoever of these I shall choose, his rod shall blossom: and I\nwill make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel,\nwherewith they murmur against you.\n\n17:6. And Moses spoke to the children of Israel: and all the princes\ngave him rods one for every tribe: and there were twelve rods besides\nthe rod of Aaron.\n\n17:7. And when Moses had Laid them up before the Lord in the tabernacle\nof the testimony:\n\n17:8. He returned on the following day, and found that the rod of Aaron\nfor the house of Levi, was budded: and that the buds swelling it hid\nbloomed blossoms, which spreading the leaves, were formed into almonds.\n\nThe rod of Aaron for the house of Levi, was budded, etc. . .This rod of\nAaron which thus miraculously brought forth fruit, was a figure of the\nblessed Virgin conceiving and bringing forth her Son without any\nprejudice to her virginity.\n\n17:9. Moses therefore brought out all the rods from before the Lord to\nall the children of Israel: and they saw, and every one received their\nrods.\n\n17:10. And the Lord said to Moses: Carry back the rod of Aaron into the\ntabernacle of the testimony, that it may be kept there for a token of\nthe rebellious children of Israel, and that their complaints may cease\nfrom me lest they die.\n\n17:11. And Moses did as the Lord had commanded.\n\n17:12. And the children of Israel said to Moses: Behold we are\nconsumed, we all perish.\n\n17:13. Whosoever approacheth to the tabernacle of the Lord, he dieth.\nAre we all to a man to be utterly destroyed?\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 18\n\n\nThe charge of the priests and of the Levites, and their portion.\n\n18:1. And the Lord said to Aaron: Thou, and thy sons, and thy father's\nhouse with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and\nthy sons with thee shall bear the sins of your priesthood.\n\nThou, and thy father's house with thee, shall bear the iniquity of the\nsanctuary. . .That is, you shall be punished if, through negligence or\nwant of due attention, you err in the discharge of the sacred functions\nfor which you were ordained.\n\n18:2. And take with thee thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, and\nthe sceptre of thy father, and let them be ready in hand, and minister\nto thee: but thou and thy sons shall minister in the tabernacle of the\ntestimony.\n\n18:3. And the Levites shall watch to do thy commands, and about all the\nworks of the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of\nthe sanctuary nor the altar, lest both they die, and you also perish\nwith them.\n\n18:4. But let them be with thee, and watch in the charge of the\ntabernacle, and in all the ceremonies thereof. A stranger shall not\njoin himself with you.\n\n18:5. Watch ye in the charge of the sanctuary, and in the ministry of\nthe altar: lest indignation rise upon the children of Israel.\n\n18:6. I have given you your brethren the Levites from among the\nchildren of Israel, and have delivered them for a gift to the Lord, to\nserve in the ministries of the tabernacle.\n\n18:7. But thou and thy sons look ye to the priesthood: and all things\nthat pertain to the service of the altar, and that are within the veil,\nshall be executed by the priests. If any stranger shall approach, he\nshall be slain.\n\n18:8. And the Lord said to Aaron: Behold I have given thee the charge\nof my firstfruits. All things that are sanctified by the children of\nIsrael, I have delivered to thee and to thy sons for the priestly\noffice, by everlasting ordinances.\n\n18:9. These therefore shalt thou take of the things that are\nsanctified, and are offered to the Lord. Every offering, and sacrifice,\nand whatsoever is rendered to me for sin and for trespass, and becometh\nholy of holies, shall be for thee and thy sons.\n\n18:10. Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the males only shall eat\nthereof, because it is a consecrated thing to thee.\n\n18:11. But the firstfruits, which the children of Israel shall vow and\noffer, I have given to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters, by\na perpetual law. He that is clean in thy house, shall eat them.\n\n18:12. All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn,\nwhatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to\nthee.\n\n18:13. All the firstripe of the fruits, that the ground bringeth forth,\nand which are brought to the Lord, shall be for thy use: he that is\nclean in thy house, shall eat them.\n\n18:14. Every thing that the children of Israel shall give by vow, shall\nbe thine.\n\n18:15. Whatsoever is firstborn of all flesh, which they offer to the\nLord, whether it be of men, or of beasts, shall belong to thee: only\nfor the firstborn of man thou shalt take a price, and every beast that\nis unclean thou shalt cause to be redeemed,\n\n18:16. And the redemption of it shall be after one month, for five\nsicles of silver, by the weight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty\nobols.\n\n18:17. But the firstling of a cow, and of a sheep and of a goat thou\nshalt not cause to be redeemed, because they are sanctified to the\nLord. Their blood only thou shalt pour upon the altar, and their fat\nthou shalt burn for a most sweet odour to the Lord.\n\n18:18. But the flesh shall fall to thy use, as the consecrated breast,\nand the right shoulder shall be thine.\n\n18:19. All the firstfruits of the sanctuary which the children of\nIsrael offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and\ndaughters, by a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt for ever\nbefore the Lord, to thee and to thy sons.\n\nA covenant of salt. . .It is a proverbial expression, signifying a\ncovenant not to be altered or corrupted; as salt is used to keep things\nfrom corruption; a covenant perpetual, like that by which it was\nappointed, that salt should be used in every sacrifice. Lev. 2.\n\n18:20. And the Lord said to Aaron: You shall possess nothing in their\nland, neither shall you have a portion among them: I am thy portion and\ninheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.\n\n18:21. And I have given to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel\nfor a possession, for the ministry wherewith they serve me in the\ntabernacle of the covenant:\n\n18:22. That the children of Israel may not approach any more to the\ntabernacle, nor commit deadly sin,\n\nDeadly sin. . .That is, sin which will bring death after it.\n\n18:23. But only the sons of Levi may serve me in the tabernacle, and\nbear the sins of the people. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in\nyour generations. They shall not possess any other thing,\n\n18:24. But be content with the oblation or tithes, which I have\nseparated for their uses and necessities.\n\n18:25. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n18:26. Command the Levites, and declare unto them: When you shall\nreceive of the children of Israel the tithes, which I have given you,\noffer the firstfruits of them to the Lord, that is to say, the tenth\npart of the tenth:\n\n18:27. That it may be reckoned to you as an oblation of firstfruits, as\nwell of the barnfloors as of the winepresses:\n\n18:28. And of all the things of which you receive tithes, offer the\nfirstfruits to the Lord, and give them to Aaron the priest.\n\n18:29. All the things that you shall offer of the tithes, and shall\nseparate for the gifts of the Lord, shall be the best and choicest\nthings.\n\n18:30. And thou shalt say to them: If you offer all the goodly and the\nbetter things of the tithes, it shall be reckoned to you as if you had\ngiven the firstfruits of the barnfloor and the winepress:\n\n18:31. And you shall eat them in all your places, both you and your\nfamilies: because it is your reward for the ministry, wherewith you\nserve in the tabernacle of the testimony.\n\n18:32. And you shall not sin in this point, by reserving the choicest\nand fat things to yourselves, lest you profane the oblations of the\nchildren of Israel, and die.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 19\n\n\nThe law of the sacrifice of the red cow, and the water of expiation.\n\n19:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:\n\n19:2. This is the observance of the victim, which the Lord hath\nordained. Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee a\nred cow of full age, in which there is no blemish, and which hath not\ncarried the yoke:\n\nA red cow, etc. . .This red cow, offered in sacrifice for sin, and\nconsumed with fire without the camp, with the ashes of which, mingled\nwith water, the unclean were to be expiated and purified; was a figure\nof the passion of Christ, by whose precious blood applied to our souls\nin the holy sacraments, we are cleansed from our sins.\n\n19:3. And you shall deliver her to Eleazar the priest, who shall bring\nher forth without the camp, and shall immolate her in the sight of all:\n\n19:4. And dipping his finger in her blood, shall sprinkle it over\nagainst the door of the tabernacle seven times,\n\n19:5. And shall burn her in the sight of all delivering up to the fire\nher skin, and her flesh, and her blood, and her dung.\n\n19:6. The priest shall also take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet\ntwice dyed, and cast it into the flame, with which the cow is consumed.\n\n19:7. And then after washing his garments, and body, he shall enter\ninto the camp, and shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n19:8. He also that hath burned her, shall wash his garments, and his\nbody, and shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n19:9. And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the cow, and\nshall pour them forth without the camp in a most clean place, that they\nmay be reserved for the multitude of the children of Israel, and for a\nwater of aspersion: because the cow was burnt for sin.\n\n19:10. And when he that carried the ashes of the cow, hath washed his\ngarments, he shall be unclean until the evening. The children of\nIsrael, and the strangers that dwell among them, shall observe this for\na holy thing by a perpetual ordinance.\n\n19:11. He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean\nseven days,\n\n19:12. Shall be sprinkled with this water on the third day, and on the\nseventh, and so shall be cleansed. If he were not sprinkled on the\nthird day, he cannot be cleansed on the seventh.\n\n19:13. Every one that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is not\nsprinkled with this mixture, shall profane the tabernacle of the Lord,\nand shall perish out of Israel: because he was not sprinkled with the\nwater of expiation, he shall be unclean, and his uncleanness shall\nremain upon him.\n\n19:14. This is the law of a man that dieth in a tent: All that go into\nhis tent and all the vessels that are there, shall be unclean seven\ndays.\n\n19:15. The vessel that hath no cover, nor binding over it, shall be\nunclean.\n\n19:16. If any man in the field touch the corpse of a man that was\nslain, or that died of himself, or his bone, or his grave, he shall be\nunclean seven days.\n\n19:17. And they shall take of the ashes of the burning and of the sin\noffering, and shall pour living waters upon them into a vessel.\n\n19:18. And a man that is clean shall dip hyssop in them, and shall\nsprinkle therewith all the tent, and all the furniture, and the men\nthat are defiled with touching any such thing:\n\n19:19. And in this manner he that is clean shall purify the unclean on\nthe third and on the seventh day. And being expiated the seventh day,\nhe shall wash both himself and his garments, and be unclean until the\nevening.\n\n19:20. If any man be not expiated after this rite, his soul shall\nperish out of the midst of the church: because he hath profaned the\nsanctuary of the Lord, and was not sprinkled with the water of\npurification.\n\n19:21. This precept shall be an ordinance for ever. He also that\nsprinkled the water, shall wash his garments. Every one that shall\ntouch the waters of expiation, shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n19:22. Whatsoever a person toucheth who is unclean, he shall make it\nunclean: and the person that toucheth any of these things, shall be\nunclean until the evening.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 20\n\n\nThe death of Mary the sister of Moses. The people murmur for want of\nwater: God giveth it them from the rock. The death of Aaron.\n\n20:1. And the children of Israel, and all the multitude came into the\ndesert of Sin, in the first month: and the people abode in Cades. And\nMary died there, and was buried in the same place.\n\n20:2. And the people wanting water, came together against Moses and\nAaron:\n\n20:3. And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among\nour brethren before the Lord.\n\n20:4. Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the\nwilderness, that both we and our cattle should die?\n\n20:5. Why have you made us come up out of Egypt, and have brought us\ninto this wretched place which cannot be sowed, nor bringeth forth\nfigs, nor vines, nor pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink?\n\n20:6. And Moses and Aaron leaving the multitude, went into the\ntabernacle of the covenant, and fell flat upon the ground, and cried to\nthe Lord, and said. O Lord God, hear the cry of this people, and open\nto them thy treasure, a fountain of living water, that being satisfied,\nthey may cease to murmur. And the glory of the Lord appeared over them.\n\n20:7. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n20:8. Take the rod, and assemble the people together, thou and Aaron\nthy brother, and speak to the rock before them, and it shall yield\nwaters. And when thou hast brought forth water out of the rock, all the\nmultitude and their cattle shall drink.\n\n20:9. Moses therefore took the rod, which was before the Lord, as he\nhad commanded him,\n\n20:10. And having gathered together the multitude before the rock, he\nsaid to them: Hear, ye rebellious and incredulous: Can we bring you\nforth water out of this rock?\n\n20:11. And when Moses bad lifted up his hand, and struck the rock twice\nwith the rod, there came forth water in great abundance, so that the\npeople and their cattle drank,\n\nThe rock. . .This rock was a figure of Christ, and the water that issued\nout from the rock, of his precious blood, the source of all our good.\n\n20:12. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Because you have not\nbelieved me, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, you shall\nnot bring these people into the land, which I will give them.\n\nYou have not believed, etc. . .The fault of Moses and Aaron, on this\noccasion, was a certain diffidence and weakness of faith; not doubting\nof God's power or veracity; but apprehending the unworthiness of that\nrebellious and incredulous people, and therefore speaking with some\nambiguity.\n\n20:13. This is the Water of contradiction, where the children of Israel\nstrove with words against the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.\n\nThe Water of contradiction. . .Or strife. Hebrew, Meribah.\n\n20:14. In the mean time Moses sent messengers from Cades to the king of\nEdom, to say: Thus saith thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the\nlabour that hath come upon us:\n\n20:15. In what manner our fathers went down into Egypt, and there we\ndwelt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.\n\n20:16. And how we cried to the Lord, and he heard us, and sent an\nangel, who hath brought us out of Egypt. Lo, we are now in the city of\nCades, which is in the uttermost of thy borders,\n\n20:17. And we beseech thee that we may have leave to pass through thy\ncountry. We will not go through the fields, nor through the vineyards,\nwe will not drink the waters of thy wells, but we will go by the common\nhighway, neither turning aside to the right hand, nor to the left, till\nwe are past thy borders.\n\n20:18. And Edom answered them: Thou shalt not pass by me: if thou dost\nI will come out armed against thee.\n\n20:19. And the children of Israel said: We will go by the beaten way:\nand if we and our cattle drink of thy waters, we will give thee what is\njust: there shall be no difficulty in the price, only let us pass\nspeedily.\n\n20:20. But he answered: Thou shalt not pass. And immediately he came\nforth to meet them with an infinite multitude, and a strong hand,\n\n20:21. Neither would he condescend to their desire to grant them\npassage through his borders. Wherefore Israel turned another way from\nhim.\n\n20:22. And when they had removed the camp from Cades, they came to\nmount Hor, which is in the borders of the land of Edom:\n\n20:23. Where the Lord spoke to Moses:\n\n20:24. Let Aaron, saith he, go to his people: for he shall not go into\nthe land which I have given the children of Israel, because he was\nincredulous to my words, at the waters of contradiction.\n\n20:25. Take Aaron and his son with him, and bring them up into mount\nHor:\n\n20:26. And when thou hast stripped the father of his vesture, thou\nshalt vest therewith Eleazar his son: Aaron shall be gathered to his\npeople, and die there.\n\n20:27. Moses did as the Lord had commanded: and they went up into mount\nHor before all the multitude.\n\n20:28. And when he had stripped Aaron of his vestments, he vested\nEleazar his son with them.\n\n20:29. And Aaron being dead in the top of the mountain, he came down\nwith Eleazar.\n\n20:30. And all the multitude seeing that Aaron was dead, mourned for\nhim thirty days throughout all their families.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 21\n\n\nKing Arad is overcome. The people murmur and are punished with fiery\nserpents: they are healed by the brazen serpent. They conquer the kings\nSehon and Og.\n\n21:1. And when king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south,\nhad heard this, to wit, that Israel was come by the way of the spies,\nhe fought against them, and overcoming them carried off their spoils.\n\n21:2. But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: If thou wilt\ndeliver thus people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities.\n\n21:3. And the Lord heard the prayers of Israel, and delivered up the\nChanaanite, and they cut them off and destroyed their cities: and they\ncalled the name of that place Horma, that is to say, Anathema.\n\nAnathema. . .That is, a thing devoted to utter destruction.\n\n21:4. And they marched from mount Hor, by the way that leadeth to the\nRed Sea, to compass the land of Edom. And the people began to be weary\nof their journey and labour:\n\n21:5. And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou\nbring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor\nhave we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.\n\nVery light food. . .So they call the heavenly manna: thus worldlings\nloathe the things of heaven, for which they have no relish.\n\n21:6. Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which\nbit them and killed many of them.\n\nFiery serpents. . .They are so called, because they that were bitten by\nthem were burnt with a violent heat.\n\n21:7. Upon which they came to Moses, and said; We have sinned, because\nwe have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away\nthese serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.\n\n21:8. And the Lord said to him: Make a brazen serpent, and set it up\nfor a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live.\n\n21:9. Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign:\nwhich when they that were bitten looked upon, they were healed.\n\nA brazen serpent. . .This was a figure of Christ crucified, and of the\nefficacy of a lively faith in him, against the bites of the hellish\nserpent. John 3.14.\n\n21:10. And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth.\n\n21:11. And departing thence they pitched their tents in Jeabarim, in\nthe wilderness, that faceth Moab toward the east.\n\n21:12. And removing from thence, they came to the torrent Zared:\n\n21:13. Which they left and encamped over against Arnon, which is in the\ndesert and standeth out on the borders of the Amorrhite. For Arnon is\nthe border of Moab, dividing the Moabites and the Amorrhites.\n\n21:14. Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord: As he\ndid in the Red Sea, so will he do in the streams of Arnon.\n\nThe book of the wars, etc. . .An ancient book, which, like several\nothers quoted in scripture, has been lost.\n\n21:15. The rocks of the torrents were bowed down that they might rest\nin Ar, and lie down in the borders of the Moabites.\n\n21:16. When they went from that place, the well appeared whereof the\nLord said to Moses: Gather the people together, and I will give them\nwater.\n\n21:17. Then Israel sung this song: Let the well spring up. They sung\nthereto:\n\n21:18. The well, which the princes dug, and the chiefs of the people\nprepared by the direction of the lawgiver, and with their staves. And\nthey marched from the wilderness to Mathana.\n\n21:19. From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth.\n\n21:20. From Bamoth, is a valley in the country of Moab, to the top of\nPhasga, which looked towards the desert.\n\n21:21. And Israel sent messengers to Sehon king of the Amorrhites,\nsaying:\n\n21:22. I beseech thee that I may have leave to pass through thy land:\nwe will not go aside into the fields or the vineyards, we will not\ndrink waters of the wells, we will go the king's highway, till we be\npast thy borders.\n\n21:23. And he would not grant that Israel should pass by his borders:\nbut rather gathering an army, went forth to meet them in the desert,\nand came to Jasa and fought against them.\n\n21:24. And he was slain by them with the edge of the sword, and they\npossessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jeboc, and to the confines\nof the children of Ammon: for the borders of the Ammonites, were kept\nwith a strong garrison.\n\n21:25. So Israel took all his cities, and dwelt in the cities of the\nAmorrhite, to wit, in Hesebon, and in the villages thereof.\n\n21:26. Hesebon was the city of Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, who\nfought against the king of Moab: and took all the land, that had been\nof his dominion, as far as the Arnon.\n\n21:27. Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come into Hesebon, let the\ncity of Sehon be built and set up:\n\n21:28. A fire is gone out of Hesebon, a flame from the city of Sehon,\nand hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the inhabitants of the high\nplaces of the Arnon.\n\n21:29. Woe to thee Moab: thou art undone, O people of Chamos. He hath\ngiven his sons to flight, and his daughters into captivity to Sehon the\nking of the Amorrhites.\n\n21:30. Their yoke is perished from Hesebon unto Dibon, they came weary\nto Nophe, and unto Medaba.\n\n21:31. So Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorrhite.\n\n21:32. And Moses sent some to take a view of Jazer: and they took the\nvillages of it, and conquered the inhabitants.\n\n21:33. And they turned themselves, and went up by the way of Basan, and\nOg the king of Basan came against them with all his people, to fight in\nEdrai.\n\n21:34. And the Lord said to Moses: Fear him not, for I have delivered\nhim and all his people, and his country into thy hand: and thou shalt\ndo to him as thou didst to Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, the\ninhabitant of Hesebon.\n\n21:35. So they slew him also with his sons, and all his people, not\nletting any one escape, and they possessed his land.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 22\n\n\nBalac, king of Moab, sendeth twice for Balaam to curse Israel. In his\nway Balaam is rebuked by an angel.\n\n22:1. And they went forward and encamped in the plains of Moab, over\nagainst where Jericho is situate beyond the Jordan.\n\n22:2. And Balac the son of Sephor, seeing all that Israel had done to\nthe Amorrhite,\n\n22:3. And that the Moabites were in great fear of him, and were not\nable to sustain his assault,\n\n22:4. He said to the elders of Madian: So will this people destroy all\nthat dwell in our borders, as the ox is wont to eat the grass to the\nvery roots. Now he was at that time king in Moab.\n\n22:5. He sent therefore messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, a\nsoothsayer, who dwelt by the river of the land of the children of\nAmmon, to call him, and to say: Behold a people is come out of Egypt,\nthat hath covered the face of the earth, sitting over against me.\n\n22:6. Come therefore, and curse this people, because it is mightier\nthan I: if by any means I may beat them and drive them out of my land:\nfor I know that he whom thou shalt bless is blessed, and he whom thou\nshalt curse is cursed.\n\n22:7. And the ancients of Moab, and the elders of Madian, went with the\nprice of divination in their hands. And where they were come to Balaam,\nand had told him all the words of Balac:\n\n22:8. He answered: Tarry here this night and I will answer whatsoever\nthe Lord shall say to me. And while they stayed with Balaam, God came\nand said to him:\n\n22:9. What mean these men that are with thee?\n\n22:10. He answered: Balac the son of Sephor king of the Moabites hath\nsent to me,\n\n22:11. Saying: Behold a people that is come out of Egypt, hath covered\nthe face of the land: come and curse them, if by any means I may fight\nwith them and drive them away.\n\n22:12. And God said to Balaam: Thou shalt not go with them, nor shalt\nthou curse the people: because it is blessed.\n\n22:13. And he rose in the morning and said to the princes: Go into your\ncountry, because the Lord hath forbid me to come with you.\n\n22:14. The princes returning, said to Balac: Balaam would not come with\nus.\n\n22:15. Then he sent many more and more noble than he had sent before:\n\n22:16. Who, when they were come to Balaam, said: Thus saith Balac the\nson of Sephor, Delay not to come to me:\n\n22:17. For I am ready to honour thee, and will give thee whatsoever\nthou wilt: come and curse this people.\n\n22:18. Balaam answered: If Balac would give me his house full of silver\nand gold, I cannot alter the word of the Lord my God, to speak either\nmore or less.\n\n22:19. I pray you to stay here this night also, that I may know what\nthe Lord will answer me once more.\n\nTo stay. . .His desiring them to stay, after he had been fully informed\nalready that it was not God's will he should go, came from the\ninclination he had to gratify Balac, for the sake of worldly gain. And\nthis perverse disposition God punished by permitting him to go (though\nnot to curse the people as he would willingly have done), and suffering\nhim to fall still deeper and deeper into sin, till he came at last to\ngive that abominable counsel against the people of God, which ended in\nhis own destruction. So sad a thing it is to indulge a passion for\nmoney.\n\n22:20. God therefore came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: If\nthese men be come to call thee, arise and go with them: yet so, that\nthou do what I shall command thee.\n\n22:21. Balaam arose in the morning, and saddling his ass went with\nthem.\n\n22:22. And God was angry. And an angel of the Lord stood in the way\nagainst Balaam, who sat on the ass, and had two servants with him.\n\n22:23. The ass seeing the angel standing in the way, with a drawn\nsword, turned herself out of the way, and went into the field. And when\nBalaam beat her, and had a mind to bring her again to the way,\n\n22:24. The angel stood in a narrow place between two walls, wherewith\nthe vineyards were enclosed.\n\n22:25. And the ass seeing him, thrust herself close to the wall, and\nbruised the foot of the rider. But he beat her again:\n\n22:26. And nevertheless the angel going on to a narrow place, where\nthere was no way to turn aside either to the right hand or to the left,\nstood to meet him.\n\n22:27. And when the ass saw the angel standing, she fell under the feet\nof the rider: who being angry beat her sides more vehemently with a\nstaff.\n\n22:28. And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said: What\nhave I done to thee? Why strikest thou me, lo, now this third time?\n\nOpened the mouth, etc. . .The angel moved the tongue of the ass, to\nutter these speeches, to rebuke, by the mouth of a brute beast, the\nbrutal fury and folly of Balaam.\n\n22:29. Balaam answered: Because thou hast deserved it, and hast served\nme ill: I would I had a sword that I might kill thee.\n\n22:30. The ass said: Am not I thy beast, on which thou hast been always\naccustomed to ride until this present day? tell me if I ever did the\nlike thing to thee. But he said: Never.\n\n22:31. Forthwith the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the\nangel standing in the way with a drawn sword, and he worshipped him\nfalling flat on the ground.\n\n22:32. And the angel said to him: Why beatest thou thy ass these three\ntimes? I am come to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse, and\ncontrary to me:\n\nPerverse. . .Because thy inclinations are wicked in being willing for\nthe sake of gain to curse the people of whom I am the guardian.\n\n22:33. And unless the ass had turned out of the way, giving place to me\nwho stood against thee, I had slain thee, and she should have lived.\n\n22:34. Balaam said: I have sinned, not knowing that thou didst stand\nagainst me: and now if it displease thee that I go, I will return.\n\n22:35. The angel said: Go with these men, and see thou speak no other\nthing than what I shall command thee. He went therefore with the\nprinces.\n\n22:36. And when Balac heard it he came forth to meet him in a town of\nthe Moabites, that is situate in the uttermost borders of Arnon.\n\n22:37. And he said to Balaam: I sent messengers to call thee, why didst\nthou not come immediately to me? was it because I am not able to reward\nthy coming?\n\n22:38. He answered him: Lo, here I am: shall I have power to speak any\nother thing but that which God shall put in my mouth?\n\n22:39. So they went on together, and came into a city, that was in the\nuttermost borders of his kingdom.\n\n22:40. And when Balac had killed oxen and sheep, he sent presents to\nBalaam, and to the princes that were with him.\n\n22:41. And when morning was come, he brought him to the high places of\nBaal, and he beheld the uttermost part of the people.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 23\n\n\nBalaam, instead of cursing Israel, is obliged to bless them, and\nprophesy good things of them.\n\n23:1. And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare\nas many calves, and the same number of rams.\n\n23:2. And when he had done according to the word of Balaam, they laid\ntogether a calf and a ram upon every altar.\n\n23:3. And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy burnt offering,\nuntil I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever he\nshall command, I will speak to thee.\n\n23:4. And when he was gone with speed, God met him. And Balaam speaking\nto him, said: I have erected seven altars, and have laid on everyone a\ncalf and a ram.\n\n23:5. And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to\nBalac, and thus shalt thou speak.\n\n23:6. Returning he found Balac standing by his burnt offering, with all\nthe princes of the Moabites:\n\n23:7. And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites\nhath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said\nhe, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel.\n\n23:8. How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means\nshould I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?\n\n23:9. I shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider\nhim from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and shall not be\nreckoned among the nations.\n\n23:10. Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the\nstock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just, and my last end\nbe like to them.\n\n23:11. And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent\nfor thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them.\n\n23:12. He answered him: Can I speak any thing else but what the Lord\ncommandeth?\n\n23:13. Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence\nthou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them\nfrom thence.\n\n23:14. And when he had brought him to a high place, upon the top of\nmount Phasga, Balaam built seven altars, and laying on every one a calf\nand a ram,\n\n23:15. He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt offering while I go to\nmeet him.\n\n23:16. And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his\nmouth, he said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou say to him.\n\n23:17. Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the\nprinces of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him: What hath the\nLord spoken?\n\n23:18. But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give\near: hear, thou son of Sephor:\n\n23:19. God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man,\nthat he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath\nhe spoken, and will he not fulfil?\n\n23:20. I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.\n\n23:21. There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be\nseen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the\nvictory of the king in him.\n\n23:22. God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the\nrhinoceros.\n\n23:23. There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In\ntheir times it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God hath\nwrought.\n\n23:24. Behold the people shall rise up as a lioness, and shall lift\nitself up as a lion: it shall not lie down till it devour the prey, and\ndrink the blood of the slain.\n\n23:25. And Balac said to Balaam: Neither curse, nor bless him.\n\n23:26. And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should\ncommand me, that I would do?\n\n23:27. And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another\nplace; if peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from\nthence.\n\n23:28. And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which\nlooketh towards the wilderness,\n\n23:29. Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as\nmany calves, and the same number of rams.\n\n23:30. Balac did as Balaam had said: and he laid on every altar, a calf\nand a ram.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 24\n\n\nBalaam still continues to prophesy good things in favour of Israel.\n\n24:1. And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord that he should bless\nIsrael, he went not as he had gone before, to seek divination: but\nsetting his face towards the desert,\n\n24:2. And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel abiding in their tents by\ntheir tribes: and the spirit of God rushing upon him,\n\n24:3. He took up his parable and said: Balaam the son of Beor hath\nsaid: The man hath said, whose eye is stopped up:\n\n24:4. The bearer of the words of God hath said, he that hath beheld the\nvision of the Almighty, he that falleth, and so his eyes are opened:\n\n24:5. How beautiful are thy tabernacles O Jacob, and thy tents, O\nIsrael!\n\n24:6. As woody valleys, as watered gardens near the rivers, as\ntabernacles which the Lord hath pitched, as cedars by the waterside.\n\n24:7. Water shall flow out of his bucket, and his seed shall be in many\nwaters. For Agag his king shall be removed, and his kingdom shall be\ntaken away.\n\n24:8. God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the\nrhinoceros. They shall devour the nations that are his enemies, and\nbreak their bones, and pierce them with arrows.\n\n24:9. Lying down he hath slept as a lion, and as a lioness, whom none\nshall dare to rouse. He that blesseth thee, shall also himself be\nblessed: he that curseth thee shall be reckoned accursed.\n\n24:10. And Balac being angry against Balaam, clapped his hands together\nand said: I called thee to curse my enemies, and thou on the contrary\nhast blessed them three times.\n\n24:11. Return to thy place. I had determined indeed greatly to honour\nthee, but the Lord hath deprived thee of the honour designed for thee.\n\n24:12. Balaam made answer to Balac: Did I not say to thy messengers,\nwhom thou sentest to me:\n\n24:13. If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I\ncannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to utter any thing of my\nown head either good or evil: but whatsoever the Lord shall say, that I\nwill speak?\n\n24:14. But yet going to my people, I will give thee counsel, what this\npeople shall do to thy people in the latter days.\n\n24:15. Therefore taking up his parable, again he said: Balaam the son\nof Beor hath said: The man whose eye is stopped up, hath said:\n\n24:16. The hearer of the words of God hath said, who knoweth the\ndoctrine of the Highest, and seeth the visions of the Almighty, who\nfalling hath his eyes opened:\n\n24:17. I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near.\nA STAR SHALL RISE out of Jacob and a sceptre shall spring up from\nIsrael: and shall strike the chiefs of Moab, and shall waste all the\nchildren of Seth\n\n24:18. And he shall possess Idumea: the inheritance of Seir shall come\nto their enemies, but Israel shall do manfully.\n\n24:19. Out of Jacob shall he come that shall rule, and shall destroy\nthe remains of the city.\n\n24:20. And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec\nthe beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed.\n\n24:21. He saw also the Cinite: and took up his parable, and said: Thy\nhabitation indeed is strong: but though thou build thy nest in a rock,\n\n24:22. And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be\nable to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive.\n\n24:23. And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live\nwhen God shall do these things?\n\n24:24. They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the\nAssyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves\nalso shall perish.\n\n24:25. And Balaam rose, and returned to his place: Balac also returned\nthe way that he came.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 25\n\n\nThe people fall into fornication and idolatry; for which twenty-four\nthousand are slain. The zeal of Phinees.\n\n25:1. And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed\nfornication with the daughters of Moab,\n\n25:2. Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and\nadored their gods.\n\n25:3. And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being\nangry,\n\nInitiated to Beelphegor. . .That is, they took to the worship of\nBeelphegor, an obscene idol of the Moabites, and were consecrated, as\nit were, to him.\n\n25:4. Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them\nup on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from\nIsrael.\n\n25:5. And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let every man kill his\nneighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor.\n\n25:6. And behold one of the children of Israel went in before his\nbrethren to a harlot of Madian, in the sight of Moses and of all the\nchildren of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle.\n\n25:7. And when Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest\nsaw it, he rose up from the midst of the multitude, and taking a\ndagger,\n\n25:8. Went in after the Israelite into the brothel house, and thrust\nboth of them through together, to wit, the man and the woman in the\ngenital parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel.\n\n25:9. And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.\n\n25:10. And the Lord said to Moses:\n\n25:11. Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath\nturned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved\nwith my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children\nof Israel in my zeal.\n\n25:12. Therefore say to him: behold I give him the peace of my\ncovenant,\n\n25:13. And the covenant of the priesthood for ever shall be both to him\nand his seed, because he hath been zealous for his God, and hath made\natonement for the wickedness of the children of Israel.\n\n25:14. And the name of the Israelite, that was slain with the woman of\nMadian, was Zambri the son of Salu, a prince of the kindred and tribe\nof Simeon.\n\n25:15. And the Madianite woman, that was slain with him, was called\nCozbi the daughter of Sur, a most noble prince among the Madianites.\n\n25:16. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n25:17. Let the Madianites find you their enemies, and slay you them:\n\n25:18. Because they also have acted like enemies against you, and have\nguilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a\ndaughter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the day of the plague\nfor the sacrilege of Phogor.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 26\n\n\nThe people are again numbered by their tribes and families.\n\n26:1. After the blood of the guilty was shed, the Lord said to Moses\nand to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest:\n\n26:2. Number the whole sum of the children of Israel from twenty years\nold and upward, by their houses and kindreds, all that are able to go\nforth to war.\n\n26:3. Moses therefore and Eleazar the priest, being in the plains of\nMoab upon the Jordan over against Jericho, spoke to them that were\n\n26:4. From twenty years old and upward, as the Lord had commanded: and\nthis is the number of them:\n\n26:5. Ruben the firstborn of Israel. His sons were Henoch, of whom is\nthe family of the Henochites: and Phallu, of whom is the family of the\nPhalluites:\n\n26:6. And Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Charmi,\nof whom is the family of the Charmites.\n\n26:7. These are the families of the stock of Ruben: whose number was\nfound to be forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.\n\n26:8. The son of Phallu was Eliab.\n\n26:9. His sons, were Namuel and Dathan and Abiron. These are Dathan and\nAbiron the princes of the people, that rose against Moses and Aaron in\nthe sedition of Core, when they rebelled against the Lord:\n\n26:10. And the earth opening her mouth swallowed up Core, many others\ndying, when the fire burned two hundred and fifty men. And there was a\ngreat miracle wrought,\n\n26:11. That when Core perished, his sons did not perish.\n\n26:12. The sons of Simeon by their kindreds: Namuel, of him is the\nfamily of the Namuelites: Jamin, of him is the family of the Jaminites:\nJachim, of him is the family of the Jachimites:\n\n26:13. Zare, of him is the family of the Zarites: Saul, of him is the\nfamily of the Saulites.\n\n26:14. These are the families of the stock of Simeon, of which the\nwhole number was twenty-two thousand two hundred.\n\n26:15. The sons of Gad by their kindreds: Sephon, of him is the family\nof the Sephonites: Aggi, of him is the family of the Aggites: Suni, of\nhim is the family of the Sunites:\n\n26:16. Ozni, of him is the family of the Oznites: Her, of him is the\nfamily of the Herites:\n\n26:17. Arod, of him is the family of the Arodites: Ariel, of him is the\nfamily of the Arielites.\n\n26:18. These are the families of Gad, of which the whole number was\nforty thousand five hundred.\n\n26:19. The sons of Juda, Her and Onan, who both died in the land of\nChanaan.\n\n26:20. And the sons of Juda by their kindreds were: Sela, of whom is\nthe family of the Selaites: Phares, of whom is the family of the\nPharesites: Zare, of whom is the family of the Zarites.\n\n26:21. Moreover the sons of Phares were: Hesron, of whom is the family\nof the Hesronites: and Hamul, of whom is the family of the Hamulites.\n\n26:22. These are the families of Juda, of which the whole number was\nseventy-six thousand five hundred.\n\n26:23. The sons of Issachar, by their kindreds: Thola of whom is the\nfamily of the Tholaites: Phua, of whom is the family of the Phuaites:\n\n26:24. Jasub, of whom is the family of the Jasubites: Semran, of whom\nis the family of the Semranites.\n\n26:25. These are the kindreds of Issachar, whose number was sixty-four\nthousand three hundred.\n\n26:26. The sons of Zabulon by their kindreds: Sared, of whom is the\nfamily of the Saredites: Elon, of whom is the family of the Elonites:\nJalel, of whom is the family of the Jalelites.\n\n26:27. These are the kindreds of Zabulon, whose number was sixty\nthousand five hundred.\n\n26:28. The sons of Joseph by their kindred, Manasses and Ephraim.\n\n26:29. Of Manasses was born Machir, of whom is the family of the\nMachirites. Machir begot Galaad, of whom is the family of the\nGalaadites.\n\n26:30. Galaad had sons: Jezer, of whom is the family of the Jezerites:\nand Helec, of whom is the family of the Helecites:\n\n26:31. And Asriel, of whom is the family of the Asrielites: and Sechem,\nof whom is the family of the Sechemites:\n\n26:32. And Semida, of whom is the family of the Semidaites: and Hepher,\nof whom is the family of the Hepherites.\n\n26:33. And Hepher was the father of Salphaad, who had no sons, but only\ndaughters, whose names are these: Maala, and Noa, and Hegla, and\nMelcha, and Thersa.\n\n26:34. These are the families of Manasses, and the number of them\nfifty-two thousand seven hundred.\n\n26:35. And the sons of Ephraim by their kindreds were these: Suthala,\nof whom is the family of the Suthalaites: Becher, of whom is the family\nof the Becherites: Thehen, of whom is the family of the Thehenites.\n\n26:36. Now the son of Suthala was Heran, of whom is the family of the\nHeranites.\n\n26:37. These are the kindreds of the sons of Ephraim: whose number was\nthirty-two thousand five hundred.\n\n26:38. These are the sons of Joseph by their families. The sons of\nBenjamin in their kindreds: Bela, of whom is the family of the\nBelaites: Asbel, of whom is the family of the Asbelites: Ahiram, of\nwhom is the family of the Ahiramites:\n\n26:39. Supham, of whom is the family of the Suphamites: Hupham, of whom\nis the family of the Huphamites.\n\n26:40. The sons of Bela: Hered, and Noeman. Of Hered, is the family of\nthe Heredites: of Noeman, the family of the Noemanites.\n\n26:41. These are the sons of Benjamin by their kindreds, whose number\nwas forty-five thousand six hundred.\n\n26:42. The sons of Dan by their kindreds: Suham, of whom is the family\nof the Suhamites: These are the kindreds of Dan by their families.\n\n26:43. All were Suhamites, whose number was sixty-four thousand four\nhundred.\n\n26:44. The sons of Aser by their kindreds: Jemna, of whom is the family\nof the Jemnaites: Jessui, of whom is the family of the Jessuites: Brie,\nof whom is the family of the Brieites.\n\n26:45. The sons of Brie: Heber, of whom is the family of the Heberites:\nand Melchiel, of whom is the family of the Melchielites.\n\n26:46. And the name of the daughter of Aser, was Sara.\n\n26:47. These are the kindreds of the sons of Aser, and their number\nfifty-three thousand four hundred.\n\n26:48. The sons of Nephtali by their kindreds: Jesiel, of whom is the\nfamily of the Jesielites: Guni, of whom is the family of the Gunites:\n\n26:49. Jeser, of whom is the family of the Jeserites: Sellem, of whom\nis the family of the Sellemites.\n\n26:50. These are the kindreds of the sons of Nephtali by their\nfamilies: whose number was forty-five thousand four hundred.\n\n26:51. This is the sum of the children of Israel, that were reckoned\nup, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.\n\n26:52. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n26:53. To these shall the land be divided for their possessions\naccording to the number of names.\n\n26:54. To the greater number thou shalt give a greater portion, and to\nthe fewer a less: to every one, as they have now been reckoned up,\nshall a possession be delivered:\n\n26:55. Yet so that by lot the land be divided to the tribe and\nfamilies.\n\n26:56. Whatsoever shall fall by lot, that shall be taken by the more,\nor the fewer.\n\n26:57. This also is the number of the sons of Levi by their families:\nGerson, of whom is the family of the Gersonites: Caath, of whom is the\nfamily of the Caathites: Merari, of whom is the family of the\nMerarites.\n\n26:58. These are the families of Levi: The family of Lobni, the family\nof Hebroni, the family of Core. Now Caath begot Amram:\n\n26:59. Who had to wife Jochabed the daughter of Levi, who was born to\nhim in Egypt. She bore to her husband Amram sons, Aaron and Moses, and\nMary their sister.\n\n26:60. Of Aaron were born Nadab and Abiu, and Eleazar and Ithamar:\n\n26:61. Of whom Nadab and Abiu died, when they had offered the strange\nfire before the Lord.\n\n26:62. And all that were numbered, were twenty-three thousand males\nfrom one month old and upward: for they were not reckoned up among the\nchildren of Israel, neither was a possession given to them with the\nrest.\n\n26:63. This is the number of the children of Israel, that were enrolled\nby Moses and Eleazar the priest, in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan,\nover against Jericho.\n\n26:64. Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before\nby Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai.\n\n26:65. For the Lord had foretold that they should die in the\nwilderness. And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone,\nand Josue the son of Nun.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 27\n\n\nThe law of inheritance. Josue is appointed to succeed Moses.\n\n27:1. Then came the daughters of Salphaad, the son of Hepher, the son\nof Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses, who was the son of\nJoseph: and their names are Maala, and Noa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and\nThersa.\n\n27:2. And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the\nprinces of the people at the door of the tabernacle of the covenant,\nand said:\n\n27:3. Our father died in the desert, and was not in the sedition, that\nwas raised against the Lord under Core, but he died in his own sin: and\nhe had no male children. Why is his name taken away out of his family,\nbecause he had no son? Give us a possession among the kinsmen of our\nfather.\n\n27:4. And Moses referred their cause to the judgment of the Lord.\n\n27:5. And the Lord said to him:\n\n27:6. The daughters of Salphaad demand a just thing: Give them a\npossession among their father's kindred, and let them succeed him in\nhis inheritance.\n\n27:7. And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak these things:\n\n27:8. When a man dieth without a son, his inheritance shall pass to his\ndaughter.\n\n27:9. If he have no daughter, his brethren shall succeed him.\n\n27:10. And if he have no brethren, you shall give the inheritance to\nhis father's brethren.\n\n27:11. But if he have no uncles by the father, the inheritance shall be\ngiven to them that are the next akin. And this shall be to the children\nof Israel sacred by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded Moses.\n\n27:12. The Lord also said to Moses: Go up into this mountain Abarim,\nand view from thence the land which I will give to the children of\nIsrael.\n\n27:13. And when thou shalt have seen it, thou also shalt go to thy\npeople, as thy brother Aaron is gone:\n\n27:14. Because you offended me in the desert of Sin in the\ncontradiction of the multitude, neither would you sanctify me before\nthem at the waters. These are the waters of contradiction in Cades of\nthe desert of Sin.\n\n27:15. And Moses answered him:\n\n27:16. May the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh provide a man,\nthat may be over this multitude:\n\n27:17. And may go out and in before them, and may lead them out, or\nbring them in: lest the people of the Lord be as sheep without a\nshepherd.\n\n27:18. And the Lord said to him: take Josue the son of Nun, a man in\nwhom is the Spirit, and put thy hand upon him.\n\n27:19. And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest and all the\nmultitude:\n\n27:20. And thou shalt give him precepts in the sight of all, and part\nof thy glory, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may\nhear him.\n\n27:21. If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the priest shall consult the\nLord for him. He and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest\nof the multitude shall go out and go in at his word.\n\n27:22. Moses did as the Lord had commanded. And, when he had taken\nJosue, he set him before Eleazar the priest, and all the assembly of\nthe people,\n\n27:23. And laying his hands on his head, he repeated all things that\nthe Lord had commanded.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 28\n\n\nSacrifices are appointed as well for every day as for sabbaths, and\nother festivals.\n\n28:1. The Lord also said to Moses:\n\n28:2. Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Offer\nye my oblation and my bread, and burnt sacrifice of most sweet odour,\nin their due seasons.\n\n28:3. These are the sacrifices which you shall offer: Two lambs of a\nyear old without blemish every day for the perpetual holocaust:\n\n28:4. One you shall offer in the mornings, and the other in the\nevening:\n\n28:5. And the tenth part of an ephi of flour, which shall be tempered\nwith the, purest oil, of the measure of the fourth part of a hin.\n\n28:6. It is the continual holocaust which you offered in mount Sinai\nfor a most sweet odour of a sacrifice by fire to the Lord.\n\n28:7. And for a libation you shall offer of wine the fourth part of a\nhin for every lamb in the sanctuary of the Lord.\n\n28:8. And you shall offer the other lamb in like manner in the evening\naccording to all the rites of the morning sacrifice, and of the\nlibations thereof, an oblation of most sweet odour to the Lord.\n\n28:9. And on the sabbath day you shall offer two lambs of a year old\nwithout blemish, and two tenths of flour tempered with oil in\nsacrifice, and the libations,\n\n28:10. Which regularly are poured out every sabbath for the perpetual\nholocaust.\n\n28:11. And on the first day of the month you shall offer a holocaust to\nthe Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year\nold, without blemish,\n\n28:12. And three tenths of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice for\nevery calf: and two tenths of flour tempered with oil for every ram:\n\n28:13. And the tenth of a tenth of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice\nfor every lamb. It is a holocaust of most sweet odour and an offering\nby fire to the Lord.\n\n28:14. And these shall be the libations of wine that are to be poured\nout for every victim: Half a hin for every calf, a third for a ram, and\na fourth for a lamb. This shall be the holocaust for every month, as\nthey succeed one another in the course of the year.\n\n28:15. A buck goat also shall be offered to the Lord for a sin offering\nover and above the perpetual holocaust with its libations.\n\n28:16. And in the first month, on the four tenth day of the month,\nshall be the phase of the Lord,\n\n28:17. And on the fifteenth day the solemn feast: seven days shall they\neat unleavened bread.\n\n28:18. And the first day of them shall be venerable and holy: you shall\nnot do any servile work therein.\n\n28:19. And you shall offer a burnt sacrifice a holocaust to the Lord,\ntwo calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old, without\nblemish:\n\n28:20. And for the sacrifice of every one three tenths of flour which\nshall be tempered with oil to every calf, and two tenths to every ram,\n\n28:21. And the tenth of a tenth, to every lamb, that is to say, to all\nthe seven lambs:\n\n28:22. And one buck goat for sin, to make atonement for you,\n\n28:23. Besides the morning holocaust which you shall always offer.\n\n28:24. So shall you do every day of the seven days for the food of the\nfire, and for a most sweet odour to the Lord, which shall rise from the\nholocaust, and from the libations of each.\n\n28:25. The seventh day also shall be most solemn and holy unto you, you\nshall do no servile work therein.\n\n28:26. The day also of firstfruits, when after the weeks are\naccomplished, you shall offer new fruits to the Lord, shall be\nvenerable and holy: you shall do no servile work therein.\n\n28:27. And you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the\nLord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old,\nwithout blemish:\n\n28:28. And in the sacrifices of them three tenths of flour tempered\nwith oil to every calf, two to every ram,\n\n28:29. The tenth of a tenth to every lamb, which in all are seven\nlambs: a buck goat also,\n\n28:30. Which is slain for expiation: besides the perpetual holocaust\nand the libations thereof.\n\n28:31. You shall offer them all without blemish with their libations.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 29\n\n\nSacrifices for the festivals of the seventh month.\n\n29:1. The first day also of the seventh month shall be venerable and\nholy unto you; you shall do no servile work therein, because it is the\nday of the sounding and of trumpets.\n\n29:2. And you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the\nLord, one calf of the herd, one ram and seven lambs of a year old,\nwithout blemish.\n\n29:3. And for their sacrifices, three tenths of flour tempered with oil\nto every calf, two tenths to a ram,\n\n29:4. One tenth to a lamb, which in all are seven lambs:\n\n29:5. And a buck goat for sin, which is offered for the expiation of\nthe people,\n\n29:6. Besides the holocaust of the first day of the month with the\nsacrifices thereof, and the perpetual holocaust with the accustomed\nlibations. With the same ceremonies you shall offer a burnt sacrifice\nfor a most sweet odour to the Lord.\n\n29:7. The tenth day also of this seventh month shall be holy and\nvenerable unto you, and you shall afflict your souls; you shall do no\nservile work therein.\n\n29:8. And you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord for a most sweet\nodour, one calf of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old,\nwithout blemish:\n\n29:9. And for their sacrifices, three tenths of flour tempered with oil\nto every calf, two tenths to a ram,\n\n29:10. The tenth of a tenth to every lamb, which are in all seven\nlambs:\n\n29:11. And a buck goat for sin, besides the things that are wont to be\noffered for sin, for expiation, and for the perpetual holocaust with\ntheir sacrifice and libations.\n\n29:12. And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, which shall be\nunto you holy and venerable, you shall do no servile work, but shall\ncelebrate a solemnity to the Lord seven days.\n\n29:13. And you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the\nLord, thirteen calves of the herd, two rams, and fourteen lambs of a\nyear old, without blemish:\n\n29:14. And for their libations three tenths of flour tempered with oil\nto every calf, being in all thirteen calves: and two tenths to each\nram, being two rams,\n\n29:15. And the tenth of a tenth to every lamb, being in all fourteen\nlambs:\n\n29:16. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and\nthe sacrifice and the libation thereof.\n\n29:17. On the second day you shall offer twelve calves of the herd, two\nrams and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:\n\n29:18. And the sacrifices and the libations for every one, for the\ncalves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall duly celebrate:\n\n29:19. And a buck goat for a sin offering besides the perpetual\nholocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof.\n\n29:20. The third day you shall offer eleven calves, two rams, and\nfourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:\n\n29:21. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves\nand for the rams and for the lambs you shall offer according to the\nrite:\n\n29:22. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and\nthe sacrifice, and the libation thereof.\n\n29:23. The fourth day you shall offer ten calves, two rams, and\nfourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:\n\n29:24. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves\nand for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate in right manner:\n\n29:25. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and\nthe sacrifice and the libation thereof.\n\n29:26. The fifth day you shall offer nine calves, two rams, and\nfourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:\n\n29:27. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves\nand for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the\nrite:\n\n29:28. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and\nthe sacrifice and the libation thereof.\n\n29:29. The sixth day you shall offer eight calves, two rams, and\nfourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:\n\n29:30. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves\nand for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the\nrite:\n\n29:31. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and\nthe sacrifice and the libation thereof.\n\n29:32. The seventh day you shall offer seven calves and two rams, and\nfourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:\n\n29:33. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves\nand for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the\nrite:\n\n29:34. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and\nthe sacrifice and the libation thereof.\n\n29:35. On the eighth day, which is most solemn, you shall do no servile\nwork:\n\n29:36. But you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the\nLord, one calf, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without\nblemish:\n\n29:37. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves\nand for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the\nrite:\n\n29:38. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and\nthe sacrifice and the libation thereof.\n\n29:39. These things shall you offer to the Lord in your solemnities:\nbesides your vows and voluntary oblations for holocaust, for sacrifice,\nfor libation, and for victims of peace offerings.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 30\n\n\nOf vows and oaths: and their obligation.\n\n30:1. And Moses told the children of Israel all that the Lord had\ncommanded him:\n\n30:2. And he said to the princes of the tribes of the children of\nIsrael: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded:\n\n30:3. If any man make a vow to the Lord, or bind himself by an oath: he\nshall not make his word void but shall fulfil all that he promised.\n\n30:4. If a woman vow any thing, and bind herself by an oath, being in\nher father's house, and but yet a girl in age: if her father knew the\nvow that she hath promised, and the oath wherewith she hath bound her\nsoul, and held his peace, she shall be bound by the vow:\n\n30:5. Whatsoever she promised and swore, she shall fulfil in deed.\n\n30:6. But if her father, immediately as soon as he heard it, gainsaid\nit, both her vows and her oaths shall be void, neither shall she be\nbound to what she promised, because her father hath gainsaid it.\n\n30:7. If she have a husband, and shall vow any thing, and the word once\ngoing out of her mouth shall bind her soul by an oath,\n\n30:8. The day that her husband shall hear it, and not gainsay it, she\nshall be bound to the vow, and shall give whatsoever she promised.\n\n30:9. But if as soon as he heareth he gainsay it, and make her promises\nand the words wherewith she had bound her soul of no effect: the Lord\nwill forgive her.\n\n30:10. The widow, and she that is divorced, shall fulfil whatsoever\nthey vow.\n\n30:11. If the wife in the house of her husband, hath bound herself by\nvow and by oath,\n\n30:12. If her husband hear, and hold his peace, and doth not disallow\nthe promise, she shall accomplish whatsoever she had promised.\n\n30:13. But if forthwith he gainsay it, she shall not be bound by the\npromise: because her husband gainsaid it, and the Lord will be merciful\nto her.\n\n30:14. If she vow and bind herself by oath, to afflict her soul by\nfasting, or abstinence from other things, it shall depend on the will\nof her husband, whether she shall do it, or not do it.\n\n30:15. But if the husband hearing it hold his peace, and defer the\ndeclaring his mind till another day: whatsoever she had vowed and\npromised, she shall fulfil: because immediately as he heard it, he held\nhis peace.\n\n30:16. But if he gainsay it after that he knew it, he shall bear her\niniquity.\n\n30:17. These are the laws which the Lord appointed to Moses between the\nhusband and the wife, between the father and the daughter that is as\nyet but a girl in age, or that abideth in her father's house.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 31\n\n\nThe Madianites are slain for having drawn the people of Israel into\nsin. The dividing of the booty.\n\n31:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n31:2. Revenge first the children of Israel on the Madianites, and so\nthou shalt be gathered to thy people.\n\n31:3. And Moses forthwith said: Arm of you men to fight, who may take\nthe revenge of the Lord on the Madianites.\n\n31:4. Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be\nsent to the war.\n\n31:5. And they gave a thousand of every tribe, that is to say, twelve\nthousand men well appointed for battle.\n\n31:6. And Moses sent them with Phinees the son of Eleazar the priest,\nand he delivered to him the holy vessels, and the trumpets to sound.\n\n31:7. And when they had fought against the Madianites and had overcome\nthem, they slew all the men.\n\n31:8. And their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebe, five\nprinces of the nation: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the\nsword.\n\n31:9. And they took their women, and their children captives, and all\ntheir cattle, and all their goods: and all their possessions they\nplundered:\n\n31:10. And all their cities, and their villages, and castles, they\nburned.\n\n31:11. And they carried away the booty, and all that they had taken\nboth of men and of beasts.\n\n31:12. And they brought them to Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and to\nall the multitude of the children of Israel. But the rest of the things\nfor use they carried to the camp on the plains of Moab, beside the\nJordan over against Jericho.\n\n31:13. And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the\nsynagogue went forth to meet them without the camp.\n\n31:14. And Moses being angry with the chief officers of the army, the\ntribunes, and the centurions that were come from the battle,\n\n31:15. Said: Why have you saved the women?\n\n31:16. Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the\ncounsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin\nof Phogor, for which also the people was punished?\n\nThe sin of Phogor. . .The sin committed in the worship of Beelphegor.\n\n31:17. Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the\nchildren: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men.\n\nOf children. . .Women and children, ordinarily speaking, were not to be\nkilled in war, Deut. 20.14. But the great Lord of life and death was\npleased to order it otherwise in the present case, in detestation of\nthe wickedness of this people, who by the counsel of Balaam, had sent\ntheir women among the Israelites on purpose to draw them from God.\n\n31:18. But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for\nyourselves:\n\n31:19. And stay without the camp seven days. He that hath killed a man,\nor touched one that is killed, shall be purified the third day and the\nseventh day.\n\n31:20. And of all the spoil, every garment, or vessel, or any thing\nmade for use, of the skins, or hair of goats, or of wood, shall be\npurified.\n\n31:21. Eleazar also the priest spoke to the men of the army, that had\nfought, in this manner: This is the ordinance of the law, which the\nLord hath commanded Moses:\n\n31:22. Gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin,\n\n31:23. And all that may pass through the fire, shall be purified by\nfire, but whatsoever cannot abide the fire, shall be sanctified with\nthe water of expiation:\n\n31:24. And you shall wash your garments the seventh day, and being\npurified, you shall afterwards enter into the camp.\n\n31:25. And the Lord said to Moses:\n\n31:26. Take the sum of the things that were taken both of man and\nbeast, thou and Eleazar the priest and the princes of the multitude:\n\n31:27. And thou shalt divide the spoil equally, between them that\nfought and went out to the war, and between the rest of the multitude.\n\n31:28. And thou shalt separate a portion to the Lord from them that\nfought and were in the battle, one soul of five hundred as well of\npersons as of oxen and asses and sheep.\n\n31:29. And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the priest, because they are\nthe firstfruits of the Lord.\n\n31:30. Out of the moiety also of the children of Israel thou shalt take\nthe fiftieth head of persons, and of oxen, and asses, and sheep, and of\nall beasts, and thou shalt give them to the Levites that watch in the\ncharge of the tabernacle of the Lord.\n\n31:31. And Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord had commanded.\n\n31:32. And the spoil which the army had taken, was six hundred\nseventy-five thousand sheep,\n\n31:33. Seventy-two thousand oxen,\n\n31:34. Sixty-one thousand asses:\n\n31:35. And thirty-two thousand persons of the female sex, that had not\nknown men.\n\n31:36. And one half was given to them that had been in the battle, to\nwit, three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:\n\n31:37. Out of which, for the portion of the Lord, were reckoned six\nhundred seventy five sheep.\n\n31:38. And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen, seventy-two oxen:\n\n31:39. Out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses, sixty-one asses:\n\n31:40. Out of the sixteen thousand persons, there fell to the portion\nof the Lord, thirty-two souls.\n\n31:41. And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of the Lord to\nEleazar the priest, as had been commanded him,\n\n31:42. Out of the half of the children of Israel, which he had\nseparated for them that had been in the battle.\n\n31:43. But out of the half that fell to the rest of the multitude, that\nis to say, out of the three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred\nsheep,\n\n31:44. And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen,\n\n31:45. And out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses,\n\n31:46. And out of the sixteen thousand persons,\n\n31:47. Moses took the fiftieth head, and gave it to the Levites that\nwatched in the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded.\n\n31:48. And when the commanders of the army, and the tribunes and\ncenturions were come to Moses, they said:\n\n31:49. We thy servants have reckoned up the number of the fighting men,\nwhom we had under our hand, and not so much as one was wanting.\n\n31:50. Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold every one of\nus could find in the booty, in garters and tablets, rings and\nbracelets, and chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us.\n\n31:51. And Moses and Eleazar the priest received all the gold in divers\nkinds,\n\n31:52. In weight sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty sicles, from\nthe tribunes and from the centurions.\n\n31:53. For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own.\n\n31:54. And that which was received they brought into the tabernacle of\nthe testimony, for a memorial of the children of Israel before the\nLord.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 32\n\n\nThe tribes of Ruben and Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasses, receive\ntheir inheritance on the east side of Jordan, upon conditions approved\nof by Moses.\n\n32:1. And the sons of Ruben and Gad had many flocks of cattle, and\ntheir substance in beasts was infinite. And when they saw the lands of\nJazer and Galaad fit for feeding cattle,\n\n32:2. They came to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and the princes of the\nmultitude, and said:\n\n32:3. Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nemra, Hesebon, and Eleale,\nand Saban, and Nebo, and Beon,\n\n32:4. The land, which the Lord hath conquered in the sight of the\nchildren of Israel, is a very fertile soil for the feeding of beasts:\nand we thy servants have very much cattle:\n\n32:5. And we pray thee, if we have found favour in thy sight, that thou\ngive it to us thy servants in possession, and make us not pass over the\nJordan.\n\n32:6. And Moses answered them: What, shall your brethren go to fight,\nand will you sit here?\n\n32:7. Why do ye overturn the minds of the children of Israel, that they\nmay not dare to pass into the place which the Lord hath given them?\n\n32:8. Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from Cadesbarne to\nview the land?\n\n32:9. And when they were come as far as the valley of the cluster,\nhaving viewed all the country, they overturned the hearts of the\nchildren of Israel, that they should not enter into the coasts, which\nthe Lord gave them.\n\n32:10. And he swore in his anger, saying:\n\n32:11. If these men, that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old\nand upward, shall see the land, which I promised with an oath to\nAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob: because they would not follow me,\n\n32:12. Except Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite, and Josue the son\nof Nun: these have fulfilled my will.\n\n32:13. And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through\nthe desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil\nin his sight, was consumed.\n\n32:14. And behold, said he, you are risen up instead of your fathers,\nthe increase and offspring of sinful men, to augment the fury of the\nLord against Israel.\n\n32:15. For if you will not follow him, he will leave the people in the\nwilderness, and you shall be the cause of the destruction of all.\n\n32:16. But they coming near, said: We will make sheepfolds, and stalls\nfor our cattle, and strong cities for our children:\n\n32:17. And we ourselves will go armed and ready for battle before the\nchildren of Israel, until we bring them in unto their places. Our\nlittle ones, and all we have, shall be in walled cities, for fear of\nthe ambushes of the inhabitants.\n\n32:18. We will not return into our houses until the children of Israel\npossess their inheritance:\n\n32:19. Neither will we seek any thing beyond the Jordan, because we\nhave already our possession on the east side thereof,\n\n32:20. And Moses said to them: If you do what you promise, go on well\nappointed for war before the Lord:\n\n32:21. And let every fighting man pass over the Jordan, until the Lord\noverthrow his enemies:\n\n32:22. And all the land be brought under him, then shall you be\nblameless before the Lord and before Israel, and you shall obtain the\ncountries that you desire, before the Lord.\n\n32:23. But if you do not what you say, no man can doubt but you sin\nagainst God: and know ye, that your sin shall overtake you.\n\n32:24. Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls\nfor your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.\n\n32:25. And the children of Gad and Ruben said to Moses: We are thy\nservants, we will do what my lord commandeth.\n\n32:26. We will leave our children, and our wives and sheep and cattle,\nin the cities of Galaad:\n\n32:27. And we thy servants all well appointed will march on to the war,\nas thou, my lord, speakest.\n\n32:28. Moses therefore commanded Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son\nof Nun, and the princes of the families of all the tribes of Israel,\nand said to them:\n\n32:29. If the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben pass with you\nover the Jordan, all armed for war before the Lord, and the land be\nmade subject to you: give them Galaad in possession.\n\n32:30. But if they will not pass armed with you into the land of\nChanaan, let them receive places to dwell in among you.\n\n32:31. And the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben answered: As\nthe Lord hath spoken to his servants, so will we do:\n\n32:32. We will go armed before the Lord into the land of Chanaan, and\nwe confess that we have already received our possession beyond the\nJordan.\n\n32:33. Moses therefore gave to the children of Gad and of Ruben, and to\nthe half tribe of Manasses the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sehon king\nof the Amorrhites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, and their land\nand the cities thereof round about.\n\n32:34. And the sons of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,\n\n32:35. And Etroth, and Sophan, and Jazer, and Jegbaa,\n\n32:36. And Bethnemra, and Betharan, fenced cities, and folds for their\ncattle.\n\n32:37. But the children of Ruben built Hesebon, and Eleale, and\nCariathaim,\n\n32:38. And Nabo, and Baalmeon (their names being changed) and Sabama:\ngiving names to the cities which they had built.\n\n32:39. Moreover the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, went into\nGalaad, and wasted it, cutting off the Amorrhites, the inhabitants\nthereof.\n\n32:40. And Moses gave the land of Galaad to Machir the son of Manasses,\nand he dwelt in it.\n\n32:41. And Jair the son of Manasses went, and took the villages\nthereof, and he called them Havoth Jair, that is to say, the villages\nof Jair.\n\n32:42. Nobe also went, and took Canath with the villages thereof: and\nhe called it by his own name, Nobe.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 33\n\n\nThe mansions or journeys of the children of Israel towards the land of\npromise.\n\n33:1. These are the mansions of the children of Israel, who went out of\nEgypt by their troops under the conduct of Moses and Aaron,\n\nThe mansions. . .These mansions, or journeys of the children of Israel\nfrom Egypt to the land of promise, were figures, according to the\nfathers, of the steps and degrees by which Christians leaving sin are\nto advance from virtue to virtue, till they come to the heavenly\nmansions, after this life, to see and enjoy God.\n\n33:2. Which Moses wrote down according to the places of their\nencamping, which they changed by the commandment of the Lord.\n\n33:3. Now the children of Israel departed from Ramesses the first\nmonth, on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the\nphase, with a mighty hand, in the sight of all the Egyptians,\n\n33:4. Who were burying their firstborn, whom the Lord had slain (upon\ntheir gods also he had executed vengeance,)\n\n33:5. And they camped in Soccoth.\n\n33:6. And from Soccoth they came into Etham, which is in the uttermost\nborders of the wilderness.\n\n33:7. Departing from thence they came over against Phihahiroth, which\nlooketh towards Beelsephon, and they camped before Magdalum.\n\n33:8. And departing from Phihahiroth, they passed through the midst of\nthe sea into the wilderness: and having marched three days through the\ndesert of Etham, they camped in Mara.\n\n33:9. And departing from Mara, they came into Elim, where there were\ntwelve fountains of waters, and seventy palm trees: and there they\ncamped.\n\n33:10. But departing from thence also, they pitched their tents by the\nRed Sea. And departing from the Red Sea,\n\n33:11. They camped in the desert of Sin.\n\n33:12. And they removed from thence, and came to Daphca.\n\n33:13. And departing from Daphca, they camped in Alus.\n\n33:14. And departing from Alus, they pitched their tents in Raphidim,\nwhere the people wanted water to drink.\n\n33:15. And departing from Raphidim, they camped in the desert of Sinai.\n\n33:16. But departing also from the desert of Sinai, they came to the\ngraves of lust.\n\n33:17. And departing from the graves of lust, they camped in Haseroth.\n\n33:18. And from Haseroth they came to Rethma.\n\n33:19. And departing from Rethma, they camped in Remmomphares.\n\n33:20. And they departed from thence and came to Lebna.\n\n33:21. Removing from Lebna they camped in Ressa.\n\n33:22. And departing from Ressa, they came to Ceelatha.\n\n33:23. And they removed from thence and camped in the mountain Sepher.\n\n33:24. Departing from the mountain Sepher, they came to Arada,\n\n33:25. From thence they went and camped in Maceloth.\n\n33:26. And departing from Maceloth, they came to Thahath.\n\n33:27. Removing from Thahath they camped in Thare.\n\n33:28. And they departed from thence, and pitched their tents in\nMethca.\n\n33:29. And removing from Methca, they camped in Hesmona.\n\n33:30. And departing from Hesmona, they came to Moseroth.\n\n33:31. And removing from Moseroth, they camped in Benejaacan.\n\n33:32. And departing from Benejaacan, they came to mount Gadgad.\n\n33:33. From thence they went and camped in Jetebatha.\n\n33:34. And from Jetebatha they came to Hebrona.\n\n33:35. And departing from Hebrona, they camped in Asiongaber.\n\n33:36. They removed from thence and came into the desert of Sin, which\nis Cades.\n\n33:37. And departing from Cades, they camped in mount Hor, in the\nuttermost borders of the land of Edom.\n\n33:38. And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment\nof the Lord: and there he died in the fortieth year of the coming forth\nof the children of Israel out of Egypt, the fifth month, the first day\nof the month,\n\n33:39. When he was a hundred and twenty-three years old.\n\n33:40. And king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south, heard\nthat the children of Israel were come to the land of Chanaan.\n\n33:41. And they departed from mount Hor, and camped in Salmona.\n\n33:42. From whence they removed and came to Phunon.\n\n33:43. And departing from Phunon, they camped in Oboth.\n\n33:44. And from Oboth they came to Ijeabarim, which is in the borders\nof the Moabites.\n\n33:45. And departing from Ijeabarim they pitched their tents in\nDibongab.\n\n33:46. From thence they went and camped in Helmondeblathaim.\n\n33:47. And departing from Helmondeblathaim, they came to the mountains\nof Abarim over against Nabo.\n\n33:48. And departing from the mountains of Abarim, they passed to the\nplains of Moab, by the Jordan, over against Jericho.\n\n33:49. And there they camped from Bethsimoth even to Ablesatim in the\nplains of the Moabites,\n\n33:50. Where the Lord said to Moses:\n\n33:51. Command the children of Israel, and say to them: When you shall\nhave passed over the Jordan, entering into the land of Chanaan,\n\n33:52. Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: Beat down their\npillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high\nplaces,\n\n33:53. Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you\nfor a possession.\n\n33:54. And you shall divide it among you by lot. To the more you shall\ngive a larger part, and to the fewer a lesser. To every one as the lot\nshall fall, so shall the inheritance be given. The possession shall be\ndivided by the tribes and the families.\n\n33:55. But if you will not kill the inhabitants of the land: they that\nremain, shall be unto you as nails in your eyes, and spears in your\nsides, and they shall be your adversaries in the land of your\nhabitation.\n\n33:56. And whatsoever I had thought to do to them, I will do to you.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 34\n\n\nThe limits of Chanaan; with the names of the men that make the division\nof it.\n\n34:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n34:2. Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When\nyou are entered into the land of Chanaan, and it shall be fallen into\nyour possession by lot, it shall be bounded by these limits:\n\n34:3. The south side shall begin from the wilderness of Sin, which is\nby Edom: and shall have the most salt sea for its furthest limits\neastward:\n\nThe most salt sea. . .The lake of Sodom, otherwise called the Dead Sea.\n\n34:4. Which limits shall go round on the south side by the ascent of\nthe Scorpion and so into Senna, and reach toward the south as far as\nCadesbarne, from whence the frontiers shall go out to the town called\nAdar, and shall reach as far as Asemona.\n\nThe Scorpion. . .A mountain so called from having a great number of\nscorpions.\n\n34:5. And the limits shall fetch a compass from Asemona to the torrent\nof Egypt, and shall end in the shore of the great sea.\n\nThe great sea. . .The Mediterranean.\n\n34:6. And the west side shall begin from the great sea, and the same\nshall be the end thereof.\n\n34:7. But toward the north side the borders shall begin from the great\nsea, reaching to the most high mountain,\n\nThe most high mountain. . .Libanus.\n\n34:8. From which they shall come to Emath, as far as the borders of\nSedada:\n\n34:9. And the limits shall go as far as Zephrona, and the village of\nEnan. These shall be the borders on the north side.\n\n34:10. From thence they shall mark out the grounds towards the east\nside from the village of Enan unto Sephama.\n\n34:11. And from Sephama the bounds shall go down to Rebla over against\nthe fountain of Daphnis: from thence they shall come eastward to the\nsea of Cenereth,\n\nSea of Cenereth. . .This is the sea of Galilee, illustrated by the\nmiracles of our Lord.\n\n34:12. And shall reach as far as the Jordan, and at the last shall be\nclosed in by the most salt sea. This shall be your land with its\nborders round about.\n\n34:13. And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: This shall\nbe the land which you shall possess by lot, and which the Lord hath\ncommanded to be given to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe.\n\n34:14. For the tribe of the children of Ruben by their families, and\nthe tribe of the children of Gad according to the number of their\nkindreds, and half of the tribe of Manasses,\n\n34:15. That is, two tribes and a half, have received their portion\nbeyond the Jordan over against Jericho at the east side.\n\n34:16. And the Lord said to Moses:\n\n34:17. These are the names of the men, that shall divide the land unto\nyou: Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun,\n\n34:18. And one prince of every tribe,\n\n34:19. Whose names are these: Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of\nJephone.\n\n34:20. Of the tribe of Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammiud.\n\n34:21. Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chaselon.\n\n34:22. Of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bocci the son of Jogli.\n\n34:23. Of the children of Joseph of the tribe of Manasses, Hanniel the\nson of Ephod.\n\n34:24. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Camuel the son of Sephtan.\n\n34:25. Of the tribe of Zabulon, Elisaphan the son of Pharnach.\n\n34:26. Of the tribe of Issachar, Phaltiel the prince, the son of Ozan.\n\n34:27. Of the tribe of Aser, Ahiud the son of Salomi.\n\n34:28. Of the tribe of Nephtali: Phedael the son of Ammiud.\n\n34:29. These are they Whom the Lord hath commanded to divide the land\nof Chanaan to the children of Israel.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 35\n\n\nCities are appointed for the Levites. Of which six are to be the cities\nof refuge.\n\n35:1. And the Lord spoke these things also to Moses in the plains of\nMoab by the Jordan, over against Jericho:\n\n35:2. Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out\nof their possessions,\n\n35:3. Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may\nabide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for them cattle and beasts:\n\n35:4. Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a\nthousand paces on every side:\n\n35:5. Toward the east shall be two thousand cubits: and toward the\nsouth in like manner shall be two thousand cubits: toward the sea also,\nwhich looketh to the west, shall be the same extent: and the north side\nshall be bounded with the like limits. And the cities shall be in the\nmidst, and the suburbs without.\n\n35:6. And among the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, six\nshall be separated for refuge to fugitives, that he who hath shed blood\nmay flee to them: and besides these there shall be other forty-two\ncities,\n\n35:7. That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.\n\n35:8. And of these cities which shall be given out of the possessions\nof the children of Israel, from them that have more, more shall be\ntaken: and from them that have less, fewer. Each shall give towns to\nthe Levites according to the extent of their inheritance.\n\n35:9. The Lord said to Moses:\n\n35:10. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them:\nWhen you shall have passed over the Jordan into the land of Chanaan,\n\n35:11. Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who\nhave shed blood against their will.\n\n35:12. And when the fugitive shall be in them, the kinsman of him that\nis slain may not have power to kill him, until he stand before the\nmultitude, and his cause be judged.\n\n35:13. And of those cities, that are separated for the refuge of\nfugitives,\n\n35:14. Three shall be beyond the Jordan, and three in the land of\nChanaan,\n\n35:15. As well for the children of Israel as for strangers and\nsojourners, that he may flee to them, who hath shed blood against his\nwill.\n\n35:16. If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he\nshall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.\n\n35:17. If he throw a stone, and he that is struck die: he shall be\npunished in the same manner.\n\n35:18. If he that is struck with wood die: he shall be revenged by the\nblood of him that struck him.\n\n35:19. The kinsman of him that was slain, shall kill the murderer: as\nsoon as he apprehendeth him, he shall kill him.\n\n35:20. If through hatred any one push a man, or fling any thing at him\nwith ill design:\n\n35:21. Or being his enemy, strike him with his hand, and he die: the\nstriker shall be guilty of murder: the kinsman of him that was slain as\nsoon as he findeth him, shall kill him.\n\n35:22. But if by chance medley, and without hatred,\n\n35:23. And enmity, he do any of these things,\n\n35:24. And this be proved in the hearing of the people, and the cause\nbe debated between him that struck, and the next of kin:\n\n35:25. The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger,\nand shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had\nfled, and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that\nis anointed with the holy oil.\n\nUntil the death, etc. . .This mystically signified that our deliverance\nwas to be effected by the death of Christ, the high priest and the\nanointed of God.\n\n35:26. If the murderer be found without the limits of the cities that\nare appointed for the banished,\n\n35:27. And be struck by him that is the avenger of blood: he shall not\nbe guilty that killed him.\n\n35:28. For the fugitive ought to have stayed in the city until the\ndeath of the high priest: and after he is dead, then shall the\nmanslayer return to his own country.\n\n35:29. These things shall be perpetual, and for an ordinance in all\nyour dwellings.\n\n35:30. The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be\ncondemned upon the evidence of one man.\n\n35:31. You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he\nshall die forthwith.\n\n35:32. The banished and fugitives before the death of the high priest\nmay by no means return into their own cities.\n\n35:33. Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with\nthe blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by\nhis blood that hath shed the blood of another.\n\n35:34. And thus shall your possession be cleansed, myself abiding with\nyou. For I am the Lord that dwell among the children of Israel.\n\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 36\n\n\nThat the inheritances may not be alienated from one tribe to another,\nall are to marry within their own tribes.\n\n36:1. And the princes of the families of Galaad, the son of Machir, the\nson of Manasses, of the stock of the children of Joseph, came and spoke\nto Moses before the princes of Israel, and said:\n\n36:2. The Lord hath commanded thee, my lord, that thou shouldst divide\nthe land by lot to the children of Israel, and that thou shouldst give\nto the daughters of Salphaad our brother the possession due to their\nfather:\n\n36:3. Now if men of another tribe take them to wives, their possession\nwill follow them, and being transferred to another tribe, will be a\ndiminishing of our inheritance.\n\n36:4. And so it shall come to pass, that when the jubilee, the is, the\nfiftieth year of remission, is come, the distribution made by the lots\nshall be confounded, and the possession of the one shall pass to the\nothers.\n\n36:5. Moses answered the children of Israel, and said by the command of\nthe Lord: The tribe of the children of Joseph hath spoken rightly.\n\n36:6. And this is the law promulgated by the Lord touching the\ndaughters of Salphaad: Let them marry to whom they will, only so that\nit be to men of their own tribe.\n\n36:7. Lest the possession of the children of Israel be mingled from\ntribe to tribe. For all men shall marry wives of their own tribe and\nkindred:\n\n36:8. And all women shall take husbands of the same tribe: that the\ninheritance may remain in the families.\n\n36:9. And that the tribes be not mingled one with another, but remain\nso\n\n36:10. As they were separated by the Lord. And the daughters of\nSalphaad did as was commanded:\n\n36:11. And Maala, and Thersa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Noa were\nmarried to the sons of their uncle by their father\n\n36:12. Of the family of Manasses, who was the son of Joseph: and the\npossession that had been allotted to them, remained in the tribe and\nfamily of their father.\n\n36:13. These are the commandments and judgment, which the Lord\ncommanded by the hand of Moses to the children of Israel, in the plains\nof Moab upon the Jordan over against Jericho.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY\n\n\n\nThis Book is called DEUTERONOMY, which signifies a SECOND LAW, because\nit repeats and inculcates the ordinances formerly given on mount Sinai,\nwith other precepts not expressed before. The Hebrews, from the first\nwords in the book, call it ELLE HADDEBARIM.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 1\n\n\nA repetition of what passed at Sinai and Cadesbarne: and of the\npeople's murmuring and their punishment.\n\n1:1. These are the words, which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the\nJordan, in the plain wilderness, over against the Red Sea, between\nPharan and Thophel and Laban and Haseroth, where there is very much\ngold.\n\n1:2. Eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to\nCadesbarne.\n\n1:3. In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, the first day of the\nmonth, Moses spoke to the children of Israel all that the Lord had\ncommanded him to say to them:\n\n1:4. After that he had slain Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in\nHesebon: and Og king of Basan who abode in Astaroth, and in Edrai,\n\n1:5. Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab. And Moses began to expound\nthe law, and to say:\n\n1:6. The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: You have stayed\nlong enough in this mountain:\n\n1:7. Turn you, and come to the mountain of the Amorrhites, and to the\nother places that are next to it, the plains and the hills and the\nvales towards the south, and by the sea shore, the land of the\nChanaanites, and of Libanus, as far as the great river Euphrates.\n\n1:8. Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you: go in and possess it,\nconcerning which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and\nJacob, that he would give it to them, and to their seed after them.\n\n1:9. And I said to you at that time:\n\n1:10. I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God hath\nmultiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven, for\nmultitude.\n\n1:11. (The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands,\nand bless you as he hath spoken.)\n\n1:12. I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you\nand your differences.\n\n1:13. Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such\nwhose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint\nthem your rulers.\n\n1:14. Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.\n\n1:15. And I took out of your tribes men wise and honourable, and\nappointed them rulers, tribunes, and centurions, and officers over\nfifties, and over tens, who might teach you all things.\n\n1:16. And I commanded them, saying: Hear them, and judge that which is\njust: whether he be one of your country, or a stranger.\n\n1:17. There shall be no difference of persons, you shall hear the\nlittle as well as the great: neither shall you respect any man's\nperson, because it is the judgment of God. And if any thing seem hard\nto you, refer it to me, and I will hear it.\n\n1:18. And I commanded you all things that you were to do.\n\n1:19. And departing from Horeb, we passed through the terrible and vast\nwilderness, which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorrhite,\nas the Lord our God had commanded us. And when we were come into\nCadesbarne,\n\n1:20. I said to you: You are come to the mountain of the Amorrhite,\nwhich the Lord our God will give to us.\n\n1:21. See the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: go up and\npossess it, as the Lord our God hath spoken to thy fathers: fear not,\nnor be any way discouraged.\n\n1:22. And you came all to me, and said: Let us send men who may view\nthe land, and bring us word what way we shall go up, and to what cities\nwe shall go.\n\n1:23. And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve men, one\nof every tribe:\n\n1:24. Who, when they had set forward and had gone up to the mountains,\ncame as far as the valley of the cluster: and having viewed the land,\n\n1:25. Taking of the fruits thereof, to shew its fertility, they brought\nthem to us, and said: The land is good, which the Lord our God will\ngive us.\n\n1:26. And you would not go up, but being incredulous to the word of the\nLord our God,\n\n1:27. You murmured in your tents, and said: The Lord hateth us, and\ntherefore he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, that he might\ndeliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and destroy us.\n\n1:28. Whither shall we go up? the messengers have terrified our hearts,\nsaying: The multitude is very great, and taller than we: the cities are\ngreat, and walled up to the sky, we have seen the sons of the Enacims\nthere.\n\nWalled up to the sky. . .A figurative expression, signifying the walls\nto be very high.\n\n1:29. And I said to you: Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them:\n\n1:30. The Lord God, who is your leader, himself will fight for you, as\nhe did in Egypt in the sight of all.\n\n1:31. And in the wilderness (as thou hast seen) the Lord thy God hath\ncarried thee, as a man is wont to carry his little son, all the way\nthat you have come, until you came to this place.\n\n1:32. And yet for all this you did not believe the Lord your God,\n\n1:33. Who went before you in the way, and marked out the place, wherein\nyou should pitch your tents, in the night shewing you the way by fire,\nand in the day by the pillar of a cloud.\n\n1:34. And when the Lord had heard the voice of your words, he was angry\nand swore, and said:\n\n1:35. Not one of the men of this wicked generation shall see the good\nland, which I promised with an oath to your fathers:\n\n1:36. Except Caleb the son of Jephone: for he shall see it, and to him\nI will give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children,\nbecause he hath followed the Lord.\n\n1:37. Neither is his indignation against the people to be wondered at,\nsince the Lord was angry with me also on your account, and said:\nNeither shalt thou go in thither.\n\n1:38. But Josue the son of Nun, thy minister, he shall go in for thee:\nexhort and encourage him, and he shall divide the land by lot to\nIsrael.\n\n1:39. Your children, of whom you said that they should be led away\ncaptives, and your sons who know not this day the difference of good\nand evil, they shall go in: and to them I will give the land, and they\nshall possess it.\n\n1:40. But return you and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red\nSea.\n\n1:41. And you answered me: We have sinned against the Lord: we will go\nup and fight, as the Lord our God hath commanded. And when you went\nready armed unto the mountain,\n\n1:42. The Lord said to me: Say to them: Go not up, and fight not, for I\nam not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.\n\n1:43. I spoke, and you hearkened not: but resisting the commandment of\nthe Lord, and swelling with pride, you went up into the mountain.\n\n1:44. And the Amorrhite that dwelt in the mountains coming out, and\nmeeting you, chased you, as bees do: and made slaughter of you from\nSeir as far as Horma.\n\n1:45. And when you returned and wept before the Lord, he heard you not,\nneither would he yield to your voice.\n\n1:46. So you abode in Cadesbarne a long time.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 2\n\n\nThey are forbid to fight against the Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites.\nTheir victory over Sehon king of Hesebon.\n\n2:1. And departing from thence we came into the wilderness that leadeth\nto the Red Sea, as the Lord had spoken to me: and we compassed mount\nSeir a long time.\n\n2:2. And the Lord said to me:\n\n2:3. You have compassed this mountain long enough: go toward the north:\n\n2:4. And command thou the people, saying: You shall pass by the borders\nof your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and they will\nbe afraid of you.\n\n2:5. Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will\nnot give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread\nupon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession.\n\n2:6. You shall buy meats of them for money and shall eat: you shall\ndraw waters for money, and shall drink.\n\n2:7. The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every work of thy hands: the\nLord thy God dwelling with thee, knoweth thy journey, how thou hast\npassed through this great wilderness, for forty years, and thou hast\nwanted nothing.\n\n2:8. And when we had passed by our brethren the children of Esau, that\ndwelt in Seir, by the way of the plain from Elath and from Asiongaber,\nwe came to the way that leadeth to the desert of Moab.\n\n2:9. And the Lord said to me: Fight not against the Moabites, neither\ngo to battle against them: for I will not give thee any of their land,\nbecause I have given Ar to the children of Lot in possession.\n\n2:10. The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people great, and\nstrong, and so tall, that like the race of the Enacims,\n\n2:11. They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of the\nEnacims. But the Moabites call them Emims.\n\n2:12. The Horrhites also formerly dwelt in Seir: who being driven out\nand destroyed, the children of Esau dwelt there, as Israel did in the\nland of his possession, which the Lord gave him.\n\n2:13. Then rising up to pass the torrent Zared, we came to it.\n\n2:14. And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed\nover the torrent Zared, was thirty-eight years: until all the\ngeneration of the men that were fit for war was consumed out of the\ncamp, as the Lord had sworn:\n\n2:15. For his hand was against them, that they should perish from the\nmidst of the camp.\n\n2:16. And after all the fighting men were dead,\n\n2:17. The Lord spoke to me, saying:\n\n2:18. Thou shalt pass this day the borders of Moab, the city named Ar:\n\n2:19. And when thou comest nigh the frontiers of the children of Ammon,\ntake heed thou fight not against them, nor once move to battle: for I\nwill not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon, because I have\ngiven it to the children of Lot for a possession.\n\n2:20. It was accounted a land of giants: and giants formerly dwelt in\nit, whom the Ammonites call Zomzommims,\n\n2:21. A people great and many, and of tall stature, like the Enacims\nwhom the Lord destroyed before their face: and he made them to dwell in\ntheir stead,\n\n2:22. As he had done in favour of the children of Esau, that dwell in\nSeir, destroying the Horrhites, and delivering their land to them,\nwhich they possess to this day.\n\n2:23. The Hevites also, that dwelt in Haserim as far as Gaza, were\nexpelled by the Cappadocians: who came out of Cappadocia, and destroyed\nthem and dwelt in their stead.\n\n2:24. Arise ye, and pass the torrent Arnon: Behold I have delivered\ninto thy hand Sehon king of Hesebon the Amorrhite, and begin thou to\npossess his land and make war against him.\n\n2:25. This day will I begin to send the dread and fear of thee upon the\nnations that dwell under the whole heaven: that when they hear thy name\nthey may fear and tremble, and be in pain like women in travail.\n\n2:26. So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Cademoth to Sehon the\nking of Hesebon with peaceable words, saying:\n\n2:27. We will pass through thy land, we will go along by the highway:\nwe will not turn aside neither to the right hand nor to the left.\n\n2:28. Sell us meat for money, that we may eat: give us water for money\nand so we will drink. We only ask that thou wilt let us pass through,\n\n2:29. As the children of Esau have done, that dwell in Seir, and the\nMoabites, that abide in Ar: until we come to the Jordan, and pass to\nthe land which the Lord our God will give us.\n\n2:30. And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not let us pass: because the\nLord thy God had hardened his spirit, and fixed his heart, that he\nmight be delivered into thy hands, as now thou seest.\n\nHardened, etc. . .That is, in punishment of his past sins he left him to\nhis own stubborn and perverse disposition, which drew him to his ruin.\nSee the note on Ex. 7.3.\n\n2:31. And the Lord said to me: Behold I have begun to deliver unto thee\nSehon and his land, begin to possess it.\n\n2:32. And Sehon came out to meet us with all his people to fight at\nJasa.\n\n2:33. And the Lord our God delivered him to us: and we slew him with\nhis sons and all his people.\n\n2:34. And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants\nof them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:\n\n2:35. Except the cattle which came to the share of them that took them:\nand the spoils of the cities, which we took:\n\n2:36. From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, a town\nthat is situate in a valley, as far as Galaad. There was not a village\nor city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God delivered all unto\nus:\n\n2:37. Except the land of the children of Ammon, to which we approached\nnot: and all that border upon the torrent Jeboc, and the cities in the\nmountains, and all the places which the Lord our God forbade us.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 3\n\n\nThe victory over Og king of Basan. Ruben, Gad, and half the tribe of\nManasses receive their possession on the other side of Jordan.\n\n3:1. Then we turned and went by the way of Basan: and Og the king of\nBasan came out to meet us with his people to fight in Edrai.\n\n3:2. And the Lord said to me: Fear him not: because he is delivered\ninto thy hand, with all his people and his land: and thou shalt do to\nhim as thou hast done to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in\nHesebon.\n\n3:3. So the Lord our God delivered into our hands, Og also, the king of\nBasan, and all his people: and we utterly destroyed them,\n\n3:4. Wasting all his cities at one time, there was not a town that\nescaped us: sixty cities, all the country of Argob the kingdom of Og in\nBasan.\n\n3:5. All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with gates\nand bars, besides innumerable towns that had no walls.\n\n3:6. And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of\nHesebon, destroying every city, men and women and children:\n\n3:7. But the cattle and the spoils of the cities we took for our prey.\n\n3:8. And we took at that time the land out of the hand of the two kings\nof the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan: from the torrent Arnon\nunto the mount Hermon,\n\n3:9. Which the Sidonians call Sarion, and the Amorrhites Sanir:\n\n3:10. All the cities that are situate in the plain, and all the land of\nGalaad and Basan as far as Selcha and Edrai, cities of the kingdom of\nOg in Basan.\n\n3:11. For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the giants. His\nbed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon,\nbeing nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit\nof a man's hand.\n\n3:12. And we possessed the land at that time from Aroer, which is upon\nthe bank of the torrent Arnon, unto the half of mount Galaad: and I\ngave the cities thereof to Ruben and Gad.\n\n3:13. And I delivered the other part of Galaad, and all Basan the\nkingdom of Og to the half tribe of Manasses, all the country of Argob:\nand all Basan is called the Land of giants.\n\n3:14. Jair the son of Manasses possessed all the country of Argob unto\nthe borders of Gessuri, and Machati. And he called Basan by his own\nname, Havoth Jair, that is to say, the towns of Jair, until this\npresent day.\n\n3:15. To Machir also I gave Galaad.\n\n3:16. And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad I gave of the land of Galaad\nas far as the torrent Arnon, half the torrent, and the confines even\nunto the torrent Jeboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon:\n\n3:17. And the plain of the wilderness, and the Jordan, and the borders\nof Cenereth unto the sea of the desert, which is the most salt sea, to\nthe foot of mount Phasga eastward.\n\n3:18. And I commanded you at that time, saying: The Lord your God\ngiveth you this land for an inheritance, go ye well appointed before\nyour brethren the children of Israel, all the strong men of you.\n\n3:19. Leaving your wives and children and cattle. For I know you have\nmuch cattle, and they must remain in the cities, which I have delivered\nto you.\n\n3:20. Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given to\nyou: and they also possess the land, which he will give them beyond the\nJordan: then shall every man return to his possession, which I have\ngiven you.\n\n3:21. I commanded Josue also at that time, saying: Thy eyes have seen\nwhat the Lord your God hath done to these two kings: so will he do to\nall the kingdoms to which thou shalt pass.\n\n3:22. Fear them not: for the Lord your God will fight for you.\n\n3:23. And I besought the Lord at that time, saying:\n\n3:24. Lord God, thou hast begun to shew unto thy servant thy greatness,\nand most mighty hand, for there is no other God either in heaven or\nearth, that is able to do thy works, or to be compared to thy strength.\n\n3:25. I will pass over therefore, and will see this excellent land\nbeyond the Jordan, and this goodly mountain, and Libanus.\n\n3:26. And the Lord was angry with me on your account and heard me not,\nbut said to me: It is enough: speak no more to me of this matter.\n\n3:27. Go up to the top of Phasga, and cast thy eyes round about to the\nwest, and to the north, and to the south, and to the east, and behold\nit, for thou shalt not pass this Jordan.\n\n3:28. Command Josue, and encourage and strengthen him: for he shall go\nbefore this people, and shall divide unto them the land which thou\nshalt see.\n\n3:29. And we abode in the valley over against the temple of Phogor.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 4\n\n\nMoses exhorteth the people to keep God's commandments: particularly to\nfly idolatry. Appointeth three cities of refuge, on that side of the\nJordan.\n\n4:1. And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I\nteach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst\npossess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you.\n\n4:2. You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither shall\nyou take away from it: keep the commandments of the Lord your God which\nI command you.\n\n4:3. Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against\nBeelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you.\n\n4:4. But you that adhere to the Lord your God, are all alive until this\npresent day.\n\n4:5. You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as the Lord\nmy God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the land which you\nshall possess:\n\n4:6. And you shall observe, and fulfil them in practice. For this is\nyour wisdom, and understanding in the sight of nations, that hearing\nall these precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and understanding\npeople, a great nation.\n\n4:7. Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh\nthem, as our God is present to all our petitions.\n\n4:8. For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies,\nand just judgments, and all the law, which I will set forth this day\nbefore our eyes?\n\n4:9. Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the\nwords that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all\nthe days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy\ngrandsons,\n\n4:10. From the day in which thou didst stand before the Lord thy God in\nHoreb, when the Lord spoke to me, saying: Call together the people unto\nme, that they may hear my words, and may learn to fear me all the time\nthat they live on the earth, and may teach their children.\n\n4:11. And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto\nheaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.\n\n4:12. And the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire. You heard\nthe voice of his words, but you saw not any form at all.\n\n4:13. And he shewed you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, and\nthe ten words that he wrote in two tables of stone.\n\n4:14. And he commanded me at that time that I should teach you the\nceremonies and judgments which you shall do in the land, that you shall\npossess.\n\n4:15. Keep therefore your souls carefully. You saw not any similitude\nin the day that the Lord God spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of\nthe fire:\n\n4:16. Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven\nsimilitude, or image of male or female,\n\n4:17. The similitude of any beasts, that are upon the earth, or of\nbirds, that fly under heaven,\n\n4:18. Or of creeping things, that move on the earth, or of fishes, that\nabide in the waters under the earth:\n\n4:19. Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and\nthe moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou\nadore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of\nall the nations, that are under heaven.\n\n4:20. But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the iron\nfurnaces of Egypt, to make you his people of inheritance, as it is this\npresent day.\n\n4:21. And the Lord was angry with me for your words, and he swore that\nI should not pass over the Jordan, nor enter into the excellent land,\nwhich he will give you.\n\n4:22. Behold I die in this land, I shall not pass over the Jordan: you\nshall pass, and possess the goodly land.\n\n4:23. Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant of the Lord thy God,\nwhich he hath made with thee: and make to thyself a graven likeness of\nthose things which the Lord hath forbid to be made:\n\n4:24. Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.\n\n4:25. If you shall beget sons and grandsons, and abide in the land, and\nbeing deceived, make to yourselves any similitude, committing evil\nbefore the Lord your God, to provoke him to wrath:\n\n4:26. I call this day heaven and earth to witness, that you shall\nquickly perish out of the land, which, when you have passed over the\nJordan, you shall possess. You shall not dwell therein long, but the\nLord will destroy you,\n\n4:27. And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few\namong the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.\n\n4:28. And there you shall serve gods, that were framed with men's\nhands: wood and stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.\n\n4:29. And when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God, thou shalt find\nhim: yet so, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and all the\naffliction of thy soul.\n\n4:30. After all the things aforesaid shall find thee, in the latter\ntime thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hear his voice.\n\n4:31. Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God: he will not leave\nthee, nor altogether destroy thee, nor forget the covenant, by which he\nswore to thy fathers.\n\n4:32. Ask of the days of old, that have been before thy time from the\nday that God created man upon the earth, from one end of heaven to the\nother end thereof, if ever there was done the like thing, or it hath\nbeen known at any time,\n\n4:33. That a people should hear the voice of God speaking out of the\nmidst of fire, as thou hast heard, and lived:\n\n4:34. If God ever did so as to go, and take to himself a nation out of\nthe midst of nations by temptations, signs, and wonders, by fight, and\na strong hand, and stretched out arm, and horrible visions according to\nall the things that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before thy\neyes.\n\n4:35. That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, and there is no\nother besides him.\n\n4:36. From heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might teach\nthee. And upon earth he shewed thee his exceeding great fire, and thou\ndidst hear his words out of the midst of the fire,\n\n4:37. Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them.\nAnd he brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee with his great\npower,\n\n4:38. To destroy at thy coming very great nations, and stronger than\nthou art, and to bring thee in, and give thee their land for a\npossession, as thou seest at this present day.\n\n4:39. Know therefore this day, and think in thy heart that the Lord he\nis God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and there is no\nother.\n\n4:40. Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it\nmay be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst\nremain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God will give\nthee.\n\n4:41. Then Moses set aside three cities beyond the Jordan at the east\nside,\n\n4:42. That any one might flee to them who should kill his neighbour\nunwillingly, and was not his enemy a day or two before, and that he\nmight escape to some one of these cities:\n\n4:43. Bosor in the wilderness, which is situate in the plains of the\ntribe of Ruben: and Ramoth in Galaad, which is in the tribe of Gad: and\nGolan in Basan, which is in the tribe of Manasses.\n\n4:44. This is the law, that Moses set before the children of Israel,\n\n4:45. And these are the testimonies and ceremonies and judgments, which\nhe spoke to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,\n\n4:46. Beyond the Jordan in the valley over against the temple of\nPhogor, in the land of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in\nHesebon, whom Moses slew. And the children of Israel coming out of\nEgypt,\n\n4:47. Possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, of the two\nkings of the Amorrhites, who were beyond the Jordan towards the rising\nof the sun:\n\n4:48. From Aroer, which is situate upon the bank of the torrent Arnon,\nunto mount Sion, which is also called Hermon,\n\n4:49. All the plain beyond the Jordan at the east side, unto the sea of\nthe wilderness, and unto the foot of mount Phasga.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 5\n\n\nThe ten commandments are repeated and explained.\n\n5:1. And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the\nceremonies and judgments, which I speak in your ears this day: learn\nthem, and fulfil them in work.\n\n5:2. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.\n\n5:3. He made not the covenant with our fathers, but with us, who are\nnow present and living.\n\n5:4. He spoke to us face to face in the mount out of the midst of fire.\n\n5:5. I was the mediator and stood between the Lord and you at that\ntime, to shew you his words, for you feared the fire, and went not up\ninto the mountain, and he said:\n\n5:6. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt,\nout of the house of bondage.\n\n5:7. Thou shalt not have strange gods in my sight.\n\n5:8. Thou shalt not make to thy self a graven thing, nor the likeness\nof any things, that are in heaven above, or that are in the earth\nbeneath, or that abide in the waters under the earth.\n\n5:9. Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serve them. For I am\nthe Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers\nupon their children unto the third and fourth generation, to them that\nhate me,\n\n5:10. And shewing mercy unto many thousands, to them that love me, and\nkeep my commandments.\n\n5:11. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for he\nshall not be unpunished that taketh his name upon a vain thing.\n\n5:12. Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy\nGod hath commanded thee.\n\n5:13. Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.\n\n5:14. The seventh is the day of the sabbath, that is, the rest of the\nLord thy God. Thou shalt not do any work therein, thou nor thy son nor\nthy daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor\nthy ass, nor any of thy beasts, nor the stranger that is within thy\ngates: that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest, even as\nthyself.\n\n5:15. Remember that thou also didst serve in Egypt, and the Lord thy\nGod brought thee out from thence with a strong hand, and a stretched\nout arm. Therefore hath he commanded thee that thou shouldst observe\nthe sabbath day.\n\n5:16. Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded\nthee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it may be well with thee in\nthe land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.\n\n5:17. Thou shalt not kill.\n\n5:18. Neither shalt thou commit adultery.\n\n5:19. And thou shalt not steal.\n\n5:20. Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.\n\n5:21. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife: nor his house, nor his\nfield, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his\nass, nor any thing that is his.\n\n5:22. These words the Lord spoke to all the multitude of you in the\nmountain, out of the midst of the fire and the cloud, and the darkness,\nwith a loud voice, adding nothing more: and he wrote them in two tables\nof stone, which he delivered unto me.\n\n5:23. But you, after you heard the voice out of the midst of the\ndarkness, and saw the mountain burn, came to me, all the princes of the\ntribes and the elders, and you said:\n\n5:24. Behold the Lord our God hath shewn us his majesty and his\ngreatness, we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire, and\nhave proved this day that God speaking with man, man hath lived.\n\n5:25. Why shall we die therefore, and why shall this exceeding great\nfire comsume us: for if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more,\nwe shall die.\n\n5:26. What is all flesh, that it should hear the voice of the living\nGod, who speaketh out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and\nbe able to live?\n\n5:27. Approach thou rather: and hear all things that the Lord our God\nshall say to thee, and thou shalt speak to us, and we will hear and\nwill do them.\n\n5:28. And when the Lord had heard this, he said to me: I have heard the\nvoice of the words of this people, which they spoke to thee: they have\nspoken all things well.\n\n5:29. Who shall give them to have such a mind, to fear me, and to keep\nall my commandments at all times, that it may be well with them and\nwith their children for ever?\n\n5:30. Go and say to them: Return into your tents.\n\n5:31. But stand thou here with me, and I will speak to thee all my\ncommandments, and ceremonies and judgments: which thou shalt teach\nthem, that they may do them in the land, which I will give them for a\npossession.\n\n5:32. Keep therefore and do the things which the Lord God hath\ncommanded you: you shall not go aside neither to the right hand, nor to\nthe left.\n\n5:33. But you shall walk in the way that the Lord your God hath\ncommanded, that you may live, and it may be well with you, and your\ndays may be long in the land of your possession.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 6\n\n\nAn exhortation to the love of God, and obedience to his law.\n\n6:1. These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the\nLord your God commanded that I should teach you, and that you should do\nthem in the land into which you pass over to possess it:\n\n6:2. That thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep all his\ncommandments and precepts, which I command thee, and thy sons, and thy\ngrandsons, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged.\n\n6:3. Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the things which the Lord hath\ncommanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be\ngreatly multiplied, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath promised\nthee a land flowing with milk and honey.\n\n6:4. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.\n\n6:5. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with\nthy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.\n\n6:6. And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy\nheart:\n\n6:7. And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate\nupon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping\nand rising.\n\n6:8. And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be\nand shall move between thy eyes.\n\n6:9. And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy\nhouse.\n\n6:10. And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land,\nfor which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall\nhave given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,\n\n6:11. Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns\nwhich thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst\nnot plant,\n\n6:12. And thou shalt have eaten and be full:\n\n6:13. Take heed diligently lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee\nout of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear\nthe Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by his\nname.\n\n6:14. You shall not go after the strange gods of all the nations, that\nare round about you:\n\n6:15. Because the Lord thy God is a jealous God in the midst of thee:\nlest at any time the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee,\nand take thee away from the face of the earth.\n\n6:16. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst him in\nthe place of temptation.\n\n6:17. Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies and\nceremonies which he hath commanded thee.\n\n6:18. And do that which is pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord,\nthat it may be well with thee: and going in thou mayst possess the\ngoodly land, concerning which the Lord swore to thy fathers,\n\n6:19. That he would destroy all thy enemies before thee, as he hath\nspoken.\n\n6:20. And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What mean\nthese testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God\nhath commanded us?\n\n6:21. Thou shalt say to him: We were bondmen of Pharao in Egypt, and\nthe Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.\n\n6:22. And he wrought signs and wonders great and very grievous in Egypt\nagainst Pharao, and all his house, in our sight,\n\n6:23. And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in and\ngive us the land, concerning which he swore to our fathers.\n\n6:24. And the Lord commanded that we should do all these ordinances,\nand should fear the Lord our God, that it might be well with us all the\ndays of our life, as it is at this day.\n\n6:25. And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts\nbefore the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 7\n\n\nNo league nor fellowship to be made with the Chanaanites: God promiseth\nhis people his blessing and assistance, if they keep his commandments.\n\n7:1. When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which\nthou art going in to possess, and shall have destroyed many nations\nbefore thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the\nChanaanite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven\nnations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou:\n\n7:2. And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt\nutterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew\nmercy to them:\n\n7:3. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give\nthy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:\n\n7:4. For she will turn away thy son from following me, that he may\nrather serve strange gods, and the wrath of the Lord will be kindled,\nand will quickly destroy thee.\n\n7:5. But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars,\nand break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their\ngraven things.\n\n7:6. Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy\nGod hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are\nupon the earth.\n\n7:7. Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined\nunto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people:\n\n7:8. But because the Lord hath loved you, and hath kept his oath, which\nhe swore to your fathers: and hath brought you out with a strong hand,\nand redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao\nthe king of Egypt.\n\n7:9. And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a strong and\nfaithful God, keeping his covenant and mercy to them that love him, and\nto them that keep his commandments, unto a thousand generations:\n\n7:10. And repaying forthwith them that hate him, so as to destroy them,\nwithout further delay immediately rendering to them what they deserve.\n\n7:11. Keep therefore the precepts and ceremonies and judgments, which I\ncommand thee this day to do.\n\n7:12. If after thou hast heard these judgments, thou keep and do them,\nthe Lord thy God will also keep his covenant to thee, and the mercy\nwhich he swore to thy fathers:\n\n7:13. And he will love thee and multiply thee, and will bless the fruit\nof thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy vintage, thy\noil, and thy herds, and the flocks of thy sheep upon the land, for\nwhich he swore to thy fathers that he would give it thee.\n\n7:14. Blessed shalt thou be among all people. No one shall be barren\namong you of either sex, neither of men nor cattle.\n\n7:15. The Lord will take away from thee all sickness: and the grievous\ninfirmities of Egypt, which thou knowest, he will not bring upon thee,\nbut upon thy enemies.\n\n7:16. Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will\ndeliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve\ntheir gods, lest they be thy ruin.\n\n7:17. If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how\nshall I be able to destroy them?\n\n7:18. Fear not, but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to\nall the Egyptians,\n\n7:19. The exceeding great plagues, which thy eyes saw, and the signs\nand wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched out arm, with which\nthe Lord thy God brought thee out: so will he do to all the people,\nwhom thou fearest.\n\n7:20. Moreover the Lord thy God will send also hornets among them,\nuntil he destroy and consume all that have escaped thee, and could hide\nthemselves.\n\n7:21. Thou shalt not fear them, because the Lord thy God is in the\nmidst of thee, a God mighty and terrible:\n\n7:22. He will consume these nations in thy sight by little and little\nand by degrees. Thou wilt not be able to destroy them altogether: lest\nperhaps the beasts of the earth should increase upon thee.\n\n7:23. But the Lord thy God shall deliver them in thy sight: and shall\nslay them until they be utterly destroyed.\n\n7:24. And he shall deliver their kings into thy hands, and thou shalt\ndestroy their names from under Heaven: no man shall be able to resist\nthee, until thou destroy them.\n\n7:25. Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not\ncovet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou\ntake to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an\nabomination to the Lord thy God.\n\nGraven things. . .Idols, so called by contempt.\n\n7:26. Neither shalt thou bring any thing of the idol into thy house,\nlest thou become an anathema, like it. Thou shalt detest it as dung,\nand shalt utterly abhor it as uncleanness and filth, because it is an\nanathema.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 8\n\n\nThe people is put in mind of God's dealings with them, to the end that\nthey may love him and serve him.\n\n8:1. All the commandments, that I command thee this day, take great\ncare to observe: that you may live, and be multiplied, and going in may\npossess the land, for which the Lord swore to your fathers.\n\n8:2. And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God\nhath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee\nand to prove thee, and that the things that were known in thy heart\nmight be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no.\n\n8:3. He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food,\nwhich neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread\nalone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth\nof God.\n\nNot in bread alone, etc. . .That is, that God is able to make food of\nwhat he pleases for the support of man.\n\n8:4. Thy raiment, with which thou wast covered, hath not decayed for\nage, and thy foot is not worn, lo this is the fortieth year,\n\n8:5. That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up\nhis son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.\n\n8:6. That thou shouldst keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and\nwalk in his ways, and fear him.\n\n8:7. For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good land, of brooks\nand of waters, and of fountains: in the plains of which and the hills\ndeep rivers break out:\n\n8:8. A land of wheat, and barley, and vineyards, wherein fig trees and\npomegranates, and oliveyards grow: a land of oil and honey.\n\n8:9. Where without any want thou shalt eat thy bread, and enjoy\nabundance of all things: where the stones are iron, and out of its\nhills are dug mines of brass:\n\n8:10. That when thou hast eaten, and art full, thou mayst bless the\nLord thy God for the excellent land which he hath given thee.\n\n8:11. Take heed, and beware lest at any time thou forget the Lord thy\nGod, and neglect his commandments and judgments and ceremonies, which I\ncommand thee this day:\n\n8:12. Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly\nhouses, and dwelt in them,\n\n8:13. And shalt have herds of oxen and flocks of sheep, and plenty of\ngold and of silver, and of all things,\n\n8:14. Thy heart be lifted up, and thou remember not the Lord thy God,\nwho brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:\n\n8:15. And was thy leader in the great and terrible wilderness, wherein\nthere was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and the\ndipsas, and no waters at all: who brought forth streams out of the\nhardest rock,\n\nThe Dipsas. . .A serpent whose bite causeth a violent thirst; from\nwhence it has its name, for in Greek dipsa signifies thirst.\n\n8:16. And fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew\nnot. And after he had afflicted and proved thee, at the last he had\nmercy on thee,\n\n8:17. Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the\nstrength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me.\n\n8:18. But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath given thee strength,\nthat he might fulfil his covenant, concerning which he swore to thy\nfathers, as this present day sheweth.\n\n8:19. But if thou forget the Lord thy God, and follow strange gods, and\nserve and adore them: behold now I foretell thee that thou shalt\nutterly perish.\n\n8:20. As the nations, which the Lord destroyed at thy entrance, so\nshall you also perish, if you be disobedient to the voice of the Lord\nyour God.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 9\n\n\nLest they should impute their victories to their own merits, they are\nput in mind of their manifold rebellions and other sins, for which they\nshould have been destroyed, but God spared them for his promise made to\nAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob.\n\n9:1. Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jordan this day; to possess\nnations very great, and stronger than thyself, cities great, and walled\nup to the sky,\n\n9:2. A people great and tall, the sons of the Enacims, whom thou hast\nseen, and heard of, against whom no man is able to stand.\n\n9:3. Thou shalt know therefore this day that the Lord thy God himself\nwill pass over before thee, a devouring and consuming fire, to destroy\nand extirpate and bring them to nothing before thy face quickly, as he\nhath spoken to thee.\n\n9:4. Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God shall have destroyed\nthem in thy sight: For my justice hath the Lord brought me in to\npossess this land, whereas these nations are destroyed for their\nwickedness.\n\n9:5. For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart\nthat thou shalt go in to possess their lands: but because they have\ndone wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord\nmight accomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy fathers\nAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob.\n\n9:6. Know therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this\nexcellent land in possession for thy justices, for thou art a very\nstiffnecked people.\n\n9:7. Remember, and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to\nwrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou camest out of Egypt\nunto this place, thou hast always strove against the Lord.\n\n9:8. For in Horeb, also thou didst provoke him, and he was angry, and\nwould have destroyed thee,\n\n9:9. When I went up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, the\ntables of the covenant which the Lord made with you: and I continued in\nthe mount forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking\nwater.\n\n9:10. And the Lord gave me two tables of stone written with the finger\nof God, and containing all the words that he spoke to you in the mount\nfrom the midst of the fire, when the people were assembled together.\n\n9:11. And when forty days were passed, and as many nights, the Lord\ngave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant,\n\n9:12. And said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly: for thy\npeople, which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have quickly forsaken the\nway that thou hast shewn them, and have made to themselves a molten\nidol.\n\n9:13. And again the Lord said to me: I see that this people is\nstiffnecked:\n\n9:14. Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from\nunder heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger\nthan this.\n\n9:15. And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two\ntables of the covenant with both hands,\n\n9:16. And saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had\nmade to yourselves a molten calf, and had quickly forsaken his way,\nwhich he had shewn you:\n\n9:17. I cast the tables out of my hands, and broke them in your sight.\n\n9:18. And I fell down before the Lord as before, forty days and nights\nneither eating bread, nor drinking water, for all your sins, which you\nhad committed against the Lord, and had provoked him to wrath:\n\n9:19. For I feared his indignation and anger, wherewith being moved\nagainst you, he would have destroyed you. And the Lord heard me this\ntime also.\n\n9:20. And he was exceeding angry against Aaron also, and would have\ndestroyed him, and I prayed in like manner for him.\n\n9:21. And your sin that you had committed, that is, the calf, I took,\nand burned it with fire, and breaking it into pieces, until it was as\nsmall as dust, I threw it into the torrent, which cometh down from the\nmountain.\n\n9:22. At the burning also, and at the place of temptation, and at the\ngraves of lust you provoked the Lord:\n\n9:23. And when he sent you from Cadesbarne, saying: Go up, and possess\nthe land that I have given you, and you slighted the commandment of the\nLord your God, and did not believe him, neither would you hearken to\nhis voice:\n\n9:24. But were always rebellious from the day that I began to know you.\n\n9:25. And I lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights, in\nwhich I humbly besought him, that he would not destroy you as he had\nthreatened:\n\n9:26. And praying, I said: O Lord God, destroy not thy people, and thy\ninheritance, which thou hast redeemed in thy greatness, whom thou hast\nbrought out of Egypt with a strong hand.\n\n9:27. Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: look not on the\nstubbornness of this people, nor on their wickedness and sin:\n\n9:28. Lest perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which thou hast\nbrought us, say: The Lord could not bring them into the land that he\npromised them, and he hated them: therefore he brought them out, that\nhe might kill them in the wilderness,\n\n9:29. Who are thy people and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought\nout by thy great strength, and in thy stretched out arm.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 10\n\n\nGod giveth the second tables of the law: a further exhortation to fear\nand serve the Lord.\n\n10:1. At that time the Lord said to me: Hew thee two tables of stone\nlike the former, and come up to me into the mount: and thou shalt make\nan ark of wood,\n\n10:2. And I will write on the tables the words that were in them, which\nthou brokest before, and thou shalt put them in the ark.\n\n10:3. And I made an ark of setim wood. And when I had hewn two tables\nof stone like the former, I went up into the mount, having them in my\nhands.\n\n10:4. And he wrote in the tables, according as he had written before,\nthe ten words, which the Lord spoke to you in the mount from the midst\nof the fire, when the people were assembled: and he gave them to me.\n\n10:5. And returning from the mount, I came down, and put the tables\ninto the ark, that I had made, and they are there till this present, as\nthe Lord commanded me.\n\n10:6. And the children of Israel removed their camp from Beroth, of the\nchildren of Jacan into Mosera, where Aaron died and was buried, and\nEleazar his son succeeded him in the priestly office.\n\nMosera. . .By mount Hor, for there Aaron died, Num. 20. This and the\nfollowing verses seem to be inserted by way of parenthesis.\n\n10:7. From thence they came to Gadgad, from which place they departed,\nand camped in Jetebatha, in a land of waters and torrents.\n\n10:8. At that time he separated the tribe of Levi, to carry the ark of\nthe covenant of the Lord, and to stand before him in the ministry, and\nto bless in his name until this present day.\n\n10:9. Wherefore Levi hath no part nor possession with his brethren:\nbecause the Lord himself is his possession, as the Lord thy God\npromised him.\n\n10:10. And I stood in the mount, as before, forty days and nights: and\nthe Lord heard me this time also, and would not destroy thee.\n\n10:11. And he said to me: Go, and walk before the people, that they may\nenter, and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers that I\nwould give them.\n\n10:12. And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but\nthat thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him,\nand serve the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:\n\n10:13. And keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies, which\nI command thee this day, that it may be well with thee?\n\n10:14. Behold heaven is the Lord's thy God, and the heaven of heaven,\nthe earth and all things that are therein.\n\n10:15. And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers, and\nloved them and chose their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of\nall nations, as this day it is proved.\n\n10:16. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen\nyour neck no more.\n\n10:17. Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of\nlords, a great God and mighty and terrible, who accepteth no person nor\ntaketh bribes.\n\n10:18. He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the\nstranger, and giveth him food and raiment.\n\n10:19. And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were\nstrangers in the land of Egypt.\n\n10:20. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to him\nthou shalt adhere, and shalt swear by his name.\n\n10:21. He is thy praise, and thy God, that hath done for thee these\ngreat and terrible things, which thy eyes have seen.\n\n10:22. In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold\nnow the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 11\n\n\nThe love and service of God are still inculcated, with a blessing to\nthem that serve him, and threats of punishment if they forsake his law.\n\n11:1. Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe his precepts and\nceremonies, his judgments and commandments at all times.\n\n11:2. Know this day the things that your children know not, who saw not\nthe chastisements of the Lord your God, his great doings and strong\nhand, and stretched out arm,\n\n11:3. The signs and works which he did in the midst of Egypt to king\nPharao, and to all his land,\n\n11:4. And to all the host of the Egyptians, and to their horses and\nchariots: how the waters of the Red Sea covered them, when they pursued\nyou, and how the Lord destroyed them until this present day:\n\n11:5. And what he hath done to you in the wilderness, til you came to\nthis place:\n\n11:6. And to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, who was the son of\nRuben: whom the earth, opening her mouth swallowed up with their\nhouseholds and tents, and all their substance, which they had in the\nmidst of Israel.\n\n11:7. Your eyes have seen all the great works of the Lord, that he hath\ndone,\n\n11:8. That you may keep all his commandments, which I command you this\nday, and may go in, and possess the land, to which you are entering,\n\n11:9. And may live in it a long time: which the Lord promised by oath\nto your fathers, and to their seed, a land which floweth with milk and\nhoney.\n\n11:10. For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land\nof Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown,\nwaters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens.\n\n11:11. But it is a land of hills and plains, expecting rain from\nheaven.\n\n11:12. And the Lord thy God doth always visit it, and his eyes are on\nit from the beginning of the year unto the end thereof.\n\n11:13. If then you obey my commandments, which I command you this day,\nthat you love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart, and\nwith all your soul:\n\n11:14. He will give to your land the early rain and the latter rain,\nthat you may gather in your corn, and your wine, and your oil,\n\n11:15. And your hay out of the fields to feed your cattle, and that you\nmay eat and be filled.\n\n11:16. Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from\nthe Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:\n\n11:17. And the Lord being angry shut up heaven, that the rain come not\ndown, nor the earth yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from the\nexcellent land, which the Lord will give you.\n\n11:18. Lay up these words in your hearts and minds, and hang them for a\nsign on your hands, and place them between your eyes.\n\n11:19. Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou\nsittest in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, and when thou\nliest down and risest up.\n\n11:20. Thou shalt write them upon the posts and the doors of thy house:\n\n11:21. That thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy children in\nthe land which the Lord swore to thy fathers, that he would give them\nas long as the heaven hangeth over the earth.\n\n11:22. For if you keep the commandments which I command you, and do\nthem, to love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, cleaving\nunto him,\n\n11:23. The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and\nyou shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you.\n\n11:24. Every place, that your foot shall tread upon, shall be yours.\nFrom the desert, and from Libanus, from the great river Euphrates unto\nthe western sea shall be your borders.\n\n11:25. None shall stand against you: the Lord your God shall lay the\ndread and fear of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as\nhe hath spoken to you.\n\n11:26. Behold I set forth in your sight this day a blessing and a\ncurse:\n\n11:27. A blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God,\nwhich I command you this day:\n\n11:28. A curse, if you obey not the commandments of the Lord your God,\nbut revolt from the way which now I shew you, and walk after strange\ngods which you know not.\n\n11:29. And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land,\nwhither thou goest to dwell, thou shalt put the blessing upon mount\nGarizim, the curse upon mount Hebal:\n\nPut the blessing, et. . .See Deut. 27.12, etc. and Josue 8.33, etc.\n\n11:30. Which are beyond the Jordan, behind the way that goeth to the\nsetting of the sun, in the land of the Chanaanite who dwelleth in the\nplain country over against Galgala, which is near the valley that\nreacheth and entereth far.\n\n11:31. For you shall pass over the Jordan, to possess the land, which\nthe Lord your God will give you, that you may have it and possess it.\n\n11:32. See therefore that you fulfil the ceremonies and judgments,\nwhich I shall set this day before you.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 12\n\n\nAll idolatry must be extirpated: sacrifices, tithes, and firstfruits\nmust be offered in one only place: all eating of blood is prohibited.\n\n12:1. These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in the\nland, which the Lord the God of thy fathers will give thee, to possess\nit all the days that thou shalt walk upon the earth.\n\n12:2. Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall\npossess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and\nunder every shady tree:\n\n12:3. Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues, burn their\ngroves with fire, and break their idols in pieces: destroy their names\nout of those places.\n\n12:4. You shall not do so to the Lord your God:\n\n12:5. But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall\nchoose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in\nit:\n\n12:6. And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims,\nthe tithes and firstfruits of your hands and your vows and gifts, the\nfirstborn of your herds and your sheep.\n\n12:7. And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God: and\nyou shall rejoice in all things, whereunto you shall put your hand, you\nand your houses wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you.\n\n12:8. You shall not do there the things we do here this day, every man\nthat which seemeth good to himself.\n\n12:9. For until this present time you are not come to rest, and to the\npossession, which the Lord your God will give you.\n\n12:10. You shall pass over the Jordan, and shall dwell in the land\nwhich the Lord your God will give you, that you may have rest from all\nenemies round about: and may dwell without any fear,\n\n12:11. In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his\nname may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I\ncommand you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits\nof your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you\nshall vow to the Lord.\n\n12:12. There shall you feast before the Lord your God, you and your\nsons and your daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the\nLevite that dwelleth in your cities. For he hath no other part and\npossession among you.\n\n12:13. Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou\nshalt see:\n\n12:14. But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy\ntribes shalt thou offer sacrifices, and shalt do all that I command\nthee.\n\n12:15. But if thou desirest to eat, and the eating of flesh delight\nthee, kill, and eat according to the blessing of the Lord thy God,\nwhich he hath given thee, in thy cities: whether it be unclean, that is\nto say, having blemish or defect: or clean, that is to say, sound and\nwithout blemish, such as may be offered, as the roe, and the hart,\nshalt thou eat it:\n\n12:16. Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out\nupon the earth as water.\n\n12:17. Thou mayst not eat in thy towns the tithes of thy corn, and thy\nwine, and thy oil, the firstborn of thy herds and thy cattle, nor any\nthing that thou vowest, and that thou wilt offer voluntarily, and the\nfirstfruits of thy hands:\n\n12:18. But thou shalt eat them before the Lord thy God in the place\nwhich the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy son and thy daughter,\nand thy manservant, and maidservant, and the Levite that dwelleth in\nthy cities: and thou shalt rejoice and be refreshed before the Lord thy\nGod in all things, whereunto thou shalt put thy hand.\n\n12:19. Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all the time that thou\nlivest in the land.\n\n12:20. When the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he hath\nspoken to thee, and thou wilt eat the flesh that thy soul desireth:\n\n12:21. And if the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his\nname should be there, be far off, thou shalt kill of thy herds and of\nthy flocks, as I have commanded thee, and shalt eat in thy towns, as it\npleaseth thee.\n\n12:22. Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them:\nboth the clean and unclean shall eat of them alike.\n\n12:23. Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the blood\nis for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the\nflesh:\n\n12:24. But thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water,\n\n12:25. That it may be well with thee and thy children after thee, when\nthou shalt do that which is pleasing in the sight of the Lord.\n\n12:26. But the things which thou hast sanctified and vowed to the Lord,\nthou shalt take, and shalt come to the place which the Lord shall\nchoose:\n\n12:27. And shalt offer thy oblations, the flesh and the blood upon the\naltar of the Lord thy God: the blood of thy victims thou shalt pour on\nthe altar: and the flesh thou thyself shalt eat.\n\n12:28. Observe and hear all the things that I command thee, that it may\nbe well with thee and thy children after thee for ever, when thou shalt\ndo what is good and pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.\n\n12:29. When the Lord thy God shall have destroyed before thy face the\nnations, which thou shalt go in to possess, and when thou shalt possess\nthem, and dwell in their land:\n\n12:30. Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at thy\ncoming in, and lest thou seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these\nnations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship.\n\n12:31. Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For they\nhave done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth,\noffering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.\n\n12:32. What I command thee, that only do thou to the Lord: neither add\nany thing, nor diminish.\n\nThat only do thou, etc. . .They are forbid here to follow the ceremonies\nof the heathens; or to make any alterations in the divine ordinances.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 13\n\n\nFalse prophets must be slain, and idolatrous cities destroyed.\n\n13:1. If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that saith he\nhath dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder,\n\n13:2. And that come to pass which he spoke, and he say to thee: Let us\ngo and follow strange gods, which thou knowest not, and let us serve\nthem:\n\n13:3. Thou shalt not hear the words of that prophet or dreamer: for the\nLord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him with\nall your heart, and with all your soul, or not.\n\n13:4. Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his\ncommandments, and hear his voice: him you shall serve, and to him you\nshall cleave.\n\n13:5. And that prophet or forger of dreams shall be slain: because he\nspoke to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of\nthe land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage: to make\nthee go out of the way, which the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou\nshalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.\n\n13:6. If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or\nthy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy\nown soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve\nstrange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,\n\n13:7. Of all the nations round about, that are near or afar off, from\none end of the earth to the other,\n\n13:8. Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him\nto pity and conceal him,\n\n13:9. But thou shalt presently put him to death. Let thy hand be first\nupon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people.\n\nPresently put him to death. . .Not by killing him by private authority,\nbut by informing the magistrate, and proceeding by order of justice.\n\n13:10. With stones shall he be stoned to death: because he would have\nwithdrawn thee from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land\nof Egypt, from the house of bondage:\n\n13:11. That all Israel hearing may fear, and may do no more any thing\nlike this.\n\n13:12. If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shall give thee\nto dwell in, thou hear some say:\n\n13:13. Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and have\nwithdrawn the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and\nserve strange gods which you know not:\n\nBelial. . .That is, without yoke. Hence the wicked, who refuse to be\nsubject to the divine law, are called in scripture the children of\nBelial.\n\n13:14. Inquire carefully and diligently, the truth of the thing by\nlooking well into it, and if thou find that which is said to be\ncertain, and that this abomination hath been really committed,\n\n13:15. Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabitants of that city with the\nedge of the sword, and shalt destroy it and all things that are in it,\neven the cattle.\n\n13:16. And all the household goods that are there, thou shalt gather\ntogether in the midst of the streets thereof, and shall burn them with\nthe city itself, so as to comsume all for the Lord thy God, and that it\nbe a heap for ever: it shall be built no more.\n\n13:17. And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to thy hand: that\nthe Lord may turn from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on\nthee, and multiply thee as he swore to thy fathers,\n\n13:18. When thou shalt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping all\nhis precepts, which I command thee this day, that thou mayst do what is\npleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 14\n\n\nIn mourning for the dead they are not to follow the ways of the\nGentiles: the distinction of clean and unclean meats: ordinances\nconcerning tithes, and firstfruits.\n\n14:1. Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut\nyourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead;\n\n14:2. Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose\nthee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.\n\n14:3. Eat not the things that are unclean.\n\nUnclean. . .See the annotations on Lev. 11.\n\n14:4. These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep,\nand the goat,\n\n14:5. The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the\nwild goat, the camelopardalus.\n\n14:6. Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the\ncud, you shall eat.\n\n14:7. But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall\nnot eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they\nchew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.\n\n14:8. The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the\ncud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their\ncarcasses you shall not touch.\n\n14:9. These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that\nhave fins and scales, you shall eat.\n\n14:10. Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because\nthey are unclean.\n\n14:11. All birds that are clean you shall eat.\n\n14:12. The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the\nosprey,\n\n14:13. The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their\nkind:\n\n14:14. And all of the raven's kind:\n\n14:15. And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk\naccording to its kind:\n\n14:16. The heron, and the swan, and the stork,\n\n14:17. And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,\n\n14:18. The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the\nhoup also and the bat.\n\n14:19. Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be\nunclean, and shall not be eaten.\n\n14:20. All that is clean, you shall eat.\n\n14:21. But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it to\nthe stranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him:\nbecause thou art the holy people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not\nboil a kid in the milk of his dam.\n\n14:22. Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits\nthat the earth bringeth forth,\n\n14:23. And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he\nshall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of\nthy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and\nthy sheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times.\n\n14:24. But when the way and the place which the Lord thy God shall\nchoose, are far off, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry\nall these things thither,\n\n14:25. Thou shalt sell them all, and turn them into money, and shalt\ncarry it in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the Lord shall\nchoose:\n\n14:26. And thou shalt buy with the same money whatsoever pleaseth thee,\neither of the herds or of sheep, wine also and strong drink, and all\nthat thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, and\nshalt feast, thou and thy house:\n\n14:27. And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him\nnot, because he hath no other part in thy possession.\n\n14:28. The third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all things\nthat grow to thee at that time, and shalt lay it up within thy gates.\n\n14:29. And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with thee,\nand the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy\ngates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God\nmay bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 15\n\n\nThe law of the seventh year of remission. The firstlings of cattle are\nto be sanctified to the Lord.\n\n15:1. In the seventh year thou shalt make a remission,\n\n15:2. Which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is\nowing from his friend or neighbour or brother, cannot demand it again,\nbecause it is the year of remission of the Lord.\n\n15:3. Of the foreigner or stranger thou mayst exact it: of thy\ncountryman and neighbour thou shalt not have power to demand it again.\n\n15:4. And there shall be no poor nor beggar among you: that the Lord\nthy God may bless thee in the land which he will give thee in\npossession.\n\nThere shall be no poor, etc. . .It is not to be understood as a promise,\nthat there should be no poor in Israel, as appears from ver. 11, where\nwe learn that God's people would never be at a loss to find objects for\ntheir charity: but it is an ordinance that all should do their best\nendeavours to prevent any of their brethren from suffering the\nhardships of poverty and want.\n\n15:5. Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep all\nthings that he hath ordained, and which I command thee this day, he\nwill bless thee, as he hath promised.\n\n15:6. Thou shalt lend to many nations, and thou shalt borrow of no man.\nThou shalt have dominion over very many nations, and no one shall have\ndominion over thee.\n\n15:7. If one of thy brethren that dwelleth within thy gates of thy city\nin the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, come to poverty:\nthou shalt not harden thy heart, nor close thy hand,\n\n15:8. But shalt open it to the poor man, thou shalt lend him, that\nwhich thou perceivest he hath need of.\n\n15:9. Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou\nsay in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou\nturn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that\nwhich he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a\nsin unto thee.\n\n15:10. But thou shalt give to him: neither shalt thou do any thing\ncraftily in relieving his necessities: that the Lord thy God may bless\nthee at all times, and in all things to which thou shalt put thy hand.\n\n15:11. There will not be wanting poor in the land of thy habitation:\ntherefore I command thee to open thy hand to thy needy and poor\nbrother, that liveth in the land.\n\n15:12. When thy brother a Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is sold to thee,\nand hath served thee six years, in the seventh year thou shalt let him\ngo free:\n\n15:13. And when thou sendest him out free, thou shalt not let him go\naway empty:\n\n15:14. But shall give him for his way out of thy flocks, and out of thy\nbarnfloor, and thy winepress, wherewith the Lord thy God shall bless\nthee.\n\n15:15. Remember that thou also wast a bondservant in the land of Egypt,\nand the Lord thy God made thee free, and therefore I now command thee\nthis.\n\n15:16. But if he say: I will not depart: because he loveth thee, and\nthy house, and findeth that he is well with thee:\n\n15:17. Thou shalt take an awl, and bore through his ear in the door of\nthy house, and he shall serve thee for ever: thou shalt do in like\nmanner to thy womanservant also.\n\n15:18. Turn not away thy eyes from them when thou makest them free:\nbecause he hath served thee six years according to the wages of a\nhireling: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works that\nthou dost.\n\n15:19. Of the firstlings, that come of thy herds and thy sheep, thou\nshalt sanctify to the Lord thy God whatsoever is of the male sex. Thou\nshalt not work with the firstling of a bullock, and thou shalt not\nshear the firstlings of thy sheep.\n\n15:20. In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every year,\nin the place that the Lord shall choose, thou and thy house.\n\n15:21. But if it have a blemish, or be lame, or blind, or in any part\ndisfigured or feeble, it shall not be sacrificed to the Lord thy God.\n\n15:22. But thou shalt eat it within the gates of thy city: the clean\nand the unclean shall eat them alike, as the roe and as the hart.\n\n15:23. Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it\nout on the earth as water.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 16\n\n\nThe three principal solemnities to be observed: just judges to be\nappointed in every city: all occasions of idolatry to be avoided.\n\n16:1. Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring,\nthat thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in\nthis month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.\n\n16:2. And thou shalt sacrifice the phase to the Lord thy God, of sheep,\nand of oxen, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his\nname may dwell there.\n\n16:3. Thou shalt not eat with it leavened bread: seven days shalt thou\neat without leaven, the bread of affliction, because thou camest out of\nEgypt in fear: that thou mayst remember the day of thy coming out of\nEgypt, all the days of thy life.\n\n16:4. No leaven shall be seen in all thy coasts for seven days, neither\nshall any of the flesh of that which was sacrificed the first day in\nthe evening remain until morning.\n\n16:5. Thou mayst not immolate the phase in any one of thy cities, which\nthe Lord thy God will give thee:\n\n16:6. But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his\nname may dwell there: thou shalt immolate the phase in the evening, at\nthe going down of the sun, at which time thou camest out of Egypt.\n\n16:7. And thou shalt dress, and eat it in the place which the Lord thy\nGod shall choose, and in the morning rising up thou shalt go into thy\ndwellings.\n\n16:8. Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day,\nbecause it is the assembly of the Lord thy God, thou shalt do no work.\n\n16:9. Thou shalt number unto thee seven weeks from that day, wherein\nthou didst put the sickle to the corn.\n\n16:10. And thou shalt celebrate the festival of weeks to the Lord thy\nGod, a voluntary oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt offer according\nto the blessing of the Lord thy God.\n\n16:11. And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son,\nand thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the\nLevite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless,\nand the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God\nshall choose, that his name may dwell there:\n\n16:12. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in Egypt: and\nthou shalt keep and do the things that are commanded.\n\n16:13. Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity also of tabernacles seven\ndays, when thou hast gathered in thy fruit of the barnfloor and of the\nwinepress.\n\n16:14. And thou shalt make merry in thy festival time, thou, thy son,\nand thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy maidservant, the Levite also\nand the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow that are within thy\ngates.\n\n16:15. Seven days shalt thou celebrate feasts to the Lord thy God in\nthe place which the Lord shall choose: and the Lord thy God will bless\nthee in all thy fruits, and in every work of thy hands, and thou shalt\nbe in joy.\n\n16:16. Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord\nthy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened\nbread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. No one\nshall appear with his hands empty before the Lord:\n\n16:17. But every one shall offer according to what he hath, according\nto the blessing of the Lord his God, which he shall give him.\n\n16:18. Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates,\nwhich the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes: that they\nmay judge the people with just judgment,\n\n16:19. And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person\nnor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words\nof the just.\n\n16:20. Thou shalt follow justly after that which is just: that thou\nmayst live and possess the land, which the Lord thy God shall give\nthee.\n\n16:21. Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the\nLord thy God:\n\n16:22. Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue: which\nthings the Lord thy God hateth.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 17\n\n\nVictims must be without blemish. Idolaters are to be slain.\nControversies are to be decided by the high priest and council, whose\nsentence must be obeyed under pain of death. The duty of a king, who is\nto receive the law of God at the priest's hands.\n\n17:1. Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a sheep, or an ox,\nwherein there is blemish, or any fault: for that is an abomination to\nthe Lord thy God.\n\n17:2. When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates,\nwhich the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in\nthe sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant,\n\n17:3. So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the sun and\nthe moon, and all the host of heaven, which I have not commanded:\n\nThe host of heaven. . .That is, the stars.\n\n17:4. And this is told thee, and hearing it thou hast inquired\ndiligently, and found it to be true, and that the abomination is\ncommitted in Israel:\n\n17:5. Thou shalt bring forth the man or the woman, who have committed\nthat most wicked thing, to the gates of thy city, and they shall be\nstoned.\n\n17:6. By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he die that is to be\nslain. Let no man be put to death, when only one beareth witness\nagainst him.\n\n17:7. The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to kill him,\nand afterwards the hands of the rest of the people: that thou mayst\ntake away the evil out of the midst of thee.\n\n17:8. If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful\nmatter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy\nand leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates\ndo vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall\nchoose.\n\nIf thou perceive, etc. . .Here we see what authority God was pleased to\ngive to the church guides of the Old Testament, in deciding, without\nappeal, all controversies relating to the law; promising that they\nshould not err therein; and surely he has not done less for the church\nguides of the New Testament.\n\n17:9. And thou shalt come to the priests of the Levitical race, and to\nthe judge, that shall be at that time: and thou shalt ask of them, and\nthey shall shew thee the truth of the judgment.\n\n17:10. And thou shalt do whatsoever they shall say, that preside in the\nplace, which the Lord shall choose, and what they shall teach thee,\n\n17:11. According to his law; and thou shalt follow their sentence:\nneither shalt thou decline to the right hand nor to the left hand.\n\n17:12. But he that will be proud, and refuse to obey the commandment of\nthe priest, who ministereth at that time to the Lord thy God, and the\ndecree of the judge, that man shall die, and thou shalt take away the\nevil from Israel:\n\n17:13. And all the people hearing it shall fear, that no one afterwards\nswell with pride.\n\n17:14. When thou art come into the land, which the Lord thy God will\ngive thee, and possessest it, and shalt say: I will set a king over me,\nas all nations have that are round about:\n\n17:15. Thou shalt set him whom the Lord thy God shall choose out of the\nnumber of thy brethren. Thou mayst not make a man of another nation\nking, that is not thy brother.\n\n17:16. And when he is made king, he shall not multiply horses to\nhimself, nor lead back the people into Egypt, being lifted up with the\nnumber of his horsemen, especially since the Lord hath commanded you to\nreturn no more the same way.\n\n17:17. He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor\nimmense sums of silver and gold.\n\n17:18. But after he is raised to the throne of his kingdom, he shall\ncopy out to himself the Deuteronomy of this law in a volume, taking the\ncopy of the priests of the Levitical tribe,\n\n17:19. And he shall have it with him, and shall read it all the days of\nhis life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, and keep his\nwords and ceremonies, that are commanded in the law;\n\n17:20. And that his heart be not lifted up with pride over his\nbrethren, nor decline to the right or to the left, that he and his sons\nmay reign a long time over Israel.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 18\n\n\nThe Lord is the inheritance of the priests and Levites. Heathenish\nabominations are to be avoided. The great PROPHET CHRIST is promised.\nFalse prophets must be slain.\n\n18:1. The priests and Levites, and all that are of the same tribe,\nshall have no part nor inheritance with the rest of Israel, because\nthey shall eat the sacrifices of the Lord, and his oblations,\n\n18:2. And they shall receive nothing else of the possession of their\nbrethren: for the Lord himself is their inheritance, as he hath said to\nthem.\n\n18:3. This shall be the priest's due from the people, and from them\nthat offer victims: whether they sacrifice an ox, or a sheep, they\nshall give to the priest the shoulder and the breast:\n\n18:4. The firstfruits also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and a part of\nthe wool from the shearing of their sheep.\n\n18:5. For the Lord thy God hath chosen him of all thy tribes, to stand\nand to minister to the name of the Lord, him and his sons for ever.\n\n18:6. If a Levite go out of any one of the cities throughout all\nIsrael, in which he dwelleth, and have a longing mind to come to the\nplace which the Lord shall choose,\n\n18:7. He shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his\nbrethren the Levites do, that shall stand at that time before the Lord.\n\n18:8. He shall receive the same portion of food that the rest do:\nbesides that which is due to him in his own city, by succession from\nhis fathers.\n\n18:9. When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall\ngive thee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate the abominations of\nthose nations.\n\n18:10. Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate\nhis son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire: or that\nconsulteth soothsayers, or observeth dreams and omens, neither let\nthere be any wizard,\n\n18:11. Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits, or\nfortune tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead.\n\n18:12. For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these\nabominations he will destroy them at thy coming.\n\n18:13. Thou shalt be perfect, and without spot before the Lord thy God.\n\n18:14. These nations, whose land thou shalt possess, hearken to\nsoothsayers and diviners: but thou art otherwise instructed by the Lord\nthy God.\n\n18:15. The Lord thy God will raise up to thee a PROPHET of thy nation\nand of thy brethren like unto me: him thou shalt hear:\n\n18:16. As thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the\nassembly was gathered together, and saidst: Let me not hear any more\nthe voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see any more this\nexceeding great fire, lest I die.\n\n18:17. And the Lord said to me: They have spoken all things well.\n\n18:18. I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their\nbrethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he\nshall speak to them all that I shall command him.\n\n18:19. And he that will not hear his words, which he shall speak in my\nname, I will be the revenger.\n\n18:20. But the prophet, who being corrupted with pride, shall speak in\nmy name things that I did not command him to say, or in the name of\nstrange gods, shall be slain.\n\n18:21. And if in silent thought thou answer: How shall I know the word\nthat the Lord hath not spoken?\n\n18:22. Thou shalt have this sign: Whatsoever that same prophet\nforetelleth in the name of the Lord, and it cometh not to pass: that\nthing the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath forged it by the\npride of his mind: and therefore thou shalt not fear him.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 19\n\n\nThe cities of refuge. Wilful murder, and false witnesses must be\npunished.\n\n19:1. When the Lord thy God hath destroyed the nations, whose land he\nwill deliver to thee, and thou shalt possess it, and shalt dwell in the\ncities and houses thereof:\n\n19:2. Thou shalt separate to thee three cities in the midst of the\nland, which the Lord will give thee in possession,\n\n19:3. Paving diligently the way: and thou shalt divide the whole\nprovince of thy land equally into three parts: that he who is forced to\nflee for manslaughter, may have near at hand whither to escape.\n\n19:4. This shall be the law of the slayer that fleeth, whose life is to\nbe saved: He that killeth his neighbor ignorantly, and who is proved to\nhave had no hatred against him yesterday and the day before:\n\n19:5. But to have gone with him to the wood to hew wood, and in cutting\ndown the tree the axe slipped out of his hand, and the iron slipping\nfrom the handle struck his friend, and killed him: he shall flee to one\nof the cities aforesaid, and live:\n\n19:6. Lest perhaps the next kinsman of him whose blood was shed, pushed\non by his grief should pursue, and apprehend him, if the way be too\nlong, and take away the life of him who is not guilty of death, because\nhe is proved to have had no hatred before against him that was slain.\n\n19:7. Therefore I command thee, that thou separate three cities at\nequal distance one from another.\n\n19:8. And when the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he\nswore to the fathers, and shall give thee all the land that he promised\nthem,\n\n19:9. (Yet so, if thou keep his commandments, and do the things which I\ncommand thee this day, that thou love the Lord thy God, and walk in his\nways at all times) thou shalt add to thee other three cities, and shalt\ndouble the number of the three cities aforesaid:\n\n19:10. That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of the land\nwhich the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty\nof blood.\n\n19:11. But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life,\nand rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities\naforesaid,\n\n19:12. The ancients of his city shall send, and take him out of the\nplace of refuge, and shall deliver him into the hand of the kinsman of\nhim whose blood was shed, and he shall die.\n\n19:13. Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt of\ninnocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee.\n\n19:14. Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour's landmark, which\nthy predecessors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God\nwill give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess.\n\n19:15. One witness shall not rise up against any man, whatsoever the\nsin or wickedness be: but in the mouth of two or three witnesses every\nword shall stand.\n\n19:16. If a lying witness stand against a man, accusing him of\ntransgression,\n\n19:17. Both of them, between whom the controversy is, shall stand\nbefore the Lord in the sight of the priests and the judges that shall\nbe in those days.\n\n19:18. And when after most diligent inquisition, they shall find that\nthe false witness hath told a lie against his brother:\n\n19:19. They shall render to him as he meant to do to his brother, and\nthou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee:\n\n19:20. That others hearing may fear, and may not dare to do such\nthings.\n\n19:21. Thou shalt not pity him, but shalt require life for life, eye\nfor eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 20\n\n\nLaws relating to war.\n\n20:1. If thou go out to war against thy enemies, and see horsemen and\nchariots, and the numbers of the enemy's army greater than thine, thou\nshalt not fear them: because the Lord thy God is with thee, who brought\nthee out of the land of Egypt.\n\n20:2. And when the battle is now at hand, the priest shall stand before\nthe army, and shall speak to the people in this manner:\n\n20:3. Hear, O Israel, you join battle this day against your enemies,\nlet not your heart be dismayed, be not afraid, do not give back, fear\nye them not:\n\n20:4. Because the Lord your God is in the midst of you, and will fight\nfor you against your enemies, to deliver you from danger.\n\n20:5. And the captains shall proclaim through every band in the hearing\nof the army: What man is there, that hath built a new house, and hath\nnot dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in\nthe battle, and another man dedicate it.\n\n20:6. What man is there, that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not as\nyet made it to be common, whereof all men may eat? let him go, and\nreturn to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man execute\nhis office.\n\n20:7. What man is there, that hath espoused a wife, and not taken her?\nlet him go, and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and\nanother man take her.\n\n20:8. After these things are declared they shall add the rest, and\nshall speak to the people: What man is there that is fearful, and faint\nhearted? let him go, and return to his house, lest he make the hearts\nof his brethren to fear, as he himself is possessed with fear.\n\n20:9. And when the captains of the army shall hold their peace, and\nhave made an end of speaking, every man shall prepare their bands to\nfight.\n\n20:10. If at any time thou come to fight against a city, thou shalt\nfirst offer it peace.\n\n20:11. If they receive it, and open the gates to thee, all the people\nthat are therein, shall be saved, and shall serve thee paying tribute.\n\n20:12. But if they will not make peace, and shall begin war against\nthee, thou shalt besiege it.\n\n20:13. And when the Lord thy God shall deliver it into thy hands, thou\nshalt slay all that are therein of the male sex, with the edge of the\nsword,\n\n20:14. Excepting women and children, cattle and other things, that are\nin the city. And thou shalt divide all the prey to the army, and thou\nshalt eat the spoils of thy enemies, which the Lord thy God shall give\nthee.\n\n20:15. So shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great distance from\nthee, and are not of these cities which thou shalt receive in\npossession.\n\n20:16. But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer\nnone at all to live:\n\n20:17. But shalt kill them with the edge of the sword, to wit, the\nHethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, the Pherezite, and the\nHevite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:\n\n20:18. Lest they teach you to do all the abominations which they have\ndone to their gods: and you should sin against the Lord your God.\n\n20:19. When thou hast besieged a city a long time, and hath compassed\nit with bulwarks, to take it, thou shalt not cut down the trees that\nmay be eaten of, neither shalt thou spoil the country round about with\naxes: for it is a tree, and not a man, neither can it increase the\nnumber of them that fight against thee.\n\n20:20. But if there be any trees that are not fruitful, but wild, and\nfit for other uses, cut them down, and make engines, until thou take\nthe city, which fighteth against thee.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 21\n\n\nThe expiation of a secret murder. The marrying a captive. The eldest\nson must not be deprived of his birthright for hatred of his mother. A\nstubborn son is to be stoned to death. When one is hanged on a gibbet,\nhe must be taken down the same day and buried.\n\n21:1. When there shall be found in the land, which the Lord thy God\nwill give thee, the corpse of a man slain, and it is not known who is\nguilty of the murder,\n\n21:2. Thy ancients and judges shall go out, and shall measure from the\nplace where the body lieth the distance of every city round about:\n\n21:3. And the ancients of that city which they shall perceive to be\nnearer than the rest, shall take a heifer of the herd, that hath not\ndrawn in the yoke, nor ploughed the ground,\n\n21:4. And they shall bring her into a rough and stony valley, that\nnever was ploughed, nor sown: and there they shall strike off the head\nof the heifer:\n\n21:5. And the priests the sons of Levi shall come, whom the Lord thy\nGod hath chosen to minister to him, and to bless in his name, and that\nby their word every matter should be decided, and whatsoever is clean\nor unclean should be judged.\n\n21:6. And the ancients of that city shall come to the person slain, and\nshall wash their hands over the heifer that was killed in the valley,\n\n21:7. And shall say: Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our\neyes see it.\n\n21:8. Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, O\nLord, and lay not innocent blood to their charge, in the midst of thy\npeople Israel. And the guilt of blood shall be taken from them:\n\n21:9. And thou shalt be free from the innocent's blood, that was shed,\nwhen thou shalt have done what the Lord hath commanded thee.\n\n21:10. If thou go out to fight against thy enemies, and the Lord thy\nGod deliver them into thy hand, and thou lead them away captives,\n\n21:11. And seest in the number of the captives a beautiful woman, and\nlovest her, and wilt have her to wife,\n\n21:12. Thou shalt bring her into thy house: and she shall shave her\nhair, and pare her nails,\n\n21:13. And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and shall\nremain in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother one month: and\nafter that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her, and she\nshall be thy wife.\n\n21:14. But if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her go\nfree, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress her by might\nbecause thou hast humbled her.\n\n21:15. If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and\nthey have had children by him, and the son of the hated be the\nfirstborn,\n\n21:16. And he meaneth to divide his substance among his sons: he may\nnot make the son of the beloved the firstborn, and prefer him before\nthe son of the hated.\n\n21:17. But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn,\nand shall give him a double portion of all he hath: for this is the\nfirst of his children, and to him are due the first birthrights.\n\n21:18. If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the\ncommandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth\nobedience:\n\n21:19. They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of the city,\nand to the gate of judgment,\n\n21:20. And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn,\nhe slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling,\nand to debauchery and banquetings:\n\n21:21. The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that\nyou may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel\nhearing it may be afraid.\n\n21:22. When a man hath committed a crime for which he is to be punished\nwith death, and being condemned to die is hanged on a gibbet:\n\n21:23. His body shall not remain upon the tree, but shall be buried the\nsame day: for he is accursed of God that hangeth on a tree: and thou\nshalt not defile thy land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee in\npossession.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 22\n\n\nHumanity towards neighbours. Neither sex may use the apparel of the\nother. Cruelty to be avoided even to birds. Battlements about the roof\nof a house. Things of divers kinds not to be mixed. The punishment of\nhim that slandereth his wife, as also of adultery and rape.\n\n22:1. Thou shalt not pass by if thou seest thy brother's ox, or his\nsheep go astray: but thou shalt bring them back to thy brother.\n\n22:2. And if thy brother be not nigh, or thou know him not: thou shalt\nbring them to thy house, and they shall be with thee until thy brother\nseek them, and receive them.\n\n22:3. Thou shalt do in like manner with his ass, and with his raiment,\nand with every thing that is thy brother's, which is lost: if thou find\nit, neglect it not as pertaining to another.\n\n22:4. If thou see thy brother's ass or his ox to be fallen down in the\nway, thou shalt not slight it, but shalt lift it up with him.\n\n22:5. A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither shall a\nman use woman's apparel: for he that doth these things is abominable\nbefore God.\n\n22:6. If thou find as thou walkest by the way, a bird's nest in a tree,\nor on the ground, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs:\nthou shalt not take her with her young:\n\nThou shalt not take, etc. This was to shew them to exercise a certain\nmercy even to irrational creatures; and by that means to train them up\nto a horror of cruelty; and to the exercise of humanity and mutual\ncharity one to another.\n\n22:7. But shalt let her go, keeping the young which thou hast caught:\nthat it may be well with thee, and thou mayst live a long time.\n\n22:8. When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to\nthe roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be\nguilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong.\n\nBattlement. . .This precaution was necessary, because all their houses\nhad flat tops, and it was usual to walk and to converse together upon\nthem.\n\n22:9. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest both the\nseed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of the vineyard, be sanctified\ntogether.\n\n22:10. Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.\n\n22:11. Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of woollen and linen\ntogether.\n\n22:12. Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the four corners of thy\ncloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered.\n\n22:13. If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,\n\n22:14. And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very\nill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and going in to her, I\nfound her not a virgin:\n\n22:15. Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them\nthe tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the\ngate:\n\n22:16. And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to\nwife: and because he hateth her,\n\n22:17. He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I found\nnot thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the tokens of my\ndaughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the\nancients of the city:\n\n22:18. And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,\n\n22:19. Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he\nshall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very\nill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not\nput her away all the days of his life.\n\n22:20. But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity be not\nfound in the damsel:\n\n22:21. They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and\nthe men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die:\nbecause she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in\nher father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst\nof thee.\n\n22:22. If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that\nis to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away\nthe evil out of Israel.\n\n22:23. If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one\nfind her in the city, and lie with her,\n\n22:24. Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city, and\nthey shall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried not out, being in\nthe city: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife. And\nthou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.\n\n22:25. But if a man find a damsel that is betrothed, in the field, and\ntaking hold of her, lie with her, he alone shall die:\n\n22:26. The damsel shall suffer nothing, neither is she guilty of death:\nfor as a robber riseth against his brother, and taketh away his life,\nso also did the damsel suffer:\n\n22:27. She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to\nhelp her.\n\n22:28. If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused,\nand taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment:\n\n22:29. He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty\nsicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled\nher: he may not put her away all the days of his life.\n\n22:30. No man shall take his father's wife, nor remove his covering.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 23\n\n\nWho may and who may not enter into the church: uncleanness to be\navoided: other precepts concerning fugitives, fornication, usury, vows,\nand eating other men's grapes and corn.\n\n23:1. An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut\noff, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.\n\nEunuch. . .By these are meant, in the spiritual sense, such as are\nbarren in good works. Ibid. Into the church. . .That is, into the\nassembly or congregation of Israel, so as to have the privilege of an\nIsraelite, or to be capable of any place or office among the people of\nGod.\n\n23:2. A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not\nenter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.\n\n23:3. The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation\nshall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:\n\n23:4. Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way,\nwhen you came out of Egypt: and because they hired against thee Balaam,\nthe son of Beor, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.\n\n23:5. And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his\ncursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.\n\n23:6. Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek\ntheir prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.\n\n23:7. Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor\nthe Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.\n\n23:8. They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter\ninto the church of the Lord.\n\n23:9. When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep\nthyself from every evil thing.\n\n23:10. If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by\nnight, he shall go forth out of the camp,\n\n23:11. And shall not return, before he be washed with water in the\nevening: and after sunset he shall return into the camp.\n\n23:12. Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go\nfor the necessities of nature,\n\n23:13. Carrying a paddle at thy girdle. And when thou sittest down,\nthou shalt dig round about, and with the earth that is dug up thou\nshalt cover\n\n23:14. That which thou art eased of: (for the Lord thy God walketh in\nthe midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thy enemies to\nthee:) and let thy camp be holy, and let no uncleanness appear therein,\nlest he go away from thee.\n\nNo uncleanness. . .This caution against suffering any filth in the camp,\nwas to teach them to fly the filth of sin, which driveth God away from\nthe soul.\n\n23:15. Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant that is fled to\nthee.\n\n23:16. He shall dwell with thee in the place that shall please him, and\nshall rest in one of thy cities: give him no trouble.\n\n23:17. There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor\nwhoremonger among the sons of Israel.\n\n23:18. Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the price of a\ndog, in the house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever it be that thou hast\nvowed: because both these are an abomination to the Lord thy God.\n\n23:19. Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor\nany other thing:\n\n23:20. But to the stranger. To thy brother thou shalt lend that which\nhe wanteth, without usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all\nthy works in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.\n\nTo the stranger. . .This was a dispensation granted by God to his\npeople, who being the Lord of all things, can give a right and title to\none upon the goods of another. Otherwise the scripture everywhere\ncondemns usury, as contrary to the law of God, and a crying sin. See\nEx. 22.25; Lev. 25.36, 37; 2 Esd. 5.7; Ps. 14.5; Ezech. 18.8, 13, etc.\n\n23:21. When thou hast made a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not\ndelay to pay it: because the Lord thy God will require it. And if thou\ndelay, it shall be imputed to thee for a sin.\n\n23:22. If thou wilt not promise, that shalt be without sin.\n\n23:23. But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt observe,\nand shalt do as thou hast promised to the Lord thy God, and hast spoken\nwith thy own will and with thy own mouth.\n\n23:24. Going into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou mayst eat as many\ngrapes as thou pleasest: but must carry none out with thee:\n\n23:25. If thou go into thy friend's corn, thou mayst break the ears,\nand rub them in thy hand: but not reap them with a sickle.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 24\n\n\nDivorce permitted to avoid greater evil: the newly married must not go\nto war: of men stealers, of leprosy, of pledges, of labourers' hire, of\njustice, and of charity to the poor.\n\n24:1. If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in\nhis eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and\nshall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.\n\n24:2. And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband,\n\n24:3. And he also hateth her, and hath given her a bill of divorce, and\nhath sent her out of his house or is dead:\n\n24:4. The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is\ndefiled, and is become abominable before the Lord: lest thou cause thy\nland to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess.\n\n24:5. When a man hath lately taken a wife, he shall not go out to war,\nneither shall any public business be enjoined him, but he shall be free\nat home without fault, that for one year he may rejoice with his wife.\n\n24:6. Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to\npledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee.\n\n24:7. If any man be found soliciting his brother of the children of\nIsrael, and selling him shall take a price, he shall be put to death,\nand thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.\n\n24:8. Observe diligently that thou incur not the stroke of the leprosy,\nbut thou shalt do whatsoever the priests of the Levitical race shall\nteach thee, according to what I have commanded them, and fulfil thou it\ncarefully.\n\n24:9. Remember what the Lord your God did to Mary, in the way when you\ncame out of Egypt.\n\n24:10. When thou shalt demand of thy neighbour any thing that he oweth\nthee, thou shalt not go into his house to take away a pledge:\n\n24:11. But thou shalt stand without, and he shall bring out to thee\nwhat he hath.\n\n24:12. But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that\nnight,\n\n24:13. But thou shalt restore it to him presently before the going down\nof the sun: that he may sleep in his own raiment and bless thee, and\nthou mayst have justice before the Lord thy God.\n\n24:14. Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor,\nwhether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth with thee in the\nland, and is within thy gates:\n\n24:15. But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day,\nbefore the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it\nmaintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be\nreputed to thee for a sin.\n\n24:16. The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the\nchildren for the fathers, but every one shall die for his own sin,\n\n24:17. Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the\nfatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow's raiment for a\npledge.\n\n24:18. Remember that thou wast a slave in Egypt, and the Lord thy God\ndelivered thee from thence. Therefore I command thee to do this thing.\n\n24:19. When thou hast reaped the corn in thy field, and hast forgot and\nleft a sheaf, thou shalt not return to take it away: but thou shalt\nsuffer the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow to take it away:\nthat the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands.\n\n24:20. If thou have gathered the fruit of thy olive trees, thou shalt\nnot return to gather whatsoever remaineth on the trees: but shalt leave\nit for the stranger, for the fatherless, and the widow.\n\n24:21. If thou make the vintage of thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather\nthe clusters that remain, but they shall be for the stranger, the\nfatherless, and the widow.\n\n24:22. Remember that thou also wast a bondman in Egypt, and therefore I\ncommand thee to do this thing.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 25\n\n\nStripes must not exceed forty. The ox is not to be muzzled. Of raising\nseed to the brother. Of the immodest woman. Of unjust weight. Of\ndestroying the Amalecites.\n\n25:1. If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon the\njudges: they shall give the prize of justice to him whom they perceive\nto be just: and him whom they find to be wicked, they shall condemn of\nwickedness.\n\n25:2. And if they see that the offender be worthy of stripes: they\nshall lay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten before them.\nAccording to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the\nstripes be:\n\n25:3. Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy\nbrother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.\n\n25:4. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the\nfloor.\n\nNot muzzle, etc. . .St. Paul understands this of the spiritual labourer\nin the church of God, who is not to be denied his maintenance. 1 Cor.\n9.8, 9, 10.\n\n25:5. When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth without\nchildren, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another: but his\nbrother shall take her, and raise up seed for his brother:\n\n25:6. And the first son he shall have of her he shall call by his name,\nthat his name be not abolished out of Israel.\n\n25:7. But if he will not take his brother's wife, who by law belongeth\nto him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and call upon the\nancients, and say: My husband's brother refuseth to raise up his\nbrother's name in Israel: and will not take me to wife.\n\n25:8. And they shall cause him to be sent for forthwith, and shall ask\nhim. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:\n\n25:9. The woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take\noff his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and say: So shall it\nbe done to the man that will not build up his brother's house:\n\n25:10. And his name shall be called in Israel, the house of the unshod.\n\n25:11. If two men have words together, and one begin to fight against\nthe other, and the other's wife willing to deliver her husband out of\nthe hand of the stronger, shall put forth her hand, and take him by the\nsecrets,\n\n25:12. Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with\nany pity in her regard.\n\n25:13. Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a\nless:\n\n25:14. Neither shall there be in thy house a greater bushel and a less.\n\n25:15. Thou shalt have a just and a true weight, and thy bushel shall\nbe equal and true: that thou mayest live a long time upon the land\nwhich the Lord thy God shall give thee.\n\n25:16. For the Lord thy God abhorreth him that doth these things, and\nhe hateth all injustice.\n\n25:17. Remember what Amalec did to thee in the way when thou camest out\nof Egypt:\n\nAmalec. . .This order for destroying the Amalecites, in the mystical\nsense, sheweth how hateful they are to God, and what punishments they\nare to look for from his justice, who attack and discourage his\nservants when they are but just come out, as it were, of the Egypt of\nthis wicked world and being yet weak and fainthearted, are but\nbeginning their journey to the land of promise.\n\n25:18. How he met thee: and slew the hindmost of the army, who sat\ndown, being weary, when thou wast spent with hunger and labour, and he\nfeared not God.\n\n25:19. Therefore when the Lord thy God shall give thee rest, and shall\nhave subdued all the nations round about in the land which he hath\npromised thee: thou shalt blot out his name from under heaven. See thou\nforget it not.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 26\n\n\nThe form of words with which the firstfruits and tithes are to be\noffered. God's covenant.\n\n26:1. And when thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God will\ngive thee to possess, and hast conquered it, and dwellest in it:\n\n26:2. Thou shalt take the first of all thy fruits, and put them in a\nbasket, and shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose,\nthat his name may be invocated there:\n\n26:3. And thou shalt go to the priest that shall be in those days, and\nsay to him: I profess this day before the Lord thy God, that I am come\ninto the land, for which he swore to our fathers, that he would give it\nus.\n\n26:4. And the priest taking the basket at thy hand, shall set it before\nthe altar of the Lord thy God:\n\n26:5. And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: The\nSyrian pursued my father, who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there\nin a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of\nan infinite multitude.\n\nThe Syrian. . .Laban. See Gen. 27.\n\n26:6. And the Egyptians afflicted us, and persecuted us, laying on us\nmost grievous burdens:\n\n26:7. And we cried to the Lord God of our fathers: who heard us, and\nlooked down upon our affliction, and labour, and distress:\n\n26:8. And brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand, and a stretched\nout arm, with great terror, with signs and wonders:\n\n26:9. And brought us into this place, and gave us this land flowing\nwith milk and honey.\n\n26:10. And therefore now I offer the firstfruits of the land which the\nLord hath given me. And thou shalt leave them in the sight of the Lord\nthy God, adoring the Lord thy God.\n\n26:11. And thou shalt feast in all the good things which the Lord thy\nGod hath given thee, and thy house, thou and the Levite, and the\nstranger that is with thee.\n\n26:12. When thou hast made an end of tithing all thy fruits, in the\nthird year of tithes thou shalt give it to the Levite, and to the\nstranger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat\nwithin thy gates, and be filled:\n\n26:13. And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: I\nhave taken that which was sanctified out of my house, and I have given\nit to the Levite, and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to\nthe widow, as thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy\ncommandments nor forgotten thy precepts.\n\n26:14. I have not eaten of them in my mourning, nor separated them for\nany uncleanness, nor spent any thing of them in funerals. I have obeyed\nthe voice of the Lord my God, and have done all things as thou hast\ncommanded me.\n\n26:15. Look from thy sanctuary, and thy high habitation of heaven, and\nbless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou\ndidst swear to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.\n\n26:16. This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these\ncommandments and judgments: and to keep and fulfil them with all thy\nheart, and with all thy soul.\n\n26:17. Thou hast chosen the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in\nhis ways and keep his ceremonies, and precepts, and judgments, and obey\nhis command.\n\n26:18. And the Lord hath chosen thee this day, to be his peculiar\npeople, as he hath spoken to thee, and to keep all his commandments:\n\n26:19. And to make thee higher than all nations which he hath created,\nto his own praise, and name, and glory: that thou mayst be a holy\npeople of the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 27\n\n\nThe commandments must be written on stones: and an altar erected, and\nsacrifices offered. The observers of the commandments are to be\nblessed, and the transgressors cursed.\n\n27:1. And Moses with the ancients of Israel commanded the people,\nsaying: Keep every commandment that I command you this day.\n\n27:2. And when you are passed over the Jordan into the land which the\nLord thy God will give thee, thou shalt set up great stones, and shalt\nplaster them over with plaster,\n\n27:3. That thou mayst write on them all the words of this law, when\nthou art passed over the Jordan: that thou mayst enter into the land\nwhich the Lord thy God will give thee, a land flowing with milk and\nhoney, as he swore to thy fathers.\n\n27:4. Therefore when you are passed over the Jordan, set up the stones\nwhich I command you this day, in mount Hebal, and thou shalt plaster\nthem with plaster:\n\n27:5. And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, of\nstones which iron hath not touched,\n\n27:6. And of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt offer\nupon it holocausts to the Lord thy God:\n\n27:7. And shalt immolate peace victims, and eat there, and feast before\nthe Lord thy God.\n\n27:8. And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law\nplainly and clearly.\n\n27:9. And Moses and the priests of the race of Levi said to all Israel:\nAttend, and hear, O Israel: This day thou art made the people of the\nLord thy God:\n\n27:10. Thou shalt hear his voice, and do the commandments and justices\nwhich I command thee.\n\n27:11. And Moses commanded the people in that day, saying:\n\n27:12. These shall stand upon mount Garizim to bless the people, when\nyou are passed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, Joseph, and\nBenjamin.\n\n27:13. And over against them shall stand on mount Hebal to curse:\nRuben, Gad, and Aser, and Zabulon, Dan, and Nephtali.\n\n27:14. And the Levites shall pronounce, and say to all the men of\nIsrael with a loud voice:\n\n27:15. Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the\nabomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, and shall\nput it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say:\nAmen.\n\n27:16. Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all\nthe people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:17. Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all\nthe people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:18. Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of his way: and\nall the people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:19. Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of\nthe fatherless and the widow: and all the people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:20. Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, and uncovereth\nhis bed: and all the people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:21. Cursed be he that lieth with any beast: and all the people shall\nsay: Amen.\n\n27:22. Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his\nfather, or of his mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:23. Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law: and all the\npeople shall say: Amen.\n\n27:24. Cursed be he that secretly killeth his neighbour: and all the\npeople shall say: Amen.\n\n27:25. Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to slay an innocent person: and\nall the people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:26. Cursed be he that abideth not in the words of this law, and\nfulfilleth them not in work: and all the people shall say: Amen.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 28\n\n\nMany blessings are promised to observers of God's commandments: and\ncurses threatened to transgressors.\n\n28:1. Now if thou wilt hear the voice of all his commandments, which I\ncommand thee this day, the Lord thy God will make thee higher than all\nthe nations that are on the earth.\n\n28:2. And all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee:\nyet so if thou hear his precepts.\n\nAll these blessings, etc. . .In the Old Testament, God promised temporal\nblessings to the keepers of his law, heaven not being opened as yet;\nand that gross and sensual people being more moved with present and\nsensible things. But in the New Testament the goods that are promised\nus are spiritual and eternal; and temporal evils are turned into\nblessings.\n\n28:3. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed in the field.\n\n28:4. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy\nground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the droves of thy herds, and the\nfolds of thy sheep.\n\n28:5. Blessed shall be thy barns and blessed thy stores.\n\n28:6. Blessed shalt thou be coming in and going out.\n\n28:7. The Lord shall cause thy enemies, that rise up against thee, to\nfall down before thy face: one way shall they come out against thee,\nand seven ways shall they flee before thee.\n\n28:8. The Lord will send forth a blessing upon thy storehouses, and\nupon all the works of thy hands: and will bless thee in the land that\nthou shalt receive.\n\n28:9. The Lord will raise thee up to be a holy people to himself, as he\nswore to thee: if thou keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and\nwalk in his ways.\n\n28:10. And all the people of the earth shall see that the name of the\nLord is invocated upon thee, and they shall fear thee.\n\n28:11. The Lord will make thee abound with all goods, with the fruit of\nthy womb, and the fruit of thy cattle, with the fruit of thy land,\nwhich the Lord swore to thy fathers that he would give thee.\n\n28:12. The Lord will open his excellent treasure, the heaven, that it\nmay give rain in due season: and he will bless all the works of thy\nhands. And thou shalt lend to many nations, and shalt not borrow of any\none.\n\n28:13. And the Lord shall make thee the head and not the tail: and thou\nshalt be always above, and not beneath: yet so if thou wilt hear the\ncommandments of the Lord thy God which I command thee this day, and\nkeep and do them,\n\n28:14. And turn not away from them neither to the right hand, nor to\nthe left, nor follow strange gods, nor worship them.\n\n28:15. But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep\nand to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee\nthis day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.\n\nAll these curses, etc. . .Thus God dealt with the transgressors of his\nlaw in the Old Testament: but now he often suffers sinners to prosper\nin this world, rewarding them for some little good they have done, and\nreserving their punishment for the other world.\n\n28:16. Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed in the field.\n\n28:17. Cursed shall be thy barn, and cursed thy stores.\n\n28:18. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy\nground, the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.\n\n28:19. Cursed shalt thou be coming in, and cursed going out.\n\n28:20. The Lord shall send upon thee famine and hunger, and a rebuke\nupon all the works which thou shalt do: until he consume and destroy\nthee quickly, for thy most wicked inventions, by which thou hast\nforsaken me.\n\n28:21. May the Lord set the pestilence upon thee, until he consume thee\nout of the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.\n\n28:22. May the Lord afflict thee with miserable want, with the fever\nand with cold, with burning and with heat, and with corrupted air and\nwith blasting, and pursue thee till thou perish.\n\n28:23. Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou\ntreadest on, of iron.\n\n28:24. The Lord give thee dust for rain upon thy land, and let ashes\ncome down from heaven upon thee, till thou be consumed.\n\n28:25. The Lord make thee to fall down before thy enemies, one way\nmayst thou go out against them, and flee seven ways, and be scattered\nthroughout all the kingdoms of the earth.\n\n28:26. And be thy carcass meat for all the fowls of the air, and the\nbeasts of the earth, and be there none to drive them away.\n\n28:27. The Lord strike thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and the part of\nthy body, by which the dung is cast out, with the scab and with the\nitch: so that thou canst not be healed.\n\n28:28. The Lord strike thee with madness and blindness and fury of\nmind.\n\n28:29. And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in\nthe dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times\nsuffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and mayst thou have no\none to deliver thee.\n\n28:30. Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep with her. Mayst thou\nbuild a house, and not dwell therein. Mayest thou plant a vineyard and\nnot gather the vintage thereof.\n\n28:31. May thy ox be slain before thee, and thou not eat thereof. May\nthy ass be taken away in thy sight, and not restored to thee. May thy\nsheep be given to thy enemies, and may there be none to help thee.\n\n28:32. May thy sons and thy daughters be given to another people, thy\neyes looking on, and languishing at the sight of them all the day, and\nmay there be no strength in thy hand.\n\n28:33. May a people which thou knowest not, eat the fruits of thy land,\nand all thy labours: and mayst thou always suffer oppression, and be\ncrushed at all times.\n\n28:34. And be astonished at the terror of those things which thy eyes\nshall see:\n\n28:35. May the Lord strike thee with a very sore ulcer in the knees and\nin the legs, and be thou incurable from the sole of the foot to the top\nof the head.\n\n28:36. The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king, whom thou shalt have\nappointed over thee, into a nation which thou and thy fathers know not:\nand there thou shalt serve strange gods, wood and stone.\n\n28:37. And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and a byword to all people,\namong whom the Lord shall bring thee in.\n\n28:38. Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little:\nbecause the locusts shall consume all.\n\n28:39. Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dig it, and shalt not drink the\nwine, nor gather any thing thereof: because it shall be wasted with\nworms.\n\n28:40. Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and shalt not be\nanointed with the oil: for the olives shall fall off and perish.\n\n28:41. Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy them:\nbecause they shall be led into captivity.\n\n28:42. The blast shall consume all the trees and the fruits of thy\nground.\n\n28:43. The stranger that liveth with thee in the land, shall rise up\nover thee, and shall be higher: and thou shalt go down, and be lower.\n\n28:44. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him. He shall\nbe as the head, and thou shalt be the tail.\n\n28:45. And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue and\novertake thee, till thou perish: because thou heardst not the voice of\nthe Lord thy God, and didst not keep his commandments and ceremonies\nwhich he commanded thee.\n\n28:46. And they shall be as signs and wonders on thee, and on thy seed\nfor ever.\n\n28:47. Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and\ngladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:\n\n28:48. Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee,\nin hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he\nshall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee.\n\n28:49. The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the\nuttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose\ntongue thou canst not understand,\n\n28:50. A most insolent nation, that will shew no regard to the\nancients, nor have pity on the infant,\n\n28:51. And will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy\nland: until thou be destroyed, and will leave thee no wheat, nor wine,\nnor oil, nor herds of oxen, nor flocks of sheep: until he destroy thee.\n\n28:52. And consume thee in all thy cities, and thy strong and high wall\nbe brought down, wherein thou trustedst in all thy land. Thou shalt be\nbesieged within thy gates in all thy land which the Lord thy God will\ngive thee:\n\n28:53. And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, and the flesh of thy\nsons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in\nthe distress and extremity wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee.\n\n28:54. The man that is nice among you, and very delicate, shall envy\nhis own brother, and his wife, that lieth in his bosom,\n\n28:55. So that he will not give them of the flesh of his children,\nwhich he shall eat: because he hath nothing else in the siege and the\nwant, wherewith thy enemies shall distress thee within all thy gates.\n\n28:56. The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the\nground, nor set down her foot for over much niceness and tenderness,\nwill envy her husband who lieth in her bosom, the flesh of her son, and\nof her daughter,\n\n28:57. And the filth of the afterbirths, that come forth from between\nher thighs, and the children that are born the same hour. For they\nshall eat them secretly for the want of all things, in the siege and\ndistress, wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee within thy gates.\n\n28:58. If thou wilt not keep, and fulfil all the words of this law,\nthat are written in this volume, and fear his glorious and terrible\nname: that is, The Lord thy God:\n\n28:59. The Lord shall increase thy plagues, and the plagues of thy\nseed, plagues great and lasting, infirmities grievous and perpetual.\n\n28:60. And he shall bring back on thee all the afflictions of Egypt,\nwhich thou wast afraid of, and they shall stick fast to thee.\n\n28:61. Moreover the Lord will bring upon thee all the diseases, and\nplagues, that are not written in the volume of this law till he consume\nthee:\n\n28:62. And you shall remain few in number, who before were as the stars\nof heaven for multitude, because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord\nthy God.\n\n28:63. And as the Lord rejoiced upon you before doing good to you, and\nmultiplying you: so he shall rejoice destroying and bringing you to\nnought, so that you shall be taken away from the land which thou shalt\ngo in to possess.\n\n28:64. The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest\nparts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve\nstrange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and\nstone.\n\n28:65. Neither shalt thou be quiet, even in those nations, nor shall\nthere be any rest for the sole of thy foot. For the Lord will give thee\na fearful heart, and languishing eyes, and a soul consumed with\npensiveness:\n\n28:66. And thy life shall be as it were hanging before thee. Thou shalt\nfear night and day, neither shalt thou trust thy life.\n\n28:67. In the morning thou shalt say: Who will grant me evening? and at\nevening: Who will grant me morning? for the fearfulness of thy heart,\nwherewith thou shalt be terrified, and for those things which thou\nshalt see with thy eyes.\n\n28:68. The Lord shall bring thee again with ships into Egypt, by the\nway whereof he said to thee that thou shouldst see it no more. There\nshalt thou be set to sale to thy enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and\nno man shall buy you.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 29\n\n\nThe covenant is solemnly confirmed between God and his people. Threats\nagainst those that shall break it.\n\n29:1. These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded\nMoses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab: beside\nthat covenant which he made with them in Horeb.\n\n29:2. And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: You have seen all\nthe things that the Lord did before you in the land of Egypt to Pharao,\nand to all his servants, and to his whole land.\n\n29:3. The great temptations, which thy eyes have seen, those mighty\nsigns and wonders,\n\n29:4. And the Lord hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes\nto see, and ears that may hear, unto this present day.\n\nHath not given you, etc. . .Through your own fault and because you\nresisted his grace.\n\n29:5. He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your garments\nare not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age.\n\n29:6. You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong\ndrink: that you might know that I am the Lord your God.\n\n29:7. And you came to this place: and Sehon king of Hesebon, and Og\nking of Basan, came out against us to fight. And we slew them.\n\n29:8. And took their land, and delivered it for a possession to Ruben\nand Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses.\n\n29:9. Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and fulfil them: that\nyou may understand all that you do.\n\n29:10. You all stand this day before the Lord your God, your princes,\nand tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people of Israel,\n\n29:11. Your children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with\nthee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring\nwater:\n\n29:12. That thou mayst pass in the covenant of the Lord thy God, and in\nthe oath which this day the Lord thy God maketh with thee.\n\n29:13. That he may raise thee up a people to himself, and he may be thy\nGod as he hath spoken to thee, and as he swore to thy fathers Abraham,\nIsaac, and Jacob.\n\n29:14. Neither with you only do I make this covenant, and confirm these\noaths,\n\n29:15. But with all that are present and that are absent.\n\n29:16. For you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we have\npassed through the midst of nations, and passing through them,\n\n29:17. You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to say,\ntheir idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped.\n\n29:18. Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a\nfamily or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord\nour God, to go and serve the gods of those nations: and there should be\namong you a root bringing forth gall and bitterness.\n\n29:19. And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless\nhimself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in\nthe naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty,\n\nThe drunken, etc., absumat ebria sitientem. . .It is a proverbial\nexpression, which may either be understood, as spoken by the sinner,\nblessing, that is, flattering himself in his sins with the imagination\nof peace, and so great an abundance as may satisfy, and as it were,\nconsume all thirst and want: or it may be referred to the root of\nbitterness, spoken of before, which being drunken with sin may attract,\nand by that means consume, such as thirst after the like evils.\n\n29:20. And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy\nagainst that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all\nthe curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and\nthe Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,\n\n29:21. And utterly destroy him out of all the tribes of Israel,\naccording to the curses that are contained in the book of this law and\ncovenant:\n\n29:22. And the following generation shall say, and the children that\nshall be born hereafter, and the strangers that shall come from afar,\nseeing the plagues of that land and the evils wherewith the Lord hath\nafflicted it,\n\n29:23. Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it\ncannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the\nexample of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim,\nwhich the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:\n\n29:24. And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to\nthis land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?\n\n29:25. And they shall answer: Because they forsook the covenant of the\nLord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the\nland of Egypt:\n\n29:26. And they have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they\nknew not, and for whom they had not been assigned:\n\n29:27. Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against this land,\nto bring upon it all the curses that are written in this volume:\n\n29:28. And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath,\nand in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange\nland, as it is seen this day.\n\n29:29. Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to\nus and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this\nlaw.\n\nSecret things, etc. . .As much as to say, secret things belong to, and\nare known to, God alone; our business must be to observe what he has\nrevealed and manifested to us, and to direct our lives accordingly.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 30\n\n\nGreat mercies are promised to the penitent: God's commandment is\nfeasible. Life and death are set before them.\n\n30:1. Now when all these things shall be come upon thee, the blessing\nor the curse, which I have set forth before thee, and thou shalt be\ntouched with repentance of thy heart among all the nations, into which\nthe Lord thy God shall have scattered thee,\n\n30:2. And shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I command\nthee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all\nthy soul:\n\n30:3. The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and will\nhave mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into\nwhich he scattered thee before.\n\n30:4. If thou be driven as far as the poles of heaven, the Lord thy God\nwill fetch thee back from hence,\n\n30:5. And will take thee to himself, and bring thee into the land which\nthy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: and blessing thee, he\nwill make thee more numerous than were thy fathers.\n\n30:6. The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy\nseed: that thou mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with\nall thy soul, that thou mayst live.\n\n30:7. And he will turn all these curses upon thy enemies, and upon them\nthat hate and persecute thee.\n\n30:8. But thou shalt return, and hear the voice of the Lord thy God,\nand shalt do all the commandments which I command thee this day:\n\n30:9. And the Lord thy God will make thee abound in all the works of\nthy hands, in the fruit of thy womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, in\nthe fruitfulness of thy land, and in the plenty of all things. For the\nLord will return to rejoice over thee in all good things, as he\nrejoiced in thy fathers:\n\n30:10. Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep his\nprecepts and ceremonies, which are written in this law: and return to\nthe Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.\n\n30:11. This commandment, that I command thee this day is not above\nthee, nor far off from thee:\n\n30:12. Nor is it in heaven, that thou shouldst say: Which of us can go\nup to heaven to bring it unto us, and we may hear and fulfil it in\nwork?\n\n30:13. Nor is it beyond the sea: that thou mayst excuse thyself, and\nsay: Which of us can cross the sea, and bring it unto us: that we may\nhear, and do that which is commanded?\n\n30:14. But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy\nheart, that thou mayst do it.\n\n30:15. Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and\non the other hand death and evil:\n\n30:16. That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and\nkeep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments, and bless thee in\nthe land, which thou shalt go in to possess.\n\n30:17. But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and\nbeing deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them:\n\n30:18. I foretell thee this day that thou shalt perish, and shalt\nremain but a short time in the land, to which thou shalt pass over the\nJordan, and shalt go in to possess it.\n\n30:19. I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have set\nbefore you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose therefore life,\nthat both thou and thy seed may live:\n\n30:20. And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his voice,\nand adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days,)\nthat thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy\nfathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it them.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 31\n\n\nMoses encourageth the people, and Josue, who is appointed to succeed\nhim. He delivereth the law to the priests. God foretelleth that the\npeople will often forsake him, and that he will punish them. He\ncommandeth Moses to write a canticle, as a constant remembrancer of the\nlaw.\n\n31:1. And Moses went, and spoke all these words to all Israel,\n\n31:2. And he said to them: I am this day a hundred and twenty years\nold, I can no longer go out and come in, especially as the Lord also\nhath said to me: Thou shalt not pass over this Jordan.\n\n31:3. The Lord thy God then will pass over before thee: he will destroy\nall these nations in thy sight, and thou shalt possess them: and this\nJosue shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.\n\n31:4. And the Lord shall do to them as he did to Sehon and Og the kings\nof the Amorrhites, and to their land, and shall destroy them.\n\n31:5. Therefore when the Lord shall have delivered these also to you,\nyou shall do in like manner to them as I have commanded you.\n\n31:6. Do manfully and be of good heart: fear not, nor be ye dismayed at\ntheir sight: for the Lord thy God he himself is thy leader, and will\nnot leave thee nor forsake thee.\n\n31:7. And Moses called Josue, and said to him before all Israel: Take\ncourage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring this people into the land\nwhich the Lord swore he would give to their fathers, and thou shalt\ndivide it by lot.\n\n31:8. And the Lord who is your leader, he himself will be with thee: he\nwill not leave thee, nor forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.\n\n31:9. And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the\nsons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to\nall the ancients of Israel.\n\n31:10. And he commanded them, saying: After seven years, in the year of\nremission, in the feast of tabernacles,\n\n31:11. When all Israel come together, to appear in the sight of the\nLord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou shalt read\nthe words of this law before all Israel, in their hearing.\n\n31:12. And the people being all assembled together, both men and women,\nchildren and strangers, that are within thy gates: that hearing they\nmay learn, and fear the Lord your God, and keep, and fulfil all the\nwords of this law:\n\n31:13. That their children also, who now are ignorant, may hear, and\nfear the Lord their God, all the days that they live in the land\nwhither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.\n\n31:14. And the Lord said to Moses: Behold the days of thy death are\nnigh: call Josue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of the testimony, that\nI may give him a charge. So Moses and Josue went and stood in the\ntabernacle of the testimony:\n\n31:15. And the Lord appeared there in the pillar of a cloud, which\nstood in the entry of the tabernacle.\n\n31:16. And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy\nfathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange\ngods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they\nforsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with\nthem,\n\n31:17. And my wrath shall be kindled against them in that day: and I\nwill forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be\ndevoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall\nsay in that day: In truth it is because God is not with me, that these\nevils have found me.\n\n31:18. But I will hide, and cover my face in that day, for all the\nevils which they have done, because they have followed strange gods.\n\n31:19. Now therefore write you this canticle, and teach the children of\nIsrael: that they may know it by heart, and sing it by mouth, and this\nsong may be unto me for a testimony among the children of Israel.\n\n31:20. For I will bring them into the land, for which I swore to their\nfathers, that floweth with milk and honey. And when they have eaten,\nand are full and fat, they will turn away after strange gods, and will\nserve them: and will despise me, and make void my covenant.\n\n31:21. And after many evils and afflictions shall have come upon them,\nthis canticle shall answer them for a testimony, which no oblivion\nshall take away out of the mouth of their seed. For I know their\nthoughts, and what they are about to do this day, before that I bring\nthem into the land which I have promised them.\n\n31:22. Moses therefore wrote the canticle, and taught it to the\nchildren of Israel.\n\n31:23. And the Lord commanded Josue the son of Nun, and said: Take\ncourage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel\ninto the land which I have promised, and I will be with thee.\n\n31:24. Therefore after Moses had wrote the words of this law in a\nvolume, and finished it:\n\n31:25. He commanded the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of\nthe Lord, saying:\n\n31:26. Take this book, and put it in the side of the ark of the\ncovenant of the Lord your God: that it may be there for a testimony\nagainst thee.\n\n31:27. For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck. While I am\nyet living, and going in with you, you have always been rebellious\nagainst the Lord: how much more when I shall be dead?\n\n31:28. Gather unto me all the ancients of your tribes, and your\ndoctors, and I will speak these words in their hearing, and will call\nheaven and earth to witness against them.\n\n31:29. For I know that, after my death, you will do wickedly, and will\nquickly turn aside form the way that I have commanded you: and evils\nshall come upon you in the latter times, when you shall do evil in the\nsight of the Lord, to provoke him by the works of your hands.\n\n31:30. Moses therefore spoke, in the hearing of the whole assembly of\nIsrael, the words of this canticle, and finished it even to the end.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 32\n\n\nA canticle for the remembrance of the law. Moses is commanded to go up\ninto a mountain, from whence he shall see the promised land but not\nenter into it.\n\n32:1. Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to\nthe words of my mouth.\n\n32:2. Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the\ndew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.\n\n32:3. Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence\nto our God.\n\n32:4. The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God\nis faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.\n\n32:5. They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in\ntheir filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.\n\n32:6. Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and\nsenseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and\nmade thee, and created thee?\n\n32:7. Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy\nfather, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell\nthee.\n\n32:8. When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the\nsons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number\nof the children of Israel.\n\n32:9. But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his\ninheritance.\n\n32:10. He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast\nwilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the\napple of his eye.\n\n32:11. As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them,\nhe spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his\nshoulders.\n\n32:12. The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with\nhim.\n\n32:13. He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the\nfields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the\nhardest stone,\n\n32:14. Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs,\nand of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of\nwheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.\n\n32:15. The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and\ngross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.\n\n32:16. They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger,\nwith their abominations.\n\n32:17. They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew\nnot: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.\n\n32:18. Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten\nthe Lord that created thee.\n\n32:19. The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and\ndaughters provoked him.\n\n32:20. And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider\nwhat their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and\nunfaithful children.\n\n32:21. They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have\nangered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which\nis no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.\n\n32:22. A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest\nhell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the\nfoundations of the mountains.\n\n32:23. I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among\nthem.\n\n32:24. They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them\nwith a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them,\nwith the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.\n\n32:25. Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both\nthe young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.\n\n32:26. I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease\nfrom among men.\n\n32:27. But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest\nperhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand,\nand not the Lord, hath done all these things.\n\n32:28. They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.\n\n32:29. O that they would be wise and would understand, and would\nprovide for their last end.\n\n32:30. How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten\nthousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had\nshut them up?\n\n32:31. For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are\njudges.\n\n32:32. Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of\nGomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most\nbitter.\n\n32:33. Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which\nis incurable.\n\n32:34. Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my\ntreasures?\n\n32:35. Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their\nfoot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes\nhaste to come.\n\n32:36. The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his\nservants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who\nwere shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.\n\n32:37. And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted?\n\n32:38. Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their\ndrink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your\ndistress.\n\n32:39. See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I\nwill kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and\nthere is none that can deliver out of my hand.\n\n32:40. I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for\never.\n\n32:41. If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold\non judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that\nhate me.\n\n32:42. I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall\ndevour flesh, of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the\nbare head of the enemies.\n\n32:43. Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of\nhis servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will\nbe merciful to the land of his people.\n\n32:44. So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the\nears of the people, and Josue the son of Nun.\n\n32:45. And he ended all these words, speaking to all Israel.\n\n32:46. And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I\ntestify to you this day: which you shall command your children to\nobserve and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law:\n\n32:47. For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one\nshould live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time\nin the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.\n\n32:48. And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying:\n\n32:49. Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,)\nunto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and\nsee the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel\nto possess, and die thou in the mountain.\n\n32:50. When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to thy\npeople, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to his\npeople:\n\n32:51. Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children\nof Israel, at the waters of contradiction, in Cades of the desert of\nSin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel.\n\n32:52. Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the\nchildren of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 33\n\n\nMoses before his death blesseth the tribes of Israel.\n\n33:1. This is the blessing, wherewith the man of God, Moses, blessed\nthe children of Israel, before his death.\n\n33:2. And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir he rose up\nto us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of\nsaints. In his right hand a fiery law.\n\n33:3. He hath loved the people, all the saints are in his hand: and\nthey that approach to his feet, shall receive of his doctrine.\n\n33:4. Moses commanded us a law, the inheritance of the multitude of\nJacob.\n\n33:5. He shall be king with the most right, the princes of the people,\nbeing assembled with the tribes of Israel.\n\n33:6. Let Ruben live, and not die, and be he small in number.\n\n33:7. This is the blessing of Juda. Hear, O Lord, the voice of Juda,\nand bring him in unto his people: his hands shall fight for him, and he\nshall be his helper against his enemies.\n\n33:8. To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be to thy\nholy man, whom thou hast proved in the temptation, and judged at the\nwaters of contradiction:\n\nHoly man. . .Aaron and his successors in the priesthood.\n\n33:9. Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do not know\nyou; and to his brethren: I know you not: and their own children they\nhave not known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant,\n\nWho hath said, etc. . .It is the duty of the priestly tribe to prefer\nGod's honour and service before all considerations of flesh and blood:\nin such manner as to behave as strangers to their nearest akin, when\nthese would withdraw them from the business of their calling.\n\n33:10. Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall put\nincense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar.\n\n33:11. Bless, O Lord, his strength, and receive the works of his hands.\nStrike the backs of his enemies, and let not them that hate him rise.\n\n33:12. And to Benjamin he said: The best beloved of the Lord shall\ndwell confidently in him: as in a bride chamber shall he abide all the\nday long, and between his shoulders shall be rest.\n\nShall dwell, etc. . .This seems to allude to the temple being built in\nthe confines of the tribe of Benjamin.\n\n33:13. To Joseph also he said: Of the blessing of the Lord be his land,\nof the fruits of heaven, and of the dew, and of the deep that lieth\nbeneath.\n\n33:14. Of the fruits brought forth by the sun and by the moon.\n\n33:15. Of the tops of the ancient mountains, of the fruits of the\neverlasting hills:\n\n33:16. And of the fruits of the earth, and of the fulness thereof. The\nblessing of him that appeared in the bush, come upon the head of\nJoseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.\n\nThe Nazarite. . .See the note on Gen. 49.26.\n\n33:17. His beauty as of the firstling of a bullock, his horns as the\nhorns of a rhinoceros: with them shall he push the nations even to the\nends of the earth. These are the multitudes of Ephraim and these the\nthousands of Manasses.\n\n33:18. And to Zabulon he said: Rejoice, O Zabulon, in thy going out;\nand Issachar in thy tabernacles.\n\n33:19. They shall call the people to the mountain: there shall they\nsacrifice the victims of justice. Who shall suck as milk the abundance\nof the sea, and the hidden treasures of the sands.\n\n33:20. And to Gad he said: Blessed be Gad in his breadth: he hath\nrested as a lion, and hath seized upon the arm and the top of the head.\n\n33:21. And he saw his pre-eminence, that in his portion the teacher was\nlaid up: who was with the princes of the people, and did the justices\nof the Lord, and his judgment with Israel.\n\nHe saw, etc. . .The pre-eminence of the tribe of Gad, to which this\nalludeth, was their having the lawgiver Moses buried in their borders;\nthough the particular place was not known.\n\n33:22. To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall flow\nplentifully from Basan.\n\n33:23. And To Nephtali he said: Nephtali shall enjoy abundance, and\nshall be full of the blessings of the Lord: he shall possess the sea\nand the south.\n\nThe sea. . .The lake of Genesareth.\n\n33:24. To Aser also he said: Let Aser be blessed with children, let him\nbe acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.\n\n33:25. His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the days of thy youth, so\nalso shall thy old age be.\n\n33:26. There is no other god like the God of the rightest: he that is\nmounted upon the heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the clouds\nrun hither and thither.\n\n33:27. His dwelling is above, and underneath are the everlasting arms:\nhe shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and shall say: Be thou\nbrought to nought.\n\nUnderneath are the everlasting arms. . .Though the dwelling of God be\nabove in heaven, his arms are always stretched out to help us here\nbelow.\n\n33:28. Israel shall dwell in safety, and alone. The eye of Jacob in a\nland of corn and wine, and the heavens shall be misty with dew.\n\n33:29. Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that\nart saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy\nglory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their\nnecks.\n\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 34\n\n\nMoses seeth the promised land, but is not suffered to go into it. He\ndieth at the age of 120 years. God burieth his body secretly, and all\nIsrael mourn for him thirty days. Josue, replenished (by imposition of\nMoses's hands) with the spirit of God, succeedeth. But Moses, for his\nspecial familiarity with God, and for most wonderful miracles, is\ncommended above all other prophets.\n\n34:1. Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab upon mount Nebo, to\nthe top of Phasga over against Jericho: and the Lord shewed him all the\nland of Galaad as far as Dan.\n\n34:2. And all Nephtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasses, and all\nthe land of Juda unto the furthermost sea,\n\n34:3. And the south part, and the breadth of the plain of Jericho the\ncity of palm trees as far as Segor.\n\n34:4. And the Lord said to him: This is the land, for which I swore to\nAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: I will give it to thy seed. Thou\nhast seen it with thy eyes, and shalt not pass over to it.\n\n34:5. And Moses the servant of the Lord died there, in the land of\nMoab, by the commandment of the Lord:\n\nDied there. . .This last chapter of Deuteronomy, in which the death of\nMoses is related, was written by Josue, or by some of the prophets.\n\n34:6. And he buried him in the valley of the land of Moab over against\nPhogor: and no man hath known of his sepulchre until this present day.\n\nHe buried him, viz. . .by the ministry of angels, and would have the\nplace of his burial to be unknown, lest the Israelites, who were so\nprone to idolatry, might worship him with divine honours.\n\n34:7. Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye\nwas not dim, neither were his teeth moved.\n\n34:8. And the children of Israel mourned for him in the plains of Moab\nthirty days: and the days of their mourning in which they mourned Moses\nwere ended.\n\n34:9. And Josue the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom,\nbecause Moses had laid his hands upon him. And the children of Israel\nobeyed him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses.\n\n34:10. And there arose no more a prophet in Israel like unto Moses,\nwhom the Lord knew face to face,\n\n34:11. In all the signs and wonders, which he sent by him, to do in the\nland of Egypt to Pharao, and to all his servants, and to his whole\nland,\n\n34:12. And all the mighty hand, and great miracles, which Moses did\nbefore all Israel.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF JOSUE\n\n\n\nThis Book is called JOSUE, because it contains the history of what\npassed under him, and according to the common opinion was written by\nhim. The Greeks call him Jesus: for Josue and Jesus in the Hebrew, are\nthe same name, and have the same signification, viz., A SAVIOUR. And it\nwas not without a mystery that he who was to bring the people into the\nland of promise should have his name changed from OSEE (for so he was\ncalled before, Num. 13.17,) to JOSUE or JESUS, to give us to\nunderstand, that Moses by his law could only bring the people within\nsight of the promised inheritance, but that our Saviour JESUS was to\nbring us into it.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 1\n\n\nJosue, encouraged by the Lord, admonisheth the people to prepare\nthemselves to pass over the Jordan.\n\n1:1. Now it came to pass after the death of Moses, the servant of the\nLord, that the Lord spoke to Josue, the son of Nun, the minister of\nMoses, and said to him:\n\n1:2. Moses my servant is dead: arise, and pass over this Jordan, thou\nand thy people with thee, into the land which I will give to the\nchildren of Israel.\n\n1:3. I will deliver to you every place that the sole of your foot shall\ntread upon, as I have said to Moses.\n\n1:4. From the desert, and from Libanus unto the great river Euphrates,\nall the land of the Hethites, unto the great sea toward the going down\nof the sun, shall be your border.\n\n1:5. No man shall be able to resist you all the days of thy life: as I\nhave been with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not leave thee,\nnor forsake thee.\n\n1:6. Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt divide by lot to this\npeople the land for which I swore to their fathers, that I would\ndeliver it to them.\n\n1:7. Take courage therefore, and be very valiant: that thou mayst\nobserve and do all the law, which Moses my servant hath commanded thee:\nturn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayst\nunderstand all things which thou dost.\n\n1:8. Let not the book of this law depart from thy mouth: but thou shalt\nmeditate on it day and night, that thou mayst observe and do all things\nthat are written in it: then shalt thou direct thy way, and understand\nit.\n\n1:9. Behold I command thee, take courage, and be strong. Fear not, and\nbe not dismayed: because the Lord thy God is with thee in all things\nwhatsoever thou shalt go to.\n\n1:10. And Josue commanded the princes of the people, saying: Pass\nthrough the midst of the camp, and command the people, and say:\n\n1:11. Prepare your victuals: for after the third day you shall pass\nover the Jordan, and shall go in to possess the land, which the Lord\nyour God will give you.\n\n1:12. And he said to the Rubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe\nof Manasses:\n\n1:13. Remember the word, which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded\nyou, saying: The Lord your God hath given you rest, and all this land.\n\n1:14. Your wives, and children; and cattle, shall remain in the land\nwhich Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan: but pass you over\narmed before your brethren all of you that are strong of hand, and\nfight for them,\n\n1:15. Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given you,\nand they also possess the land which the Lord your God will give them:\nand so you shall return into the land of your possession, and you shall\ndwell in it, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the\nJordan, toward the rising of the sun.\n\n1:16. And they made answer to Josue, and said: All that thou hast\ncommanded us, we will do: and whither soever thou shalt send us, we\nwill go.\n\n1:17. As we obeyed Moses in all things, so will we obey thee also: only\nbe the Lord thy God with thee, as he was with Moses.\n\n1:18. He that shall gainsay thy mouth, and not obey all thy words, that\nthou shalt command him, let him die: only take thou courage, and do\nmanfully.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 2\n\n\nTwo spies are sent to Jericho, who are received and concealed by Rahab.\n\n2:1. And Josue, the son of Nun, sent from Setim two men, to spy\nsecretly: and said to them: Go, and view the land, and the city of\nJericho. They went, and entered into the house of a woman that was a\nharlot, named Rahab, and lodged with her.\n\n2:2. And it was told the king of Jericho, and was said: Behold there\nare men come in hither, by night, of the children of Israel, to spy the\nland.\n\n2:3. And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying: Bring forth the men\nthat came to thee, and are entered into thy house: for they are spies,\nand are come to view all the land.\n\n2:4. And the woman taking the men, hid them, and said: I confess they\ncame to me, but I knew not whence they were:\n\n2:5. And at the time of shutting the gate in the dark, they also went\nout together. I know not whither they are gone: pursue after them\nquickly, and you will overtake them.\n\n2:6. But she made the men go up to the top of her house, and covered\nthem with the stalks of flax, which was there.\n\n2:7. Now they that were sent, pursued after them, by the way that\nleadeth to the fords of the Jordan: and as soon as they were gone out,\nthe gate was presently shut.\n\n2:8. The men that were hid were not yet asleep, when behold the woman\nwent up to them, and said:\n\n2:9. I know that the Lord hath given this land to you: for the dread of\nyou is fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land have lost\nall strength.\n\n2:10. We have heard that the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea, at\nyour going in, when you came out of Egypt: and what things you did to\nthe two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan, Sehon and\nOg whom you slew.\n\n2:11. And at the hearing these things, we were affrighted, and our\nheart fainted away, neither did there remain any spirit in us, at your\ncoming in: for the Lord your God he is God in heaven above, and in the\nearth beneath.\n\n2:12. Now, therefore, swear ye to me by the Lord, that as I have shewed\nmercy to you, so you also will shew mercy to my father's house: and\ngive me a true token.\n\n2:13. That you will save my father and mother, my brethren and sisters,\nand all things that are theirs, and deliver our souls from death.\n\n2:14. They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou\nbetray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we\nwill shew thee mercy and truth.\n\n2:15. Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house\njoined close to the wall.\n\n2:16. And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps\nthey meet you as they return: and there lie ye hid three days, till\nthey come back, and so you shall go on your way.\n\n2:17. And they said to her: We shall be blameless of this oath, which\nthou hast made us swear,\n\n2:18. If, when we come into the land, this scarlet cord be a sign, and\nthou tie it in the window, by which thou hast let us down: and gather\ntogether thy father and mother, and brethren, and all thy kindred into\nthy house.\n\n2:19. Whosoever shall go out of the door of thy house, his blood shall\nbe upon his own head, and we shall be quit. But the blood of all that\nshall be with thee in the house, shall light upon our head, if any man\ntouch them.\n\n2:20. But if thou wilt betray us, and utter this word abroad, we shall\nbe quit of this oath, which thou hast made us swear.\n\n2:21. And she answered: As you have spoken, so be it done: and sending\nthem on their way, she hung the scarlet cord in the window.\n\n2:22. But they went and came to the mountains, and stayed there three\ndays, till they that pursued them were returned. For having sought them\nthrough all the way, they found them not.\n\n2:23. And when they were gone back into the city, the spies returned,\nand came down from the mountain: and passing over the Jordan, they came\nto Josue, the son of Nun, and told him all that befel them,\n\n2:24. And said: the Lord hath delivered all this land into our hands,\nand all the inhabitants thereof are overthrown with fear.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 3\n\n\nThe river Jordan is miraculously dried up for the passage of the\nchildren of Israel.\n\n3:1. And Josue rose before daylight, and removed the camp: and they\ndeparted from Setim, and came to the Jordan: he, and all the children\nof Israel, and they abode there for three days.\n\n3:2. After which, the heralds went through the midst of the camp,\n\n3:3. And began to proclaim: When you shall see the ark of the covenant\nof the Lord your God, and the priests of the race of Levi carrying it,\nrise you up also, and follow them as they go before:\n\n3:4. And let there be between you and the ark the space of two thousand\ncubits: that you may see it afar off, and know which way you must go:\nfor you have not gone this way before: and take care you come not near\nthe ark.\n\n3:5. And Josue said to the people: Be ye sanctified: for tomorrow the\nLord will do wonders among you.\n\n3:6. And he said to the priests: Take up the ark of the covenant, and\ngo before the people. And they obeyed his commands, and took it up, and\nwalked before them.\n\n3:7. And the Lord said to Josue: This day will I begin to exalt thee\nbefore Israel: that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I am\nwith thee also.\n\n3:8. And do thou command the priests, that carry the ark of the\ncovenant, and say to them: When you shall have entered into part of the\nwater of the Jordan, stand in it.\n\n3:9. And Josue said to the children of Israel: Come hither, and hear\nthe word of the Lord your God.\n\n3:10. And again he said: By this you shall know, that the Lord, the\nliving God, is in the midst of you, and that he shall destroy, before\nyour sight, the Chanaanite and the Hethite, the Hevite and the\nPherezite, the Gergesite also, and the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite.\n\n3:11. Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth\nshall go before you into the Jordan.\n\n3:12. Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every\ntribe.\n\n3:13. And when the priests, that carry the ark of the Lord the God of\nthe whole earth, shall set the soles of their feet in the waters of the\nJordan, the waters that are beneath shall run down and go off: and\nthose that come from above, shall stand together upon a heap.\n\n3:14. So the people went out of their tents, to pass over the Jordan:\nand the priests that carried the ark of the covenant, went on before\nthem.\n\n3:15. And as soon as they came into the Jordan, and their feet were\ndipped in part of the water, (now the Jordan, it being harvest time,\nhad filled the banks of its channel,)\n\n3:16. The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and\nswelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off, from the city that is\ncalled Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath, ran\ndown into the sea of the wilderness, (which now is called the Dead Sea)\nuntil they wholly failed.\n\n3:17. And the people marched over against Jericho: and the priests that\ncarried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood girded upon the dry\nground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed over,\nthrough the channel that was dried up.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 4\n\n\nTwelve stones are taken out of the river to be set up for a monument of\nthe miracle; and other twelve are placed in the midst of the river.\n\n4:1. And when they were passed over, the Lord said to Josue:\n\n4:2. Choose twelve men, one of every tribe:\n\n4:3. And command them to take out of the midst of the Jordan, where the\nfeet of the priests stood, twelve very hard stones, which you shall set\nin the place of the camp, where you shall pitch your tents this night.\n\n4:4. And Josue called twelve men, whom he had chosen out of the\nchildren of Israel, one out of every tribe,\n\n4:5. And he said to them: Go before the ark of the Lord your God to the\nmidst of the Jordan, and carry from thence every man a stone on your\nshoulders, according to the number of the children of Israel,\n\n4:6. That it may be a sign among you: and when your children shall ask\nyou tomorrow, saying: What means these stones?\n\n4:7. You shall answer them: The waters of the Jordan ran off before the\nark of the covenant of the Lord when it passed over the same: therefore\nwere these stones set for a monument of the children of Israel forever.\n\n4:8. The children of Israel therefore did as Josue commanded them,\ncarrying out of the channel of the Jordan twelve stones, as the Lord\nhad commanded him according to the number of the children of Israel\nunto the place wherein they camped, and there they set them.\n\n4:9. And Josue put other twelve stones in the midst of the channel of\nthe Jordan, where the priests stood that carried the ark of the\ncovenant: and they are there until this present day.\n\n4:10. Now the priests that carried the ark, stood in the midst of the\nJordan, till all things were accomplished, which the Lord had commanded\nJosue to speak to the people, and Moses had said to him. And the people\nmade haste, and passed over.\n\n4:11. And when they had all passed over, the ark also of the Lord\npassed over, and the priests went before the people.\n\n4:12. The children of Ruben also, and Gad, and half the tribe of\nManasses, went armed before the children of Israel, as Moses had\ncommanded them.\n\n4:13. And forty thousand fighting men by their troops and bands,\nmarched through the plains and fields of the city of Jericho.\n\n4:14. In that day the Lord magnified Josue in the sight of all Israel,\nthat they should fear him, as they had feared Moses, while he lived.\n\n4:15. And he said to him:\n\n4:16. Command the priests, that carry the ark of the covenant, to come\nup out of the Jordan.\n\n4:17. And he commanded them, saying: Come ye up out of the Jordan.\n\n4:18. And when they that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord,\nwere come up, and began to tread on the dry ground, the waters returned\ninto their channel, and ran as they were wont before.\n\n4:19. And the people came up out of the Jordan, the tenth day of the\nfirst month, and camped in Galgal, over against the east side of the\ncity of Jericho.\n\n4:20. And the twelve stones, which they had taken out of the channel of\nthe Jordan, Josue pitched in Galgal,\n\n4:21. And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask\ntheir fathers tomorrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones?\n\n4:22. You shall teach them, and say: Israel passed over this Jordan\nthrough the dry channel,\n\n4:23. The Lord your God drying up the waters thereof in your sight,\nuntil you passed over:\n\n4:24. As he had done before in the Red Sea, which he dried up till we\npassed through:\n\n4:25. That all the people of the earth may learn the most mighty hand\nof the Lord, that you also may fear the Lord your God for ever.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 5\n\n\nThe people are circumcised: they keep the pasch. The manna ceaseth. An\nangel appeareth to Josue.\n\n5:1. Now when all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwelt beyond the\nJordan, westward, and all the kings of Chanaan, who possessed the\nplaces near the great sea, had heard that the Lord had dried up the\nwaters of the Jordan before the children of Israel, till they passed\nover, their heart failed them, and there remained no spirit in them,\nfearing the coming in of the children of Israel.\n\n5:2. At that time the Lord said to Josue: Make thee knives of stone,\nand circumcise the second time the children of Israel.\n\nThe second time. . .Not that such as had been circumcised before were to\nbe circumcised again; but that they were now to renew, and take up\nagain the practice of circumcision; which had been omitted during their\nforty years' sojourning in the wilderness; by reason of their being\nalways uncertain when they should be obliged to march.\n\n5:3. He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the\nchildren of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.\n\n5:4. Now this is the cause of the second circumcision: All the people\nthat came out of Egypt that were males, all the men fit for war, died\nin the desert, during the time of the long going about in the way:\n\n5:6. Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in\nthe desert,\n\n5:6. During the forty years of the journey in the wide wilderness, were\nuncircumcised: till all they were consumed that had not heard the voice\nof the Lord, and to whom he had sworn before, that he would not shew\nthem the land flowing with milk and honey.\n\n5:7. The children of these succeeded in the place of their fathers, and\nwere circumcised by Josue: for they were uncircumcised even as they\nwere born, and no one had circumcised them in the way.\n\n5:8. Now after they were all circumcised, they remained in the same\nplace of the camp, until they were healed.\n\n5:9. And the Lord said to Josue: This day have I taken away from you\nthe reproach of Egypt. And the name of that place was called Galgal,\nuntil this present day.\n\n5:10. And the children of Israel abode in Galgal, and they kept the\nphase, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the plains of\nJericho:\n\n5:11. And they ate on the next day unleavened bread of the corn of the\nland, and frumenty of the same year.\n\n5:12. And the manna ceased after they ate of the corn of the land,\nneither did the children of Israel use that food any more, but they ate\nof the corn of the present year of the land of Chanaan.\n\n5:13. And when Josue was in the field of the city of Jericho, he lifted\nup his eyes, and saw a man standing over against him, holding a drawn\nsword, and he went to him, and said: Art thou one of ours, or of our\nadversaries?\n\n5:14. And he answered: No: but I am prince of the host of the Lord, and\nnow I am come.\n\nPrince of the host of the Lord, etc. . .St. Michael, who is called\nprince of the people of Israel, Dan. 10.21.\n\n5:15. Josue fell on his face to the ground. And worshipping, said: What\nsaith my lord to his servant?\n\nWorshipping. . .Not with divine honour, but with a religious veneration\nof an inferior kind, suitable to the dignity of his person.\n\n5:16. Loose, saith he, thy shoes from off thy feet: for the place\nwhereon thou standest is holy. And Josue did as was commanded him.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 6\n\n\nAfter seven days' processions, the priests sounding the trumpets, the\nwalls of Jericho fall down: and the city is taken and destroyed.\n\n6:1. Now Jericho was close shut up and fenced, for fear of the children\nof Israel, and no man durst go out or come in.\n\n6:2. And the Lord said to Josue: Behold I have given into thy hands\nJericho, and the king thereof, and all the valiant men.\n\n6:3. Go round about the city all ye fighting men once a day: so shall\nye do for six days.\n\n6:4. And on the seventh day the priests shall take the seven trumpets,\nwhich are used in the jubilee, and shall go before the ark of the\ncovenant: and you shall go about the city seven times, and the priests\nshall sound the trumpets.\n\n6:5. And when the voice of the trumpet shall give a longer and broken\ntune, and shall sound in your ears, all the people shall shout together\nwith a very great shout, and the walls of the city shall fall to the\nground, and they shall enter in every one at the place against which\nthey shall stand.\n\n6:6. Then Josue, the son of Nun, called the priests, and said to them:\nTake the ark of the covenant: and let seven other priests take the\nseven trumpets of the jubilee, and march before the ark of the Lord.\n\n6:7. And he said to the people: Go, and compass the city, armed,\nmarching before the ark of the Lord.\n\n6:8. And when Josue had ended his words, and the seven priests blew the\nseven trumpets before the ark of the covenant of the Lord,\n\n6:9. And all the armed men went before, the rest of the common people\nfollowed the ark, and the sound of the trumpets was heard on all sides.\n\n6:10. But Josue had commanded the people, saying: You shall not shout,\nnor shall your voice be heard, nor any word go out of your mouth: until\nthe day come wherein I shall say to you: Cry, and shout.\n\n6:11. So the ark of the Lord went about the city once a day, and\nreturning into the camp, abode there.\n\n6:12. And Josue rising before day, the priests took the ark of the\nLord,\n\n6:13. And seven of them seven trumpets, which are used in the jubilee:\nand they went before the ark of the Lord, walking and sounding the\ntrumpets: and the armed men went before them, and the rest of the\ncommon people followed the ark, and they blew the trumpets.\n\n6:14. And they went round about the city the second day once, and\nreturned into the camp. So they did six days.\n\n6:15. But the seventh day, rising up early, they went about the city,\nas it was ordered, seven times.\n\n6:16. And when in the seventh going about the priests sounded with the\ntrumpets, Josue said to all Israel: Shout: for the Lord hath delivered\nthe city to you:\n\n6:17. And let this city be an anathema, and all things that are in it,\nto the Lord. Let only Rahab, the harlot, live, with all that are with\nher in the house: for she hid the messengers whom we sent.\n\n6:18. But beware ye lest you touch ought of those things that are\nforbidden, and you be guilty of transgression, and all the camp of\nIsrael be under sin, and be troubled.\n\n6:19. But whatsoever gold or silver there shall be, or vessels of brass\nand iron, let it be consecrated to the Lord, laid up in his treasures.\n\n6:20. So all the people making a shout, and the trumpets sounding, when\nthe voice and the sound thundered in the ears of the multitude, the\nwalls forthwith fell down: and every man went up by the place that was\nover against him: and they took the city,\n\n6:21. And killed all that were in it, man and woman, young and old. The\noxen also, and the sheep, and the asses, they slew with the edge of the\nsword.\n\n6:22. But Josue said to the two men that had been sent for spies: Go\ninto the harlot's house, and bring her out, and all things that are\nhers, as you assured her by oath.\n\n6:23. And the young men went in, and brought out Rahab, and her\nparents, her brethren also, and all her goods, and her kindred, and\nmade them to stay without the camp.\n\n6:24. But they burned the city, and all things that were therein;\nexcept the gold and silver, and vessels of brass and iron, which they\nconsecrated unto the treasury of the Lord. _\n\n6:25. But Josue saved Rahab the harlot, and her father's house, and all\nshe had, and they dwelt in the midst of Israel until this present day:\nbecause she hid the messengers whom he had sent to spy out Jericho. At\nthat time, Josue made an imprecation, saying:\n\n6:26. Cursed be the man before the Lord, that shall raise up and build\nthe city of Jericho. In his firstborn may he lay the foundation\nthereof, and in the last of his children set up its gates.\n\nCursed, etc. . .Jericho, in the mystical sense, signifies iniquity: the\nsounding of the trumpets by the priests, the preaching of the word of\nGod; by which the walls of Jericho are thrown down, when sinners are\nconverted; and a dreadful curse will light on them who build them up\nagain.\n\n6:27. And the Lord was with Josue, and his name was noised throughout\nall the land\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 7\n\n\nFor the sins of Achan, the Israelites are defeated at Hai. The offender\nis found out; and stoned to death, and God's wrath is turned from them.\n\n7:1. But the children of Israel transgressed the commandment, and took\nto their own use of that which was accursed. For Achan, the son of\nCharmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare, of the tribe of Juda, took\nsomething of the anathema: and the Lord was angry against the children\nof Israel.\n\n7:2. And when Josue sent men from Jericho against Hai, which is beside\nBethaven, on the east side of the town of Bethel, he said to them: Go\nup, and view the country: and they fulfilled his command, and viewed\nHai.\n\n7:3. And returning, they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but\nlet two or three thousand men go, and destroy the city: why should all\nthe people be troubled in vain, against enemies that are very few?\n\n7:4. There went up therefore three thousand fighting men: who\nimmediately turned their backs,\n\n7:5. And were defeated by the men of the city of Hai, and there fell of\nthem six and thirty men: and the enemies pursued them from the gate as\nfar as Sabarim, and they slew them as they fled by the descent: and the\nheart of the people was struck with fear, and melted like water.\n\n7:6. But Josue rent his garments, and fell flat on the ground, before\nthe ark of the Lord, until the evening, both he and all the ancients of\nIsrael: and they put dust upon their heads.\n\n7:7. And Josue said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this\npeople over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the\nAmorrhite, and to destroy us? would God we had stayed beyond the\nJordan, as we began.\n\n7:8. My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs\nto their enemies?\n\n7:9. The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land, will hear of\nit, and being gathered together will surround us, and cut off our name\nfrom the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?\n\n7:10. And the Lord said to Josue: Arise, why liest thou flat on the\nground?\n\n7:11. Israel hath sinned, and transgressed my covenant: and they have\ntaken of the anathema, and have stolen and lied, and have hid it among\ntheir goods.\n\n7:12. Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, but he shall flee\nfrom them: because he is defiled with the anathema. I will be no more\nwith you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness.\n\n7:13. Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them: Be ye sanctified\nagainst tomorrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel: The curse is\nin the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy\nenemies, till he be destroyed out of thee, that is defiled with this\nwickedness.\n\n7:14. And you shall come in the morning, every one by your tribes: and\nwhat tribe soever the lot shall find, it shall come by its kindreds,\nand the kindred by its houses and tho house by the men.\n\n7:15. And whosoever he be that shall be found guilty of this fact, he\nshall be burnt with fire, with all his substance, because he hath\ntransgressed the covenant of the Lord, and hath done wickedness in\nIsrael.\n\n7:16. Josue, therefore, when he rose in the morning, made Israel to\ncome by their tribes, and the tribe of Juda was found.\n\n7:17. Which being brought by in families, it was found to be the family\nof Zare. Bringing that also by the houses, he found it to be Zabdi:\n\n7:18. And bringing his house man by man, he found Achan, the son of\nCharmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare, of the tribe of Juda.\n\n7:19. And Josue said to Achan: My son, give glory to the Lord God of\nIsrael, and confess, and tell me what thou hast done, hide it not.\n\n7:20. And Achan answered Josue, and said to him: Indeed I have sinned\nagainst the Lord, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.\n\n7:21. For I saw among the spoils a scarlet garment, exceeding good, and\ntwo hundred sicles of silver, and a golden rule of fifty sicles: and I\ncoveted them, and I took them away, and hid them in the ground in the\nmidst of my tent, and the silver I covered with the earth that I dug\nup.\n\n7:22. Josue therefore sent ministers: who running to his tent, found\nall hid in the same place, together with the silver.\n\n7:23. And taking them away out of the tent, they brought them to Josue,\nand to all the children of Israel, and threw them down before the Lord.\n\n7:24. Then Josue, and all Israel with him, took Achan, the son of Zare,\nand the silver, and the garment, and the golden rule, his sons also,\nand his daughters, his oxen, and asses, and sheep, the tent also, and\nall the goods: and brought them to the valley of Achor:\n\nHis sons, etc. . .Probably conscious to, or accomplices of, the crime of\ntheir father.\n\n7:25. Where Josue said: Because thou hast troubled us, the Lord trouble\nthee this day. And all Israel stoned him: and all things that were his,\nwere consumed with fire.\n\n7:26. And they gathered together upon him a great heap of stones, which\nremaineth until this present day And the wrath of the Lord was turned\naway from them. And the name of that place was called the Valley of\nAchor, until this day.\n\nAchor. . .That is, trouble.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 8\n\n\nHai is taken and burnt, and all the inhabitants slain. An altar is\nbuilt, and sacrifices offered. The law is written on stones, and the\nblessings and cursings are read before all the people.\n\n8:1. And the Lord said to Josue: Fear not, nor be thou dismayed: take\nwith thee all the multitude of fighting men, arise, and go up to the\ntown of Hai: Behold I have delivered into thy hand the king thereof,\nand the people, and the city, and the land.\n\n8:2. And thou shalt do to the city of Hai, and to the king thereof, as\nthou hast done to Jericho, and to the king thereof: but the spoils, and\nall the cattle, you shall take for a prey to yourselves: lay an ambush\nfor the city behind it.\n\n8:3. And Josue arose, and all the army of the fighting men with him, to\ngo up against Hai: and he sent thirty thousand chosen valiant men in\nthe night,\n\n8:4. And commanded them, saying: Lay an ambush behind the city: and go\nnot very far from it: and be ye all ready.\n\n8:5. But I, and the rest of the multitude which is with me, will\napproach on the contrary side against the city. And when they shall\ncome out against us, we will flee, and turn our backs, as we did\nbefore:\n\n8:6. Till they pursuing us be drawn farther from the city: for they\nwill think that we flee as before.\n\n8:7. And whilst we are fleeing, and they pursuing, you shall rise out\nof the ambush, and shall destroy the city: and the Lord your God will\ndeliver it into your hands.\n\n8:8. And when you shall have taken it, set it on fire, and you shall do\nall things so as I have commanded.\n\n8:9. And he sent them away, and they went on to the place of the\nambush, and abode between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the city\nof Hai. But Josue staid that night in the midst of the people,\n\n8:10. And rising early in the morning, he mustered his soldiers, and\nwent up with the ancients in the front of the army, environed with the\naid of the fighting men.\n\n8:11. And when they were come, and were gone up over against the city,\nthey stood on the north side of the city, between which and them there\nwas a valley in the midst.\n\n8:12. And he had chosen five thousand men, and set them to lie in\nambush between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the same city:\n\nFive thousand. . .These were part of the thirty thousand mentioned\nabove, ver. 3.\n\n8:13. But all the rest of the army went in battle array on the north\nside, so that the last of that multitude reached to the west side of\nthe city. So Josue went that night, and stood in the midst of the\nvalley.\n\n8:14. And when the king of Hai saw this, he made haste in the morning,\nand went out with all the army of the city, and set it in battle array,\ntoward the desert, not knowing that there lay an ambush behind his\nback.\n\n8:15. But Josue, and all Israel gave back, making as if they were\nafraid, and fleeing by the way of the wilderness.\n\n8:16. But they shouting together, and encouraging one another, pursued\nthem. And when they were come from the city,\n\n8:17. And not one remained in the city of Hai and of Bethel, that did\nnot pursue after Israel, leaving the towns open as they had rushed out,\n\n8:18. The Lord said to Josue: Lift up the shield that is in thy hand,\ntowards the city of Hai, for I will deliver it to thee.\n\n8:19. And when he had lifted up his shield towards the city, the\nambush, that lay hid, rose up immediately: and going to the city, took\nit, and set it on fire.\n\n8:20. And the men of the city, that pursued after Josue, looking back,\nand seeing the smoke of the city rise up to heaven, had no more power\nto flee this way or that way: especially as they that had counterfeited\nflight, and were going toward the wilderness, turned back most\nvaliantly against them that pursued.\n\n8:21. So Josue, and all Israel, seeing that the city was taken, and\nthat the smoke of the city rose up, returned, and slew the men of Hai.\n\n8:22. And they also that had taken and set the city on fire, issuing\nout of the city to meet their own men, began to cut off the enemies who\nwere surrounded by them. So that the enemies being cut off on both\nsides, not one of so great a multitude was saved.\n\n8:23. And they took the king of the city of Hai alive and brought him\nto Josue.\n\n8:24. So all being slain that had pursued after Israel, in his flight\nto the wilderness, and falling by the sword in the same place, the\nchildren of Israel returned and laid waste the city.\n\n8:25. And the number of them that fell that day, both of men and women,\nwas twelve thousand persons, all of the city of Hai.\n\n8:26. But Josue drew not back his hand, which he had stretched out on\nhigh, holding the shield, till all the inhabitants of Hai were slain.\n\n8:27. And the children of Israel divided among them, the cattle and the\nprey of the city, as the Lord had commanded Josue.\n\n8:28. And he burnt the city, and made it a heap forever:\n\n8:29. And he hung the king thereof on a gibbet, until the evening and\nthe going down of the sun. Then Josue commanded, and they took down his\ncarcass from the gibbet: and threw it in the very entrance of the city,\nheaping upon it a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this\npresent day.\n\n8:30. Then Josue built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in\nMount Hebal,\n\n8:31. As Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded the children of\nIsrael, and it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of\nunhewn stones, which iron had not touched: and he offered upon it\nholocausts to the Lord, and immolated victims of peace offerings.\n\n8:32. And he wrote upon stones, the Deuteronomy of the law of Moses,\nwhich he had ordered before the children of Israel.\n\n8:33. And all the people, and the ancients, and the princes, and\njudges, stood on both sides of the ark, before the priests that carried\nthe ark of the covenant of the Lord, both the stranger and he that was\nborn among them, half of them by Mount Garizim, and half by Mount\nHebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord, had commanded. And first he\nblessed the people of Israel.\n\n8:34. After this, he read all the words of the blessing and the\ncursing, and all things that were written in the book of the law.\n\n8:35. He left out nothing of those things which Moses had commanded,\nbut he repeated all before all the people of Israel, with the women and\nchildren, and strangers, that dwelt among them.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 9\n\n\nJosue is deceived by the Gabaonites: who being detected are condemned\nto be perpetual servants.\n\n9:1. Now when these things were heard of, all the kings beyond the\nJordan, that dwelt in the mountains, and in the plains, in the places\nnear the sea, and on the coasts of the great sea, they also that dwell\nby Libanus, the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, the Chanaanite, the\nPherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite,\n\n9:2. Gathered themselves together, to fight against Josue and Israel\nwith one mind, and one resolution.\n\n9:3. But they that dwelt in Gabaon, hearing all that Josue had done to\nJericho and Hai:\n\n9:4. Cunningly devising took for themselves provisions, laying old\nsacks upon their asses, and wine bottles rent and sewed up again,\n\n9:5. And very old shoes, which for a show of age were clouted with\npatches, and old garments upon them: the loaves also, which they\ncarried for provisions by the way, were hard, and broken into pieces:\n\n9:6. And they went to Josue, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and\nsaid to him, and to all Israel with him: We are come from a far\ncountry, desiring to make peace with you. And the children of Israel\nanswered them, and said:\n\n9:7. Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to our lot; if so, we\ncan make no league with you.\n\n9:8. But they said to Josue: We are thy servants. Josue said to them:\nWho are you? and whence came you?\n\n9:9. They answered: From a very far country thy servants are come in\nthe name of the Lord thy God. For we have heard the fame of his power,\nall the things that he did in Egypt.\n\n9:10. And to the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the\nJordan, Sehon, king of Hesebon, and Og, king of Basan, that was in\nAstaroth:\n\n9:11. And our ancients, and all the inhabitants of our country, said to\nus: Take with you victuals for a long way, and go meet them, and say:\nWe are your servants, make ye a league with us.\n\n9:12. Behold, these loaves we took hot, when we set out from our houses\nto come to you, now they are become dry, and broken in pieces by being\nexceeding old.\n\n9:13. These bottles of wine when we filled them were new, now they are\nrent and burst. These garments we have on, and the shoes we have on our\nfeet, by reason of the very long journey, are worn out, and almost\nconsumed.\n\n9:14. They took therefore of their victuals, and consulted not the\nmouth of the Lord.\n\n9:15. And Josue made peace with them, and entering into a league,\npromised that they should not be slain: the princes also of the\nmultitude swore to them.\n\n9:16. Now three days after the league was made, they heard that they\ndwelt nigh, and they should be among them.\n\n9:17. And the children of Israel removed the camp, and came into their\ncities on the third day, the names of which are, Gabaon, and Caphira,\nand Beroth, and Cariathiarim.\n\n9:18. And they slew them not, because the princes of the multitude had\nsworn in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. Then all the common\npeople murmured against the princes.\n\n9:19. And they answered them: We have sworn to them in the name of the\nLord, the God of Israel, and therefore we may not touch them.\n\n9:20. But this we will do to them: Let their lives be saved, lest the\nwrath of the Lord be stirred up against us, if we should be forsworn:\n\n9:21. But so let them live, as to serve the whole multitude in hewing\nwood, and bringing in water. As they were speaking these things,\n\n9;22. Josue called the Gabaonites, and said to them: Why would you\nimpose upon us, saying: We dwell very far off from you, whereas you are\nin the midst of us?\n\n9:23. Therefore you shall be under a curse, and your race shall always\nbe hewers of wood, and carriers of water, into the house of my God.\n\n9:24. They answered: It was told us, thy servants, that the Lord thy\nGod had promised his servant Moses, to give you all the land, and to\ndestroy all the inhabitants thereof. Therefore we feared exceedingly\nand provided for our lives, compelled by the dread we had of you, and\nwe took this counsel.\n\n9:25. And now we are in thy hand: deal with us as it seemeth good and\nright unto thee.\n\n9:26. So Josue did as he had said, and delivered them from the hand of\nthe children of Israel, that they should not be slain.\n\n9:27. And he gave orders in that day, that they should be in the\nservice of all the people, and of the altar of the Lord, hewing wood,\nand carrying water, until this present time, in the place which the\nLord hath chosen.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 10\n\n\nFive kings war against Gabaon. Josue defeateth them: many are slain\nwith hailstones. At the prayer of Josue the sun and moon stand still\nthe space of one day. The five kings are hanged. Divers cities are\ntaken.\n\n10:1. When Adonisedec, king of Jerusalem, had heard these things, to\nwit, that Josue had taken Hai, and had destroyed it, (for as he had\ndone to Jericho and the king thereof, so did he to Hai and its king)\nand that the Gabaonites were gone over to Israel, and were their\nconfederates,\n\n10:2. He was exceedingly afraid. For Gabaon was a great city, and one\nof the royal cities, and greater than the town of Hai, and all its\nfighting men were most valiant.\n\n10:3. Therefore Adonisedec, king of Jerusalem, sent to Oham, king of\nHebron, and to Pharam, king of Jerimoth, and to Japhia, king of Lachis,\nand to Dabir, king of Eglon, saying:\n\n10:4. Come up to me, and bring help, that we may take Gabaon, because\nit hath gone over to Josue, and to the children of Israel.\n\n10:5. So the five kings of the Amorrhites being assembled together,\nwent up: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of\nJerimoth, the king of Lachis, the king of Eglon, they and their armies,\nand camped about Gabaon, laying siege to it.\n\n10:6. But the inhabitants of the city of Gabaon, which was besieged,\nsent to Josue, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and said to him:\nWithdraw not thy hands from helping thy servants: come up quickly, and\nsave us, and bring us succour: for all the kings of the Amorrhites, who\ndwell in the mountains, are gathered together against us.\n\n10:7. And Josue went up from Galgal, and all the army of the warriors\nwith him, most valiant men.\n\n10:8. But the Lord said to Josue: Fear them not: for I have delivered\nthem into thy hands: none of them shall be able to stand against thee.\n\n10:9. So Josue going up from Galgal all the night, came upon them\nsuddenly.\n\n10:10. And the Lord troubled them, at the sight of Israel: and he slew\nthem with a great slaughter, in Gabaon, and pursued them by the way of\nthe ascent to Bethoron, and cut them off all the way to Azeca and\nMaceda.\n\n10:11. And when they were fleeing from the children of Israel, and were\nin the descent of Bethoron, the Lord cast down upon them great stones\nfrom heaven, as far as Azeca: and many more were killed with the\nhailstones, than were slain by the swords of the children of Israel,\n\n10:12. Then Josue spoke to the Lord, in the day that he delivered the\nAmorrhite in the sight of the children of Israel, and he said before\nthem: Move not, O sun, toward Gabaon, nor thou, O moon, toward the\nvalley of Ajalon.\n\n10:13. And the sun and the moon stood still, till the people revenged\nthemselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of the\njust? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to\ngo down the space of one day.\n\nThe book of the just. . .In Hebrew Jasher: an ancient book long since\nlost.\n\n10:14. There was not before, nor after, so long a day, the Lord obeying\nthe voice of a man, and fighting for Israel.\n\n10:15. And Josue returned, with all Israel, into the camp of Galgal.\n\n10:16. For the five kings were fled, and had hid themselves in a cave\nof the city of Maceda.\n\n10:17. And it was told Josue, that the five kings were found hid in a\ncave of the city of Maceda.\n\n10:18. And he commanded them that were with him, saying: Roll great\nstones to the mouth of the cave, and set careful men to keep them shut\nup:\n\n10:19. And stay you not, but pursue after the enemies, and kill all the\nhindermost of them as they flee, and do not suffer them whom the Lord\nGod hath delivered into your hands, to shelter themselves in their\ncities.\n\n10:20. So the enemies being slain with a great slaughter, and almost\nutterly consumed, they that were able to escape from Israel, entered\ninto fenced cities.\n\n10:21. And all the army returned to Josue, in Maceda, where the camp\nthen was, in good health, and without the loss of any one: and no man\ndurst move his tongue against the children of Israel.\n\n10:22. And Josue gave orders, saying: Open the mouth of the cave, and\nbring forth to me the five kings that lie hid therein.\n\n10:23. And the ministers did as they were commanded: and they brought\nout to him the five kings out of the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the\nking of Hebron, the king of Jerimoth, the king of Lachis, the king of\nEglon.\n\n10:24. And when they were brought out to him, he called all the men of\nIsrael, and said to the chiefs of the army that were with him: Go, and\nset your feet on the necks of these kings. And when they had gone, and\nput their feet upon the necks of them lying under them,\n\n10:25. He said again to them: Fear not, neither be ye dismayed, take\ncourage, and be strong: for so will the Lord do to all your enemies,\nagainst whom you fight.\n\n10:26. And Josue struck, and slew them, and hanged them upon five\ngibbets; and they hung until the evening.\n\n10:27. And when the sun was down, he commanded the soldiers to take\nthem down from the gibbets. And after they were taken down, they cast\nthem into the cave, where they had lain hid, and put great stones at\nthe mouth thereof, which remain until this day.\n\n10:28. The same day Josue took Maceda, and destroyed it with the edge\nof the sword, and killed the king and all the inhabitants thereof: he\nleft not in it the least remains. And he did to the king of Maceda, as\nhe had done to the king of Jericho.\n\n10:29. And he passed from Maceda with all Israel to Lebna, and fought\nagainst it:\n\n10:30. And the Lord delivered it with the king thereof into the hands\nof Israel: and they destroyed the city with the edge of the sword, and\nall the inhabitants thereof. They left not in it any remains. And they\ndid to the king of Lebna, as they had done to the king of Jericho.\n\n10:31. From Lebna he passed unto Lachis, with all Israel: and investing\nit with his army, besieged it.\n\n10:32. And the Lord delivered Lachis into the hands of Israel, and he\ntook it the following day, and put it to the sword, and every soul that\nwas in it, as he had done to Lebna.\n\n10:33. At that time Horam, king of Gazer, came up to succour Lachis:\nand Josue slew him with all his people so as to leave none alive.\n\n10:34. And he passed from Lachis to Eglon, and surrounded it,\n\n10:35. And took it the same day: and put to the sword all the souls\nthat were in it, according to all that he had done to Lachis.\n\n10:36. He went up also with all Israel from Eglon to Hebron, and fought\nagainst it:\n\n10:37. Took it, and destroyed it with the edge of the sword: the king\nalso thereof, and all the towns of that country, and all the souls that\ndwelt in it: he left not therein any remains: as he had done to Eglon,\nso did he also to Hebron, putting to the sword all that he found in it.\n\nThe king. . .Viz., the new king, who succeeded him that was slain, ver.\n26.\n\n10:38. Returning from thence to Dabir,\n\n10:39. He took it, and destroyed it: the king also thereof, and all the\ntowns round about, he destroyed with the edge of the sword: he left not\nin it any remains: as he had done to Hebron and Lebna, and to their\nkings, so did he to Dabir, and to the king thereof.\n\n10:40. So Josue conquered all the country of the hills, and of the\nsouth, and of the plain, and of Asedoth, with their kings: he left not\nany remains therein, but slew all that breathed, as the Lord, the God\nof Israel, had commanded him.\n\nAny remains therein, but slew, etc. . .God ordered these people to be\nutterly destroyed, in punishment of their manifold abomination; and\nthat they might not draw the Israelites into the like sins.\n\n10:41. From Cadesbarne even to Gaza. All the land of Gosen even to\nGabaon,\n\n10:42. And all their kings, and their lands he took and wasted at one\nonset: for the Lord the God of Israel fought for him.\n\n10:43. And he returned with all Israel to the place of the camp in\nGalgal.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 11\n\n\nThe kings of the north are overthrown: the whole country is taken.\n\n11:1. And when Jabin king of Asor had heard these things, he sent to\nJobab king of Madon, and to the king of Semeron, and to the king of\nAchsaph:\n\n11:2. And to the kings of the north, that dwelt in the mountains and in\nthe plains over against the south side of Ceneroth, and in the levels\nand the countries of Dor by the sea side:\n\n11:3. To the Chanaanites also on the east and on the west, and the\nAmorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Jebusite in the\nmountains: to the Hevite also who dwelt at the foot of Hermon in the\nland of Maspha.\n\n11:4. And they all came out with their troops, a people exceeding\nnumerous as the sand that is on the sea shore, their horses also and\nchariots a very great multitude,\n\n11:5. And all these kings assembled together at the waters of Merom, to\nfight against Israel.\n\n11:6. And the Lord said to Josue: Fear them not: for to morrow at this\nsame hour I will deliver all these to be slain in the sight of Israel:\nthou shalt hamstring their horses, and thou shalt burn their chariots\nwith fire.\n\nHamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire, etc. . .God\nso ordained, that his people might not trust in chariots and horses,\nbut in him.\n\n11:7. And Josue came, and all the army with him, against them to the\nwaters of Merom on a sudden, and fell upon them.\n\n11:8. And the Lord delivered them into the hands of Israel. And they\ndefeated them, and chased them as far as the great Sidon and the waters\nof Maserophot, and the field of Masphe, which is on the east thereof.\nHe slew them all, so as to leave no remains of them:\n\n11:9. And he did as the Lord had commanded him, he hamstringed their\nhorses and burned their chariots.\n\n11:10. And presently turning back he took Asor: and slew the king\nthereof with the sword. Now Asor of old was the head of all these\nkingdoms.\n\n11:11. And he cut off all the souls that abode there: he left not in it\nany remains, but utterly destroyed all, and burned the city itself with\nfire.\n\n11:12. And he took and put to the sword and destroyed all the cities\nround about, and their kings, as Moses the servant of God had commanded\nhim.\n\n11:13. Except the cities that were on hills and high places, the rest\nIsrael burned: only Asor that was very strong he consumed with fire.\n\n11:14. And the children of Israel divided among themselves all the\nspoil of these cities and the cattle, killing all the men.\n\n11:15. As the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses\ncommand Josue, and he accomplished all: he left not one thing undone of\nall the commandments which the Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n11:16. So Josue took all the country of the hills, and of the south,\nand the land of Gosen, and the plains and the west country, and the\nmountain of Israel, and the plains thereof:\n\n11:17. And part of the mountain that goeth up to Seir as far as\nBaalgad, by the plain of Libanus under mount Hermon: all their kings he\ntook, smote and slew.\n\n11:18. Josue made war a long time against these kings.\n\nA long time. . .Seven years, as appears from chap. 14.10.\n\n11:19. There was not a city that delivered itself to the children of\nIsrael, except the Hevite, who dwelt in Gabaon: for he took all by\nfight.\n\n11:20. For it was the sentence of the Lord, that their hearts should be\nhardened, and they should fight against Israel, and fall, and should\nnot deserve any clemency, and should be destroyed as the Lord had\ncommanded Moses.\n\nHardened. . .This hardening of their hearts, was their having no thought\nof yielding or submitting: which was a sentence or judgment of God upon\nthem in punishment of their enormous crimes.\n\n11:21. At that time Josue came and cut off the Enancims from the\nmountains, from Hebron, and Dabir, and Anab, and from all the mountain\nof Juda and Israel, and destroyed their cities.\n\n11:22. He left not any of the stock of the Enacims, in the land of the\nchildren of Israel: except the cities of Gaza, and Geth, and Azotus, in\nwhich alone they were left.\n\n11:23. So Josue took all the land, as the Lord spoke to Moses, and\ndelivered it in possession to the children of Israel, according to\ntheir divisions and tribes. And the land rested from wars.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 12\n\n\nA list of the kings slain by Moses and Josue,\n\n12:1. These are the kings, whom the children of Israel slew and\npossessed their land beyond the Jordan towards the rising of the sun,\nfrom the torrent Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the east country that\nlooketh towards the wilderness.\n\n12:2. Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon, and had\ndominion from Aroer, which is seated upon the bank of the torrent\nArnon, and of the middle part in the valley, and of half Galaad, as far\nas the torrent Jaboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon.\n\n12:3. And from the wilderness, to the sea of Ceneroth towards the east,\nand to the sea of the wilderness, which is the most salt sea, on the\neast side by the way that leadeth to Bethsimoth: and on the south side\nthat lieth under Asedoth, Phasga.\n\n12:4. The border of Og the king of Basan, of the remnant of the\nRaphaims who dwelt in Astaroth, and in Edrai, and had dominion in mount\nHermon, and in Salecha, and in all Basan, unto the borders\n\n12:5. Of Gessuri and Machati, and of half Galaad: the borders of Sehon\nthe king of Hesebon.\n\n12:6. Moses the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel slew\nthem, and Moses delivered their land in possession to the Rubenites,\nand Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses.\n\n12:7. These are the kings of the land, whom Josue and the children of\nIsrael slew beyond the Jordan on the west side from Baalgad in the\nfield of Libanus, unto the mount, part of which goeth up into Seir: and\nJosue delivered it in possession to the tribes of Israel, to every one\ntheir divisions,\n\n12:8. As well in the mountains as in the plains and the champaign\ncountries. In Asedoth, and in the wilderness, and in the south was the\nHethite and the Amorrhite, the Chanaanite and the Pherezite, the Hevite\nand the Jebusite.\n\n12:9. The king of Jericho one: the king of Hai, which is on the side of\nBethel, one:\n\n12:10. The king of Jerusalem one, the king of Hebron one,\n\n12:11. The king of Jerimoth one, thee king of Lachis one,\n\n12:12. The king of Eglon one, the king of Gazer one,\n\n12:13. The king of Dabir one, the king of Gader one,\n\n12:14. The king of Herma one, the king of Hered one,\n\n12:15. The king of Lebna one, the king of Odullam one,\n\n12:16. The king of Maceda one, the king of Bethel one,\n\n12:17. The king of Taphua one, the king of Opher one,\n\n12:18. The king of Aphec one, the king of Saron one,\n\n12:19. The king of Madon one, the king of Asor one,\n\n12:20. The king of Semeron one, the king of Achsaph one,\n\n12:21. The king of Thenac one, the king of Mageddo one,\n\n12:22. Thee king of Cades one, the king of Jachanan of Carmel one,\n\n12:23. The king of Dor, and of the province of Dor one, the king of the\nnations of Galgal one,\n\n12:24. The king of Thersa one: all the kings thirty and one.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 13\n\n\nGod commandeth Josue to divide the land: the possessions of Ruben, Gad,\nand half the tribe of Manasses, beyond the Jordan.\n\n13:1. Josue was old, and far advanced in years, and the Lord said to\nhim: Thou art grown old, and advanced in age, and there is a very large\ncountry left, which is not yet divided by lot:\n\nJosue was old, and far advanced in years. . .He was then about one\nhundred and one years old.--And there is a very large country left,\nwhich is not yet divided by lot. . .Not yet possessed by the children of\nIsrael.\n\n13:2. To wit, all Galilee, Philistia, and all Gessuri.\n\n13:3. From the troubled river, that watereth Egypt, unto the border of\nAccaron northward: the land of Chanaan, which is divided among the\nlords of the Philistines, the Gazites, the Azotians, the Ascalonites,\nthe Gethites, and the Accronites.\n\n13:4. And on the south side are the Hevites, all the land of Chanaan,\nand Maara of the Sidonians as far as Apheca, and the borders of the\nAmorrhite,\n\n13:5. And his confines. The country also of Libanus towards the east\nfrom Baalgad under mount Hermon to the entering into Emath.\n\n13:6. Of all that dwell in the mountains from Libanus, to the waters of\nMaserephoth, and all the Sidonians. I am he that will cut them off from\nbefore the face of the children of Israel. So let their land come in as\na part of the inheritance of Israel, as I have commanded thee.\n\n13:7. And now divide the land in possession to the nine tribes, and to\nthe half tribe of Manasses,\n\n13:8. With whom Ruben and Gad have possessed the land, which Moses the\nservant of the Lord delivered to them beyond the river Jordan, on the\neast side.\n\nWith whom. . .That is, with the other half of that same tribe.\n\n13:9. From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, and in\nthe midst of the valley and all the plains of Medaba, as far as Dibon:\n\n13:10. And all the cities of Sehon, king of the Amorrhites, who reigned\nin Hesebon, unto the borders of the children of Ammon.\n\n13:11. And Galaad, and the borders of Gessuri and Machati, and all\nmount Hermon, and all Basan as far as Salecha,\n\n13:12. All the kingdom of Og in Basan, who reigned in Astaroth and\nEdrai, he was of the remains of the Raphaims: and Moses overthrew and\ndestroyed them.\n\n13:13. And the children of Israel would not destroy Gessuri and Machati\nand they have dwelt in the midst of Israel, until this present day.\n\n13:14. But to the tribe of Levi he gave no possession: but the\nsacrifices and victims of thee Lord God of Israel, are his inheritance,\nas he spoke to him.\n\n13:15. And Moses gave a possession to the children of Ruben according\nto their kindreds.\n\n13:16. And their border was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the\ntorrent Arnon, and in the midst of the valley of the same torrent: all\nthe plain, that leadeth to Medaba,\n\n13:17. And Hesebon, and all their villages, which are in the plains.\nDibon also, and Bamothbaal, and the town of Baalmaon,\n\n13:18. And Jassa, and Cidimoth, and Mephaath,\n\n13:19. And Cariathaim, and Sabama, and Sarathasar in the mountain of\nthe valley.\n\n13:20. Bethphogor and Asedoth, Phasga and Bethiesimoth,\n\n13:21. And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdoms of Sehon\nking of the Amorrhites, that reigned in Hesebon, whom Moses slew with\nthe princes of Madian: Hevi, and Recem, and Sur and Hur, and Rebe,\ndukes of Sehon inhabitants of the land.\n\nThe princes of Madian. . .It appears from hence that these were subjects\nof king Sehon: they are said to have been slain with him, that is,\nabout the same time, but not in the same battle.\n\n13:22. Balaam also the son of Beor the soothsayer, the children of\nIsrael slew with the sword among the rest that were slain.\n\n13:23. And the river Jordan was the border of the children of Ruben.\nThis is the possession of the Rubenites, by their kindreds, of cities\nand villages.\n\n13:24. And Moses gave to the tribe of Gad and to his children by their\nkindreds a possession, of which this is the division.\n\n13:25. The border of Jaser, and all the cities of Galaad, and half the\nland of the children of Ammon: as far as Aroer which is over against\nRabba:\n\n13:26. And from Hesebon unto Ramoth, Masphe and Betonim: and from\nManaim unto the borders of Dabir.\n\n13:27. And in the valley Betharan and Bethnemra, and Socoth, and Saphon\nthe other part of the kingdom of Sehon king of Hesebon: the limit of\nthis also is the Jordan, as far as the uttermost part of the sea of\nCenereth beyond the Jordan on the east side,\n\n13:28. This is the possession of the children of Gad by their families,\ntheir cities, and villages.\n\n13:29. He gave also to the half tribe of Manasses and his children\npossession according to their kindreds,\n\n13:30. The beginning whereof is this: from Manaim all Basan, and all\nthe kingdoms of Og king of Basan, and all the villages of Jair, which\nare in Basan, threescore towns.\n\n13:31. And half Galaad, and Astaroth, and Edrai, cities of the kingdom\nof Og in Basan: to the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, to one\nhalf of the children of Machir according to their kindreds.\n\n13:32. This possession Moses divided in the plains of Moab, beyond the\nJordan, over against Jericho on the east side,\n\n13:33. But to the tribe of Levi he gave no possession: because the Lord\nthe God of Israel himself is their possession, as he spoke to them.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 14\n\n\nCaleb's petition; Hebron is given to him and to his seed.\n\n14:1. This is what the children of Israel possessed in the land of\nChanaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the\nprinces of the families by the tribes of Israel gave to them.\n\n14:2. Dividing all by lot, as the Lord had commanded the hand of Moses,\nto the nine tribes, and the half tribe.\n\n14:3. For to two tribes and a half Moses had given possession beyond\nthe Jordan: besides the Levites, who received no land among their\nbrethren:\n\n14:4. But in their place succeeded the children of Joseph divided into\ntwo tribes, of Manasses and Ephraim: neither did the Levites receive\nother portion of land, but cities to dwell in, and their suburbs to\nfeed their beasts and flocks.\n\nHebron belonged, etc. . .All the country thereabouts, depending on\nHebron, was given to Caleb; but the city itself with the suburbs, was\none of those that were given to the priests to dwell in.\n\n14:5. As the Lord had commanded Moses so did the children of Israel,\nand they divided the land.\n\n14:6. Then the children of Juda came to Josue in Galgal, and Caleb the\nson of Jephone the Cenezite spoke to him: Thou knowest what the Lord\nspoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Cadesbarne.\n\n14:7. I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me\nfrom Cadesbarne, to view the land, and I brought him word again as to\nme seemed true,\n\n14:8. But my brethren, that had gone up with me, discouraged the heart\nof the people: and I nevertheless followed the Lord my God.\n\n14:9. And Moses swore in that day, saying: The land which thy foot hath\ntrodden upon shall be thy possession, and thy children for ever,\nbecause thou hast followed the Lord my God.\n\n14:10. The Lord therefore hath granted me life, as he promised until\nthis present day, It is forty and five years since the Lord spoke this\nword to Moses, when Israel journeyed through the wilderness: this day I\nam eighty-five years old,\n\n14:11. As strong as I was at that time when I was sent to view the\nland: the strength of that time continueth in me until this day, as\nwell to fight as to march.\n\n14:12. Give me therefore this mountain, which the Lord promised, in thy\nhearing also, wherein are the Enacims, and cities great and strong: if\nso be the Lord will be with me, and I shall be able to destroy them, as\nhe promised me.\n\n14:13. And Josue blessed him, and gave him Hebron in possession.\n\n14:14. And from that time Hebron belonged to Caleb the son of Jephone\nthe Cenezite, until this present day: because he followed the Lord the\nGod of Israel.\n\n14:15. The name of Hebron before was called Cariath-Arbe: Adam the\ngreatest among the Enacims was laid there and the land rested from\nwars.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 15\n\n\nThe borders of the lot of Juda. Caleb's portion and conquest. The\ncities of Juda.\n\n15:1. Now the lot of the children of Juda by their kindreds was this:\nFrom the frontier of Edom, to the desert of Sin southward, and to the\nuttermost part of the south coast.\n\n15:2. Its beginning was from the top of the most salt sea, and from the\nbay thereof, that looketh to the south.\n\n15:3. And it goeth out towards the ascent of the Scorpion, and passeth\non to Sina: and ascendeth into Cadesbarne, and reacheth into Esron,\ngoing up to Addar, and compassing Carcaa.\n\n15:4. And from thence passing along into Asemona, and reaching the\ntorrent of Egypt: and the bounds thereof shall be the great sea, this\nshall be the limit of the south coast.\n\n15:5. But on the east side the beginning shall be the most salt sea\neven to the end of the Jordan: and towards the north from the bay of\nthe sea unto the same river Jordan.\n\n15:6. And the border goeth up into Beth-Hagla, and passeth by the north\ninto Beth-Araba: going up to the stone of Boen the son of Ruben.\n\n15:7. And reaching as far as the borders of Debara from the valley of\nAchor, and so northward looking towards Galgal, which is opposite to\nthe ascent of Adommin, on the south side of the torrent, and the border\npasseth the waters that are called the fountain of the sun: and the\ngoings out thereof shall be at the fountain Rogel.\n\n15:8. And it goeth up by the valley of the son of Ennom on the side of\nthe Jebusite towards the south, the same is Jerusalem: and thence\nascending to the top of the mountain, which is over against Geennom to\nthe west in the end of the valley of Raphaim, northward.\n\n15:9. And it passeth on from the top of the mountain to the fountain of\nthe water of Nephtoa: and reacheth to the towns of mount Ephron: and it\nbendeth towards Baala, which is Cariathiarim, that is to say, the city\nof the woods.\n\n15:10. And it compasseth from Baala westward unto mount Seir: and\npasseth by the side of mount Jarim to the north into Cheslon: and goeth\ndown into Bethsames, and passeth into Thamna.\n\n15:11. And reacheth northward to a part of Accaron at the side: and\nbendeth to Sechrona, and passeth mount Baala: and cometh into Jebneel,\nand is bounded westward with the great sea.\n\n15:12. These are the borders round about of the children of Juda in\ntheir kindreds.\n\n15:13. But to Caleb the son of Jephone he gave a portion in the midst\nof the children of Juda, as the Lord had commanded him: Cariath-Arbe\nthe father of Enac, which is Hebron.\n\n15:14. And Caleb destroyed out of it the three sons of Enac, Sesai and\nAhiman, and Tholmai of the race of Enac.\n\n15:15. And going up from thence he came to the inhabitants of Dabir,\nwhich before was called Cariath-Sepher, that is to say, the city of\nletters.\n\n15:16. And Caleb said: He that shall smite Cariath-Sepher, and take it,\nI will give him Axa my daughter to wife.\n\n15:17. And Othoniel the son of Cenez, the younger brother of Caleb,\ntook it: and he gave him Axa his daughter to wife.\n\n15:18. And as they were going together, she was moved by her husband to\nask a field of her father, and she sighed as she sat on her ass. And\nCaleb said to her: What aileth thee?\n\n15:19. But she answered: Give me a blessing: thou hast given me a\nsouthern and dry land, give me also a land that Is watered. And Caleb\ngave her the upper and the nether watery ground.\n\n15:20. This is the possession of the tribe of the children of Juda by\ntheir kindreds.\n\n15:21. And the cities from the uttermost parts of the children of Juda\nby the borders of Edom to the south, were Cabseel and Eder and Jagur,\n\n15:22. And Cina and Dimona and Adada,\n\n15:23. And Cades and Asor and Jethnam,\n\n15:24. Ziph and Telem and Baloth,\n\n15:25. New Asor and Carioth, Hesron, which is Asor.\n\n15:26. Amam, Sama and Molada,\n\n15:27. And Asergadda and Hassemon and Bethphelet,\n\n15:28. And Hasersual and Bersabee and Baziothia,\n\n15:29. And Baala and Jim and Esem,\n\n15:30. And Eltholad and Cesil and Harma,\n\n15:31. And Siceleg and Medemena and Sensenna,\n\n15:32. Lebaoth and Selim and Aen and Remmon: all the cities\ntwenty-nine, and their villages.\n\n15:33. But in the plains: Estaol and Sarea and Asena,\n\n15:34. And Zanoe and Engannim and Taphua and Enaim,\n\n15:35. And Jerimoth and Adullam, Socho and Azeca,\n\n15:36. And Saraim and Adithaim and Gedera and Gederothaim: fourteen\ncities, and their villages.\n\n15:37. Sanan and Hadassa and Magdalgad,\n\n15:38. Delean and Masepha and Jecthel,\n\n15:39. Lachis and Bascath and Eglon,\n\n15:40. Chebbon and Leheman and Cethlis,\n\n15:41. And Gideroth and Bethdagon and Naama and Maceda: sixteen cities,\nand their villages.\n\n15:42. Labana and Ether and Asan,\n\n15:43. Jephtha and Esna and Nesib,\n\n15:44. And Ceila and Achzib and Maresa: nine cities, and their\nvillages.\n\n15:45. Accaron with the towns and villages thereof.\n\n15:46. From Accaron even to the sea: all places that lie towards Azotus\nand the villages thereof.\n\n15:47. Azotus with its towns and villages. Gaza with its towns and\nvillages, even to the torrent of Egypt, and the great sea that is the\nborder thereof.\n\n15:48. And in the mountain Samir and Jether and Socoth,\n\n15:49. And Danna and Cariath-senna, this is Dabir:\n\n15:50. Anab and Istemo and Anim,\n\n15:51. Gosen and Olon and Gilo: eleven cities and their villages.\n\n15:52. Arab and Ruma and Esaan,\n\n15:53. And Janum and Beththaphua and Apheca,\n\n15:54. Athmatha and Cariath-Arbe, this is Hebron and Sior: nine cities\nand their villages.\n\n15:55. Maon and Carmel and Ziph and Jota,\n\n15:56. Jezrael and Jucadam and Zanoe,\n\n15:57. Accain, Gabaa and Thamna: ten cities and their villages.\n\n15:58. Halhul, and Bessur, and Gedor,\n\n15:59. Mareth, and Bethanoth, and Eltecon: six cities and their\nvillages.\n\n15:60. Cariathbaal, the same is Cariathiarim the city of woods, and\nArebba: two cities and their villages.\n\n15:61. In the desert Betharaba, Meddin and Sachacha,\n\n15:62. And Nebsan, and the city of salt, and Engaddi: six cities and\ntheir villages.\n\n15:63. But the children of Juda could not destroy the Jebusite that\ndwelt in Jerusalem: and the Jebusite dwelt with the children of Juda in\nJerusalem until this present day.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 16\n\n\nThe lot of the sons of Joseph. The borders of the tribe of Ephraim.\n\n16:1. And the lot of the sons of Joseph fell from the Jordan over\nagainst Jericho and the waters thereof, on the east: the wilderness\nwhich goeth up from Jericho to the mountain of Bethel:\n\n16:2. And goeth out from Bethel to Luza: and passeth the border of\nArchi, to Ataroth,\n\n16:3. And goeth down westward, by the border of Jephleti, unto the\nborders of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gazer: and the countries of it\nare ended by the great sea:\n\n16:4. And Manasses and Ephraim the children of Joseph possessed it.\n\n16:5. And the border of the children of Ephraim was according to their\nkindreds: and their possession towards the east was Ataroth-addar unto\nBeth-horon the upper.\n\n16:6. And the confines go out unto the sea: but Machmethath looketh to\nthe north, and it goeth round the borders eastward into Thanath-selo:\nand passeth along on the east side to Janoe.\n\nLooketh to the north, etc. . .The meaning is, that the border went\ntowards the north, by Machmethath; and then turned eastward to\nThanath-selo.\n\n16:7. And it goeth down from Janoe into Ataroth and Naaratha: and it\ncometh to Jericho, and goeth out to the Jordan.\n\n16:8. From Taphua it passeth on towards the sea into the valley of\nreeds, and the goings out thereof are at the most salt sea. This is the\npossession of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.\n\n16:9. And there were cities with their villages separated for the\nchildren of Ephraim in the midst of the possession of the children of\nManasses.\n\n16:10. And the children of Ephraim slew not the Chanaanite, who dwelt\nin Gazer: and the Chanaanite dwelt in the midst of Ephraim until this\nday, paying tribute.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 17\n\n\nThe lot of the half tribe of Manasses.\n\n17:1. And this lot fell to the tribe of Manasses for he is the\nfirstborn of Joseph to Machir the firstborn of Manasses the father of\nGalaad, who was a warlike man, and had for possession Galaad and Basan.\n\n17:2. And to the rest of the children of Manasses according to their\nfamilies: to the children of Abiezer, and to the children of Helec, and\nto the children of Esriel, and to the children of Sechem, and to the\nchildren of Hepher, and to the children of Semida: these are the male\nchildren of Manasses the son of Joseph, by their kindreds.\n\n17:3. But Salphaad the son of Hepher the son of Galaad the son of\nMachir the son of Manasses had no sons, but only daughters: whose names\nare these, Maala and Noa and Hegla and Melcha and Thersa.\n\n17:4. And they came in the presence of Eleazar the priest and of Josue\nthe son of Nun, and of the princes, saying: The Lord commanded by the\nhand of Moses, that a possession should be given us in the midst of our\nbrethren. And he gave them according to the commandment of the Lord a\npossession amongst the brethren of their father.\n\n17:5. And there fell ten portions to Manasses, beside the land of\nGalaad and Basan beyond the Jordan.\n\n17:6. For the daughters of Manasses possessed inheritance in the midst\nof his sons. And the land of Galaad fell to the lot of the rest of the\nchildren of Manasses.\n\n17:7. And the border of Manasses was from Aser, Machmethath which\nlooketh towards Sichem: and it goeth out on the right hand by the\ninhabitants of the fountain of Taphua.\n\n17:8. For the lot of Manasses took in the land of Taphua, which is on\nthe borders of Manasses, and belongs to the children of Ephraim.\n\n17:9. And the border goeth down to the valley of the reeds, to the\nsouth of the torrent of the cities of Ephraim, which are in the midst\nof the cities of Manasses: the border of Manasses is on the north side\nof the torrent, and the outgoings of it are at the sea:\n\n17:10. So that the possession of Ephraim is on the south, and on the\nnorth that of Manasses, and the sea is the border of both, and they are\njoined together in the tribe of Aser on the north, and in the tribe of\nIssachar on the east.\n\n17:11. And the inheritance of Manasses in Issachar and in Aser, was\nBethsan and its villages, and Jeblaam with its villages, and the\ninhabitants of Dor, with the towns thereof: the inhabitants also of\nEndor with the villages thereof: and in like manner the inhabitants of\nThenac with the villages thereof: and the inhabitants of Mageddo with\ntheir villages, and the third part of the city of Nopheth.\n\n17:12. Neither could the children of Manasses overthrow these cities,\nbut the Chanaanite began to dwell in his land.\n\n17:13. But after that the children of Israel were grown strong, they\nsubdued the Chanaanites, and made them their tributaries, and they did\nnot kill them.\n\n17:14. And the children of Joseph spoke to Josue, and said: Why hast\nthou given me but one lot and one portion to possess, whereas I am of\nso great a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed me?\n\n17:15. And Josue said to them: If thou be a great people, go up into\nthe woodland, and cut down room for thyself in the land of the\nPherezite and the Raphaims: because the possession of mount Ephraim is\ntoo narrow for thee.\n\n17:16. And the children of Joseph answered him: We cannot go up to the\nmountains, for the Chanaanites that dwell in the low lands, wherein are\nsituate Bethsan with its towns, and Jezrael in the midst of the valley,\nhave chariots of iron.\n\n17:17. And Josue said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasses:\nThou art a great people, and of great strength, thou shalt not have one\nlot only:\n\n17:18. But thou shalt pass to the mountain, and shalt cut down the\nwood, and make thyself room to dwell in: and mayst proceed farther,\nwhen thou hast destroyed the Chanaanites, who as thou sayest have iron\nchariots, and are very strong.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 18\n\n\nSurveyors are sent to divide the rest of the land into seven tribes.\nThe lot of Benjamin.\n\n18:1. And all the children of Israel assembled together in Silo, and\nthere they set up the tabernacle of the testimony, and the land was\nsubdued before them.\n\n18:2. But there remained seven tribes of the children of Israel, which\nas yet had not received their possessions.\n\n18:3. And Josue said to them: How long are you indolent and slack, and\ngo not in to possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers\nhath given you?\n\n18:4. Choose of every tribe three men, that I may send them, and they\nmay go and compass the land, and mark it out according to the number of\neach multitude: and bring back to me what they have marked out.\n\n18:5. Divide to yourselves the land into seven parts: let Juda be in\nhis bounds on the south side, and the house of Joseph on the north.\n\n18:6. The land in the midst between these mark ye out into seven parts;\nand you shall come hither to me, that I may cast lots for you before\nthe Lord your God.\n\nThe land in the midst between these mark ye out into seven\nparts. . .That is to say, the rest of the land, which is not already\nassigned to Juda or Joseph.\n\n18:7. For the Levites have no part among you, but the priesthood of the\nLord is their inheritance. And Gad and Ruben, and the half tribe of\nManasses have already received their possessions beyond the Jordan\neastward: which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.\n\n18:8. And when the men were risen up, to go to mark out the land, Josue\ncommanded them saying: Go round the land and mark it out, and return to\nme: that I may cast lots for you before the Lord in Silo.\n\n18:9. So they went and surveying it divided it into seven parts,\nwriting them down in a book. And they returned to Josue, to the camp in\nSilo.\n\n18:10. And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo, and divided the land\nto the children of Israel into seven parts.\n\n18:11. And first came up the lot of the children of Benjamin by their\nfamilies, to possess the land between the children of Juda, and the\nchildren of Joseph.\n\n18:12. And their border northward was from the Jordan: going along by\nthe side of Jericho on the north side, and thence going up westward to\nthe mountains, and reaching to the wilderness of Bethaven,\n\n18:13. And passing along southward by Luza, the same is Bethel, and it\ngoeth down into Ataroth-addar to the mountain, that is on the south of\nthe nether Beth-horon.\n\n18:14. And it bendeth thence going round towards the sea, south of the\nmountain that looketh towards Beth-horon to the southwest: and the\noutgoings thereof are into Cariathbaal, which is called also\nCariathiarim, a city of the children of Juda This is their coast\ntowards the sea, westward.\n\n18:15. But on the south side the border goeth out from part of\nCariathiarim towards the sea, and cometh to the fountain of the waters\nof Nephtoa.\n\n18:16. And it goeth down to that part of the mountain that looketh on\nthe valley of the children of Ennom: and is over against the north\nquarter in the furthermost part of the valley of Raphaim, and it goeth\ndown into Geennom (that is the valley of Ennom) by the side of the\nJebusite to the south: and cometh to the fountain of Rogel,\n\n18:17. Passing thence to the north, and going out to Ensemes, that is\nto say, the fountain of the sun:\n\n18:18. And It passeth along to the hills that are over against the\nascent of Adommim: and it goeth down to Abenboen, that is, the stone of\nBoen the son of Ruben: and it passeth on the north side to the\nchampaign countries; and goeth down Into the plain,\n\n18:19. And it passeth by Bethhagla northward: and the outgoings thereof\nare towards the north of the most salt sea at the south end of the\nJordan.\n\n18:20. Which is the border of it on the east side. This is the\npossession of the children of Benjamin by their borders round about,\nand their families.\n\n18:21. And their cities were, Jericho and Bethhagla and Vale-Casis,\n\n18:22. Betharaba and Samaraim and Bethel,\n\n18:23. And Avim and Aphara and Ophera,\n\n18:24. The town Emona and Ophni and Gabee: twelve cities, and their\nvillages.\n\n18:25. Gabam and Rama and Beroth,\n\n18:26. And Mesphe, and Caphara, and Amosa,\n\n18:27. And Recem, Jarephel, and Tharela,\n\n18:28. And Sela, Eleph and Jebus, which is Jerusalem, Gabaath and\nCariath: fourteen cities, and their villages. This is the possession of\nthe children of Benjamin by their families.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 19\n\n\nThe lots of the tribes of Simeon, Zabulon, Issachar, Aser, Nephtali and\nDan. A city is given to Josue.\n\n19:1. And the second lot came forth for the children of Simeon by their\nkindreds: and their inheritance was\n\n19:2. In the midst of the possession of the children of Juda: Bersabee\nand Sabee and Molada\n\n19:3. And Hasersual, Bala and Asem,\n\n19:4. And Eltholad, Bethul and Harma,\n\n19:5. And Siceleg and Bethmarchaboth and Hasersusa,\n\n19:6. And Bethlebaoth and Sarohen: thirteen cities, and their villages.\n\n19:7. And Remmon and Athor and Asan: four cities, and their villages.\n\n19:8. And all the villages round about these cities to Baalath Beer\nRamath to the south quarter. This is the inheritance of the children of\nSimeon according to their kindreds,\n\n19:9. In the possession and lot of the children of Juda: because it was\ntoo great, and therefore the children of Simeon had their possession in\nthe midst of their inheritance.\n\n19:10. And the third lot fell to the children of Zabulon by their\nkindreds: and the border of their possession was unto Sarid.\n\n19:11. And It went up from the sea and from Merala, and came to\nDebbaseth: as far as the torrent, which is over against Jeconam.\n\n19:12. And it returneth from Sarid eastward to the borders of\nCeseleththabor: and it goeth out to Dabereth and ascendeth towards\nJaphie.\n\n19:13. And it passeth along from thence to the east side of Gethhepher\nand Thacasin: and goeth out to Remmon, Amthar and Noa.\n\n19:14. And it turneth about to the north of Hanathon: and the outgoings\nthereof are the valley of Jephtahel,\n\n19:15. And Cateth and Naalol and Semeron and Jedala and Bethlehem:\ntwelve cities and their villages.\n\n19:16. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Zabulon\nby their kindreds, the cities and their villages.\n\n19:17. The fourth lot came out to Issachar by their kindreds.\n\n19:18. And his inheritance was Jezrael and Casaloth and Sunem,\n\n19:19. And Hapharaim and Seon and Anaharath,\n\n19:20. And Rabboth and Cesion, Abes,\n\n19:21. And Rameth and Engannim and Enhadda and Bethpheses.\n\n19:22. And the border thereof cometh to Thabor and Sehesima and\nBethsames: and the outgoings thereof shall be at the Jordan: sixteen\ncities, and their villages.\n\n19:23. This is the possession of the sons of Issachar by their\nkindreds, the cities and their villages.\n\n19:24. And the fifth lot fell to the tribe of the children of Aser by\ntheir kindreds:\n\n19:25. And their border was Halcath and Chali and Beten and Axaph,\n\n19:26. And Elmelech and Amaad and Messal: and it reacheth to Carmel by\nthe sea and Sihor and Labanath,\n\n19:27. And it returneth towards the east to Bethdagon: and passeth\nalong to Zabulon and to the valley of Jephthael towards the north to\nBethemec and Nehiel. And it goeth out to the left side of Cabul,\n\n19:28. And to Abaran and Rohob and Hamon and Cana, as far as the great\nSidon.\n\n19:29. And it returneth to Horma to the strong city of Tyre, and to\nHosa: and the outgoings thereof shall be at the sea from the portion of\nAchziba:\n\n19:30. And Amma and Aphec and Rohob: twenty-two cities, and their\nvillages.\n\n19:31. This is the possession of the children of Aser by their\nkindreds, and the cities and their villages.\n\n19:32. The sixth lot came out to the sons of Nephtali by their\nfamilies:\n\n19:33. And the border began from Heleph and Elon to Saananim, and\nAdami, which is Neceb, and Jebnael even to Lecum:\n\n19:34. And the border returneth westward to Azanotthabor, and goeth out\nfrom thence to Hucuca, and passeth along to Zabulon southward, and to\nAser westward, and to Juda upon the Jordan towards the rising of the\nsun.\n\n19:35. And the strong cities are Assedim, Ser, and Emath, and Reccath\nand Cenereth,\n\n19:36. And Edema and Arama, Asor,\n\n19:37. And Cedes and Edri, Enhasor,\n\n19:38. And Jeron and Magdalel, Horem, and Bethanath and Bethsames:\nnineteen cities, and their villages.\n\n19:39. This is the possession of the tribe of the children of Nephtali\nby their kindreds, the cities and their villages.\n\n19:40. The seventh lot came out to the tribe of the children of Dan by\ntheir families\n\n19:41. And the border of their possession was Saraa and Esthaol, and\nHirsemes, that is, the city of the sun,\n\n19:42. Selebin and Aialon and Jethela,\n\n19:43. Elon and Themna and Acron,\n\n19:44. Elthece, Gebbethon and Balaath,\n\n19:45. And Juda and Bane and Barach and Gethremmon:\n\n19:46. And Mejarcon and Arecon, with the border that looketh towards\nJoppe,\n\n19:47. And is terminated there. And the children of Dan went up and\nfought against Lesem, and took it: and they put it to the sword, and\npossessed it, and dwelt in it, calling the name of it Lesem Dan, by the\nname of Dan their father.\n\n19:48. This is the possession of the tribe of the sons of Dan, by their\nkindreds, the cities and their villages.\n\n19:49. And when he had made an end of dividing the land by lot to each\none by their tribes, the children of Israel gave a possession to Josue\nthe son of Nun in the midst of them,\n\n19:50. According to the commandment of the Lord, the city which he\nasked for, Thamnath Saraa, in mount Ephraim: and he built up the city,\nand dwelt in it.\n\n19:51. These are the possessions which Eleazar the priest, and Josue\nthe son of Nun, and the princes of the families, and of the tribes of\nthe children of Israel, distributed by lot in Silo, before the Lord at\nthe door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and they divided the land.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 20\n\n\nThe cities of refuge are appointed for casual manslaughter.\n\n20:1. And the Lord spoke to Josue, saying: Speak to children of Israel\nand say to them:\n\n20:2. Appoint cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of\nMoses:\n\n20:3. That whosoever shall kill a person unawares may flee to them, and\nmay escape the wrath of the kinsman, who is the avenger of blood.\n\n20:4. And when he shall flee to one of these cities: he shall stand\nbefore the gate of the city, and shall speak to the ancients of that\ncity, such things as prove him innocent: and so shall they receive him,\nand give him a place to dwell in.\n\n20:5. And when the avenger of blood shall pursue him, they shall not\ndeliver him into his hands, because he slew his neighbour unawares, and\nis not proved to have been his enemy two or three days before,\n\n20:6. And he shall dwell in that city, till he stand before judgment to\ngive an account of his fact, and till the death of the high priest, who\nshall be at that time: then shall the manslayer return, and go into his\nown city and house from whence he fled.\n\n20:7. And they appointed Cedes in Galilee of mount Nephtali, and Sichem\nin mount Ephraim, and Cariath-Arbe, the same is Hebron in the mountain\nof Juda.\n\n20:8. And beyond the Jordan to the east of Jericho, they appointed\nBosor, which is upon the plain of the wilderness of the tribe of Ruben,\nand Ramoth in Galaad of the tribe of Gad, and Gaulon in Basan of the\ntribe of Manasses.\n\n20:9. These cities were appointed for all the children of Israel, and\nfor the strangers, that dwelt among them, that whosoever had killed a\nperson unawares might flee to them, and not die by the hand of the\nkinsman, coveting to revenge the blood that was shed, until he should\nstand before the people to lay open his cause.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 21\n\n\nCities with their suburbs are assigned for the priests and Levites.\n\n21:1. Then the princes of the families of Levi came to Eleazar the\npriest, and to Josue the son of Nun, and to the princes of the kindreds\nof all the tribes of the children of Israel\n\n21:2. And they spoke to them in Silo in the land of Chanaan, and said:\nThe Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, that cities should be given us\nto dwell in, and their suburbs to feed our cattle.\n\n21:3. And the children of Israel gave out of their possessions\naccording to the commandment of the Lord, cities and their suburbs.\n\n21:4. And the lot came out for the family of Caath of the children of\nAaron the priest out of the tribes of Juda, and of Simeon, and of\nBenjamin, thirteen cities.\n\n21:5. And to the rest of the children of Caath, that is, to thee\nLevites, who remained, out of the tribes of Ephraim, and of Dan, and\nthe half tribe of Manasses, ten cities.\n\n21:6. And the lot came out to children of Gerson, that they should take\nof the tribes of Issachar and of Aser and of Nephtali, and of the half\ntribe of Manasses in Basan, thirteen cities.\n\n21:7. And to the sons of Merari by their kindreds, of the tribes of\nRuben and of Gad and of Zabulon, twelve cities.\n\n21:8. And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and\ntheir suburbs, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, giving to\nevery one by lot.\n\n21:9. Of the tribes of the children of Juda and of Simeon Josue gave\ncities: whose names are these,\n\n21:10. To the sons of Aaron, of the families of Caath of the race of\nLevi (for the first lot came out for them)\n\n21:11. The city of Arbe the father of Enac, which is called Hebron, in\nthe mountain of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about.\n\n21:12. But the fields and the villages thereof he had given to Caleb\nthe son of Jephone for his possession.\n\n21:13. He gave therefore to the children of Aaron the priest, Hebron a\ncity of refuge, and the suburbs thereof, and Lebna with the suburbs\nthereof,\n\n21:14. And Jether and Estemo,\n\n21:15. And Holon, and Dabir,\n\n21:16. And Ain, and Jeta, and Bethsames, with their suburbs: nine\ncities out of the two tribes, as hath been said.\n\n21:17. And out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, Gabaon, and\nGabae,\n\n21:18. And Anathoth and Almon, with, their suburbs: four cities.\n\n21:19. All the cities together of the children of Aaron the priest,\nwere thirteen, with their suburbs,\n\n21:20. And to the rest of the families of the children of Caath of the\nrace of Levi was given this possession.\n\n21:21. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Sichem one of the cities of refuge,\nwith the suburbs thereof in mount Ephraim, and Gazer,\n\n21:22. And Cibsaim, and Beth-horon, with their suburbs, four cities.\n\n21:23. And of he tribe of Dan, Eltheco and Gabathon,\n\n21:24. And Aialon and Gethremmon, with their suburbs, four cities.\n\n21:25. And of the half tribe of Manasses, Thanac and Gethremmon, with\ntheir suburbs, two cities.\n\n21:26. All the cities were ten, with their suburbs, which were given to\nthe children of Caath, of the inferior degree.\n\n21:27. To the children of Gerson also of the race of Levi out of the\nhalf tribe of Manasses, Gaulon in Basan, one of the cities of refuge,\nand Bosra, with their suburbs, two cities.\n\n21:28. And of the tribe of Issachar, Cesion, and Dabereth,\n\n21:29. And Jaramoth, and Engannim, with their suburbs, four cities.\n\n21:30. And of the tribe of Aser, Masal and Abdon,\n\n21:31. And Helcath, and Rohob, with their suburbs, four cities.\n\n21:32. Of the tribe also of Nephtali, Cedes in Galilee, one of the\ncities of refuge: and Hammoth Dor, and Carthan, with their suburbs,\nthree cities.\n\n21:33. All the cities of the families of Gerson, were thirteen, with\ntheir suburbs.\n\n21:34. And to the children of Merari, Levites of the inferior degree,\nby their families were given of the tribe of Zabulon, Jecnam and\nCartha,\n\n21:35. And Damna and Naalol, four cities with their suburbs.\n\n21:36. Of the tribe of Ruben beyond the Jordan over against Jericho,\nBosor in the wilderness, one of the cities of refuge, Misor and Jaser\nand Jethson and Mephaath, four cities with their suburbs.\n\nFour cities. . .There are no more, though there be five names: for Misor\nis the same city as Bosor, which is to be observed in some other\nplaces, where the number of names exceeds the number of cities.\n\n21:37. Of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Galaad, one of the cities of\nrefuge, and Manaim and Hesebon and Jaser, four cities with their\nsuburbs,\n\n21:38. All the cities of the children of Merari by their families and\nkindreds, were twelve.\n\n21:39. So all the cities of the Levites within the possession of the\nchildren of Israel were forty-eight,\n\n21:40. With their suburbs, each distributed by the families.\n\n21:41. And the Lord God gave to Israel all the land that he had sworn\nto give to their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt in it.\n\n21:42. And he gave them peace from all nations round about: and none of\ntheir enemies durst stand against them, but were brought under their\ndominion.\n\n21:43. Not so much as one word, which he had promised to perform unto\nthem, was made void, but all came to pass.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 22\n\n\nThe tribes of Ruben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasses return to\ntheir possessions. They build an altar by the side of the Jordan, which\nalarms the other tribes. An embassage is sent to them, to which they\ngive a satisfactory answer.\n\n22:1. At the same time Josue called the Rubenites, and the Gadites, and\nthe half tribe of Manasses,\n\n22:2. And said to them: You have done all that Moses the servant of the\nLord commanded you: you have also obeyed me in all things,\n\n22:3. Neither have you left your brethren this long time, until this\npresent day, keeping the commandment of the Lord your God.\n\n22:4. Therefore as the Lord your God hath given your brethren rest and\npeace, as he promised: return, and go to your dwellings, and to the\nland of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you\nbeyond the Jordan:\n\n22:5. Yet so that you observe attentively, and in work fulfil the\ncommandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded\nyou: that you love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, and\nkeep all his commandments, and cleave to him, and serve him with all\nyour heart, and with all your soul.\n\n22:6. And Josue blessed them, and sent them away, and they returned to\ntheir dwellings.\n\n22:7. Now to half the tribe of Manasses, Moses had given a possession\nin Basan: and therefore to the half that remained, Josue gave a lot\namong the rest of their brethren beyond the Jordan to the west. And\nwhen he sent them away to their dwellings and had blessed them,\n\n22:8. He said to them: With much substance and riches, you return to\nyour settlements, with silver and gold, brass and iron, and variety of\nraiment: divide the prey of your enemies with your brethren.\n\n22:9. So the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the half\ntribe of Manasses returned, and parted from the children of Israel in\nSilo, which is in Chanaan, to go into Galaad the land of their\npossession, which they had obtained according to the commandment of the\nLord by the hand of Moses.\n\n22:10. And when they were come to banks of the Jordan, in the land of\nChanaan, they built an altar immensely great near the Jordan.\n\n22:11. And when the children of Israel had heard of it, and certain\nmessengers brought them an account that the children of Ruben, and of\nGad, and the half tribe of Manasses had built an altar in the land of\nChanaan, upon the banks of the Jordan, over against the children of\nIsrael:\n\n22:12. They all assembled in Silo, to go up and fight against them.\n\n22:13. And in the mean time they sent to them into the land of Galaad,\nPhinees the son of Eleazar the priest,\n\n22:14. And ten princes with him, one of every tribe.\n\n22:15. Who came to the children of Ruben, and of Gad, and the half\ntribe of Manasses, into the land of Galaad, and said to them:\n\n22:16. Thus saith all the people of the Lord: What meaneth this\ntransgression? Why have you forsaken the Lord the God of Israel,\nbuilding a sacrilegious altar, and revolting from the worship of him?\n\n22:17. Is it a small thing to you that you sinned with Beelphegor, and\nthe stain of that crime remaineth in us to this day? and many of the\npeople perished.\n\n22:18. And you have forsaken the Lord to day, and to morrow his wrath\nwill rage against all Israel.\n\n22:19. But if you think the land of your possession to be unclean, pass\nover to the land wherein is the tabernacle of the Lord, and dwell among\nus: only depart not from the Lord, and from our society, by building an\naltar beside the altar of the Lord our God.\n\n22:20. Did not Achan the son of Zare transgress the commandment of the\nLord, and his wrath lay upon all the people of Israel? And he was but\none man, and would to God he alone had perished in his wickedness.\n\n22:21. And the children of Ruben, and of Gad, and of the half tribe of\nManasses answered the princes of the embassage of Israel:\n\n22:22. The Lord the most mighty God, the Lord the most mighty God, he\nknoweth, and Israel also shall understand: If with the design of\ntransgression we have set up this altar, let him not save us, but\npunish us immediately:\n\n22:23. And if we did it with that mind, that we might lay upon it\nholocausts, and sacrifice, and victims of peace offerings, let him\nrequire and judge:\n\n22:24. And not rather with this thought and design, that we should say:\nTo morrow your children will say to our children: What have you to do\nwith the Lord the God of Israel?\n\n22:25. The Lord hath put the river Jordan for a border between us and\nyou, O ye children of Ruben, and ye children of Gad: and therefore you\nhave no part in the Lord. And by this occasion your children shall turn\naway our children from the fear of the Lord. We therefore thought it\nbest,\n\n22:26. And said: Let us build us an altar, not for holocausts, nor to\noffer victims,\n\n22:27. But for a testimony between us and you, and our posterity and\nyours, that we may serve the Lord, and that we may have a right to\noffer both holocausts, and victims and sacrifices of peace offerings:\nand that your children to morrow may not say to our children: You have\nno part in the Lord.\n\n22:28. And if they will say so, they shall answer them: Behold the\naltar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for holocausts, nor for\nsacrifice, but for a testimony between us and you.\n\n22:29. God keep us from any such wickedness that we should revolt from\nthe Lord, and leave off following his steps, by building an altar to\noffer holocausts, and sacrifices, and victims, beside the altar of the\nLord our God, which is erected before his tabernacle.\n\n22:30. And when Phinees the priest, and the princes of the embassage,\nwho were with him, had heard this, they were satisfied: and they\nadmitted most willingly the words of the children of Ruben, and Gad,\nand of the half tribe of Manasses,\n\n22:31. And Phinees the priest the son of Eleazar said to them: Now we\nknow that the Lord is with us, because you are not guilty of this\nrevolt, and you have delivered the children of Israel from the hand of\nthe Lord.\n\n22:32. And he returned with the princes from the children of Ruben and\nGad, out of the land of Galaad, into the land of Chanaan, to the\nchildren of Israel, and brought them word again.\n\n22:33. And the saying pleased all that heard it. And the children of\nIsrael praised God, and they no longer said that they would go up\nagainst them, and fight, and destroy the land of their possession.\n\n22:34. And the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad called the\naltar which they had built, Our testimony, that the Lord is God,\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 23\n\n\nJosue being old admonisheth the people to keep God's commandments: and\nto avoid marriages and all society with the Gentiles for fear of being\nbrought to idolatry.\n\n23:1. And when a long time was passed, after that the Lord had given\npeace to Israel, all the nations round about being subdued. and Josue\nbeing now old, and far advanced in years:\n\n23:2. Josue called for all Israel, and for the elders, and for the\nprinces, and for the judges, and for the masters, and said to them: I\nam old, and far advanced in years,\n\n23:3. And you see all that the Lord your God hath done to all the\nnations round about, how he himself hath fought for you:\n\n23:4. And now since he hath divided to you by lot all the land, from\nthe east of the Jordan unto the great sea, ant many nations yet remain:\n\n23:5. The Lord your God will destroy them, and take them away from\nbefore your face, and you shall possess the land as he hath promised\nyou.\n\n23:6. Only take courage, and be careful to observe all things that are\nwritten in the book of the law of Moses: and turn not aside from them\nneither to the right hand nor to the left:\n\n23:7. Lest after that you are come in among the Gentiles, who will\nremain among you, you should swear by the name of their gods, and serve\nthem, and adore them:\n\n23:8. But cleave ye unto the Lord your God, as you have done until this\nday.\n\n23:9. And then the Lord God will take away before your eyes nations\nthat are great and very strong, and no man shall be able to resist you.\n\n23:10. One of you shall chase a thousand men of the enemies: because\nthe Lord your God himself will fight for you, as he hath promised.\n\n23:11. This only take care of with all diligence, that you love the\nLord your God.\n\n23:12. But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell\namong you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships:\n\n23:13. Know ye for a certainty that the Lord your God will not destroy\nthem before your face, but they shall be a pit and a snare in your way,\nand a stumbling-block at your side, and stakes in your eyes, till he\ntake you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he\nhath given you.\n\n23:14. Behold this day I am going into the way of all the earth, and\nyou shall know with all your mind that of all the words which the Lord\npromised to perform for you, not one hath failed,\n\n23:15. Therefore as he hath fulfilled in deed, what he promised, and\nall things prosperous have come: so will he bring upon you all the\nevils he hath threatened, till he take you away and destroy you from\noff this excellent land, which he hath given you,\n\n23:16. When you shall have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your\nGod, which he hath made with you, and shall have served strange gods,\nand adored them: then shall the indignation of the Lord rise up quickly\nand speedily against you, and you shall be taken away from this\nexcellent land, which he hath delivered to you.\n\n\n\nJosue Chapter 24\n\n\nJosue assembleth the people, and reneweth the covenant between them and\nGod. His death and burial.\n\n24:1. And Josue gathered together all the tribes of Israel in Sichem,\nand called for the ancients, and the princes and the judges, and the\nmasters: and they stood in the sight of the Lord:\n\n24:2. And he spoke thus to the people: Thus saith the Lord the God of\nIsrael: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river, Thare\nthe father of Abraham, and Nachor: and they served strange gods.\n\nOf the river. . .The Euphrates.\n\n24:3. And I took your father Abraham from the borders of Mesopotamia:\nand brought him into the land of Chanaan: and I multiplied his seed,\n\n24:4. And gave him Isaac: and to him again I gave Jacob and Esau. And I\ngave to Esau mount Seir for his possession: but Jacob and his children\nwent down into Egypt.\n\n24:5. And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt with many signs\nand wonders.\n\n24:6. And I brought you and your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to\nthe sea: and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and\nhorsemen, as far as the Red Sea.\n\n24:7. And the children of Israel cried to the Lord: and he put darkness\nbetween you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and\ncovered them. Your eyes saw all that I did in Egypt, and you dwelt in\nthe wilderness a long time.\n\n24:8. And I brought you into the land of the Amorrhite, who dwelt\nbeyond the Jordan. And when they fought against you, I delivered them\ninto your hands, and you possessed their land, and slew them.\n\n24:9. And Balac son of Sephor king of Moab arose and fought against\nIsrael. And he sent and called for Balaam son of Beor, to curse you:\n\n24:10. And I would not hear him, but on the contrary I blessed you by\nhim, and I delivered you out of his hand.\n\n24:11. And you passed over the Jordan, and you came to Jericho. And the\nmen of that city fought against you, the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite,\nand the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Gergesite, and the Hevite,\nand the Jebusite: and I delivered them into your hands.\n\n24:12. And I sent before you and I drove them out from their places,\nthe two kings of the Amorrhites, not with thy sword nor with thy bow,\n\n24:13. And I gave you a land, in which you had not laboured, and cities\nto dwell in which you built not, vineyards and oliveyards, which you\nplanted not.\n\n24:14. Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with a perfect and\nmost sincere heart: and put away the gods which your fathers served in\nMesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.\n\n24:15. But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your\nchoice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather\nserve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or\nthe gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and\nmy house we will serve thee Lord,\n\n24:16. And the people answered, and said, God forbid we should leave\nthe Lord, and serve strange gods.\n\n24:17. The Lord our God he brought us and our fathers out of the land\nof Egypt, out of the house of bondage: and did very great signs in our\nsight, and preserved us in all the way by which we journeyed, and among\nall the people through whom we passed.\n\n24:18. And he hath cast out all the nations, the Amorrhite the\ninhabitant of the land into which we are come. Therefore we will serve\nthe Lord, for he is our God.\n\n24:19. And Josue said to the people: You will not be able to serve the\nLord: for he is a holy God, and mighty and jealous, and will not\nforgive your wickedness and sins.\n\nYou will not be able to serve the Lord, etc. . .This was not said by way\nof discouraging them; but rather to make them more earnest and\nresolute, by setting before them the greatness of the undertaking, and\nthe courage and constancy necessary to go through with it.\n\n24:20. If you leave the Lord, and serve strange gods, he will turn, and\nwill afflict you, and will destroy you after all the good he hath done\nyou.\n\n24:21. And the people said to Josue: No, it shall not be so as thou\nsayest, but we will serve the Lord.\n\n24:22. And Josue said to the people, You are witnesses, that you\nyourselves have chosen you the Lord to serve him. And they answered: We\nare witnesses.\n\n24:23. Now therefore, said he, put away strange gods from among you,\nand incline your hearts to the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n24:24. And the people said to Josue: We will serve the Lord our God,\nand we will be obedient to his commandments.\n\n24:25. Josue therefore on that day made a covenant, and set before the\npeople commandments and judgments in Sichem.\n\n24:26. And he wrote all these things in the volume of the law of the\nLord: and he took a great stone, and set it under the oak that was in\nthe sanctuary of the Lord.\n\n24:27. And he said to all the people: Behold this stone shall be a\ntestimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which\nhe hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie\nto the Lord your God.\n\nIt hath heard. . .This is a figure of speech, by which sensation is\nattributed to inanimate things; and they are called upon, as it were,\nto bear witness in favour of the great Creator, whom they on their part\nconstantly obey.\n\n24:28. And he sent the people away every one to their own possession,\n\n24:29. And after these things Josue the son of Nun the servant of the\nLord died, being a hundred and ten years old:\n\nAnd after, etc. . .If Josue wrote this book, as is commonly believed,\nthese last verses were added by Samuel, or some other prophet.\n\n24:30. And they buried him in the border of his possession in\nThamnathsare, which is situate in mount Ephraim, on the north side of\nmount Gaas.\n\n24:31. And Israel served the Lord all the days of Josue, and of the\nancients that lived a long time after Josue, and that had known all the\nworks of the Lord which he had done in Israel.\n\n24:32. And the bones of Joseph which the children of Israel had taken\nout of Egypt, they buried in Sichem, in that part of the field which\nJacob had bought of the sons of Hemor the father of Sichem, for a\nhundred young ewes, and it was in the possession of the sons of Joseph.\n\n24:33. Eleazar also the son of Aaron died: and they buried him in\nGabaath that belongeth to Phinees his son, which was given him in mount\nEphraim.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF JUDGES\n\n\n\nThis Book is called JUDGES, because it contains the history of what\npassed under the government of the judges, who ruled Israel before they\nhad kings. The writer of it, according to the more general opinion, was\nthe prophet Samuel.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 1\n\n\nThe expedition and victory of Juda against the Chanaanites: who are\ntolerated in many places.\n\n1:1. After the death of Josue, the children of Israel consulted the\nLord, saying: Who shall go up before us against the Chanaanite, and\nshall be the leader of the war?\n\n1:2. And the Lord said: Juda shall go up: behold I have delivered the\nland into his hands.\n\n1:3. And Juda said to Simeon, his brother: Come up with me into my lot,\nand fight against the Chanaanite, that I also may go along with thee\ninto thy lot. And Simeon went with him.\n\n1:4. And Juda went up, and the Lord delivered the Chanaanite, and the\nPherezite into their hands: and they slew of them in Bezec ten thousand\nmen.\n\n1:5. And they found Adonibezec in Bezec, and fought against him, and\nthey defeated the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite.\n\n1:6. And Adonibezec fled: and they pursued after him and took him, and\ncut off his fingers and toes.\n\n1:7. And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings, having their fingers and toes\ncut off, gathered up the leavings of the meat under my table: as I have\ndone, so hath God requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and\nhe died there.\n\n1:8. And the children of Juda besieging Jerusalem, took it, and put it\nto the sword, and set the whole city on fire.\n\nJerusalem. . .This city was divided into two; one part was called Jebus,\nthe other Salem: the one was in the tribe of Juda, the other in the\ntribe of Benjamin. After it was taken and burnt by the men of Juda, it\nwas quickly rebuilt again by the Jebusites, as we may gather from ver.\n21; and continued in their possession till it was taken by king David.\n\n1:9. And afterwards they went down and fought against the Chanaanite,\nwho dwelt in the mountains, and in the south, and in the plains.\n\n1:10. And Juda going forward against the Chanaanite, that dwelt in\nHebron, (the name whereof was in former times Cariath-Arbe) slew Sesai,\nand Ahiman, and Tholmai:\n\nHebron. . .This expedition against Hebron, etc. is the same as is\nrelated, Jos. 15.24. It is here repeated, to give the reader at once a\nshort sketch of all the achievements of the tribe of Juda against the\nChanaanites.\n\n1:11. And departing from thence, he went to the inhabitants of Dabir,\nthe ancient name of which was Cariath-Sepher, that is, the city of\nletters.\n\nThe city of letters. . .Perhaps so called from some famous school, or\nlibrary, kept there.\n\n1:12. And Caleb said: He that shall take Cariath-Sepher, and lay it\nwaste, to him will I give my daughter Axa to wife.\n\n1:13. And Othoniel, the son of Cenez, the younger brother of Caleb,\nhaving taken it, he gave him Axa his daughter to wife.\n\n1:14. And as she was going on her way, her husband admonished her to\nask a field of her father. And as she sighed sitting on her ass, Caleb\nsaid to her: What aileth thee?\n\n1:15. But she answered: Give me a blessing, for thou hast given me a\ndry land: give me also a watery land So Caleb gave her the upper and\nthe nether watery ground.\n\n1:16. And the children of the Cinite, the kinsman of Moses, went up\nfrom the city of palms, with the children of Juda, into the wilderness\nof his lot, which is at the south side of Arad, and they dwelt with\nhim.\n\nThe Cinite. . .Jethro the father in law of Moses was called Cinoeus, or\nthe Cinite; and his children who came along with the children of Israel\nsettled themselves among them in the land of Chanaan, embracing their\nworship and religion. From these the Rechabites sprung, of whom see\nJer. 35.--Ibid. The city of palms. . .Jericho, so called from the\nabundance of palm trees.\n\n1:17. And Juda went with Simeon, his brother, and they together\ndefeated the Chanaanites that dwelt in Sephaath, and slew them. And the\nname of the city was called Horma, that is, Anathema.\n\n1:18. And Juda took Gaza, with its confines, and Ascalon, and Accaron,\nwith their confines.\n\nGaza, etc. . .These were three of the principal cities of the\nPhilistines, famous both in sacred and profane history. They were taken\nat this time by the Israelites: but as they took no care to put\ngarrisons in them, the Philistines soon recovered them.\n\n1:19. And the Lord was with Juda, and he possessed the hill country:\nbut was not able to destroy the inhabitants of the valley, because they\nhad many chariots armed with scythes.\n\nWas not able, etc. . .Through a cowardly fear of their chariots armed\nwith hooks and scythes, and for want of confidence in God.\n\n1:20. And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, who destroyed\nout of it the three sons of Enac.\n\n1:21. But the sons of Benjamin did not destroy the Jebusites that\ninhabited Jerusalem: and the Jebusite hath dwelt with the sons of\nBenjamin in Jerusalem until this present day.\n\n1:22. The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the Lord was\nwith them.\n\n1:23. For when they were besieging the city, which before was called\nLuza,\n\n1:24. They saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him: Shew\nus the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.\n\n1:25. And when he had shewed them, they smote the city with the edge of\nthe sword: but that man, and all his kindred, they let go:\n\n1:26. Who being sent away, went into the land of Hetthim, and built\nthere a city, and called it Luza: which is so called until this day.\n\n1:27. Manasses also did not destroy Bethsan, and Thanac, with their\nvillages; nor the inhabitants of Dor, and Jeblaam, and Mageddo, with\ntheir villages. And the Chanaanite began to dwell with them.\n\n1:28. But after Israel was grown strong, he made them tributaries, and\nwould not destroy them.\n\n1:29. Ephraim also did not slay the Chanaanite that dwelt in Gazer, bnt\ndwelt with him.\n\n1:30. Zabulon destroyed not the inhabitants of Cetron, and Naalol: but\nthe Chanaanite dwelt among them, and became their tributary.\n\n1:31. Aser also destroyed not the inhabitants of Accho, and of Sidon,\nof Ahalab, and of Achazib, and of Helba, and of Aphec, and of Rohob:\n\n1:32. And he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites, the inhabitants of\nthat land, and did not slay them.\n\n1:33. Nephthali also destroyed not the inhabitants of Bethsames, and of\nBethanath: and he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites, the\ninhabitants of the land, and the Bethsamites and Bethanites were\ntributaries to him.\n\n1:34. And the Amorrhite straitened the children of Dan in the mountain,\nand gave them not a place to go down to the plain:\n\n1:35. And he dwelt in the mountain Hares, that is, of potsherds, in\nAialon and Salebim. And the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy upon\nhim, and he became tributary to him.\n\nHe dwelt. . .That is, the Amorrhite.\n\n1:36. And the border of the Amorrhite was from the ascent of the\nscorpion, the rock, and the higher places.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 2\n\n\nAn angel reproveth Israel. They weep for their sins. After the death of\nJosue, they often fall, and repenting are delivered from their\nafflictions, but still fall worse and worse.\n\n2:1. And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the place of\nweepers, and said: I made you go out of Egypt, and have brought you\ninto the land for which I swore to your fathers: and I promised that I\nwould not make void my covenant with you for ever:\n\nAn angel. . .Taking the shape of a man.\n\n2:2. On condition that you should not make a league with the\ninhabitants of this land, but should throw down their altars: and you\nwould not hear my voice: why have you done this?\n\n2:3. Wherefore I would not destroy them from before your face; that you\nmay have enemies, and their gods may be your ruin.\n\n2:4. And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the\nchildren of Israel: they lifted up their voice, and wept.\n\n2:5. And the name of that place was called, The place of weepers, or of\ntears: and there they offered sacrifices to the Lord.\n\n2:6. And Josue sent away the people, and the children of Israel went\nevery one to his own possession to hold it:\n\nAnd Josue, etc. . .This is here inserted out of Jos. 24, by way of\nrecapitulation of what had happened before, and by way of an\nintroduction to that which follows.\n\n2:7. And they served the Lord all his days, and the days of the\nancients, that lived a long time after him, and who knew all the works\nof the Lord, which he had done for Israel.\n\n2:8. And Josue, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being a\nhundred and ten years old;\n\n2:9. And they buried him in the borders of his possession in\nThamnathsare, in Mount Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaas.\n\n2:10. And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there\narose others that knew not the Lord and the works which he had done for\nIsrael.\n\n2:11. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and\nthey served Baalim\n\n2:12. And they left the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought\nthem out of the land of Egypt: and they followed strange gods, and the\ngods of the people that dwelt round about them, and they adored them:\nand they provoked the Lord to anger,\n\nThey followed strange gods. . .What is here said of the children of\nIsrael, as to their falling so often into idolatry, is to be understood\nof a great part of them; but not so universally, as if the true worship\nof God was ever quite abolished among them: for the succession of the\ntrue church and religion was kept up all this time by the priests and\nLevites, at least in the house of God in Silo.\n\n2:13. Forsaking him, and serving Baal and Astaroth\n\n2:14. And the Lord being angry against Israel, delivered them into the\nhands of plunderers: who took them and sold them to their enemies, that\ndwelt round about: neither could they stand against their enemies:\n\n2:15. But whithersoever they meant to go, the hand of the Lord was upon\nthem, as he had said, and as he had sworn to them: and they were\ngreatly distressed.\n\n2:16. And the Lord raised up judges, to deliver them from the hands of\nthose that oppressed them: but they would not hearken to them,\n\n2:17. Committing fornication with strange gods, and adoring them. They\nquickly forsook the way, in which their fathers had walked: and hearing\nthe commandments of the Lord, they did all things contrary.\n\n2:18. And when the Lord raised them up judges, in their days, he was\nmoved to mercy, and heard the groanings of the afflicted, and delivered\nthem from the slaughter of the oppressors.\n\n2:19. But after the judge was dead, they returned, and did much worse\nthings than their fathers had done, following strange gods, serving\nthem, and adoring them. They left not their own inventions, and the\nstubborn way, by which they were accustomed to walk.\n\n2:20. And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he\nsaid: Behold this nation hath made void my covenant, which I had made\nwith their fathers, and hath despised to hearken to my voice:\n\n2:21. I also will not destroy the nations which Josue left when he\ndied:\n\n2:22. That through them I may try Israel, whether they will keep the\nway of the Lord, and walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.\n\n2:23. The Lord therefore left all these nations, and would not quickly\ndestroy them, neither did he deliver them into the hands of Josue.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 3\n\n\nThe people falling into idolatry are oppressed by their enemies; but\nrepenting are delivered by Othoniel, Aod, and Samgar.\n\n3:1. These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might\ninstruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the\nChanaanites:\n\n3:2. That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their\nenemies, and to be trained up to war:\n\n3:3. The five princes of the Philistines, and all the Chanaanites, and\nthe Sidonians, and the Hevites that dwelt in Mount Libanus, from Mount\nBaal Hermon to the entering into Emath.\n\n3:4. And he left them, that he might try Israel by them, whether they\nwould hear the commandments of the Lord, which he had commanded their\nfathers, by the hand of Moses, or not.\n\n3:5. So the children of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanite,\nand the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite,\nand the Jebusite:\n\n3:6. And they took their daughters to wives, and they gave their own\ndaughters to their sons, and they served their gods.\n\n3:7. And they did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they forgot their\nGod, and served Baalim and Astaroth.\n\n3:8. And the Lord being angry with Israel, delivered them into the\nhands of Chusan Rasathaim, king of Mesopotamia, and they served him\neight years.\n\nMesopotamia. . .In Hebrew Aramnaharim. Syria of the two rivers: so\ncalled because it lies between the Euphrates and the Tigris. It is\nabsolutely called Syria, ver. 10.\n\n3:9. And they cried to the Lord, who raised them up a saviour, and\ndelivered them; to wit, Othoniel, the son of Cenez, the younger brother\nof Caleb:\n\n3:10. And the spirit of the Lord was in him, and he judged Israel. And\nhe went out to fight, and the Lord delivered Chusan Rasathaim, king of\nSyria, and he overthrew him:\n\n3:11. And the land rested forty years, and Othoniel, the son of Cenez,\ndied.\n\n3:12. And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the\nLord: who strengthened against them Eglon, king of Moab: because they\ndid evil in his sight.\n\n3:13. And he joined to him the children of Ammon, and Amalec: and he\nwent and overthrew Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.\n\n3:14. And the children of Israel served Eglon, king of Moab, eighteen\nyears.\n\n3:15. And afterwards they cried to the Lord, who raised them up a\nsaviour, called Aod, the son of Cera, the son of Jemini, who used the\nleft hand as well as the right. And the children of Israel sent\npresents to Eglon, king of Moab, by him.\n\n3:16. And he made himself a two-edged sword, with a haft in the midst\nof the length of the palm of the hand, and was girded therewith, under\nhis garment, on the right thigh.\n\n3:17. And he presented the gifts to Eglon, king of Moab Now Eglon was\nexceeding fat.\n\n3:18. And when he had presented the gifts unto him he followed his\ncompanions that came along with him.\n\n3:19. Then returning from Galgal, where the idols were, he said to the\nking: I have a secret message to thee, O king. And he commanded\nsilence: and all being gone out that were about him,\n\n3:20. Aod went in to him: now he was sitting in a summer parlour alone,\nand he said: I have a word from God to thee. And he forthwith rose up\nfrom his throne.\n\nA word from God, etc. . .What Aod, who was judge and chief magistrate of\nIsrael, did on this occasion, was by a special inspiration of God: but\nsuch things are not to be imitated by private men.\n\n3:21. And Aod put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his\nright thigh, and thrust it into his belly,\n\n3:22. With such force that the haft went in after the blade into the\nwound, and was closed up with the abundance of fat. So that he did not\ndraw out the dagger, but left it in the body as he had struck it in:\nand forthwith, by the secret parts of nature, the excrements of the\nbelly came out.\n\n3:23. And Aod carefully shutting the doors of the parlour, and locking\nthem,\n\n3:24. Went out by a postern door. And the king's servants going in, saw\nthe doors of the parlour shut, and they said: Perhaps he is easing\nnature in his summer parlour.\n\n3:25. And waiting a long time, till they were ashamed, and seeing that\nno man opened the door, they took a key: and opening, they found their\nlord lying dead on the ground.\n\n3:26. But Aod, while they were in confusion, escaped, and passed by the\nplace of the idols from whence he had returned. And he came to Seirath:\n\n3:27. And forthwith he sounded the trumpet in Mount Ephraim: and the\nchildren of Israel went down with him, he himself going in the front.\n\n3:28. And he said to them: Follow me: for the Lord hath delivered our\nenemies, the Moabites, into our hands. And they went down after him,\nand seized upon the fords of the Jordan, which are in the way to Moab:\nand they suffered no man to pass over:\n\n3:29. But they slew of the Moabites at that time, about ten thousand,\nall strong and valiant men: none of them could escape.\n\n3:30. And Moab was humbled that day under the hand of Israel: and the\nland rested eighty years.\n\n3:31. After him was Samgar, the son of Anath, who slew of the\nPhilistines six hundred men with a ploughshare: and he also defended\nIsrael.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 4\n\n\nDebbora and Barac deliver Israel from Jabin and Sisara, Jahal killeth\nSisara.\n\n4:1. And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord\nafter the death of Aod:\n\n4:2. And the Lord delivered them up into the hands of Jabin, king of\nChanaan, who reigned in Asor: and he had a general of his army named\nSisara, and he dwelt in Haroseth of the Gentiles.\n\n4:3. And the children of Israel cried to the Lord: for he had nine\nhundred chariots set with scythes and for twenty years had grievously\noppressed them.\n\n4:4. And there was at that time Debbora, a prophetess, the wife of\nLapidoth, who judged the people.\n\n4:5. And she sat under a palm tree, which was called by her name,\nbetween Rama and Bethel, in Mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel\ncame up to her for all judgment.\n\n4:6. And she sent and called Barac, the Son of Abinoem, out of Cedes,\nin Nephthali: and she said to him: The Lord God of Israel hath\ncommanded thee: Go, and lead an army to Mount Thabor, and thou shalt\ntake with thee ten thousand fighting men of the children of Nephthali,\nand of the children of Zabulon:\n\n4:7. And I will bring unto thee in the place of the torrent Cison,\nSisara, the general of Jabin's army, and his chariots, and all his\nmultitude, and will deliver them into thy hand.\n\n4:8. And Barac said to her: If thou wilt come with me, I will go: if\nthou wilt not come with me, I will not go.\n\n4:9. She said to him: I will go, indeed, with thee, but at this time\nthe victory shall not be attributed to thee, because Sisara shall be\ndelivered into the hand of a woman. Debbora therefore arose, and went\nwith Barac to Cedes.\n\n4:10. And he called unto him Zabulon and Nephthali, and went up with\nten thousand fighting men, having Debbora in his company.\n\n4:11. Now Haber, the Cinite, had some time before departed from the\nrest of the Cinites, his brethren, the sons of Hobab, the kinsman of\nMoses: and had pitched his tents unto the valley, which is called\nSennim, and was near Cedes.\n\n4:12. And it was told Sisara, that Barac, the son of Abinoem, was gone\nup to Mount Thabor:\n\n4:13. And he gathered together his nine hundred chariots armed with\nscythes, and all his army, from Haroseth of the Gentiles, to the\ntorrent Cison.\n\n4:14. And Debbora said to Barac: Arise, for this is the day wherein the\nLord hath delivered Sisara into thy hands: behold, he is thy leader.\nAnd Barac went down from Mount Thabor, and ten thousand fighting men\nwith him.\n\n4:15. And the Lord struck a terror into Sisara, and all his chariots,\nand all his multitude, with the edge of the sword, at the sight of\nBarac; insomuch, that Sisara leaping down from off his chariot, fled\naway on foot,\n\n4:16. And Barac pursued after the fleeing chariots, and the army, unto\nHaroseth of the Gentiles; and all the multitude of the enemies was\nutterly destroyed.\n\n4:17. But Sisara fleeing, came to the tent of Jahel, the wife of Haber,\nthe Cinite, for there was peace between Jabin, the king of Asor, and\nthe house of Haber, the Cinite.\n\n4:18. And Jahel went forth to meet Sisara, and said to him: Come in to\nme, my lord; come in, fear not. He went into her tent, and being\ncovered by her with a cloak,\n\n4:19. Said to her: Give me, I beseech thee, a little water, for I am\nvery thirsty. She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him to drink, and\ncovered him.\n\n4:20. And Sisara said to her: Stand before the door of the tent, and\nwhen any shall come and inquire of thee, saying: Is there any man here?\nthou shalt say: There is none.\n\n4:21. So Jahel, Haber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and taking also\na hammer: and going in softly, and with silence, she put the nail upon\nthe temples of his head, and striking it with the hammer, drove it\nthrough his brain fast into the ground: and so passing from deep sleep\nto death, he fainted away and died.\n\n4:22. And behold, Barac came pursuing after Sisara: and Jahel went out\nto meet him, and said to him: Come, and I will shew thee the man whom\nthou seekest. And when he came into her tent, he saw Sisara lying dead,\nand the nail fastened in his temples.\n\n4:23. So God that day humbled Jabin, the king of Chanaan, before the\nchildren of Israel:\n\n4:24. Who grew daily stronger, and with a mighty hand overpowered\nJabin, king of Chanaan, till they quite destroyed him.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 5\n\n\nThe canticle of Debbora and Barac after their victory.\n\n5:1. In that day Debbora and Barac, son of Abinoem, sung, and said:\n\n5:2. O you of Israel, that have willingly offered your lives to danger,\nbless the Lord.\n\n5:3. Hear, O ye kings, give ear, O ye princes: It is I, it is I, that\nwill sing to the Lord, I will sing to the Lord, the God of Israel.\n\n5:4. O Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, and passedst by the regions\nof Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens and clouds dropped water.\n\n5:5. The mountains melted before the face of the Lord, and Sinai before\nthe face of the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n5:6. In the days of Samgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jahel, the\npaths rested: and they that went by them, walked through bye-ways.\n\nThe paths rested. . .The ways to the sanctuary of God were unfrequented:\nand men walked in the by-ways of error and sin.\n\n5:7. The valiant men ceased, and rested in Israel: until Debbora arose,\na mother arose in Israel.\n\n5:8. The Lord chose new wars, and he himself overthrew the gates of the\nenemies: a shield and spear was not seen among forty thousand of\nIsrael.\n\n5:9. My heart loveth the princes of Israel: O you, that of your own\ngood will offered yourselves to danger, bless the Lord.\n\n5:10. Speak, you that ride upon fair asses, and you that sit in\njudgment, and walk in the way.\n\n5:11. Where the chariots were dashed together, and the army of the\nenemies was choked, there let the justices of the Lord be rehearsed,\nand his clemency towards the brave men of Israel: then the people of\nthe Lord went down to the gates, and obtained the sovereignty.\n\n5:12. Arise, arise, O Debbora, arise, arise, and utter a canticle.\nArise, Barac, and take hold of thy captives, O son of Abinoem.\n\n5:13. The remnants of the people are saved, the Lord hath fought among\nthe valiant ones.\n\n5:14. Out of Ephraim he destroyed them into Amalec, and after him out\nof Benjamin into thy people, O Amalec: Out of Machir there came down\nprinces, and out of Zabulon they that led the army to fight.\n\nOut of Ephraim, etc. . .The enemies straggling in their flight were\ndestroyed, as they were running through the land of Ephraim, and of\nBenjamin, which lies after, that is beyond Ephraim: and so on to the\nvery confines of Amalec. Or, it alludes to former victories of the\npeople of God, particularly that which was freshest in memory, when the\nmen of Ephraim and Benjamin, with Aod at their head, overthrew their\nenemies the Moabites with the Amalecites their allies. See chap.\n3.--Ibid. Machir. . .The tribe of Manasses, whose eldest son was Machir.\n\n5:15. The captains of Issachar were with Debbora, and followed the\nsteps of Barac, who exposed himself to danger, as one going headlong,\nand into a pit. Ruben being divided against himself, there was found a\nstrife of courageous men.\n\nDivided against himself, etc. . .By this it seems that the valient men\nof the tribe of Ruben were divided in their sentiments, with relation\nto this war; which division kept them at home within their own borders,\nto hear the bleating of their flocks.\n\n5:16. Why dwellest thou between two borders, that thou mayst hear the\nbleatings of the flocks? Ruben being divided against himself, there was\nfound a strife of courageous men.\n\n5:17. Galaad rested beyond the Jordan, and Dan applied himself to\nships: Aser dwelt on the sea shore, and abode in the havens.\n\n5:18. But Zabulon and Nephthali offered their lives to death in the\nregion of Merome.\n\n5:19. The kings came and fought, the kings of Chanaan fought in Thanac,\nby the waters of Mageddo and yet they took no spoils.\n\n5:20. There was war made against them from heaven: the stars, remaining\nin their order and courses, fought against Sisara.\n\n5:21. The torrent of Cison dragged their carcasses, the torrent of\nCadumim, the torrent of Cison: tread thou, my soul, upon the strong\nones.\n\n5:22. The hoofs of the horses were broken whilst the stoutest of the\nenemies fled amain, and fell headlong down.\n\n5:23. Curse ye the land of Meroz, said the angel of the Lord: curse the\ninhabitants thereof, because they came not to the help of the Lord, to\nhelp his most valiant men.\n\nMeroz. . .Where this land of Meroz was, which is here laid under a\ncurse, we cannot find: nor is there mention of it anywhere else in holy\nwrit. In the spiritual sense, they are cursed who refuse to assist the\npeople of God in their warfare against their spiritual enemies.\n\n5:24. Blessed among women be Jahel, the wife of Haber the Cinite, and\nblessed be she in her tent.\n\n5:25. He asked her water, and she gave him milk, and offered him butter\nin a dish fit for princes.\n\n5:26. She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the\nworkman's hammer, and she struck Sisara, seeking in his head a place\nfor the wound, and strongly piercing through his temples.\n\n5:27. Between her feet he fell: he fainted, and he died: he rolled\nbefore her feet, and there he lay lifeless and wretched.\n\n5:28. His mother looked out at a window, and howled: and she spoke from\nthe dining room: Why is his chariot so long in coming back? Why are the\nfeet of his horses so slow?\n\n5:29. One that was wiser than the rest of his wives, returned this\nanswer to her mother in law:\n\n5:30. Perhaps he is now dividing the spoils, and the fairest of the\nwomen is chosen out for him: garments of divers colours are given to\nSisara for his prey, and furniture of different kinds is heaped\ntogether to adorn necks.\n\n5:31. So let all thy enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love\nthee shine, as the sun shineth in his rising.\n\n5:32. And the land rested for forty years.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 6\n\n\nThe people for their sins, are oppressed by the Madianites. Gedeon is\ncalled to deliver them.\n\n6:1. And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the\nLord: and he delivered them into the hand of Madian seven years,\n\n6:2. And they were grievously oppressed by them. And they made\nthemselves dens and caves in the mountains, and strong holds to resist.\n\n6:3. And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the\neastern nations, came up:\n\n6:4. And pitching their tents among them, wasted all things as they\nwere in the blade, even to the entrance of Gaza: and they left nothing\nat all in Israel for sustenance of life, nor sheep, nor oxen, nor\nasses.\n\n6:5. For they and all their flocks came with their tents, and like\nlocusts filled all places, an innumerable multitude of men, and of\ncamels, wasting whatsoever they touched.\n\n6:6. And Israel was humbled exceedingly in the sight of Madian.\n\n6:7. And he cried to the Lord, desiring help against the Madianites.\n\n6:8. And he sent unto them a prophet, and he spoke: Thus saith the\nLord, the God of Israel: I made you to come up out of Egypt, and\nbrought you out of the house of bondage,\n\n6:9. And delivered you out of the hands of the Egyptians, and of all\nthe enemies that afflicted you: and I cast them out at your coming in,\nand gave you their land.\n\n6:10. And I said: I am the Lord your God, fear not the gods of the\nAmorrhites, in whose land you dwell. And you would not hear my voice.\n\n6:11. And an angel of the Lord came, and sat under an oak that was in\nEphra, and belonged to Joas, the father of the family of Ezri. And when\nGedeon, his son, was threshing and cleansing wheat by the winepress, to\nflee from Madian,\n\n6:12. The angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said: The Lord is with\nthee, O most valiant of men.\n\n6:13. And Gedeon said to him: I beseech thee, my lord, if the Lord be\nwith us, why have these evils fallen upon us? Where are his miracles,\nwhich our fathers have told us of, saying: The Lord brought us out of\nEgypt but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hand\nof Madian.\n\n6:14. And the Lord looked upon him, and said: Go, in this thy strength,\nand thou shalt deliver Israel out of the hand of Madian: know that I\nhave sent thee.\n\n6:15. He answered, and said: I beseech thee, my lord wherewith shall I\ndeliver Israel? Behold, my family is the meanest in Manasses, and I am\nthe least in my father's house.\n\nThe meanest in Manasses, etc. . .Mark how the Lord chooseth the humble\n(who are mean and little in their own eyes) for the greatest\nenterprises.\n\n6:16. And the Lord said to him: I will be with thee: and thou shalt cut\noff Madian as one man.\n\n6:17. And he said: If I have found grace before thee, give me a sign\nthat it is thou that speakest to me:\n\n6:18. And depart not hence, till I return to thee, and bring a\nsacrifice, and offer it to thee. And he answered: I will wait thy\ncoming.\n\n6:19. So Gedeon went in, and boiled a kid, and made unleavened loaves\nof a measure of flour: and putting the flesh in a basket, and the broth\nof the flesh into a pot, he carried all under the oak, and presented to\nhim.\n\n6:20. And the angel of the Lord said to him: Take the flesh and the\nunleavened loaves, and lay them upon that rock, and pour out the broth\nthereon. And when he had done so,\n\n6:21. The angel of the Lord put forth the tip of the rod, which he held\nin his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened loaves: and there\narose a fire from the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened\nloaves: and the angel of the Lord vanished out of his sight.\n\n6:22. And Gedeon seeing that it was the angel of the Lord, said: Alas,\nmy Lord God: for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.\n\n6:23. And the Lord said to him: Peace be with thee: fear not, thou\nshalt not die.\n\n6:24. And Gedeon built there an altar to the Lord, and called it the\nLord's peace, until this present day. And when he was yet in Ephra,\nwhich is of the family of Ezri,\n\n6:25. That night the Lord said to him: Take a bullock of thy father's,\nand another bullock of seven years, and thou shalt destroy the altar of\nBaal, which is thy father's: and cut down the grove that is about the\naltar:\n\n6:26. And thou shalt build un altar to the Lord thy God, in the top of\nthis rock, whereupon thou didst lay the sacrifice before: and thou\nshalt take the second bullock, and shalt offer a holocaust upon a pile\nof the wood, which thou shalt cut down out of the grove.\n\n6:27. Then Gedeon, taking ten men of his servants, did as the Lord had\ncommanded him. But fearing his father's house, and the men of that\ncity, he would not do it by day, but did all by night.\n\n6:28. And when the men of that town were risen in the morning, they saw\nthe altar of Baal destroyed, and the grove cut down, and the second\nbullock laid upon the altar, which then was built.\n\n6:29. And they said one to another: Who hath done this? And when they\ninquired for the author of the fact, it was said: Gedeon, the son of\nJoas, did all this.\n\n6:30. And they said to Joas: Bring out thy son hither, that he may die:\nbecause he hath destroyed the altar of Baal, and hath cut down his\ngrove.\n\n6:31. He answered them: Are you the avengers of Baal, that you fight\nfor him? he that is his adversary, let him die before to morrow light\nappear: if he be a god, let him revenge himself on him that hath cast\ndown his altar.\n\n6:32. From that day Gedeon was called Jerobaal, because Joas had said:\nLet Baal revenge himself on him that hath cast down his altar.\n\n6:33. Now all Madian, and Amalec, and the eastern people, were gathered\ntogether, and passing over the Jordan, camped in the valley of Jezrael.\n\n6:34. But the spirit of the Lord came upon Gedeon, and he sounded the\ntrumpet, and called together the house of Abiezer, to follow him.\n\n6:35. And he sent messengers into all Manasses, and they also followed\nhim : and other messengers into Aser and Zabulon, and Nephthali, and\nthey came to meet him.\n\n6:36. And Gedeon said to God: If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as\nthou hast said,\n\n6:37. I will put this fleece of wool on the floor: if there be dew in\nthe fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground beside, I shall know\nthat by my hand, as thou hast said, thou wilt deliver Israel.\n\n6:38. And it was so. And rising before day, wringing the fleece, he\nfilled a vessel with the dew.\n\n6:39. And he said again to God: Let not thy wrath be kindled against\nme, if I try once more, seeking a sign in the fleece. I pray that the\nfleece only may be dry, and all the ground wet with dew.\n\n6:40. And God did that night as he had requested: and it was dry on the\nfleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 7\n\n\nGedeon, with three hundred men, by stratagem defeateth the Madianites.\n\n7:1. Then Jerobaal, who is the same as Gedeon, rising up early, and all\nthe people with him, came to the fountain that is called Harad. Now the\ncamp of Madian was in the valley, on the north side of the high hill.\n\n7:2. And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people that are with thee are\nmany, and Madian shall not be delivered into their hands: lest Israel\nshould glory against me, and say: I was delivered by my own strength.\n\nLest Israel, etc. . .By this we see that God will not choose for his\ninstruments in great achievements, which depend purely on his grace,\nsuch as, through pride and self conceit, will take the glory to\nthemselves.\n\n7:3. Speak to the people, and proclaim in the hearing of all: Whosoever\nis fearful and timorous, let him return. So two and twenty thousand men\nwent away from Mount Galaad and returned home, and only ten thousand\nremained.\n\n7:4. And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people are still too many, bring\nthem to the waters, and there I will try them: and of whom I shall say\nto thee, This shall go with thee, let him go: whom I shall forbid to\ngo, let him return.\n\n7:5. And when the people were come down to the waters, the Lord said to\nGedeon: They that shall lap the water with their tongues, as dogs are\nwont to lap, thou shalt set apart by themselves: but they that shall\ndrink bowing down their knees, shall be on the other side.\n\n7:6. And the number of them that had lapped water; casting it with the\nhand to their mouth, was three hundred men: and all the rest of the\nmultitude had drunk kneeling.\n\n7:7. And the Lord said to Gedeon: By the three hundred men, that lapped\nwater, I will save you, and deliver Madian into thy hand: but let all\nthe rest of the people return to their place.\n\nThat lapped water. . .These were preferred that took the water up in\ntheir hands, and so lapped it, before them who laid themselves quite\ndown to the waters to drink: which argued a more eager and sensual\ndisposition.\n\n7:8. So taking victuals and trumpets according to their number, he\nordered all the rest of the multitude to depart to their tents: and he\nwith the three hundred gave himself to the battle. Now the camp of\nMadia was beneath him in the valley.\n\n7:9. The same night the Lord said to him: Arise, and go down into the\ncamp: because I have delivered them into thy hand.\n\n7:10. But if thou be afraid to go alone, let Phara, thy servant, go\ndown with thee.\n\n7:11. And when thou shalt hear what they are saying, then shall thy\nhands be strengthened, and thou shalt go down more secure to the\nenemies' camp. And he went down with Phara his servant, into part of\nthe camp, where was the watch of men in arms.\n\n7:12. But Madian and Amalec, and all the eastern people, lay scattered\nin the valley, as a multitude of locusts: their camels also were\ninnumerable, as the sand that lieth on the sea shore.\n\n7:13. And when Gedeon was come, one told his neighbour a dream: and in\nthis manner related what he had seen: I dreamt a dream, and it seemed\nto me as if a hearth cake of barley bread rolled and came down into the\ncamp of Madian: and when it was come to a tent, it struck it, and beat\nit down flat to the ground.\n\nA dream. . .Observation of dreams is commonly superstitious, and as such\nis condemned in the word of God: but in some extraordinary cases, as we\nhere see, God is pleased by dreams to foretell what he is about to do.\n\n7:14. He to whom he spoke, answered: This is nothing else but the sword\nof Gedeon, the son of Joas, a man of Israel. For the Lord hath\ndelivered Madian, and all their camp into his hand.\n\n7:15. And when Gedeon had heard the dream, and the interpretation\nthereof, he adored: and returned to the camp of Israel, and said:\nArise, for the Lord hath delivered the camp of Madian into our hands.\n\n7:16. And he divided the three hundred men into three parts, and gave\nthem trumpets in their hands, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the\npitchers.\n\n7:17. And he said to them: What you shall see me do, do you the same: I\nwill go into one part of the camp, and do you as I shall do.\n\n7:18. When the trumpet shall sound in my hand, do you also blow the\ntrumpets on every side of the camp, and shout together to the Lord and\nto Gedeon.\n\n7:19. And Gedeon, and the three hundred men that were with him, went\ninto part of the camp, at the beginning of the midnight watch, and the\nwatchmen being alarmed, they began to sound their trumpets, and to clap\nthe pitchers one against another.\n\nTheir trumpets, etc. . .In a mystical sense, the preachers of the\ngospel, in order to spiritual conquests, must not only sound with the\ntrumpet of the word of God, but must also break their earthen pitchers,\nby the mortification of the flesh and its passions, and carry lamps in\ntheir hands by the light of their virtues.\n\n7:20. And when they sounded their trumpets in three places round about\nthe camp, and had broken their pitchers, they held their lamps in their\nleft hands, and with their right hands the trumpets which they blew,\nand they cried out: The sword of the Lord and of Gedeon:\n\n7:21. Standing every man in his place round about the enemies' camp. So\nall the camp was troubled, and crying out and howling, they fled away:\n\n7:22. And the three hundred men nevertheless persisted sounding the\ntrumpets. And the Lord sent the sword into all the camp, and they\nkilled one another,\n\n7:23. Fleeing as far as Bethsetta, and the border of Abelmahula, in\nTebbath. But the men of Israel, shouting from Nephthali, and Aser, and\nfrom all Manasses, pursued after Madian.\n\n7:24. And Gedeon sent messengers into all Mount Ephraim, saying: Come\ndown to meet Madian, and take the waters before them to Bethbera and\nthe Jordan. And all Ephraim shouted, and took the waters before them\nand the Jordan as far as Bethbera.\n\n7:25. And having taken two men of Madian, Oreb and Zeb: Oreb they slew\nin the rock of Oreb, and Zeb in the winepress of Zeb. And they pursued\nMadian, carrying the heads of Oreb and Zeb to Gedeon, beyond the waters\nof the Jordan.\n\nTwo men. . .That is, two of their chiefs.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 8\n\n\nGedeon appeaseth the Ephraimites. Taketh Zebee and Salmana. Destroyeth\nSoccoth and Phanuel. Refuseth to be king. Maketh an ephod of the gold\nof the prey, and dieth in a good old age. The people return to\nidolatry.\n\n8:1. And the men of Ephraim said to him: What is this that thou meanest\nto do, that thou wouldst not call us, when thou wentest to fight\nagainst Madian? And they chid him sharply, and almost offered violence.\n\n8:2. And he answered them: What could I have done like to that which\nyou have done? Is not one bunch of grapes of Ephraim better than the\nvintages of Abiezer?\n\nWhat could I, etc. . .A meek and humble answer appeased them; who\notherwise might have come to extremities. So great is the power of\nhumility both with God and man.\n\n8:3. The Lord hath delivered into your hands the princes of Madian,\nOreb and Zeb: what could I have done like to what you have done? And\nwhen he had said this, their spirit was appeased, with which they\nswelled against him.\n\n8:4. And when Gedeon was come to the Jordan, he passed over it with the\nthree hundred men that were with him: who were so weary that they could\nnot pursue after them that fled.\n\n8:5. And he said to the men of Soccoth: Give, I beseech you, bread to\nthe people that is with me, for they are faint: that we may pursue\nZebee, and Salmana, the kings of Madian.\n\n8:6. The princes of Soccoth answered: Peradventure the palms of the\nhands of Zebee and Salmana are in thy hand, and therefore thou\ndemandest that we should give bread to thy army.\n\n8:7. And he said to them: When the Lord therefore shall have delivered\nZebee and Salmana into my hands, I will thresh your flesh with the\nthorns and briers of the desert.\n\n8:8. And going up from thence, he came to Phanuel: and he spoke the\nlike things to the men of that place. And they also answered him, as\nthe men of Soccoth had answered.\n\n8:9. He said, therefore, to them also: When I shall return a conqueror\nin peace, I will destroy this tower.\n\n8:10. But Zebee and Salmana were resting with all their army. For\nfifteen thousand men were left of all the troops of the eastern people,\nand one hundred and twenty thousand warriors that drew the sword were\nslain.\n\n8:11. And Gedeon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents, on the\neast of Nobe and Jegbaa, and smote the camp of the enemies, who were\nsecure, and suspected no hurt.\n\n8:12. And Zebee and Salmana fled, and Gedeon pursued and took them, all\ntheir host being put in confusion.\n\n8:13. And returning from the battle before the sun rising,\n\n8:14. He took a boy of the men of Soccoth: and he asked him the names\nof the princes and ancients of Soccoth, and he described unto him\nseventy-seven men.\n\n8:15. And he came to Soccoth, and said to them: Behold Zebee, and\nSalmana, concerning whom you upbraided me, saying: Peradventure the\nhands of Zebee and Salmana are in thy hands, and therefore thou\ndemandest that we should give bread to the men that are weary and\nfaint.\n\n8:16. So he took the ancients of the city, and thorns and briers of the\ndesert, and tore them with the same, and cut in pieces the men of\nSoccoth.\n\n8:17. And he demolished the tower of Phanuel, and slew the men of the\ncity.\n\n8:18. And he said to Zebee and Salmana: What manner of men were they,\nwhom you slew in Thabor? They answered: They were like thee, and one of\nthem as the son of a king.\n\n8:19. He answered them: They were my brethren, the sons of my mother.\nAs the Lord liveth, if you had saved them, I would not kill you.\n\n8:20. And he said to Jether, his eldest son: Arise, and slay them. But\nhe drew not his sword: for he was afraid, being but yet a boy.\n\n8:21. And Zebee and Salmana said: Do thou rise and run upon us: because\nthe strength of a man is according to his age: Gedeon rose up, and slew\nZebee and Salmana: and he took the ornaments and bosses, with which the\nnecks of the camels of kings are wont to be adorned.\n\n8:22. And all the men of Israel said to Gedeon: Rule thou over us, and\nthy son, and thy son's son: because thou hast delivered us from the\nhand of Madian.\n\n8:23. And he said to them: I will not rule over you, neither shall my\nson rule over you, but the Lord shall rule over you.\n\n8:24. And he said to them: I desire one request of you: Give me the\nearlets of your spoils. For the Ismaelites were accustomed to wear\ngolden earlets.\n\n8:25. They answered: We will give them most willingly. And spreading a\nmantle on the ground, they cast upon it the earlets of the spoils.\n\n8:26. And the weight of the earlets that he requested, was a thousand\nseven hundred sicles of gold, besides the ornaments, and jewels, and\npurple raiment, which the kings of Madian were wont to use, and besides\nthe golden chains that were about the camels necks.\n\n8:27. And Gedeon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city Ephra.\nAnd all Israel committed fornication with it, and it became a ruin to\nGedeon, and to all his house.\n\nAn ephod. . .A priestly garment which Gedeon made with a good design;\nbut the Israelites, after his death, abused it by making it an\ninstrument of their idolatrous worship.\n\n8:28. But Madian was humbled before the children of Israel, neither\ncould they any more lift up their heads: but the land rested for forty\nyears, while Gedeon presided.\n\n8:29. So Jerobaal, the son of Joas, went and dwelt in his own house:\n\n8:30. And he had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had\nmany wives.\n\n8:31. And his concubine, that he had in Sichem, bore him a son, whose\nname was Abimelech.\n\nHis concubine. . .She was his servant, but not his harlot: and is called\nhis concubine, as wives of an inferior degree are commonly called in\nthe Old Testament, though otherwise lawfully married.\n\n8:32. And Gedeon, the son of Joas died in a good old age, and was\nburied in the sepulchre of his father, in Ephra, of the family of Ezri.\n\n8:33. But after Gedeon was dead, the children of Israel turned again,\nand committed fornication with Baalim. And they made a covenant with\nBaal, that he should be their god:\n\n8:34. And they remembered not the Lord their God, who delivered them\nout of the hands of all their enemies round about:\n\n8:35. Neither did they shew mercy to the house of Jerobaal Gedeon,\naccording to all the good things he had done to Israel.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 9\n\n\nAbimelech killeth his brethren. Joatham's parable. Gaal conspireth with\nthe Sichemites against Abimelech, but is overcome. Abimelech destroyeth\nSichem: but is killed at Thebes.\n\n9:1. And Abimelech, the son of Jerobaal, went to Sichem, to his\nmother's brethren, and spoke to them, and to all the kindred of his\nmother's father, saying:\n\n9:2. Speak to all the men of Sichem: whether is better for you that\nseventy men, all the sons of Jerobaal, should rule over you, or that\none man should rule over you? And withal, consider that I am your bone,\nand your flesh.\n\n9:3. And his mother's brethren spoke of him to all the men of Sichem,\nall these words, and they inclined their hearts after Abimelech,\nsaying: He is our brother:\n\n9:4. And they gave him seventy weight of silver out of the temple of\nBaalberith: wherewith he hired to himself men that were needy, and\nvagabonds, and they followed him.\n\nBaalberith. . .That is, Baal of the covenant, so called from the\ncovenant they had made with Baal, chap. 8.33.\n\n9:5. And he came to his father's house in Ephra, and slew his brethren,\nthe sons of Jerobaal, seventy men, upon one stone: and there remained\nonly Joatham, the youngest son of Jerobaal, who was hidden.\n\n9:6. And all the men of Sichem were gathered together, and all the\nfamilies of the city of Mello: and they went and made Abimelech king,\nby the oak that stood in Sichem.\n\n9:7. This being told to Joatham, he went, and stood on the top of Mount\nGarizim: and lifting up his voice, he cried, and said: Hear me, ye men\nof Sichem, so may God hear you.\n\n9:8. The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the\nolive tree: Reign thou over us.\n\n9:9. And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men\nmake use of, to come to be promoted among the trees?\n\nBoth gods and men make use of. . .The olive tree is introduced, speaking\nin this manner, because oil was used both in the worship of the true\nGod, and in that of the false gods, whom the Sichemites served.\n\n9:10. And the trees said to the fig tree: Come thou and reign over us.\n\n9:11. And it answered them: Can I leave my sweetness, and my delicious\nfruits, and go to be promoted among the other trees?\n\n9:12. And the trees said to the vine: Come thou and reign over us.\n\n9:13. And it answered them: Can I forsake my wine, that cheereth God\nand men, and be promoted among the other trees?\n\nCheereth God and men. . .Wine is here represented as agreeable to God,\nbecause he had appointed it to be offered up with his sacrifices. But\nwe are not obliged to take these words, spoken by the trees, in\nJoatham's parable, according to the strict literal sense: but only in a\nsense accomodated to the design of the parable expressed in the\nconclusion of it.\n\n9:14. And all the trees said to the bramble: Come thou and reign over\nus.\n\n9:15. And it answered them: If, indeed, you mean to make me king, come\nye, and rest under my shadow: but if you mean it not, let fire come out\nfrom the bramble, and devour the cedars of Libanus.\n\n9:16. Now, therefore, if you have done well, and without sin, in\nappointing Abimelech king over you, and have dealt well with Jerobaal,\nand with his house, and have made a suitable return for the benefits of\nhim who fought for you,\n\n9:17. And exposed his life to dangers, to deliver you from the hand of\nMadian,\n\n9:18. And you are now risen up against my father's house, and have\nkilled his sons, seventy men, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech,\nthe son of his handmaid, king over the inhabitants of Sichem, because\nhe is your brother:\n\n9:19. If therefore you have dealt well, and without fault, with\nJerobaal and his house, rejoice ye, this day, in Abimelech, and may he\nrejoice in you.\n\n9:20. But if unjustly: let fire come out from him, and consume the\ninhabitants of Sichem, and the town of Mello: and let fire come out\nfrom the men of Sichem and from the town of Mello, and devour\nAbimelech.\n\n9:21. And when he had said thus, he fled, and went into Bera: and dwelt\nthere for fear of Abimelech, his brother.\n\n9:22. So Abimelech reigned over Israel three years.\n\n9:23. And the Lord sent a very evil spirit between Abimelech and the\ninhabitants of Sichem; who began to detest him,\n\n9:24. And to lay the crime of the murder of the seventy sons of\nJerobaal, and the shedding of their blood, upon Abimelech, their\nbrother, and upon the rest of the princes of the Sichemites, who aided\nhim.\n\n9:25. And they set an ambush against him on the top of the mountains:\nand while they waited for his coming, they committed robberies, taking\nspoils of all that passed by: and it was told Abimelech.\n\n9:26. And Gaal, the son of Obed, came with his brethren, and went over\nto Sichem. And the inhabitants of Sichem, taking courage at his coming,\n\n9:27. Went out into the fields, wasting the vineyards, and treading\ndown the grapes: and singing and dancing, they went into the temple of\ntheir god, and in their banquets and cups they cursed Abimelech.\n\n9:28. And Gaal, the son of Obed, cried: Who is Abimelech, and what is\nSichem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerobaal, and\nhath made Zebul, his servant, ruler over the men of Emor, the father of\nSichem? Why then shall we serve him?\n\n9:29. Would to God that some man would put this people under my hand,\nthat I might remove Abimelech out of the way. And it was said to\nAbimelech: Gather together the multitude of an army, and come.\n\n9:30. For Zebul, the ruler of the city, hearing the words of Gaal, the\nson of Obed, was very angry,\n\n9:31. And sent messengers privately to Abimelech, saying: Behold, Gaal,\nthe son of Obed, is come into Sichem with his brethren, and\nendeavoureth to set the city against thee.\n\n9:32. Arise, therefore, in the night, with the people that is with\nthee, and lie hid in the field:\n\n9:33. And betimes in the morning, at sun rising, set upon the city, and\nwhen he shall come out against thee, with his people, do to him what\nthou shalt be able.\n\n9:34. Abimelech, therefore, arose with all his army, by night, and laid\nambushes near Sichem in four places.\n\n9:35. And Gaal, the son of Obed, went out, and stood in the entrance of\nthe gate of the city. And Abimelech rose up, and all his army with him,\nfrom the places of the ambushes.\n\n9:36. And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul: Behold, a\nmultitude cometh down from the mountains. And he answered him: Thou\nseest the shadows of the mountains as if they were the heads of men,\nand this is thy mistake.\n\n9:37. Again Gaal said: Behold, there cometh people down from the midst\nof the land, and one troop cometh by the way that looketh towards the\noak.\n\n9:38. And Zebul said to him: Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou\nsaidst: Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? Is not this the\npeople which thou didst despise? Go out, and fight against him.\n\n9:39. So Gaal went out, in the sight of the people of Sichem, and\nfought against Abimelech,\n\n9:40. Who chased and put him to flight, and drove him to the city: and\nmany were slain of his people, even to the gate of the city:\n\n9:41. And Abimelech sat down in Ruma: but Zebul drove Gaal, and his\ncompanions, out of the city, and would not suffer them to abide in it.\n\n9:42. So the day following the people went out into the field. And it\nwas told to Abimelech,\n\n9:43. And he took his army, and divided it into three companies, and\nlaid ambushes in the fields. And seeing that the people came out of the\ncity, he arose, and set upon them,\n\n9:44. With his own company, assaulting and besieging the city: whilst\nthe two other companies chased the enemies that were scattered about\nthe field.\n\n9:45. And Abimelech assaulted the city all that day: and took it, and\nkilled the inhabitants thereof, and demolished it, so that he sowed\nsalt in it.\n\nSowed salt. . .To make the ground barren, and fit for nothing.\n\n9:46. And when they who dwelt in the tower of Sichem, had heard this,\nthey went into the temple of their god Berith, where they had made a\ncovenant with him, and from thence the place had taken its name, and it\nwas exceeding strong.\n\n9:47. Abimelech also hearing that the men of the tower of Sichem were\ngathered together,\n\n9:48. Went up into mount Selmon, he and all his people with him: and\ntaking an axe, he cut down the bough of a tree, and laying it on his\nshoulder, and carrying it, he said to his companions: What you see me\ndo, do ye out of hand.\n\n9:49. So they cut down boughs from the trees, every man as fast as he\ncould, and followed their leader. And surrounding the fort, they set it\non fire: and so it came to pass, that with the smoke and with the fire\na thousand persons were killed, men and women together, of the\ninhabitants of the town of Sichem.\n\n9:50. Then Abimelech, departing from thence, came to the town of\nThebes, which he surrounded and besieged with his army.\n\n9:51. And there was in the midst of the city a high tower, to which\nboth the men and the women were fled together, and all the princes of\nthe city, and having shut and strongly barred the gate, they stood upon\nthe battlements of the tower to defend themselves.\n\n9:52. And Abimelech, coming near the tower, fought stoutly: and,\napproaching to the gate, endeavoured to set fire to it:\n\n9:53. And behold, a certain woman casting a piece of a millstone from\nabove, dashed it against the head of Abimelech, and broke his skull.\n\n9:54. And he called hastily to his armourbearer, and said to him: Draw\nthy sword, and kill me: lest it should be said that I was slain by a\nwoman. He did as he was commanded, and slew him.\n\n9:55. And when he was dead all the men of Israel that were with him,\nreturned to their homes.\n\n9:56. And God repaid the evil that Abimelech had done against his\nfather, killing his seventy brethren.\n\n9:57. The Sichemites also were rewarded for what they had done, and the\ncurse of Joatham, the son of Jerobaal, came upon them.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 10\n\n\nThola ruleth Israel twenty-three years; and Jair twenty-two. The people\nfall again into idolatry, and are afflicted again by the Philistines\nand Ammonites. They cry to God for help, who upon their repentance hath\ncompassion on them.\n\n10:1. After Abimelech, there arose a ruler in Israel, Thola, son of\nPhua, the uncle of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, who dwelt in Samir of\nmount Ephraim:\n\nUncle of Abimelech. . .i. e., half brother to Gedeon, as being born of\nthe same mother, but by a different father, and of a different tribe.\n\n10:2. And he judged Israel three and twenty years, and he died, and was\nburied in Samir.\n\n10:3. To him succeeded Jair, the Galaadite, who judged Israel for two\nand twenty years,\n\n10:4. Having thirty sons, that rode on thirty ass colts, and were\nprinces of thirty cities, which from his name were called Havoth Jair,\nthat is, the towns of Jair, until this present day, in the land of\nGalaad.\n\nHavoth Jair. . .This name was now confirmed to these towns, which they\nhad formerly received from another Jair. Num. 32.41.\n\n10:5. And Jair died, and was buried in the place which is called Camon.\n\n10:6. But the children of Israel, adding new sins to their old ones,\ndid evil in the sight of the Lord, and served idols, Baalim and\nAstaroth, and the gods of Syria, and of Sidon, and of Moab, and of the\nchildren of Ammon, and of the Philistines: and they left the Lord, and\ndid not serve him.\n\n10:7. And the Lord being angry with them, delivered them into the hands\nof the Philistines, and of the children of Ammon.\n\n10:8. And they were afflicted, and grievously oppressed for eighteen\nyears, all they that dwelt beyond the Jordan in the land of the\nAmorrhite, who is in Galaad:\n\n10:9. Insomuch that the children of Ammon, passing over the Jordan,\nwasted Juda, and Benjamin, and Ephraim: and Israel was distressed\nexceedingly.\n\n10:10. And they cried to the Lord, and said, We have sinned against\nthee, because we have forsaken the Lord our God, and have served\nBaalim.\n\n10:11. And the Lord said to them: Did not the Egyptians, and the\nAmorrhites, and the children of Ammon, and the Philistines,\n\n10:12. The Sidonians also, and Amalec, and Chanaan, oppress you, and\nyou cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand?\n\n10:13. And yet you have forsaken me, and have worshipped strange gods:\ntherefore I will deliver you no more:\n\n10:14. Go, and call upon the gods which you have chosen: let them\ndeliver you in the time of distress.\n\n10:15. And the children of Israel said to the Lord: We have sinned, do\nthou unto us whatsoever pleaseth thee: only deliver us this time.\n\n10:16. And saying these things, they cast away out of their coasts all\nthe idols of strange gods, and served the Lord their God: and he was\ntouched with their miseries.\n\n10:17. And the children of Ammon shouting together, pitched their tents\nin Galaad: against whom the children of Israel assembled themselves\ntogether, and camped in Maspha.\n\n10:18. And the princes of Galaad said one to another: Whosoever of us\nshall first begin to fight against the children of Ammon, he shall be\nthe leader of the people of Galaad.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 11\n\n\nJephte is made ruler of the people of Galaad: he first pleads their\ncause against the Ammonites; then making a vow obtains a signal\nvictory; he performs his vow.\n\n11:1. There was at that time Jephte, the Galaadite, a most valiant man,\nand a warrior, the son of a woman that was a harlot, and his father was\nGalaad.\n\n11:2. Now Galaad had a wife of whom he had sons: who, after they were\ngrown up, thrust out Jephte, saying: Thou canst not inherit in the\nhouse of our father, because thou art born of another mother.\n\n11:3. Then he fled and avoided them, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and\nthere were gathered to him needy men and robbers, and they followed him\nas their prince.\n\n11:4. In those days the children of Ammon made war against Israel.\n\n11:5. And as they pressed hard upon them, the ancients of Galaad went\nto fetch Jephte out of the land of Tob to help them:\n\n11:6. And they said to him: Come thou, and be our prince, and fight\nagainst the children of Ammon.\n\n11:7. And he answered them: Are not you the men that hated me, and cast\nme out of my father's house, and now you are come to me, constrained by\nnecessity?\n\n11:8. And the princes of Galaad said to Jephte: For this cause we are\nnow come to thee, that thou mayst go with us, and fight against the\nchildren of Ammon, and be head over all the inhabitants of Galaad.\n\n11:9. Jephte also said to them: If you be come to me sincerely, that I\nshould fight for you against the children of Ammon, and the Lord shall\ndeliver them into my hand, shall I be your prince?\n\n11:10. They answered him: The Lord, who heareth these things, he\nhimself is mediator and witness that we will do as we have promised.\n\n11:11. Jephte therefore went with the princes of Galaad, and all the\npeople made him their prince. And Jephte spoke all his words before the\nLord in Maspha.\n\n11:12. And he sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, to\nsay in his name: What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come\nagainst me, to waste my land?\n\n11:13. And he answered them: Because Israel took away my land, when he\ncame up out of Egypt, from the confines of the Arnon unto the Jaboc and\nthe Jordan: now, therefore, restore the same peaceably to me.\n\n11:14. And Jephte again sent word by them, and commanded them to say to\nthe king of Ammon:\n\n11:15. Thus saith Jephte: Israel did not take away the land of Moab,\nnor the land of the children of Ammon:\n\n11:16. But when they came up out of Egypt, he walked through the desert\nto the Red Sea, and came into Cades.\n\n11:17. And he sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying: Suffer me to\npass through thy land. But he would not condescend to his request. He\nsent also to the king of Moab, who, likewise, refused to give him\npassage. He abode, therefore, in Cades,\n\n11:18. And went round the land of Edom at the side, and the land of\nMoab: and came over against the east coast of the land of Moab, and\ncamped on the other side of the Arnon: and he would not enter the\nbounds of Moab.\n\n11:19. So Israel sent messengers to Sehon, king of the Amorrhites, who\ndwelt in Hesebon, and they said to him: Suffer me to pass through thy\nland to the river.\n\n11:20. But he, also despising the words of Israel, suffered him not to\npass through his borders: but gathering an infinite multitude, went out\nagainst him to Jasa, and made strong opposition.\n\n11:21. And the Lord delivered him, with all his army, into the hands of\nIsrael, and he slew him, and possessed all the land of the Amorrhite,\nthe inhabitant of that country,\n\n11:22. And all the coasts thereof from the Arnon to the Jaboc, and from\nthe wilderness to the Jordan.\n\n11:23. So the Lord, the God of Israel, destroyed the Amorrhite, his\npeople of Israel fighting against him, and wilt thou now possess his\nland?\n\n11:24. Are not those things which thy god Chamos possesseth, due to\nthee by right? But what the Lord our God hath obtained by conquest,\nshall be our possession:\n\nChamos. . .The idol of the Moabites and Ammonites. He argues from their\nopinion, who thought they had a just title to the countries which they\nimagined they had conquered by the help of their gods: how much more\nthen had Israel in indisputable title to the countries which God, by\nvisible miracles, had conquered for them.\n\n11:25. Unless, perhaps, thou art better than Balac, the son of Sephor,\nking of Moab: or canst shew that he strove against Israel, and fought\nagainst him,\n\n11:26. Whereas he hath dwelt in Hesebon, and the villages thereof, and\nin Aroer, and its villages, and in all the cities near the Jordan, for\nthree hundred years. Why have you for so long a time attempted nothing\nabout this claim?\n\n11:27. Therefore I do not trespass against thee, but thou wrongest me\nby declaring an unjust war against me. The Lord be judge, and decide\nthis day, between Israel and the children of Ammon.\n\n11:28. And the king of the children of Ammon would not hearken to the\nwords of Jephte, which he sent him by the messengers.\n\n11:29. Therefore the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephte, and going\nround Galaad, and Manasses, and Maspha of Galaad, and passing over from\nthence to the children of Ammon,\n\n11:30. He made a vow to the Lord, saying: If thou wilt deliver the\nchildren of Ammon into my hands,\n\n11:31. Whosoever shall first come forth out of the doors of my house,\nand shall meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon,\nthe same will I offer a holocaust to the Lord.\n\nWhosoever, etc. . .Some are of opinion, that the meaning of this vow of\nJephte, was to consecrate to God whatsoever should first meet him,\naccording to the condition of the thing; so as to offer it up as a\nholocaust, if it were such a thing as might be offered by the law; or\nto devote it otherwise to God, if it were not such as the law allowed\nto be offered in sacrifice. And therefore they think the daughter of\nJephte was not slain by her father, but only consecrated to perpetual\nvirginity. But the common opinion followed by the generality of the\nholy fathers and divines is, that she was offered as a holocaust, in\nconsequence of her father's vow: and that Jephte did not sin, at least\nnot mortally, neither in making, nor in keeping, his vow: since he is\nno ways blamed for it in scripture; and was even inspired by God\nhimself to make the vow (as appears from ver. 29, 30) in consequence of\nwhich he obtained the victory; and therefore he reasonably concluded\nthat God, who is the master of life and death, was pleased on this\noccasion to dispense with his own law; and that it was the divine will\nhe should fulfil his vow.\n\n11:32. And Jephte passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against\nthem: and the Lord delivered them into his hands.\n\n11:33. And he smote them from Aroer till you come to Mennith, twenty\ncities, and as far as Abel, which is set with vineyards, with a very\ngreat slaughter: and the children of Ammon were humbled by the children\nof Israel.\n\n11:34. And when Jephte returned into Maspha, to his house, his only\ndaughter met him with timbrels and with dances: for he had no other\nchildren.\n\n11:35. And when he saw her, he rent his garments, and said: Alas! my\ndaughter, thou hast deceived me, and thou thyself art deceived: for I\nhave opened my mouth to the Lord, and I can do no other thing.\n\n11:36. And she answered him: My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth\nto the Lord, do unto me whatsoever thou hast promised, since the\nvictory hath been granted to thee, and revenge of thy enemies.\n\n11:37. And she said to her father: Grant me only this, which I desire:\nLet me go, that I may go about the mountains for two months, and may\nbewail my virginity with my companions.\n\nBewail my virginity. . .The bearing of children was much coveted under\nthe Old Testament, when women might hope that from some child of\ntheirs, the Saviour of the world might one day spring. But under the\nNew Testament virginity is preferred. 1 Cor. 7.35.\n\n11:38. And he answered her: Go. And he sent her away for two months.\nAnd when she was gone with her comrades and companions, she mourned her\nvirginity in the mountains.\n\n11:39. And the two months being expired, she returned to her father,\nand he did to her as he had vowed, and she knew no man. From thence\ncame a fashion in Israel, and a custom has been kept:\n\n11:40. That, from year to year, the daughters of Israel assemble\ntogether, and lament the daughter of Jephte the Galaadite, for four\ndays.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 12\n\n\nThe Ephraimites quarrel with Jephte: forty-two thousand of them are\nslain: Abeson, Ahialon, and Abdon, are judges.\n\n12:1. But behold there arose a sedition in Ephraim. And passing towards\nthe north, they said to Jephte: When thou wentest to fight against the\nchildren of Ammon, why wouldst thou not call us, that we might go with\nthee? Therefore we will burn thy house.\n\n12:2. And he answered them: I and my people were at great strife with\nthe children of Ammon: and I called you to assist me, and you would not\ndo it.\n\n12:3. And when I saw this, I put my life in my own hands, and passed\nover against the children of Ammon and the Lord delivered them into my\nhands. What have I deserved, that you should rise up to fight against\nme?\n\n12:4. Then calling to him all the men of Galaad, he fought against\nEphraim: and the men of Galaad defeated Ephraim, because he had said:\nGalaad is a fugitive of Ephraim, and dwelleth in the midst of Ephraim\nand Manasses.\n\n12:5. And the Galaadites secured the fords of the Jordan, by which\nEphraim was to return. And when any one of the number of Ephraim came\nthither in the flight, and said: I beseech you let me pass: the\nGalaadites said to him: Art thou not an Ephraimite? If he said: I am\nnot:\n\n12:6. They asked him: Say then, Scibboleth, which is interpreted, An\near of corn. But he answered, Sibboleth, not being able to express an\near of corn by the same letter. Then presently they took him and killed\nhim in the very passage of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of\nEphraim, two and forty thousand.\n\n12:7. And Jephte, the Galaadite, judged Israel six years: and he died,\nand was buried in his city of Galaad.\n\n12:8. After him Abesan of Bethlehem judged Israel:\n\n12:9. He had thirty sons, and as many daughters, whom he sent abroad,\nand gave to husbands, and took wives for his sons, of the same number,\nbringing them into his house. And he judged Israel seven years:\n\n12:10. And he died, and was buried in Bethlehem.\n\n12:11. To him succeeded Ahialon, a Zabulonite: and he judged Israel ten\nyears:\n\n12:12. And he died, and was buried in Zabulon.\n\n12:13. After him, Abdon, the son of Illel, a Pharathonite, judged\nIsrael:\n\n12:14. And he had forty sons, and of them thirty grandsons, mounted\nupon seventy ass colts, and he judged Israel eight years:\n\n12:15. And he died, and was buried in Pharathon, in the land of\nEphraim, in the mount of Amalech.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 13\n\n\nThe people fall again into idolatry and are afflicted by the\nPhilistines. An angel foretelleth the birth of Samson.\n\n13:1. And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the\nLord: and he delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty\nyears.\n\n13:2. Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan,\nwhose name was Manue, and his wife was barren.\n\n13:3. And an angel of the Lord appeared to her, and said: Thou art\nbarren and without children: but thou shalt conceive and bear a son.\n\n13:4. Now therefore beware, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat\nnot any unclean thing.\n\n13:6. Because thou shalt conceive, and bear a son, and no razor shall\ntouch his head: for he shall be a Nazarite of God, from his infancy,\nand from his mother's womb, and he shall begin to deliver Israel from\nthe hands of the Philistines.\n\n13:6. And when she was come to her husband, she said to him: A man of\nGod came to me, having the countenance of an angel, very awful. And\nwhen I asked him whence he came, and by what name he was called, he\nwould not tell me:\n\n13:7. But he answered thus: Behold thou shalt conceive and bear a son:\nbeware thou drink no wine, nor strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing:\nfor the child shall be a Nazarite of God from his infancy, from his\nmother's womb until the day of his death.\n\n13:8. Then Manue prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord,\nthat the man of God, whom thou didst send, may come again, and teach us\nwhat we ought to do concerning the child, that shall be born.\n\n13:9. And the Lord heard the prayer of Manue, and the angel of the Lord\nappeared again to his wife, as she was sitting in the field. But Manue\nher husband was not with her. And when she saw the angel,\n\n13:10. She made haste, and ran to her husband: and told him, saying:\nBehold the man hath appeared to me, whom I saw before.\n\n13:11. He rose up, and followed his wife: and coming to the man, said\nto him: Art thou he that spoke to the woman? And he answered: I am.\n\n13:12. And Manue said to him: When thy word shall come to pass, what\nwilt thou that the child should do? or from what shall he keep himself?\n\n13:13. And the angel of the Lord said to Manue: From all the things I\nhave spoken of to thy wife, let her refrain herself:\n\nLet her refrain, etc. . .By the Latin text it is not clear whether this\nabstinence was prescribed to the mother, or to the child; but the\nHebrew (in which the verbs relating thereto are of the feminine gender)\ndetermineth it to the mother. But then the child also was to refrain\nfrom the like things, because he was to be from his infancy a Nazarite\nof God, ver. 5, that is, one set aside, in a particular manner, and\nconsecrated to God: now the Nazarites by the law were to abstain from\nall these things.\n\n13:14. And let her eat nothing that cometh of the vine, neither let her\ndrink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: and whatsoever I\nhave commanded her, let her fulfil and observe.\n\n13:15. And Manue said to the angel of the Lord: I beseech thee to\nconsent to my request, and let us dress a kid for thee.\n\n13:16. And the angel answered him: If thou press me I will not eat of\nthy bread: but if thou wilt offer a holocaust, offer it to the Lord.\nAnd Manue knew not it was the angel of the Lord.\n\n13:17. And he said to him: What is thy name, that, if thy word shall\ncome to pass, we may honour thee?\n\n13:18. And he answered him: Why askest thou my name, which is\nwonderful?\n\n13:19. Then Manue took a kid of the flocks, and the libations, and put\nthem upon a rock, offering to the Lord, who doth wonderful things: and\nhe and his wife looked on.\n\n13:20. And when the flame from the altar went up towards heaven, the\nangel of the Lord ascended also in the same. And when Manue and his\nwife saw this, they fell flat on the ground;\n\n13:21. And the angel of the Lord appeared to them no more. And\nforthwith Manue understood that it was an angel of the Lord,\n\n13:22. And he said to his wife: We shall certainly die, because we have\nseen God.\n\nSeen God. . .Not in his own person, but in the person of his messenger.\nThe Israelites, in those days, imagined they should die if they saw an\nangel, taking occasion perhaps from those words spoken by the Lord to\nMoses, Ex. 33.20, No man shall see me and live. But the event\ndemonstrated that it was but a groundless imagination.\n\n13:23. And his wife answered him: If the Lord had a mind to kill us, he\nwould not have received a holocaust and libations at our hands; neither\nwould he have shewed us all these things, nor have told us the things\nthat are to come.\n\n13:24. And she bore a son, and called his name Samson. And the child\ngrew, and the Lord blessed him.\n\n13:25. And the Spirit of the Lord began to be with him in the camp of\nDan, between Saraa and Esthaol.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 14\n\n\nSamson desireth a wife of the Philistines. He killeth a lion: in whose\nmouth he afterwards findeth honey. His marriage feast, and riddle,\nwhich is discovered by his wife. He killeth, and strippeth thirty\nPhilistines. His wife taketh another man.\n\n14:1. Then Samson went down to Thamnatha, and seeing there a woman of\nthe daughters of the Philistines,\n\n14:2. He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying: I saw a\nwoman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the Philistines: I beseech you,\ntake her for me to wife.\n\n14:3. And his father and mother said to him: Is there no woman among\nthe daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou wilt\ntake a wife of the Philistines, who are uncircumcised? And Samson said\nto his father: Take this woman for me; for she hath pleased my eyes.\n\nIs there no woman among the daughters of thy brethren. . .This shews his\nparents were at first against his marriage with a Gentile, it being\nprohibited, Deut. 7.3; but afterwards they consented, knowing it to be\nby the dispensation of God; which otherwise would have been sinful in\nacting contrary to the law.\n\n14:4. Now his parents knew not that the thing was done by the Lord, and\nthat he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time\nthe Philistines had dominion over Israel.\n\n14:5. Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Thamnatha.\nAnd when they were come to the vineyards of the town, behold a young\nlion met him, raging and roaring.\n\n14:6. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Samson, and he tore the lion\nas he would have torn a kid in pieces, having nothing at all in his\nhand: and he would not tell this to his father and mother.\n\n14:7. And he went down, and spoke to the woman that had pleased his\neyes.\n\n14:8. And after some days, returning to take her, he went aside to see\nthe carcass of the lion, and behold there was a swarm of bees in the\nmouth of the lion, and a honey-comb.\n\n14:9. And when he had taken it in his hands, he went on eating: and\ncoming to his father and mother, he gave them of it, and they ate: but\nhe would not tell them that he had taken the honey from the body of the\nlion.\n\n14:10. So his father went down to the woman, and made a feast for his\nson Samson: for so the young men used to do.\n\n14:11. And when the citizens of that place saw him, they brought him\nthirty companions to be with him.\n\n14:12. And Samson said to them: I will propose to you a riddle, which\nif you declare unto me within the seven days of the feast, I will give\nyou thirty shirts, and as many coats:\n\n14:13. But if you shall not be able to declare it, you shall give me\nthirty shirts and the same number of coats. They answered him: Put\nforth the riddle, that we may hear it.\n\n14:14. And he said to them: Out of the eater came forth meat, and out\nof the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not for three days\nexpound the riddle.\n\n14:15. And when the seventh day came, they said to the wife of Samson:\nSooth thy husband, and persuade him to tell thee what the riddle\nmeaneth. But if thou wilt not do it, we will burn thee, and thy\nfather's house. Have you called us to the wedding on purpose to strip\nus?\n\n14:16. So she wept before Samson and complained, saying: Thou hatest\nme, and dost not love me: therefore thou wilt not expound to me the\nriddle, which thou hast proposed to the sons of my people. But he\nanswered: I would not tell it to my father and mother: and how can I\ntell it to thee?\n\n14:17. So she wept before him the seven days of the feast: and, at\nlength, on the seventh day, as she was troublesome to him, he expounded\nit. And she immediately told her countrymen.\n\n14:18. And they, on the seventh day before the sun went down, said to\nhim: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And\nhe said to them: If you had not ploughed with my heifer, you had not\nfound out my riddle.\n\n14:19. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he went down to\nAscalon, and slew there thirty men whose garments he took away, and\ngave to them that had declared the riddle. And being exceeding angry,\nhe went up to his father's house:\n\n14:20. But his wife took one of his friends and bridal companions for\nher husband.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 15\n\n\nSamson is denied his wife. He burns the corn of the Philistines, and\nkills many of them.\n\n15:1. And a while after, when the days of the wheat harvest were at\nhand, Samson came, meaning to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid\nof the flock. And when he would have gone into her chamber, as usual,\nher father would not suffer him, saying:\n\n15:2. I thought thou hadst hated her, and therefore I gave her to thy\nfriend: but she hath a sister, who is younger and fairer than she, take\nher to wife instead of her.\n\n15:3. And Samson answered him: From this day I shall be blameless in\nwhat I do against the Philistines: for I will do you evils.\n\n15:4. And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail\nto tail, and fastened torches between the tails:\n\nFoxes. . .Being judge of the people he might have many to assist him to\ncatch with nets or otherwise a number of these animals; of which there\nwere great numbers in that country.\n\n15:6. And setting them on fire he let the foxes go, that they might run\nabout hither and thither. And they presently went into the standing\ncorn of the Philistines. Which being set on fire, both the corn that\nwas already carried together, and that which was yet standing, was all\nburnt, insomuch that the flame consumed also the vineyards and the\noliveyards.\n\n15:6. Then the Philistines said: Who hath done this thing? And it was\nanswered: Samson, the son in law of the Thamnathite, because he took\naway his wife, and gave her to another, hath done these things. And the\nPhilistines went up and burnt both the woman and her father.\n\n15:7. But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I\nbe revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.\n\n15:8. And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment\nthey laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt\nin a cavern of the rock Etam.\n\n15:9. Then the Philistines going up into the land of Juda, camped in\nthe place which afterwards was called Lechi, that is, the Jawbone,\nwhere their army was spread abroad.\n\n15:10. And the men of the tribe of Juda said to them: Why are you come\nup against us? They answered: We are come to bind Samson, and to pay\nhim for what he hath done against us.\n\n15:11. Wherefore three thousand men of Juda went down to the cave of\nthe rock Etam, and said to Samson: Knowest thou not that the\nPhilistines rule over us? Why wouldst thou do thus? And he said to\nthem: As they did to me, so have I done to them.\n\n15:12. And they said to him: We are come to bind thee, and to deliver\nthee into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them: Swear\nto me, and promise me that you will not kill me.\n\n15:13. They said: We will not kill thee: but we will deliver thee up\nbound. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him from the\nrock Etam.\n\n15:14. Now when he was come to the place of the Jawbone, and the\nPhilistines shouting went to meet him, the Spirit of the Lord came\nstrongly upon him: and as flax is wont to be consumed at the approach\nof fire, so the bands with which he was bound were broken and loosed.\n\n15:15. And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass, which lay\nthere, catching it up, he slew therewith a thousand men.\n\n15:16. And he said: With the jawbone of an ass, with the jaw of the\ncolt of asses, I have destroyed them, and have slain a thousand men.\n\n15:17. And when he had ended these words, singing, he threw the jawbone\nout of his hand, and called the name of that place Ramathlechi, which\nis interpreted the lifting up of the jawbone.\n\n15:18. And being very thirsty, he cried to the Lord, and said: Thou\nhast given this very great deliverance and victory into the hand of thy\nservant: and behold I die for thirst, and shall fall into the hands of\nthe uncircumcised.\n\n15:19. Then the Lord opened a great tooth in the jaw of the ass and\nwaters issued out of it. And when he had drunk them, he refreshed his\nspirit, and recovered his strength. Therefore the name of that place\nwas called The Spring of him that invoked from the jawbone, until this\npresent day.\n\n15:20. And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty\nyears.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 16\n\n\nSamson is deluded by Dalila: and falls into the hands of the\nPhilistines. His death.\n\n16:1. He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman, a harlot, and went\nin unto her.\n\n16:2. And when the Philistines had heard this, and it was noised about\namong them, that Samson was come into the city, they surrounded him,\nsetting guards at the gate of the city, and watching there all the\nnight in silence, that in the morning they might kill him as he went\nout.\n\n16:3. But Samson slept till midnight, and then rising, he took both the\ndoors of the gate, with the posts thereof and the bolt, and laying them\non his shoulders, carried them up to the top of the hill, which looketh\ntowards Hebron.\n\n16:4. After this he loved a woman, who dwelt in the valley of Sorec,\nand she was called Dalila.\n\nDalila. . .Some are of opinion she was married to Samson; others that\nshe was his harlot. If the latter opinion be true, we cannot wonder\nthat, in punishment of his lust, the Lord delivered him up, by her\nmeans, into the hands of his enemies. However if he was guilty, it is\nnot to be doubted but that under his afflictions he heartily repented\nand returned to God, and so obtained forgiveness of his sins.\n\n16:5. And the princes of the Philistines came to her, and said: Deceive\nhim, and learn of him wherein his great strength lieth, and how we may\nbe able to overcome him, to bind and afflict him: which if thou shalt\ndo, we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.\n\n16:6. And Dalila said to Samson: Tell me, I beseech thee, wherein thy\ngreatest strength lieth, and what it is, wherewith if thou wert bound,\nthou couldst not break loose.\n\n16:7. And Samson answered her: If I shall be bound with seven cords,\nmade of sinews not yet dry, but still moist, I shall be weak like other\nmen.\n\n16:8. And the princes of the Philistines brought unto her seven cords,\nsuch as he spoke of, with which she bound him;\n\n16:9. Men lying privately in wait with her, and in the chamber,\nexpecting the event of the thing, and she cried out to him: The\nPhilistines are upon thee, Samson. And he broke the bands, as a man\nwould break a thread of tow twined with spittle, when it smelleth the\nfire: so it was not known wherein his strength lay.\n\n16:10. And Dalila said to him: Behold thou hast mocked me, and hast\ntold me a false thing: but now at least tell me wherewith thou mayest\nbe bound.\n\n16:11. And he answered her: If I shall be bound with new ropes, that\nwere never in work, I shall be weak and like other men.\n\n16:12. Dalila bound him again with these, and cried out: The\nPhilistines are upon thee, Samson, there being an ambush prepared for\nhim in the chamber. But he broke the bands like threads of webs.\n\n16:13. And Dalila said to him again: How long dost thou deceive me, and\ntell me lies? Shew me wherewith thou mayest be bound. And Samson\nanswered her: If thou plattest the seven locks of my head with a lace,\nand tying them round about a nail, fastenest it in the ground, I shall\nbe weak.\n\n16:14. And when Dalila had done this, she said to him: The Philistines\nare upon thee, Samson. And awaking out of his sleep, he drew out the\nnail with the hairs and the lace.\n\n16:15. And Dalila said to him: How dost thou say thou lovest me, when\nthy mind is not with me? Thou hast told me lies these three times, and\nwouldst not tell me wherein thy greatest strength lieth.\n\n16:16. And when she pressed him much, and continually hung upon him for\nmany days, giving him no time to rest, his soul fainted away, and was\nwearied even unto death.\n\n16:17. Then opening the truth of the thing, he said to her: The razor\nhath never come upon my head, for I am a Nazarite, that is to say,\nconsecrated to God from my mother's womb: If my head be shaven, my\nstrength shall depart from me, and I shall become weak, and shall be\nlike other men.\n\n16:18. Then seeing that he had discovered to her all his mind, she sent\nto the princes of the Philistines, saying: Come up this once more, for\nnow he hath opened his heart to me. And they went up, taking with them\nthe money which they had promised.\n\n16:19. But she made him sleep upon her knees, and lay his head in her\nbosom. And she called a barber and shaved his seven locks, and began to\ndrive him away, and thrust him from her: for immediately his strength\ndeparted from him.\n\n16:20. And she said: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And awaking\nfrom sleep, he said in his mind: I will go out as I did before, and\nshake myself, not knowing that the Lord was departed from him.\n\n16:21. Then the Philistines seized upon him, and forthwith pulled out\nhis eyes, and led him bound in chains to Gaza, and shutting him up in\nprison made him grind.\n\n16:22. And now his hair began to grow again,\n\n16:23. And the princes of the Philistines assembled together, to offer\ngreat sacrifices to Dagon their god, and to make merry, saying: Our god\nhath delivered our enemy Samson into our hands.\n\n16:24. And the people also seeing this, praised their god, and said the\nsame: Our god hath delivered our adversary into our hands, him that\ndestroyed our country, and killed very many.\n\n16:25. And rejoicing in their feasts, when they had now taken their\ngood cheer, they commanded that Samson should be called, and should\nplay before them. And being brought out of prison, he played before\nthem; and they made him stand between two pillars.\n\n16:26. And he said to the lad that guided his steps: Suffer me to touch\nthe pillars which support the whole house, and let me lean upon them,\nand rest a little.\n\n16:27. Now the house was full of men and women, and all the princes of\nthe Philistines were there. Moreover about three thousand persons of\nboth sexes, from the roof and the higher part of the house, were\nbeholding Samson's play.\n\n16:28. But he called upon the Lord, saying: O Lord God remember me, and\nrestore to me now my former strength, O my God, that I may revenge\nmyself on my enemies, and for the loss of my two eyes I may take one\nrevenge.\n\nRevenge myself. . .This desire of revenge was out of zeal for justice\nagainst the enemies of God and his people; and not out of private\nrancour and malice of heart.\n\n16:29. And laying hold on both the pillars on which the house rested,\nand holding the one with his right hand, and the other with his left,\n\n16:30. He said: Let me die with the Philistines. And when he had\nstrongly shook the pillars, the house fell upon all the princes, and\nthe rest of the multitude, that was there: and he killed many more at\nhis death, than he had killed before in his life.\n\nLet me die. . .Literally, let my soul die. Samson did not sin on this\noccasion, though he was indirectly the cause of his own death. Because\nhe was moved to what he did, by a particular inspiration of God, who\nalso concurred with him by a miracle, in restoring his strength upon\nthe spot, in consequence of his prayer. Samson, by dying in this\nmanner, was a figure of Christ, who by his death overcame all his\nenemies.\n\n16:31. And his brethren and all his kindred, going down took his body,\nand buried it between Saraa and Esthaol, in the buryingplace of his\nfather Manue: and he judged Israel twenty years.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 17\n\n\nThe history of the idol of Michas, and the young Levite.\n\n17:1. There was at that time a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was\nMichas.\n\n17:2. Who said to his mother: The eleven hundred pieces of silver,\nwhich thou hadst put aside for thyself, and concerning which thou didst\nswear in my hearing, behold I have, and they are with me. And she said\nto him. Blessed be my son by the Lord.\n\n17:3. So he restored them to his mother, who said to him: I have\nconsecrated and vowed this silver to the Lord, that my son may receive\nit at my hand, and make a graven and a molten god; so now I deliver it\nto thee.\n\n17:4. And he restored them to his mother: and she took two hundred\npieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, to make of them a\ngraven and a molten God, which was in the house of Michas.\n\n17:5. And he separated also therein a little temple for the god, and\nmade an ephod, and theraphim, that is to say, a priestly garment, and\nidols: and he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he became his\npriest.\n\nFilled the hand. . .That is, appointed and consecrated him to the\npriestly office.\n\n17:6. In those days there was no king in Israel, but every one did that\nwhich seemed right to himself.\n\n17:7. There was also another young man of Bethlehem Juda, of the\nkindred thereof: and he was a Levite, and dwelt there.\n\n17:8. Now he went out from the city of Bethlehem, and desired to\nsojourn wheresoever he should find it convenient for him. And when he\nwas come to mount Ephraim, as he was on his journey, and had turned\naside a little into the house of Michas,\n\n17:9. He was asked by him whence he came. And he answered: I am a\nLevite of Bethlehem Juda, and I am going to dwell where I can, and\nwhere I shall find a place to my advantage.\n\n17:10. And Michas said: Stay with me, and be unto me a father and a\npriest, and I will give thee every year ten pieces of silver, and a\ndouble suit of apparel, and thy victuals.\n\n17:11. He was content, and abode with the man, and was unto him as one\nof his sons.\n\n17:12. And Michas filled his hand, and had the young man with him for\nhis priest, saying:\n\n17:13. Now I know God will do me good, since I have a priest of the\nrace of the Levites.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 18\n\n\nThe expedition of the men of Dan against Lais: in their way they rob\nMichas of his priest and his gods.\n\n18:1. In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of Dan\nsought them an inheritance to dwell in: for unto that day they had not\nreceived their lot among the other tribes.\n\nNot received, etc. . .They had their portions assigned them, Jos. 19.40.\nBut, through their own sloth, possessed as yet but a small part of it.\nSee Judges 1.34.\n\n18:2. So the children of Dan sent five most valiant men, of their stock\nand family, from Saraa and Esthaol, to spy out the land, and to view it\ndiligently: and they said to them: Go, and view the land. They went on\ntheir way, and when they came to mount Ephraim, they went into the\nhouse of Michas, and rested there:\n\n18:3. And knowing the voice of the young man the Levite, and lodging\nwith him, they said to him: Who brought thee hither? what dost thou\nhere? why wouldst thou come hither?\n\n18:4. He answered them: Michas hath done such and such things for me,\nand hath hired me to be his priest.\n\n18:5. Then they desired him to consult the Lord, that they might know\nwhether their journey should be prosperous, and the thing should have\neffect.\n\n18:6. He answered them: Go in peace: the Lord looketh on your way, and\nthe journey that you go.\n\n18:7. So the five men going on came to Lais: and they saw how the\npeople dwelt therein without any fear, according to the custom of the\nSidonians, secure and easy, having no man at all to oppose them, being\nvery rich, and living separated, at a distance from Sidon and from all\nmen.\n\n18:8. And they returned to their brethren in Saraa and Esthaol, who\nasked them what they had done: to whom they answered:\n\n18:9. Arise, and let us go up to them: for we have seen the land which\nis exceeding rich and fruitful: neglect not, lose no time: let us go\nand possess it, there will be no difficulty.\n\n18:10. We shall come to a people that is secure, into a spacious\ncountry, and the Lord will deliver the place to us, in which there is\nno want of any thing that groweth on the earth.\n\n18:11. There went therefore of the kindred of Dan, to wit, from Saraa\nand Esthaol, six hundred men, furnished with arms for war.\n\n18:12. And going up they lodged in Cariathiarim of Juda: which place\nfrom that time is called the camp of Dan, and is behind Cariathiarim.\n\n18:13. From thence they passed into mount Ephraim. And when they were\ncome to the house of Michas,\n\n18:14. The five men, that before had been sent to view the land of\nLais, said to the rest of their brethren: You know that in these houses\nthere is an ephod and theraphim, and a graven and a molten god: see\nwhat you are pleased to do.\n\n18:15. And when they had turned a little aside, they went into the\nhouse of the young man the Levite, who was in the house of Michas: and\nthey saluted him with words of peace.\n\n18:16. And the six hundred men stood before the door, appointed with\ntheir arms.\n\n18:17. But they that were gone into the house of the young man, went\nabout to take away the graven god, and the ephod, and the theraphim,\nand the molten god, and the priest stood before the door, the six\nhundred valiant men waiting not far off.\n\n18:18. So they that were gone in took away the graven thing, the ephod,\nand the idols, and the molten god, And the priest said to them: What\nare you doing?\n\n18:19. And they said to him: Hold thy peace, and put thy finger on thy\nmouth, and come with us, that we may have thee for a father, and a\npriest. Whether is better for thee, to be a priest in the house of one\nman, or in a tribe and family in Israel?\n\n18:20. When he heard this, he agreed to their words, and took the\nephod, and the idols, and the graven god, and departed with them.\n\n18:21. And when they were going forward, and had put before them the\nchildren and the cattle, and all that was valuable,\n\n18:22. And were now at a distance from the house of Michas, the men\nthat dwelt in the houses of Michas gathering together followed them,\n\n18:23. And began to shout out after them. They looked back, and said to\nMichas: What aileth thee? Why dost thou cry?\n\n18:24. And he answered: You have taken away my gods which I have made\nme, and the priest, and all that I have, and do you say: What aileth\nthee?\n\n18:25. And the children of Dan said to him: See thou say no more to us,\nlest men enraged come upon thee, and thou perish with all thy house.\n\n18:26. And so they went on the journey they had begun. But Michas\nseeing that they were stronger than he, returned to his house.\n\n18:27. And the six hundred men took the priest, and the things we spoke\nof before, and came to Lais, to a people that was quiet and secure, and\nsmote them with the edge of the sword: and the city they burnt with\nfire,\n\n18:28. There being no man at all who brought them any succour, because\nthey dwelt far from Sidon, and had no society or business with any man.\nAnd the city was in the land of Rohob: and they rebuilt it, and dwelt\ntherein,\n\n18:29. Calling the name of the city Dan, after the name of their\nfather, who was the son of Israel, which before was called Lais.\n\n18:30. And they set up to themselves the graven idol, and Jonathan the\nson of Gersam, the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests in the\ntribe of Dan, until the day of their captivity.\n\n18:31. And the idol of Michas remained with them all the time that the\nhouse of God was in Silo. In those days there was no king in Israel.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 19\n\n\nA Levite bringing home his wife, is lodged by an old man at Gabaa in\nthe tribe of Benjamin. His wife is there abused by wicked men, and in\nthe morning found dead. Her husband cutteth her body in pieces, and\nsendeth to every tribe of Israel, requiring them to revenge the wicked\nfact.\n\n19:1. There was a certain Levite, who dwelt on the side of mount\nEphraim, who took a wife of Bethlehem Juda:\n\n19:2. And she left him, and returned to her father's house in\nBethlehem, and abode with him four months.\n\n19:3. And her husband followed her, willing to be reconciled with her,\nand to speak kindly to her, and to bring her back with him, having with\nhim a servant and two asses: and she received him, and brought him into\nher father's house. And when his father in law had heard this, and had\nseen him, he met him with joy,\n\n19:4. And embraced the man. And the son in law tarried in the house of\nhis father in law three days, eating with him and drinking familiarly.\n\n19:5. But on the fourth day, arising early in the morning, he desired\nto depart. But his father in law kept him, and said to him: Taste first\na little bread, and strengthen thy stomach, and so thou shalt depart.\n\n19:6. And they sat down together, and ate and drank. And the father of\nthe young woman said to his son in law: I beseech thee to stay here to\nday, and let us make merry together.\n\n19:7. But he rising up, began to be for departing. And nevertheless his\nfather in law earnestly pressed him, and made him stay with him.\n\n19:8. But when morning was come, the Levite prepared to go on his\njourney. And his father in law said to him again: I beseech thee to\ntake a little meat, and strengthening thyself, till the day be farther\nadvanced, afterwards thou mayest depart. And they ate together.\n\n19:9. And the young man arose to set forward with his wife and servant.\nAnd his father in law spoke to him again: Consider that the day is\ndeclining, and draweth toward evening: tarry with me to day also, and\nspend the day in mirth, and to morrow thou shalt depart, that thou\nmayest go into thy house.\n\n19:10. His son in law would not consent to his words: but forthwith\nwent forward, and came over against Jebus, which by another name is\ncalled Jerusalem, leading with him two asses loaden, and his concubine.\n\nConcubine. She was his lawful wife, but even lawful wives are\nfrequently in scripture called concubines. See above, chap. 8. ver.\n31.-ver. 16. Jemini. . .That is, Benjamin.\n\n19:11. And now they were come near Jebus, and the day was far spent:\nand the servant said to his master: Come, I beseech thee, let us turn\ninto the city of the Jebusites, and lodge there.\n\n19:12. His master answered him: I will not go into the town of another\nnation, who are not of the children of Israel, but I will pass over to\nGabaa:\n\n19:13. And when I shall come thither, we will lodge there, or at least\nin the city of Rama.\n\n19:14. So they passed by Jebus, and went on their journey, and the sun\nwent down upon them when they were by Gabaa, which is in the tribe of\nBenjamin:\n\n19:15. And they turned into it to lodge there. And when they were come\nin, they sat in the street of the city, for no man would receive them\nto lodge.\n\n19:16. And behold they saw an old man, returning out of the field and\nfrom his work in the evening, and he also was of mount Ephraim, and\ndwelt as a stranger in Gabaa; but the men of that country were the\nchildren of Jemini.\n\n19:17. And the old man lifting up his eyes, saw the man sitting with\nhis bundles in the street of the city, and said to him: Whence comest\nthou? and whither goest thou?\n\n19:18. He answered him: We came out from Bethlehem Juda, and we are\ngoing to our home, which is on the side of mount Ephraim, from whence\nwe went to Bethlehem: and now we go to the house of God, and none will\nreceive us under his roof:\n\n19:19. We have straw and hay for provender of the asses, and bread and\nwine for the use of myself and of thy handmaid, and of the servant that\nis with me: we want nothing but lodging.\n\n19:20. And the old man answered him: Peace be with thee: I will furnish\nall things that are necessary: only I beseech thee, stay not in the\nstreet.\n\n19:21. And he brought him into his house, and gave provender to his\nasses: and after they had washed their feet, he entertained them with a\nfeast.\n\n19:22. While they were making merry, and refreshing their bodies with\nmeat and drink, after the labour of the journey, the men of that city,\nsons of Belial (that is, without yoke), came and beset the old man's\nhouse, and began to knock at the door, calling to the master of the\nhouse, and saying: Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that\nwe may abuse him:\n\n19:23. And the old man went out to them, and said: Do not so, my\nbrethren, do not so wickedly: because this man is come into my lodging,\nand cease I pray you from this folly.\n\n19:24. I have a maiden daughter, and this man hath a concubine, I will\nbring them out to you, and you may humble them, and satisfy your lust:\nonly, I beseech you, commit not this crime against nature on the man.\n\n19:25. They would not be satisfied with his words; which the man\nseeing, brought out his concubine to them, and abandoned her to their\nwickedness: and when they had abused her all the night, they let her go\nin the morning.\n\n19:26. But the woman, at the dawning of the day, came to the door of\nthe house, where her lord lodged, and there fell down.\n\n19:27. And in the morning the man arose, and opened the door, that he\nmight end the journey he had begun: and behold his concubine lay before\nthe door with her hands spread on the threshold.\n\n19:28. He thinking she was taking her rest, said to her: Arise, and let\nus be going. But as she made no answer, perceiving she was dead, he\ntook her up, and laid her upon his ass, and returned to his house.\n\n19:29. And when he was come home, he took a sword, and divided the dead\nbody of his wife with her bones into twelve parts, and sent the pieces\ninto all the borders of Israel.\n\n19:30. And when every one had seen this, they all cried out: There was\nnever such a thing done in Israel, from the day that our fathers came\nup out of Egypt, until this day: give sentence, and decree in common\nwhat ought to be done.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 20\n\n\nThe Israelites warring against Benjamin are twice defeated; but in the\nthird battle the Benjamites are all slain, saving six hundred men.\n\n20:1. Then all the children of Israel went out, and gathered together\nas one man, from Dan to Bersabee, with the land of Galaad, to the Lord\nin Maspha:\n\n20:2. And all the chiefs of the people, and all the tribes of Israel,\nmet together in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred\nthousand footmen fit for war.\n\n20:3. (Nor were the children of Benjamin ignorant that the children of\nIsrael were come up to Maspha.) And the Levite, the husband of the\nwoman that was killed being asked, how so great a wickedness had been\ncommitted,\n\n20:4. Answered: I came into Gabaa, of Benjamin, with my wife, and there\nI lodged:\n\n20:5. And behold the men of that city, in the night beset the house\nwherein I was, intending to kill me, and abused my wife with an\nincredible fury of lust, so that at last she died.\n\n20:6. And I took her and cut her in pieces, and sent the parts into all\nthe borders of your possession: because there never was so heinous a\ncrime, and so great an abomination committed in Israel.\n\n20:7. You are all here, O children of Israel, determine what you ought\nto do.\n\n20:8. And all the people standing, answered as by the voice of one man:\nWe will not return to our tents, neither shall any one of us go into\nhis own house:\n\n20:9. But this we will do in common against Gabaa:\n\n20:10. We will take ten men of a hundred out of all the tribes of\nIsrael, and a hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten\nthousand, to bring victuals for the army, that we may fight against\nGabaa of Benjamin, and render to it for its wickedness, what it\ndeserveth.\n\n20:11. And all Israel were gathered together against the city, as one\nman, with one mind, and one counsel:\n\n20:12. And they sent messengers to all the tribe of Benjamin, to say to\nthem: Why hath so great an abomination been found among you?\n\n20:13. Deliver up the men of Gabaa, that have committed this heinous\ncrime, that they may die, and the evil may be taken away out of Israel.\nBut they would not hearken to the proposition of their brethren the\nchildren of Israel:\n\n20:14. But out of all the cities which were of their lot, they gathered\nthemselves together into Gabaa, to aid them, and to fight against the\nwhole people of Israel.\n\n20:15. And there were found of Benjamin five and twenty thousand men\nthat drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gabaa,\n\n20:16. Who were seven hundred most valiant men, fighting with the left\nhand as well as with the right: and slinging stones so sure that they\ncould hit even a hair, and not miss by the stone's going on either\nside.\n\n20:17. Of the men of Israel also, beside the children of Benjamin, were\nfound four hundred thousand that drew swords and were prepared to\nfight.\n\n20:18. And they arose and came to the house of God, that is, to Silo:\nand they consulted God, and said: Who shall be in our army the first to\ngo to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord\nanswered them: Let Juda be your leader.\n\n20:19. And forthwith the children of Israel rising in the morning,\ncamped by Gabaa:\n\n20:20. And going out from thence to fight against Benjamin, began to\nassault the city.\n\n20:21. And the children of Benjamin coming out of Gabaa slew of the\nchildren of Israel that day two and twenty thousand men.\n\n20:22. Again Israel, trusting in their strength and their number, set\ntheir army in array in the same place, where they had fought before:\n\nTrusting in their strength. . .The Lord suffered them to be overthrown\nand many of them to be slain, though their cause was just; partly in\npunishment of the idolatry which they exercised or tolerated in the\ntribe of Dan, and elsewhere; and partly because they trusted in their\nown strength; and therefore, though he bid them fight, he would not\ngive them the victory, till they were thoroughly humbled and had\nlearned to trust in him alone.\n\n20:23. Yet so that they first went up and wept before the Lord until\nnight: and consulted him and said: Shall I go out any more to fight\nagainst the children of Benjamin my brethren or not? And he answered\nthem: Go up against them, and join battle.\n\n20:24. And when the children of Israel went out the next day to fight\nagainst the children of Benjamin,\n\n20:25. The children of Benjamin sallied forth out of the gates of\nGabaa: and meeting them, made so great a slaughter of them, as to kill\neighteen thousand men that drew the sword.\n\n20:26. Wherefore all the children of Israel came to the house of God,\nand sat and wept before the Lord: and they fasted that day till the\nevening, and offered to him holocausts, and victims of peace offerings,\n\n20:27. And inquired of him concerning their state. At that time the ark\nof the covenant of the Lord was there,\n\n20:28. And Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was over the\nhouse. So they consulted the Lord, and said: Shall we go out any more\nto fight against the children of Benjamin, our brethren, or shall we\ncease? And the Lord said to them: Go up, for to morrow I will deliver\nthem into your hands.\n\n20:29. And the children of Israel set ambushes round about the city of\nGabaa:\n\n20:30. And they drew up their army against Benjamin the third time, as\nthey had done the first and second.\n\n20:31. And the children of Benjamin boldly issued out of the city, and\nseeing their enemies flee, pursued them a long way, so as to wound and\nkill some of them, as they had done the first and second day, whilst\nthey fled by two highways, whereof one goeth up to Bethel and the other\nto Gabaa, and they slew about thirty men:\n\n20:32. For they thought to cut them off as they did before. But they\nartfully feigning a flight, designed to draw them away from the city,\nand by their seeming to flee, to bring them to the highways aforesaid.\n\n20:33. Then all the children of Israel rising up out of the places\nwhere they were, set their army in battle array, in the place which is\ncalled Baalthamar. The ambushes also, which were about the city, began\nby little and little to come forth,\n\n20:34. And to march from the west side of the city. And other ten\nthousand men chosen out of all Israel, attacked the inhabitants of the\ncity. And the battle grew hot against the children of Benjamin: and\nthey understood not that present death threatened them on every side.\n\n20:35. And the Lord defeated them before the children of Israel, and\nthey slew of them in that day five and twenty thousand, and one\nhundred, all fighting men, and that drew the sword.\n\n20:36. But the children of Benjamin, when they saw themselves to be too\nweak, began to flee. Which the children of Israel seeing, gave them\nplace to flee, that they might come to the ambushes that were prepared,\nwhich they had set near the city.\n\n20:37. And they that were in ambush arose on a sudden out of their\ncoverts, and whilst Benjamin turned their backs to the slayers, went\ninto the city, and smote it with the edge of the sword.\n\n20:38. Now the children of Israel had given a sign to them, whom they\nhad laid in ambushes, that after they had taken the city, they should\nmake a fire: that by the smoke rising on high, they might shew that the\ncity was taken.\n\n20:39. And when the children of Israel saw this in the battle, (for the\nchildren of Benjamin thought they fled, and pursued them vigorously,\nkilling thirty men of their army)\n\n20:40. And perceived, as it were, a pillar of smoke rise up from the\ncity; and Benjamin looking back, saw that the city was taken, and that\nthe flames ascended on high:\n\n20:41. They that before had made as if they fled, turning their faces,\nstood bravely against them. Which the children of Benjamin seeing,\nturned their backs,\n\n20:42. And began to go towards the way of the desert, the enemy\npursuing them thither also. And they that fired the city came also out\nto meet them.\n\n20:43. And so it was, that they were slain on both sides by the\nenemies, and there was no rest of their men dying. They fell and were\nbeaten down on the east side of the city of Gabaa.\n\n20:44. And they that were slain in the same place, were eighteen\nthousand men, all most valiant soldiers.\n\n20:45. And when they that remained of Benjamin saw this, they fled into\nthe wilderness, and made towards the rock that is called Remmon. In\nthat flight also, as they were straggling, and going different ways;\nthey slew of them five thousand men. And as they went farther, they\nstill pursued them, and slew also other two thousand.\n\n20:46. And so it came to pass, that all that were slain of Benjamin, in\ndivers places, were five and twenty thousand fighting men, most valiant\nfor war.\n\n20:47. And there remained of all the number of Benjamin only six\nhundred men that were able to escape, and flee to the wilderness: and\nthey abode in the rock Remmon four months.\n\n20:48. But the children of Israel returning, put all the remains of the\ncity to the sword, both men and beasts, and all the cities and villages\nof Benjamin were consumed with devouring flames.\n\n\n\nJudges Chapter 21\n\n\nThe tribe of Benjamin is saved from being utterly extinct, by providing\nwives for the six hundred that remained.\n\n21:1. Now the children of Israel had also sworn in Maspha, saying: None\nof us shall give of his daughters to the children of Benjamin to wife.\n\n21:2. And they all came to the house of God in Silo, and sitting before\nhim till the evening, lifted up their voices, and began to lament and\nweep, saying:\n\n21:3. O Lord God of Israel, why is so great an evil come to pass in thy\npeople, that this day one tribe should be taken away from among us?\n\n21:4. And rising early the next day, they built an altar: and offered\nthere holocausts, and victims of peace, and they said:\n\n21:5. Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with\nthe army of the Lord? for they had bound themselves with a great oath,\nwhen they were in Maspha, that whosoever were wanting should be slain.\n\n21:6. And the children of Israel being moved with repentance for their\nbrother Benjamin, began to say: One tribe is taken away from Israel.\n\n21:7. Whence shall they take wives? For we have all in general sworn,\nnot to give our daughters to them.\n\n21:8. Therefore they said: Who is there of all the tribes of Israel,\nthat came not up to the Lord to Maspha? And, behold, the inhabitants of\nJabes Galaad were found not to have been in that army.\n\n21:9. (At that time also when they were in Silo, no one of them was\nfound there,)\n\n21:10. So they sent ten thousand of the most valiant men, and commanded\nthem, saying: Go and put the inhabitants of Jabes Galaad to the sword,\nwith their wives and their children.\n\n21:11. And this is what you shall observe: Every male, and all women\nthat have known men, you shall kill, but the virgins you shall save.\n\n21:12. And there were found of Jabes Galaad four hundred virgins, that\nhad not known the bed of a man, and they brought them to the camp in\nSilo, into the land of Chanaan.\n\n21:13. And they sent messengers to the children of Benjamin, that were\nin the rock Remmon, and commanded them to receive them in peace.\n\n21:14. And the children of Benjamin came at that time, and wives were\ngiven them of Jabes Galaad: but they found no others, whom they might\ngive in like manner.\n\n21:15. And all Israel was very sorry, and repented for the destroying\nof one tribe out of Israel.\n\n21:16. And the ancients said: What shall we do with the rest, that have\nnot received wives? for all the women in Benjamin are dead.\n\n21:17. And we must use all care, and provide with great diligence, that\none tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.\n\n21:18. For as to our own daughters we cannot give them, being bound\nwith an oath and a curse, whereby we said: Cursed be he that shall give\nBenjamin any of his daughters to wife.\n\n21:19. So they took counsel, and said: Behold, there is a yearly\nsolemnity of the Lord in Silo, which is situate on the north of the\ncity of Bethel, and on the east side of the way, that goeth from Bethel\nto Sichem, and on the south of the town of Lebona.\n\n21:20. And they commanded the children of Benjamin and said: Go, and\nlie hid in the vineyards,\n\n21:21. And when you shall see the daughters of Silo come out, as the\ncustom is, to dance, come ye on a sudden out of the vineyards, and\ncatch you every man his wife among them, and go into the land of\nBenjamin.\n\n21:22. And when their fathers and their brethren shall come, and shall\nbegin to complain against you, and to chide, we will say to them: Have\npity on them: for they took them not away as by the right of war or\nconquest, but when they asked to have them, you gave them not, and the\nfault was committed on your part.\n\n21:23. And the children of Benjamin did as they had been commanded:\nand, according to their number, they carried off for themselves every\nman his wife of them that were dancing: and they went into their\npossession, and built up their cities, and dwelt in them.\n\n21:24. The children of Israel also returned by their tribes, and\nfamilies, to their dwellings. In those days there was no king in\nIsrael: but every one did that which seemed right to himself.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF RUTH\n\n\n\nThis Book is called RUTH, from the name of the person whose history is\nhere recorded: who, being a Gentile, became a convert to the true\nfaith, and marrying Booz, the great-grandfather of David, was one of\nthose from whom Christ sprung according to the flesh, and an\nillustrious figure of the Gentile church. It is thought this book was\nwritten by the prophet Samuel.\n\n\n\nRuth Chapter 1\n\n\nElimelech of Bethlehem going with his wife Noemi, and two sons, into\nthe land of Moab, dieth there. His sons marry wives of that country and\ndie without issue. Noemi returneth home with her daughter in law Ruth,\nwho refuseth to part with her.\n\n1:1. In the days of the judges, when the judges ruled, there came a\nfamine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem Juda, went to\nsojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.\n\n1:2. He was named Elimelech, and his wife Noemi: and his two sons, the\none Mahalon, and the other Chelion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Juda. And\nentering into the country of Moab, they abode there.\n\n1:3. And Elimelech the husband of Noemi died: and she remained with her\nsons.\n\n1:4. And they took wives of the women of Moab, of which one was called\nOrpha, and the other Ruth. And they dwelt their ten years,\n\n1:5. And they both died, to wit, Mahalon and Chelion: and the woman was\nleft alone, having lost both her sons and her husband.\n\n1:6. And she arose to go from the land of Moab to her own country, with\nboth her daughters in law: for she had heard that the Lord had looked\nupon his people, and had given them food.\n\n1:7. Wherefore she went forth out of the place of her sojournment, with\nboth her daughters in law: and being now in the way to return into the\nland of Juda,\n\n1:8. She said to them: Go ye home to your mothers, the Lord deal\nmercifully with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.\n\n1:9. May he grant you to find rest in the houses of the husbands whom\nyou shall take. And she kissed them. And they lifted up their voice,\nand began to weep,\n\n1:10. And to say: We will go on with thee to thy people.\n\n1:11. But she answered them: Return, my daughters: why come ye with me?\nhave I any more sons in my womb, that you may hope for husbands of me?\n\n1:12. Return again, my daughters, and go your ways: for I am now spent\nwith age, and not fit for wedlock. Although I might conceive this\nnight, and bear children,\n\n1:13. If you would wait till they were grown up, and come to man's\nestate, you would be old women before you marry. Do not so, my\ndaughters, I beseech you: for I am grieved the more for your distress,\nand the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.\n\n1:14. And they lifted up their voice, and began to weep again: Orpha\nkissed her mother in law, and returned: Ruth stuck close to her mother\nin law.\n\n1:15. And Noemi said to her: Behold thy kinswoman is returned to her\npeople, and to her gods, go thou with her.\n\nTo her gods, etc. . .Noemi did not mean to persuade Ruth to return to\nthe false gods she had formerly worshipped: but by this manner of\nspeech, insinuated to her, that if she would go with her, she must\nrenounce her false gods and return to the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n1:16. She answered: Be not against me, to desire that I should leave\nthee and depart: for whithersoever thou shalt go, I will go: and where\nthou shalt dwell, I also will dwell. Thy people shall be my people, and\nthy God my God.\n\n1:17. The land that shall receive thee dying, in the same will I die:\nand there will I be buried. The Lord do so and so to me, and add more\nalso, if aught but death part me and thee.\n\nThe Lord do so and so, etc. . .A form of swearing usual in the history\nof the Old Testament, by which the person wished such and such evils to\nfall upon them, if they did not do what they said.\n\n1:18. Then Noemi seeing that Ruth was steadfastly determined to go with\nher, would not be against it, nor persuade her any more to return to\nher friends:\n\n1:19. So they went together, and came to Bethlehem. And when they were\ncome into the city, the report was quickly spread among all: and the\nwomen said: This is that Noemi.\n\n1:20. But she said to them: Call me not Noemi (that is, beautiful,) but\ncall me Mara (that is, bitter), for the Almighty hath quite filled me\nwith bitterness.\n\n1:21. I went out full and the Lord hath brought me back empty. Why then\ndo you call me Noemi, whom the Lord hath humbled, and the Almighty hath\nafflicted?\n\n1:22. So Noemi came with Ruth, the Moabitess, her daughter in law, from\nthe land of her sojournment: and returned into Bethlehem, in the\nbeginning of the barley harvest.\n\n\n\nRuth Chapter 2\n\n\nRuth gleaneth in the field of Booz, who sheweth her favour.\n\n2:1. Now her husband Elimelech had a kinsman, a powerful man, and very\nrich, whose name was Booz.\n\n2:3. And Ruth, the Moabitess, said to her mother in law: If thou wilt,\nI will go into the field, and glean the ears of corn that escape the\nhands of the reapers, wheresoever I shall find grace with a\nhouseholder, that will be favourable to me. And she answered her: Go,\nmy daughter.\n\n2:3. She went, therefore, and gleaned the ears of corn after the\nreapers. And it happened that the owner of that field was Booz, who was\nof the kindred of Elimelech.\n\n2:4. And behold, he came out of Bethlehem, and said to the reapers: The\nLord be with you. And they answered him: The Lord bless thee.\n\n2:5. And Booz said to the young man that was set over the reapers:\nWhose maid is this ?\n\n2:6. And he answered him: This is the Moabitess, who came with Noemi,\nfrom the land of Moab,\n\n2:7. And she desired leave to glean the ears of corn that remain,\nfollowing the steps of the reapers: and she hath been in the field from\nmorning till now, and hath not gone home for one moment.\n\n2:8. And Booz said to Ruth: Hear me, daughter, do not go to glean in\nany other field, and do not depart from this place: but keep with my\nmaids,\n\n2:9. And follow where they reap. For I have charged my young men, not\nto molest thee: and if thou art thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink\nof the waters whereof the servants drink.\n\n2:10. She fell on her face, and worshipping upon the ground, said to\nhim: Whence cometh this to me, that I should find grace before thy\neyes, and that thou shouldst vouchsafe to take notice of me, a woman of\nanother country?\n\n2:11. And he answered her: All hath been told me, that thou hast done\nto thy mother in law after the death of thy husband: and how thou hast\nleft thy parents, and the land wherein thou wast born, and art come to\na people which thou knewest not heretofore.\n\n2:12. The Lord render unto thee for thy work, and mayst thou receive a\nfull reward of the Lord the God of Israel, to whom thou art come, and\nunder whose wings thou art fled.\n\n2:13. And she said: I have found grace in thy eyes, my lord, who hast\ncomforted me, and hast spoken to the heart of thy handmaid, who am not\nlike to one of thy maids.\n\n2:14. And Booz said to her: At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of\nthe bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. So she sat at the side of\nthe reapers, and she heaped to herself frumenty, and ate and was\nfilled, and took the leavings.\n\n2:15. And she arose from thence, to glean the ears of corn as before.\nAnd Booz commanded his servants, saying: If she would even reap with\nyou, hinder her not:\n\n2:16. And let fall some of your handfuls of purpose, and leave them,\nthat she may gather them without shame, and let no man rebuke her when\nshe gathereth them.\n\n2:17. She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out\nwith a rod, and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the\nmeasure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels:\n\n2:18. Which she took up, and returned into the city, and shewed it to\nher mother in law: moreover, she brought out, and gave her of the\nremains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled.\n\n2:19. And her mother in law said to her: Where hast thou gleaned today,\nand where hast thou wrought? blessed be he that hath had pity on thee.\nAnd she told her with whom she had wrought: and she told the man's\nname, that he was called Booz.\n\n2:20. And Noemi answered her: Blessed be he of the Lord: because the\nsame kindness which he shewed to the living, he hath kept also to the\ndead. And again she said: The man is our kinsman.\n\n2:21. And Ruth said: He also charged me, that I should keep close to\nhis reapers, till all the corn should be reaped.\n\n2:22. And her mother in law said to her: It is better for thee, my\ndaughter, to go out to reap with his maids, lest in another man's field\nsome one may resist thee.\n\n2:23. So she kept close to the maids of Booz: and continued to glean\nwith them, till all the barley and the wheat were laid up in the barns.\n\n\n\nRuth Chapter 3\n\n\nRuth instructed by her mother in law lieth at Booz's feet, claiming him\nfor her husband by the law of affinity: she receiveth a good answer,\nand six measures of barley.\n\n3:1. After she was returned to her mother in law, Noemi said to her: My\ndaughter, I will seek rest for thee, and will provide that it may be\nwell with thee.\n\n3:2. This Booz, with whose maids thou wast joined in the field, is our\nnear kinsman, and behold this night he winnoweth barley in the\nthreshingfloor.\n\n3:3. Wash thyself therefore and anoint thee, and put on thy best\ngarments, and go down to the barnfloor: but let not the man see thee,\ntill he shall have done eating and drinking.\n\n3:4. And when he shall go to sleep, mark the place wherein he sleepeth:\nand thou shalt go in, and lift up the clothes wherewith he is covered\ntowards his feet, and shalt lay thyself down there: and he will tell\nthee what thou must do.\n\n3:5. She answered: Whatsoever thou shalt command, I will do.\n\n3:6. And she went down to the barnfloor, and did all that her mother in\nlaw had bid her.\n\n3:7. And when Booz had eaten, and drunk, and was merry, he went to\nsleep by the heap of sheaves, and she came softly, and uncovering his\nfeet, laid herself down.\n\n3:8. And behold, when it was now midnight the man was afraid, and\ntroubled: and he saw a woman lying at his feet,\n\n3:9. And he said to her: Who art thou ? And she answered: I am Ruth,\nthy handmaid: spread thy coverlet over thy servant, for thou art a near\nkinsman.\n\n3:10. And he said: Blessed art thou of the Lord, my daughter, and thy\nlatter kindness has surpassed the former: because thou hast not\nfollowed young men either poor or rich.\n\nThy latter kindness, viz. . .to thy husband deceased in seeking to keep\nup his name and family by marrying his relation according to the law,\nand not following after young men. For Booz, it seems, was then in\nyears.\n\n3:11. Fear not therefore, but whatsoever thou shalt say to me I will do\nto thee. For all the people that dwell within the gates of my city,\nknow that thou art a virtuous woman.\n\n3:12. Neither do I deny myself to be near of kin, but there is another\nnearer than I.\n\n3:13. Rest thou this night: and when morning is come, if he will take\nthee by the right of kindred, all is well: but if he will not, I will\nundoubtedly take thee, so the Lord liveth: sleep till the morning.\n\n3:14. So she slept at his feet till the night was going off. And she\narose before men could know one another, and Booz said: Beware lest any\nman know that thou camest hither.\n\n3:15. And again he said: Spread thy mantle, wherewith thou art covered,\nand hold it with both hands. And when she spread it and held it, he\nmeasured six measures of barley, and laid it upon her. And she carried\nit, and went into the city,\n\n3:16. And came to her mother in law; who said to her: What hast thou\ndone, daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.\n\n3:17. And she said: Behold he hath given me six measures of barley: for\nhe said: I will not have thee return empty to thy mother in law.\n\n3:18. And Noemi said: Wait, my daughter, till we see what end the thing\nwill have. For the man will not rest until he have accomplished what he\nhath said.\n\n\n\nRuth Chapter 4\n\n\nUpon the refusal of the nearer kinsman, Booz marrieth Ruth, who\nbringeth forth Obed, the grandfather of David.\n\n4:1. Then Booz went up to the gate, and sat there. And when he had seen\nthe kinsman going by, of whom he had spoken before, he said to him,\ncalling him by his name: Turn aside for a little while, and sit down\nhere. He turned aside, and sat down.\n\n4:2. And Booz, taking ten men of the ancients of the city, said to\nthem: Sit ye down here.\n\n4:3. They sat down, and he spoke to the kinsman: Noemi, who is returned\nfrom the country of Moab will sell a parcel of land that belonged to\nour brother Elimelech.\n\n4:4. I would have thee to understand this, and would tell thee before\nall that sit here, and before the ancients of my people. If thou wilt\ntake possession of it by the right of kindred: buy it, and possess it:\nbut if it please thee not, tell me so, that I may know what I have to\ndo. For there is no near kinsman besides thee, who art first, and me,\nwho am second. But he answered: I will buy the field.\n\n4:5. And Booz said to him: When thou shalt buy the field at the woman's\nhand, thou must take also Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of the\ndeceased: to raise up the name of thy kinsman in his inheritance.\n\n4:6. He answered: I yield up my right of next akin: for I must not cut\noff the posterity of my own family. Do thou make use of my privilege,\nwhich I profess I do willingly forego.\n\n4:7. Now this in former times was the manner in Israel between kinsmen,\nthat if at any time one yielded his right to another: that the grant\nmight be sure, the man put off his shoe and gave it to his neighbour;\nthis was a testimony of cession of right in Israel.\n\n4:8. So Booz said to his kinsman: Put off thy shoe. And immediately he\ntook it off from his foot.\n\n4:9. And he said to the ancients, and to all the people: You are\nwitnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and\nChelion's, and Mahalon's, of the hand of Noemi:\n\n4:10. And have taken to wife Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon,\nto raise up the name of the deceased in his inheritance lest his name\nbe cut off, from among his family and his brethren and his people. You,\nI say, are witnesses of this thing.\n\n4:11. Then all the people that were in the gate, and the ancients,\nanswered: We are witnesses: The Lord make this woman who cometh into\nthy house, like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the house of Israel: that\nshe may be an example of virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous name\nin Bethlehem:\n\nEphrata. . .Another name of Bethlehem.\n\n4:12. And that the house may be, as the house of Phares, whom Thamar\nbore unto Juda, of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this\nyoung woman.\n\n4:13. Booz therefore took Ruth, and married her: and went in unto her,\nand the Lord gave her to conceive, and to bear a son.\n\n4:14. And the women said to Noemi: Blessed be the Lord, who hath not\nsuffered thy family to want a successor: that his name should be\npreserved in Israel.\n\n4:15. And thou shouldst have one to comfort thy soul, and cherish thy\nold age. For he is born of thy daughter in law: who loveth thee: and\nis much better to thee, than if thou hadst seven sons.\n\n4:16. And Noemi taking the child, laid it in her bosom, and she carried\nit, and was a nurse unto it.\n\n4:17. And the women, her neighbours, congratulating with her, and\nsaying, There is a son born to Noemi, called his name Obed: he is the\nfather of Isai, the father of David.\n\n4:18. These are the generations of Phares: Phares begot Esron,\n\n4:19. Esron begot Aram, Aram begot Aminadab,\n\n4:20. Aminadab begot Nahasson, Nahasson begot Salmon,\n\n4:21. Salmon begot Booz, Booz begot Obed,\n\n4:22. Obed begot Isai, Isai begot David.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL, OTHERWISE CALLED THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS\n\n\n\nThis and the following Book are called by the Hebrews the books of\nSamuel, because they contain the history of Samuel, and of the two\nkings, Saul and David, whom he anointed. They are more commonly named\nby the Fathers, the first and second book of kings. As to the writer of\nthem, it is the common opinion that Samuel composed the first book, as\nfar as the twenty-fifth chapter; and that the prophets Nathan and Gad\nfinished the first, and wrote the second book. See 1 Paralipomenon,\nalias 1 Chronicles, 29.29.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 1\n\n\nAnna the wife of Elcana being barren, by vow and prayer obtaineth a\nson: whom she calleth Samuel: and presenteth him to the service of God\nin Silo, according to her vow.\n\n1:1. There was a man of Ramathaimsophim, of Mount Ephraim, and his name\nwas Elcana, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliu, the son of Thohu, the\nson of Suph, an Ephraimite:\n\nAn Ephraimite. . .He was of the tribe of Levi, 1. Par. 6.34, but is\ncalled an Ephraimite from dwelling in mount Ephraim.\n\n1:2. And he had two wives, the name of one was Anna, and the name of\nthe other Phenenna. Phenenna had children: but Anna had no children.\n\n1:3. And this man went up out of his city upon the appointed days, to\nadore and to offer sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Silo. And the two\nsons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were there priests of the Lord.\n\n1:4. Now the day came, and Elcana offered sacrifice, and gave to\nPhenenna, his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, portions:\n\n1:5. But to Anna he gave one portion with sorrow, because he loved\nAnna. And the Lord had shut up her womb.\n\n1:6. Her rival also afflicted her, and troubled her exceedingly,\ninsomuch that she upbraided her, that the Lord had shut up her womb:\n\n1:7. And thus she did every year, when the time returned, that they\nwent up to the temple of the Lord: and thus she provoked her: but Anna\nwept, and did not eat.\n\n1:8. Then Elcana, her husband, said to her: Anna, why weepest thou? and\nwhy dost thou not eat? and why dost thou afflict thy heart? Am not I\nbetter to thee than ten children?\n\n1:9. So Anna arose after she had eaten and drunk in Silo: And Heli, the\npriest, sitting upon a stool before the door of the temple of the Lord;\n\n1:10. As Anna had her heart full of grief, she prayed to the Lord,\nshedding many tears,\n\n1:11. And she made a vow, saying: O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt look\ndown, and wilt be mindful of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt\ngive to thy servant a manchild: I will give him to the Lord all the\ndays of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.\n\n1:12. And it came to pass, as she multiplied prayers before the Lord,\nthat Heli observed her mouth.\n\n1:13. Now Anna spoke in her heart, and only her lips moved, but her\nvoice was not heard at all. Heli therefore thought her to be drunk,\n\n1:14. And said to her: How long wilt thou be drunk? digest a little the\nwine, of which thou hast taken too much.\n\n1:15. Anna answering, said: Not so, my lord: for I am an exceeding\nunhappy woman, and have drunk neither wine nor any strong drink, but I\nhave poured out my soul before the Lord.\n\n1:16. Count not thy handmaid for one of the daughters of Belial: for\nout of the abundance of my sorrow and grief have I spoken till now.\n\n1:17. Then Heli said to her: Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant\nthee thy petition, which thou hast asked of him.\n\n1:18. And she said: Would to God thy handmaid may find grace in thy\neyes. So the woman went on her way, and ate, and her countenance was no\nmore changed.\n\n1:19. And they rose in the morning, and worshipped before the Lord: and\nthey returned, and came into their house at Ramatha. And Elcana knew\nAnna his wife: And the Lord remembered her.\n\n1:20. And it came to pass when the time was come about, Anna conceived\nand bore a son, and called his name Samuel: because she had asked him\nof the Lord.\n\nSamuel. . .This name imports, asked of God.\n\n1:21. And Elcana, her husband, went up, and all his house, to offer to\nthe Lord the solemn sacrifice, and his vow.\n\n1:22. But Anna went not up: for she said to her husband: I will not go\ntill the child be weaned, and till I may carry him, that he may appear\nbefore the Lord, and may abide always there.\n\n1:23. And Elcana, her husband, said to her: Do what seemeth good to\nthee, and stay till thou wean him: and I pray that the Lord may fulfil\nhis word. So the woman staid at home, and gave her son suck, till she\nweaned him.\n\n1:24. And after she had weaned him, she carried him with her, with\nthree calves, and three bushels of flour, and a bottle of wine, and she\nbrought him to the house of the Lord in Silo. Now the child was as yet\nvery young:\n\n1:25. And they immolated a calf, and offered the child to Heli.\n\n1:26. And Anna said: I beseech thee, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my\nlord: I am that woman, who stood before thee here praying to the Lord.\n\n1:27. For this child did I pray, and the Lord hath granted me my\npetition, which I asked of him.\n\n1:28. Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord all the days of his\nlife, he shall be lent to the Lord. And they adored the Lord there. And\nAnna prayed, and said:\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 2\n\n\nThe canticle of Anna. The wickedness of the sons of Heli: for which\nthey are not duly corrected by their father. A prophecy against the\nhouse of Heli.\n\n2:1. My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, and my horn is exalted in my\nGod: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies: because I have joyed in thy\nsalvation.\n\nMy horn. . .The horn in the scriptures signifies strength, power, the\nhorn is said to be exalted, when a person receives an increase of\nstrength or glory.\n\n2:2. There is none holy as the Lord is: for there is no other beside\nthee, and there is none strong like our God.\n\n2:3. Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters\ndepart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to\nhim are thoughts prepared.\n\n2:4. The bow of the mighty is overcome, and the weak are girt with\nstrength.\n\n2:5. They that were full before, have hired out themselves for bread:\nand the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she\nthat had many children is weakened.\n\n2:6. The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and\nbringeth back again.\n\n2:7. The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth:\n\n2:8. He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and lifteth up the poor\nfrom the dunghill: that he may sit with princes, and hold the throne of\nglory. For the poles of the earth are the Lord's, and upon them he hath\nset the world.\n\n2:9. He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be\nsilent in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength.\n\n2:10. The adversaries of the Lord shall fear him: and upon them shall\nhe thunder in the heavens: The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth,\nand he shall give empire to his king, and shall exalt the horn of his\nChrist.\n\n2:11. And Elcana went to Ramatha, to his house: but the child\nministered in the sight of the Lord before the face of Heli the priest.\n\n2:12. Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial, not knowing the\nLord,\n\n2:13. Nor the office of the priests to the people: but whosoever had\noffered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest came, while the flesh\nwas in boiling, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand,\n\n2:14. And thrust it into the kettle, or into the cauldron, or into the\npot, or into the pan: and all that the fleshhook brought up, the priest\ntook to himself. Thus did they to all Israel that came to Silo.\n\n2:15. Also before they burnt the fat, the servant of the priest came,\nand said to the man that sacrificed: Give me flesh to boil for the\npriest: for I will not take of thee sodden flesh, but raw.\n\n2:16. And he that sacrificed said to him: Let the fat first be burnt to\nday, according to the custom, and then take to thee as much as thy soul\ndesireth. But he answered, and said to him: Not so: but thou shalt\ngive it me now, or else I will take it by force.\n\n2:17. Wherefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great before the\nLord: because they withdrew men from the sacrifice of the Lord.\n\n2:18. But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being a child\ngirded with a linen ephod.\n\n2:19. And his mother made him a little coat, which she brought to him\non the appointed days, when she went up with her husband, to offer the\nsolemn sacrifice.\n\n2:20. And Heli blessed Elcana and his wife: and he said to him: The\nLord give thee seed of this woman, for the loan thou hast lent to the\nLord. And they went to their own home.\n\n2:21. And the Lord visited Anna, and she conceived, and bore three\nsons, and two daughters: and the child Samuel became great before the\nLord.\n\n2:22. Now Heli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did to all\nIsrael: and how they lay with the women that waited at the door of the\ntabernacle:\n\n2:23. And he said to them: Why do ye these kinds of things, which I\nhear, very wicked things, from all the people?\n\n2:24. Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, that\nyou make the people of the Lord to transgress.\n\n2:25. If one man shall sin against another, God may be appeased in his\nbehalf: but if a man shall sin against the Lord, who shall pray for\nhim? And they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the\nLord would slay them.\n\nWho shall pray for him. . .By this word Heli would have his sons\nunderstand, that by their wicked abuse of sacred things, and of the\nvery sacrifices which were appointed to appease the Lord, they deprived\nthemselves of the ordinary means of reconciliation with God; which was\nby sacrifices. The more, because they were the chief priests whose\nbusiness it was to intercede for all others, they had no other to offer\nsacrifices and to make atonement for them. Ibid. Because the Lord would\nslay them. . .In consequence of their manifold sacrileges, he would not\nsoften their hearts with his efficacious grace, but was determined to\ndestroy them.\n\n2:26. But the child Samuel advanced, and grew on, and pleased both the\nLord and men.\n\n2:27. And there came a man of God to Heli, and said to him: Thus saith\nthe Lord: Did I not plainly appear to thy father's house, when they\nwere in Egypt in the house of Pharao?\n\n2:28. And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest,\nto go up to my altar, and burn incense to me, and to wear the ephod\nbefore me: and I gave to thy father's house of all the sacrifices of\nthe children of Israel.\n\n2:29. Why have you kicked away my victims, and my gifts which I\ncommanded to be offered in the temple: and thou hast rather honoured\nthy sons than me, to eat the firstfruits of every sacrifice of my\npeople Israel?\n\n2:30. Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I said indeed\nthat thy house, and the house of thy father, should minister in my\nsight, for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me: but\nwhosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that despise\nme, shall be despised.\n\n2:31. Behold the days come: and I will cut off thy arm, and the arm of\nthy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house.\n\n2:32. And thou shalt see thy rival in the temple, in all the prosperity\nof Israel, and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.\n\nThy rival. . .A priest of another race. This was partly fulfilled, when\nAbiathar, of the race of Heli, was removed from the priesthood, and\nSadoc, who was of another line, was substituted in his place. But it\nwas more fully accomplished in the New Testament, when the priesthood\nof Aaron gave place to that of Christ.\n\n2:33. However, I will not altogether take away a man of thee from my\naltar: but that thy eyes may faint, and thy soul be spent: and a great\npart of thy house shall die, when they come to man's estate.\n\n2:34. And this shall be a sign to thee, that shall come upon thy two\nsons, Ophni and Phinees: in one day they shall both of them die.\n\n2:35. And I will raise me up a faithful priest, who shall do according\nto my heart, and my soul and I will build him a faithful house, and he\nshall walk all days before my anointed.\n\n2:36. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall remain in thy\nhouse shall come that he may be prayed for, and shall offer a piece of\nsilver, and a roll of bread, and shall say: Put me, I beseech thee, to\nsomewhat of the priestly office, that I may eat a morsel of bread.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 3\n\n\nSamuel is four times called by the Lord: who revealeth to him the evil\nthat shall fall on Heli, and his house.\n\n3:1. Now the child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Heli, and the\nword of the Lord was precious in those days, there was no manifest\nvision.\n\nPrecious. . .That is, rare.\n\n3:2. And it came to pass one day when Heli lay in his place, and his\neyes were grown dim, that he could not see:\n\n3:3. Before the lamp of God went out, Samuel slept in the temple of the\nLord, where the ark of God was.\n\n3:4. And the Lord called Samuel. And he answered: Here am I.\n\n3:5. And he ran to Heli, and said: Here am I: for thou didst call me.\nHe said: I did not call: go back and sleep. And he went and slept.\n\n3:6. And the Lord called Samuel again. And Samuel arose and went to\nHeli, and said: Here am I: for thou calledst me. He answered: I did\nnot call thee, my son: return and sleep.\n\n3:7. Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither had the word of the\nLord been revealed to him.\n\n3:8. And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he arose up\nand went to Heli,\n\n3:9. And said: Here am I: for thou didst call me. Then Heli understood\nthat the Lord called the child, and he said to Samuel: Go, and sleep:\nand if he shall call thee any more, thou shalt say: Speak, Lord, for\nthy servant heareth. So Samuel went, and slept in his place.\n\n3:10. And the Lord came, and stood, and he called, as he had called the\nother times, Samuel, Samuel. And Samuel said: Speak, Lord, for thy\nservant heareth.\n\n3:11. And the Lord said to Samuel: Behold I do a thing in Israel: and\nwhosoever shall hear it, both his ears shall tingle.\n\n3:12. In that day I will raise up against Heli all the things I have\nspoken concerning his house: I will begin, and I will make an end.\n\n3:13. For I have foretold unto him, that I will judge his house for\never, for iniquity, because he knew that his sons did wickedly, and did\nnot chastise them.\n\n3:14. Therefore have I sworn to the house of Heli, that the iniquity of\nhis house shall not be expiated with victims nor offerings for ever.\n\n3:15. And Samuel slept till morning, and opened the doors of the house\nof the Lord. And Samuel feared to tell the vision to Heli.\n\n3:16. Then Heli called Samuel, and said: Samuel, my son. And he\nanswered: Here am I.\n\n3:17. And he asked him: What is the word that the Lord hath spoken to\nthee? I beseech thee hide it not from me. May God do so and so to thee,\nand add so and so, if thou hide from me one word of all that were said\nto thee.\n\n3:18. So Samuel told him all the words, and did not hide them from him.\nAnd he answered: It is the Lord: let him do what is good in his sight.\n\n3:19. And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and not one of his\nwords fell to the ground.\n\n3:20. And all Israel, from Dan to Bersabee, knew that Samuel was a\nfaithful prophet of the Lord.\n\n3:21. And the Lord again appeared in Silo, for the Lord revealed\nhimself to Samuel in Silo, according to the word of the Lord. And the\nword of Samuel came to pass to all Israel.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 4\n\n\nThe Israelites being overcome by the Philistines, send for the ark of\nGod: but they are beaten again, the sons of Heli are killed, and the\nark taken: upon the hearing of the news Heli falleth backward and\ndieth.\n\n4:1. And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered\nthemselves together to fight: and Israel went out to war against the\nPhilistines, and camped by the Stone of help. And the Philistines came\nto Aphec,\n\nThe Stone of help. . .In Hebrew Eben-ezer; so called from the help which\nthe Lord was pleased afterwards to give to his people Israel in that\nplace, by the prayers of Samuel, chap. 7.12.\n\n4:2. And put their army in array against Israel. And when they had\njoined battle, Israel turned their backs to the Philistines: and there\nwere slain in that fight, here and there in the fields, about four\nthousand men.\n\n4:3. And the people returned to the camp: and the ancients of Israel\nsaid: Why hath the Lord defeated us to day before the Philistines? Let\nus fetch unto us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Silo, and let\nit come in the midst of us, that it may save us from the hand of our\nenemies.\n\n4:4. So the people sent to Silo, and they brought from thence the ark\nof the covenant of the Lord of hosts, sitting upon the cherubims: and\nthe two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were with the ark of the\ncovenant of God.\n\n4:5. And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord was come into the\ncamp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, and the earth rang again.\n\n4:6. And the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, and they said:\nWhat is this noise of a great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And\nthey understood that the ark of the Lord was come into the camp.\n\n4:7. And the Philistines were afraid, saying: God is come into the\ncamp. And sighing, they said:\n\n4:8. Woe to us: for there was no such great joy yesterday, and the day\nbefore: Woe to us. Who shall deliver us from the hand of these high\nGods? these are the Gods that struck Egypt with all the plagues in the\ndesert.\n\n4:9. Take courage, and behave like men, ye Philistines: lest you come\nto be servants to the Hebrews, as they have served you: take courage\nand fight.\n\n4:10. So the Philistines fought, and Israel was overthrown, and every\nman fled to his own dwelling: and there was an exceeding great\nslaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.\n\n4:11. And the ark of God was taken: and the two sons of Heli, Ophni and\nPhinees, were slain.\n\n4:12. And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Silo\nthe same day, with his clothes rent, and his head strewed with dust.\n\n4:13. And when he was come, Heli sat upon a stool over against the way,\nwatching. For his heart was fearful for the ark of God. And when the\nman was come into the city, he told it: and all the city cried out.\n\n4:14. And Heli heard the noise of the cry, and he said: What meaneth\nthe noise of this uproar? But he made haste, and came, and told Heli.\n\n4:15. Now Heli was ninety and eight years old, and his eyes were dim,\nand he could not see.\n\n4:16. And he said to Heli: I am he that came from the battle, and have\nfled out of the field this day. And he said to him: What is there done,\nmy son?\n\n4:17. And he that brought the news answered, and said: Israel is fled\nbefore the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter of the\npeople: moreover thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees, are dead: and the ark\nof God is taken.\n\n4:18. And when he had named the ark of God, he fell from his stool\nbackwards by the door, and broke his neck and died. For he was an old\nman, and far advanced in years: And he judged Israel forty years.\n\nNamed the ark, etc. . .There is great reason, by all these\ncircumstances, to hope that Heli died in a state of grace; and by his\ntemporal punishments escaped the eternal.\n\n4:19. And his daughter in law, the wife of Phinees, was big with child,\nand near her time: and hearing the news that the ark of God was taken,\nand her father in law, and her husband, were dead, she bowed herself\nand fell in labour: for her pains came upon her on a sudden.\n\n4:20. And when she was upon the point of death, they that stood about\nher said to her: Fear not, for thou hast borne a son. She answered them\nnot, nor gave heed to them.\n\n4:21. And she called the child Ichabod, saying: The glory is gone from\nIsrael, because the ark of God was taken, and for her father in law,\nand for her husband:\n\nIchabod. . .That is, Where is the glory? or, there is no glory. We see\nhow much the Israelites lamented the loss of the ark, which was but the\nsymbol of God's presence among them. How much more ought Christians to\nlament the loss of God himself, when by sin they have driven him out of\ntheir souls.\n\n4:22. And she said: The glory is departed from Israel, because the ark\nof God was taken.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 5\n\n\nDagon twice falleth down before the ark. The Philistines are grievously\nafflicted, wherever the ark cometh.\n\n5:1. And the Philistines took the ark of God, and carried it from the\nStone of help into Azotus.\n\n5:2. And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the\ntemple of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.\n\n5:3. And when the Azotians arose early the next day, behold Dagon lay\nupon his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord: and they took\nDagon, and set him again in his place.\n\n5:4. And the next day again, when they rose in the morning, they found\nDagon lying upon his face on the earth before the ark of the Lord: and\nthe head of Dagon, and both the palms of his hands, were cut off upon\nthe threshold:\n\n5:5. And only the stump of Dagon remained in its place. For this cause\nneither the priests of Dagon, nor any that go into the temple, tread on\nthe threshold of Dagon in Azotus unto this day.\n\n5:6. And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and he\ndestroyed them, and afflicted Azotus and the coasts thereof with\nemerods. And in the villages and fields in the midst of that country,\nthere came forth a multitude of mice, and there was the confusion of a\ngreat mortality in the city.\n\n5:7. And the men of Azotus seeing this kind of plague, said: The ark of\nthe God of Israel shall not stay with us: for his hand is heavy upon\nus, and upon Dagon, our god.\n\n5:8. And sending, they gathered together all the lords of the\nPhilistines to them, and said: What shall we do with the ark of the God\nof Israel? And the Gethites answered: Let the ark of the God of Israel\nbe carried about. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about.\n\n5:9. And while they were carrying it about, the hand of the Lord came\nupon every city with an exceeding great slaughter: and he smote the men\nof every city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their\nsecret parts. And the Gethites consulted together, and made themselves\nseats of skins.\n\n5:10. Therefore they sent the ark of God into Accaron. And when the ark\nof God was come into Accaron, the Accaronites cried out, saying: They\nhave brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our\npeople.\n\n5:11. They sent therefore, and gathered together all the lords of the\nPhilistines: and they said: Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and\nlet it return into its own place, and not kill us and our people.\n\n5:12. For there was the fear of death in every city, and the hand of\nGod was exceeding heavy. The men also that did not die, were afflicted\nwith the emerods: and the cry of every city went up to heaven.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 6\n\n\nThe ark is sent back to Bethsames: where many are slain for looking\nthrough curiosity into it.\n\n6:1. Now the ark of God was in the land of the Philistines seven\nmonths.\n\n6:2. And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners,\nsaying: What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? tell us how we are\nto send it back to its place. And they said:\n\n6:3. If you send back the ark of the God of Israel, send it not away\nempty, but render unto him what you owe for sin, and then you shall be\nhealed: and you shall know why his hand departeth not from you.\n\n6:4. They answered: What is it we ought to render unto him for sin? and\nthey answered:\n\n6:5. According to the number of the provinces of the Philistines you\nshall make five golden emerods, and five golden mice: for the same\nplague hath been upon you all, and upon your lords. And you shall make\nthe likeness of your emerods, and the likeness of the mice, that have\ndestroyed the land, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: to\nsee if he will take off his hand from you, and from your gods, and from\nyour land.\n\n6:6. Why do you harden your hearts, as Egypt and Pharao hardened their\nhearts? did not he, after he was struck, then let them go, and they\ndeparted?\n\n6:7. Now, therefore, take and make a new cart: and two kine that have\ncalved, on which there hath come no yoke, tie to the cart, and shut up\ntheir calves at home.\n\n6:8. And you shall take the ark of the Lord, and lay it on the cart,\nand the vessels of gold, which you have paid him for sin, you shall put\ninto a little box at the side thereof: and send it away, that it may\ngo.\n\n6:9. And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts,\ntowards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we\nshall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath\nhappened by chance.\n\n6:10. They did therefore in this manner: and taking two kine, that had\nsucking calves, they yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves\nat home.\n\n6:11. And they laid the ark of God upon the cart, and the little box\nthat had in it the golden mice, and the likeness of the emerods.\n\n6:12. And the kine took the straight way, that leadeth to Bethsames,\nand they went along the way, lowing as they went: and turned not aside\nneither to the right hand nor to the left: and the lords of the\nPhilistines followed them as far as the borders of Bethsames.\n\n6:13. Now the Bethsamites were reaping wheat in the valley: and lifting\nup their eyes, they saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.\n\n6:14. And the cart came into the field of Josue, a Bethsamite, and\nstood there. And there was a great stone, and they cut in pieces the\nwood of the cart, and laid the kine upon it a holocaust to the Lord.\n\n6:15. And the Levites took down the ark of God, and the little box that\nwas at the side of it, wherein were the vessels of gold, and they put\nthem upon the great stone. The men also of Bethsames offered\nholocausts, and sacrificed victims that day to the Lord.\n\n6:16. And the five princes of the Philistines saw, and they returned to\nAccaron the same day.\n\n6:17. And these are the golden emerods, which the Philistines returned\nfor sin to the Lord: For Azotus one, for Gaza one, for Ascalon one, for\nGeth one, for Accaron one:\n\n6:18. And the golden mice, according to the number of the cities of the\nPhilistines, of the five provinces, from the fenced city to the village\nthat was without wall, and to the great Abel (the stone) whereon they\nset down the ark of the Lord, which was till that day in the field of\nJosue the Bethsamite.\n\n6:19. But he slew of the men of Bethsames, because they had seen the\nark of the Lord, and he slew of the people seventy men, and fifty\nthousand of the common people. And the people lamented, because the\nLord had smitten the people with a great slaughter.\n\nSeen. . .And curiously looked into. It is likely this plague reached to\nall the neighbouring country, as well as the city of Bethsames.\n\n6:20. And the men of Bethsames said: Who shall be able to stand before\nthe Lord this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?\n\n6:21. And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Cariathiarim,\nsaying: The Philistines have brought back the ark of the Lord, come ye\ndown and fetch it up to you.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 7\n\n\nThe ark is brought to Cariathiarim. By Samuel's exhortation the people\ncast away their idols and serve God alone. The Lord defeateth the\nPhilistines, while Samuel offereth sacrifice.\n\n7:1. And the men of Cariathiarim came, and fetched up the ark of the\nLord, and carried it into the house of Abinadab, in Gabaa: and they\nsanctified Eleazar, his son, to keep the ark of the Lord.\n\nIn Gabaa. . .That is, on the hill, for Gabaa signifieth a hill.\n\n7:2. And it came to pass, that from the day the ark of the Lord abode\nin Cariathiarim, days were multiplied (for it was now the twentieth\nyear) and all the house of Israel rested, following the Lord.\n\n7:3. And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying: If you turn\nto the Lord with all your heart, put away the strange gods from among\nyou, Baalim and Astaroth: and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and\nserve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the\nPhilistines.\n\n7:4. Then the children of Israel put away Baalim and Astaroth, and\nserved the Lord only.\n\n7:5. And Samuel said: Gather all Israel to Masphath, that I may pray to\nthe Lord for you.\n\n7:6. And they gathered together to Masphath, and they drew water, and\npoured it out before the Lord, and they fasted on that day, and they\nsaid there: We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the\nchildren of Israel in Masphath.\n\n7:7. And the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were\ngathered together to Masphath, and the lords of the Philistines went up\nagainst Israel. And when the children of Israel heard this, they were\nafraid of the Philistines.\n\n7:8. And they said to Samuel: Cease not to cry to the Lord our God for\nus, that he may save us out of the hand of the Philistines.\n\n7:9. And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it whole for a\nholocaust to the Lord: and Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel, and the\nLord heard him.\n\n7:10. And it came to pass, when Samuel was offering the holocaust, the\nPhilistines began the battle against Israel: but the Lord thundered\nwith a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and terrified\nthem, and they were overthrown before the face of Israel.\n\n7:11. And the men of Israel going out of Masphath, pursued after the\nPhilistines, and made slaughter of them till they came under Bethchar.\n\n7:12. And Samuel took a stone, and laid it between Masphath and Sen:\nand he called the place The stone of help. And he said: Thus far the\nLord hath helped us.\n\n7:13. And the Philistines were humbled, and they did not come any more\ninto the borders of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the\nPhilistines, all the days of Samuel.\n\n7:14. And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel, were\nrestored to Israel, from Accaron to Geth, and their borders: and he\ndelivered Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and there was peace\nbetween Israel and the Amorrhites.\n\n7:15. And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life:\n\n7:16. And he went every year about to Bethel and to Galgal and to\nMasphath, and he judged Israel in the foresaid places.\n\n7:17. And he returned to Ramatha: for there was his house, and there he\njudged Israel: he built also there an altar to the Lord.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 8\n\n\nSamuel growing old, and his sons not walking in his ways, the people\ndesire a king.\n\n8:1. And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he appointed his\nsons to be judges over Israel.\n\n8:2. Now the name of his firstborn son was Joel: and the name of the\nsecond was Abia, judges in Bersabee.\n\n8:3. And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after\nlucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.\n\n8:4. Then all the ancients of Israel being assembled came to Samuel to\nRamatha.\n\n8:5. And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not\nin thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have.\n\n8:6. And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that they\nshould say: Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.\n\n8:7. And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the people in\nall that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me,\nthat I should not reign over them.\n\nRejected, etc. . .The government of Israel hitherto had been a\ntheocracy, in which God himself immediately ruled, by laws which he had\nenacted, and by judges extraordinarily raised up by himself; and\ntherefore he complains that his people rejected him, in desiring a\nchange of government.\n\n8:8. According to all their works, they have done from the day that I\nbrought them out of Egypt until this day: as they have forsaken me, and\nserved strange gods, so do they also unto thee.\n\n8:9. Now, therefore, hearken to their voice: but yet testify to them,\nand foretell them the right of the king, that shall reign over them.\n\nThe right. . .That is, the manner (misphat) after which he shall\nproceed, having no one to control him, when he has the power in his\nhand.\n\n8:10. Then Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people that had\ndesired a king of him,\n\n8:11. And said: This will be the right of the king that shall reign\nover you: He will take your sons, and put them in his chariots, and\nwill make them his horsemen, and his running footmen, to run before his\nchariots,\n\n8:12. And he will appoint of them to be his tribunes, and his\ncenturions, and to plough his fields, and to reap his corn, and to make\nhim arms and chariots.\n\n8:13. Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be\nhis cooks, and bakers.\n\n8:14. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your best\noliveyards, and give them to his servants.\n\n8:15. Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues\nof your vineyards, to give to his eunuchs and servants.\n\n8:16. Your servants also, and handmaids, and your goodliest young men,\nand your asses, he will take away, and put them to his work.\n\n8:17. Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.\n\n8:18. And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom\nyou have chosen to yourselves: and the Lord will not hear you in that\nday, because you desired unto yourselves a king.\n\n8:19. But the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, and they said,\nNay: but there shall be a king over us,\n\n8:20. And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge\nus, and go out before us, and fight our battles for us.\n\n8:21. And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and rehearsed them\nin the ears of the Lord.\n\n8:22. And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to their voice, and make\nthem a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel: Let every man go to\nhis city.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 9\n\n\nSaul seeking his father's asses, cometh to Samuel, by whom he is\nentertained.\n\n9:1. Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Cis, the son of\nAbiel, the son of Seror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphia, the\nson of a man of Jemini, valiant and strong.\n\n9:2. And he had a son whose name was Saul, a choice and goodly man, and\nthere was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he:\nfrom his shoulders and upward he appeared above all the people.\n\n9:3. And the asses of Cis, Saul's father, were lost: and Cis said to\nhis son Saul: Take one of the servants with thee, and arise, go, and\nseek the asses. And when they had passed through Mount Ephraim,\n\n9:4. And through the land of Salisa, and had not found them, they\npassed also through the land of Salim, and they were not there: and\nthrough the land of Jemini, and found them not.\n\n9:5. And when they were come to the land of Suph, Saul said to the\nservant that was with him: Come, let us return, lest perhaps my father\nforget the asses, and be concerned for us.\n\n9:6. And he said to him: Behold there is a man of God in this city, a\nfamous man: all that he saith, cometh certainly to pass. Now,\ntherefore, let us go thither, perhaps he may tell us of our way, for\nwhich we are come.\n\n9:7. And Saul said to his servant: Behold we will go: but what shall we\ncarry to the man of God? the bread is spent in our bags: and we have no\npresent to make to the man of God, nor any thing at all.\n\n9:8. The servant answered Saul again, and said: Behold there is found\nin my hand the fourth part of a sicle of silver, let us give it to the\nman of God, that he may tell us our way.\n\n9:9. Now in time past in Israel, when a man went to consult God, he\nspoke thus: Come, let us go to the seer. For he that is now called a\nprophet, in time past was called a seer.\n\nSeer. . .Because of his seeing by divine light hidden things and things\nto come.\n\n9:10. And Saul said to his servant: Thy word is very good, come let us\ngo. And they went into the city, where the man of God was.\n\n9:11. And when they went up the ascent to the city, they found maids\ncoming out to draw water, and they said to them: Is the seer here?\n\n9:12. They answered and said to them: He is: behold he is before you,\nmake haste now: for he came to day into the city, for there is a\nsacrifice of the people to day in the high place.\n\nA sacrifice. . .The law did not allow of sacrifices in any other place,\nbut at the tabernacle, or temple, in which the ark of the covenant was\nkept; but Samuel, by divine dispensation, offered sacrifices in other\nplaces. For which dispensation this reason may be alleged, that the\nhouse of God in Silo, having lost the ark, was now cast off; as a\nfigure of the reprobation of the Jews, Ps. 77.60, 67. And in\nCariathiarim where the ark was, there was neither tabernacle, nor\naltar.--Ibid. The high place. . .Excelsum. The excelsa, or high places,\nso often mentioned in scripture, were places of worship, in which were\naltars for sacrifice. These were sometimes employed in the service of\nthe true God, as in the present case: but more frequently in the\nservice of idols; and were called excelsa, which is commonly (though\nperhaps not so accurately) rendered high places; not because they were\nalways upon hills, for the very worst of all, which was that of\nTopheth, or Geennom, (Jer. 19.) was in a valley; but because of the\nhigh altars, and pillars, or monuments, erected there, on which were\nset up the idols, or images of their deities.\n\n9:13. As soon as you come into the city, you shall immediately find\nhim, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not\neat till he come; because he blesseth the victim, and afterwards they\neat that are invited. Now, therefore, go up, for to day you shall find\nhim.\n\n9:14. And they went up into the city. And when they were walking in the\nmidst of the city, behold Samuel was coming out over against them, to\ngo up to the high place.\n\n9:15. Now the Lord had revealed to the ear of Samuel the day before\nSaul came, saying:\n\n9:16. To morrow about this same hour I will send thee a man of the land\nof Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be ruler over my people\nIsrael: and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines:\nfor I have looked down upon my people, because their cry is come to me.\n\n9:17. And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him: Behold the man,\nof whom I spoke to thee, this man shall reign over my people.\n\n9:18. And Saul came to Samuel in the midst of the gate, and said: Tell\nme, I pray thee, where is the house of the seer?\n\n9:19. And Samuel answered Saul, saying: I am the seer; go up before me\nto the high place, that you may eat with me to day, and I will let thee\ngo in the morning: and tell thee all that is in thy heart.\n\n9:20. And as for the asses, which were lost three days ago, be not\nsolicitous, because they are found. And for whom shall be all the best\nthings of Israel? Shall they not be for thee and for all thy father's\nhouse?\n\n9:21. And Saul answering, said: Am not I a son of Jemini of the least\ntribe of Israel, and my kindred the last among all the families of the\ntribe of Benjamin? Why then hast thou spoken this word to me?\n\n9:22. Then Samuel taking Saul, and his servant, brought them into the\nparlour, and gave them a place at the head of them that were invited.\nFor there were about thirty men.\n\n9:23. And Samuel said to the cook: Bring the portion which I gave thee,\nand commanded thee to set it apart by thee.\n\n9:24. And the cook took up the shoulder, and set it before Saul. And\nSamuel said: Behold what is left, set it before thee, and eat; because\nit was kept of purpose for thee, when I invited the people. And Saul\nate with Samuel that day.\n\n9:25. And they went down from the high place into the town, and he\nspoke with Saul upon the top of the house: and he prepared a bed for\nSaul on the top of the house and he slept.\n\n9:26. And when they were risen in the morning, and it began now to be\nlight, Samuel called Saul on the top of the house, saying: Arise, that\nI may let thee go. And Saul arose: and they went out both of them: to\nwit, he and Samuel.\n\n9:27. And as they were going down in the end of the city, Samuel said\nto Saul: Speak to the servant to go before us, and pass on: but stand\nthou still a while, that I may tell thee the word of the Lord.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 10\n\n\nSaul is anointed. He prophesieth, and is changed into another man.\nSamuel calleth the people together, to make a king: the lot falleth on\nSaul.\n\n10:1. And Samuel took a little vial of oil, and poured it upon his\nhead, and kissed him, and said: Behold, the Lord hath anointed thee to\nbe prince over his inheritance, and thou shalt deliver his people out\nof the hands of their enemies, that are round about them. And this\nshall be a sign unto thee, that God hath anointed thee to be prince.\n\n10:2. When thou shalt depart from me this day, thou shalt find two men\nby the sepulchre of Rachel in the borders of Benjamin to the south, and\nthey shall say to thee: The asses are found which thou wentest to seek:\nand thy father, thinking no more of the asses, is concerned for you,\nand saith: What shall I do for my son?\n\n10:3. And when thou shalt depart from thence, and go farther on, and\nshalt come to the oak of Thabor, there shall meet thee three men going\nup to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another three loaves\nof bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine.\n\nBethel. . .Where there was at that time an altar of God; it being one of\nthe places where Samuel judged Israel.\n\n10:4. And they will salute thee, and will give thee two loaves, and\nthou shalt take them at their hand.\n\n10:5. After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where the garrison\nof the Philistines is: and when thou shalt be come there into the city,\nthou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place,\nwith a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp before them, and\nthey shall be prophesying.\n\nThe hill of God. . .Gabaa, in which there was also at that time, a high\nplace or altar.--Prophets. . .These were men whose office it was to sing\nhymns and praises to God; for such in holy writ are called prophets,\nand their singing praises to God is called prophesying. See 1 Par.\nalias 1 Chr. 15.22, and 25.1. Now there were in those days colleges, or\nschools for training up these prophets; and it seems there was one of\nthese schools at this hill of God; and another at Najoth in Ramatha.\nSee 1 Kings 19.20, 21, etc.\n\n10:6. And the Spirit of the Lord shall come upon thee, and thou shalt\nprophesy with them, and shalt be changed into another man.\n\n10:7. When therefore these signs shall happen to thee, do whatsoever\nthy hand shall find, for the Lord is with thee.\n\n10:8. And thou shalt go down before me to Galgal, (for I will come down\nto thee), that thou mayst offer an oblation, and sacrifice victims of\npeace: seven days shalt thou wait, till I come to thee, and I will shew\nthee what thou art to do.\n\nGalgal. . .Here also by dispensation was an altar of God.\n\n10:9. So when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave unto\nhim another heart, and all these things came to pass that day.\n\n10:10. And they came to the foresaid hill, and behold a company of\nprophets met him: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he\nprophesied in the midst of them.\n\n10:11. And all that had known him yesterday and the day before, seeing\nthat he was with the prophets, and prophesied, said to each other: What\nis this that hath happened to the son of Cis? is Saul also among the\nprophets?\n\n10:12. And one answered another, saying: And who is their father?\ntherefore it became a proverb: Is Saul also among the prophets?\n\nTheir father. . .That is, their teacher, or superior. As much as to say,\nWho could bring about such a wonderful change as to make Saul a\nprophet?\n\n10:13. And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high\nplace.\n\n10:14. And Saul's uncle said to him, and to his servant: Whither went\nyou? They answered: To seek the asses: and not finding them, we went\nto Samuel.\n\n10:15. And his uncle said to him: Tell me what Samuel said to thee.\n\n10:16. And Saul said to his uncle: He told us that the asses were\nfound. But of the matter of the kingdom of which Samuel had spoken to\nhim, he told him not.\n\n10:17. And Samuel called together the people to the Lord in Maspha:\n\n10:18. And he said to the children of Israel: Thus saith the Lord the\nGod of Israel: I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you from\nthe hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of all the kings who\nafflicted you.\n\n10:19. But you this day have rejected your God, who only hath saved you\nout of all your evils and your tribulations: and you have said: Nay:\nbut set a king over us. Now therefore stand before the Lord by your\ntribes, and by your families.\n\n10:20. And Samuel brought to him all the tribes of Israel, and the lot\nfell on the tribe of Benjamin.\n\n10:21. And he brought the tribe of Benjamin and the kindreds thereof,\nand the lot fell upon the kindred of Metri, and it came to Saul, the\nson of Cis. They sought him therefore, and he was not found.\n\n10:22. And after this they consulted the Lord whether he would come\nthither. And the Lord answered: Behold he is hidden at home.\n\n10:23. And they ran and fetched him thence: and he stood in the midst\nof the people, and he was higher than any of the people from the\nshoulders and upward.\n\n10:24. And Samuel said to all the people: Surely you see him whom the\nLord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people. And\nall the people cried and said: God save the king.\n\n10:25. And Samuel told the people the law of the kingdom, and wrote it\nin a book, and laid it up before the Lord: and Samuel sent away all the\npeople, every one to his own house.\n\n10:26. Saul also departed to his own house in Gabaa: and there went\nwith him a part of the army, whose hearts God had touched.\n\n10:27. But the children of Belial said: Shall this fellow be able to\nsave us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents; but he\ndissembled as though he heard not.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 11\n\n\nSaul defeateth the Ammonites, and delivereth Jabes Galaad.\n\n11:1. And it came to pass about a month after this, that Naas, the\nAmmonite, came up, and began to fight against Jabes Galaad. And all the\nmen of Jabes said to Naas: Make a covenant with us, and we will serve\nthee.\n\n11:2. And Naas, the Ammonite, answered them: On this condition will I\nmake a covenant with you, that I may pluck out all your right eyes, and\nmake you a reproach in all Israel.\n\n11:3. And the ancients of Jabes said to him: Allow us seven days, that\nwe may send messengers to all the coasts of Israel: and if there be no\none to defend us, we will come out to thee.\n\n11:4. The messengers therefore came to Gabaa of Saul: and they spoke\nthese words in the hearing of the people: and all the people lifted up\ntheir voices, and wept.\n\n11:5. And behold Saul came, following oxen out of the field, and he\nsaid: What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the\nwords of the men of Jabes.\n\n11:6. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Saul, when he had heard\nthese words, and his anger was exceedingly kindled.\n\n11:7. And taking both the oxen, he cut them in pieces, and sent them\ninto all the coasts of Israel, by messengers, saying: Whosoever shall\nnot come forth, and follow Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his\noxen. And the fear of the Lord fell upon the people, and they went out\nas one man.\n\n11:8. And he numbered them in Bezec: and there were of the children of\nIsrael three hundred thousand: and of the men of Juda thirty thousand.\n\n11:9. And they said to the messengers that came: Thus shall you say to\nthe men of Jabes Galaad: To morrow, when the sun shall be hot, you\nshall have relief. The messengers therefore came, and told the men of\nJabes, and they were glad.\n\n11:10. And they said: In the morning we will come out to you: and you\nshall do what you please with us.\n\n11:11. And it came to pass, when the morrow was come, that Saul put the\npeople in three companies: and he came into the midst of the camp in\nthe morning watch, and he slew the Ammonites until the day grew hot,\nand the rest were scattered, so that two of them were not left\ntogether.\n\n11:12. And the people said to Samuel: Who is he that said: Shall Saul\nreign over us? Bring the men, and we will kill them.\n\n11:13. And Saul said: No man shall be killed this day: because the Lord\nthis day hath wrought salvation in Israel:\n\n11:14. And Samuel said to the people: Come, and let us go to Galgal,\nand let us renew the kingdom there.\n\n11:15. And all the people went to Galgal, and there they made Saul\nking, before the Lord in Galgal, and they sacrificed there victims of\npeace before the Lord. And there Saul and all the men of Israel\nrejoiced exceedingly.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 12\n\n\nSamuel's integrity is acknowledged. God sheweth by a sign from heaven\nthat they had done ill in asking for a king.\n\n12:1. And Samuel said to all Israel: Behold I have hearkened to your\nvoice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.\n\n12:2. And now the king goeth before you: but I am old and greyheaded:\nand my sons are with you: having then conversed with you from my youth\nuntil this day, behold here I am.\n\n12:3. Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I\nhave taken any man's ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have\noppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I\nwill despise it this day, and will restore it to you.\n\n12:4. And they said: Thou hast not wronged us, nor oppressed us, nor\ntaken ought at any man's hand.\n\n12:5. And he said to them: The Lord is witness against you, and his\nanointed is witness this day, that you have not found any thing in my\nhand. And they said: He is witness.\n\n12:6. And Samuel said to the people: It is the Lord who made Moses and\nAaron, and brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt.\n\n12:7. Now, therefore, stand up, that I may plead in judgment against\nyou before the Lord, concerning all the kindness of the Lord, which he\nhath shewn to you, and to your fathers:\n\n12:8. How Jacob went into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the Lord:\nand the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and brought your fathers out of\nEgypt, and made them dwell in this place.\n\n12:9. And they forgot the Lord their God, and he delivered them into\nthe hands of Sisara, captain of the army of Hasor, and into the hands\nof the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they\nfought against them.\n\n12:10. But afterwards they cried to the Lord, and said: We have sinned,\nbecause we have forsaken the Lord, and have served Baalim and Astaroth:\nbut now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve\nthee.\n\n12:11. And the Lord sent Jerobaal, and Badan, and Jephte, and Samuel,\nand delivered you from the hand of your enemies round about, and you\ndwelt securely.\n\nJerobaal and Badan. . .That is, Gedeon and Samson called here Badan or\nBedan, because he was of Dan.\n\n12:12. But seeing that Naas, king of the children of Ammon, was come\nagainst you, you said to me: Nay, but a king shall reign over us:\nwhereas the Lord your God was your king.\n\n12:13. Now, therefore, your king is here, whom you have chosen and\ndesired: Behold the Lord hath given you a king.\n\n12:14. If you will fear the Lord, and serve him, and hearken to his\nvoice, and not provoke the mouth of the Lord: then shall both you, and\nthe king who reigneth over you, be followers of the Lord your God.\n\n12:15. But if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord, but will\nrebel against his words, the hand of the Lord shall be upon you, and\nupon your fathers.\n\n12:16. Now then stand, and see this great thing which the Lord will do\nin your sight.\n\n12:17. Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call upon the Lord, and\nhe shall send thunder and rain: and you shall know, and see that you\nyourselves have done a great evil in the sight of the Lord, in desiring\na king over you.\n\nWheat harvest. . .At which time of the year, it never thunders or rains\nin those countries.\n\n12:18. And Samuel cried unto the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and\nrain that day.\n\n12:19. And all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. And all\nthe people said to Samuel: Pray for thy servants to the Lord thy God,\nthat we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to\nask for a king.\n\n12:20. And Samuel said to the people: Fear not, you have done all this\nevil: but yet depart not from following the Lord, but serve the Lord\nwith all your heart.\n\n12:21. And turn not aside after vain things, which shall never profit\nyou, nor deliver you, because they are vain.\n\n12:22. And the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's\nsake: because the Lord hath sworn to make you his people.\n\n12:23. And far from me be this sin against the Lord, that I should\ncease to pray for you: and I will teach you the good and right way.\n\n12:24. Therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in truth, and with your\nwhole heart, for you have seen the great works which he hath done among\nyou.\n\n12:25. But if you will still do wickedly: both you and your king shall\nperish together.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 13\n\n\nThe war between Saul and the Philistines. The distress of the\nIsraelites. Saul offereth sacrifice before the coming of Samuel: for\nwhich he is reproved.\n\n13:1. Saul was a child of one year when he began to reign, and he\nreigned two years over Israel.\n\nOf one year. . .That is, he was good and like an innocent child, and for\ntwo years continued in that innocency.\n\n13:2. And Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel: and two thousand\nwere with Saul in Machmas, and in mount Bethel: and a thousand with\nJonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent back\nevery man to their dwellings.\n\n13:3. And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines which was in\nGabaa. And when the Philistines had heard of it, Saul sounded the\ntrumpet over all the land, saying: Let the Hebrews hear.\n\n13:4. And all Israel heard this report: Saul hath smitten the garrison\nof the Philistines: and Israel took courage against the Philistines.\nAnd the people were called together after Saul to Galgal.\n\n13:5. The Philistines also were assembled to fight against Israel,\nthirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and a multitude of\npeople besides, like the sand on the seashore for number. And going up\nthey camped in Machmas, at the east of Bethaven.\n\n13:6. And when the men of Israel saw that they were straitened (for the\npeople were distressed), they hid themselves in caves, and in thickets,\nand in rocks, and in dens, and in pits.\n\n13:7. And some of the Hebrews passed over the Jordan into the land of\nGad and Galaad. And when Saul was yet in Galgal, all the people that\nfollowed him were greatly afraid.\n\n13:8. And he waited seven days, according to the appointment of Samuel,\nand Samuel came not to Galgal, and the people slipt away from him.\n\n13:9. Then Saul said: Bring me the holocaust, and the peace offerings.\nAnd he offered the holocaust.\n\n13:10. And when he had made an end of offering the holocaust, behold\nSamuel came: and Saul went forth to meet him and salute him.\n\n13:11. And Samuel said to him: What hast thou done? Saul answered:\nBecause I saw that the people slipt from me, and thou wast not come\naccording to the days appointed, and the Philistines were gathered\ntogether in Machmas,\n\n13:12. I said: Now will the Philistines come down upon me to Galgal,\nand I have not appeased the face of the Lord. Forced by necessity, I\noffered the holocaust.\n\n13:13. And Samuel said to Saul: Thou hast done foolishly, and hast not\nkept the commandments of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee. And\nif thou hadst not done thus, the Lord would now have established thy\nkingdom over Israel for ever:\n\n13:14. But thy kingdom shall not continue. The Lord hath sought him a\nman according to his own heart: and him hath the Lord commanded to be\nprince over his people, because thou hast not observed that which the\nLord commanded.\n\n13:15. And Samuel arose and went up from Galgal to Gabaa of Benjamin.\nAnd the rest of the people went up after Saul, to meet the people who\nfought against them, going from Galgal to Gabaa, in the hill of\nBenjamin. And Saul numbered the people, that were found with him, about\nsix hundred men.\n\n13:16. And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present\nwith them, were in Gabaa of Benjamin: But the Philistines encamped in\nMachmas.\n\n13:17. And there went out of the camp of the Philistines three\ncompanies to plunder. One company went towards the way of Ephra to the\nland of Sual;\n\n13:18. And another went by the way of Bethoron, and the third turned to\nthe way of the border, above the valley of Seboim towards the desert.\n\n13:19. Now there was no smith to be found in all the land of Israel,\nfor the Philistines had taken this precaution, lest the Hebrews should\nmake them swords or spears.\n\n13:20. So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man\nhis ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake.\n\n13:21. So that their shares, and their spades, and their forks, and\ntheir axes, were blunt, even to the goad, which was to be mended.\n\n13:22. And when the day of battle was come, there was neither sword nor\nspear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and\nJonathan, except Saul and Jonathan his son.\n\n13:23. And the army of the Philistines went out in order to advance\nfurther in Machmas.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 14\n\n\nJonathan attacketh the Philistines. A miraculous victory. Saul's\nunadvised oath, by which Jonathan is put in danger of his life, but is\ndelivered by the people.\n\n14:1. Now it came to pass one day that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said\nto the young man that bore his armour: Come, and let us go over to the\ngarrison of the Philistines, which is on the other side of yonder\nplace. But he told not this to his father.\n\n14:2. And Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gabaa, under the\npomegranate tree, which was in Magron: and the people with him were\nabout six hundred men.\n\n14:3. And Achias, the son of Achitob, brother of Ichabod the son of\nPhinees, the son of Heli, the priest of the Lord in Silo, wore the\nephod. And the people knew not whither Jonathan was gone.\n\n14:4. Now there were between the ascents, by which Jonathan sought to\ngo over to the garrison of the Philistines, rocks standing up on both\nsides, and steep cliffs like teeth on the one side, and on the other,\nthe name of the one was Boses, and the name of the other was Sene:\n\n14:5. One rock stood out toward the north, over against Machmas, and\nthe other to the south, over against Gabaa.\n\n14:6. And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour: Come,\nlet us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised, it may be the\nLord will do for us: because it is easy for the Lord to save either by\nmany, or by few.\n\n14:7. And his armourbearer said to him: Do all that pleaseth thy mind:\ngo whither thou wilt, and I will be with thee wheresoever thou hast a\nmind.\n\n14:8. And Jonathan said: Behold we will go over to these men. And when\nwe shall be seen by them,\n\n14:9. If they shall speak thus to us: Stay till we come to you: let us\nstand still in our place, and not go up to them.\n\n14:10. But if they shall say: Come up to us: let us go up, because the\nLord hath delivered them into our hands, this shall be a sign unto us.\n\nThis shall be a sign. . .It is likely Jonathan was instructed by divine\ninspiration to make a choice of this sign: otherwise the observation of\nomens is superstitious and sinful.\n\n14:11. So both of them discovered themselves to the garrison of the\nPhilistines: and the Philistines said: Behold the Hebrews come forth\nout of the holes wherein they were hid.\n\n14:12. And the men of the garrison spoke to Jonathan, and to his\narmourbearer, and said: Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing.\nAnd Jonathan said to his armourbearer: Let us go up, follow me: for the\nLord hath delivered them into the hands of Israel.\n\n14:13. And Jonathan went up creeping on his hands and feet, and his\narmourbearer after him. And some fell before Jonathan, others his\narmourbearer slew as he followed him.\n\n14:14. And the first slaughter which Jonathan and his armourbearer\nmade, was of about twenty men, within half an acre of land, which a\nyoke of oxen is wont to plough in a day.\n\n14:15. And there was a miracle in the camp, in the fields: and all the\npeople of their garrison, who had gone out to plunder, were amazed, and\nthe earth trembled: and it happened as a miracle from God.\n\n14:16. And the watchmen of Saul, who were in Gabaa of Benjamin looked,\nand behold a multitude overthrown, and fleeing this way and that.\n\n14:17. And Saul said to the people that were with him: Look, and see\nwho is gone from us. And when they had sought, it was found that\nJonathan and his armourbearer were not there.\n\n14:18. And Saul said to Achias: Bring the ark of the Lord. (For the ark\nof God was there that day with the children of Israel.)\n\n14:19. And while Saul spoke to the priest, there arose a great uproar\nin the camp of the Philistines: and it increased by degrees, and was\nheard more clearly. And Saul said to the priest: Draw in thy hand.\n\n14:20. Then Saul, and all the people that were with him, shouted\ntogether, and they came to the place of the fight: and behold every\nman's sword was turned upon his neighbour, and there was a very great\nslaughter.\n\n14:21. Moreover, the Hebrews that had been with the Philistines\nyesterday and the day before, and went up with them into the camp,\nreturned to be with the Israelites, who were with Saul and Jonathan.\n\n14:22. And all the Israelites that had hid themselves in mount Ephraim,\nhearing that the Philistines fled, joined themselves with their\ncountrymen in the fight. And there were with Saul about ten thousand\nmen.\n\n14:23. And the Lord saved Israel that day. And the fight went on as far\nas Bethaven.\n\n14:24. And the men of Israel were joined together that day: and Saul\nadjured the people, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat food till\nevening, till I be revenged of my enemies. So none of the people tasted\nany food.\n\n14:25. And all the common people came into a forest, in which there was\nhoney upon the ground.\n\n14:26. And when the people came into the forest, behold the honey\ndropped, but no man put his hand to his mouth. For the people feared\nthe oath.\n\n14:27. But Jonathan had not heard when his father adjured the people:\nand he put forth the end of the rod, which he had in his hand, and dipt\nit in a honeycomb: and he carried his hand to his mouth, and his eyes\nwere enlightened.\n\n14:28. And one of the people answering, said: Thy father hath bound the\npeople with an oath, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat any food\nthis day. (And the people were faint.)\n\n14:29. And Jonathan said: My father hath troubled the land: you have\nseen yourselves that my eyes are enlightened, because I tasted a little\nof this honey:\n\n14:30. How much more if the people had eaten of the prey of their\nenemies, which they found? had there not been made a greater slaughter\namong the Philistines?\n\n14:31. So they smote that day the Philistines, from Machmas to Aialon.\nAnd the people were wearied exceedingly.\n\n14:32. And falling upon the spoils, they took sheep, and oxen, and\ncalves, and slew them on the ground: and the people ate them with the\nblood.\n\n14:33. And they told Saul that the people had sinned against the Lord,\neating with the blood. And he said: You have transgressed: roll here\nto me now a great stone.\n\n14:34. And Saul said: Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell\nthem to bring me every man his ox and his ram and slay them upon this\nstone, and eat, and you shall not sin against the Lord, in eating with\nthe blood. So all the people brought every man his ox with him till the\nnight: and slew them there.\n\n14:35. And Saul built an altar to the Lord: and he then first began to\nbuild an altar to the Lord.\n\n14:36. And Saul said: Let us fall upon the Philistines by night, and\ndestroy them till the morning light, and let us not leave a man of\nthem. And the people said: Do all that seemeth good in thy eyes. And\nthe priest said: Let us draw near hither unto God.\n\n14:37. And Saul consulted the Lord: Shall I pursue after the\nPhilistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hands of Israel? And he\nanswered him not that day.\n\n14:38. And Saul said: Bring hither all the corners of the people: and\nknow, and see by whom this sin hath happened to day.\n\n14:39. As the Lord liveth, who is the Saviour of Israel, if it was done\nby Jonathan, my son, he shall surely die. In this none of the people\ngainsayed him.\n\n14:40. And he said to all Israel: Be you on one side and I, with\nJonathan, my son, will be on the other side. And the people answered\nSaul: Do what seemeth good in thy eyes.\n\n14:41. And Saul said to the Lord: O Lord God of Israel, give a sign, by\nwhich we may know, what the meaning is, that thou answerest not thy\nservant to day: If this iniquity be in me, or in my son Jonathan, give\na proof: or if this iniquity be in thy people, give holiness. And\nJonathan and Saul were taken, and the people escaped.\n\n14:42. And Saul said: (Cast lots between me, and Jonathan, my son. And\nJonathan was taken.\n\nJonathan was taken. . .Though Jonathan was excused from sin, through\nignorance of the prohibition, yet God was pleased on this occasion to\nlet the lot fall upon him, to shew unto all the great obligation of\nobedience to princes and parents.\n\n14:43. And Saul said to Jonathan: Tell me what thou hast done. And\nJonathan told him, and said: I did but taste a little honey with the\nend of the rod, which was in my hand, and behold I must die.\n\n14:44. And Saul said: May God do so and so to me, and add still more:\nfor dying thou shalt die, O Jonathan.\n\n14:45. And the people said to Saul: Shall Jonathan then die, who hath\nwrought this great salvation in Israel? this must not be: As the Lord\nliveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he\nhath wrought with God this day. So the people delivered Jonathan, that\nhe should not die.\n\n14:46. And Saul went back, and did not pursue after the Philistines:\nand the Philistines went to their own places.\n\n14:47. And Saul having his kingdom established over Israel, fought\nagainst all his enemies round about, against Moab, and against the\nchildren of Ammon, and Edom, and the kings of Soba, and the\nPhilistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he overcame.\n\n14:48. And gathering together an army, he defeated Amalec, and\ndelivered Israel from the hand of them that spoiled them.\n\n14:49. And the sons of Saul, were Jonathan, and Jessui, and Melchisua:\nand the names of his two daughters, the name of the firstborn was\nMerob, and the name of the younger Michol.\n\n14:50. And the name of Saul's wife was Achinoam, the daughter of\nAchimaas; and the name of the captain of his army was Abner, the son of\nNer, the cousin german of Saul.\n\n14:51. For Cis was the father of Saul, and Ner, the father of Abner,\nwas son of Abiel.\n\n14:52. And there was a great war against the Philistines all the days\nof Saul. For whomsoever Saul saw to be a valiant man, and fit for war,\nhe took him to himself.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 15\n\n\nSaul is sent to destroy Amalec: he spareth their king and the best of\ntheir cattle: for which disobedience he is cast off by the Lord.\n\n15:1. And Samuel said to Saul: The Lord sent me to anoint thee king\nover his people Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of\nthe Lord:\n\n15:2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have reckoned up all that Amalec\nhath done to Israel: how he opposed them in the way when they came up\nout of Egypt.\n\n15:3. Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that\nhe hath: spare him not, nor covet anything that is his: but slay both\nman and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.\n\nChild. . .The great Master of life and death (who cuts off one half of\nall mankind whilst they are children) has been pleased sometimes to\nordain that children should be put to the sword, in detestation of the\ncrimes of their parents, and that they might not live to follow the\nsame wicked ways. But without such ordinance of God it is not\nallowable, in any wars, how just soever, to kill children.\n\n15:4. So Saul commanded the people, and numbered them as lambs: two\nhundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand of the men of Juda.\n\n15:5. And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid ambushes in\nthe torrent.\n\n15:6. And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart, and get ye down from\nAmalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to\nall the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the\nCinite departed from the midst of Amalec.\n\n15:7. And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila, until thou comest to Sur,\nwhich is over against Egypt.\n\n15:8. And he took Agag, the king of Amalec, alive: but all the common\npeople he slew with the edge of the sword.\n\n15:9. And Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the flocks\nof sheep, and of the herds, and the garments and the rams, and all that\nwas beautiful, and would not destroy them: but every thing that was\nvile, and good for nothing, that they destroyed.\n\n15:10. And the word of the Lord came to Samuel,\n\n15:11. It repenteth me that I have made Saul king: for he hath forsaken\nme, and hath not executed my commandments. And Samuel was grieved, and\nhe cried unto the Lord all night.\n\n15:12. And when Samuel rose early, to go to Saul in the morning, it was\ntold Samuel that Saul was come to Carmel, and had erected for himself a\ntriumphant arch, and returning had passed on, and gone down to Galgal.\nAnd Samuel came to Saul, and Saul was offering a holocaust to the Lord,\nout of the choicest of the spoils, which he had brought from Amalec.\n\n15:13. And when Samuel was come to Saul, Saul said to him: Blessed be\nthou of the Lord, I have fulfilled the word of the Lord.\n\n15:14. And Samuel said: What meaneth then this bleating of the flocks,\nwhich soundeth in my ears, and the lowing of the herds, which I hear?\n\n15:15. And Saul said: They have brought them from Amalec: for the\npeople spared the best of the sheep and of the herds, that they might\nbe sacrificed to the Lord thy God, but the rest we have slain.\n\n15:16. And Samuel said to Saul: Suffer me, and I will tell thee what\nthe Lord hath said to me this night. And he said to him: Speak.\n\n15:17. And Samuel said: When thou wast a little one in thy own eyes,\nwast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord\nanointed thee to be king over Israel.\n\n15:18. And the Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and kill the\nsinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast\nutterly destroyed them.\n\n15:19. Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the Lord: but\nhast turned to the prey, and hast done evil in the eyes of the Lord?\n\n15:20. And Saul said to Samuel: Yea, I have hearkened to the voice of\nthe Lord, and have walked in the way by which the Lord sent me, and\nhave brought Agag, the king of Amalec, and Amalec I have slain.\n\n15:21. But the people took of the spoils, sheep and oxen, as the\nfirstfruits of those things that were slain, to offer sacrifice to the\nLord their God in Galgal.\n\n15:22. And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims,\nand not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For\nobedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to\noffer the fat or rams.\n\n15:23. Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to rebel: and like the\ncrime of idolatry, to refuse to obey. Forasmuch, therefore, as thou\nhast rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord hath also rejected thee\nfrom being king.\n\n15:24. And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned, because I have\ntransgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words, fearing the\npeople, and obeying their voice.\n\n15:25. But now bear, I beseech thee, my sin, and return with me, that I\nmay adore the Lord.\n\n15:26. And Samuel said to Saul: I will not return with thee, because\nthou hath rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected\nthee from being king over Israel.\n\n15:27. And Samuel turned about to go away: but he laid hold upon the\nskirt of his mantle, and it rent.\n\n15:28. And Samuel said to him: The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel\nfrom thee this day, and hath given it to thy neighbour who is better\nthan thee.\n\n15:29. But the triumpher in Israel will not spare, and will not be\nmoved to repentance: for he is not a man that he should repent.\n\n15:30. Then he said: I have sinned: yet honour me now before the\nancients of my people, and before Israel, and return with me, that I\nmay adore the Lord thy God.\n\n15:31. So Samuel turned again after Saul: and Saul adored the Lord.\n\n15:32. And Samuel said: Bring hither to me Agag, the king of Amalec.\nAnd Agag was presented to him very fat, and trembling. And Agag said:\nDoth bitter death separate in this manner?\n\n15:33. And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so\nshall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed him in\npieces before the Lord in Galgal.\n\n15:34. And Samuel departed to Ramatha: but Saul went up to his house in\nGabaa.\n\n15:35. And Samuel saw Saul no more till the day of his death:\nnevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul, because the Lord repented that\nhe had made him king over Israel.\n\nSaw Saul no more till the day of his death. . .That is, he went no more\nto see him: he visited him no more.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 16\n\n\nSamuel is sent to Bethlehem, where he anointeth David: who is taken\ninto Saul's family.\n\n16:1. And the Lord said to Samuel: How long wilt thou mourn for Saul,\nwhom I have rejected from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil,\nand come, that I may send thee to Isai, the Bethlehemite: for I have\nprovided me a king among his sons.\n\n16:2. And Samuel said: How shall I go? for Saul will hear of it, and he\nwill kill me. And the Lord said: Thou shalt take with thee a calf of\nthe herd, and thou shalt say: I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.\n\n16:3. And thou shalt call Isai to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee\nwhat thou art to do, and thou shalt anoint him whom I shall shew to\nthee.\n\n16:4. Then Samuel did as the Lord had said to him. And he came to\nBethlehem, and the ancients of the city wondered, and meeting him, they\nsaid: Is thy coming hither peaceable?\n\n16:5. And he said: It is peaceable: I am come to offer sacrifice to the\nLord, be ye sanctified, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he\nsanctified Isai and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.\n\n16:6. And when they were come in, he saw Eliab, and said: Is the Lord's\nanointed before him?\n\n16:7. And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on\nthe height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge\naccording to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear,\nbut the Lord beholdeth the heart.\n\n16:8. And Isai called Abinadab, and brought him before Samuel. And he\nsaid: Neither hath the Lord chosen this,\n\n16:9. And Isai brought Samma, and he said of him: Neither hath the Lord\nchosen this.\n\n16:10. Isai therefore brought his seven sons before Samuel: and Samuel\nsaid to Isai: The Lord hath not chosen any one of these.\n\n16:11. And Samuel said to Isai: Are here all thy sons? He answered:\nThere remaineth yet a young one, who keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said\nto Isai: Send, and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come\nhither.\n\n16:12. He sent therefore and brought him. Now he was ruddy and\nbeautiful to behold, and of a comely face. And the Lord said: Arise,\nand anoint him, for this is he.\n\n16:13. Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst\nof his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that\nday forward: and Samuel rose up, and went to Ramatha.\n\n16:14. But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil\nspirit from the Lord troubled him.\n\nFrom the Lord. . .An evil spirit, by divine permission, and for his\npunishment, either possessed or obsessed him.\n\n16:15. And the servants of Saul said to him: Behold now an evil spirit\nfrom God troubleth thee.\n\n16:16. Let our lord give orders, and thy servants who are before thee,\nwill seek out a man skilful in playing on the harp, that when the evil\nspirit from the Lord is upon thee, he may play with his hand, and thou\nmayst bear it more easily.\n\n16:17. And Saul said to his servants: Provide me then some man that can\nplay well, and bring him to me.\n\n16:18. And one of the servants answering, said: Behold I have seen a\nson of Isai, the Bethlehemite, a skilful player, and one of great\nstrength, and a man fit for war, and prudent in his words, and a comely\nperson: and the Lord is with him.\n\n16:19. Then Saul sent messengers to Isai, saying: Send me David, thy\nson, who is in the pastures.\n\n16:20. And Isai took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and\na kid of the flock, and sent them by the hand of David, his son, to\nSaul.\n\n16:21. And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him\nexceedingly, and made him his armourbearer.\n\n16:22. And Saul sent to Isai, saying: Let David stand before me: for he\nhath found favour in my sight.\n\n16:23. So whensoever the evil spirit from the Lord was upon Saul, David\ntook his harp, and played with his hand, and Saul was refreshed, and\nwas better, for the evil spirit departed from him.\n\nDeparted from him. . .Chased away by David's devotion.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 17\n\n\nWar with the Philistines. Goliath challengeth Israel. He is slain by\nDavid.\n\n17:1. Now the Philistines gathering together their troops to battle,\nassembled at Socho of Juda: and camped between Socho and Azeca, in the\nborders of Dommim.\n\n17:2. And Saul and the children of Israel being gathered together, came\nto the valley of Terebinth, and they set the army in array to fight\nagainst the Philistines.\n\n17:3. And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and\nIsrael stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley\nbetween them.\n\n17:4. And there went out a man baseborn from the camp of the\nPhilistines, named Goliath, of Geth, whose height was six cubits and a\nspan:\n\n17:5. And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clothed\nwith a coat of mail with scales, and the weight of his coat of mail was\nfive thousand sicles of brass:\n\n17:6. And he had greaves of brass on his legs, and a buckler of brass\ncovered his shoulders.\n\n17:7. And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and the head\nof his spear weighed six hundred sicles of iron: and his armourbearer\nwent before him.\n\n17:8. And standing, he cried out to the bands of Israel, and said to\nthem: Why are you come out prepared to fight? am not I a Philistine,\nand you the servants of Saul? Choose out a man of you, and let him come\ndown and fight hand to hand.\n\n17:9. If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, we will be servants\nto you: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, you shall be\nservants, and shall serve us.\n\n17:10. And the Philistine said: I have defied the bands of Israel this\nday: give me a man, and let him fight with me hand to hand.\n\n17:11. And Saul and all the Israelites hearing these words of the\nPhilistine, were dismayed, and greatly afraid.\n\n17:12. Now David was the son of that Ephrathite, of Bethlehem Juda,\nbefore mentioned, whose name was Isai, who had eight sons, and was an\nold man in the days of Saul, and of great age among men.\n\n17:13. And his three eldest sons followed Saul to the battle: and the\nnames of his three sons that went to the battle, were Eliab, the\nfirstborn, and the second, Abinadab, and the third Samma:\n\n17:14. But David was the youngest. So the three eldest having followed\nSaul,\n\n17:15. David went, and returned from Saul, to feed his father's flock\nat Bethlehem.\n\n17:16. Now the Philistine came out morning and evening, and presented\nhimself forty days.\n\n17:17. And Isai said to David, his son: Take for thy brethren an ephi\nof frumenty, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren,\n\n17:18. And carry these ten little cheeses to the tribune: and go see\nthy brethren, if they are well: and learn with whom they are placed.\n\n17:19. But Saul, and they, and all the children of Israel, were in the\nvalley of Terebinth, fighting against the Philistines.\n\n17:20. David, therefore, arose in the morning, and gave the charge of\nthe flock to the keeper: and went away loaded, as Isai had commanded\nhim. And he came to the place of Magala, and to the army, which was\ngoing out to fight, and shouted for the battle.\n\n17:21. For Israel had put themselves in array, and the Philistines who\nstood against them were prepared.\n\n17:22. And David leaving the vessels which he had brought, under the\ncare of the keeper of the baggage, ran to the place of the battle, and\nasked if all things went well with his brethren.\n\n17:23. And as he talked with them, that baseborn man, whose name was\nGoliath, the Philistine, of Geth, shewed himself coming up from the\ncamp of the Philistines: and he spoke according to the same words, and\nDavid heard them,\n\n17:24. And all the Israelites, when they saw the man, fled from his\nface, fearing him exceedingly.\n\n17:25. And some one of Israel said: Have you seen this man that is come\nup, for he is come up to defy Israel. And the man that shall slay him,\nthe king will enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter,\nand will make his father's house free from tribute in Israel.\n\n17:26. And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying: What shall\nbe given to the man that shall kill this Philistine, and shall take\naway the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised\nPhilistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?\n\n17:27. And the people answered him the same words, saying: These things\nshall be given to the man that shall slay him.\n\n17:28. Now when Eliab his eldest brother heard this, when he was\nspeaking with others, he was angry with David, and said: Why camest\nthou hither? and why didst thou leave those few sheep in the desert? I\nknow thy pride, and the wickedness of thy heart: that thou art come\ndown to see the battle.\n\n17:29. And David said: What have I done? is there not cause to speak?\n\n17:30. And he turned a little aside from him to another: and said the\nsame word. And the people answered him as before.\n\n17:31. And the words which David spoke were heard, and were rehearsed\nbefore Saul.\n\n17:32. And when he was brought to Saul, he said to him. Let not any\nman's heart be dismayed in him: I thy servant will go, and will fight\nagainst the Philistine.\n\n17:33. And Saul said to David: Thou art not able to withstand this\nPhilistine, nor to fight against him: for thou art but a boy, but he is\na warrior from his youth.\n\n17:34. And David said to Saul: Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and\nthere came a lion, or a bear, and took a ram out of the midst of the\nflock:\n\n17:35. And I pursued after them, and struck them, and delivered it out\nof their mouth: and they rose up against me, and I caught them by the\nthroat, and I strangled, and killed them.\n\n17:36. For I thy servant have killed both a lion and a bear: and this\nuncircumcised Philistine shall be also as one of them. I will go now,\nand take away the reproach of the people: for who is this uncircumcised\nPhilistine, who hath dared to curse the army of the living God?\n\n17:37. And David said: The Lord who delivered me out of the paw of the\nlion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the\nhand of this Philistine. And Saul said to David: Go, and the Lord be\nwith thee.\n\n17:38. And Saul clothed David with his garments, and put a helmet of\nbrass upon his head, and armed him with a coat of mail.\n\n17:39. And David having girded his sword upon his armour, began to try\nif he could walk in armour: for he was not accustomed to it. And David\nsaid to Saul: I cannot go thus, for I am not used to it. And he laid\nthem off,\n\n17:40. And he took his staff, which he had always in his hands: and\nchose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them into the\nshepherd's scrip, which he had with him, and he took a sling in his\nhand, and went forth against the Philistine.\n\n17:41. And the Philistine came on, and drew nigh against David, and his\narmourbearer went before him.\n\n17:42. And when the Philistine looked, and beheld David, he despised\nhim. For he was a young man, ruddy, and of a comely countenance.\n\n17:43. And the Philistine said to David: Am I a dog, that thou comest\nto me with a staff? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.\n\n17:44. And he said to David: Come to me, and I will give thy flesh to\nthe birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth.\n\n17:45. And David said to the Philistine: Thou comest to me with a\nsword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the\nname of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, which thou\nhast defied\n\n17:46. This day, and the Lord will deliver thee into my hand, and I\nwill slay thee, and take away thy head from thee: and I will give the\ncarcasses of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the\nair, and to the beasts of the earth: that all the earth may know that\nthere is a God in Israel.\n\n17:47. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with\nsword and spear: for it is his battle, and he will deliver you into our\nhands.\n\n17:48. And when the Philistine arose, and was coming, and drew nigh to\nmeet David, David made haste, and ran to the fight to meet the\nPhilistine.\n\n17:49. And he put his hand into his scrip, and took a stone, and cast\nit with the sling, and fetching it about, struck the Philistine in the\nforehead, and he fell on his face upon the earth.\n\n17:50. And David prevailed over the Philistine, with a sling and a\nstone, and he struck, and slew the Philistine. And as David had no\nsword in his hand,\n\n17:51. He ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and\ndrew it out of the sheath, and slew him, and cut off his head. And the\nPhilistines seeing that their champion was dead, fled away.\n\n17:52. And the men of Israel and Juda rising up shouted, and pursued\nafter the Philistines till they came to the valley and to the gates of\nAccaron, and there fell many wounded of the Philistines in the way of\nSaraim, and as far as Geth, and as far as Accaron.\n\n17:53. And the children of Israel returning, after they had pursued the\nPhilistines, fell upon their camp.\n\n17:54. And David taking the head of the Philistine, brought it to\nJerusalem: but his armour he put in his tent.\n\n17:55. Now at the time that Saul saw David going out against the\nPhilistines, he said to Abner, the captain of the army: Of what family\nis this young man descended, Abner? And Abner said: As thy soul liveth,\nO king, I know not.\n\n17:56. And the king said: Inquire thou, whose son this young man is.\n\n17:57. And when David was returned, after the Philistine was slain,\nAbner took him, and brought him in before Saul, with the head of the\nPhilistine in his hand.\n\n17:58. And Saul said to him: Young man, of what family art thou? And\nDavid said: I am the son of thy servant Isai the Bethlehemite.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 18\n\n\nThe friendship of Jonathan and David. The envy of Saul, and his design\nupon David's life. He marrieth him to his daughter Michol.\n\n18:1. And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul,\nthe son of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved\nhim as his own soul.\n\n18:2. And Saul took him that day, and would not let him return to his\nfather's house.\n\n18:3. And David and Jonathan made a covenant, for he loved him as his\nown soul.\n\n18:4. And Jonathan stripped himself of the coat with which he was\nclothed, and gave it to David, and the rest of his garments, even to\nhis sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.\n\n18:5. And David went out to whatsoever business Saul sent him, and he\nbehaved himself prudently: and Saul set him over the soldiers, and he\nwas acceptable in the eyes of all the people, and especially in the\neyes of Saul's servants.\n\n18:6. Now when David returned, after he slew the Philistine, the women\ncame out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king\nSaul, with timbrels of joy, and cornets.\n\n18:7. And the women sung as they played, and they said: Saul slew his\nthousands, and David his ten thousands.\n\n18:8. And Saul was exceeding angry, and this word was displeasing in\nhis eyes, and he said: They have given David ten thousands, and to me\nthey have given but a thousand, what can he have more but the kingdom?\n\n18:9. And Saul did not look on David with a good eye from that day and\nforward.\n\n18:10. And the day after, the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and\nhe prophesied in the midst of his house. And David played with his hand\nas at other times. And Saul held a spear in his hand,\n\nProphesied. . .Acted the prophet in a mad manner.\n\n18:11. And threw it, thinking to nail David to the wall: and David\nstept aside out of his presence twice.\n\n18:12. And Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him, and was\ndeparted from Saul himself.\n\n18:13. Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him a captain over\na thousand men, and he went out and came in before the people.\n\n18:14. And David behaved wisely in all his ways, and the Lord was with\nhim.\n\n18:15. And Saul saw that he was exceeding prudent, and began to beware\nof him.\n\n18:16. But all Israel and Juda loved David, for he came in and went out\nbefore them.\n\n18:17. And Saul said to David: Behold my elder daughter Merob, her will\nI give thee to wife: only be a valiant man, and fight the battles of\nthe Lord. Now Saul said within himself: Let not my hand be upon him,\nbut let the hands of the Philistines be upon him.\n\n18:18. And David said to Saul: Who am I, or what is my life, or my\nfather's family in Israel, that I should be son in law of the king?\n\n18:19. And it came to pass at the time when Merob, the daughter of\nSaul, should have been given to David, that she was given to Hadriel,\nthe Molathite, to wife.\n\n18:20. But Michol, the other daughter of Saul, loved David. And it was\ntold Saul, and it pleased him.\n\n18:21. And Saul said: I will give her to him, that she may be a\nstumblingblock to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be upon\nhim. And Saul said to David: In two things thou shalt be my son in law\nthis day.\n\n18:22. And Saul commanded his servants to speak to David privately,\nsaying: Behold, thou pleasest the king, and all his servants love thee.\nNow, therefore be the king's son in law.\n\n18:23. And the servants of Saul spoke all these words in the ear of\nDavid. And David said: Doth it seem to you a small matter to be the\nking's son in law? But I am a poor man, and of small ability.\n\n18:24. And the servants of Saul told him, saying: Such words as these\nhath David spoken.\n\n18:25. And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any\ndowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged\nof the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands\nof the Philistines.\n\n18:26. And when his servants had told David the words that Saul had\nsaid, the word was pleasing in the eyes of David to be the king's son\nin law.\n\n18:27. And after a few days David rose up, and went with the men that\nwere under him, and he slew of the Philistines two hundred men, and\nbrought their foreskins and numbered them out to the king, that he\nmight be his son in law. Saul therefore gave him Michol, his daughter,\nto wife.\n\n18:28. And Saul saw, and understood that the Lord was with David. And\nMichol, the daughter of Saul, loved him.\n\n18:29. And Saul began to fear David more: and Saul became David's enemy\ncontinually.\n\n18:30. And the princes of the Philistines went forth: and from the\nbeginning of their going forth, David behaved himself more wisely than\nall the servants of Saul, and his name became very famous.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 19\n\n\nOther attempts of Saul upon David's life. He cometh to Samuel. Saul's\nmessengers, and Saul himself prophesy.\n\n19:1. And Saul spoke to Jonathan, his son, and to all his servants,\nthat they should kill David. But Jonathan, the son of Saul, loved David\nexceedingly.\n\n19:2. And Jonathan told David, saying: Saul, my father, seeketh to kill\nthee: wherefore look to thyself, I beseech thee, in the morning and\nthou shalt abide in a secret place, and shalt be hid.\n\n19:3. And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where\nthou art: and I will speak of thee to my father, and whatsoever I shall\nsee, I will tell thee.\n\n19:4. And Jonathan spoke good things of David to Saul, his father: and\nsaid to him: Sin not, O king, against thy servant, David, because he\nhath not sinned against thee, and his works are very good towards thee.\n\n19:5. And he put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the\nLord wrought great salvation for all Israel. Thou sawest it and didst\nrejoice. Why therefore wilt thou sin against innocent blood, by killing\nDavid, who is without fault?\n\n19:6. And when Saul heard this, he was appeased with the words of\nJonathan, and swore: As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain.\n\n19:7. Then Jonathan called David, and told him all these words: and\nJonathan brought in David to Saul, and he was before him, as he had\nbeen yesterday and the day before.\n\n19:8. And the war began again, and David went out, and fought against\nthe Philistines, and defeated them with a great slaughter, and they\nfled from his face.\n\n19:9. And the evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul; and he sat in\nhis house, and held a spear in his hand: and David played with his\nhand.\n\n19:10. And Saul endeavoured to nail David to the wall with his spear.\nAnd David slipt away out of the presence of Saul: and the spear missed\nhim, and was fastened in the wall, and David fled, and escaped that\nnight.\n\n19:11. Saul therefore sent his guards to David's house to watch him,\nthat he might be killed in the morning. And when Michol, David's wife,\nhad told him this, saying: Unless thou save thyself this night, to\nmorrow thou wilt die:\n\n19:12. She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away,\nand escaped.\n\n19:13. And Michol took an image, and laid it on the bed, and put a\ngoat's skin, with the hair at the head of it, and covered it with\nclothes.\n\n19:14. And Saul sent officers to seize David; and it was answered that\nhe was sick.\n\n19:15. And again Saul sent to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the\nbed, that he may be slain.\n\n19:16. And when the messengers were come in, they found an image upon\nthe bed, and a goat skin at his head.\n\n19:17. And Saul said to Michol: Why hast thou deceived me so, and let\nmy enemy go and flee away? And Michol answered Saul: Because he said to\nme: Let me go, or else I will kill thee.\n\n19:18. But David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel in Ramatha, and\ntold him all that Saul had done to him: and he and Samuel went and\ndwelt in Najoth.\n\nNajoth. . .It was probably a school or college of prophets, in or near\nRamath under the direction of Samuel.\n\n19:19. And it was told Saul by some, saying: Behold David is in Najoth,\nin Ramatha.\n\n19:20. So Saul sent officers to take David: and when they saw a company\nof prophets prophesying, and Samuel presiding over them, the Spirit of\nthe Lord came also upon them, and they likewise began to prophesy.\n\nProphesying. . .That is, singing praises to God by a divine impulse. God\nwas pleased on this occasion that both Samuel's messengers and himself\nshould experience the like impulse, that he might understand, by this\ninstance of the divine power, how vain are the designs of man against\nhim whom God protects.\n\n19:21. And when this was told Saul, he sent other messengers: but they\nalso prophesied. And again Saul sent messengers the third time: and\nthey prophesied also. And Saul being exceeding angry,\n\n19:22. Went also himself to Ramatha, and came as far as the great\ncistern, which is in Socho, and he asked, and said: In what place are\nSamuel and David? And it was told him: Behold they are in Najoth, in\nRamatha.\n\n19:23. And he went to Najoth, in Ramatha, and the Spirit of the Lord\ncame upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied till he came to\nNajoth, in Ramatha.\n\n19:24. And he stripped himself also of his garments, and prophesied\nwith the rest before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and night.\nThis gave occasion to a proverb: What! is Saul too among the prophets?\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 20\n\n\nSaul being obstinately bent upon killing David, he is sent away by\nJonathan.\n\n20:1. But David fled from Najoth, which is in Ramatha, and came and\nsaid to Jonathan: What have I done? what is my iniquity, and what is my\nsin against thy father, that he seeketh my life?\n\n20:2. And he said to him: (God forbid, thou shalt not die: for my\nfather will do nothing, great or little, without first telling me: hath\nthen my father hid this word only from me? no, this shall not be.\n\n20:3. And he swore again to David. And David said: Thy father certainly\nknoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, and he will say: Let not\nJonathan know this, lest he be grieved. But truly as the Lord liveth,\nand thy soul liveth, there is but one step (as I may say) between me\nand death.\n\n20:4. And Jonathan said to David: Whatsoever thy soul shall say to me,\nI will do for thee.\n\n20:5. And David said to Jonathan: Behold to morrow is the new moon, and\nI, according to custom, am wont to sit beside the king to eat: let me\ngo then that I may be hid in the field till the evening of the third\nday.\n\nTo morrow is the new moon. . .The neomenia, or first day of the moon,\nkept according to the law, as a festival; and therefore Saul feasted on\nthat day: and expected the attendance of his family.\n\n20:6. If thy father look and inquire for me, thou shalt answer him:\nDavid asked me that he might run to Bethlehem, his own city: because\nthere are solemn sacrifices there for all of his tribe.\n\n20:7. If he shall say: It is well: thy servant shall have peace: but\nif he be angry, know that his malice is come to its height.\n\n20:8. Deal mercifully then with thy servant: for thou hast brought me,\nthy servant, into a covenant of the Lord with thee. But if there be any\niniquity in me, do thou kill me, and bring me not in to thy father.\n\n20:9. And Jonathan said: Far be this from thee: for if I should\ncertainly know that evil is determined by my father against thee, I\ncould do no otherwise than tell thee.\n\n20:10. And David answered Jonathan: Who shall bring me word, if thy\nfather should answer thee harshly concerning me?\n\n20:11. And Jonathan said to David: Come, and let us go out into the\nfield. And when they were both of them gone out into the field,\n\n20:12. Jonathan said to David: O Lord God of Israel, if I shall\ndiscover my father's mind, to morrow, or the day after, and there be\nany thing good for David, and I send not immediately to thee, and make\nit known to thee,\n\n20:13. May the Lord do so and so to Jonathan, and add still more. But\nif my father shall continue in malice against thee, I will discover it\nto thy ear, and will send thee away, that thou mayst go in peace, and\nthe Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.\n\n20:14. And if I live, thou shalt shew me the kindness of the Lord: but\nif I die,\n\n20:15. Thou shalt not take away thy kindness from my house for ever,\nwhen the Lord shall have rooted out the enemies of David, every one of\nthem from the earth, may he take away Jonathan from his house, and may\nthe Lord require it at the hands of David's enemies.\n\nMay he take away Jonathan, etc. . .It is a curse upon himself, if he\nshould not be faithful to his promise.--Ibid. Require it, etc. . .That\nis, revenge it upon David's enemies, and upon me, if I should fail of\nmy word given to him.\n\n20:16. Jonathan therefore made a covenant with the house of David: and\nthe Lord required it at the hands of David's enemies.\n\n20:17. And Jonathan swore again to David, because he loved him: for he\nloved him as his own soul.\n\n20:18. And Jonathan said to him: To morrow is the new moon, and thou\nwilt be missed:\n\n20:19. For thy seat will be empty till after to morrow. So thou shalt\ngo down quickly, and come to the place where thou must he hid, on the\nday when it is lawful to work, and thou shalt remain beside the stone,\nwhich is called Ezel.\n\n20:20. And I will shoot three arrows near it, and will shoot as if I\nwere exercising myself at a mark.\n\n20:21. And I will send a boy, saying to him: Go and fetch me the\narrows.\n\n20:22. If I shall say to the boy: Behold the arrows are on this side of\nthee, take them up: come thou to me, because there is peace to thee,\nand there is no evil, as the Lord liveth. But if I shall speak thus to\nthe boy: Behold the arrows are beyond thee: go in peace, for the Lord\nhath sent thee away.\n\n20:23. And concerning the word which I and thou have spoken, the Lord\nbe between thee and me forever.\n\n20:24. So David was hid in the field, and the new moon came, and the\nking sat down to eat bread.\n\n20:25. And when the king sat down upon his chair, (according to custom)\nwhich was beside the wall, Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's\nside, and David's place appeared empty.\n\n20:26. And Saul said nothing that day, for he thought it might have\nhappened to him, that he was not clean, nor purified.\n\n20:27. And when the second day after the new moon was come, David's\nplace appeared empty again. And Saul said to Jonathan, his son: Why\ncometh not the son of Isai to meat neither yesterday, nor to day?\n\n20:28. And Jonathan answered Saul: He asked leave of me earnestly to go\nto Bethlehem.\n\n20:29. And he said: Let me go, for there is a solemn sacrifice in the\ncity, one of my brethren hath sent for me: and now if I have found\nfavour in thy eyes, I will go quickly, and see my brethren. For this\ncause he came not to the king's table.\n\n20:30. Then Saul being angry against Jonathan, said to him: Thou son of\na woman that is the ravisher of a man, do I not know that thou lovest\nthe son of Isai to thy own confusion, and to the confusion of thy\nshameless mother?\n\n20:31. For as long as the son of Isai liveth upon earth, thou shalt not\nbe established, nor thy kingdom. Therefore now presently send, and\nfetch him to me: for he is the son of death.\n\nThe son of death. . .That is, one that deserveth death, and shall surely\nbe put to death.\n\n20:32. And Jonathan answering Saul, his father, said: Why shall he die?\nWhat hath he done?\n\n20:33. And Saul caught up a spear to strike him. And Jonathan\nunderstood that it was determined by his father to kill David.\n\n20:34. So Jonathan rose from the table in great anger, and did not eat\nbread on the second day after the new moon. For he was grieved for\nDavid, because his father had put him to confusion.\n\n20:35. And when the morning came, Jonathan went into the field\naccording to the appointment with David, and a little boy with him.\n\n20:36. And he said to his boy: Go, and fetch me the arrows which I\nshoot. And when the boy ran, he shot another arrow beyond the boy.\n\n20:37. The boy therefore came to the place of the arrow which Jonathan\nhad shot: and Jonathan cried after the boy, and said: Behold the arrow\nis there further beyond thee.\n\n20:38. And Jonathan cried again after the boy, saying: Make haste\nspeedily, stand not. And Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and\nbrought them to his master:\n\n20:39. And he knew not at all what was doing: for only Jonathan and\nDavid knew the matter.\n\n20:40. Jonathan therefore gave his arms to the boy, and said to him:\nGo, and carry them into the city.\n\n20:41. And when the boy was gone, David rose out of his place, which\nwas toward the south, and falling on his face to the ground, adored\nthrice: and kissing one another, they wept together; but David more.\n\n20:42. And Jonathan said to David: Go in peace: and let all stand that\nwe have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying: The Lord be\nbetween me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever.\n\n20:43. And David arose, and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 21\n\n\nDavid receiveth holy bread of Achimelech, the priest: and feigneth\nhimself mad before Achis, king of Geth.\n\n21:1. And David came to Nobe, to Achimelech, the priest and Achimelech\nwas astonished at David's coming. And he said to him: Why art thou\nalone, and no man with thee?\n\nNobe. . .A city in the tribe of Benjamin, to which the tabernacle of the\nLord had been translated from Silo.\n\n21:2. And David said to Achimelech, the priest: The king hath commanded\nme a business, and said: Let no man know the thing for which thou art\nsent by me, and what manner of commands I have given thee: and I have\nappointed my servants to such and such a place.\n\n21:3. Now therefore if thou have any thing at hand, though it were but\nfive loaves, give me, or whatsoever thou canst find.\n\n21:4. And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at\nhand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from\nwomen?\n\nIf the young men be clean, etc. . .If this cleanness was required of\nthem that were to eat that bread, which was a figure of the bread of\nlife which we receive in the blessed sacrament; how clean ought\nChristians to be when they approach to our tremendous mysteries. And\nwhat reason hath the church of God to admit none to be her ministers to\nconsecrate and daily receive this most pure sacrament, but such as\ndevote themselves to a life of perpetual purity.\n\n21:5. And David answered the priest, and said to him: Truly, as to what\nconcerneth women, we have refrained ourselves from yesterday and the\nday before, when we came out, and the vessels of the young men were\nholy. Now this way is defiled, but it shall also be sanctified this day\nin the vessels.\n\nThe vessels. . .i. e., the bodies, have been holy, that is, have been\nkept from impurity.--Ibid. Is defiled. . .Is liable to expose us to\ndangers of uncleanness.--Ibid. Be sanctified, etc. . .That is, we shall\ntake care, notwithstanding these dangerous circumstances, to keep our\nvessels holy, that is, to keep our bodies from every thing that may\ndefile us.\n\n21:6. The priest therefore gave him hallowed bread: for there was no\nbread there, but only the loaves of proposition, which had been taken\naway from before the face of the Lord, that hot loaves might be set up.\n\n21:7. Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day,\nwithin the tabernacle of the Lord: and his name was Doeg, an Edomite,\nthe chiefest of Saul's herdsmen.\n\n21:8. And David said to Achimelech: Hast thou here at hand a spear, or\na sword? for I brought not my own sword, nor my own weapons with me,\nfor the king's business required haste.\n\n21:9. And the priest said: Lo, here is the sword of Goliath, the\nPhilistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Terebinth, wrapped up in\na cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take this, take it, for here\nthere is no other but this. And David said: There is none like that,\ngive it me.\n\n21:10. And David arose and fled that day from the face of Saul: and\ncame to Achis, the king of Geth:\n\n21:11. And the servants of Achis, when they saw David, said to him: Is\nnot this David, the king of the land? Did they not sing to him in their\ndances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten\nthousands?\n\n21:12. But David laid up these words in his heart, and was exceedingly\nafraid at the face of Achis, the king of Geth.\n\n21:13. And he changed his countenance before them, and slipt down\nbetween their hands: and he stumbled against the doors of the gate, and\nhis spittle ran down upon his beard.\n\n21:14. And Achis said to his servants: You saw the man was mad: why\nhave you brought him to me?\n\n21:15. Have we need of mad men, that you have brought in this fellow,\nto play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my\nhouse?\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 22\n\n\nMany resort to David. Doeg accuseth Achimelech to Saul. He ordereth him\nand all the other priests of Nobe to be slain. Abiathar escapeth.\n\n22:1. David therefore went from thence, and fled to the cave of\nOdollam. And when his brethren, and all his father's house, had heard\nof it, they went down to him thither.\n\n22:2. And all that were in distress, and oppressed with debt, and under\naffliction of mind, gathered themselves unto him: and he became their\nprince, and there were with him about four hundred men.\n\n22:3. And David departed from thence into Maspha of Moab: and he said\nto the king of Moab: Let my father and my mother tarry with you, I\nbeseech thee, till I know what God will do for me.\n\n22:4. And he left them under the eyes of the king of Moab, and they\nabode with him all the days that David was in the hold.\n\nThe hold. . .The strong hold, or fortress of Maspha.\n\n22:5. And Gad the prophet said to David: Abide not in the hold, depart,\nand go into the land of Juda. And David departed, and came into the\nforest of Haret.\n\n22:6. And SauI heard that David was seen, and the men that were with\nhim. Now whilst Saul abode in Gabaa, and was in the wood, which is by\nRama, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing\nabout him,\n\n22:7. He said to his servants that stood about him: Hear me now, ye\nsons of Jemini: will the son of Isai give every one of you fields, and\nvineyards, and make you all tribunes, and centurions:\n\n22:8. That all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one to\ninform me, especially when even my son hath entered into league with\nthe son of Isai? There is not one of you that pitieth my case, nor that\ngiveth me any information: because my son hath raised up my servant\nagainst me, plotting against me to this day.\n\n22:9. And Doeg, the Edomite, who stood by, and was the chief among the\nservants of Saul, answering, said: I saw the son of Isai, in Nobe, with\nAchimelech, the son of Achitob, the priest.\n\n22:10. And he consulted the Lord for him, and gave him victuals, and\ngave him the sword of Goliath, the Philistine.\n\n22:11. Then the king sent to call for Achimelech, the priest, the son\nof Achitob, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nobe,\nand they came all of them to the king.\n\n22:12. And Saul said to Achimelech: Hear, thou son of Achitob. He\nanswered: Here I am, my lord.\n\n22:13. And Saul said to him: Why have you conspired against me, thou,\nand the son of Isai, and thou hast given him bread and a sword, and\nhast consulted the Lord for him, that he should rise up against me,\ncontinuing a traitor to this day.\n\n22:14. And Achimelech answering the king, said: And who amongst all thy\nservants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son in law, and\ngoeth forth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thy house?\n\n22:15. Did I begin to day to consult the Lord for him? far be this from\nme: let not the king suspect such a thing against his servant, or any\none in all my father's house: for thy servant knew nothing of this\nmatter, either little or great.\n\n22:16. And the king said: Dying thou shalt die, Achimelech, thou and\nall thy father's house.\n\n22:17. And the king said to the messengers that stood about him: Turn,\nand kill the priests of the Lord, for their hand is with David, because\nthey knew that he was fled, and they told it not to me. And the king's\nservants would not put forth their hands against the priests of the\nLord.\n\n22:18. And the king said to Doeg: Turn thou, and fall upon the priests.\nAnd Doeg, the Edomite, turned, and fell upon the priests, and slew in\nthat day eighty-five men that wore the linen ephod.\n\n22:19. And Nobe, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the\nsword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and ox, and ass, and\nsheep, with the edge of the sword.\n\n22:20. But one of the sons of Achimelech, the son of Achitob, whose\nname was Abiathar, escaped, and fled to David,\n\n22:21. And told him that Saul had slain the priests of the Lord.\n\n22:22. And David said to Abiathar: I knew that day when Doeg, the\nEdomite, was there, that without doubt he would tell Saul: I have been\nthe occasion of the death of all the souls of thy father's house.\n\n22:23. Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life,\nseeketh thy life also, and with me thou shalt be saved.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 23\n\n\nDavid relieveth Ceila, besieged by the Philistines. He fleeth into the\ndesert of Ziph. Jonathan and he confirm their former covenant. The\nZiphites discover him to Saul, who pursuing close after him, is called\naway by an invasion from the Philistines.\n\n23:1. And they told David, saying: Behold the Philistines fight against\nCeila, and they rob the barns.\n\n23:2. Therefore David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go and smite\nthese Philistines? And the Lord said to David: Go, and thou shalt smite\nthe Philistines, and shalt save Ceila.\n\n23:3. And the men that were with David, said to him: Behold we are in\nfear here in Judea, how much more if we go to Ceila against the bands\nof the Philistines?\n\n23:4. Therefore David consulted the Lord again. And he answered and\nsaid to him: Arise, and go to Ceila: for I will deliver the Philistines\ninto thy hand.\n\n23:5. David, therefore, and his men, went to Ceila, and fought against\nthe Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and made a great\nslaughter of them: and David saved the inhabitants of Ceila.\n\n23:6. Now at that time, when Abiathar, the son of Achimelech, fled to\nDavid, to Ceila, he came down, having an ephod with him.\n\nAn ephod. . .Or the ephod. That is, the vestment of the high priest,\nwith the urim and thummim, by which the Lord gave his oracle.\n\n23:7. And it was told Saul that David was come to Ceila: and Saul said:\nThe Lord hath delivered him into my hands, and he is shut up, being\ncome into a city that hath gates and bars.\n\n23:8. And Saul commanded all the people to go down to fight against\nCeila, and to besiege David and his men.\n\n23:9. Now when David understood that Saul secretly prepared evil\nagainst him, he said to Abiathar, the priest: Bring hither the ephod.\n\n23:10. And David said: O Lord God of Israel, thy servant hath heard a\nreport, that Saul designeth to come to Ceila, to destroy the city for\nmy sake:\n\n23:11. Will the men of Ceila deliver me into his hands? and will Saul\ncome down, as thy servant hath heard? O Lord God of Israel, tell thy\nservant. And the Lord said: He will come down.\n\n23:12. And David said: Will the men of Ceila deliver me and my men into\nthe hands of Saul? And the Lord said: They will deliver thee up.\n\n23:13. Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose, and\ndeparting from Ceila, wandered up and down, uncertain where they should\nstay: and it was told Saul that David was fled from Ceila, and had\nescaped: wherefore he forbore to go out.\n\n23:14. But David abode in the desert in strong holds, and he remained\nin a mountain of the desert of Ziph, in a woody hill. And Saul sought\nhim always: but the Lord delivered him not into his hands.\n\n23:15. And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life. And David\nwas in the desert of Ziph, in a wood.\n\n23:16. And Jonathan, the son of Saul, arose, and went to David, into\nthe wood, and strengthened his hands in God: and he said to him:\n\n23:17. Fear not: for the hand of my father, Saul, shall not find thee,\nand thou shalt reign over Israel, and I shall be next to thee; yea and\nmy father knoweth this.\n\n23:18. And they two made a covenant before the Lord: and David abode in\nthe wood: but Jonathan returned to his house.\n\n23:19. And the Ziphites went up to Saul, in Gabaa, saying: Lo, doth not\nDavid lie hid with us in the strong holds of the wood, in mount\nHachila, which is on the right hand of the desert.\n\n23:20. Now therefore come down, as thy soul hath desired to come down:\nand it shall be our business to deliver him into the king's hands.\n\n23:21. And Saul said: Blessed be ye of the Lord, for you have pitied my\ncase.\n\n23:22. Go, therefore, I pray you, and use all diligence, and curiously\ninquire, and consider the place where his foot is, and who hath seen\nhim there: for he thinketh of me, that I lie craftily in wait for him.\n\n23:23. Consider, and see all his lurking holes, wherein he is hid, and\nreturn to me with the certainty of the thing, that I may go with you.\nAnd if he should even go down into the earth to hide himself, I will\nsearch him out in all the thousands of Juda.\n\n23:24. And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: and David and his\nmen were in the desert of Maon, in the plain at the right hand of\nJesimon.\n\n23:25. Then Saul and his men went to seek him: and it was told David,\nand forthwith he went down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of\nMaon: and when Saul had heard of it, he pursued after David in the\nwilderness of Maon.\n\n23:26. And Saul went on this side of the mountain: and David and his\nmen were on the other side of the mountain: and David despaired of\nbeing able to escape from the face of Saul: and Saul and his men\nencompassed David and his men round about, to take them.\n\n23:27. And a messenger came to Saul, saying: Make haste to come, for\nthe Philistines have poured in themselves upon the land.\n\n23:28. Wherefore Saul returned, leaving the pursuit of David, and went\nto meet the Philistines. For this cause they called that place the rock\nof division.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 24\n\n\nSaul seeketh David in the wilderness of Engaddi: he goeth into a cave\nwhere David hath him in his power.\n\n24:1. Then David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds of\nEngaddi.\n\n24:2. And when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, they\ntold him, saying: Behold, David is in the desert of Engaddi.\n\n24:3. Saul, therefore, took three thousand chosen men out of all\nIsrael, and went out to seek after David and his men, even upon the\nmost craggy rocks, which are accessible only to wild goats.\n\n24:4. And he came to the sheepcotes which were in his way. And there\nwas a cave, into which Saul went, to ease nature: now David and his men\nlay hid in the inner part of the cave.\n\n24:5. And the servants of David said to him: Behold the day, of which\nthe Lord said to thee: I will deliver thy enemy unto thee, that thou\nmayst do to him as it shall seem good in thy eyes. Then David arose,\nand secretly cut off the hem of Saul's robe.\n\n24:6. After which David's heart struck him, because he had cut off the\nhem of Saul's robe.\n\nHeart struck him. . .Viz., with remorse, as fearing he had done amiss.\n\n24:7. And he said to his men: The Lord be merciful unto me, that I may\ndo no such thing to my master, the Lord's anointed, as to lay my hand\nupon him, because he is the Lord's anointed.\n\n24:8. And David stopped his men with his words, and suffered them not\nto rise against Saul: but Saul, rising up out of the cave, went on his\nway.\n\n24:9. And David also rose up after him: and going out of the cave,\ncried after Saul, saying: My lord the king. And Saul looked behind him:\nand David bowing himself down to the ground, worshipped,\n\n24:10. And said to Saul: Why dost thou hear the words of men that say:\nDavid seeketh thy hurt?\n\n24:11. Behold this day thy eyes have seen, that the Lord hath delivered\nthee into my hand, in the cave, and I had a thought to kill thee, but\nmy eye hath spared thee. For I said: I will not put out my hand against\nmy lord, because he is the Lord's anointed.\n\nA thought to kill thee. . .That is, a suggestion, to which I did not\nconsent.\n\n24:12. Moreover, see and know, O my father, the hem of thy robe in my\nhand, that when I cut off the hem of thy robe, I would not put out my\nhand against thee. Reflect, and see, that there is no evil in my hand,\nnor iniquity, neither have I sinned against thee: but thou liest in\nwait for my life, to take it away.\n\n24:13. The Lord judge between me and thee and the Lord revenge me of\nthee: but my hand shall not be upon thee.\n\nRevenge me of thee. . .Or, as it is in the Hebrew, will revenge me. The\nmeaning is, that he refers his whole cause to God, to judge and punish\naccording to his justice: yet so as to keep himself in the mean time,\nfrom all personal hatred to Saul, or desire of gratifying his own\npassion, by seeking revenge. So far from it, that when Saul was\nafterwards slain, we find, that instead of rejoicing at his death, he\nmourned most bitterly for him.\n\n24:14. As also it is said in the old proverb: From the wicked shall\nwickedness come forth: therefore my hand shall not be upon thee. After\nwhom dost thou come out, O king of Israel?\n\n24:15. After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea.\n\n24:16. Be the Lord judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and\njudge my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.\n\n24:17. And when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul,\nSaul said: Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his\nvoice, and wept:\n\n24:18. And he said to David: Thou art more just than I: for thou hast\ndone good to me, and I have rewarded thee with evil.\n\n24:19. And thou hast shewed this day what good things thou hast done to\nme: how the Lord delivered me into thy hand, and thou hast not killed\nme.\n\n24:20. For who when he hath found his enemy, will let him go well away?\nBut the Lord reward thee for this good turn, for what thou hast done to\nme this day.\n\n24:21. And now as I know that thou shalt surely be king, and have the\nkingdom of Israel in thy hand:\n\n24:22. Swear to me by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my seed\nafter me, nor take away my name from the house of my father.\n\n24:23. And David swore to Saul. So Saul went home: and David and his\nmen went up into safer places.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 25\n\n\nThe death of Samuel. David, provoked by Nabal, threateneth to destroy\nhim: but is appeased by Abigail.\n\n25:1. And Samuel died, and all Israel was gathered together, and they\nmourned for him, and buried him in his house in Ramatha. And David\nrose, and went down into the wilderness of Pharan.\n\n25:2. Now there was a certain man in the wilderness of Maon, and his\npossessions were in Carmel, and the man was very great: and he had\nthree thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and it happened that he was\nshearing his sheep in Carmel.\n\n25:3. Now the name of the man was Nabal: and the name of his wife was\nAbigail. And she was a prudent and very comely woman: but her husband\nwas churlish, and very bad and ill natured: and he was of the house of\nCaleb.\n\n25:4. And when David heard in the wilderness, that Nabal was shearing\nhis sheep,\n\n25:5. He sent ten young men, and said to them: Go up to Carmel, and go\nto Nabal, and salute him in my name with peace.\n\n25:6. And you shall say: Peace be to my brethren, and to thee, and\npeace to thy house, and peace to all that thou hast.\n\n25:7. I have heard that thy shepherds that were with us in the desert\nwere shearing: we never molested them, neither was there ought missing\nto them of the flock at any time, all the while they were with us in\nCarmel.\n\n25:8. Ask thy servants, and they will tell thee. Now therefore let thy\nservants find favour in thy eyes: for we are come in a good day,\nwhatsoever thy hand shall find give to thy servants, and to thy son\nDavid.\n\n25:9. And when David's servants came, they spoke to Nabal all these\nwords in David's name, and then held their peace.\n\n25:10. But Nabal answering the servants of David, said: Who is David?\nand what is the son of Isai? servants are multiplied now days who flee\nfrom their masters.\n\n25:11. Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and the flesh of my\ncattle, which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I\nknow not whence they are?\n\n25:12. So the servants of David went back their way, and returning came\nand told him all the words that he said.\n\n25:13. Then David said to his young men: Let every man gird on his\nsword. And they girded on every man his sword. And David also girded on\nhis sword: and there followed David about four hundred men, and two\nhundred remained with the baggage.\n\n25:14. But one of the servants told, Abigail, the wife of Nabal,\nsaying: Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness, to salute\nour master: and he rejected them.\n\n25:15. These men were very good to us, and gave us no trouble: Neither\ndid we ever lose any thing all the time that we conversed with them in\nthe desert.\n\n25:16. They were a wall unto us, both by night and day, all the while\nwe were with them keeping the sheep.\n\n25:17. Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do: for evil is\ndetermined against thy husband, and against thy house, and he is a son\nof Belial, so that no man can speak to him.\n\n25:18. Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two\nvessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of\nparched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes\nof dry figs, and laid them upon asses:\n\n25:19. And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will\nfollow after you: but she told not her husband, Nabal.\n\n25:20. And when she had gotten upon an ass, and was coming down to the\nfoot of the mountain, David and his men came down over against her, and\nshe met them.\n\n25:21. And David said: Truly in vain have I kept all that belonged to\nthis fellow in the wilderness, and nothing was lost of all that\npertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good.\n\n25:22. May God do so and so, and add more to the foes of David, if I\nleave of all that belong to him till the morning, any that pisseth\nagainst the wall.\n\nIf I leave, etc. . .David certainly sinned in his designs against Nabal\nand his family, as he himself was afterwards sensible, when he blessed\nGod for hindering him from executing the revenge he had proposed.\n\n25:23. And when Abigail saw David, she made haste and lighted off the\nass, and fell before David, on her face, and adored upon the ground.\n\n25:24. And she fell at his feet, and said: Upon me let this iniquity\nbe, my lord: let thy handmaid speak, I beseech thee, in thy ears, and\nhear the words of thy servant.\n\n25:25. Let not my lord the king, I pray thee, regard this naughty man,\nNabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him:\nbut I, thy handmaid, did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou\nsentest.\n\nHis name. . .Nabal, in Hebrew, signifies a fool.\n\n25:26. Now therefore, my lord, the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth,\nwho hath withholden thee from coming to blood, and hath saved thy hand\nto thee: and now let thy enemies be as Nabal, and all they that seek\nevil to my lord.\n\n25:27. Wherefore receive this blessing, which thy handmaid hath brought\nto thee, my lord: and give it to the young men that follow thee, my\nlord.\n\n25:28. Forgive the iniquity of thy handmaid: for the Lord will surely\nmake for my lord a faithful house, because thou, my lord, fightest the\nbattles of the Lord: let not evil therefore be found in thee all the\ndays of thy life.\n\n25:29. For if a man at any time shall rise, and persecute thee, and\nseek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of\nthe living, with the Lord thy God: but the souls of thy enemies shall\nbe whirled, as with the violence and whirling of a sling.\n\n25:30. And when the Lord shall have done to thee, my lord, all the good\nthat he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have made thee prince\nover Israel,\n\n25:31. This shall not be an occasion of grief to thee, and a scruple of\nheart to my lord, that thou hast shed innocent blood, or hast revenged\nthyself: and when the Lord shall have done well by my lord, thou shalt\nremember thy handmaid.\n\n25:32. And David said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord the God of\nIsrael, who sent thee this day to meet me, and blessed be thy speech:\n\n25:33. And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day from coming to\nblood, and revenging me with my own hand.\n\n25:34. Otherwise, as the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, who hath\nwithholden me from doing thee any evil, if thou hadst not quickly come\nto meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light, any\nthat pisseth against the wall.\n\n25:35. And David received at her hand all that she had brought him, and\nsaid to her: Go in peace into thy house, behold I have heard thy voice,\nand honoured thy face.\n\n25:36. And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his\nhouse, like the feast of a king: and Nabal's heart was merry, for he\nwas very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning.\n\n25:37. But early in the morning, when Nabal had digested his wine, his\nwife told him these words, and his heart died within him, and he became\nas a stone.\n\n25:38. And after ten days had passed, the Lord struck Nabal, and he\ndied.\n\n25:39. And when David had heard that Nabal was dead, he said: Blessed\nbe the Lord, who hath judged the cause of my reproach, at the hand of\nNabal, and hath kept his servant from evil, and the Lord hath returned\nthe wickedness of Nabal upon his head. Then David sent and treated with\nAbigail, that he might take her to himself for a wife.\n\nBlessed be, etc. . .David praiseth God, on this occasion, not out of joy\nfor the death of Nabal (which would have argued a rancour of heart),\nbut because he saw that God had so visibly taken his cause in hand, in\npunishing the injury done to him; whilst, by a merciful providence he\nkept him from revenging himself.\n\n25:40. And David's servants came to Abigail, to Carmel, and spoke to\nher, saying: David hath sent us to thee, to take thee to himself for a\nwife.\n\n25:41. And she arose, and bowed herself down with her face to the\nearth, and said: Behold, let thy servant be a handmaid, to wash the\nfeet of the servants of my lord.\n\n25:42. And Abigail arose, and made haste, and got upon an ass, and five\ndamsels went with her, her waiting maids, and she followed the\nmessengers of David, and became his wife.\n\n25:43. Moreover David took also Achinoam of Jezrahel: and they were\nboth of them his wives.\n\n25:44. But Saul gave Michol, his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti, the\nson of Lais, who was of Gallim.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 26\n\n\nSaul goeth out again after David, who cometh by night where Saul and\nhis men are asleep, but suffereth him not to be touched. Saul again\nconfesseth his fault, and promiseth peace.\n\n26:1. And the men of Ziph came to Saul in Gabaa, saying: Behold David\nis hid in the hill of Hachila, which is over against the wilderness.\n\n26:2. And Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph having\nwith him three thousand chosen men of Israel, to seek David in the\nwilderness of Ziph.\n\n26:3. And Saul encamped in Gabaa Hachila, which was over against the\nwilderness in the way: and David abode in the wilderness. And seeing\nthat Saul was come after him into the wilderness,\n\n26:4. He sent spies, and learned that he was most certainly come\nthither.\n\n26:5. And David arose secretly, and came to the place where Saul was:\nand when he had beheld the place, wherein Saul slept, and Abner, the\nson of Ner, the captain of his army, and Saul sleeping in a tent, and\nthe rest of the multitude round about him,\n\n26:6. David spoke to Achimelech, the Hethite, and Abisai, the son of\nSarvia, the brother of Joab, saying: Who will go down with me to Saul\ninto the camp? And Abisai said: I will go with thee.\n\n26:7. So David and Abisai came to the people by night, and found Saul\nlying and sleeping in the tent, and his spear fixed in the ground at\nhis head: and Abner and the people sleeping round about him.\n\n26:8. And Abisai said to David: God hath shut up thy enemy this day\ninto thy hands: now then I will run him through with my spear, even to\nthe earth at once, and there shall be no need of a second time.\n\n26:9. And David said to Abisai: Kill him not: for who shall put forth\nhis hand against the Lord's anointed, and shall be guiltless?\n\n26:10. And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike\nhim, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle, and\nperish:\n\n26:11. The Lord be merciful unto me, and keep me that I never put forth\nmy hand against the Lord's anointed. But now take the spear which is at\nhis head, and the cup of water, and let us go.\n\n26:12. So David took the spear, and the cup of water which was at\nSaul's head, and they went away: and no man saw it, or knew it, or\nawaked, but they were all asleep, for a deep sleep from the Lord was\nfallen upon them.\n\n26:13. And when David was gone over to the other side, and stood on the\ntop of the hill afar off, and a good space was between them,\n\n26:14. David cried to the people, and to Abner, the son of Ner, saying:\nWilt thou not answer, Abner? And Abner answering, said: Who art thou,\nthat criest, and disturbest the king?\n\n26:15. And David said to Abner: Art not thou a man? and who is like\nunto thee in Israel? why then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for\nthere came one of the people in to kill the king thy lord.\n\n26:16. This thing is not good, that thou hast done: as the Lord liveth,\nyou are the sons of death, who have not kept your master, the Lord's\nanointed. And now where is the king's spear, and the cup of water,\nwhich was at his head?\n\n26:17. And Saul knew David's voice, and said: Is this thy voice, my son\nDavid? And David said: It is my voice, my lord the king.\n\n26:18. And he said: Wherefore doth my lord persecute his servant? What\nhave I done? or what evil is there in my hand?\n\n26:19. Now therefore hear, I pray thee, my lord the king, the words of\nthy servant: If the Lord stir thee up against me, let him accept of\nsacrifice: but if the sons of men, they are cursed in the sight of the\nLord, who have cast me out this day, that I should not dwell in the\ninheritance of the Lord, saying: Go, serve strange gods.\n\n26:20. And now let not my blood be shed upon the earth before the Lord:\nfor the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as the partridge is\nhunted in the mountains.\n\n26:21. And Saul said: I have sinned; return, my son David, for I will\nno more do thee harm, because my life hath been precious in thy eyes\nthis day: for it appeareth that I have done foolishly, and have been\nignorant in very many things.\n\n26:22. And David answering, said: Behold the king's spear: let one of\nthe king's servants come over and fetch it.\n\n26:23. And the Lord will reward every one according to his justice, and\nhis faithfulness: for the Lord hath delivered thee this day into my\nhand, and I would not put forth my hand against the Lord's anointed.\n\n26:24. And as thy life hath been much set by this day in my eyes, so\nlet my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver\nme from all distress.\n\n26:25. Then Saul said to David: Blessed art thou, my son David: and\ntruly doing thou shalt do, and prevailing thou shalt prevail. And David\nwent on his way, and Saul returned to his place.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 27\n\n\nDavid goeth again to Achis king of Geth, and obtaineth of him the city\nof Siceleg.\n\n27:1. And David said in his heart: I shall one day or other fall into\nthe hands of Saul: is it not better for me to flee, and to be saved in\nthe land of the Philistines, that Saul may despair of me, and cease to\nseek me in all the coasts of Israel? I will flee then out of his hands.\n\n27:2. And David arose, and went away, both he and the six hundred men\nthat were with him, to Achis, the son of Maoch, king of Geth.\n\n27:3. And David dwelt with Achis at Geth, he and his men; every man\nwith his household, and David with his two wives, Achinoam, the\nJezrahelitess, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel.\n\n27:4. And it was told Saul that David was fled to Geth, and he sought\nno more after him.\n\n27:5. And David said to Achis: If I have found favour in thy sight, let\na place be given me in one of the cities of this country, that I may\ndwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with\nthee?\n\n27:6. Then Achis gave him Siceleg that day: for which reason Siceleg\nbelongeth to the kings of Juda unto this day.\n\n27:7. And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines,\nwas four months.\n\n27:8. And David and his men went up, and pillaged Gessuri, and Gerzi,\nand the Amalecites: for these were of old the inhabitants of the\ncountries, as men go to Sur, even to the land of Egypt.\n\nPillaged Gessuri, etc. . .These probably were enemies of the people of\nGod: and some, if not all of them, were of the number of those whom God\nhad ordered to be destroyed: which justifies David's proceedings in\ntheir regard. Though it is to be observed here, that we are not under\nan obligation of justifying every thing that he did: for the scripture,\nin relating what was done, does not say that it was well done. And even\nsuch as are true servants of God, are not to be imitated in all they\ndo.\n\n27:9. And David wasted all the land, and left neither man nor woman\nalive: and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the\ncamels, and the apparel, and returned and came to Achis.\n\n27:10. And Achis said to him: Whom hast thou gone against to day? David\nanswered: Against the south of Juda, and against the south of Jerameel,\nand against the south of Ceni.\n\n27:11. And David saved neither man nor woman, neither brought he any of\nthem to Geth, saying: Lest they should speak against us. So did David,\nand such was his proceeding all the days that he dwelt in the country\nof the Philistines.\n\n27:12. And Achis believed David, saying: He hath done much harm to his\npeople Israel: Therefore he shall be my servant for ever.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 28\n\n\nThe Philistines go out to war against Israel. Saul being forsaken by\nGod, hath recourse to a witch. Samuel appeareth to him.\n\n28:1. And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered\ntogether their armies, to be prepared for war against Israel: And Achis\nsaid to David: Know thou now assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me\nto the war, thou, and thy men.\n\n28:2. And David said to Achis: Now thou shalt know what thy servant\nwill do. And Achis said to David: And I will appoint thee to guard my\nlife for ever.\n\n28:3. Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel mourned for him, and buried\nhim in Ramatha, his city. And Saul had put away all the magicians and\nsoothsayers out of the land.\n\n28:4. And the Philistines were gathered together, and came and encamped\nin Sunam: and Saul also gathered together all Israel, and came to\nGelboe.\n\n28:5. And Saul saw the army of the Philistines, and was afraid, and his\nheart was very much dismayed.\n\n28:6. And he consulted the Lord, and he answered him not, neither by\ndreams, nor by priests, nor by prophets.\n\n28:7. And Saul said to his servants: Seek me a woman that hath a\ndivining spirit, and I will go to her, and enquire by her. And his\nservants said to him: There is a woman that hath a divining spirit at\nEndor.\n\n28:8. Then he disguised himself: and put on other clothes, and he went,\nand two men with him, and they came to the woman by night, and he said\nto her: Divine to me by thy divining spirit, and bring me up him whom I\nshall tell thee.\n\n28:9. And the woman said to him: Behold thou knowest all that Saul hath\ndone, and how he hath rooted out the magicians and soothsayers from the\nland: why then dost thou lay a snare for my life, to cause me to be put\nto death?\n\n28:10. And Saul swore unto her by the Lord, saying: As the Lord liveth,\nthere shall no evil happen to thee for this thing.\n\n28:11. And the woman said to him: Whom shall I bring up to thee? And he\nsaid, Bring me up Samuel.\n\n28:12. And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice,\nand said to Saul: Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.\n\n28:13. And the king said to her: Fear not: what hast thou seen? and\nthe woman said to Saul: I saw gods ascending out of the earth.\n\n28:14. And he said to her: What form is he of? And she said: An old\nman cometh up, and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul understood that\nit was Samuel, and he bowed himself with his face to the ground, and\nadored.\n\nUnderstood that it was Samuel. . .It is the more common opinion of the\nholy fathers, and interpreters, that the soul of Samuel appeared\nindeed: and not, as some have imagined, an evil spirit in his shape.\nNot that the power of her magic could bring him thither, but that God\nwas pleased for the punishment of Saul, that Samuel himself should\ndenounce unto him the evils that were falling upon him. See Eccli.\n46.23.\n\n28:15. And Samuel said to Saul: Why hast thou disturbed my rest, that I\nshould be brought up? And Saul said: I am in great distress: for the\nPhilistines fight against me, and God is departed from me, and would\nnot hear me, neither by the hand of prophets, nor by dreams: therefore\nI have called thee, that thou mayst shew me what I shall do.\n\n28:16. And Samuel said: Why askest thou me, seeing the Lord has\ndeparted from thee, and is gone over to thy rival?\n\n28:17. For the Lord will do to thee as he spoke by me, and he will rend\nthy kingdom out of thy hand, and will give it to thy neighbour David:\n\n28:18. Because thou didst not obey the voice of the Lord, neither didst\nthou execute the wrath of his indignation upon Amalec. Therefore hath\nthe Lord done to thee what thou sufferest this day.\n\n28:19. And the Lord also will deliver Israel with thee into the hands\nof the Philistines: and to morrow thou and thy sons shall be with me:\nand the Lord will also deliver the army of Israel into the hands of the\nPhilistines.\n\nWith me. . .That is, in the state of the dead, and in another world,\nthough not in the same place.\n\n28:20. And forthwith Saul fell all along on the ground; for he was\nfrightened with the words of Samuel, and there was no strength in him,\nfor he had eaten no bread all that day.\n\n28:21. And the woman came to Saul, (for he was very much troubled) and\nsaid to him: Behold thy handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put\nmy life in my hand: and I hearkened unto the words which thou spokest\nto me.\n\n28:22. Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also to the voice of\nthy handmaid, and let me set before thee a morsel of bread, that thou\nmayst eat and recover strength, and be able to go on thy journey.\n\n28:23. But he refused, and said: I will not eat. But his servants and\nthe woman forced him, and at length hearkening to their voice, he arose\nfrom the ground, and sat upon the bed.\n\n28:24. Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she made haste\nand killed it: and taking meal, kneaded it, and baked some unleavened\nbread,\n\n28:25. And set it before Saul, and before his servants. And when they\nhad eaten they rose up, and walked all that night.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 29\n\n\nDavid going with the Philistines is sent back by their princes.\n\n29:1. Now all the troops of the Philistines were gathered together to\nAphec: and Israel also encamped by the fountain, which is in Jezrahel.\n\n29:2. And the lords of the Philistines marched with their hundreds and\ntheir thousands: but David and his men were in the rear with Achis.\n\n29:3. And the princes of the Philistines said to Achis: What mean these\nHebrews? And Achis said to the princes of the Philistines: Do you not\nknow David who was the servant of Saul, the king of Israel, and hath\nbeen with me many days, or years, and I have found no fault in him,\nsince the day that he fled over to me until this day?\n\n29:4. But the prices of the Philistines were angry with him, and they\nsaid to him: Let this man return, and abide in his place, which thou\nhast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest he\nbe an adversary to us, when we shall begin to fight: for how can he\notherwise appease his master, but with our heads?\n\n29:5. Is not this David, to whom they sung in their dances, saying:\nSaul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?\n\n29:6. Then Achis called David, and said to him: As the Lord liveth,\nthou art upright and good in my sight: and so is thy going out, and thy\ncoming in with me in the army: and I have not found any evil in thee,\nsince the day that thou camest to me unto this day: but thou pleasest\nnot the lords.\n\n29:7. Return therefore, and go in peace, and offend not the eyes of the\nprinces of the Philistines.\n\n29:8. And David said to Achis: But what have I done, or what hast thou\nfound in me thy servant, from the day that I have been in thy sight\nuntil this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my\nlord the king?\n\n29:9. And Achis answering, said to David: I know that thou art good in\nmy sight, as an angel of God: But the princes of the Philistines have\nsaid: He shall not go up with us to the battle.\n\n29:10. Therefore arise in the morning, thou, and the servants of thy\nlord, who came with thee: and when you are up before day, and it shall\nbegin to be light, go on your way.\n\n29:11. So David and his men arose in the night, that they might set\nforward in the morning, and returned to the land of the Philistines:\nand the Philistines went up to Jezrahel.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 30\n\n\nThe Amalecites burn Siceleg, and carry off the prey: David pursueth\nafter them, and recovereth all out of their hands.\n\n30:1. Now when David and his men were come to Siceleg on the third day,\nthe Amalecites had made an invasion on the south side upon Siceleg, and\nhad smitten Siceleg, and burnt it with fire,\n\n30:2. And had taken the women captives that were in it, both little and\ngreat: and they had not killed any person, but had carried them with\nthem, and went on their way.\n\n30:3. So when David and his men came to the city, and found it burnt\nwith fire, and that their wives, and their sons, and their daughters,\nwere taken captives,\n\n30:4. David and the people that were with him, lifted up their voices,\nand wept till they had no more tears.\n\n30:5. For the two wives also of David were taken captives, Achinoam,\nthe Jezrahelitess, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel.\n\n30:6. And David was greatly afflicted: for the people had a mind to\nstone him, for the soul of every man was bitterly grieved for his sons\nand daughters: but David took courage in the Lord his God.\n\n30:7. And he said to Abiathar, the priest, the son of Achimelech: Bring\nme hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought the ephod to David.\n\n30:8. And David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I pursue after these\nrobbers, and shall I overtake them, or not? And the Lord said to him:\nPursue after them: for thou shalt surely overtake them and recover the\nprey.\n\n30:9. So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and\nthey came to the torrent Besor: and some, being weary, stayed there.\n\n30:10. But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred\nstayed, who, being weary, could not go over the torrent Besor.\n\n30:11. And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to\nDavid: and they gave him bread to eat, and water to drink,\n\n30:12. As also a piece of a cake of figs, and two bunches of raisins.\nAnd when he had eaten them, his spirit returned, and he was refreshed:\nfor he had not eaten bread, nor drunk water, three days and three\nnights.\n\n30:13. And David said to him: To whom dost thou belong; or whence dost\nthou come? and whither art thou going? He said: I am a young man of\nEgypt, the servant of an Amalecite: and my master left me, because I\nbegan to be sick three days ago.\n\n30:14. For we made an invasion on the south side of Cerethi, and upon\nJuda, and upon the south of Caleb, and we burnt Siceleg with fire.\n\n30:15. And David said to him: Canst thou bring me to this company? and\nhe said: Swear to me by God, that thou wilt not kill me, nor deliver me\ninto the hands of my master, and I will bring thee to this company. And\nDavid swore to him.\n\n30:16. And when he had brought him, behold they were lying spread\nabroad upon all the ground, eating and drinking, and as it were keeping\na festival day, for all the prey and the spoils which they had taken\nout of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Juda.\n\n30:17. And David slew them from the evening unto the evening of the\nnext day, and there escaped not a man of them, but four hundred young\nmen, who had gotten upon camels, and fled.\n\n30:18. So David recovered all that the Amalecites had taken, and he\nrescued his two wives.\n\n30:19. And there was nothing missing small or great, neither of their\nsons or their daughters, nor of the spoils, and whatsoever they had\ntaken, David recovered all.\n\n30:20. And he took all the flocks and the herds, and made them go\nbefore him: and they said: This is the prey of David.\n\n30:21. And David came to the two hundred men, who, being weary, had\nstayed, and were not able to follow David, and he had ordered them to\nabide at the torrent Besor: and they came out to meet David, and the\npeople that were with him. And David coming to the people, saluted them\npeaceably.\n\n30:22. Then all the wicked and unjust men, that had gone with David,\nanswering, said: Because they came not with us, we will not give them\nany thing of the prey which we have recovered: but let every man take\nhis wife, and his children, and be contented with them, and go his way.\n\n30:23. But David said: You shall not do so, my brethren, with these\nthings, which the Lord hath given us, who hath kept us, and hath\ndelivered the robbers that invaded us into our hands:\n\n30:24. And no man shall hearken to you in this matter. But equal shall\nbe the portion of him that went down to battle, and of him that abode\nat the baggage, and they shall divide alike.\n\n30:25. And this hath been done from that day forward, and since was\nmade a statute and an ordinance, and as a law in Israel.\n\n30:26. Then David came to Siceleg, and sent presents of the prey to the\nancients of Juda, his neighbours, saying: Receive a blessing of the\nprey of the enemies of the Lord.\n\n30:27. To them that were in Bethel, and that were in Ramoth to the\nsouth, and to them that were in Jether.\n\n30:28. And to them that were in Aroer, and that were in Sephamoth, and\nthat were in Esthamo,\n\n30:29. And that were in Rachal, and that were in the cities of\nJerameel, and that were in the cities of Ceni,\n\n30:30. And that were in Arama, and that were in the lake Asan, and that\nwere in Athach,\n\n30:31. And that were in Hebron, and to the rest that were in those\nplaces, in which David had abode with his men.\n\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 31\n\n\nIsrael is defeated by the Philistines: Saul and his sons are slain.\n\n31:1. And the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel\nfled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gelboe.\n\n31:2. And the Philistines fell upon Saul, and upon his sons, and they\nslew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchisua, the sons of Saul.\n\n31:3. And the whole weight of the battle was turned upon Saul: and the\narchers overtook him, and he was grievously wounded by the archers.\n\n31:4. Then Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw thy sword, and kill me:\nlest these uncircumcised come, and slay me, and mock at me. And his\narmourbearer would not: for he was struck with exceeding great fear.\nThen Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.\n\n31:5. And when his armourbearer saw this, to wit, that Saul was dead,\nhe also fell upon his sword and died with him.\n\n31:6. So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all\nhis men that same day together.\n\n31:7. And the men of Israel, that were beyond the valley, and beyond\nthe Jordan, seeing that the Israelites were fled, and that Saul was\ndead, and his sons, forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines\ncame and dwelt there.\n\n31:8. And on the morrow the Philistines came to strip the slain, and\nthey found Saul and his three sons lying in mount Gelboe.\n\n31:9. And they cut off Saul's head, and stripped him of his armour, and\nsent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the\ntemples of their idols and among their people.\n\n31:10. And they put his armour in the temple of Astaroth, but his body\nthey hung on the wall of Bethsan.\n\n31:11. Now when the inhabitants of Jabes Galaad had heard all that the\nPhilistines had done to Saul,\n\n31:12. All the most valiant men arose, and walked all the night, and\ntook the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, from the wall of\nBethsan: and they came to Jabes Galaad, and burnt them there.\n\n31:13. And they took their bones, and buried them in the wood of Jabes:\nand fasted seven days.\n\n\n\n\nTHE SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL, OTHERWISE CALLED THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS\n\n\n\nThis Book relates the transactions from the death of Saul until the end\nof David's reign, being a history for the space of about forty-six\nyears.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 1\n\n\nDavid mourneth for the death of Saul and Jonathan: he ordereth the man\nto be slain who pretended he had killed Saul.\n\n1:1. Now it came to pass, after Saul was dead, that David returned from\nthe slaughter of the Amalecites, and abode two days in Siceleg.\n\n1:2. And on the third day, there appeared a man who came out of Saul's\ncamp, with his garments rent, and dust strewed on his head: and when he\ncame to David, he fell upon his face, and adored.\n\n1:3. And David said to him: From whence comest thou? And he said to\nhim: I am fled out of the camp of Israel.\n\n1:4. And David said unto him: What is the matter that is come to pass?\ntell me: He said: The people are fled from the battle, and many of the\npeople are fallen and dead: moreover Saul and Jonathan his son are\nslain.\n\n1:5. And David said to the young man that told him: How knowest thou\nthat Saul and Jonathan his son, are dead?\n\n1:6. And the young man that told him, said: I came by chance upon mount\nGelboe, and Saul leaned upon his spear: and the chariots and horsemen\ndrew nigh unto him,\n\n1:7. And looking behind him, and seeing me, he called me. And I\nanswered, Here am I.\n\n1:8. And he said to me: Who art thou? And I said to him: I am an\nAmalecite.\n\n1:9. And he said to me: Stand over me, and kill me: for anguish is come\nupon me, and as yet my whole life is in me.\n\n1:10. So standing over him, I killed him: for I knew that he could not\nlive after the fall: and I took the diadem that was on his head, and\nthe bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither to thee,\nmy lord.\n\nI killed him. . .This story of the young Amalecite was not true, as may\neasily be proved by comparing it with the last chapter of the foregoing\nbook.\n\n1:11. Then David took hold of his garments and rent them, and likewise\nall the men that were with him.\n\n1:12. And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening for Saul,\nand for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the\nhouse of Israel, because they were fallen by the sword.\n\n1:13. And David said to the young man that told him: Whence art thou?\nHe answered: I am the son of a stranger of Amalec.\n\n1:14. David said to him: Why didst thou not fear to put out thy hand to\nkill the Lord's anointed?\n\n1:15. And David calling one of his servants, said: Go near and fall\nupon him. And he struck him so that he died.\n\n1:16. And David said to him: Thy blood be upon thy own head: for thy\nown mouth hath spoken against thee, saying: I have slain the Lord's\nanointed.\n\n1:17. And David made this kind of lamentation over Saul, and over\nJonathan his son.\n\n1:18. (Also he commanded that they should teach the children of Juda\nthe use of the bow, as it is written in the book of the just.) And he\nsaid: Consider, O Israel, for them that are dead, wounded on thy high\nplaces.\n\n1:19. The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are\nthe valiant fallen?\n\n1:20. Tell it not in Geth, publish it not in the streets of Ascalon:\nlest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of\nthe uncircumcised triumph.\n\n1:21. Ye mountains of Gelboe, let neither dew, nor rain come upon you,\nneither be they fields of firstfruits: for there was cast away the\nshield of the valiant, the shield of Saul as though he had not been\nanointed with oil.\n\n1:22. From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the valiant, the\narrow of Jonathan never turned back, and the sword of Saul did not\nreturn empty.\n\n1:23. Saul and Jonathan, lovely, and comely in their life, even in\ndeath they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, stronger\nthan lions.\n\n1:24. Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you with\nscarlet in delights, who gave ornaments of gold for your attire.\n\n1:25. How are the valiant fallen in battle? Jonathan slain in the high\nplaces?\n\n1:26. I grieve for thee, my brother Jonathan: exceeding beautiful, and\namiable to me above the love of women. As the mother loveth her only\nson, so did I love thee.\n\n1:27. How are the valiant fallen, and the weapons of war perished?\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 2\n\n\nDavid is received and anointed king of Juda. Isboseth the son of Saul\nreigneth over the rest of Israel. A battle between Abner and Joab.\n\n2:1. And after these things David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I\ngo up into one of the cities of Juda? And the Lord said to him: Go up.\nAnd David said: Whither shall I go up? And he answered him: Into\nHebron.\n\n2:2. So David went up, and his two wives Achinoam the Jezrahelitess,\nand Abigail the wife of Nabal of Carmel:\n\n2:3. And the men also that were with him, David brought up every man\nwith his household: and they abode in the towns of Hebron.\n\n2:4. And the men of Juda came, and anointed David there, to be king\nover the house of Juda. And it was told David that the men of Jabes\nGalaad had buried Saul.\n\n2:5. David therefore sent messengers to the men of Jabes Galaad, and\nsaid to them: Blessed be you to the Lord, who have shewn this mercy to\nyour master Saul, and have buried him.\n\n2:6. And now the Lord surely will render you mercy and truth, and I\nalso will requite you for this good turn, because you have done this\nthing.\n\n2:7. Let your hands be strengthened, and be ye men of valour: for\nalthough your master Saul be dead, yet the house of Juda hath anointed\nme to be their king.\n\n2:8. But Abner the son of Ner, general of Saul's army, took Isboseth\nthe son of Saul, and led him about through the camp,\n\n2:9. And made him king over Galaad, and over Gessuri, and over\nJezrahel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.\n\n2:10. Isboseth the son of Saul was forty years old when he began to\nreign over Israel, and he reigned two years; and only the house of Juda\nfollowed David.\n\nHe reigned two years. . .Viz., before he began visibly to decline: but\nin all he reigned seven years and six months; for so long David reigned\nin Hebron.\n\n2:11. And the number of the days that David abode, reigning in Hebron\nover the house of Juda, was seven years and six months.\n\n2:12. And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Isboseth the son of\nSaul, went out from the camp to Gabaon.\n\n2:13. And Joab the son of Sarvia, and the servants of David went out,\nand met them by the pool of Gabaon. And when they were come together,\nthey sat down over against one another: the one on the one side of the\npool, and the other on the other side.\n\n2:14. And Abner said to Joab: Let the young men rise, and play before\nus. And Joab answered: Let them rise.\n\n2:15. Then there arose and went over twelve in number of Benjamin, of\nthe part of Isboseth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of\nDavid.\n\n2:16. And every one catching his fellow by the head, thrust his sword\ninto the side of his adversary, and they fell down together: and the\nname of the place was called: The field of the valiant, in Gabaon.\n\n2:17. And there was a very fierce battle that day: and Abner was put to\nflight, with the men of Israel, by the servants of David.\n\n2:18. And there were the three sons of Sarvia there, Joab, and Abisai,\nand Asael: now Asael was a most swift runner, like one of the roes that\nabide in the woods.\n\n2:19. And Asael pursued after Abner, and turned not to the right hand\nnor to the left from following Abner.\n\n2:20. And Abner looked behind him, and said: Art thou Asael? And he\nanswered: I am.\n\n2:21. And Abner said to him: Go to the right hand or to the left, and\nlay hold on one of the young men and take thee his spoils. But Asael\nwould not leave off following him close.\n\n2:22. And again Abner said to Asael: Go off, and do not follow me, lest\nI be obliged to stab thee to the ground, and I shall not be able to\nhold up my face to Joab thy brother.\n\n2:23. But he refused to hearken to him, and would not turn aside:\nwherefore Abner struck him with his spear with a back stroke in the\ngroin, and thrust him through, and he died upon the spot: and all that\ncame to the place where Asael fell down and died stood still.\n\n2:24. Now while Joab and Abisai pursued after Abner, the sun went down:\nand they came as far as the hill of the aqueduct, that lieth over\nagainst the valley by the way of the wilderness in Gabaon.\n\n2:25. And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together to\nAbner: and being joined in one body, they stood on the top of a hill.\n\n2:26. And Abner cried out to Joab, and said: Shall thy sword rage unto\nutter destruction? knowest thou not that it is dangerous to drive\npeople to despair? how long dost thou defer to bid the people cease\nfrom pursuing after their brethren?\n\n2:27. And Joab said: As the Lord liveth, if thou hadst spoke sooner,\neven in the morning the people should have retired from pursuing after\ntheir brethren.\n\n2:28. Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and all the army stood still, and\ndid not pursue after Israel any farther, nor fight any more.\n\n2:29. And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plains:\nand they passed the Jordan, and having gone through all Beth-horon,\ncame to the camp.\n\n2:30. And Joab returning, after he had left Abner, assembled all the\npeople: and there were wanting of David's servants nineteen men, beside\nAsael.\n\n2:31. But the servants of David had killed of Benjamin, and of the men\nthat were with Abner, three hundred and sixty, who all died.\n\n2:32. And they took Asael, and buried him in the sepulchre of his\nfather in Bethlehem and Joab, and the men that were with him, marched\nall the night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 3\n\n\nDavid groweth daily stronger. Abner cometh over to him: he is\ntreacherously slain by Joab.\n\n3:1. Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house\nof David: David prospering and growing always stronger and stronger,\nbut the house of Saul decaying daily.\n\nThere was a long war between the house of Saul, etc. . .Rather a strife\nor emulation than a war with arms; it lasted five years and a half.\n\n3:2. And sons were born to David in Hebron: and his firstborn was Ammon\nof Achinoam the Jezrahelitess:\n\n3:3. And his second Cheleab of Abigail the wife of Nabal of Carmel: and\nthe third Absalom the son of Maacha the daughter of Tholmai king of\nGessur:\n\n3:4. And the fourth Adonias, the son of Haggith: and the fifth\nSaphathia the son of Abital:\n\n3:5. And the sixth Jethraam of Egla the wife of David: these were born\nto David In Hebron.\n\n3:6. Now while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of\nDavid, Abner the son of Ner ruled the house of Saul.\n\n3:7. And Saul had a concubine named Respha, the daughter of Aia. And\nIsboseth said to Abner:\n\n3:8. Why didst thou go in to my father's concubine? And he was\nexceedingly angry for the words of Isboseth, and said: Am I a dog's\nhead against Juda this day, who have shewn mercy to the house of Saul\nthy father, and to his brethren and friends, and have not delivered\nthee into the hands of David, and hast thou sought this day against me\nto charge me with a matter concerning a woman?\n\n3:9. So do God to Abner, and more also, unless as the Lord hath sworn\nto David, so I do to him,\n\n3:10. That the kingdom be translated from the house of Saul, and the\nthrone of David be set up over Israel, and over Juda from Dan to\nBersabee.\n\n3:11. And he could not answer him a word, because he feared him.\n\n3:12. Abner therefore sent messengers to David for himself, saying:\nWhose is the land? and that they should say: Make a league with me, and\nmy hand shall be with thee: and I will bring all Israel to thee.\n\n3:13. And he said: Very well: I will make a league with thee: but one\nthing I require of thee, saying: Thou shalt not see my face before thou\nbring Michol the daughter of Saul: and so thou shalt come, and see me.\n\n3:14. And David sent messengers to Isboseth the son of Saul, saying:\nRestore my wife Michol, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins\nof the Philistines.\n\n3:15. And Isboseth sent, and took her from her husband Phaltiel, the\nson of Lais.\n\n3:16. And her husband followed her, weeping as far as Bahurim: and\nAbner said to him: Go and return. And he returned.\n\n3:17. Abner also spoke to the ancients of Israel, saying: Both\nyesterday and the day before you sought for David that he might reign\nover you.\n\n3:18. Now then do it: because the Lord hath spoken to David, saying: By\nthe hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the\nhands of the Philistines, and of all their enemies.\n\n3:19. And Abner spoke also to Benjamin. And he went to speak to David\nin Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to all Benjamin.\n\n3:20. And he came to David in Hebron with twenty men: and David made a\nfeast for Abner, and his men that came with him.\n\n3:21. And Abner said to David: I will rise, that I may gather all\nIsrael unto thee my lord the king, and may enter into a league with\nthee, and that thou mayst reign over all as thy soul desireth. Now when\nDavid had brought Abner on his way, and he was gone in peace,\n\n3:22. Immediately, David's servants and Joab came, after having slain\nthe robbers, with an exceeding great booty. And Abner was not with\nDavid in Hebron, for he had now sent him away, and he was gone in\npeace.\n\n3:23. And Joab and all the army that was with him, came afterwards: and\nit was told Joab, that Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he\nhath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.\n\n3:24. And Joab went in to the king, and said: What hast thou done?\nBehold Abner came to thee: Why didst thou send him away, and he is gone\nand departed?\n\n3:25. Knowest thou not Abner the son of Ner, that to this end he came\nto thee, that he might deceive thee, and to know thy going out, and thy\ncoming in, and to know all thou dost?\n\n3:26. Then Joab going out from David, sent messengers after Abner, and\nbrought him back from the cistern of Sira, David knowing nothing of it.\n\n3:27. And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the\nmiddle of the gate, to speak to him treacherously: and he stabbed him\nthere in the groin, and he died, in revenge of the blood of Asael his\nbrother.\n\n3:28. And when David heard of it, after the thing was now done, he\nsaid: I, and my kingdom are innocent before the Lord for ever of the\nblood of Abner the son of Ner:\n\n3:29. And may it come upon the head of Joab, and upon all his father's\nhouse: and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an\nissue of seed, or that is a leper, or that holdeth the distaff, or that\nfalleth by the sword, or that wanteth bread.\n\n3:30. So Joab and Abisai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed\ntheir brother Asael at Gabaon in the battle.\n\n3:31. And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him:\nRend your garments, and gird yourselves with sackcloths, and mourn\nbefore the funeral of Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.\n\n3:32. And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, king David lifted up\nhis voice, and wept at the grave of Abner: and all the people also\nwept.\n\n3:33. And the king mourning and lamenting over Abner, said: Not as\ncowards are wont to die, hath Abner died.\n\n3:34. Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet laden with fetters: but as\nmen fall before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all\nthe people repeating it wept over him.\n\n3:35. And when all the people came to take meat with David, while it\nwas yet broad day, David swore, saying: So do God to me, and more also,\nif I taste bread or any thing else before sunset.\n\n3:36. And all the people heard, and they were pleased, and all that the\nking did seemed good in the sight of all the people.\n\n3:37. And all the people, and all Israel understood that day that it\nwas not the king's doing, that Abner the son of Ner was slain.\n\n3:38. The king also said to his servants: Do you not know that a prince\nand a great man is slain this day in Israel?\n\n3:39. But I as yet am tender, though anointed king. And these men the\nsons of Sarvia are too hard for me: the Lord reward him that doth evil\naccording to his wickedness.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 4\n\n\nIsboseth is murdered by two of his servants. David punisheth the\nmurderers.\n\n4:1. And Isboseth the son of Saul heard that Abner was slain in Hebron:\nand his hands were weakened, and all Israel was troubled.\n\n4:2. Now the son of Saul had two men captains of his bands, the name of\nthe one was Baana, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Remmon\na Berothite of the children of Benjamin: for Beroth also was reckoned\nin Benjamin.\n\n4:3. And the Berothites fled into Gethaim, and were sojourners there\nuntil that time.\n\n4:4. And Jonathan the son of Saul had a son that was lame of his feet:\nfor he was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan\nfrom Jezrahel. And his nurse took him up and fled: and as she made\nhaste to flee, he fell and became lame: and his name was Miphiboseth.\n\n4:5. And the sons of Remmon the Berothite, Rechab and Baana coming,\nwent into the house of Isboseth in the heat of the day: and he was\nsleeping upon his bed at noon. And the doorkeeper of the house, who was\ncleansing wheat, was fallen asleep.\n\n4:6. And they entered into the house secretly taking ears of corn, and\nRechab and Baana his brother stabbed him in the groin, and fled away.\n\n4:7. For when they came into the house, he was sleeping upon his bed in\na parlour, and they struck him and killed him and taking away his head\nthey went off by the way of the wilderness, walking all night.\n\n4:8. And they brought the head of Isboseth to David to Hebron: and they\nsaid to the king: Behold the head of Isboseth the son of Saul thy enemy\nwho sought thy life: and the Lord hath revenged my lord the king this\nday of Saul, and of his seed.\n\n4:9. But David answered Rechab, and Baana his brother, the sons of\nRemmon the Berothite, and said to them: As the Lord liveth, who hath\ndelivered my soul out of all distress,\n\n4:10. The man that told me, and said: Saul is dead, who thought he\nbrought good tidings, I apprehended, and slew him in Siceleg, who\nshould have been rewarded for his news.\n\n4:11. How much more now when wicked men have slain an innocent man in\nhis own house, upon his bed, shall I not require his blood at your\nhand, and take you away from the earth?\n\n4:12. And David commanded his servants and they slew them: and cutting\noff their hands and feet, hanged them up over the pool in Hebron: but\nthe head of Isboseth they took and buried in the sepulchre of Abner in\nHebron.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 5\n\n\nDavid is anointed king of all Israel. He taketh Jerusalem, and dwelleth\nthere. He defeateth the Philistines.\n\n5:1. Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying:\nBehold we are thy bone and thy flesh.\n\n5:2. Moreover yesterday also and the day before, when Saul was king\nover us, thou wast he that did lead out and bring in Israel: and the\nLord said to thee: Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be\nprince over Israel.\n\n5:3. The ancients also of Israel came to the king of Hebron, and king\nDavid made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they\nanointed David to be king over Israel.\n\n5:4. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned\nforty years.\n\n5:5. In Hebron he reigned over Juda seven years and six months: and in\nJerusalem he reigned three and thirty years over all Israel and Juda.\n\n5:6. And the king and all the men that were with him went to Jerusalem\nto the Jebusites the inhabitants of the land: and they said to David:\nThou shalt not come in hither unless thou take away the blind and the\nlame that say: David shall not come in hither.\n\n5:7. But David took the castle of Sion, the same is the city of David.\n\n5:8. For David had offered that day a reward to whosoever should strike\nthe Jebusites and get up to the gutters of the tops of the houses, and\ntake away the blind and the lame that hated the soul of David:\ntherefore it is said in the proverb: The blind and the lame shall not\ncome into the temple.\n\n5:9. And David dwelt in the castle, and called it, The city of David:\nand built round about from Mello and inwards.\n\n5:10. And he went on prospering and growing up, and the Lord God of\nhosts was with him.\n\n5:11. And Hiram the king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar\ntrees, and carpenters, and masons for walls: and they built a house for\nDavid.\n\n5:12. And David knew that the Lord had confirmed him king over Israel,\nand that he had exalted his kingdom over his people Israel.\n\n5:13. And David took more concubines and wives of Jerusalem, after he\nwas come from Hebron: and there were born to David other sons also and\ndaughters:\n\nDavid took more concubines and wives of Jerusalem. . .Not harlots, but\nwives of an inferior condition; for such, in scripture, are styled\nconcubines.\n\n5:14. And these are the names of them, that were born to him in\nJerusalem, Samua, and Sobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,\n\n5:15. And Jebahar, and Elisua, and Nepheg,\n\n5:16. And Japhia, and Elisama, and Elioda, and Eliphaleth.\n\n5:17. And the Philistines heard that they had anointed David to be king\nover Israel: and they all came to seek David: and when David heard of\nit, he went down to a strong hold.\n\n5:18. And the Philistines coming spread themselves in the valley of\nRaphaim.\n\n5:19. And David consulted the Lord, Saying: Shall I go up to the\nPhilistines? and wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said\nto David: Go up, for I will surely deliver the Philistines into thy\nhand.\n\n5:20. And David came to Baal Pharisim: and defeated them there, and he\nsaid, The Lord hath divided my enemies before me, as waters are\ndivided. Therefore the name of the place was called Baal Pharisim.\n\n5:21. And they left there their idols: which David and his men took\naway.\n\n5:22. And the Philistines came up again and spread themselves into the\nvalley of Raphaim.\n\n5:23. And David consulted the Lord: Shall I go up against the\nPhilistines, and wilt thou deliver them into my hands? He answered: Go\nnot up against them but fetch a compass behind them, and thou shalt\ncome upon them over against the pear trees.\n\n5:24. And when thou shalt hear the sound of one going in the tops of\nthe pear trees, then shalt thou join battle: for then will the Lord go\nout before thy face to strike the army of the Philistines.\n\n5:25. And David did as the Lord had commanded him, and he smote the\nPhilistines from Gabaa until thou come to Gezer.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 6\n\n\nDavid fetcheth the ark from Cariathiarim. Oza is struck dead for\ntouching it. It is deposited in the house of Obededom: and from thence\ncarried to David's house.\n\n6:1. And David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel,\nthirty thousand.\n\n6:2. And David arose and went, with all the people that were with him\nof the men of Juda to fetch the ark of God, upon which the name of the\nLord of Hosts is invoked, who sitteth over it upon the cherubims.\n\n6:3. And they laid the ark of God upon a new cart: and took it out of\nthe house of Abinadab, who was in Gabaa, and Oza and Ahio, the sons of\nAbinadab, drove the new cart.\n\nGabaa. . .The hill of Cariathiarim, where the ark had been in the house\nof Abinadab, from the time of its being restored back by the\nPhilistines.\n\n6:4. And when they had taken it out of the house of Abinadab, who was\nin Gabaa, Ahio having care of the ark of God went before the ark.\n\n6:5. But David and all Israel played before the Lord on all manner of\ninstruments made of wood, on harps and lutes and timbrels and cornets\nand cymbals.\n\n6:6. And when they came to the floor of Nachon, Oza put forth his hand\nto the ark of God, and took hold of it: because the oxen kicked and\nmade it lean aside.\n\n6:7. And the indignation of the Lord was enkindled against Oza, and he\nstruck him for his rashness: and he died there before the ark of God.\n\n6:8. And David was grieved because the Lord had struck Oza, and the\nname of that place was called: The striking of Oza, to this day.\n\n6:9. And David was afraid of the Lord that day, saying: How shall the\nark of the Lord come to me?\n\n6:10. And he would not have the ark of the Lord brought in to himself\ninto the city of David: but he caused it to be carried into the house\nof Obededom the Gethite.\n\n6:11. And the ark of the Lord abode in the house of Obededom the\nGethite three months: and the Lord blessed Obededom, and all his\nhousehold.\n\n6:12. And it was told king David, that the Lord had blessed Obededom,\nand all that he had, because of the ark of God. So David went, and\nbrought away the ark of God out of the house of Obededom into the city\nof David with joy. And there were with David seven choirs, and calves\nfor victims.\n\nChoirs. . .Or companies of musicians.\n\n6:13. And when they that carried the ark of the Lord had gone six\npaces, he sacrificed and ox and a ram:\n\n6:14. And David danced with all his might before the Lord: and David\nwas girded with a linen ephod.\n\n6:15. And David and all the louse of Israel brought the ark of the\ncovenant of the Lord with joyful shouting, and with sound of trumpet.\n\n6:16. And when the ark of the Lord was come into the city of David,\nMichol the daughter of Saul, looking out through a window, saw king\nDavid leaping and dancing before the Lord: and she despised him in her\nheart.\n\n6:17. And they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in\nthe midst of the tabernacle, which David had pitched for it: and David\noffered holocausts, and peace offerings before the Lord.\n\n6:18. And when he had made an end of offering holocausts and peace\nofferings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.\n\n6:19. And he distributed to all the multitude of Israel, both men and\nwomen, to every one, a cake of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and\nfine flour fried with oil: and all the people departed every one to his\nown house.\n\n6:20. And David returned to bless his own house: and Michol the\ndaughter of Saul coming out to meet David, said: How glorious was the\nking of Israel to day, uncovering himself before the handmaids of his\nservants, and was naked, as if one of the buffoons should be naked.\n\n6:21. And David said to Michol: Before the Lord, who chose me rather\nthan thy father, and than all his house, and commanded me to be ruler\nover the people of the Lord in Israel,\n\n6:22. I will both play and make myself meaner than I have done: and I\nwill be little in my own eyes: and with the handmaids of whom thou\nspeakest, I shall appear more glorious.\n\n6:23. Therefore Michol the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of\nher death.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 7\n\n\nDavid's purpose to build a temple is rewarded with the promise of great\nblessings in his seed: his prayer and thanksgiving.\n\n7:1. And it came to pass when the king sat in his house, and the Lord\nhad given him rest on every side from all his enemies,\n\n7:2. He said to Nathan the prophet: Dost thou see that I dwell in a\nhouse of cedar, and the ark of God is lodged within skins?\n\n7:3. And Nathan said to the king: Go, do all that is in they heart:\nbecause the Lord is with thee.\n\n7:4. But it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came to\nNathan, saying:\n\n7:5. Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou\nbuild me a house to dwell in?\n\n7:6. Whereas I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought\nthe children of Israel out of the land of Egypt even to this day: but\nhave walked in a tabernacle, and in a tent.\n\n7:7. In all the places that I have gone through with all the children\nof Israel, did ever I speak a word to any one of the tribes of Israel,\nwhom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying: Why have you not\nbuilt me a house of cedar?\n\n7:8. And now thus shalt thou speak to my servant David: Thus saith the\nLord of hosts: I took thee out of the pastures from following the sheep\nto be ruler over my people Israel:\n\n7:9. And I have been with thee wheresoever thou hast walked, and have\nslain all thy enemies from before thy face: and I have made thee a\ngreat man, like unto the name of the great ones that are on the earth.\n\n7:10. And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant\nthem, and they shall dwell therein, and shall be disturbed no more:\nneither shall the children of iniquity afflict them any more as they\ndid before,\n\n7:11. From the day that I appointed judges over my people Israel: and I\nwill give thee rest from all thy enemies. And the Lord foretelleth to\nthee, that the Lord will make thee a house.\n\n7:12. And when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with\nthy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed\nout of the bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.\n\nI will establish his kingdom. . .This prophecy partly relateth to\nSolomon: but much more to Christ, who is called the son of David in\nscripture, and who is the builder of the true temple, which is the\nchurch, his everlasting kingdom, which shall never fail.\n\n7:13. He shall build a house to my name, and I will establish the\nthrone of his kingdom fore ever.\n\n7:14. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he\ncommit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with\nthe stripes of the children of men.\n\n7:15. But my mercy I will not take away from him, as I took it from\nSaul, whom I removed from before my face.\n\n7:16. And thy house shall be faithful, and thy kingdom for ever before\nthy face, and thy throne shall be firm for ever.\n\n7:17. According to all these words and according to all this vision so\ndid Nathan speak to David.\n\n7:18. And David went in, and sat before the Lord, and said: Who am I, O\nLord God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?\n\n7:19. Bur yet this hath seemed little in thy sight, O Lord God, unless\nthou didst also speak of the house of thy servant for a long time to\ncome: for this is the law of Adam, O Lord God:\n\n7:20. And what can David say more unto thee? for thou knowest thy\nservant, O Lord God:\n\n7:21. For thy word's sake, and according to thy own heart thou has done\nall these great things, so that thou wouldst make it known to thy\nservant.\n\n7:22. Therefore thou art magnified, O Lord God, because there is none\nlike to thee, neither is there any God besides thee, in all the things\nthat we have heard with our ears.\n\n7:23. And what nation is there upon earth, as thy people Israel, whom\nGod went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and\nto do for them great and terrible things, upon the earth, before the\nface of thy people, whom thou redeemedst to thyself out of Egypt, from\nthe nations and their gods.\n\n7:24. For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be an\neverlasting people: and thou, O Lord God, art become their God.\n\n7:25. And now, O Lord God, raise up for ever the word that thou hast\nspoken, concerning thy servant and concerning his house: and do as thou\nhast spoken,\n\n7:26. That thy name may be magnified for ever, and it may be said: The\nLord of hosts is God over Israel. And the house of thy servant David\nshall be established before the Lord.\n\n7:27. Because thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to\nthe ear of thy servant, saying: I will build thee a house: therefore\nhath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to thee.\n\n7:28. And now, O Lord God, thou art God, and thy words shall be true:\nfor thou hast spoken to thy servant these good things.\n\n7:29. And now begin, and bless the house of thy servant, that it may\nendure for ever before thee: because thou, O Lord God, hast spoken it,\nand with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 8\n\n\nDavid's victories, and his chief officers.\n\n8:1. And it came to pass after this that David defeated the\nPhilistines, and brought them down, and David took the bridle of\ntribute out of the hand of the Philistines,\n\n8:2. And he defeated Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them\ndown to the earth: and he measured with two lines, one to put to death,\nand one to save alive: and Moab was made to serve David under tribute.\n\n8:3. David defeated also Adarezer the son of Rohob king of Soba, when\nhe went to extend his dominion over the river Euphrates.\n\n8:4. And David took from him a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and\ntwenty thousand footmen, and houghed all the chariot horses: and only\nreserved of them for one hundred chariots.\n\n8:5. And the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Adarezer the king of\nSoba: and David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.\n\n8:6. And David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and Syria served\nDavid under tribute, and the Lord preserved David in all his\nenterprises, whithersoever he went.\n\n8:7. And David took the arms of gold, which the servants of Adarezer\nwore and brought them to Jerusalem.\n\n8:8. And out of Bete, and out of Beroth, cities of Adarezer, king David\ntook and exceeding great quantity of brass.\n\n8:9. And Thou the king of Emath heard that David had defeated all the\nforces of Adarezer.\n\n8:10. And Thou sent Joram his son to king David, to salute him, and to\ncongratulate with him, and to return him thanks: because he had fought\nagainst Adarezer, and had defeated him. For Thou was an enemy to\nAdarezer, and in his hand were vessels of gold, and vessels of silver,\nand vessels of brass:\n\n8:11. And king David dedicated them to the Lord, together with the\nsilver and gold that he had dedicated of all the nations, which he had\nsubdued:\n\n8:12. Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children Ammon, and of the\nPhilistines, and of Amalec, and of the spoils of Adarezer the son of\nRohob king of Soba.\n\n8:13. David also made himself a name, when he returned after taking\nSyria in the valley of the saltpits, killing eighteen thousand:\n\n8:14. And he put guards in Edom, and placed there a garrison: and all\nEdom was made to serve David: and the Lord preserved David in all\nenterprises he went about.\n\n8:15. And David reigned over all Israel: and David did judgment and\njustice to all his people.\n\n8:16. And Joab the son Sarvia was over the army: and Josaphat the son\nof Ahilud was recorder:\n\nRecorder. . .Or chancellor.\n\n8:17. And Sadoc the son of Achitob, and Achimelech the son of Abiathar,\nwere the priests: and Saraias was the scribe:\n\nScribe. . .Or secretary.\n\n8:18. And Banaias the son of Joiada was over the Cerethi and Phelethi:\nand the sons of David were the princes.\n\nThe Cerethi and Phelethi. . .The king's guards.--Ibid.\nPrinces. . .Literally priests. (Cohen) So called, by a title of honour,\nand not from exercising the priestly functions.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 9\n\n\nDavid's kindness to Miphiboseth for the sake of his father Jonathan.\n\n9:1. And David said: Is there any one, think you, left of the house of\nSaul, that I may shew kindness to him for Jonathan's sake?\n\n9:2. Now there was of the house of Saul, a servant named Siba: and when\nthe king had called him to him, he said to him: Art thou Siba? And he\nanswered: I am Siba thy servant.\n\n9:3. And the king said: Is there any one left of the house of Saul,\nthat I may shew the mercy of God unto Him? And Siba said to the king:\nThere is a son of Jonathan left, who is lame of his feet.\n\n9:4. Where is he? said he. And Siba said to the king: Behold he is in\nthe house of Machir the son of Ammiel in Lodabar.\n\n9:5. Then King David sent, and brought him out of the house of Machir\nthe son of Ammiel of Lodabar.\n\n9:6. And when Miphiboseth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul was come\nto David, he fell on his face and worshipped. And David said:\nMiphiboseth? And he answered: Behold thy servant.\n\n9:7. And David said to him: Fear not, for I will surely shew thee mercy\nfor Jonathan thy father's sake, and I will restore the lands of Saul\nthe father, and thou shalt eat bread at my table always.\n\n9:8. He bowed down to him, and said: Who am I thy servant, that thou\nshouldst look upon such a dead dog as I am?\n\n9:9. Then the King called Siba the servant of Saul, and said to him:\nAll that belonged to Saul, and all his house, I have given to thy\nmaster's son.\n\n9:10. Thou therefore and the sons and thy servants shall till the land\nfor him: and thou shalt bring in food for thy master's son, that he may\nbe maintained: and Miphiboseth the son of thy master shall always eat\nbread at my table. And Siba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.\n\n9:11. And Siba said to the king: As thou my lord the hast commanded thy\nservant, so will thy servant do: and Miphiboseth shall eat at my table,\nas one of the sons of the King.\n\n9:12. And Miphiboseth had a young son whose name was Micha: and all\nthat kindred of the house of Siba served Miphiboseth.\n\n9:13. But Miphiboseth dwelt in Jerusalem: because he ate always of the\nking's table: and he was lame of both feet.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 10\n\n\nThe Ammonites shamefully abuse the ambassadors of David: they hire the\nSyrians to the their assistance: but are overthrown with their allies.\n\n10:1. And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of\nAmmon died, and Hanon his son reigned in his stead.\n\n10:2. And David said: I will shew kindness to Hanon the son of Daas, as\nhis father shewed kindness to me. So David sent his servants to comfort\nhim for the death of his father. But when the servants of David were\ncome into the land of the children of Ammon,\n\n10:3. The princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanon their lord:\nThinkest thou that for the honour of thy father, David hath sent\ncomforters to thee, and hath not David rather sent his servants to thee\nto search, and spy into the city, and overthrow it?\n\n10:4. Wherefore Hanon took the servants of David, and shaved off the\none half of their beards, and cut away half of their garments even to\nthe buttocks, and sent them away.\n\n10:5. When this was told David, he sent to meet them: for the men were\nsadly put to confusion, and David commanded them, saying: Stay at\nJericho, till your beards be grown, and then return.\n\n10:6. And the children of Ammon seeing that they had done an injury to\nDavid, sent and hired the Syrians of Rohob, and the Syrians of Soba,\ntwenty thousand footmen, and of the king of Maacha a thousand men, and\nof Istob twelve thousand men.\n\n10:7. And when David heard this, he sent Joab and the whole army of\nwarriors.\n\n10:8. And the children of Ammon came out, and set their men in array at\nthe entering in of the gate: but the Syrians of Soba, and of Rohob, and\nof Istob, and of Maacha were by themselves in the field.\n\n10:9. Then Joab seeing that the battle was prepared against him, both\nbefore and behind, chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them\nin array against the Syrians:\n\n10:10. And the rest of the people he delivered to Abisai his brother,\nwho set them in array against the children of Ammon.\n\n10:11. And Joab said: If the Syrians are too strong for me, then thou\nshalt help me, but if the children of Ammon are too strong for thee,\nthen I will help thee.\n\n10:12. Be of good courage, and let us fight for our people, and for the\ncity of our God: and the Lord will do what is good in his sight.\n\n10:13. And Joab and the people that were with him, began to fight\nagainst the Syrians: and they immediately fled before him.\n\n10:14. And the children of Ammon seeing that the Syrians were fled,\nthey fled also before Abisai, and entered into the city: and Joab\nreturned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.\n\n10:15. Then the Syrians seeing that they had fallen before Israel,\ngathered themselves together.\n\n10:16. And Adarezer sent and fetched the Syrians, that were beyond the\nriver, and brought over their army: and Sobach, the captain of the host\nof Adarezer, was their general.\n\n10:17. And when this was told David, he gathered all Israel together,\nand passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam: and the Syrians set\nthemselves in array against David, and fought against him.\n\n10:18. And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David slew of the\nSyrians the men of seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen:\nand smote Sobach the captain of the army, who presently died.\n\n10:19. And all the kings that were auxiliaries of Adarezer, seeing\nthemselves overcome by Israel, were afraid and fled away, eight and\nfifty thousand men before Israel. And they made peace with Israel: and\nserved them, and all the Syrians were afraid to help the children of\nAmmon any more.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 11\n\n\nDavid falleth into the crime of adultery with Bethsabee: and not\nfinding other means to conceal it, causeth her husband Urias to be\nslain. Then marrieth her, who beareth him a son.\n\n11:1. And it came to pass at the return of the year, at the time when\nkings go forth to war, that David sent Joab and his servants with him,\nand all Israel, and they spoiled the children of Ammon, and besieged\nRabba: but David remained in Jerusalem.\n\n11:2. In the mean time it happened that David arose from his bed after\nnoon, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: And he saw from the\nroof of his house a woman washing herself, over against him: and the\nwoman was very beautiful.\n\n11:3. And the king sent, and inquired who the woman was. And it was\ntold him, that she was Bethsabee the daughter of Eliam, the wife of\nUrias the Hethite.\n\n11:4. And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him,\nand he slept with her: and presently she was purified from her\nuncleanness:\n\n11:5. And she returned to her house having conceived. And she sent and\ntold David, and said: I have conceived.\n\n11:6. And David sent to Joab, saying: Send me Urias the Hethite. And\nJoab sent Urias to David.\n\n11:7. And Urias came to David. And David asked how Joab did, and the\npeople, and how the war was carried on.\n\n11:8. And David said to Urias: Go into thy house, and wash thy feet.\nAnd Urias went out from the king's house, and there went out after him\na mess of meat from the king.\n\n11:9. But Urias slept before the gate of the king's house, with the\nother servants of his lord, and went not down to his own house.\n\n11:10. And it was told David by some that said: Urias went not to his\nhouse. And David said to Urias: Didst thou not come from thy journey?\nwhy didst thou not go down to thy house?\n\n11:11. And Urias said to David: The ark of God and Israel and Juda\ndwell in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord abide upon\nthe face of the earth: and shall I go into my house, to eat and to\ndrink, and to sleep with my wife? By thy welfare and by the welfare of\nthy soul I will not do this thing.\n\n11:12. Then David said to Urias: Tarry here to day, and to morrow I\nwill send thee away. Urias tarried in Jerusalem that day and the next.\n\n11:13. And David called him to eat and to drink before him, and he made\nhim drunk: and he went out in the evening, and slept on his couch with\nthe servants of his lord, and went not down into his house.\n\n11:14. And when the morning was come, David wrote a letter to Joab: and\nsent it by the hand of Urias,\n\n11:15. Writing in the letter: Set ye Urias in the front of the battle,\nwhere the fight is strongest: and leave ye him, that he may be wounded\nand die.\n\n11:16. Wherefore as Joab was besieging the city, he put Urias in the\nplace where he knew the bravest men were.\n\n11:17. And the men coming out of the city, fought against Joab, and\nthere fell some of the people of the servants of David, and Urias the\nHethite was killed also.\n\n11:18. Then Joab sent, and told David all things concerning the battle.\n\n11:19. And he charged the messenger, saying: When thou hast told all\nthe words of the battle to the king,\n\n11:20. If thou see him to be angry, and he shall say: Why did you\napproach so near to the wall to fight? knew you not that many darts are\nthrown from above off the wall?\n\n11:21. Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerobaal? did not a woman cast a\npiece of a millstone upon him from the wall and slew him in Thebes? Why\ndid you go near the wall? Thou shalt say: Thy servant Urias the Hethite\nis also slain.\n\n11:22. So the messenger departed, and came and told David all that Joab\nhad commanded him.\n\n11:23. And the messenger said to David: The men prevailed against us,\nand they came out to us into the field: and we vigorously charged and\npursued them even to the gate of the city.\n\n11:24. And the archers shot their arrows at thy servants from off the\nwall above: and some of the king's servants are slain, and thy servant\nUrias the Hethite is also dead.\n\n11:25. And David said to the messenger: Thus shalt thou say to Joab:\nLet not this thing discourage thee: for various is the event of war:\nand sometimes one, sometimes another is consumed by the sword:\nencourage thy warriors against the city, and exhort them that thou\nmayest overthrow it.\n\n11:26. And the wife of Urias heard that Urias her husband was dead, and\nshe mourned for him.\n\n11:27. And the mourning being over, David sent and brought her into his\nhouse, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son: and this thing\nwhich David had done, was displeasing to the Lord.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 12\n\n\nNathan's parable. David confesseth his sin, and is forgiven: yet so as\nto be sentenced to most severe temporal punishments. The death of the\nchild. The birth of Solomon. The taking of Rabbath.\n\n12:1. And the Lord sent Nathan to David: and when he was come to him,\nhe said to him: There were two men in one city, the one rich, and the\nother poor.\n\n12:2. The rich man had exceeding many sheep and oxen.\n\n12:3. But the poor man had nothing at all but one little ewe lamb,\nwhich he had bought and nourished up, and which had grown up in his\nhouse together with his children, eating of his bread, and drinking of\nhis cup, and sleeping in his bosom: and it was unto him as a daughter.\n\n12:4. And when a certain stranger was come to the rich man, he spared\nto take of his own sheep and oxen, to make a feast for that stranger,\nwho was come to him, but took the poor man's ewe, and dressed it for\nthe man that was come to him.\n\n12:5. And David's anger being exceedingly kindled against that man, he\nsaid to Nathan: As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this is a\nchild of death.\n\n12:6. He shall restore the ewe fourfold, because he did this thing, and\nhad no pity.\n\n12:7. And Nathan said to David: Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord\nthe God of Israel: I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered\nthee from the hand of Saul,\n\n12:8. And gave thee thy master's house and thy master's wives into thy\nbosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and Juda: and if these things\nbe little, I shall add far greater things unto thee.\n\n12:9. Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil\nin my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and\nhast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword\nof the children of Ammon.\n\n12:10. Therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because\nthou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urias the Hethite to\nbe thy wife.\n\n12:11. Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee\nout of thy own house, and I will take thy wives before thy eyes and\ngive them to thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the\nsight of this sun.\n\nI will raise, etc. . .All these evils, inasmuch as they were\npunishments, came upon David by a just judgment of God, for his sin,\nand therefore God says, I will raise, etc.; but inasmuch as they were\nsins, on the part of Absalom and his associates, God was not the author\nof them, but only permitted them.\n\n12:12. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing in the\nsight of all Israel, and in the sight of the sun.\n\n12:13. And David said to Nathan: I have sinned against the Lord. And\nNathan said to David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt\nnot die.\n\n12:14. Nevertheless, because thou hast given occasion to the enemies of\nthe Lord to blaspheme, for this thing, the child that is born to thee,\nshall surely die.\n\n12:15. And Nathan returned to his house. The Lord also struck the child\nwhich the wife of Urias had borne to David, and his life was despaired\nof.\n\n12:16. And David besought the Lord for the child: and David kept a\nfast, and going in by himself lay upon the ground.\n\n12:17. And the ancients of his house came, to make him rise from the\nground: but he would not, neither did he eat meat with them.\n\n12:18. And it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died: and\nthe servants of David feared to tell him, that the child was dead. For\nthey said: Behold when the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he\nwould not hearken to our voice: how much more will he afflict himself\nif we tell him that the child is dead?\n\n12:19. But when David saw his servants whispering, he understood that\nthe child was dead: and he said to his servants: Is the child dead?\nThey answered him He is dead.\n\n12:20. Then David arose from the ground, and washed and anointed\nhimself: and when he had changed his apparel, he went into the house of\nthe Lord: and worshipped, and then he came into his own house, and he\ncalled for bread, and ate.\n\n12:21. And his servants said to him: What thing is this that thou hast\ndone? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive, but\nwhen the child was dead, thou didst rise up, and eat bread.\n\n12:22. And he said: While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept\nfor him: for I said: Who knoweth whether the Lord may not give him to\nme, and the child may live?\n\n12:23. But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Shall I be able to\nbring him back any more? I shall go to him rather: but he shall not\nreturn to me.\n\n12:24. And David comforted Bethsabee his wife, and went in unto her,\nand slept with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon,\nand the Lord loved him.\n\n12:25. And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his\nname, Amiable to the Lord, because the Lord loved him.\n\nAmiable to the Lord. . .Or, beloved of the Lord. In Hebrew, Jedidiah.\n\n12:26. And Joab fought against Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and\nlaid close siege to the royal city.\n\n12:27. And Joab sent messengers to David, saying: I have fought against\nRabbath, and the city of waters is about to be taken.\n\nThe city of waters. . .Rabbath the royal city of the Ammonites, was\ncalled the city of waters, from being encompassed with waters.\n\n12:28. Now therefore gather thou the rest of the people together, and\nbesiege the city and take it: lest when the city shall be wasted by me,\nthe victory be ascribed to my name.\n\n12:29. Then David gathered all the people together, and went out\nagainst Rabbath: and after fighting, he took it.\n\n12:30. And he took the crown of their king from his head, the weight of\nwhich was a talent of gold, set with most precious stones, and it was\nput upon David's head, and the spoils of the city which were very great\nhe carried away.\n\n12:31. And bringing forth the people thereof he sawed them, and drove\nover them chariots armed with iron: and divided them with knives, and\nmade them pass through brickkilns: so did he to all the cities of the\nchildren of Ammon: and David returned, with all the army to Jerusalem.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 13\n\n\nAmmon ravisheth Thamar. For which Absalom killeth him, and flieth to\nGessur.\n\n13:1. And it came to pass after this that Ammon the son of David loved\nthe sister of Absalom the son of David, who was very beautiful, and her\nname was Thamar.\n\n13:2. And he was exceedingly fond of her, so that he fell sick for the\nlove of her: for as she was a virgin, he thought it hard to do any\nthing dishonestly with her.\n\n13:3. Now Ammon had a friend, named Jonadab the son of Semmaa the\nbrother of David, a very wise man:\n\nA very wise man. . .That is, a crafty and subtle man: for the counsel he\ngave on this occasion shews that his wisdom was but carnal and worldly.\n\n13:4. And he said to him: Why dost thou grow so lean from day to day, O\nson of the king? why dost thou not tell me the reason of it? And Ammon\nsaid to him: I am in love with Thamar the sister of my brother Absalom.\n\n13:5. And Jonadab said to him: Lie down upon thy bed, and feign thyself\nsick: and when thy father shall come to visit thee, say to him: Let my\nsister Thamar, I pray thee, come to me, to give me to eat, and to make\nme a mess, that I may eat it at her hand.\n\n13:6. So Ammon lay down, and made as if he were sick: and when the king\ncame to visit him, Ammon said to the king: I pray thee let my sister\nThamar come, and make in my sight two little messes, that I may eat at\nher hand.\n\n13:7. Then David sent home to Thamar, saying: Come to the house of thy\nbrother Ammon, and make him a mess.\n\n13:8. And Thamar came to the house of Ammon her brother: but he was\nlaid down: and she took meal and tempered it: and dissolving it in his\nsight she made little messes.\n\n13:9. And taking what she had boiled, she poured it out, and set it\nbefore him, but he would not eat: and Ammon said: Put out all persons\nfrom me. And when they had put all persons out,\n\n13:10. Ammon said to Thamar: Bring the mess into the chamber, that I\nmay eat at thy hand. And Thamar took the little messes which she had\nmade, and brought them in to her brother Ammon in the chamber.\n\n13:11. And when she had presented him the meat, he took hold of her,\nand said: Come lie with me, my sister.\n\n13:12. She answered him: Do not so, my brother, do not force me: for no\nsuch thing must be done in Israel. Do not thou this folly.\n\n13:13. For I shall not be able to bear my shame, and thou shalt be as\none of the fools in Israel: but rather speak to the king, and he will\nnot deny me to thee.\n\n13:14. But he would not hearken to her prayers, but being stronger\noverpowered her and lay with her.\n\n13:15. Then Ammon hated her with an exceeding great hatred: so that the\nhatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love with which he\nhad loved her before. And Ammon said to her: Arise, and get thee gone.\n\n13:16. She answered him: The evil which now thou dost against me, in\ndriving me away, is greater than that which thou didst before. And he\nwould not hearken to her:\n\n13:17. But calling the servants that ministered to him, he said: Thrust\nthis woman out from me: and shut the door after her.\n\n13:18. And she was clothed with a long robe: for the king's daughters\nthat were virgins, used such kind of garments. Then his servant thrust\nher out: and shut the door after her.\n\n13:19. And she put ashes on her head, and rent her long robe and laid\nher hands upon her head, and went on crying.\n\n13:20. And Absalom her brother said to her: Hath thy brother Ammon lain\nwith thee? but now, sister, hold thy peace, he is thy brother: and\nafflict not thy heart for this thing. So Thamar remained pining away in\nthe house of Absalom her brother.\n\n13:21. And when king David heard of these things he was exceedingly\ngrieved: and he would not afflict the spirit of his son Ammon, for he\nloved him, because he was his firstborn.\n\n13:22. But Absalom spoke not to Ammon neither good nor evil: for\nAbsalom hated Ammon because he had ravished his sister Thamar.\n\n13:23. And it came to pass after two years, that the sheep of Absalom\nwere shorn in Baalhasor, which is near Ephraim: and Absalom invited all\nthe king's sons:\n\n13:24. And he came to the king, and said to him: Behold thy servant's\nsheep are shorn. Let the king, I pray, with his servants come to his\nservant.\n\n13:25. And the king said to Absalom: Nay, my son, do not ask that we\nshould all come, and be chargeable to thee. And when he pressed him,\nand he would not go, he blessed him.\n\n13:26. And Absalom said: If thou wilt not come, at least let my brother\nAmmon, I beseech thee, come with us. And the king said to him: It is\nnot necessary that he should go with thee.\n\n13:27. But Absalom pressed him, so that he let Ammon and all the king's\nsons go with him. And Absalom made a feast as it were the feast of a\nking.\n\n13:28. And Absalom had commanded his servants, saying: Take notice when\nAmmon shall be drunk with wine, and when I shall say to you: Strike\nhim, and kill him, fear not: for it is I that command you: take\ncourage, and be valiant men.\n\n13:29. And the servants of Absalom did to Ammon as Absalom had\ncommanded them. And all the king's sons arose and got up every man upon\nhis mule, and fled.\n\n13:30. And while they were yet in the way, a rumour came to David,\nsaying: Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one\nthem left.\n\n13:31. Then the king rose up, and rent his garments: and fell upon the\nground, and all his servants, that stood about him, rent their\ngarments.\n\n13:32. But Jonadab the son of Semmaa David's brother answering, said:\nLet not my lord the king think that all the king's sons are slain:\nAmmon only is dead, for he was appointed by the mouth of Absalom from\nthe day that he ravished his sister Thamar.\n\n13:33. Now therefore let not my lord the king take this thing into his\nheart, saying: All the king's sons are slain: for Ammon only is dead.\n\n13:34. But Absalom fled away: and the young man that kept the watch,\nlifted up his eyes and looked, and behold there came much people by a\nby-way on the side of the mountain.\n\n13:35. And Jonadab said to the king: Behold the king's sons are come:\nas thy servant said, so it is.\n\n13:36. And when he made an end of speaking, the king's sons also\nappeared: and coming in they lifted up their voice, and wept: and the\nking also and all his servants wept very much.\n\n13:37. But Absalom fled, and went to Tholomai the son of Ammiud the\nking of Gessur. And David mourned for his son every day.\n\n13:38. And Absalom after he was fled, and come into Gessur, was there\nthree years. And king David ceased to pursue after Absalom, because he\nwas comforted concerning the death of Ammon.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 14\n\n\nJoab procureth Absalom's return, and his admittance to the king's\npresence.\n\n14:1. And Joab the son of Sarvia, understanding that the king's heart\nwas turned to Absalom,\n\n14:2. Sent to Thecua, and fetched from thence a wise woman: and said to\nher: Feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, and be\nnot anointed with oil, that thou mayest be as a woman that had a long\ntime been mourning for one dead.\n\n14:3. And thou shalt go in to the king, and shalt speak to him in this\nmanner. And Joab put the words in her mouth.\n\n14:4. And when the woman of Thecua was come in to the king, she fell\nbefore him upon the ground, and worshipped, and said: Save me, O king.\n\n14:5. And the king said to her: What is the matter with thee? She\nanswered: Alas, I am a widow woman: for my husband is dead.\n\n14:6. And thy handmaid had two sons: and they quarrelled with each\nother in the field, and there was none to part them: and the one struck\nthe other, and slew him.\n\n14:7. And behold the whole kindred rising against thy handmaid, saith:\nDeliver him that hath slain his brother, that we may kill him for the\nlife of his brother, whom he slew, and that we may destroy the heir:\nand they seek to quench my spark which is left, and will leave my\nhusband no name, nor remainder upon the earth.\n\n14:8. And the king said to the woman: Go to thy house, and I will give\ncharge concerning thee.\n\n14:9. And the woman of Thecua said to the king: Upon me, my lord be the\niniquity, and upon the house of my father: but may the king and his\nthrone be guiltless.\n\n14:10. And the king said: If any one shall say ought against thee,\nbring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.\n\n14:11. And she said: Let the king remember the Lord his God, that the\nnext of kin be not multiplied to take revenge, and that they may not\nkill my son. And he said: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair\nof thy son fall to the earth.\n\n14:12. The woman said: Let thy hand maid speak one word to my lord the\nking. And he said: Speak.\n\n14:13. And the woman said: Why hast thou thought such a thing against\nthe people of God, and why hath the king spoken this word, to sin, and\nnot bring home again his own exile?\n\n14:14. We all die, and like waters that return no more, we fall down\ninto the earth: neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth,\nmeaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.\n\n14:15. Now therefore I am come, to speak this word to my lord the king\nbefore the people. And thy handmaid said: I will speak to the king, it\nmaybe the king will perform the request of his handmaid.\n\n14:16. And the king hath hearkened to me to deliver his handmaid out of\nthe hand of all that would destroy me and my son together out of the\ninheritance of God.\n\n14:17. Then let thy handmaid say, that the word of the Lord the king be\nmade as a sacrifice. For even as an angel of God, so is my lord the\nking, that he is neither moved with blessing nor cursing: wherefore the\nLord thy God is also with thee.\n\n14:18. And the king answering, said to the woman: Hide not from me the\nthing that I ask thee. And the woman said to him: Speak, my lord the\nking.\n\n14:19. And the king said: Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all\nthis? The woman answered, and said: By the health of thy soul, my lord,\nO king, it is neither on the left hand, nor on the right, in all these\nthings which my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he\ncommanded me, and he put all these words into the mouth of thy\nhandmaid.\n\n14:20. That I should come about with this form of speech, thy servant\nJoab commanded this: but thou, my lord, O king, art wise, according to\nthe wisdom of an angel of God, to understand all things upon earth.\n\n14:21. And the king said to Joab: Behold I am appeased and have granted\nthy request: Go therefore and fetch back the boy Absalom.\n\n14:22. And Joab falling down to the ground upon his face, adored, and\nblessed the king: and Joab said: This day thy servant hath understood,\nthat I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king: for thou hast\nfulfilled the request of thy servant.\n\nBlessed. . .That is, and gave thanks to the king.\n\n14:23. Then Joab arose and went to Gessur, and brought Absalom to\nJerusalem.\n\n14:24. But the king said: Let him return into his house, and let him\nnot see my face. So Absalom returned into his house, and saw not the\nking's face.\n\n14:25. But in all Israel there was not a man so comely, and so\nexceedingly beautiful as Absalom: from the sole of the foot to the\ncrown of his head there was no blemish in him.\n\n14:26. And when he polled his hair (now he was polled once a year,\nbecause his hair was burdensome to him) he weighed the hair of his head\nat two hundred sicles, according to the common weight.\n\n14:27. And there were born to Absalom three sons: and one daughter,\nwhose name was Thamar, and she was very beautiful.\n\n14:28. And Absalom dwelt two years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king's\nface.\n\n14:29. He sent therefore to Joab, to send him to the king: but he would\nnot come to him. And when he had sent the second time, and he would not\ncome to him,\n\n14:30. He said to his servants: You know the field of Joab near my\nfield, that hath a crop of barley: go now and set it on fire. So the\nservants of Absalom set the corn on fire. And Joab's servants coming\nwith their garments rent, said: The servants of Absalom have set part\nof the field on fire.\n\n14:31. Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said: Why\nhave thy servants set my corn on fire?\n\n14:32. And Absalom answered Joab: I sent to thee beseeching thee to\ncome to me, that I might send thee to the king, to say to him:\nWherefore am I come from Gessur? it had been better for me to be there:\nI beseech thee therefore that I may see the face of the king: and if he\nbe mindful of my iniquity, let him kill me.\n\n14:33. So Joab going in to the king, told him all: and Absalom was\ncalled for, and, he went in to the king: and prostrated himself on the\nground before him: and the king kissed Absalom.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 15\n\n\nAbsalom's policy and conspiracy. David is obliged to flee.\n\n15:1. Now after these things Absalom made himself chariots, and\nhorsemen, and fifty men to run before him.\n\n15:2. And Absalom rising up early stood by the entrance of the gate,\nand when any man had business to come to the king's judgment, Absalom\ncalled him to him, and said: Of what city art thou? He answered, and\nsaid: Thy servant is of such tribe of Israel.\n\n15:3. And Absalom answered him: Thy words seem to me good and just. But\nthere is no man appointed by the king to hear thee. And Absalom said:\n\n15:4. O that they would make me judge over the land, that all that have\nbusiness might come to me, that I might do them justice.\n\n15:5. Moreover when any man came to him to salute him, he put forth his\nhand, and took him, and kissed him.\n\n15:6. And this he did to all Israel that came for judgment, to be heard\nby the king, and he enticed the hearts of the men of Israel.\n\n15:7. And after forty years, Absalom said to king David: Let me go, and\npay my vows which I have vowed to the Lord in Hebron.\n\n15:8. For thy servant made a vow, when he was in Gessur of Syria,\nsaying: If the Lord shall bring me again into Jerusalem, I will offer\nsacrifice to the Lord.\n\n15:9. And king David said to him: Go in peace. And he arose, and went\nto Hebron.\n\n15:10. And Absalom sent spies into all the tribes of Israel, saying: As\nsoon as you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, say ye: Absalom\nreigneth in Hebron.\n\n15:11. Now there went with Absalom two hundred men out of Jerusalem\nthat were called, going with simplicity of heart, and knowing nothing\nof the design.\n\n15:12. Absalom also sent for Achitophel the Gilonite, David's\ncounsellor, from his city Gilo. And while he was offering sacrifices,\nthere was a strong conspiracy, and the people running together\nincreased with Absalom.\n\n15:13. And there came a messenger to David, saying: All Israel with\ntheir whole heart followeth Absalom.\n\n15:14. And David said to his servants, that were with him in Jerusalem:\nArise and let us flee: for we shall not escape else from the face of\nAbsalom: make haste to go out, lest he come and overtake us, and bring\nruin upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.\n\n15:15. And the king's servants said to him: Whatsoever our lord the\nking shall command, we thy servants will willingly execute.\n\n15:16. And the king went forth, and all his household on foot: and the\nking left ten women his concubines to keep the house:\n\nConcubines. . .That is, wives of an inferior degree.\n\n15:17. And the king going forth and all Israel on foot, stood afar off\nfrom the house:\n\n15:18. And all his servants walked by him, and the bands of the\nCerethi, and the Phelethi, and all the Gethites, valiant warriors, six\nhundred men who had followed him from Geth on foot, went before the\nking.\n\n15:19. And the king said to Ethai the Gethite: Why comest thou with us:\nreturn and dwell with the king, for thou art a stranger, and art come\nout of thy own place.\n\n15:20. Yesterday thou camest, and to day shalt thou be forced to go\nforth with us? but I shall go whither I am going: return thou, and take\nback thy brethren with thee, and the Lord will shew thee mercy, and\ntruth, because thou hast shewn grace and fidelity.\n\n15:21. And Ethai answered the king, saying: As the Lord liveth, and as\nmy lord the king liveth: in what place soever thou shalt be, my lord, O\nking, either in death, or in life, there will thy servant be.\n\n15:22. And David said to Ethai: Come, and pass over. And Ethai the\nGethite passed, and all the men that were with him, and the rest of the\npeople.\n\n15:23. And they all wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed\nover: the king also himself went over the brook Cedron, and all the\npeople marched towards the way that looketh to the desert.\n\n15:24. And Sadoc the priest also came, and all the Levites with him\ncarrying the ark of the covenant of God, and they set down the ark of\nGod: and Abiathar went up, till all the people that was come out of the\ncity had done passing.\n\n15:25. And the king said to Sadoc: Carry back the ark of God into the\ncity: if I shall find grace in the sight of the Lord, he will bring me\nagain, and he will shew me it, and his tabernacle.\n\n15:26. But if he shall say to me: Thou pleasest me not: I am ready, let\nhim do that which is good before him.\n\n15:27. And the king said to Sadoc the priest: O seer, return into the\ncity in peace: and let Achimaas thy son, and Jonathan the son of\nAbiathar, your two sons, be with you.\n\n15:28. Behold I will lie hid in the plains of the wilderness, till\nthere come word from you to certify me.\n\n15:29. So Sadoc and Abiathar carried back the ark of God into\nJerusalem: and they tarried there.\n\n15:30. But David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, going up and\nweeping, walking barefoot, and with his head covered, and all the\npeople that were with them, went up with their heads covered weeping.\n\nWeeping, etc. . .David on this occasion wept for his sins, which he knew\nwere the cause of all his sufferings.\n\n15:31. And it was told David that Achitophel also was in the conspiracy\nwith Absalom, and David said: Infatuate, O Lord, I beseech thee, the\ncounsel of Achitophel.\n\n15:32. And when David was come to the top of the mountain, where he was\nabout to adore the Lord, behold Chusai the Arachite, came to meet him\nwith his garment rent and his head covered with earth.\n\n15:33. And David said to him: If thou come with me, thou wilt be a\nburden to me:\n\n15:34. But if thou return into the city, and wilt say to Absalom: I am\nthy servant, O king: as I have been thy father's servant, so I will be\nthy servant: thou shalt defeat the counsel of Achitophel.\n\n15:35. And thou hast with thee Sadoc, and soever thou shalt hear out of\nthe king's house, thou shalt tell it to Sadoc and Abiathar the priests.\n\n15:36. And there are with them their two sons Achimaas; the son of\nSadoc, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar: and you shall send by them to\nme every thing that you shall hear.\n\n15:37. Then Chusai the friend of David went into the city, and Absalom\ncame into Jerusalem.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 16\n\n\nSiba bringeth provisions to David. Semei curseth him. Absalom defileth\nhis father's wives.\n\n16:1. And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold Siba\nthe servant of Miphiboseth came to meet him with two asses, laden with\ntwo hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred bunches of raisins, a\nhundred cakes of figs, and a vessel of wine.\n\n16:2. And the king said to Siba: What mean these things? And Siba\nanswered: The asses are for the king's household to sit on: and the\nloaves and the figs for thy servants to eat, and the wine to drink if\nany man be faint in the desert.\n\n16:3. And the king said: Where is thy master's son? And Siba answered\nthe king: He remained in Jerusalem, saying: To day, will the house of\nIsrael restore me the kingdom of my father.\n\n16:4. And the king said to Siba: I give thee all that belonged to\nMiphiboseth. And Siba said: I beseech thee let me find grace before\nthee, my lord, O king.\n\n16:5. And king David came as far as Bahurim: and behold there came out\nfrom thence a man of the kindred of the house of Saul named Semei, the\nson of Gera, and coming out he cursed as he went on,\n\n16:6. And he threw stones at David, and at all the servants of king\nDavid: and all the people, and all the warriors walked on the right,\nand on the left side of the king.\n\n16:7. And thus said Semei when he cursed the king: Come out, come out,\nthou man of blood, and thou man of Belial.\n\n16:8. The Lord hath repaid thee for all the blood of the house of Saul:\nbecause thou hast usurped the kingdom in his stead, and the Lord hath\ngiven the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and behold thy\nevils press upon thee, because thou art a man of blood.\n\n16:9. And Abisai the son of Sarvia said to the king: Why should this\ndead dog curse my lord the king? I will go, and cut off his head.\n\n16:10. And the king said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of\nSarvia? Let him alone and let him curse: for the Lord hath bid him\ncurse David: and who is he that shall dare say, why hath he done so?\n\nHath bid him curse. . .Not that the Lord was the author of Semei's sin,\nwhich proceeded purely from his own malice, and the abuse of his free\nwill. But that knowing, and suffering his malicious disposition to\nbreak out on this occasion, he made use of him as his instrument to\npunish David for his sins.\n\n16:11. And the king said to Abisai, and to all his servants: Behold my\nson, who came forth from my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now\na son of Jemini? let him alone that he may curse as the Lord hath\nbidden him.\n\n16:12. Perhaps the Lord may look upon my affliction, and the Lord may\nrender me good for the cursing of this day.\n\n16:13. And David and his men with him went by the way. And Semei by the\nhill's side went over against him, cursing, and casting stones at him,\nand scattering earth.\n\n16:14. And the king and all the people with him came weary, and\nrefreshed themselves there.\n\n16:15. But Absalom and all his people came into Jerusalem, and\nAchitophel was with him.\n\n16:16. And when Chusai the Arachite, David's friend, was come to\nAbsalom, he said to him: God save thee, O king, God save thee, O king.\n\n16:17. And Absalom said to him, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? Why\nwentest thou not with thy friend?\n\n16:18. And Chusai answered Absalom: Nay: for I will be his, whom the\nLord hath chosen, and all this people, and all Israel, and with him\nwill I abide.\n\n16:19. Besides this, whom shall I serve? is it not the king's son? as I\nhave served thy father, so will I serve thee also.\n\n16:20. And Absalom said to Achitophel: Consult what we are to do.\n\n16:21. And Achitophel said to Absalom: Go in to the concubines of thy\nfather, whom he hath left to keep the house: that when all Israel shall\nhear that thou hast disgraced thy father, their hands may be\nstrengthened with thee.\n\nTheir hands may be strengthened, etc. . .The people might apprehend lest\nAbsalom should be reconciled to his father, and therefore they followed\nhim with some fear of being left in the lurch, till they saw such a\ncrime committed as seemed to make a reconciliation impossible.\n\n16:22. So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and\nhe went in to his father's concubines before all Israel.\n\n16:23. Now the counsel of Achitophel, which he gave in those days, was\nas if a man should consult God: so was all the counsel of Achitophel,\nboth when he was with David, and when he was with Absalom.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 17\n\n\nAchitophel's counsel is defeated by Chusai: who sendeth intelligence to\nDavid. Achitophel hangeth himself.\n\n17:1. And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand\nmen, and I will arise and pursue after David this night.\n\n17:2. And coming upon him (for he is now weary, and weak handed) I will\ndefeat him: and when all the people is put to flight that is with him,\nI will kill the king who will be left alone.\n\n17:3. And I will bring back all the people, as if they were but one\nman: for thou seekest but one man: and all the people shall be in\npeace.\n\n17:4. And his saying pleased Absalom, and all the ancients of Israel.\n\n17:5. But Absalom said: Call Chusai the Arachite, and let us hear what\nhe also saith.\n\n17:6. And when Chusai was come to Absalom, Absalom said to him:\nAchitophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do it or not? what\ncounsel dost thou give?\n\n17:7. And Chusai said to Absalom: The counsel that Achitophel hath\ngiven this time is not good.\n\n17:8. And again Chusai said: Thou knowest thy father, and the men that\nare with him, that they are very valiant, and bitter in their mind, as\na bear raging in the wood when her whelps are taken away: and thy\nfather is a warrior, and will not lodge with the people.\n\n17:9. Perhaps he now lieth hid in pits, or in some other place where he\nliest: and when any one shall fall at the first, every one that heareth\nit shall say: There is a slaughter among the people that followed\nAbsalom.\n\n17:10. And the most valiant man whose heart is as the heart of a lion,\nshall melt for fear: for all the people of Israel know thy father to be\na valiant man, and that all who are with him are valiant.\n\n17:11. But this seemeth to me to be good counsel: Let all Israel be\ngathered to thee, from Dan to Bersabee, as the sand of the sea which\ncannot be numbered: and thou shalt be in the midst of them.\n\n17:12. And we shall come upon him in what place soever he shall be\nfound: and we shall cover him, as the dew falleth upon the ground, and\nwe shall not leave of the men that are with him, not so much as one.\n\n17:13. And if he shall enter into any city, all Israel shall cast ropes\nround about that city, and we will draw it into the river, so that\nthere shall not be found so much as one small stone thereof.\n\n17:14. And Absalom, and all the men of Israel said: The counsel of\nChusai the Arachite is better than the counsel of Achitophel: and by\nthe will of the Lord the profitable counsel of Achitophel was defeated,\nthat the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.\n\n17:15. And Chusai said to Sadoc and Abiathar the priests: Thus and thus\ndid Achitophel counsel Absalom, and the ancients of Israel: and thus\nand thus did I counsel them.\n\n17:16. Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying: Tarry not\nthis night in the plains of the wilderness, but without delay pass\nover: lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that is with\nhim.\n\n17:17. And Jonathan and Achimaas stayed by the fountain Rogel: and\nthere went a maid and told them: and they went forward, to carry the\nmessage to king David, for they might not be seen, nor enter into the\ncity.\n\n17:18. But a certain boy saw them, and told Absalom: but they making\nhaste went into the house of a certain man in Bahurim, who had a well\nin his court, and they went down into it.\n\n17:19. And a woman took, and spread a covering over the mouth of the\nwell, as it were to dry sodden barley and so the thing was not known.\n\n17:20. And when Absalom's servants were come into the house, they said\nto the woman: Where is Achimaas and Jonathan? and the woman answered\nthem: They passed on in haste, after they had tasted a little water.\nBut they that sought them, when they found them not, returned into\nJerusalem.\n\n17:21. And when they were gone, they came up out of the well, and going\non told king David, and said: Arise, and pass quickly over the river:\nfor this manner of counsel has Achitophel given against you.\n\n17:22. So David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they\npassed over the Jordan, until it grew light, and not one of them was\nleft that was not gone ever the river.\n\n17:23. But Achitophel seeing that his counsel was not followed, saddled\nhis ass, and arose and went home to his house and to his city, and\nputting his house in order, hanged himself, and was buried in the\nsepulchre of his father.\n\n17:24. But David came to the camp, and Absalom passed over the Jordan,\nhe and all the men of Israel with him.\n\nTo the camp. . .The city of Mahanaim, the name of which, in Hebrew,\nsignifies The camp. It was a city of note at that time, as appears from\nits having been chosen by Isboseth for the place of his residence.\n\n17:25. Now Absalom appointed Amasa in Joab's stead over the army: and\nAmasa was the son of a man who was called Jethra, of Jezrael, who went\nin to Abigail the daughter of Naas, the sister of Sarvia who was the\nmother of Joab.\n\n17:26. And Israel camped with Absalom in the land of Galaad.\n\n17:27. And when David was come to the camp, Sobi the son of Naas of\nRabbath of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammihel of\nLodabar and Berzellai the Galaadite of Rogelim,\n\n17:28. Brought him beds, and tapestry, and earthen vessels, and wheat,\nand barley, and meal, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and\nfried pulse,\n\n17:29. And honey, and butter, and sheep, and fat calves, and they gave\nto David and the people that were with him, to eat: for they suspected\nthat the people were faint with hunger and thirst in the wilderness.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 18\n\n\nAbsalom is defeated, and slain by Joab. David mourneth for him.\n\n18:1. And David, having reviewed his people, appointed over them\ncaptains of thousands and of hundreds,\n\n18:2. And sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab,\nand a third part under the hand of Abisai the son of Sarvia Joab's\nbrother, and a third part under the hand of Ethai, who was of Geth: and\nthe king said to the people: I also will go forth with you.\n\n18:3. And the people answered: Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee\naway, they will not much mind us: or if half of us should fall, they\nwill not greatly care: for thou alone art accounted for ten thousand:\nit is better therefore that thou shouldst be in the city to succour us.\n\n18:4. And the king said to them: What seemeth good to you, that will I\ndo. And the king stood by the gate: and all the people went forth by\ntheir troops, by hundreds and by thousands.\n\n18:5. And the king commanded Joab, and Abisai, and Ethai, saying: Save\nme the boy Absalom. And all the people heard the king giving charge to\nall the princes concerning Absalom.\n\n18:6. So the people went out into the field against Israel, and the\nbattle was fought in the forest of Ephraim.\n\n18:7. And the people of Israel were defeated there by David's army, and\na great slaughter was made that day of twenty thousand men.\n\n18:8. And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the\ncountry, and there were many more of the people whom the forest\nconsumed, than whom the sword devoured that day.\n\nConsumed. . .Viz., by pits and precipices.\n\n18:9. And it happened that Absalom met the servants of David, riding on\na mule: and as the mule went under a thick and large oak, his head\nstuck in the oak: and while he hung between the heaven and the earth,\nthe mule on which he rode passed on.\n\n18:10. And one saw this and told Joab, saying: I saw Absalom hanging\nupon an oak.\n\n18:11. And Joab said to the man that told him: If thou sawest him, why\ndidst thou not stab him to the ground, and I would have given thee ten\nsicles of silver, and a belt?\n\n18:12. And he said to Joab: If thou wouldst have paid down in my hands\na thousand pieces of silver, I would not lay my hands upon the king's\nson for in our hearing the king charged thee, and Abisai, and Ethai,\nsaying: Save me the boy Absalom.\n\n18:13. Yea and if I should have acted boldly against my own life, this\ncould not have been hid from the king, and wouldst thou have stood by\nme?\n\n18:14. And Joab said: Not as thou wilt, but I will set upon him in thy\nsight. So he took three lances in his hand, and thrust them into the\nheart of Absalom: and whilst he yet panted for life, sticking on the\noak,\n\n18:15. Ten young men, armourbearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him\nslew him.\n\n18:16. And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept back the people from\npursuing after Israel in their flight, being willing to spare the\nmultitude.\n\n18:17. And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the\nforest, and they laid an exceeding great heap of stones upon him: but\nall Israel fled to their own dwellings.\n\n18:18. Now Absalom had reared up for himself, in his lifetime, a\npillar, which is in the king's valley: for he said: I have no son, and\nthis shall be the monument of my name. And he called the pillar by his\nown name, and it is called the hand of Absalom, to this day.\n\nNo son. . .The sons mentioned above, chap. 14.27, were dead when this\npillar was erected: unless we suppose he raised this pillar before they\nwere born.\n\n18:19. And Achimaas the son of Sadoc said: I will run and tell the\nking, that the Lord hath done judgment for him from the hand of his\nenemies.\n\n18:20. And Joab said to him: Thou shalt not be the messenger this day,\nbut shalt bear tidings another day: this day I will not have thee bear\ntidings, because the king's son is dead.\n\n18:21. And Joab said to Chusai: Go, and tell the king what thou hast\nseen. Chusai bowed down to Joab, and ran.\n\n18:22. Then Achimaas the son of Sadoc said to Joab again: Why might not\nI also run after Chusai? And Joab said to him: Why wilt thou run, my\nson? thou wilt not be the bearer of good tidings.\n\n18:23. He answered: But what if I run? And he said to him: Run. Then\nAchimaas running by a nearer way passed Chusai.\n\n18:24. And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman that was\non the top of the gate upon the wall, lifting up his eyes, saw a man\nrunning alone.\n\n18:25. And crying out he told the king: and the king said: If he be\nalone, there are good tidings in his mouth. And as he was coming apace,\nand drawing nearer,\n\n18:26. The watchman saw another man running, and crying aloud from\nabove, he said: I see another man running alone. And the king said: He\nalso is a good messenger.\n\n18:27. And the watchman said: The running of the foremost seemeth to me\nlike the running of Achimaas the son of Sadoc. And the king said: He is\na good man: and cometh with good news.\n\n18:28. And Achimaas crying out, said to the king: God save thee, O\nking. And falling down before the king with his face to the ground, he\nsaid: Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath shut up the men that have\nlifted up their hands against the lord my king.\n\n18:29. And the king said: Is the young man Absalom safe? And Achimaas\nsaid: I saw a great tumult, O king, when thy servant Joab sent me thy\nservant: I know nothing else.\n\n18:30. And the king said to him: Pass, and stand here.\n\n18:31. And when he had passed, and stood still, Chusai appeared and\ncoming up he said: I bring good tidings, my lord, the king, for the\nLord hath judged for thee this day from the hand of all that have risen\nup against thee.\n\n18:32. And the king said to Chusai: Is the young man Absalom safe? And\nChusai answering him, said: Let the enemies of my lord, the king, and\nall that rise against him unto evil, be as the young man is.\n\n18:33. The king therefore being much moved, went up to the high chamber\nover the gate, and wept. And as he went he spoke in this manner: My son\nAbsalom, Absalom my son: would to God that I might die for thee,\nAbsalom my son, my son Absalom.\n\nWould to God. . .David lamented the death of Absalom, because of the\nwretched state in which he died: and therefore would have been glad to\nhave saved his life, even by dying for him. In which he was a figure of\nChrist weeping, praying and dying for his rebellious children, and even\nfor them that crucified him.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 19\n\n\nDavid, at the remonstrances of Joab, ceaseth his mourning. He is\ninvited back and met by Semei and Miphiboseth: a strife between the men\nof Juda and the men of Israel.\n\n19:1. And it was told Joab, that the king wept and mourned for his son:\n\n19:2. And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the\npeople: for the people heard say that day: The king grieveth for his\nson.\n\n19:3. And the people shunned the going into the city that day as a\npeople would do that hath turned their backs, and fled away from the\nbattle.\n\n19:4. And the king covered his head, and cried with a loud voice: O my\nson Absalom, O Absalom my son, O my son.\n\n19:5. Then Joab going into the house to the king, said: Thou hast\nshamed this day the faces of all thy servants, that have saved thy\nlife, and the lives of thy sons, and of thy daughters, and the lives of\nthy wives, and the lives of thy concubines.\n\n19:6. Thou lovest them that hate thee, and thou hatest them that love\nthee: and thou hast shewn this day that thou carest not for thy nobles,\nnor for thy servants: and I now plainly perceive that if Absalom had\nlived, and all we had been slain, then it would have pleased thee.\n\n19:7. Now therefore arise, and go out, and speak to the satisfaction of\nthy servants: for I swear to thee by the Lord, that if thou wilt not go\nforth, there will not tarry with thee so much as one this night: and\nthat will be worse to thee, than all the evils that have befallen thee\nfrom thy youth until now.\n\n19:8. Then the king arose and sat in the gate: and it was told to all\nthe people that the king sat in the gate: and all the people came\nbefore the king, but Israel fled to their own dwellings.\n\n19:9. And all the people were at strife in all the tribes of Israel,\nsaying: The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he\nsaved us out of the hand of the Philistines: and now he is fled out of\nthe land for Absalom.\n\n19:10. But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in the battle:\nhow long are you silent, and bring not back the king?\n\n19:11. And king David sent to Sadoc, and Abiathar the priests, saying:\nSpeak to the ancients of Juda, saying: Why are you the last to bring\nthe king back to his house? (For the talk of all Israel was come to the\nking in his house.)\n\n19:12. You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you\nthe last to bring back the king?\n\n19:13. And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou my bone, and my flesh? So do\nGod to me and add more, if thou be not the chief captain of the army\nbefore me always in the place of Joab.\n\n19:14. And he inclined the heart of all the men of Juda, as it were of\none man: and they sent to the king, saying: Return thou, and all thy\nservants.\n\n19:15. And the king returned and came as far as the Jordan, and all\nJuda came as far as Galgal to meet the king, and to bring him over the\nJordan.\n\n19:16. And Semei the son of Gera the son of Jemini of Bahurim, made\nhaste and went down with the men of Juda to meet king David,\n\n19:17. With a thousand men of Benjamin, and Siba the servant of the\nhouse of Saul: and his fifteen sons, and twenty servants were with him:\nand going over the Jordan,\n\n19:18.They passed the fords before the king, that they might help over\nthe king's household, and do according to his commandment. And Semei\nthe son of Gera falling down before the king, when he was come over the\nJordan,\n\n19:19. Said to him: Impute not to me, my lord, the iniquity, nor\nremember the injuries of thy servant on the day that thou, my lord, the\nking, wentest out of Jerusalem, nor lay it up in thy heart, O king.\n\n19:20. For I thy servant acknowledge my sin: and therefore I am come\nthis day the first of all the house of Joseph, and am come down to meet\nmy lord the king.\n\n19:21. But Abisai the son of Sarvia answering, said: Shall Semei for\nthese words not be put to death, because he cursed the Lord's anointed?\n\n19:22. And David said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of Sarvia?\nwhy are you a satan this day to me? shall there any man be killed this\nday in Israel? do not I know that this day I am made king over Israel?\n\n19:23. And the king said to Semei: Thou shalt not die. And he swore\nunto him.\n\n19:24. And Miphiboseth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and\nhe had neither washed his feet, nor trimmed his beard: nor washed his\ngarments from the day that the king went out, until the day of his\nreturn in peace.\n\n19:25. And when he met the king at Jerusalem, the king said to him: Why\ncamest thou not with me, Miphiboseth?\n\n19:26. And he answering, said: My lord, O king, my servant despised me:\nfor I thy servant spoke to him to saddle me an ass, that I might get on\nand go with the king: for I thy servant am lame.\n\n19:27. Moreover he hath also accused me thy servant to thee, my lord\nthe king: but thou my lord the king art as an angel of God, do what\npleaseth thee.\n\n19:28. For all of my father's house were no better than worthy of death\nbefore my lord the king; and thou hast set me thy servant among the\nguests of thy table: what just complaint therefore have I? or what\nright to cry any more to the king?\n\n19:29. Then the king said to him: Why speakest thou any more? what I\nhave said is determined: thou and Siba divide the possessions.\n\n19:30. And Miphiboseth answered the king: Yea, let him take all,\nforasmuch as my lord the king is returned peaceably into his house.\n\n19:31. Berzellai also the Galaadite coming down from Rogelim, brought\nthe king over the Jordan, being ready also to wait on him beyond the\nriver.\n\n19:32. Now Berzellai the Galaadite was of a great age, that is to say,\nfourscore years old, and he provided the king with sustenance when he\nabode in the camp: for he was a man exceeding rich.\n\n19:33. And the king said to Berzellai: Come with me that thou mayest\nrest secure with me in Jerusalem.\n\n19:34. And Berzellai said to the king: How many are the days of the\nyears of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?\n\n19:35. I am this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to\ndiscern sweet and bitter? or can meat or drink delight thy servant? or\ncan I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why\nshould thy servant be a burden to my lord, the king?\n\n19:36. I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee:\nI need not this recompense.\n\n19:37. But I beseech thee let thy servant return, and die in my own\ncity, and be buried by the sepulchre of my father, and of my mother.\nBut there is thy servant Chamaam, let him go with thee, my lord, the\nking, and do to him whatsoever seemeth good to thee.\n\n19:38. Then the king said to him: Let Chamaam go over with me, and I\nwill do for him whatsoever shall please thee, and all that thou shalt\nask of me, thou shalt obtain.\n\n19:39. And when all the people and the king had passed over the Jordan,\nthe king kissed Berzellai, and blessed him: and he returned to his own\nplace.\n\n19:40. So the king went on to Galgal, and Chamaam with him. Now all the\npeople of Juda had brought the king over, and only half of the people\nof Israel were there.\n\n19:41. Therefore all the men of Israel running together to the king,\nsaid to him: Why have our brethren the men of Juda stolen thee away,\nand have brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all\nthe men of David with him?\n\n19:42. And all the men of Juda answered the men of Israel: Because the\nking is nearer to me: why art thou angry for this matter? have we eaten\nany thing of the king's, or have any gifts been given us?\n\n19:43. And the men of Israel answered the men of Juda, and said: I have\nten parts in the king more than thou, and David belongeth to me more\nthan to thee: why hast thou done me a wrong, and why was it not told me\nfirst, that I might bring back my king? And the men of Juda answered\nmore harshly than the men of Israel.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 20\n\n\nSeba's rebellion. Amasa is slain by Joab. Abela is besieged, but upon\nthe citizens casting over the wall the head of Seba, Joab departeth\nwith all his army.\n\n20:1. And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was\nSeba, the son of Bochri, a man of Jemini: and he sounded the trumpet,\nand said: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai:\nreturn to thy dwellings, O Israel.\n\n20:2. And all Israel departed from David, and followed Seba the son of\nBochri: but the men of Juda stuck to their king from the Jordan unto\nJerusalem.\n\n20:3. And when the king was come into his house at Jerusalem, he took\nthe ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and\nput them inward, allowing them provisions: and he went not in unto\nthem, but they were shut up unto the day of their death living in\nwidowhood.\n\n20:4. And the king said to Amasa: Assemble to me all the men of Juda\nagainst the third day, and be thou here present.\n\n20:5. So Amasa went to assemble the men of Juda, but he tarried beyond\nthe set time which the king had appointed him.\n\n20:6. And David said to Abisai: Now will Seba the son of Bochri do us\nmore harm than did Absalom: take thou therefore the servants of thy\nlord, and pursue after him, lest he find fenced cities, and escape us.\n\n20:7. So Joab's men went out with him, and the Cerethi and the\nPhelethi: and all the valiant men went out of Jerusalem to pursue after\nSeba the son of Bochri.\n\n20:8. And when they were at the great stone which is in Gabaon, Amasa\ncoming met them. And Joab had on a close coat of equal length with his\nhabit, and over it was girded with a sword hanging down to his flank,\nin a scabbard, made in such manner as to come out with the least motion\nand strike.\n\n20:9. And Joab said to Amasa: God save thee, my brother. And he took\nAmasa by the chin with his right hand to kiss him.\n\n20:10. But Amasa did not take notice of the sword, which Joab had, and\nhe struck him in the side, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and\ngave him not a second wound, and he died. And Joab, and Abisai his\nbrother pursued after Seba the son of Bochri.\n\n20:11. In the mean time some men of Joab's company stopping at the dead\nbody of Amasa, said: Behold he that would have been in Joab's stead the\ncompanion of David.\n\n20:12. And Amasa imbrued with blood, lay in the midst of the way. A\ncertain man saw this that all the people stood still to look upon him,\nso he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and covered him\nwith a garment, that they who passed might, not stop on his account.\n\n20:13. And when he was removed out of the way, all the people went on\nfollowing Joab to pursue after Seba the son of Bochri.\n\n20:14. Now he had passed through all the tribes of Israel unto Abela\nand Bethmaacha: and all the chosen men were gathered together unto him.\n\nAbela and Bethmaacha. . .Cities of the tribe of Nephtali.\n\n20:15. And they came, and besieged him in Abela, and in Bethmaacha, and\nthey cast up works round the city, and the city was besieged: and all\nthe people that were with Joab, laboured to throw down the walls.\n\n20:16. And a wise woman cried out from the city: Hear, hear, and say to\nJoab: Come near hither, and I will speak with thee.\n\n20:17. And when he was come near to her, she said to him: Art thou\nJoab? And he answered: I am. And she spoke thus to him: Hear the\nwords of thy handmaid. He answered: I do hear.\n\n20:18. And she again said: A saying was used in the old proverb: They\nthat inquire, let them inquire in Abela: and so they made an end.\n\n20:19. Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to\ndestroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou\nthrow down the inheritance of the Lord?\n\n20:20. And Joab answering said: God forbid, God forbid that I should, I\ndo not throw down, nor destroy.\n\n20:21. The matter is not so, but a man of mount Ephraim, Seba the son\nof Bochri by name, hath lifted up his hand against king David: deliver\nhim only, and we will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab:\nBehold his head shall be thrown to thee from the wall.\n\n20:22. So she went to all the people, and spoke to them wisely: and\nthey cut off the head of Seba the son of Bochri, and cast it out to\nJoab. And he sounded the trumpet, and they departed from the city,\nevery one to their home: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.\n\n20:23. So Joab was over all the army of Israel: and Banaias the son of\nJoiada was over the Cerethites and Phelethites,\n\n20:24. But Aduram over the tributes: and Josaphat the son of Ahilud was\nrecorder.\n\n20:25. And Siva was scribe: and Sadoc and Abiathar, priests.\n\n20:26. And Ira the Jairite was the priest of David.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 21\n\n\nA famine of three years, for the sin of Saul against the Gabaonites, at\nwhose desire seven of Saul's race are crucified. War again with the\nPhilistines.\n\n21:1. And there was a famine in the days of David for three years\nsuccessively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord\nsaid: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slow the\nGabaonites.\n\n21:2. Then the king, calling for the Gabaonites, said to them: (Now the\nGabaonites were not of the children of Israel, but the remains of the\nAmorrhites: and the children of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul\nsought to slay them out of zeal, as it were for the children of Israel\nand Juda:)\n\n21:3. David therefore said to the Gabaonites: What shall I do for you?\nand what shall be the atonement or you, that you may bless the\ninheritance of the Lord?\n\n21:4. And the Gabaonites said to him: We have no contest about silver\nand gold, but against Saul and against his house: neither do we desire\nthat any man be slain of Israel. And the king said to them: What will\nyou then that I should do for you?\n\n21:5. And they said to the king: The man that crushed us and oppressed\nus unjustly, we must destroy in such manner that there be not so much\nas one left of his stock in all the coasts of Israel.\n\n21:6. Let seven men of his children be delivered unto us, that we may\ncrucify them to the Lord in Gabaa of Saul, once the chosen of the Lord.\nAnd the king said: I will give them.\n\n21:7. And the king spared Miphiboseth the son of Jonathan the son of\nSaul, because of the oath of the Lord, that had been between David and\nJonathan the son of Saul.\n\n21:8. So the king took the two sons of Respha the daughter of Aia, whom\nshe bore to Saul, Armoni, and Miphiboseth: and the five sons of Michol\nthe daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Hadriel the son of Berzellai,\nthat was of Molathi:\n\nOf Michol. . .They were the sons of Merob, who was married to Hadriel:\nbut they are here called the sons of Michol, because she adopted them,\nand brought them up as her own.\n\n21:9. And gave them into the hands of the Gabaonites: and they\ncrucified them on a hill before the Lord: and these seven died together\nin the first days of the harvest, when the barley began to be reaped.\n\n21:10. And Respha the daughter of Aia took haircloth, and spread it\nunder her upon the rock from the beginning of the harvest, till water\ndropped upon them out of heaven: and suffered neither the birds to tear\nthem by day, nor the beasts by night.\n\n21:11. And it was told David, what Respha the daughter of Aia, the\nconcubine of Saul, had done.\n\n21:12. And David went, and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of\nJonathan his son from the men of Jabes Galaad, who had stolen them from\nthe street of Bethsan, where the Philistines had hanged them when they\nhad slain Saul in Gelboe.\n\n21:13. And he brought from thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of\nJonathan his son, and they gathered up the bones of them that were\ncrucified,\n\n21:14. And they buried them with the bones of Saul, and of Jonathan his\nson in the land of Benjamin, in the side, in the sepulchre of Cis his\nfather: and they did all that the king had commanded, and God shewed\nmercy again to the land after these things.\n\n21:15. And the Philistines made war again against Israel, and David\nwent down, and his servants with him, and fought against the\nPhilistines. And David growing faint,\n\n21:16. Jesbibenob, who was of the race of Arapha, the iron of whose\nspear weighed three hundred ounces, being girded with a new sword,\nattempted to kill David.\n\n21:17. And Abisai the son of Sarvia rescued him, and striking the\nPhilistine killed him. Then David's men swore unto him saying: Thou\nshalt go no more out with us to battle, lest thou put out the lamp of\nIsrael.\n\n21:18. There was also a second battle in Gob against the Philistines:\nthen Sobochai of Husathi slew Saph of the race of Arapha of the family\nof the giants.\n\n21:19. And there was a third battle in Gob against the Philistines, in\nwhich Adeodatus the son of the Forrest an embroiderer of Bethlehem slew\nGoliath the Gethite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.\n\nAdeodatus the son of the Forrest. . .So it is rendered in the Latin\nVulgate, by giving the interpretation of the Hebrew names, which are\nElhanan the son of Jaare.\n\n21:20. A fourth battle was in Geth: where there was a man of great\nstature, that had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot,\nfour and twenty in all, and he was of the race of Arapha.\n\n21:21. And he reproached Israel: and Jonathan the son of Samae the\nbrother of David slew him.\n\n21:22. These four were born of Arapha in Geth, and they fell by the\nhand of David, and of his servants.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 22\n\n\nKing David's psalm of thanksgiving for his deliverance from all his\nenemies.\n\n22:1. And David spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the\nday that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and\nout of the hand of Saul,\n\n22:2. And he said: The Lord is my rock, and my strength, and my\nsaviour.\n\n22:3. God is my strong one, in him will I trust: my shield, and the\nhorn of my salvation: he lifteth me up, and is my refuge: my saviour,\nthou wilt deliver me from iniquity.\n\n22:4. I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised: and I shall\nbe saved from my enemies.\n\n22:5. For the pangs of death have surrounded me: the floods of Belial\nhave made me afraid.\n\n22:6. The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me.\n\n22:7. In my distress I will call upon the Lord, and I will cry to my\nGod: and he will hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry shall come\nto his ears.\n\n22:8. The earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the mountains\nwere moved, and shaken, because he was angry with them.\n\n22:9. A smoke went up from his nostrils, and a devouring fire out of\nhis mouth: coals were kindled by it.\n\n22:10. He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his\nfeet.\n\n22:11. And he rode upon the cherubims, and flew: and slid upon the\nwings of the wind.\n\n22:12. He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out\nof the clouds of the heavens.\n\n22:13. By the brightness before him, the coals of fire were kindled.\n\n22:14. The Lord shall thunder from heaven: and the most high shall give\nforth his voice.\n\n22:15. He shot arrows and scattered them: lightning, and consumed them.\n\n22:16. And the overflowings of the sea appeared, and the foundations of\nthe world were laid open at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the\nspirit of his wrath.\n\n22:17. He sent from on high, and took me, and drew me out of many\nwaters.\n\n22:18. He delivered me from my most mighty enemy, and from them that\nhated me: for they were too strong for me.\n\n22:19. He prevented me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became\nmy stay.\n\n22:20. And he brought me forth into a large place, he delivered me,\nbecause I pleased him.\n\n22:21. The Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according\nto the cleanness of my hands he will render to me.\n\n22:22. Because I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly\ndeparted from my God.\n\n22:23. For all his judgments are in my sight: and his precepts I have\nnot removed from me.\n\n22:24. And I shall be perfect with him: and shall keep myself from my\niniquity.\n\n22:25. And the Lord will recompense me according to my justice: and\naccording to the cleanness of my hands in the sight of his eyes.\n\n22:26. With the holy one thou wilt be holy: and with the valiant\nperfect.\n\n22:27. With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou\nwilt be perverted.\n\n22:28. And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou shalt\nhumble the haughty.\n\n22:29. For thou art my lamp O Lord: and thou, O Lord, wilt enlighten my\ndarkness.\n\n22:30. For in thee I will run girded: in my God I will leap over the\nwall.\n\n22:31. God, his way is immaculate, the word of the Lord is tried by\nfire: he is the shield of all that trust in him.\n\n22:32. Who is God but the Lord: and who is strong but our God?\n\n22:33. God who hath girded me with strength, and made my way perfect.\n\n22:34. Making my feet like the feet of harts, and setting me upon my\nhigh places.\n\n22:35. He teacheth my hands to war: and maketh my arms like a bow of\nbrass.\n\n22:36. Thou hast given me the shield of my salvation: and thy mildness\nhath multiplied me.\n\n22:37. Thou shalt enlarge my steps under me: and my ankles shall not\nfail.\n\n22:38. I will pursue after my enemies, and crush them: and will not\nreturn again till I consume them.\n\n22:39. I will consume them and break them in pieces, so that they shall\nnot rise: they shall fall under my feet.\n\n22:40. Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast made them\nthat resisted me to bow under me.\n\n22:41. My enemies thou hast made to turn their back to me: them that\nhated me, and I shall destroy them.\n\n22:42. They shall cry, and there shall be none to save: to the Lord,\nand he shall not hear them.\n\n22:43. I shall beat them as small as the dust of the earth: I shall\ncrush them and spread them abroad like the mire of the streets.\n\n22:44. Thou wilt save me from the contradictions of my people: thou\nwilt keep me to be the head of the Gentiles: the people which I know\nnot, shall serve me,\n\n22:45. The sons of the stranger will resist me, at the hearing of the\near they will obey me.\n\n22:46. The strangers are melted away, and shall be straitened in their\ndistresses.\n\n22:47. The Lord liveth, and my God is blessed: and the strong God of my\nsalvation shall be exalted:\n\n22:48. God who giveth me revenge, and bringest down people under me,\n\n22:49. Who bringest me forth from my enemies, and liftest me up from\nthem that resist me: from the wicked man thou shalt deliver me.\n\n22:50. Therefore will I give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the\nGentiles, and will sing to thy name.\n\n22:51. Giving great salvation to his king, and shewing mercy to David\nhis anointed, and to his seed for ever.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 23\n\n\nThe last words of David. A catalogue of his valiant men.\n\n23:1. Now these are David's last words. David the son of Isai said: The\nman to whom it was appointed concerning the Christ of the God of Jacob,\nthe excellent psalmist of Israel said:\n\n23:2. The spirit of the Lord hath spoken by me and his word by my\ntongue.\n\n23:3. The God of Israel said to me, the strong one of Israel spoke, the\nruler of men, the just ruler in the fear of God.\n\n23:4. As the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, shineth in the\nmorning without clouds, and as the grass springeth out of the earth by\nrain.\n\nAs the light, etc. . .So shall be the kingdom of Christ.\n\n23:5. Neither is my house so great with God, that he should make with\nme an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured. For he is all\nmy salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought thereof that\nspringeth not up.\n\nNeither is my house, etc. . .As if he should say: This everlasting\ncovenant was not due to my house: but purely owing to his bounty; who\nis all my salvation, and my will: that is, who hath always saved me,\nand granted me what I beseeched of him; so that I and my house, through\nhis blessing, have sprung up, and succeeded in all things.\n\n23:6. But transgressors shall all of them be plucked up as thorns:\nwhich are not taken away with hands.\n\n23:7. And if a man will touch them, he must be armed with iron and with\nthe staff of a lance: but they shall be set on fire and burnt to\nnothing.\n\n23:8. These are the names of the valiant men of David: Jesbaham sitting\nin the chair was the wisest chief among the three, he was like the most\ntender little worm of the wood, who killed eight hundred men at one\nonset.\n\nJesbaham. . .The son of Hachamoni. For this was the name of this hero,\nas appears from 1 Chron. or Paralip. 11.--Ibid. Most tender, etc. . .He\nappeared like one tender and weak, but was indeed most valiant and\nstrong. It seems the Latin has here given the interpretation of the\nHebrew name of the hero, to whom Jesbaham was like, instead of the name\nitself, which was Adino the Eznite, one much renowned of old for his\nvalour.\n\n23:9. After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the\nthree valiant men that were with David when they defied the\nPhilistines, and they were there gathered together to battle.\n\nDodo. . .In Latin, Patrui ejus, which is the interpretation of the\nHebrew name Dodo. The same occurs in ver. 24.\n\n23:10. And when the men of Israel were gone away, he stood and smote\nthe Philistines till his hand was weary, and grew stiff with the sword:\nand the Lord wrought a great victory that day: and the people that were\nfled away, returned to take spoils of them that were slain.\n\n23:11. And after him was Semma the son of Age of Arari. And the\nPhilistines were gathered together in a troop: for there was a field\nfull of lentils. And when the people were fled from the face of the\nPhilistines,\n\n23:12. He stood in the midst of the field, and defended it, and\ndefeated the Philistines: and the Lord gave a great victory.\n\n23:13. Moreover also before this the three who were princes among the\nthirty, went down and came to David in the harvest time into the cave\nof Odollam: and the camp of the Philistines was in the valley of the\ngiants.\n\n23:14. And David was then in a hold: and there was a garrison of the\nPhilistines then in Bethlehem.\n\n23:15. And David longed, and said: O that some man would get me a drink\nof the water out of the cistern, that is in Bethlehem, by the gate.\n\n23:16. And the three valiant men broke through the camp of the\nPhilistines, and drew water out of the cistern of Bethlehem, that was\nby the gate, and brought it to David: but he would not drink, but\noffered it to the Lord,\n\n23:17. Saying: The Lord be merciful to me, that I may not do this:\nshall I drink the blood of these men that went, and the peril of their\nlives? therefore he would not drink. These things did these three\nmighty men.\n\n23:18. Abisai also the brother of Joab, the son of Sarvia, was chief\namong three: and he lifted up his spear against three hundred whom he\nslew, and he was renowned among the three,\n\n23:19. And the noblest of three, and was their chief, but to the three\nfirst he attained not.\n\n23:20. And Banaias the son of Joiada a most valiant man, of great\ndeeds, of Cabseel: he slew the two lions of Moab, and he went down, and\nslew a lion in the midst of a pit, in the time of snow.\n\n23:21. He also slew an Egyptian, a man worthy to be a sight, having a\nspear in his hand: but he went down to him with a rod, and forced the\nspear out of the hand of the Egyptian, and slew him with his own spear.\n\n23:22. These things did Banaias the son of Joiada.\n\n23:23. And he was renowned among the three valiant men, who were the\nmost honourable among the thirty: but he attained not to the first\nthree: and David made him of his privy council.\n\n23:24. Asael the brother of Joab was one of the thirty, Elehanan the\nson of Dodo of Bethlehem.\n\n23:25. Semma of Harodi, Elica of Harodi,\n\n23:26. Heles of Phalti, Hira the son of Acces of Thecua,\n\n23:27. Abiezer of Anathoth, Mobonnai of Husati,\n\n23:28. Selmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,\n\n23:29. Heled the son of Baana, also a Netophathite, Ithai the son of\nRibai of Gabaath of the children of Benjamin,\n\n23:30. Banaia the Pharathonite, Heddai of the torrent Gaas,\n\n23:31. Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth of Beromi,\n\n23:32. Eliaba of Salaboni. The sons of Jassen, Jonathan,\n\n23:33. Semma of Orori, Aliam the son of Sarar the Arorite,\n\n23:34. Eliphelet the son of Aasbai the son of Machati, Eliam the son of\nAchitophel the Gelonite,\n\n23:35. Hesrai of Carmel, Pharai of Arbi,\n\n23:36. Igaal the son of Nathan of Soba, Bonni of Gadi,\n\n23:37. Selec of Ammoni, Naharai the Berothite, armourbearer of Joab the\nson of Sarvia,\n\n23:38. Ira the Jethrite, Gareb also a Jethrite;\n\n23:39. Urias the Hethite, thirty and seven in all.\n\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 24\n\n\nDavid numbereth the people: God sendeth a pestilence, which is stopt by\nDavid's prayer and sacrifice.\n\n24:1. And the anger of the Lord was again kindled against Israel, and\nstirred up David among them, saying: Go, number Israel and Juda.\n\nStirred up, etc. . .This stirring up was not the doing of God, but of\nSatan; as it is expressly declared, 1 Chron. or Paralip. 21.1.\n\n24:2. And the king said to Joab the general of his army: Go through all\nthe tribes of Israel from Dan to Bersabee, and number ye the people\nthat I may know the number of them.\n\n24:3. And Joab said to the king: The Lord thy God increase thy people,\nand make them as many more as they are now, and again multiply them a\nhundredfold in the sight of my lord the king: but what meaneth my lord\nthe king by this kind of thing?\n\n24:4. But the king's words prevailed over the words of Joab, and of the\ncaptains of the army: and Joab, and the captains of the soldiers went\nout from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.\n\n24:5. And when they had passed the Jordan, they came to Aroer to the\nright side of the city, which is in the vale of Gad.\n\n24:6. And by Jazer they passed into Galaad, and to the lower land of\nHodsi, and they came into the woodlands of Dan. And going about by\nSidon,\n\n24:7. They passed near the walls of Tyre, and all the land of the\nHevite, and the Chanaanite, and they came to the south of Juda into\nBersabee:\n\n24:8. And having gone through the whole land, after nine months and\ntwenty days, they came to Jerusalem.\n\n24:9. And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king,\nand there were found of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that\ndrew the sword: and of Juda five hundred thousand fighting men.\n\n24:10. But David's heart struck him, after the people were numbered:\nand David said to the Lord: I have sinned very much in what I have\ndone: but I pray thee, O Lord, to take away the iniquity of thy\nservant, because I have done exceeding foolishly.\n\nDavid's heart struck him, after the people were numbered. . .That is he\nwas touched with a great remorse for the vanity and pride which had put\nhim upon numbering the people.\n\n24:11. And David arose in the morning, and the word of the Lord came to\nGad the prophet and the seer of David, saying:\n\n24:12. Go, and say to David: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee thy\nchoice of three things, choose one of them which thou wilt, that I may\ndo it to thee.\n\n24:13. And when Gad was come to David, he told him, saying: Either\nseven years of famine shall come to thee in thy land: or thou shalt\nflee three months before thy adversaries, and they shall pursue thee:\nor for three days there shall be a pestilence in thy land. Now\ntherefore deliberate, and see what answer I shall return to him that\nsent me.\n\n24:14. And David said to Gad: I am in a great strait: but it is better\nthat I should fall into the hands of the Lord (for his mercies are\nmany) than into the hands of men.\n\n24:15. And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning\nunto the time appointed, and there died of the people from Dan to\nBersabee seventy thousand men.\n\n24:16. And when the angel of the Lord had stretched out his hand over\nJerusalem to destroy it, the Lord had pity on the affliction, and said\nto the angel that slew the people: It is enough: now hold thy hand.\nAnd the angel of the Lord was by the thrashingfloor of Areuna the\nJebusite.\n\n24:17. And David said to the Lord, when he saw the angel striking the\npeople: It is I; I am he that have sinned, I have done wickedly: these\nthat are the sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I beseech thee,\nbe turned against me, and against my father's house.\n\n24:18. And Gad came to David that day, and said: Go up, and build an\naltar to the Lord in the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.\n\n24:19. And David went up according to the word of Gad which the Lord\nhad commanded him.\n\n24:20. And Areuna looked, and saw the king and his servants coming\ntowards him:\n\n24:21. And going out he worshipped the king, bowing with his face to\nthe earth, and said: Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant?\nAnd David said to him: To buy the thrashingfloor of thee, and build an\naltar to the Lord, that the plague, which rageth among the people, may\ncease.\n\n24:22. And Areuna said to David: Let my lord the king take, and offer,\nas it seemeth good to him: thou hast here oxen for a holocaust, and the\nwain, and the yokes of the oxen for wood.\n\n24:23. All these things Areuna as a king gave to the king: and Areuna\nsaid to the king: The Lord thy God receive thy vow.\n\n24:24. And the king answered him, and said: Nay, but I will buy it of\nthee, at a price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God holocausts\nfree cost. So David bought the floor, and the oxen, for fifty sicles of\nsilver:\n\n24:25. And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered\nholocausts and peace offerings: and the Lord became merciful to the\nland, and the plague was stayed from Israel.\n\n\n\n\nTHE THIRD BOOK OF KINGS\n\n\n\nThis and the following Book are called by the holy fathers the third\nand fourth book of Kings; but by the Hebrews, the first and second.\nThey contain the history of the kingdoms of Israel and Juda, from the\nbeginning of the reign of Solomon, to the captivity. As to the writer\nof these books, it seems most probable they were not written by one\nman; nor at one time; but as there was all along a succession of\nprophets in Israel, who recorded, by divine inspiration, the most\nremarkable things that happened in their days, these books seem to have\nbeen written by these prophets. See 2 Paralip. alias 2 Chron. 9.29;\n12.15; 13.22; 20.34; 26.22; 32.32.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 1\n\n\nKing David growing old, Abisag a Sunamitess is brought to him. Adonias\npretending to reign, Nathan and Bethsabee obtain that Solomon should be\ndeclared and anointed king.\n\n1:1. Now king David was old, and advanced in years: and when he was\ncovered with clothes he was not warm.\n\n1:2. His servants therefore, said to him: Let us seek for our Lord the\nking, a young virgin, and let her stand before the king, and cherish\nhim, and sleep in his bosom and warm our lord the king.\n\n1:3. So they sought a beautiful young woman, in all the coasts of\nIsrael and they found Abisag, a Sunamitess, and brought her to the\nking.\n\n1:4. And the damsel was exceedingly beautiful, and she slept with the\nking, and served him, but the king did not know her.\n\n1:5. And Adonias, the son of Haggith, exalted himself, saying: I will\nbe king. And he made himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to\nrun before him.\n\n1:6. Neither did his father rebuke him at any time, saying: Why hast\nthou done this? And he also was very beautiful, the next in birth after\nAbsalom.\n\n1:7. And he conferred with Joab, the son of Sarvia, and with Abiathar,\nthe priest, who furthered Adonias's side.\n\n1:8. But Sadoc, the priest, and Banaias, the son of Joiada, and Nathan,\nthe prophet, and Semei, and Rei, and the strength of David's army, was\nnot with Adonias.\n\n1:9. And Adonias having slain rams and calves, and all fat cattle, by\nthe stone of Zoheleth, which was near the fountain Rogel, invited all\nhis brethren, the king's sons, and all the men of Juda, the king's\nservants:\n\n1:10. But Nathan, the prophet, and Banaias, and all the valiant men,\nand Solomon, his brother, he invited not.\n\n1:11. And Nathan said to Bethsabee, the mother of Solomon: Hast thou\nnot heard that Adonias, the son of Haggith, reigneth, and our lord\nDavid knoweth it not?\n\n1:12. Now then, come, take my counsel, and save thy life, and the life\nof thy son Solomon.\n\n1:13. Go, and get thee in to king David, and say to him: Didst not\nthou, my lord, O king, swear to me, thy handmaid, saying: Solomon, thy\nson, shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then doth\nAdonias reign?\n\n1:14. And while thou art yet speaking there with the king, I will come\nin after thee, and will fill up thy words.\n\n1:15. So Bethsabee went in to the king into the chamber. Now the king\nwas very old, and Abisag, the Sunamitess, ministered to him.\n\n1:16. Bethsabee bowed herself, and worshipped the king. And the king\nsaid to her: What is thy will?\n\n1:17. She answered, and said: My lord, thou didst swear to thy\nhandmaid, by the Lord thy God, saying: Solomon, thy son, shall reign\nafter me, and he shall sit on my throne.\n\n1:18. And behold, now Adonias reigneth, and thou, my lord the king,\nknowest nothing of it.\n\n1:19. He hath killed oxen, and all fat cattle, and many rams, and\ninvited all the king's sons, and Abiathar, the priest, and Joab, the\ngeneral of the army: but Solomon, thy servant, he invited not.\n\n1:20. And now, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee,\nthat thou shouldst tell them, who shall sit on thy throne, my lord the\nking, after thee.\n\n1:21. Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king sleepeth\nwith his fathers, that I, and my son, Solomon, shall be accounted\noffenders.\n\n1:22. As she was yet speaking with the king, Nathan, the prophet, came.\n\n1:23. And they told the king, saying: Nathan, the prophet, is here. And\nwhen he was come in before the king, and had worshipped, bowing down to\nthe ground,\n\n1:24. Nathan said: My lord, O king, hast thou said: Let Adonias reign\nafter me, and let him sit upon my throne?\n\n1:25. Because he is gone down to day, and hath killed oxen, and\nfatlings, and many rams, and invited all the king's sons, and the\ncaptains of the army, and Abiathar the priest: and they are eating and\ndrinking before him, and saying: God save king Adonias:\n\n1:26. But me, thy servant, and Sadoc, the priest, and Banaias, the son\nof Joiada, and Solomon, thy servant, he hath not invited.\n\n1:27. Is this word come out from my lord the king, and hast thou not\ntold me, thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king\nafter him?\n\n1:28. And king David answered, and said: Call to me Bethsabee. And when\nshe was come in to the king, and stood before him,\n\n1:29. The king swore, and said: As the Lord liveth, who hath delivered\nmy soul out of all distress,\n\n1:30. Even as I swore to thee, by the Lord, the God of Israel, saying:\nSolomon thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne\nin my stead, so will I do this day.\n\n1:31. And Bethsabee, bowing with her face to the earth, worshipped the\nking, saying: May my lord David live for ever.\n\n1:32. King David also said: Call me Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the\nprophet, and Banaias, the son of Joiada. And when they were come in\nbefore the king,\n\n1:33. He said to them: Take with you the servants of your lord, and set\nmy son Solomon upon my mule: and bring him to Gihon:\n\n1:34. And let Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, anoint him\nthere king over Israel: and you shall sound the trumpet, and shall say:\nGod save king Solomon.\n\n1:35. And you shall come up after him, and he shall come, and shall sit\nupon my throne, and he shall reign in my stead: and I will appoint him\nto be ruler over Israel, and over Juda.\n\n1:36. And Banaias, the son of Joiada, answered the king, saying: Amen:\nso say the Lord, the God of my lord the king.\n\n1:37. As the Lord hath been with my lord the king, so be he with\nSolomon, and make his throne higher than the throne of my lord king\nDavid.\n\n1:38. So Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, went down, and\nBanaias, the son of Joiada, and the Cerethi, and Phelethi: and they set\nSolomon upon the mule of king David, and brought him to Gihon.\n\n1:39. And Sadoc, the priest, took a horn of oil out of the tabernacle,\nand anointed Solomon: and they sounded the trumpet, and all the people\nsaid: God save king Solomon.\n\n1:40. And all the multitude went up after him, and the people played\nwith pipes, and rejoiced with a great joy, and the earth rang with the\nnoise of their cry.\n\n1:41. And Adonias, and all that were invited by him, heard it, and now\nthe feast was at an end. Joab also, hearing the sound of the trumpet,\nsaid: What meaneth this noise of the city in an uproar?\n\n1:42. While he yet spoke, Jonathan, the son of Abiathar, the priest,\ncame: and Adonias said to him: Come in, because thou art a valiant man,\nand bringest good news.\n\n1:43. And Jonathan answered Adonias: Not so: for our lord, king David,\nhath appointed Solomon king;\n\n1:44. And hath sent with him Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the\nprophet, and Banaias, the son of Joiada, and the Cerethi, and the\nPhelethi, and they have set him upon the king's mule:\n\n1:45. And Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, have anointed him\nking, in Gihon: and they are gone up from thence rejoicing, so that the\ncity rang again: this is the noise that you have heard.\n\n1:46. Moreover, Solomon sitteth upon the throne of the kingdom.\n\n1:47. And the king's servants going in, have blessed our lord king\nDavid, saying: May God make the name of Solomon greater than thy name,\nand make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king adored in his\nbed:\n\n1:48. And he said: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who hath\ngiven this day one to sit on my throne, my eyes seeing it.\n\n1:49. Then all the guests of Adonias were afraid, and they all arose,\nand every man went his way.\n\n1:50. And Adonias fearing Solomon, arose and went, and took hold of the\nhorn of the altar.\n\n1:51. And they told Solomon, saying: Behold Adonias fearing king\nSolomon, hath taken hold of the horn of the altar, saying: Let king\nSolomon swear to me this day, that he will not kill his servant with\nthe sword.\n\n1:52. And Solomon said: If he be a good man, there shall not so much as\none hair of his head fall to the ground: but if evil be found in him,\nhe shall die.\n\n1:53. Then king Solomon sent, and brought him out from the altar: and\ngoing in, he worshipped king Solomon: and Solomon said to him: Go to\nthy house.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 2\n\n\nDavid, after giving his last charge to Solomon, dieth. Adonias is put\nto death: Abiathar is banished: Joab and Semei are slain.\n\n1:1. And the days of David drew nigh that he should die, and he charged\nhis son Solomon, saying:\n\n2:2. I am going the way of all flesh: take thou courage and shew\nthyself a man.\n\n2:3. And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and\nobserve his ceremonies, and his precepts, and judgments, and\ntestimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses: that thou mayst\nunderstand all thou dost, and whithersoever thou shalt turn thyself:\n\n2:4. That the Lord may confirm his words, which he hath spoken of me,\nsaying: If thy children shall take heed to their ways, and shall walk\nbefore me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul,\nthere shall not be taken away from thee a man on the throne of Israel.\n\n2:5. Thou knowest also what Joab, the son of Sarvia, hath done to me,\nwhat he did to the two captains of the army of Israel, to Abner, the\nson of Ner, and to Amasa, the son of Jether: whom he slew, and shed the\nblood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his girdle that was\nabout his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.\n\nJoab. . .These instructions given by David to his son, with relation to\nJoab and Semei, proceeded not from any rancour of heart, or private\npique; but from a zeal for justice, that crimes so public and heinous\nmight not pass unpunished.\n\n2:6. Do, therefore, according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoary head\ngo down to hell in peace.\n\nTo hell. . .This word hell doth not here signify the place or state of\ndamnation; but the place and state of the dead.\n\n2:7. But shew kindness to the sons of Berzellai, the Galaadite, and let\nthem eat at thy table: for they met me when I fled from the face of\nAbsalom, thy brother.\n\n2:8. Thou hast also with thee Semei, the son of Gera, the son of\nJemini, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse, when I went to\nthe camp: but because he came down to meet me when I passed over the\nJordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying: I will not kill thee\nwith the sword:\n\n2:9. Do not thou hold him guiltless. But thou art a wise man, and\nknowest what to do with him, and thou shalt bring down his grey hairs\nwith blood to the grave.\n\n2:10. So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of\nDavid.\n\n2:11. And the days that David reigned in Israel, were forty years: in\nHebron he reigned seven years, in Jerusalem thirty-three.\n\n2:12. And Solomon sat upon the throne of his father David, and his\nkingdom was strengthened exceedingly.\n\n2:13. And Adonias, the son of Haggith, came to Bethsabee the mother of\nSolomon. And she said to him: Is thy coming peaceable? He answered:\nIt is peaceable.\n\n2:14. And he added: I have a word to speak with thee. She said to him:\nSpeak. And he said:\n\n2:15. Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had\npreferred me to be their king: but the kingdom is transferred, and is\nbecome my brother's: for it was appointed him by the Lord.\n\n2:16. Now therefore, I ask one petition of thee; turn not away my face.\nAnd she said to him: Say on.\n\n2:17. And he said I pray thee speak to king Solomon (for he cannot deny\nthee any thing) to give me Abisag, the Sunamitess, to wife.\n\n2:18. And Bethsabee said: Well, I will speak for thee to the king.\n\n2:19. Then Bethsabee came to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonias:\nand the king arose to meet her, and bowed to her, and sat down upon his\nthrone: and a throne was set for the king's mother, and she sat on his\nright hand.\n\n2:20. And she said to him: I desire one small petition of thee; do not\nput me to confusion. And the king said to her: My mother ask, for I\nmust not turn away thy face.\n\n2:21. And she said: Let Abisag, the Sunamitess, be given to Adonias,\nthy brother, to wife.\n\n2:22. And king Solomon answered, and said to his mother: Why dost thou\nask Abisag, the Sunamitess, for Adonias? ask for him also the kingdom;\nfor he is my elder brother, and hath Abiathar, the priest, and Joab,\nthe son of Sarvia.\n\n2:23. Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying: So and so may God do\nto me, and add more, if Adonias hath not spoken this word against his\nown life.\n\n2:24. And now, as the Lord liveth, who hath established me, and placed\nme upon the throne of David, my father, and who hath made me a house,\nas he promised, Adonias shall be put to death this day.\n\n2:25. And king Solomon sent by the hand of Banaias, the son of Joiada,\nwho slew him, and he died.\n\n2:26. And the king said also to Abiathar, the priest: Go to Anathoth,\nto thy lands, for indeed thou art worthy of death: but I will not at\nthis time put thee to death, because thou didst carry the ark of the\nLord God before David, my father, and hast endured trouble in all the\ntroubles my father endured.\n\n2:27. So Solomon cast out Abiathar from being the priest of the Lord,\nthat the word of the Lord might be fulfilled, which he spoke concerning\nthe house of Heli in Silo.\n\n2:28. And the news came to Joab, because Joab had turned after Adonias,\nand had not turned after Solomon: and Joab fled into the tabernacle of\nthe Lord, and took hold on the horn of the altar.\n\n2:29. And it was told king Solomon, that Joab was fled into the\ntabernacle of the Lord, and was by the altar: and Solomon sent Banaias,\nthe son of Joiada, saying. Go, kill him.\n\n2:30. And Banaias came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him:\nThus saith the king: Come forth. And he said: I will not come forth,\nbut here I will die. Banaias brought word back to the king, saying:\nThus saith Joab, and thus he answered me.\n\n2:31. And the king said to him: Do as he hath said; and kill him, and\nbury him, and thou shalt remove the innocent blood which hath been shed\nby Joab, from me, and from the house of my father:\n\n2:32. And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head; because he\nmurdered two men, just and better than himself: and slew them with the\nsword, my father, David, not knowing it; Abner, the son of Ner, general\nof the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether general of the army\nof Juda;\n\n2:33. And their blood shall return upon the head of Joab, and upon the\nhead of his seed for ever. But to David and his seed, and his house,\nand to his throne, be peace for ever from the Lord.\n\n2:34. So Banaias, the son of Joiada, went up, and setting upon him slew\nhim, and he was buried in his house in the desert.\n\n2:35. And the king appointed Banaias, the son of Joiada in his room\nover the army; and Sadoc, the priest, he put in the place of Abiathar.\n\n2:36. The king also sent, and called for Semei, and said to him: Build\nthee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there: and go not out from thence\nany where.\n\n2:37. For on what day soever thou shalt go out, and shalt pass over the\nbrook Cedron, know that thou shalt be put to death: thy blood shall be\nupon thy own head.\n\n2:38. And Semei said to the king: The saying is good: as my lord the\nking hath said, so will thy servant do. And Semei dwelt in Jerusalem\nmany days.\n\n2:39. And it came to pass after three years, that the servants of Semei\nran away to Achis, the son of Maacha, the king of Geth: and it was told\nSemei that his servants were gone to Geth.\n\n2:40. And Semei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Achis, to Geth,\nto seek his servants, and he brought them out of Geth.\n\n2:41. And it was told Solomon, that Semei had gone from Jerusalem to\nGeth, and was come back.\n\n2:42. And sending he called for him, and said to him: Did I not protest\nto thee by the Lord, and tell thee before: On what day soever thou\nshalt go out and walk abroad any where, know that thou shalt die? And\nthou answeredst me: The word that I have heard is good.\n\n2:43. Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the\ncommandment that I laid upon thee?\n\n2:44. And the king said to Semei: Thou knowest all the evil, of which\nthy heart is conscious, which thou didst to David, my father: the Lord\nhath returned thy wickedness upon thy own head.\n\n2:45. And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall\nbe established before the Lord for ever.\n\n2:46. So the king commanded Banaias, the son of Joiada: and he went out\nand struck him; and he died.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 3\n\n\nSolomon marrieth Pharao's daughter. He sacrificeth in Gabaon: in the\nchoice which God gave him he preferreth wisdom. His wise judgment\nbetween the two harlots.\n\n3:1. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon, and he\nmade affinity with Pharao, the king of Egypt: for he took his daughter,\nand brought her into the city of David: until he had made an end of\nbuilding his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of\nJerusalem round about.\n\n3:2. But yet the people sacrificed in the high places: for there was no\ntemple built to the name of the Lord until that day.\n\nHigh places. . .That is, altars where they worshipped the Lord, but not\naccording to the ordinance of the law; which allowed of no other places\nfor sacrifice but the temple of God. Among these high places that of\nGabaon was the chiefest, because there was the tabernacle of the\ntestimony, which had been removed from Silo to Nobe and from Nobe to\nGabaon.\n\n3:3. And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the precepts of David, his\nfather; only he sacrificed in the high places, and burnt incense.\n\n3:4. He went therefore to Gabaon, to sacrifice there: for that was the\ngreat high place: a thousand victims for holocausts, did Solomon offer\nupon that altar, in Gabaon.\n\n3:5. And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, saying: Ask\nwhat thou wilt that I should give thee.\n\n3:6. And Solomon said: Thou hast shewed great mercy to thy servant\nDavid, my father, even as he walked before thee in truth, and justice,\nand an upright heart with thee: and thou hast kept thy great mercy for\nhim, and hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.\n\n3:7. And now, O Lord God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of\nDavid, my father: and I am but a child, and know not how to go out and\ncome in;\n\n3:8. And thy servant is in the midst of the people which thou hast\nchosen, an immense people, which cannot be numbered nor counted for\nmultitude.\n\n3:9. Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy\npeople, and discern between good and evil. For who shall be able to\njudge this people, thy people, which is so numerous?\n\n3:10. And the word was pleasing to the Lord, that Solomon had asked\nsuch a thing.\n\n3:11. And the Lord said to Solomon: Because thou hast asked this thing,\nand hast not asked for thyself long life nor riches, nor the lives of\nthy enemies, but hast asked for thyself wisdom to discern judgment;\n\n3:12. Behold I have done for thee according to thy words, and have\ngiven thee a wise and understanding heart, in so much that there hath\nbeen no one like thee before thee, nor shall arise after thee.\n\n3:13. Yea, and the things also which thou didst not ask, I have given\nthee; to wit, riches and glory: so that no one hath been like thee\namong the kings in all days heretofore.\n\n3:14. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, and keep my precepts and my\ncommandments, as thy father walked, I will lengthen thy days.\n\n3:15. And Solomon awaked, and perceived that it was a dream: and when\nhe was come to Jerusalem, he stood before the ark of the covenant of\nthe Lord, and offered holocausts, and sacrificed victims of peace\nofferings, and made a great feast for all his servants.\n\n3:16. Then there came two women that were harlots, to the king, and\nstood before him.\n\n3:17. And one of them said: I beseech thee, my lord, I and this woman\ndwelt in one house, and I was delivered of a child with her in the\nchamber.\n\n3:18. And the third day after I was delivered, she also was delivered;\nand we were together, and no other person with us in the house; only we\ntwo.\n\n3:19. And this woman's child died in the night: for in her sleep she\noverlaid him.\n\n3:20. And rising in the dead time of the night, she took my child from\nmy side, while I, thy handmaid, was asleep, and laid it in her bosom:\nand laid her dead child in my bosom.\n\n3:21. And when I arose in the morning, to give my child suck, behold it\nwas dead: but considering him more diligently, when it was clear day, I\nfound that it was not mine which I bore.\n\n3:22. And the other woman answered: It is not so as thou sayest, but\nthy child is dead, and mine is alive. On the contrary, she said; Thou\nliest: for my child liveth, and thy child is dead. And in this manner\nthey strove before the king.\n\n3:23. Then said the king: The one saith, My child is alive, and thy\nchild is dead. And the other answereth: Nay; but thy child is dead, and\nmine liveth.\n\n3:24. The king therefore said: Bring me a sword. And when they had\nbrought a sword before the king,\n\n3:25. Divide, said he, the living child in two, and give half to the\none and half to the other.\n\n3:26. But the woman, whose child was alive, said to the king; (for her\nbowels were moved upon her child) I beseech thee, my lord, give her the\nchild alive, and do not kill it. But the other said: Let it be neither\nmine nor thine; but divide it.\n\n3:27. The king answered, and said: Give the living child to this woman,\nand let it not be killed; for she is the mother thereof.\n\n3:28. And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had judged, and\nthey feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to do\njudgment.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 4\n\n\nSolomon's chief officers. His riches and wisdom.\n\n4:1. And king Solomon reigned over all Israel:\n\n4:2. And these were the princes which he had: Azarias, the son of\nSadoc, the priest:\n\n4:3. Elihoreph, and Ahia, the sons of Sisa, scribes: Josaphat, the son\nof Ahilud, recorder:\n\n4:4. Banaias, the son of Joiada, over the army: and Sadoc, and\nAbiathar, priests.\n\nAbiathar. . .By this it appears that Abiathar was not altogether deposed\nfrom the high priesthood; but only banished to his country house, and\nby that means excluded from the exercise of his functions.\n\n4:5. Azarias, the son of Nathan, over them that were about the king:\nZabud, the son of Nathan, the priest, the king's friend:\n\n4:6. And Ahisar, governor of the house: and Adoniram, the son of Abda,\nover the tribute.\n\n4:7. And Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, who provided\nvictuals for the king and for his house hold: for every one provided\nnecessaries, each man his month in the year.\n\n4:8. And these are their names: Benhur, in mount Ephraim.\n\n4:9. Bendecar, in Macces, and in Salebim, and in Bethsames, and in\nElon, and in Bethanan.\n\n4:10. Benhesed, in Aruboth: his was Socho, and all the land of Epher.\n\n4:11. Benabinadab, to whom belonged all Nephath-Dor: he had Tapheth,\nthe daughter of Solomon, to wife.\n\n4:12. Bana, the son of Ahilud, who governed Thanac, and Mageddo, and\nall Bethsan, which is by Sarthana, beneath Jezrael, from Bethsan unto\nAbelmehula, over against Jecmaan.\n\n4:13. Bengaber, in Ramoth Galaad: he had the town of Jair, the son of\nManasses, in Galaad: he was chief in all the country of Argob, which is\nin Basan, threescore great cities with walls, and brazen bolts.\n\n4:14. Ahinadab, the son of Addo, was chief in Manaim.\n\n4:15. Achimaas, in Nephthali: he also had Basemath, the daughter of\nSolomon, to wife.\n\n4:16. Baana, the son of Husi, in Aser, and in Baloth.\n\n4:17. Josaphat, the son of Pharue, in Issachar.\n\n4:18. Semei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin.\n\n4:19. Gaber, the son of Uri, in the land of Galaad, in the land of\nSehon, the king of the Amorrhites, and of Og, the king of Basan, over\nall that were in that land.\n\n4:20. Juda and Israel were innumerable, as the sand of the sea in\nmultitude; eating and drinking, and rejoicing.\n\n4:21. And Solomon had under him all the kingdoms, from the river to the\nland of the Philistines, even to the border of Egypt: and they brought\nhim presents, and served him all the days of his life.\n\nThe river. . .Euphrates.\n\n4:22. And the provision of Solomon, for each day, was thirty measures\nof fine flour, and threescore measures of meal;\n\n4:23. Ten fat oxen, and twenty out of the pastures, and a hundred rams;\nbesides venison of harts, roes, and buffles, and fatted fowls.\n\n4:24. For he had all the country which was beyond the river, from\nThaphsa to Gazan, and all the kings of those countries: and he had\npeace on every side round about.\n\n4:25. And Juda, and Israel, dwelt without any fear, every one under his\nvine, and under his fig tree, from Dan to Bersabee, all the days of\nSolomon.\n\n4:26. And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of chariot horses, and\ntwelve thousand for the saddle.\n\n4:27. And the foresaid governors of the king fed them; and they\nfurnished the necessaries also for king Solomon's table, with great\ncare, in their time.\n\n4:28. They brought barley also, and straw for the horses and beasts, to\nthe place where the king was, according as it was appointed them.\n\n4:29. And God gave to Solomon wisdom, and understanding exceeding much,\nand largeness of heart, as the sand that is on the sea shore.\n\n4:30. And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the\nOrientals, and of the Egyptians;\n\n4:31. And he was wiser than all men: wiser than Ethan, the Ezrahite,\nand Heman, and Chalcol, and Dorda, the sons of Mahol, and he was\nrenowned in all nations round about.\n\n4:32. Solomon also spoke three thousand parables: and his poems were a\nthousand and five.\n\nThree thousand parables, etc. . .These works are all lost, excepting\nsome part of the parables extant in the book of Proverbs; and his chief\npoem called the Canticle of Canticles.\n\n4:33. And he treated about trees, from the cedar that is in Libanus,\nunto the hyssop that cometh out of the wall: and he discoursed of\nbeasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.\n\n4:34. And they came from all nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and\nfrom all the kings of the earth, who heard of his wisdom.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 5\n\n\nHiram king of Tyre agreeth to furnish timber and workmen for building\nthe temple: the number of workmen and overseers.\n\n5:1. And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent his servants to Solomon: for he\nheard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for\nHiram had always been David's friend.\n\n5:2. Solomon sent to Hiram, saying:\n\n5:3. Thou knowest the will of David, my father, and that he could not\nbuild a house to the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars that\nwere round about him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his\nfeet.\n\n5:4. But now the Lord my God hath given me rest round about; and there\nis no adversary nor evil occurrence.\n\n5:5. Wherefore I purpose to build a temple to the name of the Lord my\nGod, as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying: Thy son, whom I will\nset upon the throne, in thy place, he shall build a house to my name.\n\n5:6. Give orders, therefore, that thy servants cut me down cedar trees,\nout of Libanus, and let my servants be with thy servants: and I will\ngive thee the hire of thy servants whatsoever thou wilt ask: for thou\nknowest how there is not among my people a man that has skill to hew\nwood like to the Sidonians.\n\n5:7. Now when Hiram had heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced\nexceedingly, and said: Blessed be the Lord God this day, who hath given\nto David a very wise son over this numerous people.\n\n5:8. And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying: I have heard all thou hast\ndesired of me; and I will do all thy desire concerning cedar trees, and\nfir trees.\n\n5:9. My servants shall bring them down from Libanus to the sea: and I\nwill put them together in floats, on the sea, and convey them to the\nplace, which thou shalt signify to me, and will land them there, and\nthou shalt receive them: and thou shalt allow me necessaries to furnish\nfood for my household.\n\n5:10. So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees, and fir trees, according to\nall his desire.\n\n5:11. And Solomon allowed Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat, for\nprovision for his house, and twenty measures of the purest oil: thus\ngave Solomon to Hiram every year.\n\n5:12. And the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon, as he promised him: and\nthere was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they two made a league\ntogether.\n\n5:13. And king Solomon chose workmen out of all Israel, and the levy\nwas of thirty thousand men.\n\n5:14. And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand every month, by turns,\nso that two months they were at home: and Adoniram was over this levy.\n\n5:15. And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty\nthousand to hew stones in the mountain:\n\n5:16. Besides the overseers who were over every work, in number three\nthousand and three hundred, that ruled over the people, and them that\ndid the work.\n\n5:17. And the king commanded that they should bring great stones,\ncostly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square\nthem:\n\n5:18. And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram, hewed them:\nand the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 6\n\n\nThe building of Solomon's temple.\n\n6:1. And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after\nthe children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth\nyear of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Zio, (the same\nis the second month) he began to build a house to the Lord.\n\n6:2. And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord, was\nthreescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty\ncubits in height.\n\n6:3. And there was a porch before the temple, of twenty cubits in\nlength, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it\nwas ten cubits in breadth, before the face of the temple.\n\n6:4. And he made in the temple oblique windows.\n\n6:5. And upon the wall of the temple, he built floors round about, in\nthe walls of the house, round about the temple and the oracle, and he\nmade chambers in the sides round about.\n\nUpon the wall, i. e., joining to the wall.--Ibid. He built floors round\nabout. . .Chambers or cells adjoining to the temple, for the use of the\ntemple and of the priests, so contrived as to be between the inward and\noutward wall of the temple, in three stories, one above another.--Ibid.\nThe oracle. . .The inner temple or holy of holies, where God gave his\noracles.\n\n6:6. The floor that was underneath was five cubits in breadth, and the\nmiddle floor was six cubits in breadth, and the third floor was seven\ncubits in breadth. And he put beams in the house round about on the\noutside, that they might not be fastened in the walls of the temple.\n\n6:7. And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones, hewed\nand made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool\nof iron heard in the house when it was in building.\n\nMade ready, etc. . .So the stones for the building of God's eternal\ntemple in the heavenly Jerusalem, (who are the faithful,) must first be\nhewn and polished here by many trials and sufferings, before they can\nbe admitted to have a place in that celestial structure.\n\n6:8. The door, for the middle side, was on the right hand of the house:\nand by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the\nmiddle to the third.\n\n6:9. So he built the house, and finished it: and he covered the house\nwith roofs of cedar.\n\n6:10. And he built a floor over all the house, five cubits in height,\nand he covered the house with timber of cedar.\n\n6:11. And the word of the Lord came to Solomon,\n\n6:12. As for this house, which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in\nmy statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments,\nwalking in them, I will fulfil my word to thee, which I spoke to David\nthy father.\n\n6:13. And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and I\nwill not forsake my people Israel.\n\n6:14. So Solomon built the house, and finished it.\n\n6:15. And he built the walls of the house on the inside, with boards of\ncedar, from the floor of the house to the top of the walls, and to the\nroofs, he covered it with boards of cedar on the inside: and he covered\nthe floor of the house with planks of fir.\n\n6:16. And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder\npart of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house\nof the oracle to be the holy of holies.\n\n6:17. And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty\ncubits long.\n\n6:18. And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the\nturnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought, and carvings\nprojecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone\ncould be seen in the wall at all.\n\n6:19. And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner\npart, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.\n\n6:20. Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in\nbreadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered it, and overlaid\nit with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar.\n\n6:21. And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold,\nand fastened on the plates with nails of gold.\n\n6:22. And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with\ngold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered also with gold.\n\n6:23. And he made in the oracle two cherubims of olive tree, of ten\ncubits in height.\n\n6:24. One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the\ncherub was five cubits: that is, in all ten cubits, from the extremity\nof one wing to the extremity of the other wing.\n\n6:25. The second cherub also was ten cubits: and the measure, and the\nwork was the same in both the cherubims:\n\n6:26. That is to say, one cherub was ten cubits high, and in like\nmanner the other cherub.\n\n6:27. And he set the cherubims in the midst of the inner temple: and\nthe cherubims stretched forth their wings, and the wing of the one\ntouched one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other\nwall: and the other wings in the midst of the temple touched one\nanother.\n\n6:28. And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.\n\n6:29. And all the walls of the temple round about he carved with divers\nfigures and carvings: and he made in them cherubims and palm trees, and\ndivers representations, as it were standing out, and coming forth from\nthe wall.\n\n6:30. And the floor of the house he also overlaid with gold within and\nwithout.\n\n6:31. And in the entrance of the oracle, he made little doors of olive\ntree, and posts of five corners,\n\n6:32. And two doors of olive tree: and he carved upon them figures of\ncherubims, and figures of palm trees, and carvings very much\nprojecting; and he overlaid them with gold: and he covered both the\ncherubims and the palm trees, and the other things, with gold.\n\n6:33. And he made in the entrance of the temple posts of olive tree\nfoursquare:\n\n6:34. And two doors of fir tree, one of each side: and each door was\ndouble, and so opened with folding leaves.\n\n6:35. And he carved cherubims, and palm trees, and carved work standing\nvery much out: and he overlaid all with golden plates in square work by\nrule.\n\n6:36. And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones,\nand one row of beams of cedar.\n\n6:37. In the fourth year was the house of the Lord founded, in the\nmonth Zio:\n\n6:38. And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul. (which is the eighth\nmonth) the house was finished in all the works thereof, and in all the\nappurtenances thereof: and he was seven years in building it.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 7\n\n\nSolomon's palace, his house in the forest, and the queen's house: the\nwork of the two pillars: the sea (or laver) and other vessels.\n\n7:1. And Solomon built his own house in thirteen years, and brought it\nto perfection.\n\n7:2. He built also the house of the forest of Libanus; the length of it\nwas a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits, and the height\nthirty cubits: and four galleries between pillars of cedar: for he had\ncut cedar trees into pillars.\n\n7:3. And he covered the whole vault with boards of cedar, and it was\nheld up with five and forty pillars. And one row had fifteen pillars,\n\n7:4. Set one against another,\n\n7:5. And looking one upon another, with equal space between the\npillars, and over the pillars were square beams in all things equal.\n\n7:6. And he made a porch of pillars of fifty cubits in length, and\nthirty cubits in breadth: and another porch before the greater porch,\nand pillars, and chapiters upon the pillars.\n\n7:7. He made also the porch of the throne wherein is the seat of\njudgment; and covered it with cedar wood from the floor to the top.\n\n7:8. And in the midst of the porch, was a small house, where he sat in\njudgment of the like work. He made also a house for the daughter of\nPharao (whom Solomon had taken to wife) of the same work, as this\nporch;\n\n7:9. All of costly stones, which were sawed by a certain rule and\nmeasure, both within and without: from the foundation to the top of the\nwalls, and without, unto the great court.\n\n7:10. And the foundations were of costly stones, great stones of ten\ncubits or eight cubits.\n\n7:11. And above there were costly stones of equal measure hewed, and in\nlike manner planks of cedar.\n\n7:12. And the great court was made round with three rows of hewed\nstones, and one row of planks of cedar, which also was observed in the\ninner court of the house of the Lord, and in the porch of the house.\n\n7:13. And king Solomon sent, and brought Hiram from Tyre,\n\n7:14. The son of a widow woman, of the tribe of Nephthali, whose father\nwas a Tyrian, an artificer in brass, and full of wisdom, and\nunderstanding, and skill to work all work in brass. And when he was\ncome to king Solomon, he wrought all his work.\n\n7:15. And he cast two pillars in brass, each pillar was eighteen cubits\nhigh: and a line of twelve cubits compassed both the pillars.\n\n7:16. He made also two chapiters of molten brass, to be set upon the\ntops of the pillars: the height of one chapiter was five cubits, and\nthe height of the other chapiter was five cubits:\n\n7:17. And a kind of network, and chain work wreathed together with\nwonderful art. Both the chapiters of the pillars were cast: seven rows\nof nets were on one chapiter, and seven nets on the other chapiter.\n\n7:18. And he made the pillars, and two rows round about each network to\ncover the chapiters, that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and in\nlike manner did he to the other chapiter.\n\n7:19. And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars, were of\nlily work, in the porch of four cubits.\n\n7:20. And again there were other chapiters on the top of the pillars\nabove, according to the measure of the pillar over against the network:\nand of pomegranates there were two hundred, in rows round about the\nother chapiter.\n\n7:21. And he set up the two pillars in the porch of the temple: and\nwhen he had set up the pillar on the right hand, he called the name\nthereof Jachin: in like manner he set up the second pillar, and called\nthe name thereof Booz.\n\nJachin. . .That is, firmly established.--Ibid. Booz. . .That is, in its\nstrength. By recording these names in holy writ, the spirit of God\nwould have us understand the invincible firmness and strength of the\npillars on which the true temple of God, which is the church, is\nestablished.\n\n7:22. And upon the tops of the pillars he made lily work: so the work\nof the pillars was finished.\n\n7:23. He made also a molten sea, of ten cubits, from brim to brim,\nround all about; the height of it was five cubits, and a line of thirty\ncubits compassed it round about.\n\n7:24. And a graven work, under the brim of it, compassed it for ten\ncubits going about the sea: there were two rows cast of chamfered\nsculptures.\n\n7:25. And it stood upon twelve oxen, of which three looked towards the\nnorth, and three towards the west, and three towards the south, and\nthree towards the east: and the sea was above upon them, and their\nhinder parts were all hid within.\n\n7:26. And the laver was a hand breadth thick: and the brim thereof was\nlike the brim of a cup, or the leaf of a crisped lily: it contained two\nthousand bates.\n\nTwo thousand bates. . .That is, about ten thousand gallons. This was the\nquantity of water which was usually put into it: but it was capable, if\nbrimful, of holding three thousand. See 2 Par. 4.5.\n\n7:27. And he made ten bases of brass, every base was four cubits in\nlength, and four cubits in breadth, and three cubits high.\n\n7:28. And the work itself of the bases, was intergraven: and there were\ngravings between the joinings.\n\n7:29. And between the little crowns and the ledges, were lions, and\noxen, and cherubims; and in the joinings likewise above: and under the\nlions and oxen, as it were bands of brass hanging down.\n\n7:30. And every base had four wheels, and axletrees of brass: and at\nthe four sides were undersetters, under the laver molten, looking one\nagainst another.\n\n7:31. The mouth also of the laver within, was in the top of the\nchapiter: and that which appeared without, was of one cubit all round,\nand together it was one cubit and a half: and in the corners of the\npillars were divers engravings: and the spaces between the pillars were\nsquare, not round.\n\n7:32. And the four wheels, which were at the four corners of the base,\nwere joined one to another under the base: the height of a wheel was a\ncubit and a half.\n\n7:33. And they were such wheels as are used to be made in a chariot:\nand their axletrees, and spokes, and strakes, and naves, were all cast.\n\n7:34. And the four undersetters, that were at every corner of each\nbase, were of the base itself, cast and joined together.\n\n7:35. And on the top of the base, there was a round compass of half a\ncubit, so wrought that the laver might be set thereon, having its\ngravings, and divers sculptures of itself.\n\n7:36. He engraved also in those plates, which were of brass, and in the\ncorners, cherubims, and lions, and palm trees, in likeness of a man\nstanding, so that they seemed not to be engraven, but added round\nabout.\n\n7:37. After this manner, he made ten bases, of one casting and measure,\nand the like graving.\n\n7:38. He made also ten lavers of brass: one laver contained four bates,\nand was of four cubits: and upon every base, in all ten, he put as many\nlavers.\n\n7:39. And he set the ten bases, five on the right side of the temple,\nand five on the left: and the sea he put on the right side of the\ntemple, over against the east southward.\n\n7:40. And Hiram made cauldrons, and shovels, and basins, and finished\nall the work of king Solomon in the temple of the Lord.\n\n7:41. The two pillars and the two cords of the chapiters, upon the\nchapiters of the pillars: and the two networks, to cover the two cords,\nthat were upon the top of the pillars.\n\n7:42. And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks: two rows of\npomegranates for each network, to cover the cords of the chapiters,\nwhich were upon the tops of the pillars.\n\n7:43. And the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases.\n\n7:44. And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea.\n\n7:45. And the cauldrons, and the shovels, and the basins. All the\nvessels that Hiram made for king Solomon, for the house of the Lord,\nwere of fine brass.\n\n7:46. In the plains of the Jordan, did the king cast them in a clay\nground, between Socoth and Sartham.\n\n7:47. And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for its exceeding great\nmultitude the brass could not be weighed.\n\n7:48. And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of the Lord: the\naltar of gold, and the table of gold, upon which the loaves of\nproposition should be set:\n\n7:49. And the golden candlesticks, five on the right hand, and five on\nthe left, over against the oracle, of pure gold: and the flowers like\nlilies, and the lamps over them of gold: and golden snuffers,\n\n7:50. And pots, and fleshhooks, and bowls, and mortars, and censers, of\nmost pure gold: and the hinges for the doors of the inner house of the\nholy of holies, and for the doors of the house of the temple, were of\ngold.\n\n7:51. And Solomon finished all the work that he made in the house of\nthe Lord, and brought in the things that David, his father, had\ndedicated, the silver and the gold, and the vessels, and laid them up\nin the treasures of the house of the Lord.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 8\n\n\nThe dedication of the temple: Solomon's prayer and sacrifices.\n\n8:1. Then all the ancients of Israel, with the princes of the tribes,\nand the heads of the families of the children of Israel, were assembled\nto king Solomon, in Jerusalem: that they might carry the ark of the\ncovenant of the Lord, out of the city of David, that is, out of Sion.\n\n8:2. And all Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon, on the\nfestival day, in the month of Ethanim, the same is the seventh month.\n\n8:3. And all the ancients of Israel came, and the priests took up the\nark,\n\n8:4. And carried the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the\ncovenant, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, that were in the\ntabernacle: and the priests and the Levites carried them.\n\n8:5. And king Solomon, and all the multitude of Israel, that were\nassembled unto him, went with him before the ark, and they sacrificed\nsheep and oxen, that could not be counted or numbered.\n\n8:6. And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord\ninto its place, into the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies,\nunder the wings of the cherubims.\n\n8:7. For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the\nark, and covered the ark, and the staves thereof above.\n\n8:8. And whereas the staves stood out, the ends of them were seen\nwithout, in the sanctuary before the oracle, but were not seen farther\nout, and there they have been unto this day.\n\n8:9. Now in the ark there was nothing else but the two tables of stone,\nwhich Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the\nchildren of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.\n\nNothing else, etc. . .There was nothing else but the tables of the law\nwithin the ark: but on the outside of the ark, or near the ark were\nalso the rod of Aaron, and a golden urn with manna, Heb. 9.4.\n\n8:10. And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the\nsanctuary, that a cloud filled the house of the Lord,\n\n8:11. And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud:\nfor the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.\n\n8:12. Then Solomon said: The Lord said that he would dwell in a cloud.\n\n8:13. Building, I have built a house for thy dwelling, to be thy most\nfirm throne for ever.\n\n8:14. And the king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of\nIsrael: for all the assembly of Israel stood.\n\n8:15. And Solomon said: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who\nspoke with his mouth to David, my father, and with his own hands hath\naccomplished it, saying:\n\n8:16. Since the day that I brought my people Israel, out of Egypt, I\nchose no city out of all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built,\nthat my name might be there: but I chose David to be over my people\nIsrael.\n\n8:17. And David, my father, would have built a house to the name of the\nLord, the God of Israel:\n\n8:18. And the Lord said to David, my father: Whereas, thou hast thought\nin thy heart to build a house to my name, thou hast done well in having\nthis same thing in thy mind.\n\n8:19. Nevertheless, thou shalt not build me a house, but thy son, that\nshall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.\n\n8:20. The Lord hath performed his word which he spoke. And I stand in\nthe room of David, my father, and sit upon the throne of Israel, as the\nLord promised: and have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God\nof Israel.\n\n8:21. And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant\nof the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when they came out of the\nland of Egypt.\n\n8:22. And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord, in the sight of\nthe assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands towards heaven,\n\n8:23. And said: Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in\nheaven above, or on the earth beneath: who keepest covenant and mercy\nwith thy servants, that have walked before thee with all their heart:\n\n8:24. Who hast kept with thy servant David, my father, what thou hast\npromised him: with thy mouth thou didst speak, and with thy hands thou\nhast performed, as this day proveth.\n\n8:25. Now, therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant\nDavid, my father, what thou hast spoken to him, saying: There shall not\nbe taken away of thee a man in my sight, to sit on the throne of\nIsrael: yet so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk\nbefore me as thou hast walked in my sight.\n\n8:26. And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy words be established, which\nthou hast spoken to thy servant David, my father.\n\n8:27. Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth?\nfor if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how\nmuch less this house which I have built?\n\n8:28. But have regard to the prayer of thy servant, and to his\nsupplications, O Lord, my God: hear the hymn and the prayer, which thy\nservant prayeth before thee this day:\n\n8:29. That thy eyes may be open upon this house, night and day: upon\nthe house of which thou hast said: My name shall be there: that thou\nmayst hearken to the prayer which thy servant prayeth, in this place to\nthee:\n\n8:30. That thou mayst hearken to the supplication of thy servant, and\nof thy people Israel, whatsoever they shall pray for in this place, and\nhear them in the place of thy dwelling in heaven; and when thou\nhearest, shew them mercy.\n\n8:31. If any man trespass against his neighbour, and have an oath upon\nhim, wherewith he is bound, and come, because of the oath, before thy\naltar, to thy house,\n\n8:32. Then hear thou in heaven: and do and judge thy servants,\ncondemning the wicked, and bringing his way upon his own head, and\njustifying the just, and rewarding him according to his justice.\n\n8:33. If thy people Israel shall fly before their enemies (because they\nwill sin against thee) and doing penance, and confessing to thy name,\nshall come and pray, and make supplications to thee in this house:\n\n8:34. Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people\nIsrael, and bring them back to the land which thou gavest to their\nfathers.\n\n8:35. If heaven shall be shut up, and there shall be no rain, because\nof their sins, and they, praying in this place, shall do penance to thy\nname, and shall be converted from their sins, by occasion of their\nafflictions:\n\n8:36. Then hear thou them in heaven, and forgive the sins of thy\nservants, and of thy people Israel: and shew them the good way wherein\nthey should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to\nthy people in possession.\n\n8:37. If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence, or corrupt air,\nor blasting, or locust, or mildew; if their enemy afflict them,\nbesieging the gates, whatsoever plague, whatsoever infirmity,\n\n8:38. Whatsoever curse or imprecation shall happen to any man of thy\npeople Israel: when a man shall know the wound of his own heart, and\nshall spread forth his hands in this house;\n\n8:39. Then hear thou in heaven, in the place of thy dwelling, and\nforgive, and do so as to give to every one according to his ways, as\nthou shalt see his heart (for thou only knowest the heart of all the\nchildren of men)\n\n8:40. That they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the face\nof the land, which thou hast given to our fathers.\n\n8:41. Moreover also the stranger, who is not of thy people Israel, when\nhe shall come out of a far country for thy name's sake, (for they shall\nhear every where of thy great name, and thy mighty hand,\n\n8:42. And thy stretched out arm) so when he shall come, and shall pray\nin this place,\n\n8:43. Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy dwelling place,\nand do all those things, for which that stranger shall call upon thee:\nthat all the people of the earth may learn to fear thy name, as do thy\npeople Israel, and may prove that thy name is called upon on this\nhouse, which I have built.\n\n8:44. If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by what way\nsoever thou shalt send them, they shall pray to thee towards the way of\nthe city, which thou hast chosen, and towards the house, which I have\nbuilt to thy name:\n\n8:45. And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their\nsupplications, and do judgment for them.\n\n8:46. But if they sin against thee, (for there is no man who sinneth\nnot) and thou being angry, deliver them up to their enemies, so that\nthey be led away captives into the land of their enemies, far or near;\n\n8:47. Then if they do penance in their heart, in the place of\ncaptivity, and being converted, make supplication to thee in their\ncaptivity, saying: We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have\ncommitted wickedness:\n\n8:48. And return to thee with all their heart, and all their soul, in\nthe land of their enemies, to which they have been led captives: and\npray to thee towards the way of their land, which thou gavest to their\nfathers, and of the city which thou hast chosen, and of the temple\nwhich I have built to thy name:\n\n8:49. Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy throne, their\nprayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them:\n\n8:50. And forgive thy people, that have sinned against thee, and all\ntheir iniquities, by which they have transgressed against thee: and\ngive them mercy before them that have made them captives, that they may\nhave compassion on them.\n\n8:51. For they are thy people, and thy inheritance, whom thou hast\nbrought out of the land of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of\niron.\n\n8:52. That thy eyes may be open to the supplication of thy servant, and\nof thy people Israel, to hear them in all things for which they shall\ncall upon thee.\n\n8:53. For thou hast separated them to thyself for an inheritance, from\namongst all the people of the earth, as thou hast spoken by Moses, thy\nservant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.\n\n8:54. And it came to pass, when Solomon had made an end of praying all\nthis prayer and supplication to the Lord, that he rose from before the\naltar of the Lord: for he had fixed both knees on the ground, and had\nspread his hands towards heaven.\n\n8:55. And he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud\nvoice, saying:\n\n8:56. Blessed be the Lord, who hath given rest to his people Israel,\naccording to all that he promised: there hath not failed so much as one\nword of all the good things that he promised by his servant Moses.\n\n8:57. The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers, and not\nleave us, nor cast us off:\n\n8:58. But may he incline our hearts to himself, that we may walk in all\nhis ways, and keep his commandments, and his ceremonies, and all his\njudgments, which he commanded our fathers.\n\n8:59. And let these my words, wherewith I have prayed before the Lord,\nbe nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he may do judgment\nfor his servant, and for his people Israel, day by day:\n\n8:60. That all the people of the earth may know, that the Lord he is\nGod, and there is no other besides him.\n\n8:61. Let our hearts also be perfect with the Lord our God, that we may\nwalk in his statutes, and keep his commandments, as at this day.\n\n8:62. And the king, and all Israel with him, offered victims before the\nLord.\n\n8:63. And Solomon slew victims of peace offerings, which he sacrificed\nto the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty\nthousand sheep so the king, and all the children of Israel, dedicated\nthe temple of the Lord.\n\n8:64. In that day the king sanctified the middle of the court, that was\nbefore the house of the Lord for there he offered the holocaust, and\nsacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar\nthat was before the Lord, was too little to receive the holocaust, and\nsacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings.\n\n8:65. And Solomon made at the same time a solemn feast, and all Israel\nwith him, a great multitude, from the entrance of Emath to the river of\nEgypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, that is,\nfourteen days.\n\n8:66. And on the eighth day, he sent away the people: and they blessed\nthe king, and went to their dwellings, rejoicing, and glad in heart,\nfor all the good things that the Lord had done for David, his servant,\nand for Israel, his people.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 9\n\n\nThe Lord appeareth again to Solomon: he buildeth cities: he sendeth a\nfleet to Ophir.\n\n9:1. And it came to pass when Solomon had finished the building of the\nhouse of the Lord, and the king's house, and all that he desired and\nwas pleased to do,\n\n9:2. That the Lord appeared to him the second time, as he had appeared\nto him in Gabaon.\n\n9:3. And the Lord said to him: I have heard thy prayer and thy\nsupplication, which thou hast made before me: I have sanctified this\nhouse, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and my\neyes, and my heart, shall be there always.\n\n9:4. And if thou wilt walk before me, as thy father walked, in\nsimplicity of heart, and in uprightness: and wilt do all that I have\ncommanded thee, and wilt keep my ordinances, and my judgments,\n\nAs thy father walked, in simplicity of heart. . .That is, in the\nsincerity and integrity of a single heart, as opposite to all double\ndealing and deceit.\n\n9:5. I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever,\nas I promised David, thy father, saying: There shall not fail a man of\nthy race upon the throne of Israel.\n\n9:6. But if you and your children, revolting, shall turn away from\nfollowing me, and will not keep my commandments, and my ceremonies,\nwhich I have set before you, but will go and worship strange gods, and\nadore them:\n\n9:7. I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have\ngiven them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will\ncast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among\nall people.\n\n9:8. And this house shall be made an example of: every one that shall\npass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the\nLord done thus to this land, and to this house?\n\n9:9. And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord their God,\nwho brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and followed\nstrange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore hath the\nLord brought upon them all this evil.\n\n9:10. And when twenty years were ended, after Solomon had built the two\nhouses; that is, the house of the Lord, and the house of the king,\n\n9:11. (Hiram, the king of Tyre, furnishing Solomon with cedar trees,\nand fir trees, and gold, according to all he had need of) then Solomon\ngave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.\n\n9:12. And Hiram came out of Tyre, to see the towns which Solomon had\ngiven him, and they pleased him not;\n\n9:13. And he said: Are these the cities which thou hast given me,\nbrother? And he called them the land of Chabul, unto this day.\n\nChabul. . .That is, dirty or displeasing.\n\n9:14. And Hiram sent to king Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of\ngold.\n\n9:15. This is the sum of the expenses, which king Solomon offered to\nbuild the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Mello, and the wall\nof Jerusalem, and Heser, and Mageddo, and Gazer.\n\n9:16. Pharao, the king of Egypt, came up and took Gazer, and burnt it\nwith fire: and slew the Chanaanite that dwelt in the city, and gave it\nfor a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.\n\n9:17. So Solomon built Gazer, and Bethhoron the nether,\n\n9:18. And Baalath, and Palmira, in the land of the wilderness.\n\n9:19. And all the towns that belonged to himself, and were not walled,\nhe fortified; the cities also of the chariots, and the cities of the\nhorsemen, and whatsoever he had a mind to build in Jerusalem, and in\nLibanus, and in all the land of his dominion.\n\n9:20. All the people that were left of the Amorrhites, and Hethites,\nand Pherezites, and Hevites, and Jebusites, that are not of the\nchildren of Israel:\n\n9:21. Their children, that were left in the land; to wit, such as the\nchildren of Israel had not been able to destroy, Solomon made tributary\nunto this day.\n\n9:22. But of the children of Israel, Solomon made not any to be\nbondmen, but they were warriors, and his servants, and his princes, and\ncaptains, and overseers of the chariots and horses.\n\n9:23. And there were five hundred and fifty chief officers set over all\nthe works of Solomon, and they had people under them, and had charge\nover the appointed works.\n\n9:24. And the daughter of Pharao came up out of the city of David to\nher house, which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Mello.\n\n9:25. Solomon also offered three times every year holocausts, and\nvictims of peace offerings, upon the altar which he had built to the\nLord, and he burnt incense before the Lord: and the temple was\nfinished.\n\n9:26. And king Solomon made a fleet in Asiongaber, which is by Ailath,\non the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.\n\n9:27. And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, sailors that had\nknowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.\n\n9:28. And they came to Ophir; and they brought from thence to king\nSolomon four hundred and twenty talents of gold.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 10\n\n\nThe queen of Saba cometh to king Solomon: his riches and glory.\n\n10:1. And the queen of Saba having heard of the fame of Solomon in the\nname of the Lord, came to try him with hard questions.\n\n10:2. And entering into Jerusalem with a great train, and riches, and\ncamels that carried spices, and an immense quantity of gold, and\nprecious stones, she came to king Solomon, and spoke to him all that\nshe had in her heart.\n\n10:3. And Solomon informed her of all the things she proposed to him:\nthere was not any word the king was ignorant of, and which he could not\nanswer her.\n\n10:4. And when the queen of Saba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the\nhouse which he had built,\n\n10:5. And the meat of his table, and the apartments of his servants,\nand the order of his ministers, and their apparel, and the cupbearers,\nand the holocausts, which he offered in the house of the Lord, she had\nno longer any spirit in her;\n\n10:6. And she said to the king: The report is true, which I heard in my\nown country,\n\n10:7. Concerning thy words, and concerning thy wisdom. And I did not\nbelieve them that told me, till I came myself, and saw with my own\neyes, and have found that the half hath not been told me: thy wisdom\nand thy works exceed the fame which I heard.\n\n10:8. Blessed are thy men, and blessed are thy servants, who stand\nbefore thee always, and hear thy wisdom.\n\n10:9. Blessed be the Lord thy God, whom thou hast pleased, and who hath\nset thee upon the throne of Israel, because the Lord hath loved Israel\nfor ever, and hath appointed thee king, to do judgment and justice.\n\n10:10. And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and\nof spices a very great store, and precious stones: there was brought no\nmore such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Saba gave to\nking Solomon.\n\n10:11. (The navy also of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought\nfrom Ophir great plenty of thyine trees, and precious stones.\n\n10:12. And the king made of the thyine trees the rails of the house of\nthe Lord, and of the king's house: and citterns and harps for singers:\nthere were no such thyine trees as these brought nor seen unto this\nday.)\n\n10:13. And king Solomon gave the queen of Saba all that she desired,\nand asked of him: besides what he offered her of himself of his royal\nbounty. And she returned, and went to her own country, with her\nservants.\n\n10:14. And the weight of the gold that was brought to Solomon every\nyear, was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold:\n\n10:15. Besides that which the men brought him that were over the\ntributes, and the merchants, and they that sold by retail, and all the\nkings of Arabia, and the governors of the country.\n\n10:16. And Solomon made two hundred shields of the purest gold: he\nallowed six hundred sicles of gold for the plates of one shield.\n\n10:17. And three hundred targets of fine gold: three hundred pounds of\ngold covered one target: and the king put them in the house of the\nforest of Libanus.\n\n10:18. King Solomon also made a great throne of ivory: and overlaid it\nwith the finest gold.\n\n10:19. It had six steps: and the top of the throne was round behind:\nand there were two hands on either side holding the seat: and two lions\nstood, one at each hand,\n\n10:20. And twelve little lions stood upon the six steps, on the one\nside and on the other: there was no such work made in any kingdom.\n\n10:21. Moreover, all the vessels out of which king Solomon drank, were\nof gold: and all the furniture of the house of the forest of Libanus\nwas of most pure gold: there was no silver, nor was any account made of\nit in the days of Solomon:\n\n10:22. For the king's navy, once in three years, went with the navy of\nHiram by sea to Tharsis, and brought from thence gold, and silver, and\nelephants' teeth, and apes, and peacocks.\n\n10:23. And king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches\nand wisdom.\n\n10:24. And all the earth desired to see Solomon's face, to hear his\nwisdom, which God had given in his heart.\n\n10:25. And every one brought him presents, vessels of silver and of\ngold, garments, and armour, and spices, and horses, and mules, every\nyear.\n\n10:26. And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen, and he had\na thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he\nbestowed them in fenced cities, and with the king in Jerusalem.\n\n10:27. And he made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones:\nand cedars to be as common as sycamores which grow in the plains.\n\n10:28. And horses were brought for Solomon out of Egypt, and Coa: for\nthe king's merchants bought them out of Coa, and brought them at a set\nprice.\n\n10:29. And a chariot of four horses came out of Egypt, for six hundred\nsicles of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. And after this\nmanner did all the kings of the Hethites, and of Syria, sell horses.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 11\n\n\nSolomon by means of his wives falleth into idolatry: God raiseth him\nadversaries, Adad, Razon, and Jeroboam: Solomon dieth.\n\n11:1. And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter\nof Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon,\nand of the Hethites:\n\n11:2. Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of\nIsrael: You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come\ninto yours: for they will most certainly turn away your hearts to\nfollow their gods. And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent\nlove.\n\n11:3. And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred\nconcubines: and the women turned away his heart.\n\n11:4. And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by women to\nfollow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his\nGod, as was the heart of David, his father.\n\n11:5. But Solomon worshipped Astarthe, the goddess of the Sidonians,\nand Moloch, the idol of the Ammonites.\n\n11:6. And Solomon did that which was not pleasing before the Lord, and\ndid not fully follow the Lord, as David, his father.\n\n11:7. Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos, the idol of Moab, on the\nhill that is over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch, the idol of the\nchildren of Ammon.\n\n11:8. And he did in this manner for all his wives that were strangers,\nwho burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to their gods.\n\n11:9. And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his mind was turned\naway from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice;\n\n11:10. And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not\nfollow strange gods: but he kept not the things which the Lord\ncommanded him.\n\n11:11. The Lord therefore said to Solomon: Because thou hast done this,\nand hast not kept my covenant, and my precepts, which I have commanded\nthee, I will divide and rend thy kingdom, and will give it to thy\nservant.\n\n11:12. Nevertheless, in thy days I will not do it, for David thy\nfather's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.\n\n11:13. Neither will I take away the whole kingdom; but I will give one\ntribe to thy son, for the sake of David, my servant, and Jerusalem,\nwhich I have chosen.\n\nOne tribe. . .Besides that of Juda, his own native tribe.\n\n11:14. And the Lord raised up an adversary to Solomon, Adad, the\nEdomite, of the king's seed, in Edom.\n\n11:15. For when David was in Edom, and Joab, the general of the army,\nwas gone up to bury them that were slain, and had killed every male in\nEdom,\n\n11:16. (For Joab remained there six months with all Israel, till he had\nslain every male in Edom,)\n\n11:17. Then Adad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's\nservants, with him, to go into Egypt: and Adad was then a little boy.\n\n11:18. And they arose out of Madian, and came into Pharan, and they\ntook men with them from Pharan, and went into Egypt, to Pharao, the\nking of Egypt: who gave him a house, and appointed him victuals, and\nassigned him land.\n\n11:19. And Adad found great favour before Pharao, insomuch that he gave\nhim to wife the own sister of his wife, Taphnes, the queen.\n\n11:20. And the sister of Taphnes bore him his son, Genubath; and\nTaphnes brought him up in the house of Pharao: and Genubath dwelt with\nPharao among his children.\n\n11:21. And when Adad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers,\nand that Joab, the general of the army, was dead, he said to Pharao:\nLet me depart, that I may go to my own country.\n\n11:22. And Pharao said to him: Why, what is wanting to thee with me,\nthat thou seekest to go to thy own country? But he answered: Nothing;\nyet I beseech thee to let me go.\n\n11:23. God also raised up against him an adversary, Razon, the son of\nEliada, who had fled from his master, Adarezer, the king of Soba.\n\n11:24. And he gathered men against him, and he became a captain of\nrobbers, when David slew them of Soba: and they went to Damascus, and\ndwelt there, and they made him king in Damascus.\n\n11:25. And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon: and\nthis is the evil of Adad, and his hatred against Israel; and he reigned\nin Syria.\n\n11:26. Jeroboam also, the son of Nabat, an Ephrathite, of Sareda, a\nservant of Solomon, whose mother was named Sarua, a widow woman, lifted\nup his hand against the king.\n\n11:27. And this is the cause of his rebellion against him; for Solomon\nbuilt Mello, and filled up the breach of the city of David, his father.\n\n11:28. And Jeroboam was a valiant and mighty man: and Solomon seeing\nhim a young man ingenious and industrious, made him chief over the\ntributes of all the house of Joseph.\n\n11:29. So it came to pass at that time, that Jeroboam went out of\nJerusalem, and the prophet Ahias, the Silonite, clad with a new\ngarment, found him in the way: and they two were alone in the field.\n\n11:30. And Ahias taking his new garment, wherewith he was clad, divided\nit into twelve parts:\n\n11:31. And he said to Jeroboam: Take to thee ten pieces: for thus saith\nthe Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the\nhand of Solomon, and will give thee ten tribes.\n\n11:32. But one tribe shall remain to him for the sake of my servant,\nDavid, and Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the\ntribes of Israel:\n\n11:33. Because he hath forsaken me, and hath adored Astarthe, the\ngoddess of the Sidonians, and Chamos, the god of Moab, and Moloch, the\ngod of the children of Ammon: and hath not walked in my ways, to do\njustice before me, and to keep my precepts, and judgments, as did\nDavid, his father.\n\n11:34. Yet I will not take away all the kingdom out of his hand, but I\nwill make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant's\nsake, whom I chose, who kept my commandments, and my precepts.\n\n11:35. But I will take away the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will\ngive thee ten tribes:\n\n11:36. And to his son I will give one tribe, that there may remain a\nlamp for my servant, David, before me always in Jerusalem, the city\nwhich I have chosen, that my name might be there.\n\n11:37. And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign over all that thy\nsoul desireth, and thou shalt be king over Israel.\n\n11:38. If then thou wilt hearken to all that I shall command thee, and\nwilt walk in my ways, and do what is right before me, keeping my\ncommandments and my precepts, as David, my servant, did: I will be with\nthee, and will build thee up a faithful house, as I built a house for\nDavid, and I will deliver Israel to thee:\n\n11:39. And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but yet not for\never.\n\n11:40. Solomon, therefore, sought to kill Jeroboam: but he arose, and\nfled into Egypt, to Sesac, the king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till the\ndeath of Solomon.\n\n11:41. And the rest of the words of Solomon, and all that he did and\nhis wisdom: behold they are all written in the book of the words of the\ndays of Solomon.\n\nThe book of the words, etc. . .This book is lost, with divers others\nmentioned in holy writ.\n\n11:42. And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem, over all Israel,\nwere forty years.\n\n11:43. And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city\nof David, his father; and Roboam, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\nSolomon slept, etc. . .That is, died. He was then about fifty-eight\nyears of age, having reigned forty years.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 12\n\n\nRoboam, following the counsel of young men alienateth from him the\nminds of the people. They make Jeroboam king over ten tribes: he\nsetteth up idolatry.\n\n12:1. And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come\ntogether to make him king.\n\n12:2. But Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who was yet in Egypt, a fugitive\nfrom the face of king Solomon, hearing of his death, returned out of\nEgypt.\n\n12:3. And they sent and called him: and Jeroboam came, and all the\nmultitude of Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying:\n\n12:4. Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon us: now, therefore, do thou\ntake off a little of the grievous service of thy father, and of his\nmost heavy yoke, which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.\n\n12:5. And he said to them: Go till the third day, and come to me again.\nAnd when the people was gone,\n\n12:6. King Roboam took counsel with the old men, that stood before\nSolomon, his father, while he yet lived, and he said: What counsel do\nyou give me, that I may answer this people?\n\n12:7. They said to him: If thou wilt yield to this people to day, and\ncondescend to them, and grant their petition, and wilt speak gentle\nwords to them, they will be thy servants always.\n\n12:8. But he left the counsel of the old men, which they had given him,\nand consulted with the young men that had been brought up with him, and\nstood before him.\n\n12:9. And he said to them: What counsel do you give me, that I may\nanswer this people, who have said to me: Make the yoke, which thy\nfather put upon us, lighter?\n\n12:10. And the young men that had been brought up with him, said: Thus\nshalt thou speak to this people, who have spoken to thee, saying: Thy\nfather made our yoke heavy, do thou ease us. Thou shalt say to them: My\nlittle finger is thicker than the back of my father.\n\n12:11. And now my father put a heavy yoke upon you, but I will add to\nyour yoke: my father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with\nscorpions.\n\n12:12. So Jeroboam, and all the people, came to Roboam the third day,\nas the king had appointed, saying: Come to me again the third day.\n\n12:13. And the king answered the people roughly, leaving the counsel of\nthe old men, which they had given him,\n\n12:14. And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men,\nsaying: My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: My\nfather beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.\n\n12:15. And the king condescended not to the people: for the Lord was\nturned away from him, to make good his word, which he had spoken in the\nhand of Ahias, the Silonite, to Jeroboam, the son of Nabat.\n\n12:16. Then the people, seeing that the king would not hearken to them,\nanswered him, saying: What portion have we in David? or what\ninheritance in the son of Isai? Go home to thy dwellings, O Israel:\nnow, David, look to thy own house. So Israel departed to their\ndwellings.\n\n12:17. But as for all the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities\nof Juda, Roboam reigned over them.\n\n12:18. Then king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tribute: and all\nIsrael stoned him, and he died. Wherefore king Roboam made haste to get\nhim up into his chariot, and he fled to Jerusalem:\n\n12:19. And Israel revolted from the house of David, unto this day.\n\n12:20. And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come\nagain, that they gathered an assembly, and sent and called him, and\nmade him king over all Israel, and there was none that followed the\nhouse of David but the tribe of Juda only.\n\nJuda only. . .Benjamin was a small tribe, and so intermixed with the\ntribe of Juda, (the very city of Jerusalem being partly in Juda, partly\nin Benjamin,) that they are here counted but as one tribe.\n\n12:21. And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and gathered together all the\nhouse of Juda, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred fourscore thousand\nchosen men for war, to fight against the house of Israel, and to bring\nthe kingdom again under Roboam, the son of Solomon.\n\n12:22. But the word of the Lord came to Semeias, the man of God,\nsaying:\n\n12:23. Speak to Roboam, the son of Solomon, the king of Juda, and to\nall the house of Juda, and Benjamin, and the rest of the people,\nsaying:\n\n12:24. Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up, nor fight against your\nbrethren, the children of Israel: let every man return to his house,\nfor this thing is from me. They hearkened to the word of the Lord, and\nreturned from their journey, as the Lord had commanded them.\n\n12:25. And Jeroboam built Sichem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt there, and\ngoing out from thence, he built Phanuel.\n\n12:26. And Jeroboam said in his heart: Now shall the kingdom return to\nthe house of David,\n\n12:27. If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the\nLord at Jerusalem: and the heart of this people will turn to their lord\nRoboam, the king of Juda, and they will kill me, and return to him.\n\n12:28. And finding out a device, he made two golden calves, and said to\nthem: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who\nbrought thee out of the land of Egypt.\n\nGolden calves. . .It is likely, by making his gods in this form, he\nmimicked the Egyptians, among whom he had sojourned, who worshipped\ntheir Apis and their Osiris under the form of a bullock.\n\n12:29. And he set the one in Bethel, and the other in Dan:\n\nBethel and Dan. . .Bethel was a city of the tribe of Ephraim in the\nsouthern part of the dominions of Jeroboam, about six leagues from\nJerusalem; Dan was in the extremity of his dominions to the north in\nthe confines of Syria.\n\n12:30. And this thing became an occasion of sin: for the people went to\nadore the calf as far as Dan.\n\n12:31. And he made temples in the high places, and priests of the\nlowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.\n\n12:32. And he appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth\nday of the month, after the manner of the feast that was celebrated in\nJuda. And going up to the altar, he did in like manner in Bethel, to\nsacrifice to the calves, which he had made: and he placed in Bethel\npriests of the high places, which he had made.\n\n12:33. And he went up to the altar, which he had built in Bethel, on\nthe fifteenth day of the eighth month, which he had devised of his own\nheart: and he ordained a feast to the children of Israel, and went up\non the altar to burn incense.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 13\n\n\nA prophet sent from Juda to Bethel foretelleth the birth of Josias, and\nthe destruction of Jeroboam's altar. Jeroboam's hand offering violence\nto the prophet withereth, but is restored by the prophet's prayer: the\nsame prophet is deceived by another prophet, and slain by a lion.\n\n13:1. And behold there came a man of God out of Juda, by the word of\nthe Lord, to Bethel, when Jeroboam was standing upon the altar, and\nburning incense.\n\n13:2. And he cried out against the altar in the word of the Lord, and\nsaid: O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord: Behold a child shall be born\nto the house of David, Josias by name, and he shall immolate upon thee\nthe priests of the high places, who now burn incense upon thee, and he\nshall burn men's bones upon thee.\n\n13:3. And he gave a sign the same day, saying: This shall be the sign,\nthat the Lord hath spoken: Behold the altar shall be rent, and the\nashes that are upon it, shall be poured out.\n\n13:4. And when the king had heard the word of the man of God, which he\nhad cried out against the altar in Bethel, he stretched forth his hand\nfrom the altar, saying: Lay hold on him. And his hand which he\nstretched forth against him, withered: and he was not able to draw it\nback again to him.\n\n13:5. The altar also was rent, and the ashes were poured out from the\naltar, according to the sign which the man of God had given before in\nthe word of the Lord.\n\n13:6. And the king said to the man of God: Entreat the face of the Lord\nthy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me. And the\nman of God besought the face of the Lord, and the king's hand was\nrestored to him, and it became as it was before.\n\n13:7. And the king said to the man of God: Come home with me to dine,\nand I will make thee presents.\n\n13:8. And the man of God answered the king: If thou wouldst give me\nhalf thy house, I will not go with thee, nor eat bread, nor drink water\nin this place:\n\n13:9. For so it was enjoined me by the word of the Lord commanding me:\nThou shalt not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the same way\nthat thou camest.\n\n13:10. So he departed by another way, and returned not by the way that\nhe came into Bethel.\n\n13:11. Now a certain old prophet dwelt in Bethel, and his sons came to\nhim, and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day\nin Bethel: and they told their father the words which he had spoken to\nthe king.\n\n13:12. And their father said to them: What way went he? His sons shewed\nhim the way by which the man of God went, who came out of Juda.\n\n13:13. And he said to his sons: Saddle me the ass. And when they had\nsaddled it, he got up,\n\n13:14. And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under a\nturpentine tree: and he said to him: Art thou the man of God who camest\nfrom Juda? He answered: I am.\n\n13:15. And he said to him: Come home with me to eat bread.\n\n13:16. But he said: I must not return, nor go with thee, neither will I\neat bread, or drink water in this place:\n\n13:17. Because the Lord spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying:\nThou shalt not eat bread, and thou shalt not drink water there, nor\nreturn by the way thou wentest.\n\n13:18. He said to him: I also am a prophet like unto thee: and an angel\nspoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Bring him back with thee\ninto thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink water. He deceived\nhim,\n\nAn angel spoke to me, etc. . .This old man of Bethel was indeed a\nprophet, but he sinned in thus deceiving the man of God; the more\nbecause he pretended a revelation for what he did.\n\n13:19. And brought him back with him: so he ate bread, and drank water\nin his house.\n\n13:20. And as they sat at table, the word of the Lord came to the\nprophet that brought him back:\n\n13:21. And he cried out to the man of God who came out of Juda, saying:\nThus saith the Lord: Because thou hast not been obedient to the Lord,\nand hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded\nthee,\n\n13:22. And hast returned, and eaten bread, and drunk water in the place\nwherein he commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat bread, nor drink\nwater, thy dead body shall not be brought into the sepulchre of thy\nfathers.\n\n13:23. And when he had eaten and drunk, he saddled his ass for the\nprophet, whom he had brought back.\n\n13:24. And when he was gone, a lion found him in the way, and killed\nhim, and his body was cast in the way: and the ass stood by him, and\nthe lion stood by the dead body.\n\nKilled him. . .Thus the Lord often punishes his servants here, that he\nmay spare them hereafter. For the generality of divines are of opinion,\nthat the sin of this prophet, considered with all its circumstances,\nwas not mortal.\n\n13:25. And behold, men passing by, saw the dead body cast in the way,\nand the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the\ncity, wherein that old prophet dwelt.\n\n13:26. And when that prophet, who had brought him back out of the way,\nheard of it, he said: It is the man of God, that was disobedient to the\nmouth of the Lord, and the Lord hath delivered him to the lion, and he\nhath torn him, and killed him, according to the word of the Lord, which\nhe spoke to him.\n\n13:27. And he said to his sons: Saddle me an ass. And when they had\nsaddled it,\n\n13:28. And he was gone, he found the dead body cast in the way, and the\nass and the lion standing by the carcass: the lion had not eaten of the\ndead body, nor hurt the ass.\n\n13:29. And the prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it\nupon the ass, and going back brought it into the city of the old\nprophet, to mourn for him.\n\n13:30. And he laid his dead body in his own sepulchre: and they mourned\nover him, saying: Alas! alas, my brother.\n\n13:31. And when they had mourned over him, he said to his sons: When I\nam dead, bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried: lay\nmy bones beside his bones.\n\n13:32. For assuredly the word shall come to pass which he hath foretold\nin the word of the Lord, against the altar that is in Bethel: and\nagainst all the temples of the high places, that are in the cities of\nSamaria.\n\n13:33. After these words, Jeroboam came not back from his wicked way:\nbut on the contrary, he made of the meanest of the people priests of\nthe high places: whosoever would, he filled his hand, and he was made a\npriest of the high places.\n\n13:34. And for this cause did the house of Jeroboam sin, and was cut\noff, and destroyed from the face of the earth.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 14\n\n\nAhias prophesieth the destruction of the family of Jeroboam. He dieth,\nand is succeeded by his son Nadab. The king of Egypt taketh and\npillageth Jerusalem. Roboam dieth and his son Abiam succeedeth.\n\n14:1. At that time Abia, the son of Jeroboam, fell sick.\n\n14:2. And Jeroboam said to his wife: Arise, and change thy dress, that\nthou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Silo, where\nAhias, the prophet is, who told me that I should reign over this\npeople.\n\n14:3. Take also with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a pot of\nhoney, and go to him: for he will tell thee what will become of this\nchild.\n\n14:4. Jeroboam's wife did as he told her: and rising up, went to Silo,\nand came to the house of Ahias; but he could not see, for his eyes were\ndim by reason of his age.\n\n14:5. And the Lord said to Ahias: Behold the wife of Jeroboam cometh\nin, to consult thee concerning her son, that is sick: thus and thus\nshalt thou speak to her. So when she was coming in, and made as if she\nwere another woman,\n\n14:6. Ahias heard the sound of her feet, coming in at the door, and\nsaid: Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why dost thou feign thyself to be\nanother? But I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.\n\n14:7. Go, and tell Jeroboam: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel:\nFor as much as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee\nprince over my people Israel;\n\n14:8. And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to\nthee, and thou hast not been as my servant, David, who kept my\ncommandments, and followed me with all his heart, doing that which was\nwell pleasing in my sight:\n\n14:9. But hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast made\nthee strange gods, and molten gods, to provoke me to anger, and hast\ncast me behind thy back:\n\n14:10. Therefore, behold I will bring evils upon the house of Jeroboam,\nand will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and\nhim that is shut up, and the last in Israel: and I will sweep away the\nremnant of the house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be\nclean.\n\n14:11. Them that shall die of Jeroboam in the city, the dogs shall eat:\nand them that shall die in the field, the birds of the air shall\ndevour: for the Lord hath spoken it.\n\n14:12. Arise thou, therefore, and go to thy house: and when thy feet\nshall be entering into the city, the child shall die,\n\n14:13. And all Israel shall mourn for him, and shall bury him: for he\nonly of Jeroboam shall be laid in a sepulchre, because in his regard\nthere is found a good word from the Lord, the God of Israel, in the\nhouse of Jeroboam.\n\n14:14. And the Lord hath appointed himself a king over Israel, who\nshall cut off the house of Jeroboam in this day, and in this time:\n\n14:15. And the Lord God shall strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the\nwater: and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave\nto their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river: because they\nhave made to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord.\n\n14:16. And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who\nhath sinned, and made Israel to sin.\n\n14:17. And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to\nThersa: and when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the\nchild died,\n\n14:18. And they buried him. And all Israel mourned for him, according\nto the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant\nAhias, the prophet.\n\n14:19. And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he\nreigned, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days\nof the kings of Israel.\n\nThe book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel. . .This book,\nwhich is often mentioned in the Book of Kings, is long since lost. For\nas to the books of Paralipomenon, or Chronicles, (which the Hebrews\ncall the words of the days,) they were certainly written after the Book\nof Kings, since they frequently refer to them.\n\n14:20. And the days that Jeroboam reigned, were two and twenty years:\nand he slept with his fathers: and Nadab, his son, reigned in his\nstead.\n\n14:21. And Roboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Juda: Roboam was one\nand forty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned seventeen\nyears in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes\nof Israel to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naama, an\nAmmonitess.\n\n14:22. And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him\nabove all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they\ncommitted.\n\n14:23. For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon\nevery high hill, and under every green tree:\n\n14:24. There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did\naccording to all the abominations of the people, whom the Lord had\ndestroyed before the face of the children of Israel.\n\nThe effeminate. . .Catamites, or men addicted to unnatural lust.\n\n14:25. And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac, king of\nEgypt, came up against Jerusalem.\n\n14:26. And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the\nking's treasures, and carried all off: as also the shields of gold\nwhich Solomon had made:\n\n14:27. And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered\nthem into the hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them\nthat kept watch before the gate of the king's house.\n\n14:28. And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose\noffice it was to go before him, carried them: and afterwards they\nbrought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.\n\n14:29. Now the rest of the acts of Roboam, and all that he did, behold\nthey are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nJuda.\n\n14:30. And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam always.\n\n14:31. And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with them, in\nthe city of David: and his mother's name was Naama, an Ammonitess: and\nAbiam, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 15\n\n\nThe acts of Abiam and of Asa kings of Juda. And of Nadab and Baasa\nkings of Israel.\n\n15:1. Now in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam, the son of\nNabat, Abiam reigned over Juda.\n\n15:2. He reigned three years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nMaacha, the daughter of Abessalom.\n\nMaacha, etc. . .She is called elsewhere Michaia, daughter of Uriel; but\nit was common in those days for the same person to have two names.\n\n15:3. And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done\nbefore him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was\nthe heart of David, his father.\n\n15:4. But for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in\nJerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:\n\n15:5. Because David had done that which was right in the eyes of the\nLord, and had not turned aside from any thing that he commanded him,\nall the days of his life, except the matter of Urias, the Hethite.\n\n15:6. But there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam all the time of his\nlife.\n\n15:7. And the rest of the words of Abiam, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\nAnd there was war between Abiam and Jeroboam.\n\n15:8. And Abiam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city\nof David: and Asa, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n15:9. So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, reigned\nAsa, king of Juda,\n\n15:10. And he reigned one and forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's\nname was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom.\n\nHis mother, etc. . .That is, his grandmother; unless we suppose, which\nis not improbable, that the Maacha here named is different from the\nMaacha mentioned, ver. 2.\n\n15:11. And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as\ndid David, his father:\n\n15:12. And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and removed all\nthe filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.\n\n15:13. Moreover, he also removed his mother, Maacha, from being the\nprincess in the sacrifices of Priapus, and in the grove which she had\nconsecrated to him: and he destroyed her den, and broke in pieces the\nfilthy idol, and burnt it by the torrent Cedron:\n\n15:14. But the high places he did not take away. Nevertheless, the\nheart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days:\n\nThe high places. . .There were excelsa or high places of two different\nkinds. Some were set up, and dedicated to the worship of idols, or\nstrange gods; and these Asa removed, 2 Par. 14.2; others were only\naltars of the true God, but were erected contrary to the law, which\nallowed of no sacrifices but in the temple; and these were not removed\nby Asa.--Ibid. Perfect with the Lord. . .Asa had his faults; but never\nforsook the worship of the Lord.\n\n15:15. And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and\nhe had vowed, into the house of the Lord, silver and gold, and vessels.\n\n15:16. And there was war between Asa, and Baasa, king of Israel, all\ntheir days.\n\n15:17. And Baasa, king of Israel, went up against Juda, and built Rama,\nthat no man might go out or come in of the side of Asa, king of Juda.\n\n15:18. Then Asa took all the silver and gold that remained in the\ntreasures of the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's\nhouse, and delivered it into the hands of his servants: and sent them\nto Benadad, son of Tabremon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who\ndwelt in Damascus, saying:\n\n15:19. There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and\nthy father: therefore I have sent thee presents of silver and gold: and\nI desire thee to come, and break thy league with Baasa, king of Israel,\nthat he may depart from me.\n\n15:20. Benadad, hearkening to king Asa, sent the captains of his army\nagainst the cities of Israel, and they smote Ahion, and Dan, and\nAbeldomum Maacha, and all Cenneroth; that is all the land of Nephthali.\n\n15:21. And when Baasa had heard this, he left off building Rama, and\nreturned into Thersa.\n\n15:22. But king Asa sent word into all Juda, saying: Let no man be\nexcused: and they took away the stones from Rama, and the timber\nthereof, wherewith Baasa had been building, and with them king Asa\nbuilt Gabaa of Benjamin, and Maspha.\n\n15:23. But the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his strength, and\nall that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in\nthe book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? But in the time\nof his old age he was diseased in his feet.\n\n15:24. And he slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the\ncity of David, his father. And Josaphat, his son, reigned in his place.\n\n15:25. But Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, reigned over Israel the second\nyear of Asa, king of Juda: and he reigned over Israel two years.\n\n15:26. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways\nof his father, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin.\n\n15:27. And Baasa, the son of Ahias, of the house of Issachar, conspired\nagainst him, and slew him in Gebbethon, which is a city of the\nPhilistines: for Nadab and all Israel besieged Gebbethon.\n\n15:28. So Baasa slew him in the third year of Asa, king of Juda, and\nreigned in his place.\n\n15:29. And when he was king, he cut off all the house of Jeroboam: he\nleft not so much as one soul of his seed, till he had utterly destroyed\nhim, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken in the hand\nof Ahias, the Silonite:\n\n15:30. Because of the sin of Jeroboam, which he had sinned, and\nwherewith he had made Israel to sin, and for the offence wherewith he\nprovoked the Lord, the God of Israel.\n\n15:31. But the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n15:32. And there was war between Asa and Baasa, the king of Israel, all\ntheir days.\n\n15:33. In the third year of Asa, king of Juda, Baasa, the son of Ahias,\nreigned over all Israel, in Thersa, four and twenty years.\n\n15:34. And he did evil before the Lord, and walked in the ways of\nJeroboam, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 16\n\n\nJehu prophesieth against Baasa: his son Ela is slain and all his family\ndestroyed by Zambri. Of the reign of Amri father of Achab.\n\n16:1. Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu, the son of Hanani,\nagainst Baasa, saying:\n\n16:2. For as much as I have exalted thee out of the dust and made thee\nprince over my people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of\nJeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger\nwith their sins:\n\n16:3. Behold I will cut down the posterity of Baasa, and the posterity\nof his house, and I will make thy house as the house of Jeroboam, the\nson of Nabat.\n\n16:4. Him that dieth of Baasa, in the city, the dogs shall eat: and him\nthat dieth of his in the country, the fowls of the air shall devour.\n\n16:5. But the rest of the acts of Baasa, and all that he did, and his\nbattles, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of\nthe kings of Israel?\n\n16:6. So Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in Thersa: and\nEla, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n16:7. And when the word of the Lord came in the hand of Jehu, the son\nof Hanani, the prophet, against Baasa, and against his house, and\nagainst all the evil that he had done before the Lord, to provoke him\nto anger by the works of his hands, to become as the house of Jeroboam:\nfor this cause he slew him; that is to say, Jehu, the son of Hanani,\nthe prophet.\n\n16:8. In the six and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Ela, the son\nof Baasa, reigned over Israel, in Thersa, two years.\n\n16:9. And his servant Zambri, who was captain of half the horsemen,\nrebelled against him: now Ela was drinking in Thersa, and drunk in the\nhouse of Arsa, the governor of Thersa.\n\n16:10. And Zambri rushing in, struck him, and slew him, in the seven\nand twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda and he reigned in his stead.\n\n16:11. And when he was king, and sat upon his throne, he slew all the\nhouse of Baasa, and he left not one thereof to piss against a wall and\nall his kinsfolks and friends.\n\n16:12. And Zambri destroyed all the house of Baasa, according to the\nword of the Lord, that he had spoken to Baasa, in the hand of Jehu, the\nprophet,\n\n16:13. For all the sins of Baasa, and the sins of Ela, his son, who\nsinned, and made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel,\nwith their vanities.\n\n16:14. But the rest of the acts of Ela, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n16:15. In the seven and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Zambri\nreigned seven days in Thersa: now the army was besieging Gebbethon, a\ncity of the Philistines.\n\n16:16. And when they heard that Zambri had rebelled, and slain the\nking, all Israel made Amri their king, who was general over Israel in\nthe camp that day.\n\n16:17. And Amri went up, and all Israel with him, from Gebbethon, and\nthey besieged Thersa.\n\n16:18. And Zambri, seeing that the city was about to be taken, went\ninto the palace, and burnt himself with the king's house: and he died\n\n16:19. In his sins, which he had sinned, doing evil before the Lord,\nand walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin, wherewith he made\nIsrael to sin.\n\n16:20. But the rest of the acts of Zambri, and of his conspiracy and\ntyranny, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of\nthe kings of Israel?\n\n16:21. Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: one half\nof the people followed Thebni, the son of Gineth, to make him king: and\none half followed Amri.\n\n16:22. But the people that were with Amri, prevailed over the people\nthat followed Thebni, the son of Gineth: and Thebni died, and Amri\nreigned.\n\n16:23. In the one and thirtieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Amri reigned\nover Israel twelve years: in Thersa he reigned six years.\n\nIn the one and thirtieth year, etc. . .Amri began to reign in the seven\nand twentieth year of Asa; but had not quiet possession of the kingdom\ntill the death of his competitor Thebni, which was in the one and\nthirtieth year of Asa's reign.\n\n16:24. And he bought the hill of Samaria of Semer, for two talents of\nsilver: and he built upon it, and he called the city which he built\nSamaria, after the name of Semer, the owner of the hill.\n\n16:25. And Amri did evil in the sight of the Lord, and acted wickedly\nabove all that were before him.\n\n16:26. And he walked in all the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, and\nin his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin: to provoke the Lord, the\nGod of Israel, to anger with their vanities.\n\nWith their vanities. . .That is, their idols their golden calves, vain,\nfalse, deceitful things.\n\n16:27. Now the rest of the acts of Amri, and the battles he fought, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n16:28. And Amri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, and\nAchab, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n16:29. Now Achab, the son of Amri, reigned over Israel in the eight and\nthirtieth year of Asa, king of Juda. And Achab, the son of Amri,\nreigned over Israel in Samaria two and twenty years.\n\n16:30. And Achab, the son of Amri, did evil in the sight of the Lord\nabove all that were before him.\n\n16:31. Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the\nson of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal,\nking of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him.\n\n16:32. And he set up an altar for Baal, in the temple of Baal, which he\nhad built in Samaria;\n\n16:33. And he planted a grove: and Achab did more to provoke the Lord,\nthe God of Israel, than all the kings of Israel that were before him.\n\n16:34. In his days Hiel, of Bethel, built Jericho: in Abiram, his\nfirstborn, he laid its foundations: and in his youngest son, Segub, he\nset up the gates thereof: according to the word of the Lord, which he\nspoke in the hand of Josue, the son of Nun.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 17\n\n\nElias shutteth up the heaven from raining. He is fed by ravens, and\nafterwards by a widow of Sarephta. He raiseth the window's son to life.\n\n17:1. And Elias the Thesbite, of the inhabitants of Galaad, said to\nAchab: As the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand,\nthere shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to the words\nof my mouth.\n\n17:2. And the word of the Lord came to him, saying:\n\n17:3. Get thee hence, and go towards the east, and hide thyself by the\ntorrent of Carith, which is over against the Jordan;\n\n17:4. And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded\nthe ravens to feed thee there.\n\n17:5. So he went, and did according to the word of the Lord: and going,\nhe dwelt by the torrent Carith, which is over against the Jordan.\n\n17:6. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and\nbread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the torrent.\n\n17:7. But after some time the torrent was dried up: for it had not\nrained upon the earth.\n\n17:8. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying:\n\n17:9. Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for\nI have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee.\n\nSarephta of the Sidonians. . .That is, a city of the Sidonians.\n\n17:10. He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate\nof the city, he saw the widow woman gathering sticks, and he called\nher, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may\ndrink.\n\n17:11. And when she was going to fetch it, he called after her, saying:\nBring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.\n\n17:12. And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread,\nbut only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruise:\nbehold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it, for me\nand my son, that we may eat it and die.\n\n17:13. And Elias said to her: Fear not; but go, and do as thou hast\nsaid but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, and\nbring it to me, and after make for thyself and thy son.\n\n17:14. For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: The pot of meal\nshall not waste, nor the cruise of oil be diminished, until the day\nwherein the Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth.\n\n17:15. She went, and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate,\nand she, and her house: and from that day\n\n17:16. The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruise of oil was not\ndiminished according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the\nhand of Elias.\n\n17:17. And it came to pass after this, that the son of the woman, the\nmistress of the house, fell sick, and the sickness was very grievous,\nso that there was no breath left in him.\n\n17:18. And she said to Elias: What have I to do with thee, thou man of\nGod? art thou come to me, that my iniquities should be remembered, and\nthat thou shouldst kill my son?\n\n17:11. And Elias said to her: Give me thy son. And he took him out of\nher bosom, and carried him into the upper chamber where he abode, and\nlaid him upon his own bed.\n\n17:20. And he cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, hast thou\nafflicted also the widow, with whom I am after a sort maintained, so as\nto kill her son?\n\n17:21. And he stretched, and measured himself upon the child three\ntimes, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, let the soul of\nthis child, I beseech thee, return into his body.\n\n17:22. And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and the soul of the child\nreturned into him, and he revived.\n\n17:23. And Elias took the child, and brought him down from the upper\nchamber to the house below, and delivered him to his mother, and said\nto her: Behold thy son liveth.\n\n17:24. And the woman said to Elias: Now by this I know that thou art a\nman of God, and the word of the Lord in thy mouth is true.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 18\n\n\nElias cometh before Achab. He convinceth the false prophets by bringing\nfire from heaven: he obtaineth rain by his prayer.\n\n18:1. After many days, the word of the Lord came to Elias, in the third\nyear, saying: Go, and shew thyself to Achab, that I may give rain upon\nthe face of the earth.\n\n18:2. And Elias went to shew himself to Achab, and there was a grievous\nfamine in Samaria.\n\n18:3. And Achab called Abdias the governor of his house: now Abdias\nfeared the Lord very much.\n\n18:4. For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a\nhundred prophets, and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed\nthem with bread and water.\n\n18:5. And Achab said to Abdias: Go into the land unto all fountains of\nwaters, and into all valleys, to see if we can find grass, and save the\nhorses and mules, that the beasts may not utterly perish.\n\n18:6. And they divided the countries between them, that they might go\nround about them: Achab went one way, and Abdias another way by\nhimself.\n\n18:7. And as Abdias was in the way, Elias met him: and he knew him, and\nfell on his face, and said: Art thou my lord Elias?\n\n18:8. And he answered: I am. Go, and tell thy master: Elias is here.\n\n18:9. And he said: What have I sinned, that thou wouldst deliver me,\nthy servant, into the hand of Achab, that he should kill me?\n\n18:10. As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom,\nwhither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when all answered: He\nis not here: he took an oath of every kingdom and nation, because thou\nwast not found.\n\n18:11. And now thou sayest to me: Go and tell thy master: Elias is\nhere.\n\n18:12. And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit of the Lord will carry\nthee into a place that I know not: and I shall go in and tell Achab;\nand he, not finding thee, will kill me: but thy servant feareth the\nLord from his infancy.\n\n18:13. Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel\nkilled the prophets of the Lord; how I hid a hundred men of the\nprophets of the Lord, by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with\nbread and water?\n\n18:14. And now thou sayest: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here:\nthat he may kill me.\n\n18:15. And Elias said: As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whose face I\nstand, this day I will shew myself unto him.\n\n18:16. Abdias therefore went to meet Achab, and told him: and Achab\ncame to meet Elias.\n\n18:17. And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that troublest\nIsrael?\n\n18:18. And he said: I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy\nfather's house, who have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and\nhave followed Baalim.\n\n18:19. Nevertheless send now, and gather unto me all Israel, unto Mount\nCarmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the\nprophets of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezabel's table.\n\n18:20. Achab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered together\nthe prophets unto mount Carmel.\n\n18:21. And Elias coming to all the people, said: How long do you halt\nbetween two sides? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then\nfollow him. And the people did not answer him a word.\n\n18:22. And Elias said again to the people: I only remain a prophet of\nthe Lord: but the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men.\n\n18:23. Let two bullocks be given us, and let them choose one bullock\nfor themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it upon wood, but put no\nfire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and\nput no fire under it.\n\n18:24. Call ye on the names of your gods, and I will call on the name\nof my Lord: and the God that shall answer by fire, let him be God. And\nall the people answering, said: A very good proposal.\n\n18:25. Then Elias said to the prophets of Baal: Choose you one bullock\nand dress it first, because you are many: and call on the names of your\ngods; but put no fire under.\n\n18:26. And they took the bullock, which he gave them, and dressed it:\nand they called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon,\nsaying: O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered:\nand they leaped over the altar that they had made.\n\n18:27. And when it was now noon, Elias jested at them, saying: Cry with\na louder voice: for he is a god; and perhaps he is talking, or is in an\ninn, or on a journey; or perhaps he is asleep, and must be awaked.\n\n18:28. So they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves after their\nmanner with knives and lancets, till they were all covered with blood.\n\n18:29. And after midday was past, and while they were prophesying, the\ntime was come of offering sacrifice, and there was no voice heard, nor\ndid any one answer, nor regard them as they prayed.\n\n18:30. Elias said to all the people: Come ye unto me. And the people\ncoming near unto him, he repaired the altar of the Lord, that was\nbroken down:\n\n18:31. And he took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes\nof the sons of Jacob to whom the word of the Lord came, saying: Israel\nshall be thy name.\n\n18:32. And he built with the stones an altar to the name of the Lord:\nand he made a trench for water, of the breadth of two furrows, round\nabout the altar.\n\n18:33. And he laid the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces,\nand laid it upon the wood.\n\n18:34. And he said: Fill four buckets with water, and pour it upon the\nburnt offering, and upon the wood. And again he said: Do the same the\nsecond time. And when they had done it the second time, he said: Do the\nsame also the third time. And they did so the third time.\n\n18:35. And the water run round about the altar, and the trench was\nfilled with water.\n\n18:36. And when it was now time to offer the holocaust, Elias, the\nprophet, came near and said: O Lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and\nIsrael, shew this day that thou art the God of Israel, and I thy\nservant, and that according to thy commandment I have done all these\nthings.\n\n18:37. Dear me, O Lord, hear me: that this people may learn that thou\nart the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart again.\n\n18:38. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the holocaust, and\nthe wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that\nwas in the trench.\n\n18:39. And when all the people saw this, they fell on their faces, and\nthey said: The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.\n\n18:40. And Elias said to them: Take the prophets of Baal, and let not\none of them escape. And when they had taken them, Elias brought them\ndown to the torrent Cison, and killed them there.\n\n18:41. And Elias said to Achab: Go up, eat and drink: for there is a\nsound of abundance of rain.\n\n18:42. Achab went up to eat and drink: and Elias went up to the top of\nCarmel, and casting himself down upon the earth, put his face between\nhis knees,\n\n18:43. And he said to his servant: Go up, and look towards the sea. And\nhe went up, and looked, and said: There is nothing. And again he said\nto him: Return seven times.\n\n18:44. And at the seventh time: Behold a little cloud arose out of the\nsea like a man's foot. And he said: Go up, and say to Achab: Prepare\nthy chariot, and go down, lest the rain prevent thee.\n\n18:45. And while he turned himself this way and that way, behold the\nheavens grew dark, with clouds and wind, and there fell a great rain.\nAnd Achab getting up, went away to Jezrahel:\n\n18:46. And the hand of the Lord was upon Elias, and he girded up his\nloins, and ran before Achab, till he came to Jezrahel.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 19\n\n\nElias, fleeing from Jezabel, is fed by an angel in the desert; and by\nthe strength of that food walketh forty days, till he cometh to Horeb,\nwhere he hath a vision of God.\n\n19:1. And Achab told Jezabel all that Elias had done, and how he had\nslain all the prophets with the sword.\n\n19:2. And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, saying: Such and such\nthings may the gods do to me, and add still more, if by this hour to\nmorrow I make not thy life as the life of one of them.\n\n19:3. Then EIias was afraid, and rising up, he went whithersoever he\nhad a mind: and he came to Bersabee of Juda, and left his servant\nthere,\n\n19:4. And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when\nhe was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul\nthat he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord; take away my\nsoul: for I am no better than my fathers.\n\nThat he might die. . .Elias requested to die, not out of impatience or\npusillanimity, but out of zeal against sin; and that he might no longer\nbe witness of the miseries of his people; and the war they were waging\nagainst God and his servants. See ver. 10.\n\n19:5. And he cast himself down, and slept in the shadow of the juniper\ntree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him:\nArise and eat.\n\n19:6. He looked, and behold there was at his head a hearth cake, and a\nvessel of water: and he ate and drank, and he fell asleep again.\n\n19:7. And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched\nhim, and said to him: Arise, eat: for thou hast yet a great way to go.\n\n19:8. And he arose, and ate and drank, and walked in the strength of\nthat food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.\n\nIn the strength of that food, etc. . .This bread, with which Elias was\nfed in the wilderness, was a figure of the bread of life which we\nreceive in the blessed sacrament; by the strength of which we are to be\nsupported in our journey through the wilderness of this world till we\ncome to the true mountain of God, and his vision in a happy eternity.\n\n19:9. And when he was come thither, he abode in a cave. and behold the\nword of the Lord came unto him, and he said to him: What dost thou\nhere, Elias?\n\n19:10. And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God\nof hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they\nhave thrown down thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the\nsword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.\n\nI alone am left. . .Viz., of the prophets in the kingdom of Israel, or\nof the ten tribes; for in the kingdom of Juda religion was at that time\nin a very flourishing condition under the kings Asa and Josaphat. And\neven in Israel there remained several prophets, though not then known\nto Elias. See chap. 20.13, 28, 35.\n\n19:11. And he said to him: Go forth, and stand upon the mount before\nthe Lord: and behold the Lord passeth, and a great and strong wind\nbefore the Lord, overthrowing the mountains, and breaking the rocks in\npieces: but the Lord is not in the wind. And after the wind, an\nearthquake: but the Lord is not in the earthquake.\n\n19:12. And after the earthquake, a fire: but the Lord is not in the\nfire. And after the fire, a whistling of a gentle air.\n\n19:13. And when Elias heard it, he covered his face with his mantle,\nand coming forth, stood in the entering in of the cave, and behold a\nvoice unto him, saying: What dost thou here, Elias? And he answered:\n\n19:14. With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: because\nthe children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have destroyed\nthy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword; and I alone am\nleft, and they seek my life to take it away.\n\n19:15. And the Lord said to him: Go, and return on thy way, through the\ndesert, to Damascus: and when thou art come thither, thou shalt anoint\nHazael to be king over Syria;\n\n19:16. And thou shalt anoint Jehu, the son of Namsi, to be king over\nIsrael: and Eliseus, the son of Saphat, of Abelmeula, thou shalt anoint\nto be prophet in thy room.\n\n19:17. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall escape the sword\nof Hazael, shall be slain by Jehu: and whosoever shall escape the sword\nof Jehu, shall be slain by Eliseus.\n\nShall be slain by Eliseus. . .Eliseus did not kill any of the idolaters\nwith the material sword: but he is here joined with Hazael and Jehu,\nthe great instruments of God in punishing the idolatry of Israel,\nbecause he foretold to the former his exaltation to the kingdom of\nSyria, and the vengeance he would execute against Israel, and anointed\nthe latter by one of his disciples to be king of Israel, with\ncommission to extirpate the house of Achab.\n\n19:18. And I will leave me seven thousand men in Israel, whose knees\nhave not been bowed before Baal, and every mouth that hath not\nworshipped him, kissing the hands.\n\n19:19. And Elias departing from thence, found Eliseus, the son of\nSaphat, ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen: and he was one of them that\nwere ploughing with, twelve yoke of oxen: and when Elias came up to\nhim, he cast his mantle upon him.\n\n19:20. And he forthwith left the oxen, and run after Elias, and said:\nLet me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will\nfollow thee. And he said to him: Go, and return back: for that which\nwas my part, I have done to thee.\n\n19:21. And returning back from him, he took a yoke of oxen, and killed\nthem, and boiled the flesh with the plough of the oxen, and gave to the\npeople, and they ate: and rising up, he went away, and followed Elias,\nand ministered to him.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 20\n\n\nThe Syrians besiege Samaria: they are twice defeated by Achab: who is\nreprehended by a prophet for letting Benadad go.\n\n20:1. And Benadad, king of Syria, gathered together all his host, and\nthere were two and thirty kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and\ngoing up, he fought against Samaria, and besieged it.\n\n20:2. And sending messengers to Achab, king of Israel, into the city,\n\n20:3. He said: Thus saith Benadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine:\nand thy wives and thy goodliest children are mine.\n\n20:4. And the king of Israel answered: According to thy word, my lord,\nO king, I am thine, and all that I have.\n\n20:5. And the messengers came again, and said: Thus saith Benadad, who\nsent us unto thee: Thy silver and thy gold, and thy wives and thy\nchildren, thou shalt deliver up to me.\n\n20:6. To morrow, therefore, at this same hour, I will send my servants\nto thee, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy\nservants: and all that pleaseth them, they shall put in their hands,\nand take away.\n\n20:7. And the king of Israel called all the ancients of the land, and\nsaid: Mark, and see that he layeth snares for us. For he sent to me for\nmy wives, and for my children, and for my silver and gold: and I said\nnot nay.\n\n20:8. And all the ancients, and all the people said to him: Hearken not\nto him, nor consent to him.\n\n20:9. Wherefore he answered the messengers of Benadad: Tell my lord,\nthe king: All that thou didst send for to me, thy servant at first, I\nwill do: but this thing I cannot do.\n\n20:10. And the messengers returning brought him word. And he sent\nagain, and said: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and more\nmay they add, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all\nthe people that follow me.\n\n20:11. And the king of Israel answering, said: Tell him: Let not the\ngirded boast himself as the ungirded.\n\nLet not the girded, etc. . .Let him not boast before the victory: it\nwill then be time to glory when he putteth off his armour, having\novercome his adversary.\n\n20:12. And it came to pass, when Benadad heard this word, that he and\nthe kings were drinking in pavilions, and he said to his servants:\nBeset the city. And they beset it.\n\n20:13. And behold a prophet coming to Achab, king of Israel, said to\nhim: Thus saith the Lord: Hast thou seen all this exceeding great\nmultitude? behold I will deliver them into thy hand this day: that thou\nmayst know that I am the Lord.\n\n20:14. And Achab said: By whom? And he said to him: Thus saith the\nLord: By the servants of the princes of the provinces. And he said:\nWho shall begin to fight? And he said: Thou.\n\n20:15. So he mustered the servants of the princes of the provinces, and\nhe found the number of two hundred and thirty-two: and he mustered\nafter them the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand:\n\n20:16. And they went out at noon. But Benadad was drinking himself\ndrunk in his pavilion, and the two and thirty kings with him, who were\ncome to help him.\n\n20:17. And the servants of the princes of the provinces went out first.\nAnd Benadad sent. And they told him, saying: There are men come out of\nSamaria.\n\n20:18. And he said: Whether they come for peace, take them alive: or\nwhether they come to fight, take them alive.\n\n20:19. So the servants of the princes of the provinces went out, and\nthe rest of the army followed:\n\n20:20. And every one slew the man that came against him: and the\nSyrians fled, and Israel pursued after them. And Benadad, king of\nSyria, fled away on horseback with his horsemen.\n\n20:21. But the king of Israel going out overthrew the horses and\nchariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.\n\n20:22. (And a prophet coming to the king of Israel, said to him: Go,\nand strengthen thyself, and know, and see what thou dost: for the next\nyear the king of Syria will come up against thee.)\n\n20:23. But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods\nare gods of the hills, therefore they have overcome us: but it is\nbetter that we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall\novercome them.\n\n20:24. Do thou, therefore, this thing: Remove all the kings from thy\narmy, and put captains in their stead:\n\n20:25. And make up the number of soldiers that have been slain of\nthine, and horses, according to the former horses, and chariots,\naccording to the chariots which thou hadst before: and we will fight\nagainst them in the plains, and thou shalt see that we shall overcome\nthem. He believed their counsel, and did so.\n\n20:26. Wherefore, at the return of the year, Benadad mustered the\nSyrians, and went up to Aphec, to fight against Israel.\n\n20:27. And the children of Israel were mustered, and taking victuals,\nwent out on the other side, and encamped over against them, like two\nlittle flocks of goats: but the Syrians filled the land.\n\n20:28. (And a man of God coming, said to the king of Israel: Thus saith\nthe Lord: Because the Syrians have said: The Lord is God of the hills,\nbut is not God of the valleys: I will deliver all this great multitude\ninto thy hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.)\n\n20:29. And both sides set their armies in array one against the other\nseven days, and on the seventh day the battle was fought: and the\nchildren of Israel slew, of the Syrians, a hundred thousand footmen in\none day.\n\n20:30. And they that remained fled to Aphec, into the city: and the\nwall fell upon seven and twenty thousand men, that were left. And\nBenadad fleeing, went into the city, into a chamber that was within a\nchamber.\n\n20:31. And his servants said to him: Behold, we have heard that the\nkings of the house of Israel are merciful; so let us put sackcloths on\nour loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel:\nperhaps he will save our lives.\n\n20:32. So they girded sackcloths on their loins, and put ropes on their\nheads, and came to the king of Israel, and said to him: Thy servant,\nBenadad, saith: I beseech thee let me have my life. And he said: If he\nbe yet alive, he is my brother.\n\n20:33. The men took this for good luck: and in haste caught the word\nout of his mouth, and said: Thy brother Benadad. And he said to them:\nGo, and bring him to me. Then Benadad came out to him, and he lifted\nhim up into his chariot.\n\n20:34. And he said to him: The cities which my father took from thy\nfather, I will restore: and do thou make thee streets in Damascus, as\nmy father made in Samaria and having made a league, I will depart from\nthee. So he made a league with him, and let him go.\n\n20:35. Then a certain man of the sons of the prophets, said to his\ncompanion, in the word of the Lord: Strike me. But he would not strike.\n\n20:36. Then he said to him: Because thou wouldst not hearken to the\nword of the Lord, behold thou shalt depart from me, and a lion shall\nslay thee. And when he was gone a little from him, a lion found him,\nand slew him.\n\n20:37. Then he found another man, and said to him: Strike me. And he\nstruck him and wounded him.\n\n20:38. So the prophet went, and met the king in the way, and disguised\nhimself by sprinkling dust on his face and his eyes.\n\n20:39. And as the king passed by, he cried to the king, and said: Thy\nservant went out to fight hand to hand: and when a certain man was run\naway, one brought him to me, and said: Keep this man: and if he shall\nslip away, thy life shall be for his life, or thou shalt pay a talent\nof silver.\n\n20:40. And whilst I, in the hurry, turned this way and that, on a\nsudden he was not to be seen. And the king of Israel said to him: This\nis thy judgment, which thyself hast decreed.\n\n20:41. But he forthwith wiped off the dust from his face, and the king\nof Israel knew him, that he was one of the prophets.\n\n20:42. And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord. Because thou hast let\ngo out of thy hand a man worthy of death, thy life shall be for his\nlife, and thy people for his people.\n\n20:43. And the king of Israel returned to his house, slighting to hear,\nand raging came into Samaria.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 21\n\n\nNaboth, for denying his vineyard to king Achab, is by Jezabel's\ncommandment, falsely accused and stoned to death. For which crime Elias\ndenounceth to Achab the judgments of God: upon his humbling himself the\nsentence is mitigated.\n\n21:1. And after these things, Naboth the Jezrahelite, who was in\nJezrahel, had at that time a vineyard, near the palace of Achab, king\nof Samaria.\n\n21:2. And Achab spoke to Naboth, saying: Give me thy vineyard, that I\nmay make me a garden of herbs, because it is nigh, and adjoining to my\nhouse; and I will give thee for it a better vineyard: or if thou think\nit more convenient for thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.\n\n21:3. Naboth answered him: The Lord be merciful to me, and not let me\ngive thee the inheritance of my fathers.\n\n21:4. And Achab came into his house angry and fretting, because of the\nword that Naboth, the Jezrahelite, had spoken to him, saying: I will\nnot give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And casting himself upon\nhis bed, he turned away his face to the wall, and would eat no bread.\n\n21:5. And Jezabel, his wife, went in to him, and said to him: What is\nthe matter that thy soul is so grieved? and why eatest thou no bread?\n\n21:6. And he answered her: I spoke to Naboth, the Jezrahelite, and said\nto him: Give me thy vineyard, and take money for it: or if it please\nthee, I will give thee a better vineyard for it. And he said: I will\nnot give thee my vineyard.\n\n21:7. Then Jezabel, his wife, said to him. Thou art of great authority\nindeed, and governest well the kingdom of Israel. Arise, and eat bread,\nand be of good cheer; I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth, the\nJezrahelite.\n\n21:8. So she wrote letters in Achab's name, and sealed them with his\nring, and sent them to the ancients, and the chief men that were in his\ncity, and that dwelt with Naboth.\n\n21:9. And this was the tenor of the letters: Proclaim a fast, and make\nNaboth sit among the chief of the people;\n\n21:10. And suborn two men, sons of Belial, against him. and let them\nbear false witness; that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and then\ncarry him out, and stone him, and so let him die.\n\n21:11. And the men of his city, the ancients and nobles, that dwelt\nwith him in the city, did as Jezabel had commanded them, and as it was\nwritten in the letters which she had sent to them;\n\n21:12. They proclaimed a fast, and made Naboth sit among the chief of\nthe people.\n\n21:13. And bringing two men, sons of the devil, they made them sit\nagainst him: and they, like men of the devil, bore witness against him\nbefore the people: saying: Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king.\nWherefore they brought him forth without the city, and stoned him to\ndeath.\n\n21:14. And they sent to Jezabel, saying: Naboth is stoned, and is dead.\n\n21:15. And it came to pass, when Jezabel heard that Naboth was stoned,\nand dead, that she said to Achab: Arise, and take possession of the\nvineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite, who would not agree with thee, and\ngive it thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.\n\n21:16. And when Achab heard this, to wit, that Naboth was dead, he\narose, and went down into the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite, to\ntake possession of it.\n\n21:17. And the word of the Lord came to Elias, the Thesbite, saying:\n\n21:18. Arise, and go down to meet Achab, king of Israel, who is in\nSamaria: behold he is going down to the vineyard of Naboth, to take\npossession of it:\n\n21:19. And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Thou\nhast slain: moreover also thou hast taken possession. And after these\nwords thou shalt add: Thus saith the Lord: In this place, wherein the\ndogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also.\n\n21:20. And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found me thy enemy? He said:\nI have found thee because thou art sold, to do evil in the sight of the\nLord.\n\nSold, to do evil in the sight, etc. . .That is, so addicted to evil, as\nif thou hadst sold thyself to the devil, to be his slave to work all\nkinds of evil.\n\n21:21. Behold I will bring evil upon thee, and I will cut down thy\nposterity, and I will kill of Achab him that pisseth against the wall,\nand him that is shut up, and the last in Israel.\n\n21:22. And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of\nNabat, and like the house of Baasa the son of Ahias: for what thou hast\ndone to provoke me to anger, and for making Israel to sin.\n\n21:23. And of Jezabel also, the Lord spoke, saying: The dogs shall eat\nJezabel in the field of Jezrahel.\n\n21:24. If Achab die in the city, the dogs shall eat him: but if he die\nin the field, the birds of the air shall eat him.\n\n21:25. Now, there was not such another as Achab, who was sold to do\nevil in the sight of the Lord: for his wife, Jezabel, set him on,\n\n21:26. And he became abominable, insomuch that he followed the idols\nwhich the Amorrhites had made, whom the Lord destroyed before the face\nof the children of Israel.\n\n21:27. And when Achab had heard these words, he rent his garments, and\nput haircloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and slept in sackcloth, and\nwalked with his head cast down.\n\n21:28. And the word of the Lord came to Elias, the Thesbite, saying:\n\n21:29. Hast thou not seen Achab humbled before me? therefore, because\nhe hath humbled himself, for my sake, I will not bring the evil in his\ndays, but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.\n\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 22\n\n\nAchab believing his false prophets, rather than Micheas, is slain in\nRamoth Galaad. Ochozias succeedeth him. Good king Josaphat dieth, and\nhis son Joram succeedeth him.\n\n22:1. And there passed three years without war between Syria and\nIsrael.\n\n22:2. And in the third year, Josaphat, king of Juda, came down to the\nking of Israel.\n\n22:3. (And the king of Israel said to his servants: Know ye not that\nRamoth Galaad is ours, and we neglect to take it out of the hand of the\nking of Syria?)\n\n22:4. And he said to Josaphat: Wilt thou come with me to battle to\nRamoth Galaad?\n\n22:5. And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: As I am, so art thou: my\npeople and thy people are one: and my horsemen are thy horsemen. And\nJosaphat said to the king of Israel: Inquire, I beseech thee, this day\nthe word of the Lord.\n\n22:6. Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four\nhundred men, and he said to them: Shall I go to Ramoth Galaad to fight,\nor shall I forbear? They answered: Go up, and the Lord will deliver it\ninto the hand of the king.\n\n22:7. And Josaphat said: Is there not here some prophet of the Lord,\nthat we may inquire by him?\n\n22:8. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat. There is one man left,\nby whom we may inquire of the Lord; Micheas, the son of Jemla: but I\nhate him, for he doth not prophecy good to me, but evil. And Josaphat\nsaid: Speak not so, O king.\n\n22:9. Then the king of Israel called an eunuch, and said to him: Make\nhaste, and bring hither Micheas, the son of Jemla.\n\n22:10. And the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, sat each on\nhis throne, clothed with royal robes, in a court, by the entrance of\nthe gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them.\n\n22:11. And Sedecias, the son of Chanaana, made himself horns of iron,\nand said: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till\nthou destroy it.\n\n22:12. And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, saying: Go up to\nRamoth Galaad, and prosper, for the Lord will deliver it into the\nking's hands.\n\n22:13. And the messenger that went to call Micheas, spoke to him,\nsaying: Behold the words of the prophets with one mouth declare good\nthings to the king: let thy word, therefore, be like to theirs, and\nspeak that which is good.\n\n22:14. But Micheas said to him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever the Lord\nshall say to me, that will I speak.\n\n22:15. So he came to the king, and the king said to him: Micheas, shall\nwe go to Ramoth Galaad to battle, or shall we forbear? He answered him:\nGo up, and prosper, and the Lord shall deliver it into the king's\nhands.\n\nGo up, etc. . .This was spoken ironically, and by way of jesting at the\nflattering speeches of the false prophets: and so the king understood\nit, as appears by his adjuring Micheas, in the following verse, to tell\nhim the truth in the name of the Lord.\n\n22:16. But the king said to him: I adjure thee again and again, that\nthou tell me nothing but that which is true, in the name of the Lord.\n\n22:17. And he said: I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, like\nsheep that have no shepherd; and the Lord said: These have no master:\nlet every man of them return to his house in peace.\n\n22:18. (Then the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Did I not tell thee,\nthat he prophesieth no good to me, but always evil?)\n\n22:19. And he added and said: Hear thou, therefore, the word of the\nLord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven\nstanding by him on the right hand and on the left:\n\n22:20. And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab, king of Israel, that\nhe may go up, and fall at Ramoth Galaad? And one spoke words of this\nmanner, and another otherwise.\n\nThe Lord said, etc. . .God standeth not in need of any counsellor; nor\nare we to suppose that things pass in heaven in the manner here\ndescribed: but this representation was made to the prophet, to be\ndelivered by him in a manner adapted to the common ways and notions of\nmen.\n\n22:21. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and\nsaid: I will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means?\n\n22:22. And he said: I will go forth, and be a lying spirit, in the\nmouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive him,\nand shalt prevail: go forth, and do so.\n\nGo forth, and do so. . .This was not a command, but a permission: for\nGod never ordaineth lies; though he often permitteth the lying spirit\nto deceive those who love not the truth. 2 Thess. 2.10. And in this\nsense it is said in the following verse, The Lord hath given a lying\nspirit in the mouth of all thy prophets.\n\n22:23. Now, therefore, behold the Lord hath given a lying spirit in the\nmouth of all thy prophets that are here, and the Lord hath spoken evil\nagainst thee.\n\n22:24. And Sedecias, the son of Chanaana, came, and struck Micheas on\nthe cheek, and said: Hath then the spirit of the Lord left me, and\nspoken to thee?\n\n22:25. And Micheas said: Thou shalt see in the day when thou shalt go\ninto a chamber within a chamber to hide thyself.\n\nGo into a chamber, etc. . .This happened when he heard the king was\nslain, and justly apprehended that he should be punished for his false\nprophecy.\n\n22:26. And the king of Israel said: Take Micheas and let him abide with\nAmon, the governor of the city, and with Joas, the son of Amalech;\n\n22:27. And tell them: Thus saith the king: Put this man in prison, and\nfeed him with bread of affliction, and water of distress till I return\nin peace.\n\n22:28. And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not\nspoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.\n\n22:29. So the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, went up to\nRamoth-Galaad.\n\n22:30. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Take thy armour, and go\ninto the battle, and put on thy own garments. But the king of Israel\nchanged his dress, and went into the battle.\n\n22:31. And the king of Syria had commanded the two and thirty captains\nof the chariots, saying: You shall not fight against any, small or\ngreat, but against the king of Israel only.\n\n22:32. So when the captains of the chariots saw Josaphat, they\nsuspected that he was the king of Israel, and making a violent assault,\nthey fought against him: and Josaphat cried out.\n\n22:33. And the captains of the chariots perceived that he was not the\nking of Israel, and they turned away from him.\n\n22:34. And a certain man bent his bow, shooting at a venture, and\nchanced to strike the king of Israel, between the lungs and the\nstomach. But he said to the driver of his chariot: Turn thy hand, and\ncarry me out of the army, for I am grievously wounded.\n\n22:35. And the battle was fought that day, and the king of Israel stood\nin his chariot against the Syrians, and he died in the evening: and the\nblood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.\n\n22:36. And the herald proclaimed through all the army, before the sun\nset, saying: Let every man return to his own city, and to his own\ncountry.\n\n22:37. And the king died, and was carried into Samaria: and they buried\nthe king in Samaria.\n\n22:38. And they washed his chariot in the pool of Samaria and the dogs\nlicked up his blood, and they washed the reins according to the word of\nthe Lord which he had spoken.\n\n22:39. But the rest of the acts of Achab, and all that he did, and the\nhouse of ivory that he made, and all the cities that he built, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n22:40. So Achab slept with his fathers; and Ochozias, his son, reigned\nin his stead.\n\n22:41. But Josaphat, the son of Asa, began to reign over Juda, in the\nfourth year of Acbab, king of Israel.\n\n22:42. He was five and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned five and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nAzuba, the daughter of Salai.\n\n22:43. And he walked in all the way of Asa, his father, and he declined\nnot from it: and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord.\n\n22:44. Nevertheless, he took not away the high places for as yet the\npeople offered sacrifice, and burnt incense in the high places.\n\nHe took not away, etc. . .He left some of the high places, viz., those\nin which they worshipped the true God: but took away all others, 2 Par.\n17.6, and note ver. 14 of chap. 15. 3 Kings.\n\n22:45. And Josaphat had peace with the king of Israel.\n\n22:46. But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, and his works which he\ndid, and his battles, are they not written in the book of the words of\nthe days of the kings of Juda?\n\n22:47. And the remnant also of the effeminate, who remained in the days\nof Asa, his father, he took out of the land.\n\n22:48. And there was then no king appointed in Edom.\n\n22:49. But king Josaphat made navies on the sea, to sail into Ophir for\ngold: but they could not go, for the ships were broken in Asiongaber.\n\n22:50. Then Ochozias, the son of Achab, said to Josaphat: Let my\nservants go with thy servants in the ships. And Josaphat would not.\n\nWould not. . .He had been reprehended before for admitting such a\npartner: and therefore would have no more to do with him.\n\n22:51. And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in\nthe city of David, his father: and Joram, his son, reigned in his\nstead.\n\n22:52. And Ochozias, the son of Achab, began to reign over Israel, in\nSamaria, in the seventeenth year of Josaphat, king of Juda, and he\nreigned over Israel two years.\n\n22:53. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way\nof his father and his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam, the son of\nNabat, who made Israel to sin.\n\n22:54. He served also Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord,\nthe God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FOURTH BOOK OF KINGS\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 1\n\n\nOchozias sendeth to consult Beelzebub: Elias foretelleth his death: and\ncauseth fire to come down from heaven, upon two captains and their\ncompanies.\n\n1:1. And Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of Achab.\n\n1:2. And Ochozias fell through the lattices of his upper chamber, which\nhe had in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, saying to\nthem: Go, consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, whether I shall\nrecover of this my illness.\n\n1:3. And an angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, the Thesbite, saying:\nArise, and go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say\nto them: Is there not a God in Israel, that ye go to consult Beelzebub,\nthe god of Accaron?\n\n1:4. Wherefore, thus saith the Lord: From the bed, on which thou art\ngone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die. And Elias\nwent away.\n\n1:5. And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them:\nWhy are you come back?\n\n1:6. But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go, and\nreturn to the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith\nthe Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel, that thou sendest\nto Beelzebub, the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt not come down\nfrom the bed, on which thou art gone up, but thou shalt surely die.\n\n1:7. And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, and\nspoke these words?\n\n1:8. But they said: A hairy man, with a girdle of leather about his\nloins. And he said: It is Elias, the Thesbite.\n\n1:9. And he sent to him a captain of fifty, and the fifty men that were\nunder him. And he went up to him, and as he was sitting on the top of a\nhill, he said to him: Man of God, the king hath commanded that thou\ncome down.\n\n1:10. And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I be a man\nof God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee, and thy fifty.\nAnd there came down fire from heaven and consumed him, and the fifty\nthat were with him.\n\nLet fire, etc. . .Elias was inspired to call for fire from heaven upon\nthese captains, who came to apprehend him; not out of a desire to\ngratify any private passion; but to punish the insult offered to\nreligion, to confirm his mission, and to shew how vain are the efforts\nof men against God, and his servants, whom he willeth to protect.\n\n1:11. And he again sent to him another captain of fifty men, and his\nfifty with him. And he said to him: Man of God: Thus saith the king:\nMake haste and come down.\n\n1:12. Elias answering, said: If I be a man of God, let fire come down\nfrom heaven, and consume thee, and thy fifty. And fire came down from\nheaven, and consumed him and his fifty.\n\n1:13. Again he sent a third captain of fifty men, and the fifty that\nwere with him. And when he was come, he fell upon his knees before\nElias, and besought him, and said: Man of God, despise not my life, and\nthe lives of thy servants that are with me.\n\n1:14. Behold fire came down from heaven, and consumed the two first\ncaptains of fifty men, and the fifties that were with them: but now I\nbeseech thee to spare my life.\n\n1:15. And the angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, saying: Go down with\nhim, fear not. He arose therefore, and went down with him to the king,\n\n1:16. And said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast sent\nmessengers to consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, as though there\nwere not a God in Israel, of whom thou mightest inquire the word;\ntherefore, from the bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come\ndown, but thou shalt surely die.\n\n1:17. So he died, according to the word of the Lord, which Elias spoke;\nand Joram, his brother, reigned in his stead, in the second year of\nJoram, the son of Josaphat, king of Juda, because he had no son.\n\nThe second year of Joram, etc. . .Counted from the time that he was\nassociated to the throne by his father Josaphat.\n\n1:18. But the rest of the acts of Ochozias, which he did, are they not\nwritten in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 2\n\n\nEliseus will not part from Elias. The water of the Jordan is divided by\nElias' cloak. Elias is taken up in a fiery chariot, and his double\nspirit is given to Eliseus. Eliseus healeth the waters by casting in\nsalt. Boys are torn by bears for mocking Eliseus.\n\n2:1. And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elias, into\nheaven, by a whirlwind, that Elias and Eliseus were going from Galgal.\n\nHeaven. . .By heaven here is meant the air, the lowest of the heavenly\nregions.\n\n2:2. And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay thou here, because the Lord hath\nsent me as far as Bethel. And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord liveth,\nand as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And when they were come\ndown to Bethel,\n\n2:3. The sons of the prophets, that were at Bethel, came forth to\nEliseus, and said to him: Dost thou know that, this day, the Lord will\ntake away thy master from thee? And he answered: I also know it: hold\nyour peace.\n\nThe sons of the prophets. . .That is, the disciples of the prophets; who\nseem to have had their schools, like colleges or communities, in\nBethel, Jericho, and other places in the days of Elias and Eliseus.\n\n2:4. And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay here, because the Lord hath sent\nme to Jericho. And he said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth,\nI will not leave thee. And when they were come to Jericho,\n\n2:5. The sons of the prophets, that were at Jericho, came to Eliseus,\nand said to him: Dost thou know that, this day, the Lord will take away\nthy master from thee? And he said: I also know it: hold your peace.\n\n2:6. And Elias said to him: Stay here, because the Lord hath sent me as\nfar as the Jordan. And he said: as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul\nliveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on together.\n\n2:7. And fifty men, of the sons of the prophets, followed them, and\nstood in sight, at a distance: but they two stood by the Jordan.\n\n2:8. And Elias took his mantle, and folded it together, and struck the\nwaters, and they were divided hither and thither, and they both passed\nover on dry ground.\n\n2:9. And when they were gone over, Elias said to Eliseus: Ask what thou\nwilt have me to do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And\nEliseus said: I beseech thee, that in me may be thy double spirit.\n\nDouble spirit. . .A double portion of thy spirit, as the eldest son and\nheir: or thy spirit which is double in comparison of that which God\nusually imparteth to his prophets.\n\n2:10. And he answered: Thou hast asked a hard thing; nevertheless, if\nthou see me when I am taken from thee, thou shalt have what thou hast\nasked: but if thou see me not, thou shalt not have it.\n\n2:11. And as they went on, walking and talking together, behold, a\nfiery chariot and fiery horses parted them both asunder: and Elias went\nup by a whirlwind into heaven.\n\n2:12. And Eliseus saw him, and cried: My father, my father, the chariot\nof Israel, and the driver thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took\nhold of his own garments, and rent them in two pieces.\n\n2:13. And he took up the mantle of Elias, that fell from him: and going\nback, he stood on the bank of the Jordan;\n\n2:14. And he struck the waters with the mantle of Elias, that had\nfallen from him, and they were not divided. And he said: Where is now\nthe God of Elias? And he struck the waters, and they were divided\nhither and thither, and Eliseus passed over.\n\n2:15. And the sons of the prophets, at Jericho, who were over against\nhim, seeing it, said: The spirit of Elias hath rested upon Eliseus. And\ncoming to meet him, they worshipped him, falling to the ground.\n\nThey worshipped him. . .viz., with an inferior, yet religious\nveneration, not for any temporal, but spiritual excellency.\n\n2:16. And they said to him: Behold, there are with thy servants, fifty\nstrong men, that can go, and seek thy master, lest, perhaps, the spirit\nof the Lord, hath taken him up and cast him upon some mountain, or into\nsome valley. And he said: Do not send.\n\n2:17. But they pressed him, till he consented, and said: Send. And they\nsent fifty men: and they sought three days, but found him not.\n\n2:18. And they came back to him: for he abode at Jericho, and he said\nto them: Did I not say to you? Do not send.\n\n2:19. And the men of the city, said to Eliseus . Behold the situation\nof this city is very good, as thou, my lord, seest: but the waters are\nvery bad, and the ground barren.\n\n2:20. And he said: Bring me a new vessel, and put salt into it. And\nwhen they had brought it,\n\n2:21. He went out to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt into\nit, and said: Thus saith the Lord: I have healed these waters, and\nthere shall be no more in them death or barrenness.\n\n2:22. And the waters were healed unto this day, according to the word\nof Eliseus, which he spoke.\n\n2:23. And he went up from thence to Bethel: and as he was going up by\nthe way, little boys came out of the city and mocked him, saying: Go\nup, thou bald head, go up, thou bald head.\n\n2:24. And looking back, he saw them, and cursed them in the name of the\nLord: and there came forth two bears out of the forest, and tore of\nthem, two and forty boys.\n\nCursed them. . .This curse, which was followed by so visible a judgment\nof God, was not the effect of passion, or of a desire of revenging\nhimself; but of zeal for religion, which was insulted by these boys, in\nthe person of the prophet; and of a divine inspiration: God punishing\nin this manner the inhabitants of Bethel, (the chief seat of the calf\nworship,) who had trained up their children in a prejudice against the\ntrue religion and its ministers.\n\n2:25. And from thence he went to mount Carmel, and from thence he\nreturned to Samaria.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 3\n\n\nThe kings of Israel, Juda, and Edom, fight against the king of Moab.\nThey want water, which Eliseus procureth without rain: and prophesieth\nvictory. The king of Moab is overthrown, his city is besieged: he\nsacrificeth his firstborn son: so the Israelites raise the siege.\n\n3:1. And Joram the son of Achab, reigned over Israel, in Samaria, in\nthe eighteenth year of Josaphat, king of Juda. And he reigned twelve\nyears.\n\n3:2. And he did evil before the Lord, but not like his father and his\nmother: for he took away the statues of Baal, which his father had\nmade.\n\n3:3. Nevertheless, he stuck to the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat,\nwho made Israel to sin, nor did he depart from them.\n\n3:4. Now Mesa, king of Moab, nourished many sheep, and he paid to the\nking of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams,\nwith their fleeces.\n\n3:5. And when Achab was dead, he broke the league which he had made\nwith the king of Israel.\n\n3:6. And king Joram went out that day from Samaria, and mustered all\nIsrael.\n\n3:7. And he sent to Josaphat; king of Juda, saying: The king of Moab is\nrevolted from me: come with me against him to battle. And he answered:\nI will come up: he that is mine, is thine: my people are thy people:\nand my horses, thy horses.\n\n3:8. And he said: Which way shall we go up? But he answered: By the\ndesert of Edom.\n\n3:9. So the king of Israel, and the king of Juda, and the king of Edom,\nwent, and they fetched a compass of seven days journey, and there was\nno water for the army, and for the beasts, that followed them.\n\n3:10. And the king of Israel said: Alas, alas, alas, the Lord hath\ngathered us three kings together, to deliver us into the hands of Moab.\n\n3:11. And Josaphat said: Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that\nwe may beseech the Lord by him? And one of the servants of the king of\nIsrael answered: Here is Eliseus, the son of Saphat, who poured water\non the hands of Elias.\n\n3:12. And Josaphat said: The word of the Lord is with him. And the king\nof Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, and the king of Edom, went down\nto him.\n\n3:13. And Eliseus said to the king of Israel: What have I to do with\nthee? go to the prophets of thy father, and thy mother. And the king of\nIsrael said to him: Why hath the Lord gathered together these three\nkings, to deliver them into the hands of Moab?\n\n3:14. And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord of hosts liveth, in whose\nsight I stand, if I did not reverence the face of Josaphat, king of\nJuda, I would not have hearkened to thee, nor looked on thee.\n\n3:15. But now bring me hither a minstrel. And when the minstrel played,\nthe hand of the Lord came upon him, and he said:\n\n3:16. Thus saith the Lord: Make the channel of this torrent full of\nditches.\n\n3:17. For thus saith the Lord: You shall not see wind, nor rain: and\nyet this channel shall be filled with waters, and you shall drink, you\nand your families, and your beasts.\n\n3:18. And this is a small thing in the sight of the Lord: moreover, he\nwill deliver, also, Moab into your hands.\n\n3:19. And you shall destroy every fenced city, and every choice city,\nand shall cut down every fruitful tree, and shall stop up all the\nsprings of waters, and every goodly field you shall cover with stones.\n\n3:20. And it came to pass, in the morning, when the sacrifices used to\nbe offered, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country\nwas filled with water.\n\n3:21. And all the Moabites hearing that the kings were come up to fight\nagainst them, gathered together all that were girded with a belt upon\nthem, and stood in the borders.\n\n3:22. And they rose early in the morning, and the sun being now up, and\nshining upon the waters, the Moabites saw the waters over against them\nred, like blood,\n\n3:23. And they said: It is the blood of the sword: the kings have\nfought among themselves, and they have killed one another: go now,\nMoab, to the spoils.\n\n3:24. And they went into the camp of Israel: but Israel rising up,\ndefeated Moab, who fled before them. And they being conquerors, went\nand smote Moab.\n\n3:25. And they destroyed the cities: And they filled every goodly\nfield, every man casting his stone: and they stopt up all the springs\nof waters: and cut down all the trees that bore fruit, so that brick\nwalls only remained: and the city was beset by the slingers, and a\ngreat part thereof destroyed.\n\nBrick walls only remained. . .It was the proper name of the capital city\nof the Moabites. In Hebrew, Kir-Haraseth.\n\n3:26. And when the king of Moab saw this, to wit, that the enemies had\nprevailed, he took with him seven hundred men that drew the sword, to\nbreak in upon the king of Edom: but they could not.\n\n3:27. Then he took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his\nstead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall: and there\nwas great indignation in Israel, and presently they departed from him,\nand returned into their own country.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 4\n\n\nMiracles of Eliseus. He raiseth a dead child to life.\n\n4:1. Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets, cried to\nEliseus, saying: Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou knowest\nthat thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is\ncome to take away my two sons to serve him.\n\n4:2. And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou have me do for thee? Tell\nme, what hast thou in thy house? And she answered: I, thy handmaid,\nhave nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint me.\n\n4:3. And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty\nvessels, not a few.\n\n4:4. And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and thy sons:\nand pour out thereof into all those vessels: and when they are full,\ntake them away.\n\n4:5. So the woman went, and shut the door upon her, and upon her sons:\nthey brought her the vessels, and she poured in.\n\n4:6. And when the vessels were full, she said to her son: Bring me yet\na vessel. And he answered: I have no more. And the oil stood.\n\n4:7. And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the\noil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest.\n\n4:8. And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam: now there was a\ngreat woman there, who detained him to eat bread: and as he passed\noften that way, he turned into her house to eat bread.\n\n4:9. And she said to her husband: I perceive that this is a holy man of\nGod, who often passeth by us.\n\n4:10. Let us, therefore, make him a little chamber, and put a little\nbed in it for him, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that\nwhen he cometh to us he may abide there.\n\n4:11. Now, there was a certain day, when he came, and turned into the\nchamber, and rested there.\n\n4:12. And he said to Giezi, his servant: Call this Sunamitess. And when\nhe had called her, and she stood before him,\n\n4:13. He said to his servant: Say to her: Behold, thou hast diligently\nserved us in all things; what wilt thou have me to do for thee? Hast\nthou any business, and wilt thou, that I speak to the king, or to the\ngeneral of the army? And she answered: I dwell in the midst of my own\npeople.\n\n4:14. And he said: What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi\nsaid: Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old.\n\n4:15. Then he bid him call her. And when she was called, and stood\nbefore the door,\n\n4:16. He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life be in\ncompany, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I\nbeseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.\n\n4:17. And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in the time, and\nat the same hour that Eliseus had said.\n\n4:18. And the child grew. And on a certain day, when he went out to his\nfather to the reapers,\n\n4:19. He said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth. But he\nsaid to his servant. Take him, and carry him to his mother.\n\n4:20. And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she sat\nhim on her knees, until noon, and then he died.\n\n4:21. And she went up, and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and\nshut the door: and going out,\n\n4:22. She called her husband, and said: Send with me, I beseech thee,\none of thy servants, and an ass, that I may run to the man of God, and\ncome again.\n\n4:23. And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither\nnew moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.\n\n4:24. And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive, and\nmake haste, make no stay in going: And do that which I bid thee.\n\n4:25. So she went forward, and came to the man of God, to mount Carmel:\nand when the man of God saw her coming towards, he said to Giezi, his\nservant: Behold that Sunamitess.\n\n4:26. Go, therefore, to meet her, and say to her: Is all well with\nthee, and with thy husband, and with thy son? And she answered: Well.\n\n4:27. And when she came to the man of God, to the mount, she caught\nhold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God\nsaid: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid\nit from me, and hath not told me.\n\n4:28. And she said to him: Did I ask a son of my lord? did I not say to\nthee: Do not deceive me?\n\n4:29. Then he said to Giezi: Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in\nthy hand, and go. If any man meet thee, salute him not: and if any man\nsalute thee, answer him not: and lay my staff upon the face of the\nchild.\n\nSalute him not. . .He that is sent to raise to life the sinner\nspiritually dead, must not suffer himself to be called off, or diverted\nfrom his enterprise, by the salutations or ceremonies of the world.\n\n4:30. But the mother of the child said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy\nsoul liveth, I will not leave thee. He arose, therefore, and followed\nher.\n\n4:31. But Giezi was gone before them, and laid the staff upon the face\nof the child, and there was no voice nor sense: and he returned to meet\nhim, and told him, saying: The child is not risen.\n\nSt. Augustine considers a great mystery in this miracle wrought by the\nprophet Eliseus, thus: By the staff sent by his servant is figured the\nrod of Moses, or the Old Law, which was not sufficient to bring mankind\nto life then dead in sin. It was necessary that Christ himself should\ncome, and by taking on human nature, become flesh of our flesh, and\nrestore us to life. In this Eliseus was a figure of Christ, as it was\nnecessary that he should come himself to bring the dead child to life\nand restore him to his mother, who is here, in a mystical sense, a\nfigure of the Church.\n\n4:32. Eliseus, therefore, went into the house, and behold the child lay\ndead on his bed:\n\n4:33. And going in, he shut the door upon him, and upon the child, and\nprayed to the Lord.\n\n4:34. And he went up, and lay upon the child: and put his mouth upon\nhis mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands:\nand he bowed himself upon him, and the child's flesh grew warm.\n\n4:35. Then he returned and walked in the house, once to and fro: and he\nwent up, and lay upon him: and the child gaped seven times, and opened\nhis eyes.\n\n4:36. And he called Giezi, and said to him: Call this Sunamitess. And\nshe being called, went in to him: and he said: Take up thy son.\n\n4:37. She came and fell at his feet, and worshipped upon the ground:\nand took up her son, and went out.\n\n4:38. And Eliseus returned to Galgal, and there was a famine in the\nland, and the sons of the prophets dwelt before him: And he said to one\nof his servants: Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of\nthe prophets.\n\n4:39. And one went out into the field to gather wild herbs: and he\nfound something like a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds of the\nfield, and filled his mantle, and coming back, he shred them into the\npot of pottage; for he knew not what it was.\n\nWild gourds of the field. . .Colocynthidas. They are extremely bitter,\nand therefore are called the gall of the earth; and are poisonous if\ntaken in a great quantity.\n\n4:40. And they poured it out for their companions to eat: and when they\nhad tasted of the pottage, they cried out, saying: Death is in the pot,\nO man of God. And they could not eat thereof.\n\n4:41. But he said: Bring some meal. And when they had brought it, he\ncast it into the pot, and said: Pour out for the people, that they may\neat. And there was now no bitterness in the pot.\n\n4:42. And a certain man came from Baalsalisa, bringing to the man of\nGod, bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and new corn in\nhis scrip. And he said: Give to the people, that they may eat.\n\n4:43. And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I should set\nit before a hundred men? He said again: Give to the people, that they\nmay eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat, and there shall be\nleft.\n\n4:44. So he set it before them: and they ate, and there was left,\naccording to the word of the Lord.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 5\n\n\nNaaman the Syrian is cleansed of his leprosy. He professeth his belief\nin one God, promising to serve him. Giezi taketh gifts of Naaman, and\nis struck with leprosy.\n\n5:1. Naaman, general of the army, of the king of Syria, was a great man\nwith his master, and honourable: for by him the Lord gave deliverance\nto Syria: and he was a valiant man, and rich, but a leper.\n\n5:2. Now there had gone out robbers from Syria, and had led away\ncaptive out of the land of Israel, a little maid, and she waited upon\nNaaman's wife.\n\n5:3. And she said to her mistress: I wish my master had been with the\nprophet that is in Samaria: he would certainly have healed him of the\nleprosy which he hath.\n\n5:4. Then Naaman went in to his lord, and told him, saying: Thus and\nthus said the girl from the land of Israel.\n\n5:5. And the king of Syria said to him: Go; and I will send a letter to\nthe king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of\nsilver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment;\n\n5:6. And brought the letter to the king of Israel, in these words: When\nthou shalt receive this letter, know that I have sent to thee Naaman,\nmy servant, that thou mayst heal him of his leprosy.\n\n5:7. And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his\ngarments, and said: Am I God, to be able to kill and give life, that\nthis man hath sent to me to heal a man of his leprosy? mark, and see\nhow he seeketh occasions against me.\n\n5:8. And when Eliseus, the man of God, had heard this, to wit, that the\nking of Israel had rent his garments, he sent to him, saying: Why hast\nthou rent thy garments? let him come to me, and let him know that there\nis a prophet in Israel.\n\n5:9. So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and stood at the door\nof the house of Eliseus:\n\n5:10. And Eliseus sent a messenger to him, saying: Go, and wash seven\ntimes in the Jordan, and thy flesh shall recover health, and thou shalt\nbe clean.\n\n5:11. Naaman was angry, and went away, saying: I thought he would have\ncome out to me, and standing, would have invoked the name of the Lord\nhis God, and touched with his hand the place of the leprosy, and healed\nme.\n\n5:12. Are not the Abana, and the Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better\nthan all the waters of Israel, that I may wash in them, and be made\nclean? So as he turned, and was going away with indignation,\n\n5:13. His servants came to him, and said to him: Father, if the prophet\nhad bid thee do some great thing, surely thou shouldst have done it:\nhow much rather what he now hath said to thee: Wash, and thou shalt be\nclean?\n\n5:14. Then he went down, and washed in the Jordan seven times,\naccording to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored,\nlike the flesh of a little child: and he was made clean.\n\n5:15. And returning to the man of God, with all his train, he came, and\nstood before him, and said: In truth, I know there is no other God, in\nall the earth, but only in Israel: I beseech thee, therefore, take a\nblessing of thy servant.\n\nA blessing. . .a present.\n\n5:16. But he answered: As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand, I will\nreceive none. And when he pressed him, he still refused.\n\n5:17. And Naaman said: As thou wilt: but I beseech thee, grant to me,\nthy servant, to take from hence two mules' burden of earth: for thy\nservant will not henceforth offer holocaust, or victim, to other gods,\nbut to the Lord.\n\n5:18. But there is only this, for which thou shalt entreat the Lord for\nthy servant; when my master goeth into the temple of Remmon, to worship\nthere, and he leaneth on my hand: if I bow down in the temple of\nRemmon, when he boweth down in the same place, that the Lord pardon me,\nthy servant, for this thing.\n\n5:19. And he said to him: Go in peace. So he departed from him, in the\nspring time of the earth.\n\nGo in peace. . .What the prophet here allowed, was not an outward\nconformity to an idolatrous worship; but only a service which by his\noffice he owed to his master: who on all public occasions leaned on\nhim: so that his bowing down when his master bowed himself down was not\nin effect adoring the idols: nor was it so understood by the standers\nby, since he publicly professed himself a worshipper of the only true\nand living God, but it was no more than doing a civil office to the\nking his master, whose leaning upon him obliged him to bow at the same\ntime that he bowed.\n\n5:20. But Giezi, the servant of the man of God, said: My master hath\nspared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he\nbrought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take something\nof him.\n\n5:21. And Giezi followed after Naaman: and when he saw him running\nafter him, he leapt down from his chariot to meet him, and said: Is all\nwell?\n\n5:22. And he said: Well: my master hath sent me to thee, saying: Just\nnow there are come to me from mount Ephraim, two young men of the sons\nof the prophets: give them a talent of silver, and two changes of\ngarments.\n\n5:23. And Naaman said: It is better that thou take two talents. And he\nforced him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, and two\nchanges of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants, and they\ncarried them before him.\n\n5:24. And when he was come, and now it was the evening, he took them\nfrom their hands, and laid them up in the house, and sent the men away,\nand they departed.\n\n5:25. But he went in, and stood before his master. And Eliseus said:\nWhence comest thou, Giezi? He answered: Thy servant went no whither.\n\n5:26. But he said: Was not my heart present, when the man turned back,\nfrom his chariot, to meet thee? So now thou hast received money, and\nreceived garments, to buy oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep, and\noxen, and men-servants, and maid-servants.\n\n5:27. But the leprosy of Naaman, shall also stick to thee, and to thy\nseed for ever. And he went out from him a leper, as white as snow.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 6\n\n\nEliseus maketh iron to swim upon the water: he leadeth the Syrians that\nwere sent to apprehend him into Samaria, where there eyes being opened,\nthey are courteously entertained. The Syrians besiege Samaria: the\nfamine there causeth a woman to eat her own child. Upon this the king\ncommandeth Eliseus to be put to death.\n\n6:1. And the sons of the prophets said to Eliseus: Behold, the place\nwhere we dwell with thee is too strait for us.\n\n6:2. Let us go as far as the Jordan, and take out of the wood every man\na piece of timber, that we may build us there a place to dwell in. And\nhe said: Go.\n\n6:3. And one of them said: But come thou also with thy servants. He\nanswered: I will come.\n\n6:4. So he went with them. And when they were come to the Jordan, they\ncut down wood.\n\n6:5. And it happened, as one was felling some timber, that the head of\nthe ax fell into the water: and he cried out, and said: Alas, alas,\nalas, my lord, for this same was borrowed.\n\n6:6. And the man of God said: Where did it fall? and he shewed him the\nplace: Then he cut off a piece of wood, and cast it in thither: and the\niron swam.\n\n6:7. And he said: Take it up. And he put out his hand, and took it.\n\n6:8. And the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with\nhis servants, saying: In such and such a place, let us lay an ambush.\n\n6:9. And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying: Beware that\nthou pass not to such a place: for the Syrians are there in ambush.\n\n6:10. And the king of Israel, sent to the place which the man of God\nhad told him, and prevented him, and looked well to himself there not\nonce nor twice.\n\n6:11. And the heart of the king of Syria, was troubled for this thing.\nAnd calling together his servants, he said: Why do you not tell me who\nit is that betrays me to the king of Israel?\n\n6:12. And one of his servants said: No one, my lord, O king: but\nEliseus, the prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel all\nthe words, that thou speakest in thy privy chamber.\n\n6:13. And he said to them: Go, and see where he is: that I may send and\ntake him. And they told him: saying: Behold he is in Dothan.\n\n6:14. Therefore, he sent thither horses, and chariots, and the strength\nof an army: and they came by night, and beset the city.\n\n6:15. And the servant of the man of God, rising early went out, and saw\nan army round about the city, and horses and chariots: and he told him,\nsaying: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, what shall we do?\n\n6:16. But he answered: Fear not: for there are more with us than with\nthem.\n\n6:17. And Eliseus prayed, and said: Lord, open his eyes, that he may\nsee. And the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw: and\nbehold, the mountain was full of horses, and chariots of fire round\nabout Eliseus.\n\n6:18. And the enemies came down to him: but Eliseus prayed to the Lord,\nsaying: Strike, I beseech thee, this people with blindness: and the\nLord struck them with blindness, according to the word of Eliseus.\n\nBlindness. . .The blindness here spoken of was of a particular kind,\nwhich hindered them from seeing the objects that were really before\nthem; and represented other different objects to their imagination: so\nthat they no longer perceived the city of Dothan, nor were able to know\nthe person of Eliseus; but were easily led by him, whom they took to be\nanother man, to Samaria. So that he truly told them, this is not the\nway, neither is this the city, etc., because he spoke with relation to\nthe way and to the city, which was represented to them.\n\n6:19. And Eliseus said to them: This is not the way, neither is this\nthe city: follow me, and I will shew you the man whom you seek. So he\nled them into Samaria.\n\n6:20. And when they were come into Samaria, Eliseus said: Lord, open\nthe eyes of these men, that they may see. And the Lord opened their\neyes, and they saw themselves to be in the midst of Samaria.\n\n6:21. And the king of Israel said to Eliseus, when he saw them: My\nfather, shall I kill them?\n\n6:22. And he said: Thou shalt not kill them: for thou didst not take\nthem with thy sword, or thy bow, that thou mayst kill them: but set\nbread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to\ntheir master.\n\n6:23. And a great provision of meats was set before them, and they ate\nand drank; and he let them go: and they went away to their master: and\nthe robbers of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.\n\n6:24. And it came to pass, after these things, that Benadad, king of\nSyria, gathered together all his army, and went up and besieged\nSamaria.\n\n6:25. And there was a great famine in Samaria: and so long did the\nsiege continue, till the head of an ass was sold for fourscore pieces\nof silver, and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeons' dung, for five\npieces of silver.\n\n6:26. And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a certain\nwoman cried out to him, saying: Save me, my lord, O king.\n\n6:27. And he said: If the Lord doth not save thee, how can I save thee?\nout of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said to\nher: What aileth thee? And she answered:\n\n6:28. This woman said to me: Give thy son, that we may eat him today,\nand we will eat my son tomorrow.\n\n6:29. So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next\nday: Give thy son, that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son.\n\n6:30. When the king heard this, he rent his garments, and passed by\nupon the wall. And all the people saw the haircloth which he wore\nwithin next to his flesh.\n\n6:31. And the king said: May God do so and so to me, and may he add\nmore, if the head of Eliseus, the son of Saphat, shall stand on him\nthis day.\n\n6:32. But Eliseus sat in his house, and the ancients sat with him. So\nhe sent a man before: and before that messenger came, he said to the\nancients: Do you know that this son of a murderer hath sent to cut off\nmy head? Look then when the messenger shall come, shut the door, and\nsuffer him not to come in: for behold the sound of his master's feet is\nbehind him.\n\n6:33. While he was yet speaking to them, the messenger appeared, who\nwas coming to him. And he said: Behold, so great an evil is from the\nLord: what shall I look for more from the Lord?\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 7\n\n\nEliseus prophesieth a great plenty, which presently ensueth upon the\nsudden flight of the Syrians; of which four lepers bring the news to\nthe city. The incredulous nobleman is trod to death.\n\n7:1. And Eliseus said: Hear ye the word of the Lord: Thus saith the\nLord: Tomorrow, about this time, a bushel of fine flour shall be sold\nfor a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater, in the gate of\nSamaria.\n\nA stater. . .It is the same as a sicle or shekel.\n\n7:2. Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the king leaned, answering\nthe man of God, said: If the Lord should make flood-gates in heaven,\ncan that possibly be which thou sayest? And he said: Thou shalt see it\nwith thy eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.\n\n7:3. Now there were four lepers, at the entering in of the gate: and\nthey said one to another: What mean we to stay here till we die?\n\n7:4. If we will enter into the city, we shall die with the famine: and\nif we will remain here, we must also die: come therefore, and let us\nrun over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare us, we shall live:\nbut if they kill us, we shall but die.\n\n7:5. So they arose in the evening, to go to the Syrian camp. And when\nthey were come to the first part of the camp of the Syrians, they found\nno man there.\n\n7:6. For the Lord had made them hear, in the camp of Syria, the noise\nof chariots, and of horses, and of a very great army: and they said one\nto another: Behold, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings\nof the Hethites, and of the Egyptians; and they are come upon us.\n\n7:7. Wherefore they arose, and fled away in the dark, and left their\ntents, and their horses and asses in the camp, and fled, desiring to\nsave their lives.\n\n7:8. So when these lepers were come to the beginning of the camp, they\nwent into one tent, and ate and drank: and they took from thence\nsilver, and gold, and raiment, and went, and hid it: and they came\nagain, and went into another tent, and carried from thence in like\nmanner, and hid it.\n\n7:9. Then they said one to another: We do not well: for this is a day\nof good tidings. If we hold our peace, and do not tell it till the\nmorning, we shall be charged with a crime: come, let us go, and tell it\nin the king's court.\n\n7:10. So they came to the gate of the city, and told them, saying: We\nwent to the camp of the Syrians, and we found no man there, but horses,\nand asses tied, and the tents standing.\n\n7:11. Then the guards of the gate went, and told it within in the\nking's palace.\n\n7:12. And he arose in the night, and said to his servants: I tell you\nwhat the Syrians have done to us: They know that we suffer great\nfamine, and therefore they are gone out of the camp, and lie hid in the\nfields, saying: When they come out of the city, we shall take them\nalive, and then we may get into the city.\n\n7:13. And one of his servants answered: Let us take the five horses\nthat are remaining in the city (because there are no more in the whole\nmultitude of Israel, for the rest are consumed), and let us send and\nsee.\n\n7:14. They brought therefore two horses, and the king sent into the\ncamp of the Syrians, saying: Go, and see.\n\n7:15. And they went after them, as far as the Jordan: and behold, all\nthe way was full of garments, and vessels, which the Syrians had cast\naway, in their fright, and the messengers returned, and told the king.\n\n7:16. And the people going out, pillaged the camp of the Syrians: and a\nbushel of fine flour was sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley\nfor a stater, according to the word of the Lord.\n\n7:17. And the king appointed that lord on whose hand he leaned, to\nstand at the gate: and the people trod upon him in the entrance of the\ngate; and he died, as the man of God had said, when the king came down\nto him.\n\n7:18. And it came to pass, according to the word of the man of God,\nwhich he spoke to the king, when he said: Two bushels of barley shall\nbe for a stater, and a bushel of fine flour for a stater, at this very\ntime tomorrow, in the gate of Samaria.\n\n7:19. When that lord answered the man of God, and said: Although the\nLord should make flood-gates in heaven, could this come to pass which\nthou sayest? And he said to him: Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, and\nshalt not eat thereof.\n\n7:20. And so it fell out to him, as it was foretold, and the people\ntrod upon him in the gate, and he died.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 8\n\n\nAfter seven years' famine foretold by Eliseus, the Sunamitess returning\nhome, recovereth her lands, and revenues. Eliseus foresheweth the death\nof Benadad, king of Syria, and the reign of Hazael. Joram's wicked\nreign in Juda. He dieth, and his son Ochozias succeedeth.\n\n8:1.And Eliseus spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life,\nsaying: Arise, and go thou, and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever\nthou canst find: for the Lord hath called a famine, and it shall come\nupon the land seven years.\n\n8:2. And she arose, and did according to the word of the man of God:\nand going with her household, she sojourned in the land of the\nPhilistines many days.\n\n8:3. And when the seven years were ended, the woman returned out of the\nland of the Philistines, and she went forth to speak to the king for\nher house and for her lands.\n\n8:4. And the king talked with Giezi, the servant of the man of God,\nsaying: Tell me all the great things that Eliseus hath done.\n\n8:5. And when he was telling the king how he had raised one dead to\nlife, the woman appeared, whose son he had restored to life, crying to\nthe king for her house, and her lands. And Giezi said: My lord, O king,\nthis is the woman, and this is her son, whom Eliseus raised to life.\n\n8:6. And the king asked the woman: and she told him. And the king\nappointed her an eunuch, saying: Restore her all that is hers, and all\nthe revenues of the lands, from the day that she left the land to this\npresent.\n\n8:7. Eliseus also came to Damascus, and Benadad, king of Syria was\nsick; and they told him, saying: The man of God is come hither.\n\n8:8. And the king said to Hazael: Take with thee presents, and go to\nmeet the man of God, and consult the Lord by him, saying: Can I recover\nof this my illness?\n\n8:9. And Hazael went to meet him, taking with him presents, and all the\ngood things of Damascus, the burdens of forty camels. And when he stood\nbefore him, he said: Thy son, Benadad, the king of Syria, hath sent me\nto thee, saying: Can I recover of this my illness?\n\n8:10. And Eliseus said to him: Go tell him: Thou shalt recover: but\nthe Lord hath shewed me that he shall surely die.\n\nTell him: thou shalt recover. . .By these words the prophet signified\nthat the king's disease was not mortal: and that he would recover if no\nviolence were used. Or he might only express himself in this manner, by\nway of giving Hazael to understand that he knew both what he would say\nand do; that he would indeed tell the king he should recover; but would\nbe himself the instrument of his death.\n\n8:11. And he stood with him, and was troubled so far as to blush: and\nthe man of God wept.\n\n8:12. And Hazael said to him: Why doth my lord weep? And he said:\nBecause I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel.\nTheir strong cities thou wilt burn with fire, and their young men thou\nwilt kill with the sword, and thou wilt dash their children, and rip up\ntheir pregnant women.\n\n8:13. And Hazael said: But what am I, thy servant, a dog, that I should\ndo this great thing? And Eliseus said: The Lord hath shewed me that\nthou shalt be king of Syria.\n\n8:14. And when he was departed from Eliseus he came to his master, who\nsaid to him: What said Eliseus to thee? And he answered: He told me:\nThou shalt recover.\n\n8:15. And on the next day, he took a blanket, and poured water on it,\nand spread it upon his face: and he died, and Hazael reigned in his\nstead.\n\n8:16. In the fifth year of Joram, son of Achab, king of Israel, and of\nJosaphat, king of Juda, reigned Joram, son of Josaphat, king of Juda.\n\nAnd of Josaphat, etc. . .That is, Josaphat being yet alive, who sometime\nbefore his death made his son Joram king, as David had done before by\nhis own son Solomon.\n\n8:17. He was two and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned eight years in Jerusalem.\n\n8:18. And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of\nAchab had walked: for the daughter of Achab was his wife: and he did\nthat which was evil in the sight of the Lord.\n\n8:19. But the Lord would not destroy Juda, for David his servant's\nsake, as he had promised him, to give him a light, and to his children\nalways.\n\n8:20. In his days Edom revolted from being under Juda, and made\nthemselves a king.\n\n8:21. And Joram came to Seira, and all the chariots with him: and he\narose in the night, and defeated the Edomites that had surrounded him,\nand the captains of the chariots, but the people fled into their tents.\n\n8.22. So Edom revolted from being under Juda, unto this day. Then Lobna\nalso revolted at the same time.\n\n8:23. But the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n8:24. And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the\ncity of David, and Ochozias, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n8:25. In the twelfth year of Joram, the son of Achab, king of Israel,\nreigned Ochozias, son of Joram, king of Juda.\n\n8:26. Ochozias was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and\nhe reigned one year in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Athalia\nthe daughter of Amri king of Israel.\n\nDaughter. . .That is, grand-daughter; for she was daughter of Achab son\nof Amri, ver. 18.\n\n8:27. And he walked in the ways of the house of Achab: and he did evil\nbefore the Lord, as did the house of Achab: for he was the son in law\nof the house of Achab.\n\n8:28. He went also with Joram, son of Achab, to fight against Hazael,\nking of Syria, in Ramoth Galaad, and the Syrians wounded Joram:\n\n8:29. And he went back to be healed, in Jezrahel: because the Syrians\nhad wounded him in Ramoth, when he fought against Hazael, king of Syria\nAnd Ochozias, the son of Joram, king of Juda, went down to visit Joram,\nthe son of Achab, in Jezrahel, because he was sick there.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 9\n\n\nJehu is anointed king of Israel, to destroy the house of Achab and\nJezebel. He killeth Joram king of Israel, and Ochozias king of Juda.\nJezebel is eaten by dogs.\n\n9:1. And Eliseus the prophet, called one of the sons of the prophets,\nand said to him: Gird up thy loins, and take this little bottle of oil\nin thy hand, and go to Ramoth Galaad.\n\n9:2. And when thou art come thither, thou shalt see Jehu the son of\nJosaphat the son of Namsi: and going in, thou shalt make him rise up\nfrom amongst his brethren, and carry him into an inner chamber.\n\n9:3. Then taking the little bottle of oil, thou shalt pour it on his\nhead, and shalt say: Thus saith the Lord: I have anointed thee king\nover Israel. And thou shalt open the door and flee, and shalt not stay\nthere.\n\n9:4. So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went away to Ramoth\nGalaad,\n\n9:5. And went in thither: and behold, the captains of the army were\nsitting, and he said: I have a word to thee, O prince. And Jehu said:\nUnto whom of us all? And he said: To thee, O prince.\n\n9:6. And he arose, and went into the chamber: and he poured the oil\nupon his head, and said: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: I have\nanointed thee king over Israel, the people of the Lord.\n\n9:7. And thou shalt cut off the house of Achab, thy master, and I will\nrevenge the blood of my servants, the prophets, and the blood of all\nthe servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezabel.\n\n9:8. And I will destroy all the house of Achab, and I will cut off from\nAchab, him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and\nthe meanest in Israel.\n\n9:9. And I will make the house of Achab, like the house of Jeroboam,\nthe son of Nabat, and like the house of Baasa, the son of Ahias.\n\n9:10. And the dogs shall eat Jezabel, in the field of Jezrahel, and\nthere shall be no one to bury her. And he opened the door and fled.\n\n9:11. Then Jehu went forth to the servants of his Lord: and they said\nto him: Are all things well? why came this madman to thee? And he said\nto them: You know the man, and what he said.\n\n9:12. But they answered: It is false; but rather do thou tell us. And\nhe said to them: Thus and thus did he speak to me: and he said: Thus\nsaith the Lord: I have anointed thee king over Israel.\n\n9:13. Then they made haste, and taking every man his garment, laid it\nunder his feet, after the manner of a judgment seat, and they sounded\nthe trumpet, and said: Jehu is king.\n\n9:14. So Jehu, the son of Josaphat, the son of Namsi, conspired against\nJoram. Now Joram had besieged Ramoth Galaad, he, and all Israel,\nfighting with Hazael, king of Syria:\n\n9:15. And was returned to be healed in Jezrahel of his wounds; for the\nSyrians had wounded him, when he fought with Hazael, king of Syria. And\nJehu said: If it please you, let no man go forth or flee out of the\ncity, lest he go, and tell in Jezrahel.\n\n9:16. And he got up, and went into Jezrahel for Joram was sick there,\nand Ochozias king of Juda, was come down to visit Joram.\n\n9:17. The watchman therefore, that stood upon the tower of Jezrahel,\nsaw the troop of Jehu coming, and said: I see a troop. And Joram said:\nTake a chariot, and send to meet them, and let him that goeth say: Is\nall well?\n\n9:18. So there went one in a chariot to meet him, and said: Thus saith\nthe king: Are all things peaceable? And Jehu said: What hast thou to\ndo with peace? go behind and follow me. And the watchman told, saying:\nThe messenger came to them, but he returneth not.\n\n9:19. And he sent a second chariot of horses: and he came to them, and\nsaid: Thus saith the king: Is there peace? And Jehu said: What hast\nthou to do with peace? pass, and follow me.\n\n9:20. And the watchman told, saying: He came even to them, but\nreturneth not: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu, the son of\nNamsi; for he drives furiously.\n\n9:21. And Joram said: Make ready the chariot. And they made ready his\nchariot: and Joram, king of Israel, and Ochozias, king of Juda, went\nout, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and met him\nin the field of Naboth, the Jezrahelite.\n\n9:22. And when Joram saw Jehu, he said: Is there peace, Jehu? And he\nanswered: What peace? so long as the fornications of Jezabel, thy\nmother, and her many sorceries, are in their vigour.\n\n9:23. And Joram turned his hand, and fleeing, said to Ochozias: There\nis treachery, Ochozias.\n\n9:24. But Jehu bent his bow with his hand, and shot Joram between the\nshoulders: and the arrow went out through his heart, and immediately he\nfell in his chariot.\n\n9:25. And Jehu said to Badacer, his captain: Take him, and cast him\ninto the field of Naboth, the Jezrahelite: for I remember, when I and\nthou, sitting in a chariot, followed Achab, this man's father, that the\nLord laid this burden upon him, saying:\n\n9:26. If I do not requite thee in this field, saith the Lord, for the\nblood of Naboth, and for the blood of his children, which I saw\nyesterday, saith the Lord. So now take him, and cast him into the\nfield, according to the word of the Lord.\n\n9:27. But Ochozias, king of Juda, seeing this, fled by the way of the\ngarden house: and Jehu pursued him, and said: Strike him also in his\nchariot. And they struck him in the going up to Gaver, which is by\nJeblaam: and he fled into Mageddo, and died there.\n\n9:28. And his servants laid him upon his chariot, and carried him to\nJerusalem: and they buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers, in\nthe city of David.\n\n9:29. In the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Achab, Ochozias reigned\nover Juda;\n\n9:30. And Jehu came into Jezrahel. But Jezabel, hearing of his coming\nin, painted her face with stibic stone, and adorned her head, and\nlooked out of a window.\n\n9:31. At Jehu coming in at the gate, and said: Can there be peace for\nZambri, that hath killed his master?\n\n9:32. And Jehu lifted up his face to the window, and said: Who is this?\nAnd two or three eunuchs bowed down to him.\n\n9:33. And he said to them: Throw her down headlong; And they threw her\ndown, and the wall was sprinkled with her blood, and the hoofs of the\nhorses trod upon her.\n\n9:34. And when he was come in to eat, and to drink, he said: Go, and\nsee after that cursed woman, and bury her; because she is a king's\ndaughter.\n\n9:35. And when they went to bury her, they found nothing but the skull,\nand the feet, and the extremities of her hands.\n\n9:36. And coming back they told him. And Jehu said: It is the word of\nthe Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elias, the Thesbite, saying: In\nthe field of Jezrahel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezabel.\n\n9:37. And the flesh of Jezabel shall be as dung upon the face of the\nearth in the field of Jezrahel; so that they who pass by shall say: Is\nthis that same Jezabel?\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 10\n\n\nJehu destroyeth the house of Achab: abolisheth the worship of Baal, and\nkilleth the worshippers: but sticketh to the calves of Jeroboam. Israel\nis afflicted by the Syrians.\n\n10:1. And Achab had seventy sons in Samaria: so Jehu wrote letters, and\nsent to Samaria, to the chief men of the city, and to the ancients, and\nto them that brought up Achab's children, saying:\n\n10:2. As soon as you receive these letters, ye that have your master's\nsons, and chariots, and horses, and fenced cities, and armour,\n\n10:3. Choose the best, and him that shall please you most of your\nmaster's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for the\nhouse of your master.\n\n10:4. But they were exceedingly afraid, and said: Behold two kings\ncould not stand before him, and how shall we be able to resist?\n\n10:5. Therefore they that were over the king's house, and the rulers of\nthe city, and the ancients, and the bringers up of the children, sent\nto Jehu, saying: We are thy servants: whatsoever thou shalt command us\nwe will do; we will not make us any king: do thou all that pleaseth\nthee.\n\n10:6. And he wrote letters the second time to them, saying: If you be\nmine, and will obey me, take the heads of the sons of your master, and\ncome to me to Jezrahel by tomorrow at this time. Now the king's sons,\nbeing seventy men, were brought up with the chief men of the city.\n\n10:7. And when the letters came to them, they took the king's sons, and\nslew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to\nhim to Jezrahel.\n\n10:8. And a messenger came, and told him, saying: They have brought the\nheads of the king's sons. And he said: Lay ye them in two heaps by the\nentering in of the gate until the morning.\n\n10:9. And when it was light, he went out, and standing, said to all the\npeople: You are just: if I conspired against my master, and slew him;\nwho hath slain all these?\n\n10:10. See therefore now that there hath not fallen to the ground any\nof the words of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of\nAchab, and the Lord hath done that which he spoke in the hand of his\nservant Elias.\n\n10:11. So Jehu slew all that were left of the house of Achab in\nJezrahel, and all his chief men, and his friends, and his priests, till\nthere were no remains left of him.\n\n10:12. And he arose, and went to Samaria: and when he was come to the\nshepherds' cabin in the way,\n\n10:13. He met with the brethren of Ochozias, king of Juda, and he said\nto them: Who are you? And they answered: We are the brethren of\nOchozias, and are come down to salute the sons of the king, and the\nsons of the queen.\n\n10:14. And he said: Take them alive. And they took them alive, and\nkilled them at the pit by the cabin, two and forty men, and he left not\nany of them.\n\n10:15. And when he was departed thence, he found Jonadab, the son of\nRechab, coming to meet him, and he blessed him. And he said to him: Is\nthy heart right as my heart is with thy heart? And Jonadab said: It is.\nIf it be, said he, give me thy hand. He gave him his hand. And he\nlifted him up to him into the chariot,\n\n10:16. And said to him: Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord. So\nhe made him ride in his chariot,\n\n10:17. And brought him into Samaria. And he slew all that were left of\nAchab, in Samaria, to a man, according to the word of the Lord which he\nspoke by Elias.\n\n10:18. And Jehu gathered together all the people, and said to them:\nAchab worshipped Baal a little, but I will worship him more.\n\nI will worship him more. . .Jehu sinned in thus pretending to worship\nBaal, and causing sacrifice to be offered to him: because evil is not\nto be done, that good may come of it. Rom. 3.8.\n\n10:19. Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, and all his\nservants, and all his priests: let none be wanting, for I have a great\nsacrifice to offer to Baal: whosoever shall be wanting, shall not live.\nNow Jehu did this craftily, that he might destroy the worshippers of\nBaal.\n\n10:20. And he said: Proclaim a festival for Baal. And he called,\n\n10:21. And he sent into all the borders of Israel; and all the servants\nof Baal came: there was not one left that did not come. And they went\ninto the temple of Baal: and the house of Baal was filled, from one end\nto the other.\n\n10:22. And he said to them that were over the wardrobe: Bring forth\ngarments for all the servants of Baal. And they brought them forth\ngarments.\n\n10:23. And Jehu, and Jonadab, the son of Rechab, went to the temple of\nBaal, and said to the worshippers of Baal: Search, and see that there\nbe not any with you of the servants of the Lord, but that there be the\nservants of Baal only.\n\n10:24. And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings: but\nJehu had prepared him fourscore men without, and said to them: If any\nof the men escape, whom I have brought into your hands, he that letteth\nhim go, shall answer life for life.\n\n10:25. And it came to pass, when the burnt offering was ended, that\nJehu commanded his soldiers and captains, saying: Go in, and kill them:\nlet none escape. And the soldiers and captains slew them with the edge\nof the sword, and cast them out: and they went into the city of the\ntemple of Baal,\n\n10:26. And brought the statue out of Baal's temple, and burnt it,\n\n10:27. And broke it in pieces. They destroyed also the temple of Baal,\nand made a jakes in its place unto this day.\n\n10:28. So Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel:\n\n10:29. But yet he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of\nNabat, who made Israel to sin, nor did he forsake the golden calves\nthat were in Bethel, and Dan.\n\n10:30. And the Lord said to Jehu: because thou hast diligently executed\nthat which was right and pleasing in my eyes, and hast done to the\nhouse of Achab according to all that was in my heart: thy children\nshall sit upon the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.\n\n10:31. But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of\nIsrael, with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of\nJeroboam, who had made Israel to sin.\n\n10:32. In those days the Lord began to be weary of Israel: and Hazael\nravaged them in all the coasts of Israel,\n\n10:33. From the Jordan eastward, all the land of Galaad, and Gad, and\nRuben, and Manasses, from Aroer, which is upon the torrent Arnon, and\nGalaad, and Basan.\n\n10:34. But the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and his\nstrength, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of\nthe kings of Israel?\n\n10:35. And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria:\nand Joachaz, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n10:36. And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel, in Samaria, was\neight and twenty years.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 11\n\n\nAthalia's usurpation and tyranny. Joas is made king. Athalia is slain.\n\n11:1. Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was\ndead, arose and slew all the royal seed.\n\n11:2. But Josaba the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ochozias, took\nJoas, the son of Ochozias, and stole him from among the king's sons\nthat were slain, out of the bedchamber with his nurse: and hid him from\nthe face of Athalia; so that he was not slain.\n\n11:3. And he was with her six years, hid in the house of the Lord. And\nAthalia reigned over the land.\n\n11:4. And in the seventh year Joiada sent, and taking the centurions\nand soldiers, brought them in to him into the temple of the Lord, and\nmade a covenant with them: and taking an oath of them in the house of\nthe Lord, shewed them the king's son:\n\n11:5. And he commanded them, saying: This is the thing that you must\ndo.\n\n11:6. Let a third part of you go in on the sabbath, and keep the watch\nof the king's house. And let a third part be at the gate of Sur; and\nlet a third part be at the gate behind the dwelling of the\nshieldbearers; and you shall keep the watch of the house of Messa.\n\n11:7. But let two parts of you all that go forth on the sabbath, keep\nthe watch of the house of the Lord about the king.\n\n11:8. And you shall compass him round about, having weapons in your\nhands: and if any man shall enter the precinct of the temple, let him\nbe slain: and you shall be with the king, coming in and going out.\n\n11:9. And the centurions did according to all things that Joiada the\npriest, had commanded them: and taking every one their men, that went\nin on the sabbath, with them that went out in the sabbath, came to\nJoiada, the priest.\n\n11:10. And he gave them the spears, and the arms of king David, which\nwere in the house of the Lord.\n\n11:11. And they stood, having every one their weapons in their hands,\nfrom the right side of the temple, unto the left side of the altar, and\nof the temple, about the king.\n\n11:12. And he brought forth the king's son, and put the diadem upon\nhim, and the testimony: and they made him king, and anointed him: and\nclapping their hands, they said: God save the king.\n\nThe testimony. . .The book of the law.\n\n11:13. And Athalia heard the noise of the people running: and going in\nto the people into the temple of the Lord,\n\n11:14. She saw the king standing upon a tribunal, as the manner was,\nand the singers, and the trumpets near him, and all the people of the\nland rejoicing, and sounding the trumpets: and she rent her garments,\nand cried: A conspiracy, a conspiracy.\n\nA tribunal. . .A tribune, or a place elevated above the rest.\n\n11:15. But Joiada commanded the centurions that were over the army, and\nsaid to them: Have her forth without the precinct of the temple, and\nwhosoever shall follow her, let him be slain with the sword. For the\npriest had said: Let her not be slain in the temple of the Lord.\n\n11:16. And they laid hands on her: and thrust her out by the way by\nwhich the horses go in, by the palace, and she was slain there.\n\n11:17. And Joiada made a covenant between the Lord, and the king, and\nthe people, that they should be the people of the Lord; and between the\nking and the people.\n\n11:18. And all the people of the land went into the temple of Baal, and\nbroke down his altars, and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly:\nthey slew also Mathan the priest of Baal before the altar. And the\npriest set guards in the house of the Lord.\n\n11:19. And he took the centurions, and the bands of the Cerethi, and\nthe Phelethi, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king\nfrom the house of the Lord: and they came by the way of the gate of the\nshieldbearers into the palace, and he sat on the throne of the kings.\n\n11:20. And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet:\nbut Athalia was slain with the sword in the king's house.\n\n11:21. Now Joas was seven years old when he began to reign.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 12\n\n\nThe temple is repaired. Hazael is bought off from attacking Jerusalem.\nJoas is slain.\n\n12:1. In the seventh year of Jehu, Joas began to reign: and he reigned\nforty years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Sebia, of\nBersabee.\n\n12:2. And Joas did that which was right before the Lord all the days\nthat Joiada, the priest, taught him.\n\n12:3. But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still\nsacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.\n\n12:4. And Joas said to the priests: all the money of the sanctified\nthings, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that\npass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own\naccord, and of their own free heart, they bring into the temple of the\nLord:\n\nSanctified. . .That is, dedicated to God's service.--Ibid. The price of\na soul. . .That is, the ordinary oblation, which every soul was to offer\nby the law. Ex. 30.\n\n12:5. Let the priests take it according to their order and repair the\nhouse, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanteth repairing.\n\n12:6. Now till the three and twentieth year of king Joas the priests\ndid not make the repairs of the temple.\n\n12:7. And king Joas called Joiada, the high priest, and the priests,\nsaying to them: Why do you not repair the temple? Take you, therefore,\nmoney no more according to your order, but restore it for the repairing\nof the temple.\n\n12:8. And the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the\npeople, and to make the repairs of the house.\n\n12:9. And Joiada, the high priest, took a chest, and bored a hole in\nthe top, and set it by the altar at the right hand of them that came\ninto the house of the Lord; and the priests that kept the doors, put\ntherein all the money that was brought to the temple of the Lord.\n\n12:10. And when they saw that there was very much money in the chest,\nthe king's scribe, and the high priest, came up, and poured it out, and\ncounted the money that was found in the house of the Lord.\n\n12:11. And they gave it out by number and measure into the hands of\nthem that were over the builders of the house of the Lord: and they\nlaid it out to the carpenters, and the masons, that wrought in the\nhouse of the Lord,\n\n12:12. And made the repairs: and to them that cut stones, and to buy\ntimber, and stones to be hewed, that the repairs of the house of the\nLord might be completely finished, and wheresoever there was need of\nexpenses to uphold the house.\n\n12:13. But there were not made of the same money for the temple of the\nLord, bowls, or fleshhooks, or censers, or trumpets, or any vessel of\ngold and silver, of the money that was brought into the temple of the\nLord:\n\n12:14. For it was given to them that did the work, that the temple of\nthe Lord might be repaired.\n\n12:15. And they reckoned not with the men that received the money to\ndistribute it to the workmen, but they bestowed it faithfully.\n\n12:16. But the money for trespass, and the money for sins, they brought\nnot into the temple of the Lord, because it was for the priests.\n\n12:17. Then Hazael, king of Syria, went up, and fought against Geth,\nand took it, and set his face to go up to Jerusalem.\n\n12:18. Wherefore Joas, king of Juda, took all the sanctified things,\nwhich Josaphat, and Joram, and Ochozias, his fathers, the kings of\nJuda, had dedicated to holy uses, and which he himself had offered: and\nall the silver that could be found in the treasures of the temple of\nthe Lord, and in the king's palace: and sent it to Hazael, king of\nSyria, and he went off from Jerusalem.\n\n12:19. And the rest of the acts of Joas, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n12:20. And his servants arose, and conspired among themselves, and slew\nJoas, in the house of Mello, in the descent of Sella.\n\n12:21. For Josachar the son of Semaath, and Jozabad the son of Somer\nhis servant, struck him, and he died: and they buried him with his\nfathers in the city of David; and Amasias, his son, reigned in his\nstead.\n\nThe city of David. . .He was buried in the same city with his fathers,\nbut not in the sepulchres of the kings. 2 Par. 14.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 13\n\n\nThe reign of Joachaz and of Joas kings of Israel. The last acts and\ndeath of Eliseus the prophet: a dead man is raised to life by the touch\nof his bones.\n\n13:1. In the three and twentieth year of Joas son of Ochozias, king of\nJuda, Joachaz, the son of Jehu, reigned over Israel, in Samaria,\nseventeen years.\n\n13:2. And he did evil before the Lord, and followed the sins of\nJeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin; and he departed not\nfrom them.\n\n13:3. And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he\ndelivered them into the hand of Hazael, the king of Syria, and into the\nhand of Benadad, the son of Hazael, all days.\n\n13:4. But Joachaz besought the face of the Lord, and the Lord heard\nhim: for he saw the distress of Israel, because the king of Syria had\noppressed them:\n\n13:5. And the Lord gave Israel a saviour, and they were delivered out\nof the hand of the king of Syria: and the children of Israel dwelt in\ntheir pavilions as yesterday and the day before.\n\n13:6. But yet they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam,\nwho made Israel to sin, but walked in them: and there still remained a\ngrove also in Samaria.\n\nA grove. . .Dedicated to the worship of idols.\n\n13:7. And Joachaz had no more left of the people than fifty horsemen,\nand ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen: for the king of Syria had\nslain them, and had brought them low as dust by threshing in the\nbarnfloor.\n\n13:8. But the rest of the acts of Joachaz, and all that he did, and his\nvalour, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of\nthe kings of Israel?\n\n13:9. And Joachaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in\nSamaria: and Joas, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n13:10. In the seven and thirtieth year of Joas, king of Juda, Joas the\nson of Joachaz reigned over Israel, in Samaria, sixteen years.\n\n13:11. And he did that which is evil in the sight of the Lord: he\ndeparted not from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made\nIsrael to sin; but he walked in them.\n\n13:12. But the rest of the acts of Joas, and all that he did, and his\nvalour wherewith he fought against Amasias, king of Juda, are they not\nwritten in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?\n\n13:13. And Joas slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his\nthrone. But Joas was buried in Samaria, with the kings of Israel.\n\n13:14. Now Eliseus was sick of the illness whereof he died: and Joas,\nking of Israel, went down to him, and wept before him, and said: O my\nfather, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the guider thereof.\n\n13:15. And Eliseus said to him: Bring a bow and arrows. And when he had\nbrought him a bow and arrows,\n\n13:16. He said to the king of Israel: Put thy hand upon the bow. And\nwhen he had put his hand, Eliseus put his hands over the king's hands,\n\n13:17. And said: Open the window to the east. And when he had opened\nit, Eliseus said: Shoot an arrow. And he shot. And Eliseus said: The\narrow of the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of the deliverance from\nSyria: and thou shalt strike the Syrians in Aphec, till thou consume\nthem.\n\n13:18. And he said: Take the arrows. And when he had taken them, he\nsaid to him: Strike with an arrow upon the ground. And he struck three\ntimes, and stood still.\n\n13:19. And the man of God was angry with him, and said: If thou hadst\nsmitten five or six or seven times, thou hadst smitten Syria even to\nutter destruction: but now three times shalt thou smite it.\n\nIf thou hadst smitten, etc. . .By this it appears that God had revealed\nto the prophet that the king should overcome the Syrians as many times\nas he should then strike on the ground; but as he had not at the same\ntime revealed to him how often the king would strike, the prophet was\nconcerned to see that he struck but thrice.\n\n13:20. And Eliseus died, and they buried him. And the rovers from Moab\ncame into the land the same year.\n\n13:21. And some that were burying a man, saw the rovers, and cast the\nbody into the sepulchre of Eliseus. And when it had touched the bones\nof Eliseus, the man came to life and stood upon his feet.\n\n13:22. Now Hazael, king of Syria, afflicted Israel all the days of\nJoachaz.\n\n13:23. And the Lord had mercy on them, and returned to them, because of\nhis covenant, which he had made with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob: and\nhe would not destroy them, nor utterly cast them away, unto this\npresent time.\n\n13:24. And Hazael, king of Syria, died; and Benadad, his son, reigned\nin his stead.\n\n13:25. Now Joas the son of Joachaz, took the cities out of the hand of\nBenadad, the son of Hazael, which he had taken out of the hand of\nJoachaz, his father, by war; three times did Joas beat him, and he\nrestored the cities to Israel.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 14\n\n\nAmasias reigneth in Juda: he overcometh the Edomites: but is overcome\nby Joas king of Israel. Jereboam the second reigneth in Israel.\n\n14:1. In the second year of Joas son of Joachaz, king of Israel,\nreigned Amasias son of Joas, king of Juda.\n\n14:2. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign; and nine\nand twenty years he reigned in Jerusalem; the name of his mother was\nJoadan, of Jerusalem.\n\n14:3. And he did that which was right before the Lord, but yet not like\nDavid his father. He did according to all things that Joas his father,\ndid:\n\n14:4. But this only, that he took not away the high places; for yet the\npeople sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places:\n\n14:5. And when he had possession of the kingdom, he put his servants to\ndeath that had slain the king, his father.\n\n14:6. But the children of the murderers he did not put to death,\naccording to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses,\nwherein the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not be put to\ndeath for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for\nthe fathers: but every man shall die for his own sin.\n\n14:7. He slew of Edom in the valley of the Saltpits, ten thousand men,\nand took the rock by war, and called the name thereof Jectehel, unto\nthis day.\n\n14:8. Then Amasias sent messengers to Joas, son of Joachaz, son of\nJehu, king of Israel, saying: Come, let us see one another.\n\nLet us see one another. . .This was a challenge to fight.\n\n14:9. And Joas, king of Israel, sent again to Amasias, king of Juda,\nsaying: A thistle of Libanus sent to a cedar tree, which is in Libanus,\nsaying: Give thy daughter to my son to wife. And the beasts of the\nforest, that are in Libanus, passed, and trod down the thistle.\n\n14:10. Thou hast beaten and prevailed over Edom, and thy heart hath\nlifted thee up; be content with this glory, and sit at home; why\nprovokest thou evil, that thou shouldst fall, and Juda with thee?\n\n14:11. But Amasias did not rest satisfied. So Joas, king of Israel,\nwent up; and he and Amasias, king of Juda, saw one another in\nBethsames, a town in Juda.\n\n14:12. And Juda was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every\nman to their dwellings.\n\n14:13. But Joas, king of Israel, took Amasias, king of Juda, the son of\nJoas, the son of Ochozias, in Bethsames, and brought him into\nJerusalem; and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem, from the gate of\nEphraim to the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits.\n\n14:14. And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that\nwere found in the house of the Lord, and in the king's treasures, and\nhostages, and returned to Samaria.\n\n14:15. But the rest of the acts of Joas, which he did, and his valour,\nwherewith he fought against Amasias, king of Juda, are they not written\nin the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?\n\n14:16. And Joas slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, with\nthe kings of Israel: and Jeroboam, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n14:17. And Amasias, the son of Joas, king of Juda, lived after the\ndeath of Joas, son of Joachaz, king of Israel, fifteen years.\n\n14:18. And the rest of the acts of Amasias, are they not written in the\nbook of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n14:19. Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled\nto Lachis. And they sent after him to Lachis, and killed him there.\n\n14:20. And they brought him away upon horses, and he was buried in\nJerusalem with his fathers, in the city of David.\n\n14:21. And all the people of Juda took Azarias, who was sixteen years\nold, and made him king instead of his father, Amasias.\n\n14:22. He built Elath, and restored it to Juda, after that the king\nslept with his fathers.\n\n14:23. In the fifteenth year of Amasias, son of Joas, king of Juda,\nreigned Jeroboam, the son of Joas, king of Israel, in Samaria, one and\nforty years:\n\n14:24. And he did that which is evil before the Lord. He departed not\nfrom all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to\nsin.\n\n14:25. He restored the borders of Israel from the entrance of Emath,\nunto the sea of the wilderness, according to the word of the Lord, the\nGod of Israel, which he spoke by his servant, Jonas, the son of Amathi,\nthe prophet, who was of Geth, which is in Opher.\n\nOpher. . .The tribe of Zabulon.\n\n14:26. For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was\nexceedingly bitter, and that they were consumed even to them that were\nshut up in prison, and the lowest persons, and that there was no one to\nhelp Israel.\n\n14:27. And the Lord did not say that he would blot out the name of\nIsrael from under heaven; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam,\nthe son of Joas.\n\n14:28. But the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and\nhis valour, wherewith he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Emath\nto Juda, in Israel, are they not written in the book of the words of\nthe days of the kings of Israel?\n\n14:29. And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel; and\nZacharias, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 15\n\n\nThe reign of Azarias, and Joatham in Juda: and of Zacharias, Sellum,\nManahem, Phaceia, and Phacee in Israel.\n\n15:1. In the seven and twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel,\nreigned Azarias, son of Amasias, king of Juda.\n\nAzarias. . .Otherwise called Ozias.\n\n15:2. He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned\ntwo and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia,\nof Jerusalem.\n\n15:3. And he did that which was pleasing before the Lord, according to\nall that his father, Amasias, had done.\n\n15:4. But the high places he did not destroy, for the people\nsacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places.\n\n15:5. And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper unto the day\nof his death, and he dwelt in a free house apart: but Joatham, the\nking's son, governed the palace, and judged the people of the land.\n\nA leper. . .In punishment of his usurping the priestly function. 2 Par.\n26.\n\n15:6. And the rest of the acts of Azarias, and all that he did, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nJuda?\n\n15:7. And Azarias slept with his fathers: and they buried him with his\nancestors in the city of David, and Joatham, his son, reigned in his\nstead.\n\n15:8. In the eight and thirtieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned\nZacharias, son of Jeroboam, over Israel, in Samaria, six months:\n\n15:9. And he did that which is evil before the Lord, as his fathers had\ndone: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who\nmade Israel to sin.\n\n15:10. And Sellum, the son of Jabes, conspired against him: and struck\nhim publicly, and killed him, and reigned in his place.\n\n15:11. Now the rest of the acts of Zacharias, are they not written in\nthe book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?\n\n15:12. This was the word of the Lord, which he spoke to Jehu, saying:\nThy children, to the fourth generation, shall sit upon the throne of\nIsrael. And so it came to pass.\n\n15:13. Sellum, the son of Jabes, began to reign in the nine and\nthirtieth year of Azarias, king of Juda: and reigned one month in\nSamaria.\n\n15:14. And Manahem, the son of Gadi, went up from Thersa, and he came\ninto Samaria, and struck Sellum, the son of Jabes, in Samaria, and slew\nhim, and reigned in his stead.\n\n15:15. And the rest of the acts of Sellum, and his conspiracy which he\nmade, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the\nkings of Israel?\n\n15:16. Then Manahem destroyed Thapsa and all that were in it, and the\nborders thereof from Thersa, because they would not open to him: and he\nslew all the women thereof that were with child, and ripped them up.\n\n15:17. In the nine and thirtieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned\nManahem, son of Gadi, over Israel, ten years, in Samaria.\n\n15:18. And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not\nfrom the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin,\nall his days.\n\n15:19. And Phul, king of the Assyrians, came into the land, and Manahem\ngave Phul a thousand talents of silver to aid him and to establish him\nin the kingdom.\n\n15:20. And Manahem laid a tax upon Israel, on all that were mighty and\nrich, to give the king of the Assyrians, each man fifty sicles of\nsilver: so the king of the Assyrians turned back, and did not stay in\nthe land.\n\n15:21. And the rest of the acts of Manahem, and all that he did, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n15:22. And Manahem slept with his fathers: and Phaceia, his son,\nreigned in his stead.\n\n15:23. In the fiftieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned Phaceia,\nthe son of Manahem, over Israel, in Samaria, two years.\n\n15:24. And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not\nfrom the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.\n\n15:25. And Phacee the son of Romelia, his captain, conspired against\nhim, and smote him in Samaria, in the tower of the king's house, near\nArgob, and near Arie, and with him fifty men of the sons of the\nGalaadites, and he slew him, and reigned in his stead.\n\n15:26. And the rest of the acts of Phaceia, and all that he did, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n15:27. In the two and fiftieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned\nPhacee, the son of Romelia, over Israel, in Samaria, twenty years.\n\n15:28. And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not\nfrom the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.\n\n15:29. In the days of Phacee, king of Israel, came Theglathphalasar,\nking of Assyria, and took Aion, and Abel Domum Maacha, and Janoe, and\nCedes, and Asor, and Galaad, and Galilee, and all the land of\nNephthali: and carried them captives into Assyria.\n\n15:30. Now Osee, son of Ela, conspired, and formed a plot against\nPhacee, the son of Romelia, and struck him, and slew him: and reigned\nin his stead in the twentieth year of Joatham, the son of Ozias.\n\nIn the twentieth year of Joatham. . .That is, in the twentieth year,\nfrom the beginning of Joatham's reign. The sacred writer chooses rather\nto follow here this date than to speak of the years of Achaz, who had\nnot yet been mentioned.\n\n15:31. But the rest of the acts of Phacee, and all that he did, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n15:32. In the second year of Phacee, the son of Romelia king of Israel,\nreigned Joatham, son of Ozias, king of Juda.\n\n15:33. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa,\nthe daughter of Sadoc.\n\n15:34. And he did that which was right before the Lord: according to\nall that his father Ozias had done, so did he.\n\n15:35. But the high places he took not away: the people still\nsacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places: he built the highest\ngate of the house of the Lord.\n\n15:36. But the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all that he did, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nJuda?\n\n15:37. In those days the Lord began to send into Juda, Rasin king of\nSyria, and Phacee the son of Romelia.\n\n15:38. And Joatham slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in\nthe city of David, his father; and Achaz, his son, reigned in his\nstead.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 16\n\n\nThe wicked reign of Achaz: the kings of Syria and Israel war against\nhim: he hireth the king of the Assyrians to assist him: he causeth an\naltar to be made after the pattern of that of Damascus.\n\n16:1. In the seventeenth year of Phacee, the son of Romelia reigned\nAchaz, the son of Joatham, king of Juda.\n\n16:2. Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned\nsixteen years in Jerusalem: he did not that which was pleasing in the\nsight of the Lord, his God, as David, his father.\n\n16:3. But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel: moreover, he\nconsecrated also his son, making him pass through the fire, according\nto the idols of the nations which the Lord destroyed before the\nchildren of Israel.\n\n16:4. He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on\nthe hills, and under every green tree.\n\n16:5. Then Rasin, king of Syria, and Phacee, son of Romelia, king of\nIsrael, came up to Jerusalem to fight: and they besieged Achaz, but\nwere not able to overcome him.\n\n16:6. At that time Rasin, king of Syria, restored Aila to Syria, and\ndrove the men of Juda out of Aila: and the Edomites came into Aila, and\ndwelt there unto this day.\n\n16:7. And Achaz sent messengers to Theglathphalasar, king of the\nAssyrians, saying: I am thy servant, and thy son: come up, and save me\nout of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king\nof Israel, who are risen up together against me.\n\n16:8. And when he had gathered together the silver and gold that could\nbe found in the house of the Lord, and in the king's treasures, he sent\nit for a present to the king of the Assyrians.\n\n16:9. And he agreed to his desire: for the king of the Assyrians went\nup against Damascus, and laid it waste: and he carried away the\ninhabitants thereof to Cyrene; but Rasin he slew.\n\n16:10. And king Achaz went to Damascus to meet Theglathphalasar, king\nof the Assyrians, and when he had seen the altar of Damascus, king\nAchaz sent to Urias, the priest, a pattern of it, and its likeness,\naccording to all the work thereof.\n\n16:11. And Urias, the priest, built an altar according to all that king\nAchaz had commanded from Damascus so did Urias, the priest, until king\nAchaz came from Damascus.\n\n16:12. And when the king was come from Damascus, he saw the altar and\nworshipped it: and went up and offered holocausts, and his own\nsacrifice;\n\n16:13. And he offered libations, and poured the blood of the peace\nofferings, which he had offered, upon the altar.\n\n16:14. But the altar of brass that was before the Lord, he removed from\nthe face of the temple, and from the place of the altar, and from the\nplace of the temple of the Lord: and he set it at the side of the altar\ntowards the north.\n\n16:15. And king Achaz commanded Urias, the priest, saying: Upon the\ngreat altar offer the morning holocaust, and the evening sacrifice, and\nthe king's holocaust, and his sacrifice, and the holocaust of the whole\npeople of the land, and their sacrifices, and their libations: and all\nthe blood of the holocaust, and all the blood of the victim, thou shalt\npour out upon it: but the altar of brass shall be ready at my pleasure.\n\n16:16. So Urias, the priest, did according to all that king Achaz had\ncommanded him.\n\n16:17. And king Achaz took away the graven bases, and the laver that\nwas upon them: and he took down the sea from the brazen oxen that held\nit up, and put it upon a pavement of stone.\n\n16:18. The Musach also for the sabbath, which he had built in the\ntemple, and the king's entry from without, he turned into the temple of\nthe Lord, because of the king of the Assyrians.\n\nMusach. . .The covert, or pavilion, or tribune, for the king.\n\n16:19. Now the rest of the acts of Achaz which he did, are they not\nwritten in the book of the words of the of the days of the kings of\nJuda?\n\n16:20. And Achaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in\nthe city of David, and Ezechias, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 17\n\n\nThe reign of Osee. The Israelites for their sins are carried into\ncaptivity: other inhabitants are sent to Samaria, who make a mixture of\nreligion.\n\n17:1. In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda, Osee the son of Ela\nreigned in Samaria, over Israel, nine years.\n\nIn the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda. . .He began to reign before:\nbut was not in quiet possession of the kingdom to the twelfth year of\nAchaz.\n\n17:2. And he did evil before the Lord: but not as the kings of Israel\nthat had been before him.\n\n17:3. Against him came up Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians; and Osee\nbecame his servant, and paid him tribute.\n\n17:4. And when the king of the Assyrians found that Osee, endeavouring\nto rebel, had sent messengers to Sua, the king of Egypt, that he might\nnot pay tribute to the king of the Assyrians, as he had done every\nyear, he besieged him, bound him, and cast him into prison.\n\n17:5. And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he\nbesieged it three years.\n\n17:6. And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of the Assyrians took\nSamaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria: and he placed them in\nHala, and Habor, by the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.\n\n17:7. For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the\nLord, their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under\nthe hand of Pharao, king of Egypt; and they worshipped strange gods.\n\n17:8. And they walked according to the way of the nations which the\nLord had destroyed in the sight of the children of Israel, and of the\nkings of Israel: because they had done in like manner.\n\n17:9. And the children of Israel offended the Lord, their God, with\nthings that were not right: and built them high places in all their\ncities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.\n\n17:10. And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and\nunder every shady tree:\n\n17:11. And they burnt incense there upon altars, after the manner of\nthe nations which the Lord had removed from their face: and they did\nwicked things, provoking the Lord.\n\n17:12. And they worshipped abominations, concerning which the Lord had\ncommanded them that they should not do this thing.\n\n17:13. And the Lord testified to them in Israel, and in Juda, by the\nhand of all the prophets and seers, saying: Return from your wicked\nways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according to all the law\nwhich I commanded your fathers: and as I have sent to you in the hand\nof my servants the prophets.\n\n17:14. And they hearkened not, but hardened their necks like to the\nneck of their fathers, who would not obey the Lord, their God.\n\n17:15. And they rejected his ordinances, and the covenant that he made\nwith their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against\nthem: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed\nthe nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had\ncommanded them that they should not do as they did.\n\n17:16. And they forsook all the precepts of the Lord, their God: and\nmade to themselves two molten calves, and groves, and adored all the\nhost of heaven: and they served Baal,\n\n17:17. And consecrated their sons, and their daughters, through fire:\nand they gave themselves to divinations, and soothsayings: and they\ndelivered themselves up to do evil before the Lord, to provoke him.\n\n17:18. And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from\nhis sight, and there remained only the tribe of Juda.\n\n17:19. But neither did Juda itself keep the commandments of the Lord,\ntheir God: but they walked in the errors of Israel, which they had\nwrought.\n\n17:20. And the Lord cast off all the seed of Israel, and afflicted\nthem, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, till he cast them\naway from his face:\n\n17:21. Even from that time, when Israel was rent from the house of\nDavid, and made Jeroboam, son of Nabat, their king: for Jeroboam\nseparated Israel from the Lord, and made them commit a great sin.\n\n17:22. And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam,\nwhich he had done: and they departed not from them,\n\n17:23. Till the Lord removed Israel from his face, as he had spoken in\nthe hand of all his servants, the prophets: and Israel was carried away\nout of their land to Assyria, unto this day.\n\n17:24. And the king of the Assyrians brought people from Babylon, and\nfrom Cutha, and from Avah, and from Emath, and from Sepharvaim: and\nplaced them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel:\nand they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.\n\n17:25. And when they began to dwell there, they feared not the Lord:\nand the Lord sent lions among them, which killed them.\n\n17:26. And it was told the king of the Assyrians, and it was said: The\nnations which thou hast removed, and made to dwell in the cities of\nSamaria, know not the ordinances of the God of the land: and the Lord\nhath sent lions among them: and behold they kill them, because they\nknow not the manner of the God of the land.\n\n17:27. And the king of the Assyrians commanded, saying: Carry thither\none of the priests whom you brought from thence captive, and let him\ngo, and dwell with them: and let him teach them the ordinances of the\nGod of the land.\n\n17:28. So one of the priests, who had been carried away captive from\nSamaria, came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should\nworship the Lord.\n\n17:29. And every nation made gods of their own and put them in the\ntemples of the high places, which the Samaritans had made, every nation\nin their cities where they dwelt.\n\n17:30. For the men of Babylon made Sochothbenoth: and the Cuthites made\nNergel: and the men of Emath made Asima.\n\n17:31. And the Hevites made Nebahaz, and Tharthac. And they that were\nof Sepharvaim burnt their children in fire, to Adramelech and\nAnamelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.\n\n17:32. And nevertheless they worshipped the Lord. And they made to\nthemselves, of the lowest of the people, priests of the high places,\nand they placed them in the temples of the high places.\n\n17:33. And when they worshipped the Lord, they served also their own\ngods, according to the custom of the nations out of which they were\nbrought to Samaria:\n\n17:34. Unto this day they follow the old manner: they fear not the\nLord, neither do they keep his ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and\nthe commandment, which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom\nhe surnamed Israel:\n\n17:35. With whom he made a covenant, and charged them, saying: You\nshall not fear strange gods, nor shall you adore them, nor worship\nthem, nor sacrifice to them.\n\n17:36. But the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of\nEgypt, with great power, and a stretched out arm, him shall you fear,\nand him shall you adore, and to him shall you sacrifice.\n\n17:37. And the ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the commandment,\nwhich he wrote for you, you shall observe to do them always: and you\nshall not fear strange gods.\n\n17:38. And the covenant that he made with you, you shall not forget:\nneither shall ye worship strange Gods,\n\n17:39. But fear the Lord, your God, and he shall deliver you out of the\nhand of all your enemies.\n\n17:40. But they did not hearken to them, but did according to their old\ncustom.\n\n17:41. So these nations feared the Lord, but nevertheless served also\ntheir idols: their children also, and grandchildren, as their fathers\ndid, so do they unto this day.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 18\n\n\nThe reign of Ezechias: he abolisheth idolatry and prospereth.\nSennacherib cometh up against him: Rabsaces soliciteth the people to\nrevolt; and blasphemeth the Lord.\n\n18:1. In the third year of Osee, the son of Ela, king of Israel,\nreigned Ezechias, the son of Achaz, king of Juda.\n\n18:2. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he\nreigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nAbi, the daughter of Zacharias.\n\n18:3. And he did that which was good before the Lord, according to all\nthat David, his father, had done\n\n18:4. He destroyed the high places, and broke the statues in pieces,\nand cut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had\nmade: for till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it:\nand he called its name Nohestan.\n\nAnd he called its name Noheston. . .That is, their brass; or a little\nbrass. So he called it in contempt, because they had made an idol of\nit.\n\n18:5. He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel: so that after him\nthere was none like him among all the kings of Juda, nor any of them\nthat were before him:\n\n18:6. And he stuck to the Lord, and departed not from his steps, but\nkept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.\n\n18:7. Wherefore the Lord also was with him, and in all things, to which\nhe went forth, he behaved himself wisely. And he rebelled against the\nking of the Assyrians, and served him not.\n\n18:8. He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza, and all their borders,\nfrom the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.\n\n18:9. In the fourth year of king Ezechias, which was the seventh year\nof Osee, the son of Ela, king of Israel, Salmanasar, king of the\nAssyrians, came up to Samaria, and besieged it,\n\n18:10. And took it. For after three years, in the sixth year of\nEzechias, that is, in the ninth year of Osee, king of Israel, Samaria\nwas taken:\n\n18:11. And the king of the Assyrians carried away Israel into Assyria,\nand placed them in Hala, and in Habor, by the rivers of Gozan, in the\ncities of the Medes.\n\n18:12. Because they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, their God,\nbut transgressed his covenant: all that Moses, the servant of the Lord,\ncommanded, they would not hear, nor do.\n\n18:13. In the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, Sennacherib, king of\nthe Assyrians, came up against the fenced cities of Juda, and took\nthem.\n\n18:14. Then Ezechias, king of Juda, sent messengers to the king of the\nAssyrians, to Lachis, saying: I have offended, depart from me: and all\nthat thou shalt put upon me, I will bear. And the king of the Assyrians\nput a tax upon Ezechias, king of Juda, of three hundred talents of\nsilver, and thirty talents of gold.\n\n18:15. And Ezechias gave all the silver that was found in the house of\nthe Lord, and in the king's treasures.\n\n18:16. At that time Ezechias broke the doors of the temple of the Lord,\nand the plates of gold which he had fastened on them, and gave them to\nthe king of the Assyrians.\n\n18:17. And the king of the Assyrians sent Tharthan, and Rabsaris, and\nRabsaces, from Lachis, to king Ezechias, with a strong army, to\nJerusalem: and they went up and came to Jerusalem, and they stood by\nthe conduit of the upper pool, which is in the way of the fuller's\nfield.\n\n18:18. And they called for the king: and there went out to them\nEliacim, the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and Sobna, the\nscribe, and Joahe, the son of Asaph, the recorder.\n\n18:19. And Rabsaces said to them: Speak to Ezechias: Thus saith the\ngreat king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence, wherein\nthou trustest?\n\n18:20. Perhaps thou hast taken counsel, to prepare thyself for battle.\nOn whom dost thou trust, that thou darest to rebel?\n\n18:21. Dost thou trust in Egypt a staff of a broken reed, upon which if\na man lean, it will break and go into his hand, and pierce it? so is\nPharao, king of Egypt, to all that trust in him.\n\n18:22. But if you say to me: We trust in the Lord, our God: is it not\nhe, whose high places and altars Ezechias hath taken away: and hath\ncommanded Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship before this altar in\nJerusalem?\n\n18:23. Now therefore come over to my master, the king of the Assyrians,\nand I will give you two thousand horses, and see whether you be able to\nhave riders for them.\n\n18:24. And how can you stand against one lord of the least of my\nmaster's servants? Dost thou trust in Egypt for chariots and for\nhorsemen?\n\n18:25. Is it without the will of the Lord that I am come up to this\nplace to destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up to this land, and\ndestroy it.\n\n18:26. Then Eliacim, the son of Helcias, and Sobna, and Joahe, said to\nRabsaces: We pray thee, speak to us, thy servants, in Syriac: for we\nunderstand that tongue: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in\nthe hearing of the people that are upon the wall.\n\n18:27. And Rabsaces answered them, saying: Hath my master sent me to\nthy master, and to thee, to speak these words, and not rather to the\nmen that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink\ntheir urine with you?\n\n18:28. Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a loud voice in the\nJews' language, and said: Hear the word of the great king, the king of\nthe Assyrians.\n\n18:29. Thus saith the king: Let not Ezechias deceive you: for he shall\nnot be able to deliver you out of my hand.\n\n18:30. Neither let him make you trust in the Lord, saying: The Lord\nwill surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand\nof the king of the Assyrians.\n\n18:31. Do not hearken to Ezechias. For thus saith the king of the\nAssyrians: Do with me that which is for your advantage, and come out to\nme: and every man of you shall eat of his own vineyard, and of his own\nfig tree: and you shall drink water of your own cisterns,\n\n18:32. Till I come, and take you away, to a land, like to your own\nland, a fruitful land, and plentiful in wine, a land of bread and\nvineyards, a land of olives, and oil, and honey, and you shall live,\nand not die. Hearken not to Ezechias, who deceiveth you, saying: The\nLord will deliver us.\n\n18:33. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land from\nthe hand of the king of Assyria?\n\n18:34. Where is the god of Emath, and of Arphad? where is the god of\nSepharvaim, of Ana, and of Ava? have they delivered Samaria out of my\nhand?\n\n18:35. Who are they among all the gods of the nations that have\ndelivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver\nJerusalem out of my hand?\n\n18:36. But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word:\nfor they had received commandment from the king that they should not\nanswer him.\n\n18:37. And Eliacim, the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and\nSobna, the scribe, and Joahe, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to\nEzechias, with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 19\n\n\nEzechias is assured of God's help by Isaias the prophet. The king of\nthe Assyrians still threateneth and blasphemeth. Ezechias prayeth, and\nGod promiseth to protect Jerusalem. An angel destroyeth the army of the\nAssyrians, their king returneth to Nineve, and is slain by his two\nsons.\n\n19:1. And when king Ezechias heard these words, he rent his garments,\nand covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the\nLord.\n\n19:2. And he sent Eliacim, who was over the house, and Sobna, the\nscribe, and the ancients of the priests, covered with sackcloths, to\nIsaias, the prophet, the son of Amos.\n\n19:3. And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias: This day is a day of\ntribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: the children are come to\nthe birth, and the woman in travail hath not strength.\n\n19:4. It may be the Lord, thy God, will hear all the words of Rabsaces,\nwhom the king of the Assyrians, his master, hath sent to reproach the\nliving God, and to reprove with words, which the Lord, thy God, hath\nheard: and do thou offer prayer for the remnants that are found.\n\n19:5. So the servants of king Ezechias came to Isaias.\n\n19:6. And Isaias said to them: Thus shall you say to your master: Thus\nsaith the Lord: Be not afraid for the words which thou hast heard, with\nwhich the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me.\n\n19:7. Behold I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a\nmessage, and shall return into his own country, and I will make him\nfall by the sword in his own country.\n\n19:8. And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians\nbesieging Lobna: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachis.\n\n19:9. And when he heard of Tharaca, king of Ethiopia: Behold, he is\ncome out to fight with thee: and was going against him, he sent\nmessengers to Ezechias, saying:\n\n19:10. Thus shall you say to Ezechias, king of Juda: Let not thy God\ndeceive thee, in whom thou trustest: and do not say: Jerusalem shall\nnot be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.\n\n19:11. Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of the Assyrians have\ndone to all countries, how they have laid them waste: and canst thou\nalone be delivered?\n\n19:12. Have the gods of the nations delivered any of them, whom my\nfathers have destroyed, to wit, Gozan, and Haran, and Reseph, and the\nchildren of Eden, that were in Thelassar?\n\n19:13. Where is the king of Emath, and the king of Arphad, and the king\nof the city of Sepharvaim, and of Ana, and of Ava?\n\n19:14. And when Ezechias had received the letter of the hand of the\nmessengers, and had read it, he went up to the house of the Lord, and\nspread it before the Lord,\n\n19:15. And he prayed in his sight, saying: O Lord God of Israel, who\nsittest upon the cherubims, thou alone art the God of all the kings of\nthe earth: thou madest heaven and earth:\n\n19:16. Incline thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes and see: and\nhear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to upbraid unto us the\nliving God.\n\n19:17. Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have destroyed\nnations, and the lands of them all.\n\n19:18. And they have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not\ngods, but the work of men's hands, of wood and stone, and they\ndestroyed them.\n\n19:19. Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all\nthe kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, the only\nGod.\n\n19:20. And Isaias, the son of Amos, sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus\nsaith the Lord, the God of Israel: I have heard the prayer thou hast\nmade to me concerning Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians.\n\n19:21. This is the word that the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin,\nthe daughter of Sion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn:\nthe daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged her head behind thy back.\n\n19:22. Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed?\nagainst whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on\nhigh? against the holy one of Israel.\n\n19:23. By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and\nhast said: With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the\nheight of the mountains, to the top of Libanus, and have cut down its\ntall cedars, and its choice fir trees. And I have entered into the\nfurthest parts thereof, and the forest of its Carmel.\n\nCarmel. . .A pleasant fruitful hill in the forest. These expressions are\nfigurative, signifying under the names of mountains and forests, the\nkings and provinces whom the Assyrians had triumphed over.\n\n19:24. I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried\nup with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.\n\n19:25. Hast thou not heard what I have done from the beginning? from\nthe days of old I have formed it, and now I have brought it to effect:\nthat fenced cities of fighting men should be turned to heaps of ruins:\n\nI have formed it, etc. . .All thy exploits, in which thou takest pride,\nare no more than what I have decreed; and are not to be ascribed to thy\nwisdom or strength, but to my will and ordinance: who have given to\nthee to take and destroy so many fenced cities, and to carry terror\nwherever thou comest.--Ibid. Heaps of ruin. . .Literally ruin of the\nhills.\n\n19:26. And the inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled and\nwere confounded, they became like the grass of the field, and the green\nherb on the tops of houses, which withered before it came to maturity.\n\n19:27. Thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy way\nI knew before, and thy rage against me.\n\n19:28. Thou hast been mad against me, and thy pride hath come up to my\nears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy\nlips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.\n\n19:29. And to thee, O Ezechias, this shall be a sign: Eat this year\nwhat thou shalt find: and in the second year, such things as spring of\nthemselves: but in the third year sow and reap: plant vineyards, and\neat the fruit of them.\n\n19:30. And whatsoever shall be left of the house of Juda, shall take\nroot downward, and bear fruit upward.\n\n19:31. For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and that which\nshall be saved out of mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall\ndo this.\n\n19:32. Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the\nAssyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into\nit, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.\n\n19:33. By the way that he came he shall return: and into this city he\nshall not come, saith the Lord.\n\n19:34. And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake,\nand for David, my servant's sake.\n\n19:35. And it came to pass that night, that an angel of the Lord came,\nand slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five\nthousand. And when he arose early in the morning, he saw all the bodies\nof the dead.\n\n19:36. And Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, departing, went away,\nand he returned and abode in Ninive.\n\n19:37. And as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch, his god,\nAdramelech and Sarasar, his sons, slew him with the sword, and they\nfled into the land of the Armenians, and Asarhaddon, his son, reigned\nin his stead.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 20\n\n\nEzechias being sick, is told by Isaias that he shall die; but praying\nto God, he obtaineth longer life, and in confirmation thereof receiveth\na sign by the sun's returning back. He sheweth all his treasures to the\nambassadors of the king of Babylon: Isaias reproving him for it,\nforetelleth the Babylonish captivity.\n\n20:1. In those days Ezechias was sick unto death: and Isaias, the son\nof Amos, the prophet, came and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God:\nGive charge concerning thy house, for thou shalt die, and not llve.\n\n20:2. And he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord,\nsaying:\n\n20:3. I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in\ntruth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is pleasing\nbefore thee. And Ezechias wept with much weeping.\n\n20:4. And before Isaias was gone out of the middle of the court, the\nword of the Lord came to him, saying:\n\n20:5. Go back, and tell Ezechias, the captain of my people: Thus saith\nthe Lord, the God of David, thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I\nhave seen thy tears: and behold I have healed thee: on the third day\nthou shalt go up to the temple of the Lord.\n\n20:6. And I will add to thy days fifteen years: and I will deliver thee\nand this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will\nprotect this city for my own sake, and for David, my servant's sake.\n\n20:7. And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of figs. And when they had\nbrought it, and laid it upon his boil, he was healed.\n\n20:8. And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall be the sign that the\nLord will heal me, and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord the\nthird day?\n\n20:9. And Isaias said to him: This shall be the sign from the Lord,\nthat the Lord will do the word which he hath spoken: Wilt thou that the\nshadow go forward ten lines, or that it go back so many degrees?\n\n20:10. And Ezechias said: It is an easy matter for the shadow to go\nforward ten lines: and I do not desire that this be done, but let it\nreturn back ten degrees.\n\n20:11. And Isaias, the prophet, called upon the Lord, and he brought\nthe shadow ten degrees backwards by the lines, by which it had already\ngone down on the dial of Achaz.\n\n20:12. At that time Berodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of the\nBabylonians, sent letters and presents to Ezechias: for he had heard\nthat Ezechias had been sick.\n\n20:13. And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming, and he shewed them the\nhouse of his aromatical spices, and the gold, and the silver, and\ndivers precious odours, and ointments, and the house of his vessels,\nand all that he had in his treasures. There was nothing in his house,\nnor in all his dominions, that Ezechias shewed them not.\n\n20:14. And Isaias, the prophet, came to king Ezechias, and said to him:\nWhat said these men? or from whence came they to thee? And Ezechias\nsaid to him: From a far country, they came to me out of Babylon.\n\n20:15. And he said: What did they see in thy house? Ezechias said:\nThey saw all the things that are in my house: There is nothing among my\ntreasures that I have not shewed them.\n\n20:16. And Isaias said to Ezechias: Hear the word of the Lord.\n\n20:17. Behold the days shall come, that all that is in thy house, and\nthat thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried\ninto Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.\n\n20:18. And of thy sons also that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt\nbeget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of\nthe king of Babylon.\n\n20:19. Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the Lord, which thou hast\nspoken, is good: let peace and truth be in my days.\n\n20:20. And the rest of the acts of Ezechias, and all his might, and how\nhe made a pool, and a conduit, and brought waters into the city, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nJuda?\n\n20:21. And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and Manasses, his son\nreigned in his stead.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 21\n\n\nThe wickedness of Manasses: God's threats by his prophets. His wicked\nson Amon succeedeth him, and is slain by his servants.\n\n21:1. Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nHaphsiba.\n\n21:2. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the idols\nof the nations, which the Lord destroyed from before the face of the\nchildren of Israel.\n\n21:3. And he turned, and built up the high places, which Ezechias, his\nfather, had destroyed: and he set up altars to Baal, and made groves,\nas Achab, the king of Israel, had done: and he adored all the host of\nheaven, and served them.\n\n21:4. And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord\nsaid: In Jerusalem I will put my name.\n\n21:5. And he built altars for all the host of heaven, in the two courts\nof the temple of the Lord.\n\n21:6. And he made his son pass through fire: and he used divinations,\nand observed omens, and appointed pythons, and multiplied soothsayers,\nto do evil before the Lord, and to provoke him.\n\nPythons. . .That is, diviners by spirits.\n\n21:7. He set also an idol of the grove, which he had made, in the\ntemple of the Lord: concerning which the Lord said to David, and to\nSolomon his son: In this temple, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen\nout of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.\n\n21:8. And I will no more make the feet of Israel to be moved out of the\nland, which I gave to their fathers: only if they will observe to do\nall that I have commanded them, according to the law which my servant\nMoses commanded them.\n\n21:9. But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses, to do evil\nmore than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of\nIsrael.\n\n21:10. And the Lord spoke in the hand of his servants, the prophets,\nsaying:\n\n21:11. Because Manasses, king of Juda, hath done these most wicked\nabominations, beyond all that the Amorrhites did before him, and hath\nmade Juda also to sin with his filthy doings:\n\n21:12. Therefore thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will\nbring on evils upon Jerusalem and Juda: that whosoever shall hear of\nthem, both his ears shall tingle.\n\n21:13. And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the\nweight of the house of Achab: and I will efface Jerusalem, as writings\ntables are wont to be effaced, and I will erase and turn it, and draw\nthe pencil often over the face thereof.\n\n21:14. And I will leave the remnants of my inheritance, and will\ndeliver them into the hands of their enemies: and they shall become a\nprey, and a spoil to all their enemies.\n\n21:15. Because they have done evil before me, and have continued to\nprovoke me, from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even\nunto this day.\n\n21:16. Moreover, Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he\nfilled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made\nJuda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.\n\n21:17. Now the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that he did, and\nhis sin, which he sinned, are they not written in the book of the words\nof the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n21:18. And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the\ngarden of his own house, in the garden of Oza: and Amon, his son,\nreigned in his stead.\n\n21:19. Two and twenty years old was Amon when he began to reign, and he\nreigned two years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Messalemeth,\nthe daughter of Harus, of Jeteba.\n\n21:20. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses, his\nfather, had done.\n\n21:21. And he walked in all the way in which his father had walked: and\nhe served the abominations which his father had served, and he adored\nthem.\n\n21:22. And forsook the Lord, the God of his fathers, and walked not in\nthe way of the Lord.\n\n21:23. And his servants plotted against him, and slew the king in his\nown house.\n\n21:24. But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired\nagainst king Amon: and made Josias, his son, their king in his stead.\n\n21:25. But the rest of the acts of Amon, which he did, are they not\nwritten in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n21:26. And they buried him in his sepulchre, in the garden of Oza: and\nhis son, Josias, reigned in his stead.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 22\n\n\nJosias repaireth the temple. The book of the law is found, upon which\nthey consult the Lord, and are told that great evils shall fall upon\nthem, but not in the time of Josias.\n\n22:1. Josias was eight years old when he began to reign: he reigned one\nand thirty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Idida, the\ndaughter of Hadaia, of Besecath.\n\n22:2. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and\nwalked in all the ways of David, his father: he turned not aside to the\nright hand, or to the left.\n\n22:3. And in the eighteenth year of king Josias, the king sent Saphan,\nthe son of Assia, the son of Messulam, the scribe of the temple of the\nLord, saying to him:\n\n22:4. Go to Helcias, the high priest, that the money may be put\ntogether which is brought into the temple of the Lord, which the\ndoorkeepers of the temple have gathered of the people.\n\n22:5. And let it be given to the workmen by the overseers of the house\nof the Lord: and let them distribute it to those that work in the\ntemple of the Lord, to repair the temple:\n\n22:6. That is, to carpenters and masons, and to such as mend breaches:\nand that timber may be bought, and stones out of the quarries, to\nrepair the temple of the Lord.\n\n22:7. But let there be no reckoning made with them of the money which\nthey receive, but let them have it in their power, and in their trust.\n\n22:8. And Helcias, the high priest, said to Saphan, the scribe: I have\nfound the book of the law in the house of the Lord: and Helcias gave\nthe book to Saphan, and he read it.\n\nThe book of the law. . .That is, Deuteronomy.\n\n22:9. And Saphan, the scribe, came to the king, and brought him word\nagain concerning that which he had commanded, and said: Thy servants\nhave gathered together the money that was found in the house of the\nLord: and they have given it to be distributed to the workmen, by the\noverseers of the works of the temple of the Lord.\n\n22:10. And Saphan, the scribe, told the king, saying: Helcias, the\npriest, hath delivered to me a book. And when Saphan had read it before\nthe king,\n\n22:11. And the king had heard the words of the law of the Lord, he rent\nhis garments.\n\n22:12. And he commanded Helcias, the priest, and Ahicam, the son of\nSaphan, and Achobor, the son of Micha, and Saphan, the scribe, and\nAsaia, the king's servant, saying:\n\n22:13. Go and consult the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all\nJuda, concerning the words of this book which is found: for the great\nwrath of the Lord is kindled against us, because our fathers have not\nhearkened to the words of this book, to do all that is written for us.\n\n22:14. So Helcias, the priest, and Ahicam, and Achobor, and Sapham, and\nAsaia, went to Holda, the prophetess, the wife of Sellum, the son of\nThecua, the son of Araas, keeper of the wardrobe, who dwelt in\nJerusalem, in the Second: and they spoke to her.\n\nThe Second. . .A street, or part of the city, so called; in Hebrew,\nMassem.\n\n22:15. And she said to them: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel:\nTell the man that sent you to me:\n\n22:16. Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring evils upon this place,\nand upon the inhabitants thereof, all the words of the law which the\nking of Juda hath read:\n\n22:17. Because they have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange\ngods, provoking me by all the works of their hands: therefore my\nindignation shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be\nquenched.\n\n22:18. But to the king of Juda, who sent you to consult the Lord, thus\nshall you say: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: for as much as\nthou hast heard the words of the book,\n\n22:19. And thy heart hath been moved to fear, and thou hast humbled\nthyself before the Lord, hearing the words against this place, and the\ninhabitants thereof, to wit, that they should become a wonder and a\ncurse: and thou hast rent thy garments, and wept before me; I also have\nheard thee; saith the Lord.\n\n22:20. Therefore I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be\ngathered to thy sepulchre in peace; that thy eyes may not see all the\nevils which I will bring upon this place.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 23\n\n\nJosias readeth the law before all the people. They promise to observe\nit. He abolisheth all idolatry, celebrateth the phase: is slain in\nbattle by the king of Egypt. The short reign of Joachaz, in whose place\nJoakim is made king.\n\n23:1. And they brought the king word again what she had said. And he\nsent: and all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem were assembled to him.\n\n23:2. And the king went up to the temple of the Lord, and all the men\nof Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, the priests,\nand the prophets, and all the people, both little and great: and in the\nhearing of them all he read all the words of the book of the covenant,\nwhich was found in the house of the Lord.\n\n23:3. And the king stood upon the step: and he made a covenant with the\nLord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his\ntestimonies, and his ceremonies, with all their heart, and with all\ntheir soul, and to perform the words of this covenant, which were\nwritten in that book: and the people agreed to the covenant.\n\nThe king stood upon the step. . .That is, his tribune, or tribunal, a\nmore eminent place, from whence he might be seen and heard by the\npeople.\n\n23:4. And the king commanded Helcias, the high priest, and the priests\nof the second order, and the doorkeepers, to cast out of the temple of\nthe Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the\ngrove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burnt them without\nJerusalem, in the valley of Cedron, and he carried the ashes of them to\nBethel.\n\n23:5. And he destroyed the soothsayers, whom the kings of Juda had\nappointed to sacrifice in the high places in the cities of Juda, and\nround about Jerusalem: them also that burnt incense to Baal, and to the\nsun, and to the moon, and to the twelve signs, and to all the host of\nheaven.\n\n23:6. And he caused the grove to be carried out from the house of the\nLord, without Jerusalem, to the valley of Cedron, and he burnt it\nthere, and reduced it to dust, and cast the dust upon the graves of the\ncommon people.\n\n23:7. He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in\nthe house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little\ndwellings for the grove.\n\n23:8. And he gathered together all the priests out of the cities of\nJuda: and he defiled the high places, where the priests offered\nsacrifice, from Gabaa to Bersabee: and he broke down the altars of the\ngates that were in the entering in of the gate of Josue, governor of\nthe city, which was on the left hand of the gate of the city.\n\n23:9. However, the priests of the high places came not up to the altar\nof the Lord, in Jerusalem: but only eat of the unleavened bread among\ntheir brethren.\n\n23:10. And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of\nEnnom: that no man should consecrate there his son, or his daughter,\nthrough fire, to Moloch.\n\n23:11. And he took away the horses which the kings of Juda had given to\nthe sun, at the entering in of the temple of the Lord, near the chamber\nof Nathanmelech the eunuch, who was in Pharurim: and he burnt the\nchariots of the sun with fire.\n\n23:12. And the altars that were upon the top of the upper chamber of\nAchaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses\nhad made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord, the king broke\ndown: and he ran from thence, and cast the ashes of them into the\ntorrent Cedron.\n\n23:13. The high places also that were at Jerusalem, on the right side\nof the Mount of Offence, which Solomon, king of Israel, had built to\nAstaroth, the idol of the Sidonians, and to Chamos, the scandal of\nMoab, and to Melchom, the abomination of the children of Ammon, the\nking defiled.\n\n23:14. And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and\nhe filled their places with the bones of dead men.\n\n23:15. Moreover, the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place,\nwhich Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made:\nboth the altar, and the high place, he broke down and burnt, and\nreduced to powder, and burnt the grove.\n\n23:16. And as Josias turned himself, he saw there the sepulchres that\nwere in the mount: and he sent and took the bones out of the\nsepulchres, and burnt them upon the altar, and defiled it according to\nthe word of the Lord, which the man of God spoke, who had foretold\nthese things.\n\n23:17. And he said: What is that monument which I see? And the men of\nthat city answered: It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came\nfrom Juda, and foretold these things which thou hast done upon the\naltar of Bethel.\n\n23:18. And he said: Let him alone, let no man move his bones. So his\nbones were left untouched with the bones of the prophet, that came out\nof Samaria.\n\n23:19. Moreover all the temples of the high places which were in the\ncities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the\nLord, Josias took away: and he did to them according to all the acts\nthat he had done in Bethel.\n\n23:20. And he slew all the priests of the high places, that were there,\nupon the altars; and he burnt men's bones upon them: and returned to\nJerusalem.\n\n23:21. And he commanded all the people, saying: Keep the Phase to the\nLord your God, according as it is written in the book of this covenant.\n\n23:22. Now there was no such a Phase kept from the days of the judges,\nwho judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of\nthe kings of Juda,\n\n23:23. As was this Phase, that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in\nthe eighteenth year of king Josias.\n\n23:24. Moreover the diviners by spirits, and soothsayers, and the\nfigures of idols, and the uncleannesses, and the abominations, that had\nbeen in the land of Juda and Jerusalem, Josias took away: that he might\nperform the words of the law, that were written in the book, which\nHelcias the priest had found in the temple of the Lord.\n\n23:25. There was no king before him like unto him, that returned to the\nLord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his\nstrength, according to all the law of Moses: neither after him did\nthere arise any like unto him.\n\n23:26. But yet the Lord turned not away from the wrath of his great\nindignation, wherewith his anger was kindled against Juda: because of\nthe provocations, wherewith Manasses had provoked him.\n\n23:27. And the Lord said: I will remove Juda also from before my face,\nas I have removed Israel: and I will cast off this city Jerusalem,\nwhich I chose, and the house, of which I said: My name shall be there.\n\n23:28. Now the rest of the acts of Josias, and all that he did, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nJuda?\n\n23:29. In his days Pharao Nechao, king of Egypt, went up against the\nking of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josias went to meet\nhim: and was slain at Mageddo, when he had seen him.\n\n23:30. And his servants carried him dead from Mageddo: and they brought\nhim to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people\nof the land took Joachaz, the son of Josias: and they anointed him, and\nmade him king in his father's stead.\n\n23:31. Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign,\nand he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nAmital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna.\n\n23:32. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his\nfathers had done.\n\n23:33. And Pharao Nechao bound him at Rebla, which is in the land of\nEmath, that he should not reign in Jerusalem: and he set a fine upon\nthe land, of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.\n\n23:34. And Pharao Nechao made Eliacim, the son of Josias, king in the\nroom of Josias his father: and turned his name to Joakim. And he took\nJoachaz away and carried him into Egypt, and he died there.\n\n23:35. And Joakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharao, after he had\ntaxed the land for every man, to contribute according to the\ncommandment of Pharao: and he exacted both the silver and the gold of\nthe people of the land, of every man according to his ability: to give\nto Pharao Nechao.\n\n23:36. Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and\nhe reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nZebida, the daughter of Phadaia, of Ruma.\n\n23:37. And he did evil before the Lord according to all that his\nfathers had done.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 24\n\n\nThe reign of Joakim, Joachin, and Sedecias.\n\n24:1. In his days Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon came up, and Joakim\nbecame his servant three years: then again he rebelled against him.\n\n24:2. And the Lord sent against him the rovers of the Chaldees, and the\nrovers of Syria, and the rovers of Moab, and the rovers of the children\nof Ammon: and he sent them against Juda, to destroy it, according to\nthe word of the Lord, which he had spoken by his servants, the\nprophets.\n\nThe Lord sent against him the rovers. . .Latrunculos. Bands or parties\nof men, who pillaged and plundered wherever they came.\n\n24:3. And this came by the word of the Lord against Juda, to remove\nthem from before him for all the sins of Manasses which he did;\n\n24:4. And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with\ninnocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.\n\n24:5. But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\nAnd Joakim slept with his fathers:\n\n24:6. And Joachin, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n24:7. And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his own\ncountry: for the king of Babylon had taken all that had belonged to the\nking of Egypt, from the river of Egypt, unto the river Euphrates.\n\n24:8. Joachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Nohesta,\nthe daughter of Elnathan, of Jerusalem.\n\n24:9. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his father\nhad done.\n\n24:10. At that time the servants of Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon,\ncame up against Jerusalem, and the city was surrounded with their\nforts.\n\n24:11. And Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to the city, with his\nservants, to assault it.\n\n24:12. And Joachin, king of Juda, went out to the king of Babylon, he,\nand his mother, and his servants, and his nobles, and his eunuchs: and\nthe king of Babylon received him in the eighth year of his reign.\n\n24:13. And he brought out from thence all the treasures of the house of\nthe Lord, and the treasures of the king's house: and he cut in pieces\nall the vessels of gold which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the\ntemple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.\n\n24:14. And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all\nthe valiant men of the army, to the number of ten thousand, into\ncaptivity: and every artificer and smith: and none were left, but the\npoor sort of the people of the land.\n\n24:15. And he carried away Joachin into Babylon, and the king's mother,\nand the king's wives, and his eunuchs: and the judges of the land he\ncarried into captivity, from Jerusalem, into Babylon.\n\n24:16. And all the strong men, seven thousand, and the artificers, and\nthe smiths, a thousand, all that were valiant men, and fit for war: and\nthe king of Babylon led them captives into Babylon.\n\n24:17. And he appointed Matthanias, his uncle, in his stead: and called\nhis name Sedecias.\n\n24:18. Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign,\nand he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nAmital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna.\n\n24:19. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that Joakim\nhad done.\n\n24:20. For the Lord was angry against Jerusalem and against Juda, till\nhe cast them out from his face: and Sedecias revolted from the king of\nBabylon.\n\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 25\n\n\nJerusalem is besieged and taken by Nabuchodonosor: Sedecias is taken:\nthe city and temple are destroyed. Godolias, who is left governor, is\nslain. Joachin is exalted by Evilmerodach.\n\n25:1. And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth\nmonth, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor, king of\nBabylon, came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem: and they\nsurrounded it: and raised works round about it.\n\n25:2. And the city was shut up and besieged till the eleventh year of\nking Sedecias,\n\n25:3. The ninth day of the month: and a famine prevailed in the city,\nand there was no bread for the people of the land.\n\n25:4. And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled\nin the night between the two walls by the king's garden (now the\nChaldees besieged the city round about), and Sedecias fled by the way\nthat leadeth to the plains of the wilderness.\n\n25:5. And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook\nhim in the plains of Jericho: and all the warriors that were with him\nwere scattered, and left him:\n\n25:6. So they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon, to\nReblatha, and he gave judgment upon him.\n\n25:7. And he slew the sons of Sedecias before his face, and he put out\nhis eyes, and bound him with chains, and brought him to Babylon.\n\n25:8. In the fifth month, the seventh day of the month, the same is the\nnineteenth year of the king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan, commander of\nthe army, a servant of the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem.\n\n25:9. And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and the\nhouses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire.\n\n25:10. And all the army of the Chaldees, which was with the commander\nof the troops, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.\n\n25:11. And Nabuzardan, the commander of the army, carried away the rest\nof the people, that remained in the city, and the fugitives, that had\ngone over to the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the common people.\n\n25:12. But of the poor of the land he left some dressers of vines and\nhusbandmen.\n\n25:13. And the pillars of brass that were in the temple of the Lord,\nand the bases, and the sea of brass, which was in the house of the\nLord, the Chaldees broke in pieces, and carried all the brass of them\nto Babylon.\n\n25:14. They took away also the pots of brass, and the mazers, and the\nforks, and the cups, and the mortars, and all the vessels of brass,\nwith which they ministered.\n\n25:15. Moreover also the censers, and the bowls, such as were of gold\nin gold: and such as were of silver in silver, the general of the army\ntook away.\n\n25:16. That is, two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had\nmade in the temple of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was\nwithout weight.\n\n25:17. One pillar was eighteen cubits high: and the chapiter of brass,\nwhich was upon it, was three cubits high: and the network, and the\npomegranates that were upon the chapiter of the pillar, were all of\nbrass: and the second pillar had the like adorning.\n\n25:18. And the general of the army took Seraias, the chief priest, and\nSophonias, the second priest, and three doorkeepers:\n\n25:19. And out of the city one eunuch, who was captain over the men of\nwar: and five men of them who had stood before the king, whom he found\nin the city, and Sopher, the captain of the army, who exercised the\nyoung soldiers of the people of the land: and threescore men of the\ncommon people, who were found in the city:\n\n25:20. These Nabuzardan, the general of the army, took away, and\ncarried them to the king of Babylon, to Reblatha.\n\n25:21. And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Reblatha,\nin the land of Emath: so Juda was carried away out of their land.\n\n25:22. But over the people that remained in the land of Juda, which\nNabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, had left, he gave the government to\nGodolias, the son of Ahicam, the son of Saphan.\n\n25:23. And when all the captains of the soldiers had heard this, they\nand the men that were with them, to wit, that the king of Babylon had\nmade Godolias governor they came to Godolias to Maspha, Ismael, the son\nof Nathanias, and Johanan, the son of Caree, and Saraia, the son of\nThanehumeth, the Netophathite, and Jezonias, the son of Maachathi, they\nand their men.\n\n25:24. And Godolias swore to them and to their men, saying: Be not\nafraid to serve the Chaldees: stay in the land, and serve the king of\nBabylon, and it shall be well with you.\n\n25:25. But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ismael, the son\nof Nathanias, the son of Elisama, of the seed royal came, and ten men\nwith him, and smote Godolias; so that he died: and also the Jews and\nthe Chaldees that were with him in Maspha.\n\n25:26. And all the people, both little and great, and the captains of\nthe soldiers, rising up, went to Egypt, fearing the Chaldees.\n\n25:27. And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the\ncaptivity of Joachin, king of Juda, in the twelfth month, the seven and\ntwentieth day of the month: Evilmerodach, king of Babylon, in the year\nthat he began to reign, lifted up the head of Joachin, king of Juda,\nout of prison.\n\n25:28. And he spoke kindly to him: and he set his throne above the\nthrone of the kings that were with him in Babylon.\n\n25:29. And he changed his garments which he had in prison, and he ate\nbread always before him, all the days of his life.\n\n25:30. And he appointed him a continual allowance, which was also given\nhim by the king, day by day, all the days of his life.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST BOOK OF PARALIPOMENON\n\n\n\nThese Books are called by the Greek interpreters, Paralipomenon, that\nis, of things left out, or omitted; because they are a kind of a\nsupplement of such things as were passed over in the books of the\nKings. The Hebrews call them Dibre Haijamim, that is, The words of the\ndays, or The Chronicles.--Not that they are the books which are so\noften quoted in the Kings, under the title of the words of the days of\nthe kings of Israel, and of the kings of Juda: for the books of\nParalipomenon were written after the books of Kings: but because in all\nprobability they have been abridged from those ancient words of the\ndays, by Esdras or some other sacred writer.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 1\n\n\nThe genealogy of the patriarchs down to Abraham: The posterity of\nAbraham and of Esau.\n\n1:1. Adam, Seth, Enos,\n\n1:2. Cainan, Malaleel, Jared,\n\n1:3. Henoc, Mathusale, Lamech,\n\n1:4. Noe, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.\n\n1:5. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,\nThubal, Mosoch, Thiras.\n\n1:6. And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez, and Riphath, and Thogorma.\n\n1:7. And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cethim and Dodanim.\n\n1:8. The sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesrai, and Phut, and Chanaan.\n\n1:9. And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, Sabatha, and Regma, and\nSabathaca. And the sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.\n\n1:10. Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty upon earth.\n\n1:11. But Mesraim begot Ludim, and Anamim, and Laabim, and Nephtuim,\n\n1:12. Phetrusim also, and Casluim: from whom came the Philistines, and\nCaphtorim.\n\n1:13. And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and the Hethite,\n\n1:14. And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and the Gergesite,\n\n1:15. And the Hevite, and the Aracite, and the Sinite,\n\n1:16. And the Aradian, and the Samarite, and the Hamathite.\n\n1:17. The sons of Sem: Elam and Asur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram,\nand Hus, and Hul, and Gether, and Mosoch.\n\n1:18. And Arphaxad begot Sale, and Sale begot Heber.\n\n1:19. And to Heber were born two sons, the name of the one was Phaleg,\nbecause in his days the earth was divided; and the name of his brother\nwas Jectan.\n\n1:20. And Jectan begot Elmodad, and Saleph, and Asarmoth, and Jare,\n\n1:21. And Adoram, and Usal, and Decla,\n\n1:22. And Hebal, and Abimael, and Saba,\n\n1:23. And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All these are the sons of\nJectan.\n\n1:24. Sem, Arphaxad, Sale,\n\n1:25. Heber, Phaleg, Ragau,\n\n1:26. Serug, Nachor, Thare,\n\n1:27. Abram, this is Abraham.\n\n1:28. And the sons of Abraham, Isaac and Ismahel.\n\n1:29. And these are the generations of them. The firstborn of Ismahel,\nNabajoth, then Cedar, and Adbeel, and Mabsam,\n\n1:30. And Masma, and Duma, Massa, Hadad, and Thema,\n\n1:31. Jetur, Naphis, Cedma: these are the sons of Ismahel.\n\n1:32. And the sons of Cetura, Abraham's concubine, whom she bore:\nZamran, Jecsan, Madan, Madian, Jesboc, and Sue. And the sons of Jecsan,\nSaba, and Dadan. And the sons of Dadan: Assurim, and Latussim, and\nLaomin.\n\nConcubine. . .She was his lawful wife, but of an inferior degree.\n\n1:33. And the sons of Madian: Epha, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida,\nand Eldaa. All these are the sons of Cetura.\n\n1:34. And Abraham begot Isaac: and his sons were Esau and Israel.\n\n1:35. The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Rahuel, Jehus, Ihelom, and Core.\n\n1:36. The sons of Eliphaz: Theman, Omar, Sephi, Gathan, Cenez, and by\nThamna, Amalec.\n\n1:37. The sons of Rahuel: Nahath, Zara, Samma, Meza.\n\n1:38. The sons of Seir: Lotan, Sobal, Sebeon, Ana, Dison, Eser, Disan.\n\n1:39. The sons of Lotan: Hori, Homam. And the sister of Lotan was\nThamna.\n\n1:40. The sons of Sobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Sephi, and\nOnam. The sons of Sebeon: Aia, and Ana. The son of Ana: Dison.\n\n1:41. The sons of Dison: Hamram, and Eseban, and Jethran, and Charan.\n\n1:42. The sons of Eser: Balaan, and Zavan, and Jacan. The sons of\nDisan: Hus and Aran.\n\n1:43. Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before\nthere was a king over the children of Israel: Bale the son of Beor: and\nthe name of his city was Denaba.\n\n1:44. And Bale died, and Jobab the son of Zare of Bosra, reigned in his\nstead.\n\n1:45. And when Jobab also was dead, Husam of the land of the Themanites\nreigned in his stead.\n\n1:46. And Husam also died, and Adad the son of Badad reigned in his\nstead, and he defeated the Madianites in the land of Moab: the name of\nhis city was Avith.\n\n1:47. And when Adad also was dead, Semla of Masreca reigned in his\nstead.\n\n1:48. Semla also died, and Saul of Rohoboth, which is near the river,\nreigned in his stead.\n\n1:49. And when Saul was dead, Balanan the son of Achobor reigned in his\nstead.\n\n1:50. He also died, and Adad reigned in his stead: and the name of his\ncity was Phau, and his wife was called Meetabel the daughter of Matred,\nthe daughter of Mezaab.\n\n1:51. And after the death of Adad, there began to be dukes in Edom\ninstead of kings: duke Thamna, duke Alva, duke Jetheth,\n\n1:52. Duke Oolibama, duke Ela, duke Phinon,\n\n1:53. Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke Mabsar,\n\n1:54. Duke Magdiel, duke Hiram. These are the dukes of Edom.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 2\n\n\nThe twelve tribes of Israel. The genealogy of Juda down to David. Other\ngenealogies of the tribe of Juda.\n\n2:1. And these are the sons of Israel: Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,\nIssachar, and Zabulon,\n\n2:2. Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Nephtali, Gad, and Aser.\n\n2:3. The sons of Juda: Her, Onan and Sela. These three were born to him\nof the Chanaanitess the daughter of Sue. And Her the firstborn of Juda,\nwas wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he slew him.\n\n2:4. And Thamar his daughter in law bore him Phares and Zara. So all\nthe sons of Juda were five.\n\n2:5. And the sons of Phares, were Hesron and Hamul.\n\n2:6. And the sons also of Zare: Zamri, and Ethan, and Eman, and\nChalchal, and Dara, five in all.\n\n2:7. And the sons of Charmi: Achar, who troubled Israel, and sinned by\nthe theft of the anathema.\n\nAchar. . .Alias Achan. Jos. 7.--Ibid. The anathema. . .The thing\ndevoted or accursed, viz., the spoils of Jericho.\n\n2:8. The sons of Ethan: Azarias,\n\n2:9. And the sons of Hesron that were born to him: Jerameel, and Ram,\nand Calubi.\n\n2:10. And Ram begot Aminadab, and Aminadab begot Nahasson, prince of\nthe children of Juda.\n\nRam. . .He is commonly called Aram. But it is to be observed here, once\nfor all, that it was a common thing among the Hebrews for the same\npersons to have different names: and that it is not impossible among so\nmany proper names, as here occur in the first nine chapters of this\nbook, that the transcribers of the ancient Hebrew copies may have made\nsome slips in the orthography.\n\n2:11. And Nahasson begot Salma, the father of Booz.\n\n2:12. And Booz begot Obed, and Obed begot Isai.\n\n2:13. And Isai begot Eliab his firstborn, the second Abinadab, the\nthird Simmaa,\n\n2:14. The fourth, Nathanael, the fifth Raddai,\n\n2:15. The sixth Asom, the seventh David.\n\n2:16. And their sisters were Sarvia, and Abigail. The sons of Sarvia:\nAbisai, Joab, and Asael, three.\n\n2:17. And Abigail bore Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ismahelite.\n\n2:18. And Caleb the son of Hesron took a wife named Azuba, of whom he\nhad Jerioth: and her sons were Jaser, and Sobab, and Ardon.\n\nCaleb. . .Alias Calubi, ver. 9.\n\n2:19. And when Azuba was dead, Caleb took to wife Ephrata: who bore him\nHur.\n\n2:20. And Hur begot Uri: and Uri begot Bezeleel.\n\n2:21. And afterwards Hesron went in to the daughter of Machir the\nfather of Galaad, and took her to wife when he was threescore years\nold: and she bore him Segub.\n\n2:22. And Segub begot Jair, and he had three and twenty cities in the\nland of Galaad.\n\n2:23. And he took Gessur, and Aram the towns of Jair, and Canath, and\nthe villages thereof, threescore cities. All these, the sons of Machir\nfather of Galaad.\n\n2:24. And when Hesron was dead, Caleb went in to Ephrata. Hesron also\nhad to wife Abia who bore him Ashur the father of Thecua.\n\n2:25. And the sons of Jerameel the firstborn of Hesron, were Ram his\nfirstborn, and Buna, and Aram, and Asom, and Achia.\n\n2:26. And Jerameel married another wife, named Atara, who was the\nmother of Onam.\n\n2:27. And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerameel, were Moos, Jamin,\nand Achar.\n\n2:28. And Onam had sons Semei, and Jada. And the sons of Semei: Nadab,\nand Abisur.\n\n2:29. And the name of Abisur's wife was Abihail, who bore him Ahobban,\nand Molid.\n\n2:30. And the sons of Nadab were Saled and Apphaim. And Saled died\nwithout children.\n\n2:31. But the son of Apphaim was Jesi: and Jesi begot Sesan. And Sesan\nbegot Oholai.\n\n2:32. And the sons of Jada the brother of Semei: Jether and Jonathan.\nAnd Jether also died without children.\n\n2:33. But Jonathan begot Phaleth, and Ziza. These were the sons of\nJerameel.\n\n2:34. And Sesan had no sons, but daughters and a servant an Egyptian,\nnamed Jeraa.\n\n2:35. And he gave him his daughter to wife: and she bore him Ethei.\n\n2:36. And Ethei begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad.\n\n2:37. And Zabad begot Ophlal, and Ophlal begot Obed.\n\n2:38. Obed begot Jehu, Jehu begot Azarias.\n\n2:39. Azarias begot Helles, and Helles begot Elasa.\n\n2:40. Elasa begot Sisamoi, Sisamoi begot Sellum,\n\n2:41. Sellum begot Icamia, and Icamia begot Elisama.\n\n2:42. Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerameel were Mesa his\nfirstborn, who was the father of Siph: and the sons of Maresa father of\nHebron.\n\n2:43. And the sons of Hebron, Core, and Thaphua, and Recem, and Samma.\n\n2:44. And Samma begot Raham, the father of Jercaam, and Recem begot\nSammai.\n\n2:45. The son of Sammai, Maon: and Maon the father of Bethsur.\n\n2:46. And Epha the concubine of Caleb bore Haran, and Mosa, and Gezez.\nAnd Haran begot Gezez.\n\n2:47. And the sons of Jahaddai, Rogom, and Joathan, and Gesan, and\nPhalet, and Epha, and Saaph.\n\n2:48. And Maacha the concubine of Caleb bore Saber, and Tharana.\n\n2:49. And Saaph the father of Madmena begot Sue the father of Machbena,\nand the father of Gabaa. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsa.\n\n2:50. These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur the firstborn of\nEphrata, Sobal the father of Cariathiarim.\n\n2:51. Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hariph the father of Bethgader.\n\n2:52. And Sobal the father of Cariathiarim had sons: he that saw half\nof the places of rest.\n\nHe that saw, etc. . .The Latin interpreter seems to have given us here,\ninstead of the proper names, the meaning of those names in the Hebrew.\nHe has done in like manner, ver. 55.\n\n2:53. And of the kindred of Cariathiarim, the Jethrites, and\nAphuthites, and Semathites, and Maserites. Of them came the Saraites,\nand Esthaolites.\n\n2:54. The sons of Salma, Bethlehem, and Netophathi, the crowns of the\nhouse of Joab, and half of the place of rest of Sarai.\n\n2:55. And the families of the scribes that dwell in Jabes, singing and\nmaking melody, and abiding in tents. These are the Cinites, who came of\nCalor (Chamath) father of the house of Rechab.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 3\n\n\nThe genealogy of the house of David.\n\n3:1. Now these were the sons of David that were born to him in Hebron:\nthe firstborn Amnon of Achinoam the Jezrahelitess, the second Daniel of\nAbigail the Carmelitess.\n\n3:2. The third Absalom the son of Maacha the daughter of Tolmai king of\nGessur, the fourth Adonias the son of Aggith,\n\n3:3. The fifth Saphatias of Abital, the sixth Jethrahem of Egla his\nwife.\n\n3:4. So six sons were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned seven\nyears and six months. And in Jerusalem he reigned three and thirty\nyears.\n\n3:5. And these sons were born to him in Jerusalem: Simmaa, and Sobab,\nand Nathan, and Solomon, four of Bethsabee the daughter of Ammiel.\n\n3:6. Jebaar also and Elisama,\n\n3:7. And Eliphaleth, and Noge, and Nepheg, and Japhia,\n\n3:8. And Elisama, and Eliada, and Elipheleth, nine:\n\n3:9. All these the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines:\nand they had a sister Thamar.\n\nThe concubines. . .The inferior wives.\n\n3:10. And Solomon's son was Roboam: whose son Abia begot Asa. And his\nson was Josaphat,\n\n3:11. The father of Joram: and Joram begot Ochozias, of whom was born\nJoas:\n\n3:12. And his son Amasias begot Azarias. And Joathan the son of Azarias\n\n3:13. Begot Achaz, the father of Ezechias, of whom was born Manasses.\n\n3:14. And Manasses begot Amon the father of Josias.\n\n3:15. And the sons of Josias were, the firstborn Johanan, the second\nJoakim, the third Sedecias, the fourth Sellum.\n\n3:16. Of Joakim was born Jechonias, and Sedecias.\n\n3:17. The sons of Jechonias were Asir, Salathiel,\n\n3:18. Melchiram, Phadaia, Senneser and Jecemia, Sama, and Nadabia.\n\n3:19. Of Phadaia were born Zorobabel and Semei. Zorobabel begot\nMosollam, Hananias, and Salomith their sister:\n\n3:20. Hasaba also, and Ohol, and Barachias, and Hasadias, Josabhesed,\nfive.\n\n3:21. And the son of Hananias was Phaltias the father of Jeseias, whose\nson was Raphaia. And his son was Arnan, of whom was born Obdia, whose\nson was Sechenias.\n\n3:22. The son of Sechenias was Semeia, whose sons were Hattus, and\nJegaal, and Baria, and Naaria, and Saphat, six in number.\n\nSix. . .Counting the father in the number.\n\n3:23. The sons of Naaria, Elioenai, and Ezechias, and Ezricam, three.\n\n3:24. The sons of Elioenai, Oduia, and Eliasub, and Pheleia, and Accub,\nand Johanan, and Dalaia, and Anani, seven.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 4\n\n\nOther genealogies of Juda and Simeon, and their victories.\n\n4:1. The sons of Juda: Phares, Hesron, and Charmi and Hur, and Sobal.\n\n4:2. And Raia the son of Sobal begot Jahath, of whom were born Ahumai,\nand Laad. These are the families of Sarathi.\n\n4:3. And this is the posterity of Etam: Jezrahel, and Jesema, And\nJedebos: and the name of their sister was Asalelphuni.\n\n4:4. And Phanuel the father of Gedor, and Ezar the father of Hosa,\nthese are the sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephratha the father of\nBethlehem.\n\n4:5. And Assur the father of Thecua had two wives, Halaa and Naara:\n\n4:6. And Naara bore him Ozam, and Hepher, and Themani, and Ahasthari:\nthese are the sons of Naara.\n\n4:7. And the sons of Halaa, Sereth, Isaar, and Ethnan.\n\n4:8. And Cos begot Anob, and Soboba, and the kindred of Aharehel the\nson of Arum.\n\n4:9. And Jabes was more honourable than any of his brethren, and his\nmother called his name Jabes, saying: Because I bore him with sorrow.\n\nJabes. . .That is, sorrowful.\n\n4:10. And Jabes called upon the God of Israel, saying: If blessing thou\nwilt bless me, and wilt enlarge my borders, and thy hand be with me,\nand thou save me from being oppressed by evil. And God granted him the\nthings he prayed for.\n\n4:11. And Caleb the brother of Sua begot Mahir, who was the father of\nEsthon.\n\n4:12. And Esthon begot Bethrapha, and Phesse, and Tehinna father of the\ncity of Naas: these are the men of Recha.\n\n4:13. And the sons of Cenez were Othoniel, and Saraia. And the sons of\nOthoniel, Hathath, and Maonathi.\n\n4:14. Maonathi begot Ophra, and Saraia begot Joab the father of the\nValley of artificers: for artificers were there.\n\n4:15. And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephone, were Hir, and Ela, and\nNaham. And the sons of Ela: Cenez.\n\n4:16. The sons also of Jaleleel: Ziph, and Zipha, Thiria and Asrael.\n\n4:17. And the sons of Esra, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon,\nand he begot Mariam, and Sammai, and Jesba the father of Esthamo.\n\n4:18. And his wife Judaia, bore Jared the father of Gedor, and Heber\nthe father of Socho, and Icuthiel the father of Zanoe. And these are\nthe sons of Bethia the daughter of Pharao, whom Mered took to wife.\n\n4:19. And the sons of his wife Odaia the sister of Naham the father of\nCelia, Garmi, and Esthamo, who was of Machathi.\n\n4:20. The sons also of Simon, Amnon, and Rinna the son of Hanan, and\nThilon. And the sons of Jesi Zoheth, and Benzoheth.\n\n4:21. The sons of Sela the son of Juda: Her the father of Lecha, and\nLaada the father of Maresa, and the families of the house of them that\nwrought fine linen in the House of oath.\n\n4:22. And he that made the sun to stand, and the men of Lying, and\nSecure, and Burning, who were princes in Moab, and who returned into\nLahem. Now these are things of old.\n\nHe that made, etc. . .Viz., Joazim, the meaning of whose name in Hebrew\nis, he that made the sun to stand. In like manner the following names,\nLying (Chozeba), Secure (Joas), and Burning (Saraph), are substituted\nin place of the Hebrew names of the same signification.\n\n4:23. These are the potters, and they dwelt in Plantations, and Hedges,\nwith the king for his works, and they abode there.\n\nPlantations and Hedges. . .These are the proper names of the places\nwhere they dwelt. In Hebrew Atharim and Gadira.\n\n4:24. The sons of Simeon: Namuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zara, Saul:\n\n4:25. Sellum his son, Mapsam his son, Masma his son.\n\n4:26. The sons of Masma: Hamuel his son, Zachur his son, Semei his son.\n\n4:27. The sons of Semei were sixteen, and six daughters: but his\nbrethren had not many sons, and the whole kindred could not reach to\nthe sum of the children of Juda.\n\n4:28. And they dwelt in Bersabee, and Molada, and Hasarsuhal,\n\n4:29. And in Bala, and in Asom, and in Tholad,\n\n4:30. And in Bathuel, and in Horma, and in Siceleg,\n\n4:31. And in Bethmarchaboth, and in Hasarsusim, and in Bethberai, and\nin Saarim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.\n\n4:32. Their towns also were Etam, and Aen, Remmon, and Thochen, and\nAsan, five cities.\n\n4:33. And all their villages round about these cities as far as Baal.\nThis was their habitation, and the distribution of their dwellings.\n\n4:34. And Mosabab and Jemlech, and Josaphat, the son of Amasias,\n\n4:35. And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josabia the son of Saraia, the son\nof Asiel,\n\n4:36. And Elioenai, and Jacoba, and Isuhaia, and Asaia, and Adiel, and\nIsmiel, and Banaia,\n\n4:37. Ziza also the son of Sephei the son of Allon the son of Idaia the\nson of Semri the son of Samaia.\n\n4:38. These were named princes in their kindreds, and in the houses of\ntheir families were multiplied exceedingly.\n\n4:39. And they went forth to enter into Gador as far as to the east\nside of the valley, to seek pastures for their flocks.\n\n4:40. And they found fat pastures, and very good, and a country\nspacious, and quiet, and fruitful, in which some of the race of Cham\nhad dwelt before.\n\n4:41. And these whose names are written above, came in the days of\nEzechias king of Juda: and they beat down their tents, and slew the\ninhabitants that were found there, and utterly destroyed them unto this\nday: and they dwelt in their place, because they found there fat\npastures.\n\n4:42. Some also of the children of Simeon, five hundred men, went into\nmount Seir, having for their captains Phaltias and Naaria and Raphaia\nand Oziel the sons of Jesi:\n\n4:43. And they slew the remnant of the Amalecites, who had been able to\nescape, and they dwelt there in their stead unto this day.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 5\n\n\nGenealogies of Ruben and Gad: their victories over the Agarites: their\ncaptivity.\n\n5:1. Now the sons of Ruben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was his\nfirstborn: but forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his first\nbirthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and he\nwas not accounted for the firstborn.\n\n5:2. But of the race of Juda, who was the strongest among his brethren,\ncame the princes: but the first birthright was accounted to Joseph.)\n\nAccounted to Joseph. . .Viz., as to the double portion, which belonged\nto the firstborn; but the princely dignity was given to Juda, and the\npriesthood to Levi.\n\n5:3. The sons then of Ruben the firstborn of Israel were Enoch, and\nPhallu, Esron, and Charmi.\n\n5:4. The sons of Joel: Samaia his son, Gog his son, Semei his son,\n\n5:5. Micha his son, Reia his son, Baal his son,\n\n5:6. Beera his son, whom Thelgathphalnasar king of the Assyrians\ncarried away captive, and he was prince in the tribe of Ruben.\n\n5:7. And his brethren, and all his kindred, when they were numbered by\ntheir families, had for princes Jehiel, and Zacharias.\n\n5:8. And Bala the son of Azaz, the son of Samma, the son of Joel, dwelt\nin Aroer as far as Nebo, and Beelmeon.\n\n5:9. And eastward he had his habitation as far as the entrance of the\ndesert, and the river Euphrates. For they possessed a great number of\ncattle in the land of Galaad.\n\n5:10. And in the days of Saul they fought against the Agarites, and\nslew them, and dwelt in their tents in their stead, in all the country,\nthat looketh to the east of Galaad.\n\n5:11. And the children of Gad dwelt over against them in the land of\nBasan, as far as Selcha:\n\n5:12. Johel the chief, and Saphan the second: and Janai, and Saphat in\nBasan.\n\n5:13. And their brethren according to the houses of their kindreds,\nwere Michael and Mosollam, and Sebe, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zie, and\nHeber, seven.\n\n5:14. These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jara,\nthe son of Galaad, the son of Michael, the son of Jesisi, the son of\nJeddo, the son of Buz.\n\n5:15. And their brethren the sons of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of\nthe house in their families,\n\n5:16. And they dwelt in Galaad, and in Basan and in the towns thereof,\nand in all the suburbs of Saron, unto the borders.\n\n5:17. All these were numbered in the days of Joathan king of Juda, and\nin the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.\n\n5:18. The Sons of Ruben, and of Gad, and of the half tribe of Manasses,\nfighting men, bearing shields, and swords, and bending the bow, and\ntrained up to battles, four and forty thousand seven hundred and\nthreescore that went out to war.\n\n5:19. They fought against the Agarites: but the Itureans, and Naphis,\nand Nodab,\n\n5:20. Gave them help. And the Agarites were delivered into their hands,\nand all that were with them, because they called upon God in the\nbattle: and he heard them, because they had put their faith in him.\n\n5:21. And they took all that they possessed, of camels fifty thousand,\nand of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand,\nand of men a hundred thousand souls.\n\n5:22. And many fell down slain: for it was the battle of the Lord. And\nthey dwelt in their stead till the captivity.\n\n5:23. And the children of the half tribe of Manasses possessed the\nland, from the borders of Basan unto Baal, Hermon, and Sanir, and mount\nHermon, for their number was great.\n\n5:24. And these were the heads of the house of their kindred, Epher,\nand Jesi, and Eliel, and Esriel, and Jeremia, and Odoia, and Jediel,\nmost valiant and powerful men, and famous chiefs in their families.\n\n5:25. But they forsook the God of their fathers, and went astray after\nthe gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.\n\n5:26. And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Phul king of the\nAssyrians. and the spirit of Thelgathphalnasar king of Assur: and he\ncarried away Ruben, and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses, and\nbrought them to Lahela, and to Habor, and to Ara, and to the river of\nGozan, unto this day.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 6\n\n\nThe genealogies of Levi, and of Aaron: the cities of the Levites.\n\n6:1. The sons of Levi were Gerson, Caath, and Merari.\n\n6:2. The Sons of Caath: Amram, Isaar, Hebron, and Oziel.\n\n6:3. The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Mary. The Sons of Aaron:\nNadab and Abiu, Eleazar and Ithamar.\n\n6:4. Eleazar begot Phinees, and Phinees begot Abisue,\n\n6:5. And Abisue begot Bocci, and Bocci begot Ozi.\n\n6:6. Ozi begot Zaraias, and Zaraias begot Maraioth.\n\n6:7. And Maraioth begot Amarias, and Amarias begot Achitob.\n\n6:8. Achitob begot Sadoc, and Sadoc begot Achimaas.\n\n6:9. Achimaas begot Azarias, Azarias begot Johanan,\n\n6:10. Johanan begot Azarias. This is he that executed the priestly\noffice in the house which Solomon built in Jerusalem.\n\n6:11. And Azarias begot Amarias, and Amarias begot Achitob.\n\n6:12. And Achitob begot Sadoc, and Sadoc begot Sellum,\n\n6:13. Sellum begot Helcias, and Helcias begot Azarias,\n\n6:14. Azarias begot Saraias, and Saraias begot Josedec.\n\n6:15. Now Josedec went out, when the Lord carried away Juda, and\nJerusalem, by the hands of Nabuchodonosor.\n\n6:16. So the sons of Levi were Gerson, Caath, and Merari.\n\n6:17. And these are the names of the sons of Gerson: Lobni and Semei.\n\n6:18. The sons of Caath: Amram, and Isaar, and Hebron, and Oziel.\n\n6:19. The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. And these are the kindreds\nof Levi according to their families.\n\n6:20. Of Gerson: Lobni his son, Jahath his son, Zamma his son,\n\n6:21. Joah his son, Addo his son, Zara his son, Jethrai his son.\n\n6:22. The sons of Caath, Aminadab his son, Core his son, Asir his son,\n\n6:23. Elcana his son, Abiasaph his son, Asir his son,\n\n6:24. Thahath his son, Uriel his son, Ozias his son, Saul his son.\n\n6:25. The sons of Elcana: Amasai, and Achimoth.\n\n6:26. And Elcana. The sons of Elcana: Sophai his son, Nahath his son,\n\n6:27. Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elcana his son.\n\n6:28. The sons of Samuel: the firstborn Vasseni, and Abia.\n\n6:29. And the sons of Merari, Moholi: Lobni his son, Semei his son, Oza\nhis son,\n\n6:30. Sammaa his son, Haggia his son, Asaia his son.\n\n6:31. These are they, whom David set over the singing men of the house\nof the Lord, after that the ark was placed.\n\n6:32. And they ministered before the tabernacle of the testimony, with\nsinging, until Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and\nthey stood according to their order in the ministry.\n\n6:33. And these are they that stood with their sons, of the sons of\nCaath, Hemam a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Sammuel,\n\n6:34. The son of Elcana, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son\nof Thohu,\n\n6:35. The son of Suph, the son of Elcana, the son of Mahath, the son of\nAmasai,\n\n6:36. The son of Elcana, the son of Johel, the son of Azarias, the son\nof Sophonias,\n\n6:37. The son of Thahath, the son of Asir, the son of Abiasaph, the son\nof Core,\n\n6:38. The son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of Levi, the son of\nIsrael.\n\n6:39. And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, Asaph the son\nof Barachias, the son of Samaa.\n\n6:40. The son of Michael, the son of Basaia, the, son of Melchia.\n\n6:41. The son of Athanai, the son of Zara, the son of Adaia.\n\n6:42. The son of Ethan, the son of Zamma, the son of Semei.\n\n6:43. The son of Jeth, the son of Gerson, the son of Levi.\n\n6:44. And the sons of Merari their brethren, on the left hand, Ethan\nthe son of Cusi, the son of Abdi, the son of Meloch,\n\n6:45. The son of Hasabia, the son of Amasai, the son of Helcias,\n\n6:46. The son of Amasai, the son of Boni, the son of Somer,\n\n6:47. The son of Moholi, the son of Musi, the son of Merari, the son of\nLevi.\n\n6:48. Their brethren also the Levites, who were appointed for all the\nministry of the tabernacle of the house of the Lord.\n\n6:49. But Aaron and his sons offered burnt offerings upon the altar of\nholocausts, and upon the altar of incense, for every work of the holy\nof holies: and to pray for Israel according to all that Moses the\nservant of God had commanded.\n\n6:50. And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinees his\nson, Abisue his son,\n\n6:51. Bocci his son, Ozi his son, Zarahia his son,\n\n6:52. Meraioth his son, Amarias his son, Achitob his son,\n\n6:53. Sadoc his son, Achimaas his son.\n\n6:54. And these are their dwelling places by the towns and confines, to\nwit, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Caathites: for they\nfell to them by lot.\n\n6:55. And they gave them Hebron in the land of Juda, and the suburbs\nthereof round about:\n\n6:56. But the fields of the city, and the villages to Caleb son of\nJephone.\n\n6:57. And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities for refuge Hebron,\nand Lobna, and the suburbs thereof,\n\n6:58. And Jether and Esthemo, with their suburbs, and Helon, and Dabir\nwith their suburbs:\n\n6:59. Asan also, and Bethsames, with their suburbs.\n\n6:60. And out of the tribe of Benjamin: Gabee and its suburbs, Almath\nwith its suburbs, Anathoth also with its suburbs: all their cities\nthroughout their families were thirteen.\n\n6:61. And to the sons of Caath that remained of their kindred they gave\nout of the half tribe of Manasses ten cities in possession.\n\n6:62. And to the sons of Gerson by their families out of the tribe of\nIssachar, and out of the tribe of Aser, and out of the tribe of\nNephtali, and out of the tribe Manasses in Basan, thirteen cities.\n\n6:63. And to the sons of Merari by their families out of the tribe of\nRuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zabulon,\nthey gave by lot twelve cities.\n\n6:64. And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities, and\ntheir suburbs.\n\n6:65. And they gave them by lot, out of the tribe of the sons of Juda,\nand out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the\nsons of Benjamin, these cities which they called by their names.\n\n6:66. And to them that were of the kindred of the sons of Caath, and\nthe cities in their borders were of the tribe of Ephraim.\n\n6:67. And they gave the cities of refuge Sichem with its suburbs in\nmount Ephraim, and Gazer with its suburbs,\n\n6:68. Jecmaan also with its suburbs, and Beth-horon in like manner,\n\n6:69. Helon also with its suburbs, and Gethremmon in like manner,\n\n6:70. And out of the half tribe of Manasses, Aner and its suburbs,\nBaalam and its suburbs, to wit, to them that were left of the family of\nthe sons of Caath.\n\n6:71. And to the sons of Gersom, out the kindred of the half tribe of\nManasses, Gaulon, in Basan, and its suburbs, and Astharoth with its\nsuburbs.\n\n6:72. Out of the tribe of Issachar, Cedes and its suburbs, and Dabereth\nwith its suburbs;\n\n6:73. Ramoth also and its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs.\n\n6:74. And out of the tribe of Aser: Masal with its suburbs, and Abdon\nin like manner;\n\n6:75. Hucac also and its suburbs, and Rohol with its suburbs.\n\n6:76. And out of the tribe of Nephtali, Cedes in Galilee and its\nsuburbs, Hamon with its suburbs, and Cariathaim, and its suburbs.\n\n6:77. And to the sons of Merari that remained: out of the tribe of\nZabulon, Remmono and its suburbs, and Thabor with its suburbs.\n\n6:78. Beyond the Jordan also over against Jericho, on the east side of\nthe Jordan and out of the tribe of Ruben, Bosor in the wilderness with\nits suburbs, and Jassa with its suburbs;\n\n6:79. Cademoth also and its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs;\n\n6:80. Moreover also out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Galaad and its\nsuburbs, and Manaim with its suburbs;\n\n6:81. Hesebon also with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 7\n\n\nGenealogies of Issachar, Benjamin, Nephtali, Manasses, Ephraim, and\nAser.\n\n7:1. Now the sons of Issachar were Thola, and Phua, Jasub and Simeron,\nfour.\n\n7:2. The sons of Thola: Ozi and Raphaia, and Jeriel, and Jemai, and\nJebsem, and Samuel, chiefs of the houses of their kindreds. Of the\nposterity of Thola were numbered in the days of David, two and twenty\nthousand six hundred most valiant men.\n\n7:3. The sons of Ozi: Izrahia, of whom were born Michael, and Obadia,\nand Joel, and Jesia, five all great men.\n\n7:4. And there were with them by their families and peoples, six and\nthirty thousand most valiant men ready for war: for they had many wives\nand children.\n\n7:5. Their brethren also throughout all the house of Issachar, were\nnumbered fourscore and seven thousand most valiant men for war.\n\n7:6. The sons of Benjamin were Bela, and Bechor, and Jadihel, three.\n\n7:7. The sons of Bela: Esbon, and Ozi, and Ozial, and Jerimoth and\nUrai, five chiefs of their families, and most valiant warriors, and\ntheir number was twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.\n\n7:8. And the sons of Bechor were Zamira, and Joas, and Eliezer, and\nElioenai, and Amai, and Jerimoth, and Abia, and Anathoth, and Almath:\nall these were the sons of Bechor.\n\n7:9. And they were numbered by the families, heads of their kindreds,\nmost valiant men for war, twenty thousand and two hundred.\n\n7:10. And the son of Jadihel: Balan. And the sons of Balan: Jehus and\nBenjamin, and Aod, and Chanana, and Zethan and Tharsis, and Ahisahar.\n\n7:11. All these were sons of Jadihel, heads of their kindreds, most\nvaliant men, seventeen thousand and two hundred fifty to go out to war.\n\n7:12. Sepham also and Hapham the sons of Hir: and Hasim the sons of\nAher.\n\n7:13. And the sons of Nephtali were Jasiel, and Guni, and Jezer, and\nSellum, sons of Bala.\n\n7:14. And the son of Manasses, Ezriel: and his concubine the Syrian\nbore Machir the father of Galaad.\n\n7:15. And Machir took wives for his sons Happhim, and Saphan: and he\nhad a sister named Maacha: the name of the second was Salphaad, and\nSalphaad had daughters.\n\n7:16. And Maacha the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name\nPhares: and the name of his brother was Sares: and his sons were Ulam\nand Recen.\n\n7:17. And the son of Ulam, Baden. These are the sons of Galaad, the son\nof Machir, the son of Manasses.\n\n7:18. And his sister named Queen bore Goodlyman, and Abiezer, and\nMohola.\n\n7:19. And the sons of Semida were Ahiu, and Sechem, and Leci and Aniam.\n\n7:20. And the sons of Ephraim were Suthala, Bared his son, Thahath his\nson, Elada his son, Thahath his son, and his son Zabad,\n\n7:21. And his son Suthala, and his son Ezer, and Elad: and the men of\nGeth born in the land slew them, because they came down to invade their\npossessions.\n\n7:22. And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came\nto comfort him.\n\n7:23. And he went in to his wife: and she conceived and bore a son, and\nhe called his name Beria, because he was born when it went evil with\nhis house:\n\nBeria. . .This name signifies in evil, or in affliction.\n\n7:24. And his daughter was Sara, who built Bethoron, the nether and the\nupper, and Ozensara.\n\n7:25. And Rapha was his son, and Reseph, and Thale, of whom was born\nThaan,\n\n7:26. Who begot Laadan: and his son was Ammiud, who begot Elisama,\n\n7:27. Of whom was born Nun, who had Josue for his son.\n\n7:28. And their possessions and habitations were Bethel with her\ndaughters, and eastward Noran, and westward Gazer and her daughters,\nSichem also with her daughters, as far as Asa with her daughters.\n\n7:29. And by the borders of the sons of Manasses Bethsan and her\ndaughters, Thanach and her daughters, Mageddo and her daughters: Dor\nand her daughters: in these dwelt the children of Joseph, the son of\nIsrael.\n\n7:30. The children of Aser were Jemna, and Jesua, and Jessui, and\nBaria, and Sara their sister.\n\n7:31. And the sons of Baria: Haber, and Melchiel: he is the father of\nBarsaith.\n\n7:32. And Heber begot Jephlat, and Somer, and Hotham, and Suaa their\nsister.\n\n7:33. The sons of Jephlat: Phosech, and Chamaal, and Asoth: these are\nthe sons of Jephlat.\n\n7:34. And the sons of Somer: Ahi, and Roaga and Haba, and Aram.\n\n7:35. And the sons of Helem his brother: Supha, and Jemna, and Selles,\nand Amal.\n\n7:36. The sons of Supha: Sue, Hernapher, and Sual, and Beri, and Jamra.\n\n7:37. Bosor and Hod, and Samma, and Salusa, and Jethran, and Bera.\n\n7:38. The sons of Jether: Jephone, and Phaspha, and Ara.\n\n7:39. And the sons of Olla: Aree, and Haniel, and Resia.\n\n7:40. All these were sons of Aser, heads of their families, choice and\nmost valiant captains of captains: and the number of them that were of\nthe age that was fit for war, was six and twenty thousand.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 8\n\n\nThe posterity of Benjamin is further declared down to Saul. His issue.\n\n8:1. Now Benjamin begot Bale his firstborn, Asbel the second, Ahara the\nthird,\n\n8:2. Nohaa the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.\n\n8:3. And the sons of Bale were Addar, and Gera, and Abiud,\n\n8:4. And Abisue, and Naaman, and Ahoe,\n\n8:5. And Gera, and Sephuphan, and Huram.\n\n8:6. These are the sons of Abed, heads of families that dwelt in Gabaa,\nwho were removed into Manahath.\n\n8:7. And Naaman, and Achia, and Gera he removed them, and begot Oza,\nand Ahiud.\n\n8:8. And Saharim begot in the land of Moab, after he sent away Husim\nand Bara his wives.\n\n8:9. And he begot of Hodes his wife Jobab, and Sebia, and Mosa, and\nMolchom,\n\n8:10. And Jehus and Sechia, and Marma. These were his sons heads of\ntheir families.\n\n8:11. And Mehusim begot Abitob, and Elphaal.\n\n8:12. And the sons of Elphaal were Heber, and Misaam, and Samad: who\nbuilt Ono, and Lod, and its daughters.\n\n8:13. And Baria, and Sama were heads of their kindreds that dwelt in\nAialon: these drove away the inhabitants of Geth.\n\n8:14. And Ahio, and Sesac, and Jerimoth,\n\n8:15. And Zabadia, and Arod, and Heder,\n\n8:16. And Michael, and Jespha, and Joha, the sons of Baria.\n\n8:17. And Zabadia, and Mosollam, Hezeci, and Heber,\n\n8:18. And Jesamari, and Jezlia, and Jobab, sons of Elphaal,\n\n8:19. And Jacim, and Zechri, and Zabdi,\n\n8:20. And Elioenai, and Selethai, and Elial,\n\n8:21. And Adaia, and Baraia, and Samareth, the sons of Semei.\n\n8:22. And Jespham, and Heber, and Eliel,\n\n8:23. And Abdon, and Zechri, and Hanan,\n\n8:24. And Hanania, and Elam, and Anathothia.\n\n8:25. And Jephdaia, and Phanuel the sons of Sesac.\n\n8:26. And Samsari, and Sohoria and Otholia,\n\n8:27. And Jersia, and Elia, and Zechri, the sons of Jeroham.\n\n8:28. These were the chief fathers, and heads of their families who\ndwelt in Jerusalem.\n\n8:29. And at Gabaon dwelt Abigabaon, and the name of his wife was\nMaacha:\n\n8:30. And his firstborn son Abdon, and Sur, and Cis, and Baal, and\nNadab,\n\n8:31. And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher, and Macelloth:\n\n8:32. And Macelloth begot Samaa: and they dwelt over against their\nbrethren in Jerusalem with their brethren.\n\n8:33. And Ner begot Cis and Cis begot Saul. And Saul begot Jonathan and\nMelchisua, and Abinadab, and Esbaal.\n\nEsbaal. . .Alias Isboseth.\n\n8:34. And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal: and Meribbaal begot Micha.\n\nMeribbaal. . .Alias Miphiboseth. 2 Kings 4.4.\n\n8:35. And the sons of Micha were Phithon, and Melech, and Tharaa, and\nAhaz.\n\n8:36. And Ahaz begot Joada: and Joada begot Alamath, and Azmoth, and\nZamri: and Zamri begot Mosa,\n\n8:37. And Mosa begot Banaa, whose son was Rapha, of whom was born\nElasa, who begot Asel.\n\n8:38. And Asel had six sons whose names were Ezricam, Bochru, Ismahel,\nSaris, Obdia, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Asel.\n\n8:39. And the sons of Esec, his brother, were Ulam the firstborn, and\nJehus the second, and Eliphalet the third.\n\n8:40. And the sons of Ulam were most valiant men, and archers of great\nstrength: and they had many sons and grandsons, even to a hundred and\nfifty. All these were children of Benjamin.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 9\n\n\nThe Israelites, priests, and Levites, who first dwelt in Jerusalem\nafter the captivity. A repetition of the genealogy of Saul.\n\n9:1. And all Israel was numbered: and the sum of them was written in\nthe book of the kings of Israel, and Juda: and they were carried away\nto Babylon for their transgression.\n\n9:2. Now the first that dwelt in their possessions, and in their\ncities, were the Israelites, and the priests, and the Levites, and the\nNathineans.\n\nNathineans. . .These were the posterity of the Gabaonites, whose office\nwas to bring wood, water, etc., for the service of the temple.\n\n9:3. And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Juda, and of the\nchildren of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and of Manasses.\n\n9:4. Othei the son of Ammiud, the son of Amri, the son of Omrai, the\nson of Bonni of the sons of Phares the son of Juda.\n\n9:5. And of Siloni: Asaia the firstborn, and his sons.\n\n9:6. And of the sons of Zara: Jehuel and their brethren, six hundred\nand ninety.\n\n9:7. And of the sons of Benjamin: Salo the son of Mosollam, the son of\nOduia, the son of Asana:\n\n9:8. And Jobania the son of Jeroham: and Ela the son of Ozi, the son of\nMochori and Mosallam the son of Saphatias, the son of Rahuel, the son\nof Jebania:\n\n9:9. And their brethren by their families, nine hundred and fifty-six.\nAll these were heads of their families, by the houses of their fathers.\n\n9:10. And of the priests: Jedaia, Joiarib, and Jachin:\n\n9:11. And Azarias the son of Helcias, the son of Mosollam, the son of\nSadoc, the son of Maraioth, the son of Achitob, high priest of the\nhouse of God.\n\n9:12. And Adaias the son of Jeroham, the son of Phassur, the son of\nMelchias, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jezra, the son of\nMosollam, the son of Mosollamith, the son of Emmer.\n\n9:13. And their brethren heads in their families a thousand seven\nhundred and threescore, very strong and able men for the work of the\nministry in the house of God.\n\n9:14. And of the Levites: Semeia the son of Hassub the son of Ezricam,\nthe son of Hasebia of the sons of Merari.\n\n9:15. And Bacbacar the carpenter, and Galal, and Mathania the son of\nMicha, the son of Zechri the son of Asaph:\n\n9:16. And Obdia the son of Semeia, the son of Galal, the son of\nIdithum: and Barachia the son of Asa, the son of Elcana, who dwelt in\nthe suburbs of Netophati.\n\n9:17. And the porters were Sellum, and Accub, and Telmon, and Ahiman:\nand their brother Sellum was the prince,\n\n9:18. Until that time, in the king's gate eastward, the sons of Levi\nwaited by their turns.\n\n9:19. But Sellum the son of Core, the son of Abiasaph, the son of Core,\nwith his brethren and his father's house, the Corites were over the\nworks of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their\nfamilies in turns were keepers of the entrance of the camp of the Lord.\n\n9:20. And Phinees the son of Eleazar, was their prince before the Lord,\n\n9:21. And Zacharias the son of Mosollamia, was porter of the gate of\nthe tabernacle of the testimony:\n\n9:22. All these that were chosen to be porters at the gates, were two\nhundred and twelve: the they were registered in their proper towns:\nwhom David and Samuel the seer appointed in their trust.\n\n9:23. As well them as their sons, to keep the gates of the house of the\nLord, and the tabernacle by their turns.\n\n9:24. In four quarters were the porters: that is to say, toward the\neast, and west, and north, and south.\n\n9:25. And their brethren dwelt in village, and came upon their sabbath\ndays from time to time.\n\n9:26. To these four Levites were committed the whole number of the\nporters, and they were over the chambers, and treasures, of the house\nof the Lord.\n\n9:27. And they abode in their watches round about the temple of the\nLord: that when it was time, they might open the gates in the morning.\n\n9:28. And some of their stock had the charge of the vessels for the\nministry: for the vessels were both brought in and carried out by\nnumber.\n\n9:29. Some of them also had the instruments of the sanctuary committed\nunto them, and the charge of the fine flour, and wine, and oil, and\nfrankincense, and spices.\n\n9:30. And the sons of the priests made the ointments of the spices.\n\n9:31. And Mathathias a Levite, the firstborn of Sellum the Corite, was\noverseer of such things as were fried the fryingpan.\n\n9:32. And some of the sons of Caath their brethren, were over the\nloaves of proposition, to prepare always new for every sabbath.\n\n9:33. These are the chief of the singing men of the families of the\nLevites, who dwelt in the chambers, by the temple, that they might\nserve continually day and night in their ministry.\n\n9:34. The heads of the Levites, princes in their families, abode in\nJerusalem.\n\n9:35. And in Gabaon dwelt Jehiel the father of Gabaon, and the name of\nhis wife was Maacha:\n\n9:36. His firstborn son Abdon, and Sur, and Cis, and Baal, and Ner, and\nNadab,\n\n9:37. Gedor also, and Ahio, and Zacharias, and Macelloth.\n\n9:38. And Macelloth begot Samaan: these dwelt over against their\nbrethren in Jerusalem, with their brethren.\n\n9:39. Now Ner begot Cis: and Cis begot Saul: and Saul begot Jonathan\nand Melchisua, and Abinadab, and Esbaal.\n\n9:40. And the son of Jonathan, was Meribbaal: and Meribbaal begot\nMicha.\n\n9:41. And the sons of Micha, were Phithon, and Melech, and Tharaa, and\nAhaz.\n\n9:42. And Ahaz begot Jara, and Jara begot Alamath, and Azmoth, and\nZamri. And Zamri begot Mosa.\n\n9:43. And Mosa begot Banaa: whose son Raphaia begot Elasa: of whom was\nborn Asel.\n\n9:44. And Asel had six sons whose names are, Ezricam Bochru, Ismahel,\nSaria, Obdia, Hanan: these are the sons of Asel.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 10\n\n\nSaul is slain for his sins: he is buried by the men of Jabes.\n\n10:1. Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel\nfled from before the Philistines, and fell down wounded in mount\nGelboe.\n\n10:2. And the Philistines drew near pursuing after Saul, and his sons,\nand they killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchisua the sons of Saul.\n\n10:3. And the battle grew hard against Saul and the archers reached\nhim, and wounded him with arrows.\n\n10:4. And Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw thy sword, and kill me:\nlest these uncircumcised come, and mock me. But his armourbearer would\nnot, for he was struck with fear: so Saul took his sword, and fell upon\nit.\n\n10:5. And when his armourbearer saw it, to wit, that Saul was dead, he\nalso fell upon his sword and died.\n\n10:6. So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house fell\ntogether.\n\n10:7. And when the men of Israel, that dwelt in the plains, saw this,\nthey fled: and Saul and his sons being dead, they forsook their cities,\nand were scattered up and down: and the Philistines came, and dwelt in\nthem.\n\n10:8. And the next day the Philistines taking away the spoils of them\nthat were slain, found Saul and his sons lying on mount Gelboe.\n\n10:9. And when they had stripped him, and out off his head, and taken\naway his armour, they sent it into their land, to be carried about, and\nshewn in the temples of the idols and to the people.\n\n10:10. And his armour they dedicated in the temple of their god, and\nhis head they fastened up in the temple of Dagon.\n\n10:11. And when the men of Jabes Galaad had heard this, to wit, all\nthat the Philistines had done to Saul,\n\n10:12. All the valiant men of them arose, and took the bodies of Saul\nand of his sons, and brought them to Jabes, and buried their bones\nunder the oak that was in Jabes, and they fasted seven days.\n\n10:13. So Saul died for his iniquities, because he transgressed the\ncommandment of the Lord, which he had commanded, and kept it not: and\nmoreover consulted also a witch,\n\n10:14. And trusted not in the Lord: therefore he slew him, and\ntransferred his kingdom to David the son of Isai.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 11\n\n\nDavid is made king. He taketh the castle of Sion. A catalogue of his\nvaliant men.\n\n11:1. Then all Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron, saying:\nWe are thy bone, and thy flesh.\n\n11:2. Yesterday also, and the day before when Saul was king, thou wast\nhe that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: for the Lord thy God said\nto thee: Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over\nthem.\n\n11:3. So all the ancients of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and\nDavid made a covenant with them before the Lord: and they anointed him\nking over Israel according to the word of the Lord which he spoke in\nthe hand of Samuel.\n\n11:4. And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus, where\nthe Jebusites were the inhabitants of the land.\n\n11:5. And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David: Thou shalt not come\nin here. But David took the castle of Sion, which is the city of David.\n\n11:6. And he said: Whosoever shall first strike the Jebusites, shall be\nthe head and chief captain. And Joab the son of Sarvia went up first,\nand was made the general.\n\n11:7. And David dwelt in the castle, and therefore it was called the\ncity of David,\n\n11:8. And he built the city round about from Mello all round, and Joab\nbuilt the rest of the city.\n\n11:9. And David went on growing and increasing, and the Lord of hosts\nwas with him.\n\n11:10. These are the chief of the valiant man of David, who helped him\nto be made king over all Israel, according to the word of the Lord,\nwhich he spoke to Israel.\n\n11:11. And this is the number of the heroes of David: Jesbaam the son\nof Hachamoni the chief among the thirty: he lifted up his spear against\nthree hundred wounded by him at one time.\n\n11:12. And after him was Eleazar his uncle's son the Ahohite, who was\none of the three mighties.\n\n11:13. He was with David in Phesdomim, when the Philistines were\ngathered to that place to battle: and the field of that country was\nfull of barley, and the people fled from before the Philistines.\n\n11:14. But these men stood in the midst of the field, and defended it:\nand they slew the Philistines, and the Lord gave a great deliverance to\nhis people.\n\n11:15. And three of the thirty captains went down to the rock, wherein\nDavid was, to the cave of Odollam, when the Philistines encamped in the\nvalley of Raphaim.\n\n11:16. And David was in a hold, and the garrison of the Philistines in\nBethlehem.\n\n11:17. And David longed, and said: O that some man would give me water\nof the cistern of Bethlehem, which is in the gate.\n\n11:18. And these three broke through the midst of the camp of the\nPhilistines, and drew water out of the cistern of Bethlehem, which was\nin the gate, and brought it to David to drink: and he would not drink\nof it, but rather offered it to the Lord,\n\n11:19. Saying: God forbid that I should do this in the sight of my God,\nand should drink the blood of these men: for with the danger of their\nlives they have brought me the water. And therefore he would not drink.\nThese things did the three most valiant.\n\n11:20. And Abisai the brother of Joab, he was chief of three, and he\nlifted up his spear against three hundred whom he slew, and he was\nrenowned among the three,\n\n11:21. And illustrious among the second three, and their captain: but\nyet he attained not to the first three.\n\n11:22. Banaias the son of Joiada a most valiant man, of Cabseel, who\nhad done many acts: he slew the two ariels of Moab: and he went down,\nand killed a lion in the midst of a pit in the time of snow.\n\nTwo ariels. . .That is, two lions, or lion-like men; for Ariel in Hebrew\nsignifies a lion.\n\n11:23. And he slew an Egyptian, whose stature was of five cubits, and\nwho had a spear like a weaver's beam: and he went down to him with a\nstaff, and plucked away the spear, that he held in his hand, and slew\nhim with his own spear.\n\n11:24. These things did Banaias the son of Joiada, who was renowned\namong the three valiant ones,\n\n11:25. And the first among the thirty, but yet to the three he attained\nnot: and David made him of his council.\n\n11:26. Moreover the most valiant men of the army, were Asahel brother\nof Joab, and Elchanan the son of his uncle of Bethlehem,\n\n11:27. Sammoth an Arorite, Helles a Phalonite,\n\n11:28. Ira the son of Acces a Thecuite, Abiezer an Anathothite,\n\n11:29. Sobbochai a Husathite, Ilai an Ahohite,\n\n11:30. Maharai a Netophathite, Heled the son of Baana a Netophathite,\n\n11:31. Ethai the son of Ribai of Gabaath of the sons of Benjamin, Banai\na Pharathonite,\n\n11:32. Hurai of the torrent Gaas, Abiel an Arbathite, Azmoth a\nBauramite, Eliaba a Salabonite,\n\n11:33. The sons of Assem a Gezonite, Jonathan the son of Sage an\nArarite,\n\n11:34. Ahiam the son of Sachar an Ararite,\n\n11:35. Eliphal the son of Ur,\n\n11:36. Hepher a Mecherathite, Ahia a Phelonite,\n\n11:37. Hesro a Carmelite, Naarai the son of Azbai,\n\n11:38. Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibahar the son of Agarai.\n\n11:39. Selec an Ammonite, Naharai a Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab\nthe son of Sarvia.\n\n11:40. Ira a Jethrite, Gareb a Jethrite,\n\n11:41. Urias a Hethite, Zabad the son of Oholi,\n\n11:42. Adina the son of Siza a Rubenite the prince of the Rubenites,\nand thirty with him:\n\n11:43. Hanan the son of Maacha, and Josaphat a Mathanite,\n\n11:44. Ozia an Astarothite, Samma, and Jehiel the sons of Hotham an\nArorite,\n\n11:45. Jedihel the son of Zamri, and Joha his brother a Thosaite,\n\n11:46. Eliel a Mahumite, and Jeribai, and Josaia the sons of Elnaim,\nand Jethma a Moabite, Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel of Masobia.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 12\n\n\nWho followed David when he fled from Saul. And who came to Hebron to\nmake him king.\n\n12:1. Now these are they that came to David to Siceleg, while he yet\nfled from Saul the son of Cis, and they were most valiant and excellent\nwarriors,\n\n12:2. Bending the bow, and using either hand in hurling stones with\nslings, and shooting arrows: of the brethren of Saul of Benjamin.\n\n12:3. The chief was Ahiezer, and Joas, the sons of Samoa of Gabaath,\nand Jaziel, and Phallet the sons of Azmoth, and Beracha, and Jehu an\nAnathothite.\n\n12:4. And Samaias of Gabaon, the stoutest amongst the thirty and over\nthe thirty; Jeremias, and Jeheziel and Johanan, and Jozabad of\nGaderoth;\n\n12:5. And Eluzai, and Jerimuth, and Baalia, and Samaria, and Saphatia\nthe Haruphite;\n\n12:6. Elcana, and Jesia, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jesbaam of\nCarehim:\n\n12:7. And Joela, and Zabadia the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.\n\n12:8. From Gaddi also there went over to David, when he lay hid in the\nwilderness most valiant men, and excellent warriors, holding shield and\nspear: whose faces were like the faces of a lion, and they were swift\nlike the roebucks on the mountains.\n\n12:9. Ezer the chief, Obdias the second, Eliab the third,\n\n12:10. Masmana the fourth, Jeremias the fifth,\n\n12:11. Ethi the sixth, Eliel the seventh,\n\n12:12. Johanan the eighth, Elzebad the ninth,\n\n12:13. Jerenias the tenth, Machbani the eleventh,\n\n12:14. These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the army: the least\nof them was captain over a hundred soldiers, and the greatest over a\nthousand.\n\n12:15. These are they who passed over the Jordan in the first month,\nwhen it is used to flow over its banks: and they put to flight all that\ndwelt in the valleys both toward the east and toward the west.\n\n12:16. And there came also of the men of Benjamin, and of Juda to the\nhold, in which David abode.\n\n12:17. And David went out to meet them, and said: If you are come\npeaceably to me to help me, let my heart be joined to you: but if you\nplot against me for my enemies whereas I have no iniquity in my hands,\nlet the God of our fathers see, and judge.\n\n12:18. But the spirit came upon Amasai the chief among thirty, and he\nsaid: We are thine, O David, and for thee, O son of Isai: peace, peace\nbe to thee, and peace to thy helpers. For thy God helpeth thee. So\nDavid received them, and made them captains of the band.\n\n12:19. And there were some of Manasses that went over to David, when he\ncame with the Philistines against Saul to fight: but he did not fight\nwith them: because the lords of the Philistines taking counsel sent him\nback, saying: With the danger of our heads he will return to his master\nSaul.\n\n12:20. So when he went back to Siceleg, there fled to him of Manasses,\nEdnas and Jozabad, and Jedihel, and Michael, and Ednas, and Jozabad,\nand Eliu, and Salathi, captains of thousands in Manasses.\n\n12:21. These helped David against the rovers: for they were all most\nvaliant men, and were made commanders in the army.\n\n12:22. Moreover day by day there came some to David to help him till\nthey became a great number, like the army of God.\n\n12:23. And this is the number of the chiefs of the army who came to\nDavid, when he was in Hebron, to transfer to him the kingdom of Saul,\naccording to the word of the Lord.\n\n12:24. The sons of Juda bearing shield and spear, six thousand eight\nhundred well appointed to war.\n\n12:25. Of the sons of Simeon valiant men for war, seven thousand one\nhundred.\n\n12:26. Of the sons of Levi, four thousand six hundred.\n\n12:27. And Joiada prince of the race of Aaron, and with him three\nthousand seven hundred.\n\n12:28. Sadoc also a young man of excellent disposition, and the house\nof his father, twenty-two principal men.\n\n12:29. And of the sons of Benjamin the brethren of Saul, three\nthousand: for hitherto a great part of them followed the house of Saul.\n\n12:30. And of the sons of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, men of\ngreat valour renowned in their kindreds.\n\n12:31. And of the half tribe of Manasses, eighteen thousand, every one\nby their names, came to make David king.\n\n12:32. Also of the sons of Issachar men of understanding, that knew all\ntimes to order what Israel should do, two hundred principal men: and\nall the rest of the tribe followed their counsel.\n\n12:33. And of Zabulon such as went forth to battle, and stood in array\nwell appointed with armour for war, there came fifty thousand to his\naid, with no double heart.\n\n12:34. And of Nephtali, a thousand leaders: and with them seven and\nthirty thousand, furnished with shield and spear.\n\n12:35. Of Dan also twenty-eight thousand six hundred prepared for\nbattle.\n\n12:36. And of Aser forty thousand going forth to fight, and challenging\nin battle.\n\n12:37. And on the other side of the Jordan of the sons of Ruben, and of\nGad, and of the half of the tribe of Manasses a hundred and twenty\nthousand, furnished with arms for war.\n\n12:38. All these men of war well appointed to fight, came with a\nperfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all\nthe rest also of Israel, were of one heart to make David king.\n\n12:39. And they were there with David three days eating and drinking:\nfor their brethren had prepared for them.\n\n12:40. Moreover they that were near them even as far as Issachar, and\nZabulon, and Nephtali, brought loaves on asses, and on camels, and on\nmules, and on oxen, to eat: meal, figs, raisins, wine, oil, and oxen,\nand sheep in abundance, for there was joy in Israel.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 13\n\n\nThe ark is brought from Cariathiarim. Oza for touching it is struck\ndead.\n\n13:1. David consulted with the captains of thousands, and of hundreds,\nand with all the commanders.\n\n13:2. And he said to all the assembly of Israel: If it please you; and\nif the words which I speak come from the Lord our God, let us send to\nthe rest of our brethren into all the countries of Israel, and to the\npriests, and the Levites, that dwell in the suburbs of the cities, to\ngather themselves to us,\n\n13:3. And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we sought it\nnot in the days of Saul.\n\n13:4. And all the multitude answered that it should be so: for the word\npleased all the people.\n\n13:5. So David assembled all Israel from Sihor of Egypt, even to the\nentering into Emath, to bring the ark of God from Cariathiarim.\n\n13:6. And David went up with all the men of Israel to the hill of\nCariathiarim which is in Juda, to bring thence the ark of the Lord God\nsitting upon the cherubims, where his name is called upon.\n\n13:7. And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart out of the house\nof Abinadab. And Oza and his brother drove the cart.\n\n13:8. And David and all Israel played before God with all their might\nwith hymns, and with harps, and with psalteries, and timbrels, and\ncymbals, and trumpets,\n\n13:9. And when they came to the floor of Chidon, Oza put forth his\nhand, to hold up the ark: for the ox being wanton had made it lean a\nlittle on one side.\n\n13:10. And the Lord was angry with Oza, and struck him, because he had\ntouched the ark; and he died there before the Lord.\n\n13:11. And David was troubled because the Lord had divided Oza: and he\ncalled that place the Breach of Oza to this day.\n\n13:12. And he feared God at that time, saying: How can I bring in the\nark of God to me?\n\n13:13. And therefore he brought it not home to himself, that is, into\nthe city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the\nGethite.\n\n13:14. And the ark of God remained in the house of Obededom three\nmonths: and the Lord blessed his house, and all that he had.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 14\n\n\nDavid's house, and children: his victories over the Philistines.\n\n14:1. And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees,\nand masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.\n\n14:2. And David perceived that the Lord had confirmed him king over\nIsrael, and that his kingdom was exalted over his people Israel.\n\n14:3. And David took other wives in Jerusalem: and he begot sons, and\ndaughters.\n\n14:4. Now these are the names of them that were born to him in\nJerusalem: Samua, and Sobad, Nathan, and Solomon,\n\n14:5. Jebahar, and Elisua, and Eliphalet,\n\n14:6. And Noga, and Napheg, and Japhia,\n\n14:7. Elisama, and Baaliada, and Eliphalet.\n\n14:8. And the Philistines hearing that David was anointed king over all\nIsrael, went all up to seek him: and David heard of it, and went out\nagainst them.\n\n14:9. And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the vale of\nRaphaim.\n\n14:10. And David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go up against the\nPhilistines, and wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said\nto him: Go up, and I will deliver them into thy hand.\n\n14:11. And when they were come to Baalpharasim, David defeated them\nthere, and he said: God hath divided my enemies by my hand, as waters\nare divided: and therefore the name of that place was called\nBaalpharasim.\n\n14:12. And they left there their gods, and David commanded that they\nshould be burnt.\n\n14:13. Another time also the Philistines made an irruption, and spread\nthemselves abroad in the valley.\n\n14:14. And David consulted God again, and God said to him: Go not up\nafter them, turn away from them, and come upon them over against the\npear trees.\n\n14:15. And when thou shalt hear the sound of one going in the tops of\nthe pear trees, then shalt thou go out to battle. For God is gone out\nbefore thee to strike the army of the Philistines.\n\n14:16. And David did as God had commanded him, and defeated the army of\nthe Philistines, slaying them from Gabaon to Gazera.\n\n14:17. And the name of David became famous in all countries, and the\nLord made all nations fear aim.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 15\n\n\nThe ark is brought into the city of David, with great solemnity. Michol\nderideth David's devotion.\n\n15:1. He made also houses for himself in the city of David: and built a\nplace for the ark of God, and pitched a tabernacle for it.\n\n15:2. Then David said: No one ought to carry the ark of God, but the\nLevites, whom the Lord hath chosen to carry it, and to minister unto\nhimself for ever.\n\n15:3. And he gathered all Israel together into Jerusalem, that the ark\nof God might be brought into its place, which he had prepared for it.\n\n15:4. And the sons of Aaron also, and the Levites.\n\n15:5. Of the children of Caath, Uriel was the chief, and his brethren a\nhundred and twenty.\n\n15:6. Of the sons of Merari, Asaia the chief, and his brethren two\nhundred and twenty.\n\n15:7. Of the sons of Gersom, Joel the chief, and his brethren a hundred\nand thirty.\n\n15:8. Of the sons of Elisaphan, Semeias the chief: and his brethren two\nhundred.\n\n15:9. Of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief: and his brethren eighty.\n\n15:10. Of the sons of Oziel, Aminadab the chief: and his brethren a\nhundred and twelve.\n\n15:11. And David called Sadoc, and Abiathar the priests, and the\nLevites, Uriel, Asaia, Joel, Semeia, Eliel, and Aminadab:\n\n15:12. And he said to them: You that are the heads of the Levitical\nfamilies, be sanctified with your brethren, and bring the ark of the\nLord the God of Israel to the place, which is prepared for it:\n\n15:13. Lest as the Lord at first struck us, because you were not\npresent, the same should now also come to pass, by our doing some thing\nagainst the law.\n\n15:14. So the priests and the Levites were sanctified, to carry the ark\nof the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n15:15. And the sons of Levi took the ark of God as Moses had commanded,\naccording to the word of the Lord, upon their shoulders, with the\nstaves.\n\n15:16. And David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites, to appoint some of\ntheir brethren to be singers with musical instruments, to wit, on\npsalteries, and harps, and cymbals, that the joyful noise might resound\non high.\n\n15:17. And they appointed Levites, Hemam the son of Joel, and of his\nbrethren Asaph the son of Barachias: and of the sons of Merari, their\nbrethren: Ethan the son of Casaia.\n\n15:18. And with them their brethren: in the second rank, Zacharias, and\nBen, and Jaziel, and Semiramoth, and Jahiel, and Ani, and Eliab, and\nBanaias, and Maasias, and Mathathias, and Eliphalu, and Macenias, and\nObededom, and Jehiel, the porters.\n\n15:19. Now the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, sounded with cymbals\nof brass.\n\n15:20. And Zacharias, and Oziel, and Semiramoth, and Jehiel, and Ani,\nand Eliab, and Maasias, and Banaias, sung mysteries upon psalteries.\n\n15:21. And Mathathias, and Eliphalu, and Macenias and Obededom, and\nJehiel and Ozaziu, sung a song of victory for the octave upon harps.\n\n15:22. And Chonenias chief of the Levites, presided over the prophecy,\nto give out the tunes: for he was very skilful.\n\nThe prophecy, to give out the tunes. . .Singing praises to God is here\ncalled prophecy: the more, because these singers were often inspired\nmen.\n\n15:23. And Barachias, and Elcana, were doorkeepers of the ark.\n\n15:24. And Sebenias, and Josaphat, and Nathanael, and Amasai, and\nZacharias, and Banaias, and Eliezer the priests, sounded with trumpets,\nbefore the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehias were porters of the ark.\n\n15:25. So David and all the ancients of Israel, and the captains over\nthousands, went to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the\nhouse of Obededom with joy.\n\n15:26. And when God had helped the Levites who carried the ark of the\ncovenant of the Lord, they offered in sacrifice seven oxen, and seven\nrams.\n\n15:27. And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the\nLevites that carried the ark, and the singing men, and Chonenias the\nruler of the prophecy among the singers: and David also had on him an\nephod of linen.\n\n15:28. And all Israel brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord with\njoyful shouting, and sounding with the sound of the cornet, and with\ntrumpets, and cymbals, and psalteries, and harps.\n\n15:29. And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord was come to the\ncity of David, Michol the daughter of Saul looking out at a window, saw\nking David dancing and playing, and she despised him in her heart.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 16\n\n\nThe ark is placed in the tabernacle. Sacrifice is offered. David\nblesseth the people, disposeth the offices of Levites, and maketh a\npsalm of praise to God.\n\n16:1. So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the\ntent, which David had pitched for it: and they offered holocausts, and\npeace offerings before God.\n\n16:2. And when David had made an end of offering holocausts, and peace\nofferings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord.\n\n16:3. And he divided to all and every one, both men and women, a loaf\nof bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and flour fried with oil.\n\n16:4. And he appointed Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord,\nand to remember his works, and to glorify, and praise the Lord God of\nIsrael.\n\n16:5. Asaph the chief, and next after him Zacharias: moreover Jahiel,\nand Semiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mathathias, and Eliab, and Banaias, and\nObededom: and Jehiel over the instruments of psaltery, and harps: and\nAsaph sounded with cymbals:\n\n16:6. But Banaias, and Jaziel the priests, to sound the trumpet\ncontinually before the ark of the covenant of the Lord.\n\n16:7. In that day David made Asaph the chief to give praise to the Lord\nwith his brethren.\n\n16:8. Praise ye the Lord, and call upon his name: make known his doings\namong the nations.\n\n16:9. Sing to him, yea, sing praises to him: and relate all his\nwondrous works.\n\n16:10. Praise ye his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice, that\nseek the Lord.\n\n16:11. Seek ye the Lord, and his power: seek ye his face evermore.\n\n16:12. Remember his wonderful works, which he hath done: his signs, and\nthe judgments of his mouth.\n\n16:13. O ye seed of Israel his servants, ye children of Jacob his\nchosen.\n\n16:14. He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.\n\n16:15. Remember for ever his covenant: the word, which he commanded to\na thousand generations.\n\n16:16. The covenant which he made with Abraham: and his oath to Isaac.\n\n16:17. And he appointed the same to Jacob for a precept: and to Israel\nfor an everlasting covenant:\n\n16:18. Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan: the lot of your\ninheritance.\n\n16:19. When they were but a small number: very few and sojourners in\nit.\n\n16:20. And they passed from nation to nation: and from a kingdom to\nanother people.\n\n16:21. He suffered no man to do them wrong: and reproved kings for\ntheir sake.\n\n16:22. Touch not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.\n\n16:23. Sing ye to the Lord, all the earth: shew forth from day to day\nhis salvation.\n\n16:24. Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his wonders among all\npeople.\n\n16:25. For the Lord is great and exceedingly to be praised: and he is\nto be feared above all gods.\n\n16:26. For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the\nheavens.\n\n16:27. Praise and magnificence are before him: strength and joy in his\nplace.\n\n16:28. Bring ye to the Lord, O ye families of the nations: bring ye to\nthe Lord glory and empire.\n\n16:29. Give to the Lord glory to his name, bring up sacrifice, and come\nye in his sight: and adore the Lord in holy becomingness.\n\n16:30. Let all the earth be moved at his presence: for he hath founded\nthe world immoveable.\n\n16:31. Let the heavens rejoice, and the earth be glad: and let them say\namong the nations: The Lord hath reigned.\n\n16:32. Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields\nrejoice, and all things that are in them.\n\n16:33. Then shall the trees of the wood give praise before the Lord:\nbecause he is come to judge the earth.\n\n16:34. Give ye glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n16:35. And say ye: Save us, O God our savior: and gather us together,\nand deliver us from the nations, that we may give glory to thy holy\nname, and may rejoice in singing thy praises.\n\n16:36. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity:\nand let all the people say Amen, and a hymn to God.\n\n16:37. So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the Lord,\nAsaph and his brethren to minister in the presence of the ark\ncontinually day by day, and in their courses.\n\n16:38. And Obededom, with his brethren sixty-eight: and Obededom the\nson of Idithun, and Hosa he appointed to be porters.\n\n16:39. And Sadoc the priest, and his brethren priests, before the\ntabernacle of the Lord in the high place, which was in Gabaon.\n\n16:40. That they should offer holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of\nholocausts continually, morning and evening, according to all that is\nwritten in the law of the Lord, which he commanded Israel.\n\n16:41. And after him Heman, and Idithun, and the rest that were chosen,\nevery one by his name to give praise to the Lord: because his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n16:42. And Heman and Idithun sounded the trumpet, and played on the\ncymbals, and all kinds of musical instruments to sing praises to God:\nand the sons of Idithun he made porters.\n\n16:43. And all the people returned to their houses: and David to bless\nalso his own house.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 17\n\n\nDavid's purpose to build a temple, is rewarded by most ample promises:\nDavid's thanksgiving.\n\n17:1. Now when David was dwelling in his house, he said to Nathan the\nprophet: Behold I dwell in a house of cedar: and the ark of the\ncovenant of the Lord is under skins.\n\n17:2. And Nathan said to David: Do all that is in thy heart: for God is\nwith thee.\n\n17:3. Now that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:\n\n17:4. Go, and speak to David my servant: Thus saith the Lord: Thou\nshalt not build me a house to dwell in.\n\n17:5. For I have not remained in a house from the time that I brought\nup Israel, to this day: but I have been always changing places in a\ntabernacle, and in a tent,\n\n17:6. Abiding with all Israel. Did I ever speak to any one, of all the\njudges of Israel whom I charged to feed my people, saying: Why have you\nnot built me a house of cedar?\n\n17:7. Now therefore thus shalt thou say to my servant David: Thus saith\nthe Lord of hosts: I took thee from the pastures, from following the\nflock, that thou shouldst be ruler of my people Israel.\n\n17:8. And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast gone: and have\nslain all thy enemies before thee, and have made thee a name like that\nof one of the great ones that are renowned in the earth.\n\n17:9. And I have given a place my people Israel: they shall be planted,\nand shall dwell therein, and shall be moved no more, neither shall the\nchildren of iniquity waste them, as at the beginning,\n\n17:10. Since the days that I gave judges to my people Israel, and have\nhumbled all thy enemies. And I declare to thee, that the Lord will\nbuild thee a house.\n\n17:11. And when thou shalt have ended thy days to go to thy fathers, I\nwill raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons: and I\nwill establish his kingdom.\n\n17:12. He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne for\never.\n\n17:13. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and I\nwill not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was\nbefore thee.\n\n17:14. But I will settle him in my house, and in my kingdom for ever:\nand his throne shall be most firm for ever.\n\n17:15. According to all these words, and according to all this vision,\nso did Nathan speak to David.\n\n17:16. And king David came and sat before the Lord, and said: Who am I,\nO Lord God, and what is my house, that thou shouldst give such things\nto me?\n\n17:17. But even this hath seemed little in thy sight, and therefore\nthou hast also spoken concerning the house of thy servant for the time\nto come: and hast made me remarkable above all men, O Lord God.\n\n17:18. What can David add more, seeing thou hast thus glorified thy\nservant, and known him?\n\n17:19. O Lord, for thy servant's sake, according to thy own heart, thou\nhast shewn all this magnificence, and wouldst have all the great things\nto be known.\n\n17:20. O Lord there is none like thee: and here is no other God beside\nthee, of all whom we have heard of with our ears.\n\n17:21. For what other nation is there upon earth like thy people\nIsrael, whom God went to deliver, and make a people for himself, and by\nhis greatness and terrors cast out nations before their face whom he\nhad delivered out of Egypt?\n\n17:22. And thou hast made thy people Israel to be thy own people for\never, and thou, O Lord, art become their God.\n\n17:23. Now therefore, O Lord, let the word which thou hast spoken to\nthy servant, and concerning his house, be established for ever, and do\nas thou hast said.\n\n17:24. And let thy name remain and be magnified for ever: and let it be\nsaid: The Lord of hosts is God of Israel, and the house of David his\nservant remaineth before him.\n\n17:25. For thou, O Lord my God, hast revealed to the ear of thy\nservant, that thou wilt build him a house: and therefore thy servant\nhath found confidence to pray before thee.\n\n17:26. And now O Lord, thou art God: and thou hast promised to thy\nservant such great benefits.\n\n17:27. And thou hast begun to bless the house of thy servant, that it\nmay be always before thee: for seeing thou blessest it, O Lord, it\nshall be blessed for ever.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 18\n\n\nDavid's victories. His chief officers.\n\n18:1. And it came to pass after this, that David defeated the\nPhilistines, and humbled them, and took away Geth, and her daughters\nout of the hands of the Philistines,\n\n18:2. And he defeated Moab, and the Moabites were made David's\nservants, and brought him gifts.\n\n18:3. At that time David defeated also Adarezer king of Soba of the\nland of Hemath, when he went to extend his dominions as far as the\nriver Euphrates.\n\n18:4. And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand\nhorsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and he houghed all the chariot\nhorses, only a hundred chariots, which he reserved for himself.\n\n18:5. And the Syrians of Damascus came also to help Adarezer king of\nSoba: and David slew of them likewise two and twenty thousand men.\n\n18:6. And he put a garrison in Damascus, that Syria also should serve\nhim, and bring gifts. And the Lord assisted him in all things to which\nhe went.\n\n18:7. And David took the golden quivers which the servants of Adarezer\nhad, and he brought them to Jerusalem.\n\n18:8. Likewise out of Thebath and Chun, cities of Adarezer, he brought\nvery much brass, of which Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars,\nand the vessels of brass.\n\n18:9. Now when Thou king of Hemath heard that David had defeated all\nthe army of Adarezer king of Soba,\n\n18:10. He sent Adoram his son to king David to desire peace of him, and\nto congratulate him that he had defeated and overthrown Adarezer: for\nThou was an enemy to Adarezer.\n\n18:11. And all the vessels of gold, and silver and brass king David\nconsecrated to the Lord, with the silver and gold which he had taken\nfrom all the nations, as well from Edom, and from Moab, and from the\nsons of Ammon, as from the Philistines, and from Amalec.\n\n18:12. And Abisai the son of Sarvia slew of the Edomites in the vale of\nthe saltpits, eighteen thousand:\n\n18:13. And he put a garrison in Edom, that Edom should serve David: and\nthe Lord preserved David in all things to which he went.\n\n18:14. So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and\njustice among all his people.\n\n18:15. And Joab the son of Sarvia was over the army, and Josaphat the\nson of Ahilud recorder.\n\n18:16. And Sadoc the son of Achitob, and Achimelech the son of\nAbiathar, were the priests: and Susa, scribe.\n\n18:17. And Banaias the son of Joiada was over the bands of the Cerethi,\nand the Phelethi: and the sons of David were chief about the king.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 19\n\n\nThe Ammonites abuse David's ambassadors: both they and their\nconfederates are overthrown.\n\n19:1. Now it came to pass that Naas the king of the children of Ammon\ndied, and his son reigned in his stead.\n\n19:2. And David said: I will shew kindness to Hanon the son of Naas:\nfor his father did a favour tome. And David sent messengers to comfort\nhim upon the death of his father. But when they were come into the land\nof the children of Ammon, to comfort Hanon,\n\n19:3. The princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanon: Thou thinkest\nperhaps that David to do honour to thy father hath sent comforters to\nthee: and thou dost not take notice, that his servants are come to thee\nto consider, and search, and spy out thy land.\n\n19:4. Wherefore Hanon shaved the heads and beards of the servants of\nDavid, and cut away their garments from the buttocks to the feet, and\nsent them away.\n\n19:5. And when they were gone, they sent word to David, who sent to\nmeet them (for they had suffered a great affront) and ordered them to\nstay at Jericho till their beards grew and then to return.\n\n19:6. And when the children of Ammon saw that they had done an injury\nto David, Hanon and the rest of the people sent a thousand talents of\nsilver, to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia and out\nof Syria Maacha, and out of Soba.\n\n19:7. And they hired two and thirty thousand chariots, and the king of\nMaacha, with his people. And they came and camped over against Medaba.\nAnd the children of Ammon gathered themselves together out of their\ncities, and came to battle.\n\n19:8. And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of\nvaliant men:\n\n19:9. And the children of Ammon came out and put their army in array\nbefore the gate of the city: and the kings, that were come to their\naid, stood apart in the field.\n\n19:10. Wherefore Joab understanding that the battle was set against him\nbefore and behind, chose out the bravest men of all Israel, and marched\nagainst the Syrians,\n\n19:11. And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abisai\nhis brother, and they went against the children of Ammon.\n\n19:12. And he said: If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou\nshalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, I\nwill help thee.\n\n19:13. Be of good courage and let us behave ourselves manfully for our\npeople, and for the cities of our God: and the Lord will do that which\nis good in his sight.\n\n19:14. So Joab and the people that were with him, went against the\nSyrians to the battle: and he put them to flight.\n\n19:15. And the children of Ammon seeing that the Syrians were fled,\nthey likewise fled from Abisai his brother, and went into the city: and\nJoab also returned to Jerusalem.\n\n19:16. But the Syrians seeing that they had fallen before Israel, sent\nmessengers, and brought to them the Syrians that were beyond the river:\nand Sophach, general of the army of Adarezer, was their leader.\n\n19:17. And it was told David, and he gathered together all Israel, and\npassed the Jordan, and came upon them, and put his army in array\nagainst them, and they fought with him.\n\n19:18. But the Syrian fled before Israel: and David slew of the Syrians\nseven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and Sophach the\ngeneral of the army.\n\nSeven thousand chariots. . .That is, of men who fought in chariots.\n\n19:19. And when the servants of Adarezer saw themselves overcome by\nIsrael, they went over to David, and served him: and Syria would not\nhelp the children of Ammon any more.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 20\n\n\nRabba is taken. Other victories over the Philistines.\n\n20:1. And it came to pass after the course of a year, at the time that\nkings go out to battle, Joab gathered together an army and the strength\nof the troops, and wasted the land of the children of Ammon: and went\nand besieged Rabba. But David stayed at Jerusalem, when Joab smote\nRabba, and destroyed it.\n\n20:2. And David took the crown of Melchom from his head, and found in\nit a talent weight of gold, and most precious stones, and he made\nhimself a diadem of it: he took also the spoils of the city which were\nvery great.\n\n20:3. And the people that were therein he brought out: and made\nharrows, and sleds, and chariots of iron to go over them, so that they\nwere cut and bruised to pieces: in this manner David dealt with all the\ncities of the children of Ammon: and he returned with all his people to\nJerusalem.\n\n20:4. After this there arose a war at Gazer against the Philistines: in\nwhich Sabachai the Husathite slew Saphai of the race of Raphaim, and\nhumbled them.\n\n20:5. Another battle also was fought against the Philistines, in which\nAdeodatus the son of Saltus a Bethlehemite slew the brother of Goliath\nthe Gethite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.\n\n20:6. There was another battle also in Geth, in which there was a man\nof great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on\neach hand and foot: who also was born of the stock of Rapha.\n\n20:7. He reviled Israel: but Jonathan the son of Samaa the brother of\nDavid slew him. These were the sons of Rapha in Geth, who fell by the\nhand of David and his servants.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 21\n\n\nDavid's sin in numbering the people is punished by a pestilence: which\nceaseth upon his offering sacrifice in the thrashingfloor of Ornan.\n\n21:1. And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number\nIsrael.\n\n21:2. And David said to Joab, and to the rulers of the people: Go, and\nnumber Israel from Bersabee even to Dan, and bring me the number of\nthem that I may know it.\n\n21:3. And Joab answered: The Lord make his people a hundred times more\nthan they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all thy servants:\nwhy doth my lord seek this thing, which may be imputed as a sin to\nIsrael?\n\n21:4. But the king's word rather prevailed: and Joab departed, and went\nthrough all Israel: and returned to Jerusalem.\n\n21:5. And he gave David the number of them, whom he had surveyed: and\nall the number of Israel was found to be eleven hundred thousand men\nthat drew the sword: and of Juda four hundred and seventy thousand\nfighting men.\n\nThe number, etc. . .The difference of the numbers here and 2 Kings 24.\nis to be accounted for, by supposing the greater number to be that\nwhich was really found, and the lesser to be that which Joab gave in.\n\n21:6. But Levi and Benjamin he did not number: for Joab unwillingly\nexecuted the king's orders.\n\n21:7. And God was displeased with this thing that was commanded: and he\nstruck Israel.\n\n21:8. And David said to God: I have sinned exceedingly in doing this: I\nbeseech thee take away the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done\nfoolishly.\n\n21:9. And the Lord spoke to Gad the seer of David, saying:\n\n21:10. Go, and speak to David, and tell him: Thus saith the Lord: I\ngive thee the choice of three things: choose one which thou wilt, and I\nwill do it to thee.\n\n21:11. And when Gad was come to David, he said to him: Thus saith the\nLord: choose which thou wilt:\n\n21:12. Either three years famine: or three months to flee from thy\nenemies, and not to be able to escape their sword: or three days to\nhave the sword of the Lord, and pestilence in the land, and the angel\nof the Lord destroying in all the coasts of Israel: now therefore see\nwhat I shall answer him who sent me.\n\nThree years famine. . .Which joined with the three foregoing years of\nfamine mentioned, 2 Kings 21. and the seventh year of the land's\nresting, would make up the seven years proposed by the prophet, 2 Kings\n24.13.\n\n21:13. And David said to Gad: I am on every side in a great strait: but\nit is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies\nare many, than into the hands of men.\n\n21:14. So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of\nIsrael seventy thousand men.\n\n21:15. And he sent an angel to Jerusalem, to strike it: and as he was\nstriking it, the Lord beheld, and took pity for the greatness of the\nevil: and said to the angel that destroyed: It is enough, now stop thy\nhand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the thrashingfloor of Ornan\nthe Jebusite.\n\nOrnan. . .Otherwise Areuna.\n\n21:16. And David lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord\nstanding between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand,\nturned against Jerusalem: and both he and the ancients clothed in\nhaircloth, fell down flat on the ground.\n\n21:17. And David said to God: Am not I he that commanded the people to\nbe numbered? It is I that have sinned: it is I that have done the evil:\nbut as for this flock, what hath it deserved? O Lord my God, let thy\nhand be turned, I beseech thee, upon me, and upon my father's house:\nand let not thy people be destroyed.\n\n21:18. And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up,\nand build an altar to the Lord God in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the\nJebusite.\n\n21:19. And David went up, according to the word of Gad, which he spoke\nto him in the name of the Lord.\n\n21:20. Now when Ornan looked up, and saw the angel, he and his four\nsons hid themselves: for at that time he was thrashing wheat in the\nfloor.\n\n21:21. And as David was coming to Ornan, Ornan saw him, and went out of\nthe thrashingfloor to meet him, and bowed down to him with his face to\nthe ground.\n\n21:22. And David said to him: Give me this place of thy thrashingfloor,\nthat I may build therein an altar to the Lord: but thou shalt take of\nme as much money as it is worth, that the plague may cease from the\npeople.\n\n21:23. And Ornan said to David: Take it, and let my lord the king do\nall that pleaseth him: and moreover the oxen also I give for a\nholocaust, and the drays for wood, and the wheat for the sacrifice: I\nwill give it all willingly.\n\n21:24. And king David said to him: It shall not be so, but I will give\nthee money as much as it is worth: for I must not take it from thee,\nand so offer to the Lord holocausts free cost.\n\n21:25. So David gave to Ornan for the place, six hundred sicles of gold\nof just weight.\n\nSix hundred sicles, etc. . .This was the price of the whole place, on\nwhich the temple was afterwards built; but the price of the oxen was\nfifty sicles of silver. 2 Kings 24.24.\n\n21:26. And he built there an altar to the Lord: and he offered\nholocausts, and peace offerings, and he called upon the Lord, and he\nheard him by sending fire from heaven upon the altar of the holocaust.\n\n21:27. And the Lord commanded the angel: and he put up his sword again\ninto the sheath.\n\n21:28. And David seeing that the Lord had heard him in the\nthrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, forthwith offered victims there.\n\n21:29. But the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the desert,\nand the altar of holocausts, was at that time in the high place of\nGabaon.\n\n21:30. And David could not go to the altar there to pray to God: for he\nwas seized with an exceeding great fear, seeing the sword of the angel\nof the Lord.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 22\n\n\nDavid having prepared all necessaries, chargeth Solomon to build the\ntemple and the princes to assist him.\n\n22:1. Then David said: This is the house of God, And this is the altar\nfor the holocaust of Israel.\n\n22:2. And he commanded to gather together all the proselytes of the\nland of Israel, and out of them he appointed stonecutters to hew stones\nand polish them, to build the house of God.\n\n22:3. And David prepared in abundance iron for the nails of the gates,\nand for the closures and joinings: and of brass an immense weight.\n\n22:4. And the cedar trees were without number, which the Sidonians, and\nTyrians brought to David.\n\n22:5. And David said: Solomon my son is very young and tender, and the\nhouse which I would have to be built to the Lord, must be such as to be\nrenowned in all countries: therefore I will prepare him necessaries.\nAnd therefore before his death he prepared all the charges.\n\n22:6. And he called for Solomon his son: and commanded him to build a\nhouse to the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n22:7. And David said to Solomon: My son, it was my desire to have built\na house to the name of the Lord my God.\n\n22:8. But the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Thou hast shed much\nblood, and fought many battles, so thou cannot not build house to my\nname, after shedding so much blood before me:\n\n22:9. The son, that shall be born to thee, shall be a most quiet man:\nfor I will make him rest from all his enemies round about: and\ntherefore he shall be called Peaceable: and I will give peace and\nquietness to Israel all his days.\n\n22:10. He shall build a house to my name, and he shall be a son to me,\nand I will be a father to him: and I will establish the throne of his\nkingdom over Israel for ever.\n\n22:11. Now then, my son, the Lord be with thee, and do thou prosper,\nand build the house to the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken of thee.\n\n22:12. The Lord also give thee wisdom and understanding, that thou\nmayest be able to rule Israel, and to keep the law of the Lord thy God.\n\n22:13. For then thou shalt be able to prosper, if thou keep the\ncommandments, and judgments, which the Lord commanded Moses to teach\nIsrael: take courage and act manfully, fear not, nor be dismayed.\n\n22:14. Behold I in my poverty have prepared the charges of the house of\nthe Lord, of gold a hundred thousand talents, and of silver a million\nof talents: but of brass, and of iron there is no weight, for the\nabundance surpasseth all account: timber also and stones I have\nprepared for all the charges.\n\n22:15. Thou hast also workmen in abundance, hewers of stones, and\nmasons, and carpenters, and of all trades the most skilful in their\nwork,\n\n22:16. In gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, whereof there\nis no number. Arise then, and be doing, and the Lord will be with thee.\n\n22:17. David also charged all the princes of Israel, to help Solomon\nhis son,\n\n22:18. Saying: You see, that the Lord your God is with you, and hath\ngiven you rest round about, and hath delivered all your enemies into\nyour hands, and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his\npeople.\n\n22:19. Give therefore your hearts and your souls, to seek the Lord your\nGod and arise, and build a sanctuary to the Lord God, that the ark of\nthe covenant of the Lord, and the vessels consecrated to the Lord, may\nbe brought into the house, which is built to the name of the Lord.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 23\n\n\nDavid appointeth Solomon king. The distribution of the Levites and\ntheir offices.\n\n23:1. David being old and full of days, made Solomon his son king over\nIsrael.\n\n23:2. And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, and the\npriests and Levites.\n\n23:3. And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and\nupwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men.\n\n23:4. Of these twenty-four thousand were chosen, and distributed unto\nthe ministry of the house of the Lord: and six thousand were the\noverseers and judges.\n\n23:5. Moreover four thousand were porters: and as many singers singing\nto the Lord with the instruments, which he had made to sing with.\n\n23:6. And David distributed them into courses by the families of the\nsons of Levi, to wit, of Gerson, and of Caath, and of Merari.\n\n23:7. The sons of Gerson were Leedan and Semei.\n\n23:8. The sons of Leedan: the chief Jahiel, and Zethan, and Joel,\nthree.\n\n23:9. The sons of Semei: Salomith, and Hosiel, and Aran, three: these\nwere the heads of the families of Leedan.\n\n23:10. And the sons of Semei were Leheth, and Ziza, and Jaus, and\nBaria: these were the sons of Semei, four.\n\n23:11. And Leheth was the first, Ziza the second: but Jaus and Baria\nhad not many children, and therefore they were counted in one family,\nand in one house.\n\n23:12. The sons of Caath were Amram, and Isaar, Hebron, and Oziel,\nfour.\n\n23:13. The sons of Amram, Aaron, and Moses. And Aaron was separated to\nminister in the holy of holies, he and his sons for ever, and to burn\nincense before the Lord, according to his ceremonies, and to bless his\nname for ever.\n\n23:14. The sons also of Moses, the man of God, were numbered in the\ntribe of Levi.\n\n23:15. The sons of Moses were Gersom and Eliezer:\n\n23:16. The sons of Gersom: Subuel the first.\n\n23:17. And the sons of Eliezer were: Rohobia the first: and Eliezer had\nno more sons. But the sons of Rohobia were multiplied exceedingly.\n\n23:18. The sons of Isaar: Salomith the first.\n\n23:19. The sons of Hebron: Jeriau the first, Amarias the second,\nJahaziel the third, Jecmaam the fourth.\n\n23:20. The sons of Oziel: Micha the first, Jesia the second.\n\n23:21. The sons of Merari: Moholi, and Musi. The sons of Moholi:\nEleazar and Cis.\n\n23:22. And Eleazar died, and had no sons but daughters: and the sons of\nCis their brethren took them.\n\n23:23. The sons of Musi: Moholi, and Eder, and Jerimoth, three.\n\n23:24. These are the sons of Levi in their kindreds and families,\nprinces by their courses, and the number of every head that did the\nworks of the ministry of the house of the Lord from twenty years old\nand upward.\n\n23:25. For David said: The Lord the God of Israel hath given rest to\nhis people, and a habitation in Jerusalem for ever.\n\n23:26. And it shall not be the office of the Levites to carry any more\nthe tabernacle, and all the vessels for the service thereof.\n\n23:27. So according to the last precepts of David, the sons of Levi are\nto be numbered from twenty years old and upward.\n\n23:28. And they are to be under the hand of the sons of Aaron for the\nservice of the house of the Lord, in the porches, and in the chambers,\nand in the place of purification, and in the sanctuary, and in all the\nworks of the ministry of the temple of the Lord.\n\n23:29. And the priests have the charge of the loaves of proposition,\nand of the sacrifice of fine flour, and of the unleavened cakes, and of\nthe fryingpan, and of the roasting, and of every weight and measure.\n\n23:30. And the Levites are to stand in the morning to give thanks, and\nto sing praises to the Lord: and in like manner in the evening,\n\n23:31. As well in the oblation of the holocausts of the Lord, as in the\nsabbaths and in the new moons, and the rest of the solemnities,\naccording to the number and ceremonies prescribed for every thing,\ncontinually before the Lord.\n\n23:32. And let them keep the observances of the tabernacle of the\ncovenant, and the ceremonies of the sanctuary, and the charge of the\nsons of Aaron their brethren, that they may minister in the house of\nthe Lord.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 24\n\n\nThe divisions of the priests into four and twenty courses, to serve in\nthe temple: the chiefs of the Levites.\n\n24:1. Now these were the divisions of the sons of Aaron: The sons of\nAaron: Nadab, and Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.\n\n24:2. But Nadab and Abiu died before their father, and had no children:\nso Eleazar, and Ithamar did the office of the priesthood.\n\n24:3. And David distributed them, that is, Sadoc of the sons of\nEleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their\ncourses and ministry.\n\n24:4. And there were found many more of the sons of Eleazar among the\nprincipal men, than of the sons of Ithamar. And he divided them so,\nthat there were of the sons of Eleazar, sixteen chief men by their\nfamilies: and of the sons of Ithamar eight by their families and\nhouses.\n\n24:5. And he divided both the families one with the other by lot: for\nthere were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the\nsons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.\n\n24:6. And Semeias the son of Nathanael the scribe a Levite, wrote them\ndown before the king and the princes, and Sadoc the priest, and\nAhimelech the son of Abiathar, and the princes also of the priestly and\nLevitical families: one house, which was over the rest, of Eleazar: and\nanother house, which had the rest under it, of Ithamar.\n\n24:7. Now the first lot came forth to Joiarib, the second to Jedei,\n\n24:8. The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,\n\n24:9. The fifth to Melchia, the sixth to Maiman,\n\n24:10. The seventh to Accos, the eighth to Abia,\n\n24:11. The ninth to Jesua, the tenth to Sechenia,\n\n24:12. The eleventh to Eliasib, the twelfth to Jacim,\n\n24:13. The thirteenth to Hoppha, the fourteenth to Isbaab,\n\n24:14. The fifteenth to Belga, the sixteenth to Emmer,\n\n24:15. The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,\n\n24:16. The nineteenth to Pheteia, the twentieth to Hezechiel,\n\n24:17. The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,\n\n24:18. The three and twentieth to Dalaiau, the four and twentieth to\nMaaziau.\n\n24:19. These are their courses according to their ministries, to come\ninto the house of the Lord, and according to their manner under the\nhand of Aaron their father: as the Lord the God of Israel had\ncommanded.\n\n24:20. Now of the rest of the sons of Levi, there was of the sons of\nAmram, Subael: and of the sons of Subael, Jehedeia.\n\n24:21. Also of the sons of Rohobia the chief Jesias.\n\n24:22. And the son of Isaar Salemoth, and the son of Salemoth Jahath:\n\n24:23. And his son Jeriau the first, Amarias the second, Jahaziel the\nthird, Jecmaan the fourth.\n\n24:24. The son of Oziel, Micha: the son of Micha, Samir.\n\n24:25. The brother of Micha, Jesia: and the son of Jesia, Zacharias.\n\n24:26. The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi: the son of Oziau: Benno.\n\n24:27. The son also of Merari Oziau, and Soam, and Zacchur, and Hebri.\n\n24:28. And the son of Moholi: Eleazar, who had no sons.\n\n24:29. And the son of Cis, Jeramael.\n\n24:30. The sons of Musi: Moholi, Eder, and Jerimoth. These are the sons\nof Levi according to the houses of their families.\n\n24:31. And they also cast lots over against their brethren the sons of\nAaron before David the king, and Sadoc, and Ahimelech, and the princes\nof the priestly and Levitical families, both the elder and the younger.\nThe lot divided all equally.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 25\n\n\nThe number and divisions of the musicians.\n\n25:1. Moreover David and the chief officers of the army separated for\nthe ministry the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Idithun: to\nprophesy with harps, and with psalteries, and with cymbals according to\ntheir number serving in their appointed office.\n\n25:2. Of the sons of Asaph: Zacchur, and Joseph, and Nathania, and\nAsarela, sons of Asaph: under the hand of Asaph prophesying near the\nking.\n\n25:3. And of Idithun: the sons of Idithun, Godolias, Sori, Jeseias, and\nHasabias, and Mathathias, under the hand of their father Idithun, who\nprophesied with a harp to give thanks and to praise the Lord.\n\n25:4. Of Heman also: the sons of Heman, Bocciau, Mathaniau, Oziel,\nSubuel, and Jerimoth, Hananias, Hanani, Eliatha, Geddelthi, and\nRomemthiezer, and Jesbacassa, Mellothi, Othir, Mahazioth:\n\n25:5. All these were the sons of Heman the seer of the king in the\nwords of God, to lift up the horn: and God gave to Heman fourteen sons\nand three daughters.\n\n25:6. All these under their father's hand were distributed to sing in\nthe temple of the Lord, with cymbals, and psalteries and harps, for the\nservice of the house of the Lord near the king: to wit, Asaph, and\nIdithun, and Heman.\n\n25:7. And the number of them with their brethren, that taught the song\nof the Lord, all the teachers, were two hundred and eighty-eight.\n\n25:8. And they cast lots by their courses, the elder equally with the\nyounger, the learned and the unlearned together.\n\n25:9. And the first lot came forth to Joseph, who was of Asaph. The\nsecond to Godolias, to him and his sons, and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:10. The third to Zachur, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:11. The fourth to Isari, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:12. The fifth to Nathania, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:13. The sixth to Bocciau, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:14. The seventh to Isreela, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:15. The eighth to Jesaia, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:16. The ninth to Mathanaias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:17. The tenth to Semeias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:18. The eleventh to Azareel, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:19. The twelfth to Hasabia, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:20. The thirteenth to Subael, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:21. The fourteenth to Mathathias, to his sons and his brethren\ntwelve.\n\n25:22. The fifteenth to Jerimoth, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:23. The sixteenth to Hananias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:24. The seventeenth to Jesbacassa, to his sons and his brethren\ntwelve.\n\n25:25. The eighteenth to Hanani, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:26. The nineteenth to Mellothi, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:27. The twentieth to Eliatha, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:28. The one and twentieth to Othir, to his sons and his brethren\ntwelve.\n\n25:29. The two and twentieth to Geddelthi, to his sons and his brethren\ntwelve.\n\n25:30. The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, to his sons and his\nbrethren twelve.\n\n25:31. The four and twentieth to Romemthiezer, to his sons and his\nbrethren twelve.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 26\n\n\nThe divisions of the porters. Offices of other Levites.\n\n26:1. And the divisions of the porters: of the Corites Meselemia, the\nson of Core, of the sons of Asaph.\n\n26:2. The sons of Meselemia: Zacharias the firstborn, Jadihel the\nsecond, Zabadias the third, Jathanael the fourth,\n\n26:3. Elam the fifth, Johanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.\n\n26:4. And the sons of Obededom, Semeias the firstborn, Jozabad the\nsecond, Joaha the third, Sachar the fourth, Nathanael the fifth,\n\n26:5. Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Phollathi the eighth: for\nthe Lord had blessed him.\n\n26:6. And to Semei his son were born sons, heads of their families: for\nthey were men of great valour.\n\n26:7. The sons then of Semeias were Othni, and Raphael, and Obed,\nElizabad, and his brethren most valiant men: and Eliu, and Samachias.\n\n26:8. All these of the sons of Obededom: they, and their sons, and\ntheir brethren most able men for service, sixty-two of Obededom.\n\n26:9. And the sons of Meselemia, and their brethren strong men, were\neighteen.\n\n26:10. And of Hosa, that is, of the sons of Merari: Semri the chief,\n(for he had not a firstborn, and therefore his father made him chief.)\n\nHe had not a firstborn. . .That is, his firstborn was either dead or not\nfit to be chief; and therefore he made Semri the chief.\n\n26:11. Helcias the second, Tabelias the third, Zacharias the fourth:\nall these the sons, and the brethren of Hosa, were thirteen.\n\n26:12. Among these were the divisions of the porters, so that the\nchiefs of the wards, as well as their brethren, always ministered in\nthe house of the Lord.\n\n26:13. And they cast lots equally, both little and great, by their\nfamilies for every one of the gates.\n\n26:14. And the lot of the east fell to Selemias. But to his son\nZacharias, a very wise and learned man, the north gate fell by lot.\n\n26:15. And to Obededom and his sons that towards the south: in which\npart of the house was the council of the ancients.\n\n26:16. To Sephim, and Hosa towards the west, by the gate which leadeth\nto the way of the ascent: ward against ward.\n\n26:17. Now towards the east were six Levites: and towards the north\nfour a day: and towards the south likewise four a day: and where the\ncouncil was, two and two.\n\n26:18. In the cells also of the porters toward the west four in the\nway: and two at every cell.\n\n26:19. These are the divisions of the porters of the sons of Core, and\nof Merari.\n\n26:20. Now Achias was over the treasures of the house of God, and the\nholy vessels.\n\nHoly vessels. . .Or vessels of the holy places, or of things holy. Vasa\nsanctorum.\n\n26:21. The sons of Ledan, the sons of Gersonni: of Ledan were heads of\nthe families, of Ledan, and Gersonni, Jehieli.\n\n26:22. The sons of Jehieli: Zathan and Joel, his brethren over the\ntreasures of the house of the Lord,\n\n26:23. With the Amramites, and Isaarites, and Hebronites, and\nOzielites.\n\n26:24. And Subael the son of Gersom, the son of Moses, was chief over\nthe treasures.\n\n26:25. His brethren also, Eliezer, whose son Rohobia, and his son\nIsaias, and his son Joram, and his son Zechri, and his son Selemith.\n\n26:26. Which Selemith and his brethren were over the treasures of the\nholy things, which king David, and the heads of families, and the\ncaptains over thousands and over hundreds, and the captains of the host\nhad dedicated,\n\n26:27. Out of the wars, and the spoils won in battles, which they had\nconsecrated to the building and furniture of the temple of the Lord.\n\n26:28. And all these things that Samuel the seer and Saul the son of\nCis, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Sarvia had\nsanctified: and whosoever had sanctified those things, they were under\nthe hand of Selemith and his brethren.\n\n26:29. But Chonenias and his sons were over the Isaarites, for the\nbusiness abroad over Israel to teach them and judge them.\n\n26:30. And of the Hebronites Hasabias, and his brethren most able men,\na thousand seven hundred had the charge over Israel beyond the Jordan\nwestward, in all the works of the Lord, and for the service of the\nking.\n\n26:31. And the chief of the Hebronites was Jeria according to their\nfamilies and kindreds. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they\nwere numbered, and there were found most valiant men in Jazer Galaad,\n\n26:32. And his brethren of stronger age, two thousand seven hundred\nchiefs of families. And king David made them rulers over the Rubenites\nand the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses, for all the service of\nGod, and the king.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 27\n\n\nThe twelve captains for every month; the twelve princes of the tribes.\nDavid's several officers.\n\n27:1. Now the children of Israel according to their number, the heads\nof families, captains of thousands and of hundreds, and officers, that\nserved the king according to their companies, who came in and went out\nevery month in the year, under every chief were four and twenty\nthousand.\n\n27:2. Over the first company the first month Jesboam, the son of\nZabdiel was chief, and under him were four and twenty thousand.\n\n27:3. Of the sons of Phares, the chief of all the captains in the host\nin the first month.\n\n27:4. The company of the second month was under Dudia, an Ahohite, and\nafter him was another named Macelloth, who commanded a part of the army\nof four and twenty thousand.\n\n27:5. And the captain of the third company for the third month, was\nBanaias the son of Joiada the priest: and in his division were four and\ntwenty thousand.\n\n27:6. This is that Banaias the most valiant among the thirty, and above\nthe thirty. And Amizabad his son commanded his company.\n\n27:7. The fourth, for the fourth month, was Asahel the brother of Joab,\nand Zabadias his son after him: and in his company were four and twenty\nthousand.\n\n27:8. The fifth captain for the fifth month, was Samaoth a Jezerite:\nand his company were four and twenty thousand.\n\n27:9. The sixth, for the sixth month, was Hira the son of Acces a\nThecuite: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.\n\n27:10. The seventh, for the seventh month, was Helles a Phallonite of\nthe sons of Ephraim: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.\n\n27:11. The eighth, for the eighth month, was Sobochai a Husathite of\nthe race of Zarahi: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.\n\n27:12. The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer an Anathothite of\nthe sons of Jemini, and in his company were four and twenty thousand.\n\n27:13. The tenth, for the tenth month, was Marai, who was a\nNetophathite of the race of Zarai: and in his company were four and\ntwenty thousand.\n\n27:14. The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Banaias, a\nPharathonite of the sons of Ephraim: and in his company were four and\ntwenty thousand.\n\n27:15. The twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Holdai a Netophathite,\nof the race of Gothoniel: and in his company were four and twenty\nthousand.\n\n27:16. Now the chiefs over the tribes of Israel were these: over the\nRubenites, Eliezer the son of Zechri was ruler: over the Simeonites,\nSaphatias the son of Maacha:\n\n27:17. Over the Levites, Hasabias the son of Camuel: over the\nAaronites, Sadoc:\n\n27:18. Over Juda, Eliu the brother of David over Issachar, Amri the son\nof Michael:\n\n27:19. Over the Zabulonites, Jesmaias the son of Adias: over the\nNephtalites, Jerimoth the son of Ozriel:\n\n27:20. Over the sons of Ephraim, Osee the son of Ozaziu: over the half\ntribe of Manasses, Joel the son of Phadaia:\n\n27:21. And over the half tribe of Manasses in Galaad, Jaddo the son of\nZacharias: and over Benjamin, Jasiel the son of Abner.\n\n27:22. And over Dan, Ezrihel the son of Jeroham: these were the princes\nof the children of Israel.\n\n27:23. But David would not number them from twenty years old and under:\nbecause the lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars\nof heaven.\n\n27:24. Joab the son of Sarvia began to number, but he finished not:\nbecause upon this there fell wrath upon Israel: and therefore the\nnumber of them that were numbered, was not registered in the chronicles\nof king David.\n\n27:25. And over the king's treasures was Azmoth the son of Adiel: and\nover those stores which were in the cities, and in the villages, and,\nin the castles, was Jonathan the son of Ozias.\n\n27:26. And over the tillage, and the husbandmen, who tilled the ground,\nwas Ezri the son of Chelub:\n\n27:27. And over the dressers of the vine yards, was Semeias a\nRomathite: and over the wine cellars, Zabdias an Aphonite.\n\n27:28. And over the oliveyards and the fig groves, which were in the\nplains, was Balanam a Gederite: and over the oil cellars, Joas.\n\n27:29. And over the herds that fed in Saron, was Setrai a Saronite: and\nover the oxen in the valleys, Saphat the son of Adli:\n\n27:30. And over the camels, Ubil an Ishmahelite and over the asses,\nJadias a Meronathite:\n\n27:31. And over the sheep Jaziz an Agarene. All these were the rulers\nof the substance of king David.\n\n27:32. And Jonathan David's uncle, a counsellor, a wise and learned\nman: he and Jahiel the son of Hachamoni were with the king's sons.\n\n27:33. And Achitophel was the king's counsellor, and Chusai the\nArachite, the king's friend.\n\n27:34. And after Achitophel was Joiada the son of Banaias, and\nAbiathar. And the general of the king's army was Joab.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 28\n\n\nDavid's speech, in a solemn assembly: his exhortation to Solomon. He\ngiveth him a pattern of the temple.\n\n28:1. And David assembled all the chief men of Israel, the princes of\nthe tribes, and the captains of the companies, who waited on the king:\nand the captains over thousands, and over hundreds, and them who had\nthe charge over the substance and possessions of the king, and his sons\nwith the officers of the court, and the men of power, and all the\nbravest of the army at Jerusalem.\n\n28:2. And the king rising up, and standing said: Hear me, my brethren\nand my people: I had a thought to have built a house, in which the ark\nof the Lord, and the footstool of our God might rest: and prepared all\nthings for the building.\n\n28:3. And God said to me: Thou shalt not build a house to my name:\nbecause thou art a man of war, and hast shed blood.\n\n28:4. But the Lord God of Israel chose me of all the house of my\nfather, to be king over Israel for ever: for of Juda he chose the\nprinces: and of the house of Juda, my father's house: and among the\nsons of my father, it pleased him to choose me king over all Israel.\n\n28:5. And among my sons (for the Lord hath given me many sons) he hath\nchosen Solomon my son, to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the\nLord over Israel.\n\n28:6. And he said to me: Solomon thy son shall build my house, and my\ncourts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be a father to\nhim.\n\n28:7. And I will establish his kingdom for ever, it he continue to keep\nmy commandments, and my judgments, as at this day.\n\n28:8. Now then before all the assembly of Israel, in the hearing of our\nGod, keep ye, and seek all the commandments of the Lord our God: that\nyou may possess the good land, and may leave it to your children after\nyou for ever.\n\n28:9. And thou my son Solomon, know the God of thy father, and serve\nhim with a perfect heart, and a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth\nall hearts, and understandeth all the thoughts of minds. If thou seek\nhim, thou shalt find him: but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee\noff for ever.\n\n28:10. Now therefore seeing the Lord hath chosen thee to build the\nhouse of the sanctuary, take courage, and do it.\n\n28:11. And David gave to Solomon his son a description of the porch,\nand of the temple, and of the treasures, and of the upper floor, and of\nthe inner chambers, and of the house for the mercy seat,\n\n28:12. As also of all the courts, which he had in his thought, and of\nthe chambers round about, for the treasures of the house of the Lord,\nand for the treasures of the consecrated things,\n\n28:13. And of the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, for all\nthe works of the house of the Lord, and for all the vessels of the\nservice of the temple of the Lord.\n\n28:14. Gold by weight for every vessel for the ministry. And silver by\nweight according to the diversity of the vessels and uses.\n\n28:15. He gave also gold for the golden candlesticks, and their lamps,\naccording to the dimensions of every candlestick, and the lamps\nthereof. In like manner also he gave silver by weight for the silver\ncandlesticks, and for their lamps according to the diversity of the\ndimensions of them.\n\n28:16. He gave also gold for the tables of proposition, according to\nthe diversity of the tables: in like manner also silver for other\ntables of silver.\n\n28:17. For fleshhooks also, and bowls, and censors of fine gold, and\nfor little lions of gold, according to the measure he gave by weight,\nfor every lion. In like manner also for lions of silver he set aside a\ndifferent weight of silver.\n\n28:18. And for the altar of incense, he gave the purest gold: and to\nmake the likeness of the chariot of the cherubims spreading their\nwings, and covering the ark of the covenant of the Lord.\n\n28:19. All these things, said he, came to me written by the hand of the\nLord that I might understand all the works of the pattern.\n\n28:20. And David said to Solomon his son: Act like a man, and take\ncourage, and do: fear not, and be not dismayed: for the Lord my God\nwill be with thee, and will not leave thee, nor forsake thee, till thou\nhast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.\n\n28:21. Behold the courses of the priests and the Levites, for every\nministry of the house of the Lord, stand by thee, and are ready, and\nboth the princes, and the people know how to execute all thy\ncommandments.\n\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 29\n\n\nDavid by word and example encourageth the princes to contribute\nliberally to the building of the temple. His thanksgiving, prayer, and\nsacrifices: his death.\n\n29:1. And king David said to all the assembly: Solomon my son, whom\nalone God hath chosen, is as yet young and tender: and the work is\ngreat, for a house is prepared not for man, but for God.\n\n29:2. And I with all my ability have prepared the expenses for the\nhouse of my God. Gold for vessels of gold, and silver for vessels of\nsilver, brass for things of brass, iron for things of iron, wood for\nthings of wood: and onyx stones, and stones like alabaster, and of\ndivers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble of Paros\nin great abundance.\n\n29:3. Now over and above the things which I have offered into the house\nof my God I give of my own proper goods, gold and silver for the temple\nof my God, beside what things I have prepared for the holy house.\n\n29:4. Three thousand talents of gold of the gold of Ophir: and seven\nthousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the temple.\n\n29:5. And gold for wheresoever there is need of gold: and silver for\nwheresoever there is need of silver, for the works to be made by the\nhands of the artificers: now if any man is willing to offer, let him\nfill his hand to day, and offer what he pleaseth to the Lord.\n\n29:6. Then the heads of the families, and the princes of the tribes of\nIsrael and the captains of thousands, and of hundreds, and the\noverseers of the king's possessions promised,\n\n29:7. And they gave for the works of the house of the Lord, of gold,\nfive thousand talents, and ten thousand solids: of silver ten thousand\ntalents: and of brass eighteen thousand talents: and of iron a hundred\nthousand talents.\n\n29:8. And all they that had stones, gave them to the treasures of the\nhouse of the Lord, by the hand of Jahiel the Gersonite.\n\n29:9. And the people rejoiced, when they promised their offerings\nwillingly: because they offered them to the Lord with all their heart:\nand David the king rejoiced also with a great joy.\n\n29:10. And he blessed the Lord before all the multitude, and he said:\nBlessed art thou, O Lord the God of Israel, our father from eternity to\neternity.\n\n29:11. Thine, O Lord, is magnificence, and power, and glory, and\nvictory: and to thee is praise: for all that is in heaven, and in\nearth, is thine: thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art above all\nprinces.\n\n29:12. Thine are riches, and thine is glory, thou hast dominion over\nall, in thy hand is power and might: in thy hand greatness, and the\nempire of all things.\n\n29:13. Now therefore our God we give thanks to thee, and we praise thy\nglorious name.\n\n29:14. Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to\npromise thee all these things? all things are thine: and we have given\nthee what we received of thy hand.\n\n29:15. For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all\nour fathers. I Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no\nstay.\n\n29:16. O Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build\nthee a house for thy holy name, is from thy hand, and all things are\nthine.\n\n29:17. I know my God that thou provest hearts, and lovest simplicity,\nwherefore I also in the simplicity of my heart, have joyfully offered\nall these things: and I have seen with great joy thy people, which are\nhere present, offer thee their offerings.\n\n29:18. O Lord God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel our fathers,\nkeep for ever this will of their heart, and let this mind remain always\nfor the worship of thee.\n\n29:19. And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, that he may keep thy\ncommandments, thy testimonies, and thy ceremonies, and do all things:\nand build the house, for which I have provided the charges.\n\n29:20. And David commanded all the assembly: Bless ye the Lord our God.\nAnd all the assembly blessed the Lord the God of their fathers: and\nthey bowed themselves and worshipped God, and then the king.\n\n29:21. And they sacrificed victims to the Lord: and they offered\nholocausts the next day, a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, a\nthousand lambs, with their libations, and with every thing prescribed\nmost abundantly for all Israel.\n\n29:22. And they ate, and drank before the Lord that day with great joy.\nAnd they anointed the second time Solomon the son of David. And they\nanointed him to the Lord to be prince, and Sadoc to be high priest.\n\n29:23. And Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of\nDavid his father, and he pleased all: and all Israel obeyed him.\n\n29:24. And all the princes, and men of power, and all the sons of king\nDavid gave their hand, and were subject to Solomon the king.\n\n29:25. And the Lord magnified Solomon over all Israel: and gave him the\nglory of a reign, such as no king of Israel had before him.\n\n29:26. So David the son of Isai reigned over all Israel.\n\n29:27. And the days that he reigned over Israel, were forty years: in\nHebron he reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem three and thirty years.\n\n29:28. And he died in a good age, full of days, and riches, and glory.\nAnd Solomon his son reigned in his stead.\n\n29:29. Now the acts of king David first and last are written in the\nbook of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in\nthe book of Gad the seer:\n\n29:30. And of all his reign, and his valour, and of the times that\npassed under him, either in Israel, or in all the kingdoms of the\ncountries.\n\n\n\n\nTHE SECOND BOOK OF PARALIPOMENON\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 1\n\n\nSolomon offereth sacrifices at Gabaon. His choice of wisdom which God\ngiveth him.\n\n1:1. And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and\nthe Lord his God was with him, and magnified him to a high degree.\n\n1:2. And Solomon gave orders to all Israel, to the captains of\nthousands, and of hundreds, and to the rulers, and to the judges of all\nIsrael, and the heads of the families:\n\n1:3. And he went with all the multitude to the high place of Gabaon,\nwhere was the tabernacle of the covenant of the Lord, which Moses the\nservant of God made, in the wilderness.\n\n1:4. For David had brought the ark of God from Cariathiarim to the\nplace, which he had prepared for it, and where he had pitched a\ntabernacle for it, that is, in Jerusalem.\n\n1:5. And the altar of brass, which Beseleel the son of Uri the son of\nHur had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon\nand all the assembly sought it:\n\n1:6. And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar, before the\ntabernacle of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up on it a thousand\nvictims.\n\n1:7. And behold that night God appeared to him, saying: Ask what thou\nwilt that I should give thee.\n\n1:8. And Solomon said to God: Thou hast shewn great kindness to my\nfather David: and hast made me king in his stead.\n\n1:9. Now therefore, O Lord God, let thy word be fulfilled, which thou\nhast promised to David my father: for thou hast made me king over thy\ngreat people, which is as innumerable as the dust of the earth.\n\n1:10. Give me wisdom and knowledge that I may come in and go out before\nthy people: for who can worthily judge this thy people, which is so\ngreat?\n\n1:11. And God said to Solomon: Because this choice hath pleased thy\nheart, and thou hast not asked riches, and wealth, and glory, nor the\nlives of them that hate thee, nor many days of life: but hast asked\nwisdom and knowledge, to be able to judge my people, over which I have\nmade thee king,\n\n1:12. Wisdom and knowledge are granted to thee: and I will give thee\nriches, and wealth, and glory, so that none of the kings before thee,\nnor after thee, shall be like thee.\n\n1:13. Then Solomon came from the high place of Gabaon to Jerusalem\nbefore the tabernacle of the covenant, and reigned over Israel.\n\n1:14. And he gathered to himself chariots and horsemen, and he had a\nthousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he\nplaced them in the cities of the chariots, and with the king in\nJerusalem.\n\n1:15. And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones,\nand cedar trees as sycamores, which grow in the plains in great\nmultitude.\n\n1:16. And there were horses brought him from Egypt, and from Coa by the\nking's merchants, who went, and bought at a price,\n\n1:17. A chariot of four horses for six hundred pieces of silver, and a\nhorse for a hundred and fifty: in like manner market was made in all\nthe kingdoms of the Hethites, and of the kings of Syria.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 2\n\n\nSolomon's embassy to Hiram, who sends him a skilful workman and timber.\n\n2:1. And Solomon determined to build a house to the name of the Lord,\nand a palace for himself.\n\n2:2. And he numbered out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and\neighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains, and three thousand six\nhundred to oversee them.\n\n2:3. He sent also to Hiram king of Tyre, saying: As thou didst with\nDavid my father, and didst send him cedars, to build him a house, in\nwhich he dwelt:\n\n2:4. So do with me that I may build a house to the name of the Lord my\nGod, to dedicate it to burn incense before him, and to perfume with\naromatical spices, and for the continual setting forth of bread, and\nfor the holocausts, morning and evening, and on the sabbaths, and on\nthe new moons, and the solemnities of the Lord our God for ever, which\nare commanded for Israel.\n\n2:5. For the house which I desire to build, is great: for our God is\ngreat above all gods.\n\n2:6. Who then can be able to build him a worthy house? if heaven, and\nthe heavens of heavens cannot contain him: who am I that I should be\nable to build him a house? but to this end only, that incense may be\nburnt before him.\n\n2:7. Send me therefore a skilful man, that knoweth how to work in gold,\nand in silver, in brass, and in iron, in purple, in scarlet and in\nblue, and that hath skill in engraving, with the artificers, which I\nhave with me in Judea and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.\n\n2:8. Send me also cedars, and fir trees, and pine trees from Libanus:\nfor I know that thy servants are skilful in cutting timber in Libanus,\nand my servants shall be with thy servants,\n\n2:9. To provide me timber in abundance. For the house which I desire to\nbuild, is to be exceeding great, and glorious.\n\n2:10. And I will give thy servants the workmen that are to cut down the\ntrees, for their food twenty thousand cores of wheat, and as many cores\nof barley, and twenty thousand measures of wine, and twenty thousand\nmeasures of oil.\n\n2:11. And Hiram king of Tyre sent a letter to Solomon, saying: Because\nthe Lord hath loved his people, therefore he hath made thee king over\nthem.\n\n2:12. And he added, saying: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who\nmade heaven and earth, who hath given to king David a wise and knowing\nson, endued with understanding and prudence, to build a house to the\nLord, and a palace for himself.\n\n2:13. I therefore have sent thee my father Hiram, a wise and most\nskilful man,\n\n2:14. The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a\nTyrian, who knoweth how to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, and\nin iron, and in marble, and in timber, in purple also, and violet, and\nsilk and scarlet: and who knoweth to grave all sort of graving, and to\ndevise ingeniously all that there may be need of in the work with thy\nartificers, and with the artificers of my lord David thy father.\n\n2:15. The wheat therefore, and the barley and the oil, and the wine,\nwhich thou, my lord, hast promised, send to thy servants.\n\n2:16. And we will cut down as many trees out of Libanus, as thou shalt\nwant, and will convey them in floats by sea to Joppe: and it will be\nthy part to bring them thence to Jerusalem.\n\n2:17. And Solomon numbered all the proselytes in the land of Israel,\nafter the numbering which David his father had made, and they were\nfound a hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred.\n\n2:18. And he set seventy thousand of them to carry burdens on their\nshoulders, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains: and\nthree thousand and six hundred to be overseers of the work of the\npeople.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 3\n\n\nThe plan and ornaments of the temple: the cherubims, the veil, and the\npillars.\n\n3:1. And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in\nmount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place\nwhich David had prepared in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.\n\n3:2. And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth year of\nhis reign.\n\n3:3. Now these are the foundations, which Solomon laid, to build the\nhouse of God, the length by the first measure sixty cubits, the breadth\ntwenty cubits.\n\n3:4. And the porch in the front, which was extended in length according\nto the measure of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits: and the\nheight was a hundred and twenty cubits: and he overlaid it within with\npure gold.\n\n3:5. And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid\nthem with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm\ntrees, and like little chains interlaced with one another.\n\n3:6. He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble,\nof great beauty.\n\n3:7. And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and\nthe beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of\nthe finest: and he graved cherubims on the walls.\n\n3:8. He made also the house of the holy of holies: the length of it\naccording to the breadth of the temple, twenty cubits, and the breadth\nof it in like manner twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with plates of\ngold, amounting to about six hundred talents.\n\n3:9. He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty\nsicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.\n\n3:10. He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of\nimage work: and he overlaid them with gold.\n\n3:11. The wings of the cherubims were extended twenty cubits, so that\none wing was five cubits long, and reached to the wall of the house:\nand the other was also five cubits long, and reached to the wing of the\nother cherub.\n\n3:12. In like manner the wing of the other cherub, was five cubits\nlong, and reached to the wall: and his other wing was five cubits long,\nand touched the wing of the other cherub.\n\n3:13. So the wings of the two cherubims were spread forth, and were\nextended twenty cubits: and they stood upright on their feet, and their\nfaces were turned toward the house without.\n\n3:14. He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and\nwrought in it cherubims.\n\n3:15. He made also before the doors of the temple two pillars, which\nwere five and thirty cubits high: and their chapiters were five cubits.\n\n3:16. He made also as it were little chains in the oracle, and he put\nthem on the heads of the pillars: and a hundred pomegranates, which he\nput between the little chains.\n\n3:17. These pillars he put at the entrance of the temple, one on the\nright hand, and the other on the left: that which was on the right\nhand, he called Jachin: and that on the left hand, Booz.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 4\n\n\nThe altar of brass, the molten sea upon twelve oxen, the ten loaves,\nthe candlesticks and other vessels and ornaments of the temple.\n\n4:1. He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty\ncubits broad, and ten cubits high.\n\n4:2. Also a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in\ncompass: it was five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits compassed\nit round about.\n\n4:3. And under it there was the likeness of oxen, and certain\nengravings on the outside of ten cubits compassed the belly of the sea,\nas it were with two rows.\n\n4:4. And the oxen were cast: and the sea itself was set upon the twelve\noxen, three of which looked toward the north, and other three toward\nthe west: and other three toward the south, and the other three that\nremained toward the east, and the sea stood upon them: and the hinder\nparts of the oxen were inward under the sea.\n\n4:5. Now the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it was\nlike the brim of a cup, or of a crisped lily: and it held three\nthousand measures.\n\n4:6. He made also ten lavers: and he set five on the right hand, and\nfive on the left, to wash in them all such things as they were to offer\nfor holocausts: but the sea was for the priests to wash in.\n\n4:7. And he made ten golden candlesticks, according to the form which\nthey were commanded to be made by: and he set them in the temple, five\non the right hand, and five on the left.\n\n4:8. Moreover also ten tables: and he set them in the temple, five on\nthe right side, and five on the left. Also a hundred bowls of gold.\n\n4:9. He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall, and doors\nin the hall, which he covered with brass.\n\n4:10. And he set the sea on the right side over against the east toward\nthe south.\n\n4:11. And Hiram made caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls: and finished\nall the king's work the house of God:\n\n4:12. That is to say, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the\nchapiters, and the network, to cover the chapiters over the pommels.\n\n4:13. And four hundred pomegranates, and two wreaths of network, so\nthat two rows of pomegranates were joined to each wreath, to cover the\npommels, and the chapiters of the pillars.\n\n4:14. He made also bases, and lavers, which he set upon the bases:\n\n4:15. One sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;\n\n4:16. And the caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls. All the vessels did\nHiram his father make for Solomon in the house of the Lord of the\nfinest brass.\n\n4:17. In the country near the Jordan did the king cast them, in a clay\nground between Sochot and Saredatha.\n\n4:18. And the multitude of vessels was innumerable, so that the weight\nof the brass was not known.\n\n4:19. And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of God, and the\ngolden altar, and the tables, upon which were the loaves of\nproposition,\n\n4:20. The candlesticks also of most pure gold with their lamps to give\nlight before the oracle, according to the manner.\n\n4:21. And certain flowers, and lamps, and golden tongs: all were made\nof the finest gold.\n\n4:22. The vessels also for the perfumes, and the censers, and the\nbowls, and the mortars, of pure gold. And he graved the doors of the\ninner temple, that is, for the holy of holies: and the doors of the\ntemple without were of gold. And thus all the work was finished which\nSolomon made in the house of the Lord.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 5\n\n\nThe ark is brought with great solemnity into the temple: the temple is\nfilled with the glory of God.\n\n5:1. Then Solomon brought in all those things that David his father had\nvowed, the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels he put among the\ntreasures of the house of God.\n\n5:2. And after this he gathered together the ancients of Israel and all\nthe princes of the tribes, and the heads of the families, of the\nchildren of Israel to Jerusalem, to bring the ark of the covenant of\nthe Lord out of the city of David, which is Sion.\n\n5:3. And all the men of Israel came to the king in the solemn day of\nthe seventh month.\n\n5:4. And when all the ancients of Israel were come, the Levites took up\nthe ark,\n\n5:5. And brought it in, together with all the furniture of the\ntabernacle. And the priests with the Levites carried the vessels of the\nsanctuary, which were in the tabernacle.\n\n5:6. And king Solomon and all the assembly of Israel and all that were\ngathered together before the ark, sacrificed rams, and oxen without\nnumber: so great was the multitude of the victims.\n\n5:7. And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord\ninto its place, that is, to the oracle of the temple, into the holy of\nholies under the wings of the cherubims:\n\n5:8. So that the cherubims spread their wings over the place, in which\nthe ark was set, and covered the ark itself and its staves.\n\n5:9. Now the ends of the staves wherewith the ark was carried, because\nthey were some thing longer, were seen before the oracle: but if a man\nwere a little outward, he could not see them. So the ark has been there\nunto this day.\n\n5:10. And there was nothing else in the ark but the two tables which\nMoses put there at Horeb when the Lord gave the law to the children of\nIsrael, at their coming out of Egypt.\n\n5:11. Now when the priests were come out of the sanctuary, for all the\npriests that could be found there, were sanctified: and as yet at that\ntime the courses and orders of the ministries were not divided among\nthem,\n\n5:12. Both the Levites and the singing men, that is, both they that\nwere under Asaph, and they that were under Heman, and they that were\nunder Idithun, with their sons, and their brethren, clothed with fine\nlinen, sounded with cymbals, and psalteries, and harps, standing on the\neast side of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests,\nsounding with trumpets.\n\n5:13. So when they all sounded together, both with trumpets, and voice,\nand cymbals, and organs, and with divers kind of musical instruments,\nand lifted up their voice on high: the sound was heard afar off, so\nthat when they began to praise the Lord, and to say: Give glory to the\nLord for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever: the house of God\nwas filled with a cloud.\n\n5:14. Nor could the priests stand and minister by reason of the cloud.\nFor the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 6\n\n\nSolomon's blessings and prayer.\n\n6:1. Then Solomon said: The Lord promised that he would dwell in a\ncloud.\n\n6:2. But I have built a house to his name, that he might dwell there\nfor ever.\n\n6:3. And the king turned his face, and blessed all the multitude of\nIsrael for all the multitude stood attentive and he said:\n\n6:4. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who hath accomplished in\ndeed that which he spoke to David my father, saying:\n\n6:5. From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I\nchose no city among all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built\nin it to my name: neither chose I any other man, to be the ruler of my\npeople Israel.\n\n6:6. But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose\nDavid to set him over my people Israel.\n\n6:7. And whereas David my father had a mind to build a house to the\nname of the Lord the God of Israel,\n\n6:8. The Lord said to him: Forasmuch as it was thy will to build a\nhouse to my name, thou hast done well indeed in having such a will:\n\n6:9. But thou shalt not build the house, but thy son, who shall come\nout of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.\n\n6:10. The Lord therefore hath accomplished his word which he spoke: and\nI am risen up in the place of David my father, and sit upon the throne\nof Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built a house to the name of\nthe Lord God of Israel.\n\n6:11. And I have put in it the ark, wherein is the covenant of the\nLord, which he made with the children of Israel.\n\n6:12. And he stood before the altar of the Lord, in presence of all the\nmultitude of Israel, and stretched forth his hands.\n\n6:13. For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, and had set it in the\nmidst of the temple, which was five cubits long, and five cubits broad,\nand three cubits high: and he stood upon it: then kneeling down in the\npresence of all the multitude of Israel, and lifting up his hands\ntowards heaven,\n\n6:14. He said: O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in\nheaven nor in earth: who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants,\nthat walk before thee with all their hearts:\n\n6:15. Who hast performed to thy servant David my father all that thou\nhast promised him: and hast accomplished in fact, what thou hast spoken\nwith thy mouth, as also the present time proveth.\n\n6:16. Now then, O Lord God of Israel, fulfil to thy servant David my\nfather, whatsoever thou hast promised him, saying: There shall not fail\nthee a man in my sight, to sit upon the throne of Israel: yet so that\nthy children take heed to their ways, and walk in my law, as thou hast\nwalked before me.\n\n6:17. And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy word be established which\nthou hast spoken to thy servant David.\n\n6:18. Is it credible then that God should dwell with men on the earth?\nIf heaven and the heavens of heavens do not contain thee, how much less\nthis house, which I have built?\n\n6:19. But to this end only it is made, that thou mayest regard the\nprayer of thy servant and his supplication, O Lord my God: and mayest\nhear the prayers which thy servant poureth out before thee.\n\n6:20. That thou mayest open thy eyes upon this house day and night,\nupon the place wherein thou hast promised that thy name should be\ncalled upon,\n\n6:21. And that thou wouldst hear the prayer which thy servant prayeth\nin it: hearken then to the prayers of thy servant, and of thy people\nIsrael. Whosoever shall pray in its place, hear thou from thy dwelling\nplace, that is, from heaven, and shew mercy.\n\n6:22. If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against\nhim, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house:\n\n6:23. Then hear thou from heaven, and do justice to thy servants, so to\nrequite the wicked by making his wickedness fall upon his own head, and\nto revenge the just, rewarding him according to his justice.\n\n6:24. If thy people Israel be overcome by their enemies, (for they will\nsin against thee,) and being converted shall do penance, and call upon\nthy name, and pray to thee in this place,\n\n6:25. Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people\nIsrael and bring them back into the land which thou gavest to them, and\ntheir fathers.\n\n6:26. If the heavens be shut up, and there fall no rain by reason of\nthe sin of the people, and they shall pray to thee in this place, and\nconfess to thy name, and be converted from their sins, where thou dost\nafflict them,\n\n6:27. Then hear thou from heaven, O Lord, and forgive the sins of thy\nservants and of thy people Israel and teach them the good way in which\nthey may walk: and give rain to thy land which thou hast given to thy\npeople to possess.\n\n6:28. If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence or blasting, or\nmildew, or locusts, or caterpillars: or if their enemies waste the\ncountry, and besiege the cities, whatsoever scourge or infirmity shall\nbe upon them:\n\n6:29. Then if any of thy people Israel, knowing his own scourge and\ninfirmity shall pray, and shall spread forth his hands in this house,\n\n6:30. Hear thou from heaven, from thy high dwelling place, and forgive,\nand render to every one according to his ways, which thou knowest him\nto have in his heart: for thou only knowest the hearts of the children\nof men:\n\n6:31. That they may fear thee, and walk in thy ways all the days that\nthey live upon the face of the land, which thou hast given to our\nfathers.\n\n6:32. If the stranger also, who is not of thy people Israel, come from\na far country, for the sake of thy great name, and thy strong hand, and\nthy stretched out arm, and adore in this place:\n\n6:33. Hear thou from heaven thy firm dwelling place, and do all that\nwhich that stranger shall call upon thee for: that all the people of\nthe earth may know thy name, and may fear thee, as thy people Israel,\nand may know, that thy name is invoked upon this house, which I have\nbuilt.\n\n6:34. If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by the way\nthat thou shalt send them, and adore thee towards the way of this city,\nwhich thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built to thy name:\n\n6:35. Then hear thou from heaven their prayers, and their\nsupplications, and revenge them.\n\n6:36. And if they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth\nnot) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them up to their enemies,\nand they lead them away captive to a land either afar off, or near at\nhand,\n\n6:37. And if they be converted in their heart in the land to which they\nwere led captive, and do penance, and pray to thee in the land of their\ncaptivity saying: We have sinned, we have done wickedly, we have dealt\nunjustly:\n\n6:38. And return to thee with all their heart, and with all their soul,\nin the land of their captivity, to which they were led away, and adore\nthee towards the way of their own land which thou gavest their fathers,\nand of the city, which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have\nbuilt to thy name:\n\n6:39. Then hear thou from heaven, that is, from thy firm dwelling\nplace, their prayers, and do judgment, and forgive thy people, although\nthey have sinned:\n\n6:40. For thou art my God: let thy eyes, I beseech thee, be open, and\nlet thy ears be attentive to the prayer, that is made in this place.\n\n6:41. Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place, thou and\nthe ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O Lord God, put on salvation,\nand thy saints rejoice in good things.\n\n6:42. O Lord God, turn not away the face of thy anointed: remember the\nmercies of David thy servant.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 7\n\n\nFire from heaven consumeth the sacrifices. The solemnity of the\ndedication of the temple. God signifieth his having heard Solomon's\nprayer: yet so if he continue to serve him.\n\n7:1. And when Solomon had made an end of his prayer, fire came down\nfrom heaven, and consumed the holocausts and the victims: and the\nmajesty of the Lord filled the house.\n\n7:2. Neither could the priests enter into the temple of the Lord,\nbecause the majesty of the Lord had filled the temple of the Lord.\n\n7:3. Moreover all the children of Israel saw the fire coming down, and\nthe glory of the Lord upon the house: and falling down with their faces\nto the ground, upon the stone pavement, they adored and praised the\nLord: because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n7:4. And the king and all the people sacrificed victims before the\nLord.\n\n7:5. And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen,\nand one hundred and twenty thousand rams: and the king and all the\npeople dedicated the house of God.\n\n7:6. And the priests stood in their offices: and the Levites with the\ninstruments of music of the Lord, which king David made to praise the\nLord: because his mercy endureth for ever, singing the hymns of David\nby their ministry: and the priests sounded with trumpets before them,\nand all Israel stood.\n\n7:7. Solomon also sanctified the middle of the court before the temple\nof the Lord: for he offered there the holocausts, and the fat of the\npeace offerings: because the brazen altar, which he had made, could not\nhold the holocausts and the sacrifices and the fat:\n\n7:8. And Solomon kept the solemnity at that time seven days, and all\nIsrael with him, a very great congregation, from the entrance of Emath\nto the torrent of Egypt.\n\n7:9. And he made on the eighth day a solemn assembly, because he had\nkept the dedication of the altar seven days, and had celebrated the\nsolemnity seven days.\n\n7:10. So on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent\naway the people to their dwellings, joyful and glad for the good that\nthe Lord had done to David, and to Solomon, and to all Israel his\npeople.\n\n7:11. And Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the king's house,\nand all that he had designed in his heart to do, in the house of the\nLord, and in his own house, and he prospered.\n\n7:12. And the Lord appeared to him by night, and said: I have heard thy\nprayer, and I have chosen this place to myself for a house of\nsacrifice.\n\n7:13. If I shut up heaven, and there fall no rain, or if I give orders,\nand command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence\namong my people:\n\n7:14. And my people, upon whom my name is called, being converted,\nshall make supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for\ntheir most wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive\ntheir sins and will heal their land.\n\n7:15. My eyes also shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer\nof him that shall pray in this place.\n\n7:16. For I have chosen, and have sanctified this place, that my name\nmay be there for ever, and my eyes and my heart may remain there\nperpetually.\n\n7:17. And as for thee, if thou walk before me, as David thy father\nwalked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and keep my\njustices and my judgments:\n\n7:18. I will raise up the throne of thy kingdom, as I promised to David\nthy father, saying: There shall not fail thee a man of thy stock to be\nruler in Israel.\n\n7:19. But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my\ncommandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve\nstrange gods, and adore them,\n\n7:20. I will pluck you up by the root out of my land which I have given\nyou: and this house which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast\naway from before my face, and will make it a byword, and an example\namong all nations.\n\n7:21. And this house shall be for a proverb to all that pass by, and\nthey shall be astonished and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this\nland, and to this house?\n\n7:22. And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord the God of\ntheir fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold\non strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore all\nthese evils are come upon them.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 8\n\n\nSolomon's buildings and other acts.\n\n8:1. And at the end of twenty years after Solomon had built the house\nof the Lord and his own house:\n\n8:2. He built the cities which Hiram had given to Solomon, and caused\nthe children of Israel to dwell there.\n\n8:3. He went also into Emath Suba, and possessed it.\n\n8:4. And he built Palmira in the desert, and he built other strong\ncities in Emath.\n\n8:5. And he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether,\nwalled cities with gates and bars and locks.\n\n8:6. Balaath also and all the strong cities that were Solomon's, and\nall the cities of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen. All\nthat Solomon had a mind, and designed, he built in Jerusalem and in\nLibanus, and in all the land of his dominion.\n\n8:7. All the people that were left of the Hethites, and the Amorrhites,\nand the Pherezites, and the Hevites, and the Jebusites, that were not\nof the stock of Israel:\n\n8:8. Of their children, and of the posterity, whom the children of\nIsrael had not slain, Solomon made to be the tributaries, unto this\nday.\n\n8:9. But of the children of Israel he set none to serve in the king's\nworks: for they were men of war, and chief captains, and rulers of his\nchariots and horsemen.\n\n8:10. And all the chief captains of king Solomon's army were two\nhundred and fifty, who taught the people.\n\n8:11. And he removed the daughter of Pharao from the city of David, to\nthe house which he had built for her. For the king said: My wife shall\nnot dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for it is sanctified:\nbecause the ark of the Lord came into it.\n\n8:12. Then Solomon offered holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of the\nLord which he had built before the porch,\n\n8:13. That every day an offering might be made on it according to the\nordinance of Moses, in the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the\nfestival days three times a year, that is to say, in the feast of\nunleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of\ntabernacles.\n\n8:14. And he appointed according to the order of David his father the\noffices of the priests in their ministries: and the Levites in their\norder to give praise, and minister before the priests according to the\nduty of every day: and the porters in their divisions by gate and gate:\nfor so David the man of God had commanded.\n\n8:15. And the priests and Levites departed not from the king's\ncommandments, as to any thing that he had commanded, and as to the\nkeeping of the treasures.\n\n8:16. Solomon had all charges prepared, from the day that he founded\nthe house of the Lord, until the day wherein he finished it.\n\n8:17. Then Solomon went to Asiongaber, and to Ailath, on the coast of\nthe Red Sea, which is in the land of Edom.\n\n8:18. And Hiram sent him ships by the hands of his servants, and\nskilful mariners, and they went with Solomon's servants to Ophir, and\nthey took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought it\nto king Solomon.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 9\n\n\nThe queen of Saba admireth the wisdom of Solomon. His riches and glory.\nHis death.\n\n9:1. And when the queen of Saba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came\nto try him with hard questions at Jerusalem, with great riches, and\ncamels, which carried spices, and abundance of gold, and precious\nstones. And when she was come to Solomon, she proposed to him all that\nwas in her heart.\n\n9:2. And Solomon explained to her all that she proposed: and there was\nnot any thing that he did not make clear unto her.\n\n9:3. And when she had seen these things, to wit, the wisdom of Solomon,\nand the house which he had built,\n\n9:4. And the meats of his table, and the dwelling places of his\nservants, and the attendance of his officers, and their apparel, his\ncupbearers also, and their garments, and the victims which he offered\nin the house of the Lord: there was no more spirit in her, she was so\nastonished.\n\n9:5. And she said to the king: The word is true which I heard in my\ncountry of thy virtues and wisdom.\n\n9:6. I did not believe them that told it, until I came, and my eyes had\nseen, and I had proved that scarce one half of thy wisdom had been told\nme: thou hast exceeded the same with thy virtues.\n\n9:7. Happy are thy men, and happy are thy servants, who stand always\nbefore thee, and hear thy wisdom.\n\n9:8. Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath been pleased to set thee on\nhis throne, king of the Lord thy God. Because God loveth Israel, and\nwill preserve them forever: therefore hath he made thee king over them,\nto do judgment and justice.\n\n9:9. And she gave to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and\nspices in great abundance, and most precious stones: there were no such\nspices as these which the queen of Saba gave to king Solomon.\n\n9:10. And the servants also of Hiram, with the servants of Solomon,\nbrought gold from Ophir, and thyine trees, and most precious stones:\n\n9:11. And the king made of the thyine trees stairs in the house of the\nLord, and in the king's house, and harps and psalteries for the singing\nmen: never were there seen such trees in the land of Juda.\n\n9:12. And king Solomon gave to the queen of Saba all that she desired,\nand that she asked, and many more things than she brought to him: so\nshe returned, and went to her own country with her servants.\n\n9:13. And the weight of the gold, that was brought to Solomon every\nyear, was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold:\n\n9:14. Beside the sum which the deputies of divers nations, and the\nmerchants were accustomed to bring, and all the kings of Arabia, and\nthe lords of the lands, who brought gold and silver to Solomon.\n\n9:15. And king Solomon made two hundred golden spears, of the sum of\nsix hundred pieces of gold, which went to every spear:\n\n9:16. And three hundred golden shields of three hundred pieces of gold,\nwhich went to the covering of every shield: and the king put them in\nthe armoury, which was compassed with a wood.\n\n9:17. The king also made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with\npure gold.\n\n9:18. And six steps to go up to the throne, and a footstool of gold,\nand two arms one on either side, and two lions standing by the arms:\n\n9:19. Moreover twelve other little lions standing upon the steps on\nboth sides: there was not such a throne in any kingdom.\n\n9:20. And all the vessels of the king's table were of gold, and the\nvessels of the house of the forest of Libanus were of the purest gold.\nFor no account was made of silver in those days.\n\n9:21. For the king's ships went to Tharsis with the servants of Hiram,\nonce in three years: and they brought thence gold and silver, and\nivory, and apes, and peacocks.\n\n9:22. And Solomon was magnified above all the kings of the earth for\nriches and glory.\n\n9:23. And all the kings of the earth desired to see the face of\nSolomon, that they might hear the wisdom which God had given in his\nheart.\n\n9:24. And every year they brought him presents, vessels of silver and\nof gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, and horses, and mules.\n\n9:25. And Solomon had forty thousand horses in the stables, and twelve\nthousand chariots, and horsemen, and he placed them in the cities of\nthe chariots and where the king was in Jerusalem.\n\n9:26. And he exercised authority over all the kings from the river\nEuphrates to the land of the Philistines, and to the borders of Egypt.\n\n9:27. And he made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and\ncedars as common as the sycamores, which grow in the plains.\n\n9:28. And horses were brought to him out of Egypt, and out of all\ncountries.\n\n9:29. Now the rest of the acts of Solomon first and last are written in\nthe words of Nathan the prophet, and in the books of Ahias the\nSilonite, and in the vision of Addo the seer, against Jeroboam the son\nof Nabat.\n\n9:30. And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.\n\n9:31. And he slept with his fathers: and they buried him in the city of\nDavid: and Roboam his son reigned in his stead.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 10\n\n\nRoboam answereth the people roughly: upon which ten tribes revolt.\n\n10:1. And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither all Israel were assembled,\nto make him king.\n\n10:2. And when Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who was in Egypt, (for he was\nfled thither from Solomon,) heard it, forthwith he returned.\n\n10:3. And they sent for him, and he came with all Israel, and they\nspoke to Roboam, saying:\n\n10:4. Thy father oppressed with a most grievous yoke, do thou govern us\nwith a lighter hand than thy father, who laid upon us a heavy\nservitude, and ease some thing of the burden, that we may serve thee.\n\n10:5. And he said to them: Come to me again after three days. And when\nthe people were gone,\n\n10:6. He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his\nfather Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to\nme, that I may answer the people?\n\n10:7. And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them\nwith kind words, they will be thy servants for ever.\n\n10:8. But he forsook the counsel of the ancients, and began to treat\nwith the young men, that had been brought up with him, and were in his\ntrain.\n\n10:9. And he said to them: What seemeth good to you? or what shall I\nanswer this people, who have said to me: Ease the yoke which thy father\nlaid upon us?\n\n10:10. But they answered as young men, and brought up with him in\npleasures, and said: Thus shalt thou speak to the people, that said to\nthee: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease it: thus shalt thou\nanswer them: My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father.\n\n10:11. My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, and I will add more weight\nto it: my father beat you with scourges, but I will beat you with\nscorpions.\n\n10:12. So Jeroboam, and all the people came to Roboam the third day, as\nhe commanded them.\n\n10:13. And the king answered roughly, leaving the counsel of the\nancients.\n\n10:14. And he spoke according to the advice of the young men: My father\nlaid upon you a heavy yoke, which I will make heavier: my father beat\nyou with scourges, but I will beat you with scorpions.\n\n10:15. And he condescended not to the people's requests: for it was the\nwill of God, that his word might be fulfilled which he had spoken by\nthe hand of Ahias the Silonite to Jeroboam the son of Nabat.\n\n10:16. And all the people upon the king's speaking roughly, said thus\nunto him: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai.\nReturn to thy dwellings, O Israel, and do thou, O David feed thy own\nhouse. And Israel went away to their dwellings.\n\n10:17. But Roboam reigned over the children of Israel that dwelt in the\ncities of Juda.\n\n10:18. And king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tributes, and the\nchildren of Israel stoned him, and he died: and king Roboam made haste\nto get up into his chariot, and fled into Jerusalem.\n\n10:19. And Israel revolted from the house of David unto this day.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 11\n\n\nRoboam's reign. His kingdom is strengthened.\n\n11:1. And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and called together all the house\nof Juda and of Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men\nand warriors, to fight against Israel, and to bring back his kingdom to\nhim.\n\n11:2. And the word of the Lord came to Semeias the man of God, saying:\n\n11:3. Speak to Roboam the son of Solomon the king of Juda, and to all\nIsrael, in Juda and Benjamin:\n\n11:4. Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up, nor fight against your\nbrethren: let every man return to his own house, for by my will this\nthing has been done. And when they heard the word of the Lord, they\nreturned, and did not go against Jeroboam,\n\n11:5. And Roboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built walled cities in Juda.\n\n11:6. And he built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Thecue,\n\n11:7. And Bethsur, and Socho, and Odollam,\n\n11:8. And Geth, and Maresa, and Ziph,\n\n11:9. And Aduram, and Lachis, and Azecha,\n\n11:10. Saraa also, and Aialon, and Hebron, which are in Juda and\nBenjamin, well fenced cities.\n\n11:11. And when he had enclosed them with walls, he put in them\ngovernors and storehouses of provisions, that is, of oil and of wine.\n\n11:12. Moreover in every city he made an armoury of shields and spears,\nand he fortified them with great diligence, and he reigned over Juda,\nand Benjamin,\n\n11:13. And the priests and Levites, that were in all Israel, came to\nhim out of all their seats,\n\n11:14. Leaving their suburbs, and their possessions, and passing over\nto Juda, and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had cast them\noff, from executing the priestly office to the Lord.\n\n11:15. And he made to himself priests for the high places, and for the\ndevils, and for the calves which he had made.\n\n11:16. Moreover out of all the tribes of Israel, whosoever gave their\nheart to seek the Lord the God of Israel, came into Jerusalem to\nsacrifice their victims before the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n11:17. And they strengthened the kingdom of Juda, and established\nRoboam the son of Solomon for three years: for they walked in the ways\nof David and of Solomon, only three years.\n\n11:18. And Roboam took to wife Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth the\nson of David: and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Isai.\n\n11:19. And they bore him sons Jehus, and Somorias, and Zoom.\n\n11:20. And after her he married Maacha the daughter of Absalom, who\nbore him Abia, and Ethai, and Ziza, and Salomith.\n\n11:21. And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Absalom above all his\nwives and concubines: for he had married eighteen wives, and threescore\nconcubines: and he begot eight and twenty sons, and threescore\ndaughters.\n\n11:22. But he put at the head of them Abia the son of Maacha to be the\nchief ruler over all his brethren: for he meant to make him king,\n\n11:23. Because he was wiser and mightier than all his sons, and in all\nthe countries of Juda, and of Benjamin, and in all the walled cities:\nand he gave them provisions in abundance, and he sought many wives.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 12\n\n\nRoboam for his sins is delivered up into the hands of the king of\nEgypt: who carrieth away all the treasures of the temple.\n\n12:1. And when the kingdom of Roboam was strengthened and fortified, he\nforsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.\n\n12:2. And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt\ncame up against Jerusalem (because they had sinned against the Lord)\n\n12:3. With twelve hundred chariots and threescore thousand horsemen:\nand the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt, to\nwit, Libyans, and Troglodites, and Ethiopians.\n\n12:4. And he took the strongest cities in Juda, and came to Jerusalem.\n\n12:5. And Semeias the prophet came to Roboam, and to the princes of\nJuda, that were gathered together in Jerusalem, fleeing from Sesac, and\nhe said to them: Thus saith the Lord: You have left me, and I have left\nyou in the hand of Sesac.\n\n12:6. And the princes of Israel, and the king, being in a\nconsternation, said: The Lord is just.\n\n12:7. And when the Lord saw that they were humbled, the word of the\nLord came to Semeias, saying: Because they are humbled, I will not\ndestroy them, and I will give them a little help, and my wrath shall\nnot fall upon Jerusalem by the hand of Sesac.\n\n12:8. But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference\nbetween my service, and the service of a kingdom of the earth.\n\n12:9. So Sesac king of Egypt departed from Jerusalem, taking away the\ntreasures of the king's house, and he took all with him, and the golden\nshields that Solomon had made,\n\n12:10. Instead of which the king made brazen ones, and delivered them\nto the captains of the shieldbearers, who guarded the entrance of the\npalace.\n\n12:11. And when the king entered into the house of the Lord, the\nshieldbearers came and took them, and brought them back again to their\narmoury.\n\n12:12. But yet because they were humbled, the wrath of the Lord turned\naway from them, and they were not utterly destroyed: for even in Juda\nthere were found good works.\n\n12:13. King Roboam therefore was strengthened in Jerusalem, and\nreigned: he was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out\nof all the tribes of Israel, to establish his name there: and the name\nof his mother was Naama an Ammonitess.\n\n12:14. But he did evil, and did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord.\n\n12:15. Now the acts of Roboam first and last are written in the books\nof Semeias the prophet, and of Addo the seer, and diligently recorded:\nand there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam all their days.\n\n12:16. And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of\nDavid. And Abia his son reigned in his stead.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 13\n\n\nAbia's reign: his victory over Jeroboam.\n\n13:1. In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, Abia reigned over Juda.\n\n13:2. Three years he reigned in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was\nMichaia, the daughter of Uriel of Gabaa: and there was war between Abia\nand Jeroboam.\n\nMichaia. . .Alias Maacha. Her father had also two names, viz., Absalom,\nor Abessalom, and Uriel.\n\n13:3. And when Abia had begun battle, and had with him four hundred\nthousand most valiant and chosen men, Jeroboam put his army in array\nagainst him, eight hundred thousand men, who were also chosen and most\nvaliant for war.\n\n13:4. And Abia stood upon mount Semeron, which was in Ephraim, and\nsaid: Hear me, O Jeroboam, and all Israel:\n\n13:5. Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel gave to David the\nkingdom over Israel for ever, to him and to his sons by a covenant of\nsalt?\n\nA covenant of salt. . .That is, a firm and perpetual covenant. See Num.\n18.19.\n\n13:6. And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, the servant of Solomon the son of\nDavid, rose up: and rebelled against his lord.\n\n13:7. And there were gathered to him vain men, and children of Belial:\nand they prevailed against Roboam the son of Solomon: for Roboam was\nunexperienced, and of a fearful heart, and could not resist them.\n\n13:8. And now you say that you are able to withstand the kingdom of the\nLord, which he possesseth by the sons of David, and you have a great\nmultitude of people, and golden calves, which Jeroboam hath made you\nfor gods.\n\n13:9. And you have cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron,\nand the Levites: and you have made you priests, like all the nations of\nthe earth: whosoever cometh and consecrateth his hand with a bullock of\nthe herd, and with seven rams, is made a priest of those who are no\ngods.\n\n13:10. But the Lord is our God, whom we forsake not, and the priests\nwho minister to the Lord are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites are in\ntheir order.\n\n13:11. And they offer holocausts to the Lord, every day, morning and\nevening, and incense made according to the ordinance of the law, and\nthe loaves are set forth on a most clean table, and there is with us\nthe golden candlestick, and the lamps thereof, to be lighted always in\nthe evening: for we keep the precepts of the Lord our God, whom you\nhave forsaken.\n\n13:12. Therefore God is the leader in our army, and his priests who\nsound with trumpets, and resound against you: O children of Israel,\nfight not against the Lord the God of your fathers, for it is not good\nfor you.\n\n13:13. While he spoke these things, Jeroboam caused an ambushment to\ncome about behind him. And while he stood facing the enemies, he\nencompassed Juda, who perceived it not, with his army.\n\n13:14. And when Juda looked back, they saw the battle coming upon them\nboth before and behind, and they cried to the Lord: and the priests\nbegan to sound with the trumpets.\n\n13:15. And all the men of Juda shouted: and behold when they shouted,\nGod terrified Jeroboam, and all Israel that stood against Abia and\nJuda.\n\n13:16. And the children of Israel fled before Juda, and the Lord\ndelivered them into their hand.\n\n13:17. And Abia and his people slew them with a great slaughter, and\nthere fell wounded of Israel five hundred thousand valiant men.\n\n13:18. And the children of Israel were brought down, at that time, and\nthe children of Juda were exceedingly strengthened, because they had\ntrusted in the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n13:19. And Abia pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him,\nBethel and her daughters, and Jesana with her daughters, Ephron also\nand her daughters.\n\n13:20. And Jeroboam was not able to resist any more, in the days of\nAbia: and the Lord struck him, and he died.\n\n13:21. But Abia, being strengthened in his kingdom, took fourteen\nwives: and begot two and twenty sons, and sixteen daughters.\n\n13:22. And the rest of the acts of Abia, and of his ways and works, are\nwritten diligently in the book of Addo the prophet.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 14\n\n\nThe reign of Asa: his victory over the Ethiopians.\n\n14:1. And Abia slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city\nof David: an Asa his son reigned in his stead: in his days the land was\nquiet ten years.\n\n14:2. And Asa did that which was good and pleasing in the sight of his\nGod, and he destroyed the altars of foreign worship, and the high\nplaces.\n\n14:3. And broke the statues, and cut down the groves.\n\n14:4. And he commanded Juda to seek the Lord the God of their fathers,\nand to do the law, and all the commandments.\n\n14:5. And he took away out of all the cities of Juda the altars, and\ntemples, and reigned in peace.\n\n14:6. He built also strong cities in Juda, for he was quiet, and there\nhad no wars risen in his time, the Lord giving peace.\n\n14:7. And he said to Juda: Let us build these cities, and compass them\nwith walls, and fortify them with towers, and gates, and bars, while\nall is quiet from wars, because we have sought the Lord the God of our\nfathers, and he hath given us peace round about. So they built, and\nthere was no hinderance in building.\n\n14:8. And Asa had in his army of men that bore shields and spears of\nJuda three hundred thousand, and of Benjamin that bore shields and drew\nbows, two hundred and eighty thousand, all these were most valiant men.\n\n14:9. And Zara the Ethiopian came out against them with his army of ten\nhundred thousand men, and with three hundred chariots: and he came as\nfar as Maresa.\n\n14:10. And Asa went out to meet him, and set his army in array for\nbattle in the vale of Sephata, which is near Maresa:\n\n14:11. And he called upon the Lord God, and said: Lord, there is no\ndifference with thee, whether thou help with few, or with many: help\nus, O Lord our God: for with confidence in thee, and in thy name we are\ncome against this multitude. O Lord thou art our God, let not man\nprevail against thee.\n\n14:12. And the Lord terrified the Ethiopians before Asa and Juda: and\nthe Ethiopians fled.\n\n14:13. And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them to\nGerara: and the Ethiopians fell even to utter destruction, for the Lord\nslew them, and his army fought against them, and they were destroyed.\nAnd they took abundance of spoils,\n\n14:14. And they took all the cities round about Gerara: for a great\nfear was come upon all men: and they pillaged the cities, and carried\noff much booty.\n\n14:15. And they destroyed the sheepcotes, and took an infinite number\nof cattle, and of camels: and returned to Jerusalem.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 15\n\n\nThe prophecy of Azarias. Asa's covenant with God. He deposeth his\nmother.\n\n15:1. And the spirit of God came upon Azarias the son of Oded,\n\n15:2. And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa,\nand all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been\nwith him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he\nwill forsake you.\n\n15:3. And many days shall pass in Israel, without the true God, and\nwithout a priest a teacher, and without the law.\n\n15:4. And when in their distress they shall return to the Lord the God\nof Israel, and shall seek him, they shall find him.\n\n15:5. At that time there shall be no peace to him that goeth out and\ncometh in, but terrors on every side among all the inhabitants of the\nearth.\n\n15:6. For nation shall fight against nation, and city against city, for\nthe Lord will trouble them with all distress.\n\n15:7. Do you therefore take courage, and let not your hands be\nweakened: for there shall be a reward for your work.\n\n15:8. And when Asa had heard the words, and the prophecy of Azarias the\nson of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and took away the idols out\nof all the land of Juda, and out of Benjamin, and out of the cities of\nmount Ephraim, which he had taken, and he dedicated the altar of the\nLord, which was before the porch of the Lord.\n\n15:9. And he gathered together all Juda and Benjamin, and the strangers\nwith them of Ephraim, and Manasses, and Simeon: for many were come over\nto him out of Israel, seeing that the Lord his God was with him.\n\n15:10. And when they were come to Jerusalem in the third month, in the\nfifteenth year of the reign of Asa,\n\n15:11. They sacrificed to the Lord in that day of the spoils, and of\nthe prey, that they had brought, seven hundred oxen, and seven thousand\nrams.\n\n15:12. And he went in to confirm as usual the covenant, that they\nshould seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart, and\nwith all their soul.\n\n15:13. And if any one, said he, seek not the Lord the God of Israel,\nlet him die, whether little or great, man or woman.\n\n15:14. And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice with joyful\nshouting, and with sound of trumpet, and sound of cornets,\n\n15:15. All that were in Juda with a curse: for with all their heart\nthey swore, and with all their will they sought him, and they found\nhim, and the Lord gave them rest round about.\n\n15:16. Moreover Maacha the mother of king Asa he deposed from the royal\nauthority, because she had made in a grove an idol of Priapus: and he\nentirely destroyed it, and breaking it into pieces, burnt it at the\ntorrent Cedron.\n\n15:17. But high places were left in Israel: nevertheless the heart of\nAsa was perfect all his days.\n\n15:18. And the things which his father had vowed, and he himself had\nvowed, he brought into the house of the Lord, gold and silver, and\nvessels of divers uses.\n\n15:19. And there was no war unto the five and thirtieth year of the\nkingdom of Asa.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 16\n\n\nAsa is reproved for seeking help from the Syrians: his last acts and\ndeath.\n\n16:1. And in the six and thirtieth year of his kingdom, Baasa the king\nof Israel came up against Juda, and built a wall about Rama, that no\none might safely go out or come in of the kingdom of Asa.\n\nSix and thirtieth year of his kingdom. . .That is, of the kingdom of\nJuda, taking the date of it from the beginning of the reign of Reboam.\n\n16:2. Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the\nhouse of the Lord, and of the king's treasures, and sent to Benadad\nking of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying:\n\n16:3. There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my\nfather and thy father, wherefore I have sent thee silver and gold, that\nthou mayst break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, and make him\ndepart from me.\n\n16:4. And when Benadad heard this, he sent the captains of his armies\nagainst the cities of Israel: and they took Ahion, and Dan, and\nAbelmaim, and all the walled cities of Nephtali.\n\n16:5. And when Baasa heard of it, he left off the building of Rama, and\ninterrupted his work.\n\n16:6. Then king Asa took all Juda, and they carried away from Rama the\nstones, and the timber that Baasa had prepared for the building: and he\nbuilt with them Gabaa, and Maspha.\n\n16:7. At that time Hanani the prophet came to Asa king of Juda, and\nsaid to him: Because thou hast had confidence in the king of Syria, and\nnot in the Lord thy God, therefore hath the army of the king of Syria\nescaped out of thy hand.\n\n16:8. Were not the Ethiopians, and the Libyans much more numerous in\nchariots, and horsemen, and an exceeding great multitude: yet because\nthou trustedst in the Lord, he delivered them into thy hand?\n\n16:9. For the eyes of the Lord behold all the earth, and give strength\nto those who with a perfect heart trust in him. Wherefore thou hast\ndone foolishly, and for this cause from this time wars shall arise\nagainst thee.\n\n16:10. And Asa was angry with the seer, and commanded him to be put in\nprison: for he was greatly enraged because of this thing: and he put to\ndeath many of the people at that time.\n\n16:11. But the works of Asa the first and last are written in the book\nof the kings of Juda and Israel.\n\n16:12. And Asa fell sick in the nine and thirtieth year of his reign,\nof a most violent pain in his feet, and yet in his illness he did not\nseek the Lord, but rather trusted in the skill of physicians.\n\n16:13. And he slept with his fathers: and he died in the one and\nfortieth year of his reign.\n\n16:14. And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for\nhimself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of\nspices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the\nperfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 17\n\n\nJosaphat's reign: his care for the instruction of his people: his\nnumerous forces.\n\n17:1. And Josaphat his son reigned in his stead, and grew strong\nagainst Israel.\n\n17:2. And he placed numbers of soldiers in all the fortified cities of\nJuda. And he put garrisons in the land of Juda, and in the cities of\nEphraim, which Asa his father had taken.\n\n17:3. And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first\nways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim,\n\n17:4. But in the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and\nnot according to the sins of Israel.\n\n17:5. And the Lord established the kingdom in his hand, and all Juda\nbrought presents to Josaphat: and he acquired immense riches, and much\nglory.\n\n17:6. And when his heart had taken courage for the ways of the Lord, he\ntook away also the high places and the groves out of Juda.\n\n17:7. And in the third year of his reign, he sent of his princes\nBenhail, and Abdias, and Zacharias, and Nathanael, and Micheas, to\nteach in the cites of Juda:\n\n17:8. And with them the Levites, Semeias, and Nathanias, and Zabadias,\nand Asael, and Semiramoth, and Jonathan, and Adonias, and Tobias, and\nThobadonias Levites, and with them Elisama, and Joram priests.\n\n17:9. And they taught the people in Juda, having with them the book of\nthe law of the Lord: and they went about all the cities of Juda, and\ninstructed the people.\n\n17:10. And the fear of the Lord came upon all the kingdoms of the lands\nthat were round about Juda, and they durst not make war against\nJosaphat.\n\n17:11. The Philistines also brought presents to Josaphat, and tribute\nin silver, and the Arabians brought him cattle, seven thousand seven\nhundred rams, and as many he goats.\n\n17:12. And Josaphat grew, and became exceeding great: and he built in\nJuda houses like towers, and walled cities.\n\n17:13. And he prepared many works in the cities of Juda: and he had\nwarriors, and valiant men in Jerusalem.\n\n17:14. Of whom this is the number of the houses and families of every\none: in Juda captains of the army, Ednas the chief, and with him three\nhundred thousand most valiant men.\n\n17:15. After him Johanan the captain, and with him two hundred and\neighty thousand.\n\n17:16. And after him was Amasias the son of Zechri, consecrated to the\nLord, and with him were two hundred thousand valiant men.\n\n17:17. After him was Eliada valiant in battle, and with him two hundred\nthousand armed with bow and shield.\n\n17:18. After him also was Jozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty\nthousand ready for war.\n\n17:19. All these were at the hand of the king, beside others, whom he\nhad put in the walled cities, in all Juda.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 18\n\n\nJosaphat accompanies Achab in his expedition against Ramoth; where\nAchab is slain, as Micheas had foretold.\n\n18:1. Now Josaphat was rich and very glorious, and was joined by\naffinity to Achab.\n\n18:2. And he went down to him after some years to Samaria: and Achab at\nhis coming killed sheep and oxen in abundance for him and the people\nthat came with him: and he persuaded him to go up to Ramoth Galaad.\n\n18:3. And Achab king of Israel said to Josaphat king of Juda: Come with\nme to Ramoth Galaad. And he answered him: Thou art as I am, and my\npeople as thy people, and we will be with thee in the war.\n\n18:4. And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: Inquire, I beseech thee,\nat present the word of the Lord.\n\n18:5. So the king of Israel gathered together of the prophets four\nhundred men, and he said to them: Shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to\nfight, or shall we forbear? But they said: Go up, and God will deliver\ninto the king's hand.\n\n18:6. And Josaphat said: Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that\nwe may inquire also of him?\n\n18:7. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: There is one man, of\nwhom we may ask the will of the Lord: but I hate him, for he never\nprophesieth good to me, but always evil: and it is Micheas the son of\nJemla. And Josaphat said: Speak not thus, O king.\n\n18:8. And the king of Israel called one of the eunuchs, and said to\nhim: Call quickly Micheas the son of Jemla.\n\n18:9. Now the king of Israel, and Josaphat king of Juda, both sat on\ntheir thrones, clothed in royal robes, and they sat in the open court\nby the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them.\n\n18:10. And Sedecias the son of Chanaana made him horns of iron, and\nsaid: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till thou\ndestroy it.\n\n18:11. And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, and said: Go up\nto Ramoth Galaad, and thou shalt prosper, and the Lord will deliver\nthem into the king's hand.\n\n18:12. And the messenger that went to call Micheas, said to him: Behold\nthe words of all the prophets with one mouth declare good to the king:\nI beseech thee therefore let not thy word disagree with them, and speak\nthou also good success.\n\n18:13. And Micheas answered him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever my God\nshall say to me, that will I speak.\n\n18:14. So he came to the king: and the king said to him: Micheas, shall\nwe go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or forbear? And he answered him: Go\nup, for all shall succeed prosperously, and the enemies shall be\ndelivered into your hands.\n\n18:15. And the king said: I adjure thee again and again to say nothing\nbut the truth to me, in the name of the Lord.\n\n18:16. Then he said: I saw all Israel scattered in the mountains, like\nsheep without a shepherd: and the Lord said: These have no masters:\nlet every man return to his own house in peace.\n\n18:17. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Did I not tell thee\nthat this man would not prophesy me any good, but evil?\n\n18:18. Then he said: Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord: I saw the\nLord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him\non the right hand and on the left,\n\n18:19. And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab king of Israel, that\nhe may go up and fall in Ramoth Galaad? And when one spoke in this\nmanner, and another otherwise:\n\nWho shall deceive, etc. . .See the annotations, 3 Kings 22.\n\n18:20. There came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said:\nI will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means wilt thou\ndeceive him?\n\n18:21. And he answered: I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the\nmouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive, and\nshalt prevail: go out, and do so.\n\n18:22. Now therefore behold the Lord hath put a spirit of lying in the\nmouth of all thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee.\n\n18:23. And Sedecias the son of Chanaana came, and struck Micheas on the\ncheek and said: Which way went the spirit of the Lord from me, to speak\nto thee?\n\n18:24. And Micheas said: Thou thyself shalt see in that day, when thou\nshalt go in from chamber to chamber, to hide thyself.\n\n18:25. And the king of Israel commanded, saying: Take Micheas, and\ncarry him to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joas the son of\nAmelech,\n\n18:26. And say: Thus saith the king: Put this fellow in prison, and\ngive him bread and water in a small quantity till I return in peace.\n\n18:27. And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not\nspoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.\n\n18:28. So the king of Israel and Josaphat king of Juda went up to\nRamoth Galaad.\n\n18:29. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: I will change my dress,\nand so I will go to the battle, but put thou on thy own garments. And\nthe king of Israel having changed his dress, went to the battle.\n\n18:30. Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his cavalry,\nsaying: Fight ye not with small, or great, but with the king of Israel\nonly.\n\n18:31. So when the captains of the cavalry saw Josaphat, they said:\nThis is the king of Israel. And they surrounded him to attack him: but\nhe cried to the Lord, and he helped him, and turned them away from him.\n\n18:32. For when the captains of the cavalry saw, that he was not the\nking of Israel, they left him.\n\n18:33. And it happened that one of the people shot an arrow at a\nventure, and struck the king of Israel between the neck and the\nshoulders, and he said to his chariot man: Turn thy hand, and carry me\nout of the battle, for I am wounded.\n\n18:34. And the fight was ended that day: but the king of Israel stood\nin his chariot against the Syrians until the evening, and died at the\nsunset.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 19\n\n\nJosaphat's charge to the judges and to the Levites.\n\n19:1. And Josaphat king of Juda returned to his house in peace to\nJerusalem.\n\n19:2. And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer met him, and said to him:\nThou helpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in friendship with them\nthat hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath\nof the Lord:\n\n19:3. But good works are found in thee, because thou hast taken away\nthe groves out of the land of Juda, and hast prepared thy heart to seek\nthe Lord the God of thy fathers.\n\n19:4. And Josaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again to the\npeople from Bersabee to mount Ephraim, and brought them back to the\nLord the God of their fathers.\n\n19:5. And he set judges of the land in all the fenced cities of Juda,\nin every place.\n\n19:6. And charging the judges, he said: Take heed what you do: for you\nexercise not the judgment of man, but of the Lord: and whatsoever you\njudge, it shall redound to you.\n\n19:7. Let the fear of the Lord be with you, and do all things with\ndiligence: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect\nof persons, nor desire of gifts.\n\n19:8. In Jerusalem also Josaphat appointed Levites, and priests and\nchiefs of the families of Israel, to judge the judgment and the cause\nof the Lord for the inhabitants thereof.\n\n19:9. And he charged them, saying, Thus shall you do in the fear of the\nLord faithfully, and with a perfect heart.\n\n19:10. Every cause that shall come to you of your brethren, that dwell\nin their cities, between kindred and kindred, wheresoever there is\nquestion concerning the law, the commandment, the ceremonies, the\njustifications: shew it them, that they may not sin against the Lord,\nand that wrath may not come upon you and your brethren: and so doing\nyou shall not sin.\n\n19:11. And Amarias the priest your high priest shall be chief in the\nthings which regard God: and Zabadias the son of Ismahel, who is ruler\nin the house of Juda, shall be over those matters which belong to the\nking's office: and you have before you the Levites for masters, take\ncourage and do diligently, and the Lord will be with you in good\nthings.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 20\n\n\nThe Ammonites, Moabites, and Syrians combine against Josaphat: he\nseeketh God's help by public prayer and fasting. A prophet foretelleth\nthat God will fight for his people: the enemies destroy one another.\nJosaphat with his men gathereth the spoils. He reigneth in peace, but\nhis navy perisheth, for his society with wicked Ochozias.\n\n20:1. After this the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and\nwith them of the Ammonites, were gathered together to fight against\nJosaphat.\n\n20:2. And there came messengers, and told Josaphat, saying: There\ncometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea, and out of\nSyria, and behold they are in Asasonthamar, which is Engaddi.\n\n20:3. And Josaphat being seized with fear betook himself wholly to pray\nto the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all Juda.\n\n20:4. And Juda gathered themselves together to pray to the Lord: and\nall came out of their cities to make supplication to him.\n\n20:5. And Josaphat stood in the midst of the assembly of Juda, and\nJerusalem, in the house of the Lord before the new court,\n\n20:6. And said: O Lord God of our fathers, thou art God in heaven, and\nrulest over all the kingdoms and nations, in thy hand is strength and\npower, and no one can resist thee.\n\n20:7. Didst not thou our God kill all the inhabitants of this land\nbefore thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy\nfriend for ever?\n\n20:8. And they dwelt in it, and built in it a sanctuary to thy name,\nsaying:\n\n20:9. If evils fall upon us, the sword of judgment, or pestilence, or\nfamine, we will stand in thy presence before this house, in which thy\nname is called upon: and we will cry to thee in our afflictions, and\nthou wilt hear, and save us.\n\n20:10. Now therefore behold the children of Ammon, and of Moab, and\nmount Seir, through whose lands thou didst not allow Israel to pass,\nwhen they came out of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and slew\nthem not,\n\n20:11. Do the contrary, and endeavour to cast us out of the possession\nwhich thou hast delivered to us.\n\n20:12. O our God, wilt thou not then judge them? as for us we have not\nstrength enough, to be able to resist this multitude, which cometh\nviolently upon us. But as we know not what to do, we can only turn our\neyes to thee.\n\n20:13. And all Juda stood before the Lord with their little ones, and\ntheir wives, and their children.\n\n20:14. And Jahaziel the son of Zacharias, the son of Banaias, the son\nof Jehiel, the son of Mathanias, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, was\nthere, upon whom the spirit of the Lord came in the midst of the\nmultitude,\n\n20:15. And he said: Attend ye, all Juda, and you that dwell in\nJerusalem, and thou king Josaphat: Thus saith the Lord to you: Fear ye\nnot, and be not dismayed at this multitude: for the battle is not\nyours, but God's.\n\n20:16. To morrow you shall go down against them: for they will come up\nby the ascent named Sis, and you shall find them at the head of the\ntorrent, which is over against the wilderness of Jeruel.\n\n20:17. It shall not be you that shall fight, but only stand with\nconfidence, and you shall see the help of the Lord over you, O Juda,\nand Jerusalem: fear ye not, nor be you dismayed: to morrow you shall go\nout against them, and the Lord will be with you.\n\n20:18. Then Josaphat, and Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem\nfell flat on the ground before the Lord, and adored him.\n\n20:19. And the Levites of the sons of Caath, and of the sons of Core\npraised the Lord the God of Israel with a loud voice, on high.\n\n20:20. And they rose early in the morning, and went out through the\ndesert of Thecua: and as they were marching, Josaphat standing in the\nmidst of them, said: Hear me, ye men of Juda, and all the inhabitants\nof Jerusalem: believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be secure:\nbelieve his prophets, and all things shall succeed well.\n\n20:21. And he gave counsel to the people, and appointed the singing men\nof the Lord, to praise him by their companies, and to go before the\narmy, and with one voice to say: Give glory to the Lord, for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n20:22. And when they began to sing praises, the Lord turned their\nambushments upon themselves, that is to say, of the children of Ammon,\nand of Moab, and of mount Seir, who were come out to fight against\nJuda, and they were slain.\n\n20:23. For the children of Ammon, and of Moab, rose up against the\ninhabitants of mount Seir, to kill and destroy them: and when they had\nmade an end of them, they turned also against one another, and\ndestroyed one another.\n\n20:24. And when Juda came to the watch tower, that looketh toward the\ndesert, they saw afar off all the country, for a great space, full of\ndead bodies, and that no one was left that could escape death.\n\n20:25. Then Josaphat came, and all the people with him to take away the\nspoils of the dead, and they found among the dead bodies, stuff of\nvarious kinds, and garments, and most precious vessels: and they took\nthem for themselves, insomuch that they could not carry all, nor in\nthree days take away the spoils, the booty was so great.\n\n20:26. And on the fourth day they were assembled in the valley of\nBlessing: for there they blessed the Lord, and therefore they called\nthat place the valley of Blessing until this day.\n\n20:27. And every man of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem\nreturned, and Josaphat at their head, into Jerusalem with great joy,\nbecause the Lord had made them rejoice over their enemies.\n\n20:28. And they came into Jerusalem with psalteries, and harps, and\ntrumpets into the house of the Lord.\n\n20:29. And the fear of the Lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands\nwhen they heard that the Lord had fought against the enemies of Israel.\n\n20:30. And the kingdom of Josaphat was quiet, and God gave him peace\nround about.\n\n20:31. And Josaphat reigned over Juda, and he was five and thirty years\nold, when he began to reign: and he reigned five and twenty years in\nJerusalem: and the name of his mother was Azuba the daughter of Selahi.\n\n20:32. And he walked in the way of his father Asa and departed not from\nit, doing the things that were pleasing before the Lord.\n\n20:33. But yet he took not away the high places, and the people had not\nyet turned their heart to the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n20:34. But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, first and last, are\nwritten in the words of Jehu the son of Hanani, which he digested into\nthe books of the kings of Israel.\n\n20:35. After these things Josaphat king of Juda made friendship with\nOchozias king of Israel, whose works were very wicked.\n\n20:36. And he was partner with him in making ships, to go to Tharsis:\nand they made the ships in Asiongaber.\n\n20:37. And Eliezer the son of Dodau of Maresa prophesied to Josaphat,\nsaying: Because thou hast made a league with Ochozias, the Lord hath\ndestroyed thy works, and the ships are broken, and they could not go to\nTharsis.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 21\n\n\nJoram's wicked reign: his punishment and death.\n\n21:1. And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in\nthe city of David: and Joram his son reigned in his stead.\n\n21:2. And he had brethren the sons of Josaphat, Azarias, and Jahiel,\nand Zacharias, and Azaria, and Michael, and Saphatias, all these were\nthe sons of Josaphat king of Juda.\n\n21:3. And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold,\nand pensions, with strong cities in Juda: but the kingdom he gave to\nJoram, because he was the eldest.\n\n21:4. So Joram rose up over the kingdom of his father: and when he had\nestablished himself, he slew all his brethren with the sword, and some\nof the princes of Israel.\n\n21:5. Joram was two and thirty years old when he began to reign: and he\nreigned eight years in Jerusalem.\n\n21:6. And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of\nAchab had done: for his wife was a daughter of Achab, and he did evil\nin the sight of the Lord.\n\n21:7. But the Lord would not destroy the house of David: because of the\ncovenant which he had made with him: and because he had promised to\ngive a lamp to him, and to his sons for ever.\n\n21:8. In those days Edom revolted, from being subject to Juda, and made\nthemselves a king.\n\n21:9. And Joram went over with his princes, and all his cavalry with\nhim, and rose in the night, and defeated the Edomites who had\nsurrounded him, and all the captains of his cavalry.\n\n21:10. However Edom revolted, from being under the dominion of Juda\nunto this day: at that time Lobna also revolted, from being under his\nhand. For he had forsaken the Lord the God of his fathers.\n\n21:11. Moreover he built also high places in the cities of Juda, and he\nmade the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and Juda to\ntransgress.\n\n21:12. And there was a letter brought him from Eliseus the prophet, in\nwhich it was written: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father:\nBecause thou hast not walked in the ways of Josaphat thy father nor in\nthe ways of Asa king of Juda,\n\n21:13. But hast walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and hast\nmade Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication,\nimitating the fornication of the house of Achab, moreover also thou\nhast killed thy brethren, the house of thy father, better men than\nthyself,\n\n21:14. Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all\nthy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance.\n\n21:15. And thou shalt be sick of a very grievous disease of thy bowels,\ntill thy vital parts come out by little and little every day.\n\n21:16. And the Lord stirred up against Joram the spirit of the\nPhilistines, and of the Arabians, who border on the Ethiopians.\n\n21:17. And they came up into the land of Juda, and wasted it, and they\ncarried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, his\nsons also, and his wives: so that there was no son left him but\nJoachaz, who was the youngest.\n\nJoachaz. . .Alias Ochozias.\n\n21:18. And besides all this the Lord struck him with an incurable\ndisease in his bowels.\n\n21:19. And as day came after day, and time rolled on, two whole years\npassed: then after being wasted with a long consumption, so as to void\nhis very bowels, his disease ended with his life. And he died of a most\nwretched illness, and the people did not make a funeral for him\naccording to the manner of burning, as they had done for his ancestors.\n\n21:20. He was two and thirty years old when he began his reign, and he\nreigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he walked not rightly, and they\nburied him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchres of the\nkings.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 22\n\n\nThe reign and death of Ochozias. The tyranny of Athalia.\n\n22:1. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ochozias his youngest son\nking in his place: for the rovers of the Arabians, who had broke in\nupon the camp, had killed all that were his elder brothers. So Ochozias\nthe son of Joram king of Juda reigned.\n\n22:2. Ochozias was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Athalia\nthe daughter of Amri.\n\nForty-two, etc. . .Divers Greek Bibles read thirty-two, agreeably to 4\nKings 8.17.\n\n22:3. He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother\npushed him on to do wickedly.\n\n22:4. So he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Achab\ndid: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to\nhis destruction.\n\n22:5. And he walked after their counsels. And he went with Joram the\nson of Achab king of Israel, to fight against Hazael king of Syria, at\nRamoth Galaad: and the Syrians wounded Joram.\n\n22:6. And he returned to be healed in Jezrahel: for he received many\nwounds in the foresaid battle. And Ochozias the son of Joram king of\nJuda, went down to visit Joram the son of Achab in Jezrahel where he\nlay sick.\n\n22:7. For it was the will of God against Ochozias that he should come\nto Joram: and when he was come should go out also against Jehu the son\nof Namsi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Achab.\n\n22:8. So when Jehu was rooting out the house of Achab, he found the\nprinces of Juda, and the sons of the brethren of Ochozias, who served\nhim, and he slew them.\n\n22:9. And he sought for Ochozias himself, and took him lying hid in\nSamaria: and when he was brought to him, he killed him, and they buried\nhim: because he was the son of Josaphat, who had sought the Lord with\nall his heart. And there was no more hope that any one should reign of\nthe race of Ochozias.\n\n22:10. For Athalia his mother, seeing that her son was dead, rose up,\nand killed all the royal family of the house of Joram.\n\n22:11. But Josabeth the king's daughter took Joas the son of Ochozias,\nand stole him from among the king's sons that were slain. And she hid\nhim with his nurse in a bedchamber: now Josabeth that hid him, was\ndaughter of king Joram, wife of Joiada the high priest, and sister of\nOchozias, and therefore Athalia did not kill him.\n\n22:12. And he was with them hid in the house of God six years, during\nwhich Athalia reigned over the land.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 23\n\n\nJoiada the high priest causeth Joas to be made king: Athalia to be\nslain, and idolatry to be destroyed.\n\n23:1. And in the seventh year Joiada being encouraged, took the\ncaptains of hundreds, to wit, Azarias the son of Jeroham, and Ismahel\nthe son of Johanan, and Azarias the son of Obed, and Maasias the son of\nAdaias, and Elisaphat the son of Zechri: and made a covenant with them.\n\n23:2. And they went about Juda, and gathered together the Levites out\nof all the cities of Juda, and the chiefs of the families of Israel,\nand they came to Jerusalem.\n\n23:3. And all the multitude made a covenant with the king in the house\nof God: and Joiada said to them: Behold the king's son shall reign, as\nthe Lord hath said of the sons of David.\n\n23:4. And this is the thing that you shall do:\n\n23:5. A third part of you that come to the sabbath, of the priests, and\nof the Levites, and of the porters shall be at the gates: and a third\npart at the king's house: and a third at the gate that is called the\nFoundation: but let all the rest of the people be in the courts of the\nhouse of the Lord.\n\nTo the sabbath. . .That is, to perform in your weeks the functions of\nyour office, or the weekly watches.\n\n23:6. And let no one come into the house of the Lord, but the priests,\nand they that minister of the Levites: let them only come in, because\nthey are sanctified: and let all the rest of the people keep the\nwatches of the Lord.\n\n23:7. And let the Levites be round about the king, every man with his\narms; and if any other come into the temple, let him be slain; and let\nthem be with the king, both coming in, and going out.\n\n23:8. So the Levites, and all Juda did according to all that Joiada the\nhigh priest had commanded: and they took every one his men that were\nunder him, and that came in by the course of the sabbath, with those\nwho had fulfilled the sabbath, and were to go out. For Joiada the high\npriest permitted not the companies to depart, which were accustomed to\nsucceed one another every week.\n\n23:9. And Joiada the priest gave to the captains the spears, and the\nshields, and targets of king David, which he had dedicated in the house\nof the Lord.\n\n23:10. And he set all the people with swords in their hands from the\nright side of the temple, to the left side of the temple, before the\naltar, and the temple, round about the king.\n\n23:11. And they brought out the king's son, and put the crown upon him,\nand the testimony, and gave him the law to hold in his hand, and they\nmade him king: and Joiada the high priest and his sons anointed him:\nand they prayed for him, and said: God save the king.\n\n23:12. Now when Athalia heard the noise of the people running and\npraising the king, she came in to the people, into the temple of the\nLord.\n\n23:13. And when she saw the king standing upon the step in the\nentrance, and the princes, and the companies about him, and all the\npeople of the land rejoicing, and sounding with trumpets, and playing\non instruments of divers kinds, and the voice of those that praised,\nshe rent her garments, and said: Treason, treason.\n\n23:14. And Joiada the high priest going out to the captains, and the\nchiefs of the army, said to them: Take her forth without the precinct\nof the temple, and when she is without let her be killed with the\nsword. For the priest commanded that she should not be killed in the\nhouse of the Lord.\n\n23:15. And they laid hold on her by the neck: and when she was come\nwithin the horse gate of the palace, they killed her there.\n\n23:16. And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people,\nand the king, that they should be the people of the lord.\n\n23:17. And all the people went into the house of Baal, and destroyed\nit: and they broke down his altars and his idols: and they slew Mathan\nthe priest of Baal before the altars.\n\n23:18. And Joiada appointed overseers in the house of the Lord, under\nthe hands of the priests, and the Levites, whom David had distributed\nin the house of the Lord: to offer holocausts to the Lord, as it is\nwritten in the law of Moses, with joy and singing, according to the\ndisposition of David.\n\n23:19. He appointed also porters in the gates of the house of the Lord,\nthat none who was unclean in any thing should enter in.\n\n23:20. And he took the captains of hundreds, and the most valiant men,\nand the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land, and they\nbrought down the king from the house of the Lord, and brought him\nthrough the upper gate into the king's house, and set him on the royal\nthrone.\n\n23:21. And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet:\nbut Athalia was slain with the sword.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 24\n\n\nJoas reigneth well all the days of Joiada: afterwards falleth into\nidolatry and causeth Zacharias to be slain. He is slain himself by his\nservants.\n\n24:1. Joas was seven years old when he began to reign: and he reigned\nforty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee.\n\n24:2. And he did that which is good before the Lord all the days of\nJoiada the priest.\n\n24:3. And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom he had sons and\ndaughters.\n\n24:4. After this Joas had a mind to repair the house of the Lord.\n\n24:5. And he assembled the priests, and the Levites, and said to them:\nGo out to the cities of Juda, and gather of all Israel money to repair\nthe temple of your God, from year to year: and do this with speed: but\nthe Levites were negligent.\n\n24:6. And the king called Joiada the chief, and said to him: Why hast\nthou not taken care to oblige the Levites to bring in out of Juda and\nJerusalem the money that was appointed by Moses the servant of the Lord\nfor all the multitude of Israel to bring into the tabernacle of the\ntestimony?\n\n24:7. For that wicked woman Athalia, and her children have destroyed\nthe house of God, and adorned the temple of Baal with all the things\nthat had been dedicated in the temple of the Lord.\n\n24:8. And the king commanded, and they made a chest: and set it by the\ngate of the house of the Lord on the outside.\n\n24:9. And they made a proclamation in Juda and Jerusalem, that every\nman should bring to the Lord the money which Moses the servant of God\nappointed for all Israel, in the desert.\n\n24:10. And all the princes, and all the people rejoiced: and going in\nthey contributed and cast so much into the chest of the Lord, that it\nwas filled.\n\n24:11. And when it was time to bring the chest before the king by the\nhands of the Levites, (for they saw there was much money,) the king's\nscribe, and he whom the high priest had appointed went in: and they\npoured out the money that was in the chest: and they carried back the\nchest to its place: and thus they did from day to day, and there was\ngathered an immense sum of money.\n\n24:12. And the king and Joiada gave it to those who were over the works\nof the house of the Lord: but they hired with it stonecutters, and\nartificers of every kind of work to repair the house of the Lord: and\nsuch as wrought in iron and brass, to uphold what began to be falling.\n\n24:13. And the workmen were diligent, and the breach of the walls was\nclosed up by their hands, and they set up the house of the Lord in its\nformer state, and made it stand firm.\n\n24:14. And when they had finished all the works, they brought the rest\nof the money before the king and Joiada: and with it were made vessels\nfor the temple for the ministry, and for holocausts and bowls, and\nother vessels of gold and silver: and holocausts were offered in the\nhouse of the Lord continually all the days of Joiada.\n\n24:15. But Joiada grew old and was full of days, and died when he was a\nhundred and thirty years old.\n\n24:16. And they buried him in the city of David among the kings,\nbecause he had done good to Israel, and to his house.\n\n24:17. And after the death of Joiada, the princes of Juda went in, and\nworshipped the king: and he was soothed by their services and hearkened\nto them.\n\n24:18. And they forsook the temple of the Lord the God of their\nfathers, and served groves and idols, and wrath came upon Juda and\nJerusalem for this sin.\n\n24:19. And he sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord, and\nthey would not give ear when they testified against them.\n\n24:20. The spirit of God then came upon Zacharias the son of Joiada the\npriest, and he stood in the sight of the people, and said to them: Thus\nsaith the Lord God: Why transgress you the commandment of the Lord\nwhich will not be for your good, and have forsaken the Lord, to make\nhim forsake you?\n\n24:21. And they gathered themselves together against him, and stoned\nhim at the king's commandment in the court of the house of the Lord.\n\n24:22. And king Joas did not remember the kindness that Joiada his\nfather had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said:\nThe Lord see, and require it.\n\n24:23. And when a year was come about, the army of Syria came up\nagainst him: and they came to Juda and Jerusalem, and killed all the\nprinces of the people, and they sent all the spoils to the king of\nDamascus.\n\n24:24. And whereas there came a very small number of the Syrians, the\nLord delivered into their hands an infinite multitude, because they had\nforsaken the Lord the God of their fathers: and on Joas they executed\nshameful judgments.\n\n24:25. And departing they left him in great diseases: and his servants\nrose up against him, for revenge of the blood of the son of Joiada the\npriest, and they slew him in his bed, and he died: and they buried him\nin the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.\n\n24:26. Now the men that conspired against him were Zabad the son of\nSemmaath an Ammonitess, and Jozabad the son of Semarith a Moabitess.\n\n24:27. And concerning his sons, and the sum of money which was gathered\nunder him, and the repairing the house of God, they are written more\ndiligently in the book of kings: and Amasias his son reigned in his\nstead.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 25\n\n\nAmasias' reign: he beginneth well, but endeth ill: he is overthrown by\nJoas, and slain by his people.\n\n25:1. Amasias was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and\nhe reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem, the name of his mother\nwas Joadan of Jerusalem.\n\n25:2. And he did what was good in the sight of the Lord: but yet not\nwith a perfect heart.\n\n25:3. And when he saw himself strengthened in his kingdom, he put to\ndeath the servants that had slain the king his father.\n\n25:4. But he slew not their children, as it is written in the book of\nthe law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall\nnot be slain for the children, nor the children for their fathers, but\nevery man shall die for his own sin.\n\n25:5. Amasias therefore gathered Juda together, and appointed them by\nfamilies, and captains of thousands and of hundreds in all Juda, and\nBenjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upwards, and\nfound three hundred thousand young men that could go out to battle, and\ncould hold the spear and shield.\n\n25:6. He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a\nhundred talents of silver.\n\n25:7. But a man of God came to him, and said: O king, let not the army\nof Israel go out with thee, for the Lord is not with Israel, and all\nthe children of Ephraim:\n\n25:8. And if thou think that battles consist in the strength of the\narmy, God will make thee to be overcome by the enemies: for it\nbelongeth to God both to help, and to put to flight.\n\n25:9. And Amasias said to the man of God: What will then become of the\nhundred talents which I have given to the soldiers of Israel? and the\nman of God answered him: The Lord is rich enough to be able to give\nthee much more than this.\n\n25:10. Then Amasias separated the army, that came to him out of\nEphraim, to go home again: but they being much enraged against Juda,\nreturned to their own country.\n\n25:11. And Amasias taking courage led forth his people, and went to the\nvale of saltpits, and slew of the children of Seir ten thousand.\n\n25:12. And other ten thousand men the sons of Juda took, and brought to\nthe steep of a certain rock, and cast them down headlong from the top,\nand they all were broken to pieces.\n\n25:13. But that army which Amasias had sent back, that they should not\ngo with him to battle, spread themselves among the cities of Juda, from\nSamaria to Beth-horon, and having killed three thousand took away much\nspoil.\n\n25:14. But Amasias after he had slain the Edomites, set up the gods of\nthe children of Seir, which he had brought thence, to be his gods, and\nadored them, and burnt incense to them.\n\n25:15. Wherefore the Lord being angry against Amasias, sent a prophet\nto him, to say to him: Why hast thou adored gods that have not\ndelivered their own people out of thy hand?\n\n25:16. And when he spoke these things, he answered him: Art thou the\nking's counsellor? be quiet, lest I kill thee. And the prophet\ndeparting, said: I know that God is minded to kill thee, because thou\nhast done this evil, and moreover hast not hearkened to my counsel.\n\n25:17. Then Amasias king of Juda taking very bad counsel, sent to Joas\nthe son of Joachaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying: Come, let\nus see one another.\n\n25:18. But he sent back the messengers, saying: The thistle that is in\nLibanus, sent to the cedar in Libanus, saying: Give thy daughter to my\nson to wife: and behold the beasts that were in the wood of Libanus\npassed by and trod down the thistle.\n\n25:19. Thou hast said: I have overthrown Edom, and therefore thy heart\nis lifted up with pride: stay at home, why dost thou provoke evil\nagainst thee, that both thou shouldst fall and Juda with thee.\n\n25:20. Amasias would not hearken to him, because it was the Lord's will\nthat he should be delivered into the hands of enemies, because of the\ngods of Edom.\n\n25:21. So Joas king of Israel went up, and they presented themselves to\nbe seen by one another: and Amasias king of Juda was in Bethsames of\nJuda:\n\n25:22. And Juda fell before Israel, and they fled to their dwellings.\n\n25:23. And Joas king of Israel took Amasias king of Juda, the son of\nJoas, the son of Joachaz, in Bethsames, and brought him to Jerusalem:\nand broke down the walls thereof from the gate of Ephraim, to the gate\nof the corner, four hundred cubits.\n\n25:24. And he took all the gold, and silver, and all the vessels, that\nhe found in the house of God, and with Obededom, and in the treasures\nof the king's house, moreover also the sons of the hostages, he brought\nback to Samaria.\n\n25:25. And Amasias the son of Joas king of Juda lived, after the death\nof Joas the son of Joachaz king of Israel, fifteen years.\n\n25:26. Now the rest of the acts of Amasias, the first and last, are\nwritten in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.\n\n25:27. And after he revolted from the Lord, they made a conspiracy\nagainst him in Jerusalem. And he fled into Lachis, and they sent, and\nkilled him there.\n\n25:28. And they brought him back upon horses, and buried him with his\nfathers in the city of David.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 26\n\n\nOzias reigneth prosperously, till he invadeth the priests' office, upon\nwhich he is struck with a leprosy.\n\n26:1. And all the people of Juda took his son Ozias, who was sixteen\nyears old, and made him king in the room of Amasias his father.\n\n26:2. He built Ailath, and restored it to the dominion of Juda, after\nthat the king slept with his fathers.\n\n26:3. Ozias was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nJechelia of Jerusalem.\n\n26:4. And he did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord,\naccording to all that Amasias his father had done.\n\n26:5. And he sought the Lord in the days of Zacharias that understood\nand saw God: and as long as he sought the Lord, he directed him in all\nthings.\n\n26:6. Moreover he went forth and fought against the Philistines, and\nbroke down the wall of Geth, and the wall of Jabnia, and the wall of\nAzotus: and he built towns in Azotus, and among the Philistines.\n\n26:7. And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the\nArabians, that dwelt in Gurbaal, and against the Ammonites.\n\n26:8. And the Ammonites gave gifts to Ozias: and his name was spread\nabroad even to the entrance of Egypt for his frequent victories.\n\n26:9. And Ozias built towers in Jerusalem over the gate of the corner,\nand over the gate of the valley, and the rest, in the same side of the\nwall, and fortified them.\n\n26:10. And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many cisterns,\nfor he had much cattle both in the plains, and in the waste of the\ndesert: he had also vineyards and dressers of vines in the mountains,\nand in Carmel: for he was a man that loved husbandry.\n\n26:11. And the army of his fighting men, that went out to war, was\nunder the hand of Jehiel the scribe, and Maasias the doctor, and under\nthe hand of Henanias, who was one of the king's captains.\n\n26:12. And the whole number of the chiefs by the families of valiant\nmen were two thousand six hundred.\n\n26:13. And the whole army under them three hundred and seven thousand\nfive hundred: who were fit for war, and fought for the king against the\nenemy.\n\n26:14. And Ozias prepared for them, that is, for the whole army,\nshields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and\nslings to cast stones.\n\n26:15. And he made in Jerusalem engines of diverse kinds, which he\nplaced in the towers, and in the corners of the walls, to shoot arrows,\nand great stones: and his name went forth far abroad, for the Lord\nhelped him, and had strengthened him.\n\n26:16. But when he was made strong, his heart was lifted up to his\ndestruction, and he neglected the Lord his God: and going into the\ntemple of the Lord, he had a mind to burn incense upon the altar of\nincense.\n\n26:17. And immediately Azarias the priest going in after him, and with\nhim fourscore priests of the Lord, most valiant men,\n\n26:18. Withstood the king and said: It doth not belong to thee, Ozias,\nto burn incense to the Lord, but to the priests, that is, to the sons\nof Aaron, who are consecrated for this ministry: go out of the\nsanctuary, do not despise: for this thing shall not be accounted to thy\nglory by the Lord God.\n\n26:19. And Ozias was angry, and holding in his hand the censer to burn\nincense, threatened the priests. And presently there rose a leprosy in\nhis forehead before the priests, in the house of the Lord at the altar\nof incense.\n\n26:20. And Azarias the high priest, and all the rest of the priests\nlooked upon him, and saw the leprosy in his forehead, and they made\nhaste to thrust him out. Yea himself also being frightened, hasted to\ngo out, because he had quickly felt the stroke of the Lord.\n\n26:21. And Ozias the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and he\ndwelt in a house apart being full of the leprosy, for which he had been\ncast out of the house of the Lord. And Joatham his son governed the\nking's house, and judged the people of the land.\n\n26:22. But the rest of the acts of Ozias first and last were written by\nIsaias the son of Amos, the prophet.\n\n26:23. And Ozias slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the\nfield of the royal sepulchres, because he was a leper: and Joatham his\nson reigned in his stead.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 27\n\n\nJoatham's good reign.\n\n27:1. Joatham was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and\nhe reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nJerusa the daughter of Sadoc.\n\n27:2. And he did that which was right before the Lord, according to all\nthat Ozias his father had done, only that he entered not into the\ntemple of the Lord, and the people still transgressed.\n\n27:3. He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall\nof Ophel he built much.\n\n27:4. Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Juda, and castles\nand towers in the forests.\n\n27:5. He fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and overcame\nthem, and the children of Ammon gave him at that time a hundred talents\nof silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and as many measures of\nbarley: so much did the children of Ammon give him in the second and\nthird year.\n\n27:6. And Joatham was strengthened, because he had his way directed\nbefore the Lord his God.\n\n27:7. Now the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all his wars, and his\nworks, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Juda.\n\n27:8. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.\n\n27:9. And Joatham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the\ncity of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 28\n\n\nThe wicked and unhappy reign of Achaz.\n\n28:1. Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned\nsixteen years in Jerusalem: he did not that which was right in the\nsight of the Lord as David his father had done,\n\n28:2. But walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; moreover also he\ncast statues for Baalim.\n\n28:3. It was he that burnt incense in the valley of Benennom, and\nconsecrated his sons in the fire according to the manner of the\nnations, which the Lord slew at the coming of the children of Israel.\n\n28:4. He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on\nthe hills, and under every green tree.\n\n28:5. And the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of\nSyria, who defeated him, and took a great booty out of his kingdom, and\ncarried it to Damascus: he was also delivered into the hands of the\nking of Israel, who overthrew him with a great slaughter.\n\n28:6. For Phacee the son of Romelia slew of Juda a hundred and twenty\nthousand in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the\nLord the God of their fathers.\n\n28:7. At the same time Zechri a powerful man of Ephraim, slew Maasias\nthe king's son, and Ezricam the governor of his house, and Elcana who\nwas next to the king.\n\n28:8. And the children of Israel carried away of their brethren two\nhundred thousand women, boys, and girls, and an immense booty: and they\nbrought it to Samaria.\n\n28:9. At that time there was a prophet of the Lord there, whose name\nwas Oded: and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and\nsaid to them: Behold the Lord the God of your fathers being angry with\nJuda, hath delivered them into your hands, and you have butchered them\ncruelly, so that your cruelty hath reached up to heaven.\n\n28:10. Moreover you have a mind to keep under the children of Juda and\nJerusalem for your bondmen and bondwomen, which ought not to be done:\nfor you have sinned in this against the Lord your God.\n\n28:11. But hear ye my counsel, and release the captives that you have\nbrought of your brethren, because a great indignation of the Lord\nhangeth over you.\n\n28:12. Then some of the chief men of the sons of Ephraim, Azarias the\nson of Johanan, Barachias the son of Mosollamoth, Ezechias the son of\nSellum, and Amasa the son of Adali, stood up against them that came\nfrom the war.\n\n28:13. And they said to them: You shall not bring in the captives\nhither, lest we sin against the Lord. Why will you add to our sins, and\nheap up upon our former offences? for the sin is great, and the fierce\nanger of the Lord hangeth over Israel.\n\n28:14. So the soldiers left the spoils, and all that they had taken,\nbefore the princes and all the multitude.\n\n28:15. And the men, whom we mentioned above, rose up and took the\ncaptives, and with the spoils clothed all them that were naked: and\nwhen they had clothed and shod them, and refreshed them with meat and\ndrink, and anointed them because of their labour, and had taken care of\nthem, they set such of them as could not walk, and were feeble, upon\nbeasts, and brought them to Jericho the city of palm trees to their\nbrethren, and they returned to Samaria.\n\n28:16. At that time king Achaz sent to the king of the Assyrians asking\nhelp.\n\n28:17. And the Edomites came and slew many of Juda, and took a great\nbooty.\n\n28:18. The Philistines also spread themselves among the cities of the\nplains, and to the south of Juda: and they took Bethsames, and Aialon,\nand Gaderoth, and Socho, and Thamnan, and Gamzo, with their villages,\nand they dwelt in them.\n\n28:19. For the Lord had humbled Juda because of Achaz the king of Juda,\nfor he had stripped it of help, and had contemned the Lord.\n\nFor he had stripped it of help. . .That is, Achaz stripped the kingdom\nof Juda of the divine assistance by his wickedness, and by his\nintroducing idolatry.\n\n28:20. And he brought against him Thelgathphalnasar king of the\nAssyrians, who also afflicted him, and plundered him without any\nresistance.\n\n28:21. And Achaz stripped the house of the Lord, and the house of the\nkings, and of the princes, and gave gifts to the king of the Assyrians,\nand yet it availed him nothing.\n\n28:22. Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt\nagainst the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself,\n\n28:23. Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus that struck him, and\nhe said: The gods of the kings of Syria help them, and I will appease\nthem with victims, and they will help me; whereas on the contrary they\nwere the ruin of him, and of all Israel.\n\n28:24. Then Achaz having taken away all the vessels of the house of\nGod, and broken them, shut up the doors of the temple of God, and made\nhimself altars in all the corners of Jerusalem.\n\n28:25. And in all the cities of Juda he built altars to burn\nfrankincense, and he provoked the Lord the God of his fathers to wrath.\n\n28:26. But the rest of his acts, and all his works first and last are\nwritten in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.\n\n28:27. And Achaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the\ncity of Jerusalem: for they received him not into the sepulchres of the\nkings of Israel. And Ezechias his son reigned in his stead.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 29\n\n\nEzechias purifieth the temple, and restoreth religion.\n\n29:1. Now Ezechias began to reign, when he was five and twenty years\nold, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his\nmother was Abia, the daughter of Zacharias.\n\n29:2. And he did that which was pleasing in the sight of the Lord,\naccording to all that David his father had done.\n\n29:3. In the first year and month of his reign he opened the doors of\nthe house of the Lord, and repaired them.\n\n29:4. And he brought the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in\nthe east street.\n\n29:5. And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be sanctified,\npurify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and take away all\nfilth out of the sanctuary.\n\n29:6. Our fathers have sinned and done evil in the sight of the Lord\nGod, forsaking him: they have turned away their faces from the\ntabernacle of the Lord, and turned their backs.\n\n29:7. They have shut up the doors that were in the porch, and put out\nthe lamps, and have not burnt incense, nor offered holocausts in the\nsanctuary of the God of Israel.\n\n29:8. Therefore the wrath of the Lord hath been stirred up against Juda\nand Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, and to\ndestruction, and to be hissed at, as you see with your eyes.\n\n29:9. Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword, our sons, and our\ndaughters, and wives are led away captives for this wickedness.\n\n29:10. Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant with the\nLord the God of Israel, and he will turn away the wrath of his\nindignation from us.\n\n29:11. My sons, be not negligent: the Lord hath chosen you to stand\nbefore him, and to minister to him, and to worship him, and to burn\nincense to him.\n\n29:12. Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the\nson of Azarias, of the sons of Caath: and of the sons of Merari, Cis\nthe son of Abdi, and Azarias the son of Jalaleel. And of the sons of\nGerson, Joah the son of Zemma, and Eden the son of Joah.\n\n29:13. And of the sons of Elisaphan, Samri, and Jahiel. Also of the\nsons of Asaph, Zacharias, and Mathanias.\n\n29:14. And of the sons of Heman, Jahiel, and Semei: and of the sons of\nIdithun, Semeias, and Oziel.\n\n29:15. And they gathered together their brethren, and sanctified\nthemselves, and went in according to the commandment of the king, and\nthe precept of the Lord, to purify the house of God.\n\n29:16. And the priests went into the temple of the Lord to sanctify it,\nand brought out all the uncleanness that they found within to the\nentrance of the house of the Lord, and the Levites took it away, and\ncarried it out abroad to the torrent Cedron.\n\n29:17. And they began to cleanse on the first day of the first month,\nand on the eighth day of the same month they came into the porch of the\ntemple of the Lord, and they purified the temple in eight days, and on\nthe sixteenth day of the same month they finished what they had begun.\n\n29:18. And they went in to king Ezechias, and said to him: We have\nsanctified all the house of the Lord, and the altar of holocaust, and\nthe vessels thereof, and the table of proposition with all its vessels,\n\n29:19. And all the furniture of the temple, which king Achaz in his\nreign had defiled, after his transgression; and behold they are all set\nforth before the altar of the Lord.\n\n29:20. And king Ezechias rising early, assembled all the rulers of the\ncity, and went up into the house of the Lord:\n\n29:21. And they offered together seven bullocks, and seven rams, and\nseven lambs, and seven he goats for sin, for the kingdom, for the\nsanctuary, for Juda: and he spoke to the priests the sons of Aaron, to\noffer them upon the altar of the Lord.\n\n29:22. Therefore they killed the bullocks, and the priests took the\nblood, and poured it upon the altar; they killed also the rams, and\ntheir blood they poured also upon the altar, and they killed the lambs,\nand poured the blood upon the altar.\n\n29:23. And they brought the he goats for sin before the king, and the\nwhole multitude, and they laid their hand upon them:\n\n29:24. And the priests immolated them, and sprinkled their blood before\nthe altar for an expiation of all Israel: for the king had commanded\nthat the holocaust and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.\n\n29:25. And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals,\nand psalteries, and harps according to the regulation of David the\nking, and of Gad the seer, and of Nathan the prophet: for it was the\ncommandment of the Lord by the hand of his prophets.\n\n29:26. And the Levites stood, with the instruments of David, and the\npriests with trumpets.\n\n29:27. And Ezechias commanded that they should offer holocausts upon\nthe altar: and when the holocausts were offered, they began to sing\npraises to the Lord, and to sound with trumpets, and divers instruments\nwhich David the king of Israel had prepared.\n\n29:28. And all the multitude adored, and the singers, and the\ntrumpeters, were in their office till the holocaust was finished.\n\n29:29. And when the oblation was ended, the king, and all that were\nwith him bowed down and adored.\n\n29:30. And Ezechias and the princes commanded the Levites to praise the\nLord with the words of David, and Asaph the seer: and they praised him\nwith great joy, and bowing the knee adored.\n\n29:31. And Ezechias added, and said: You have filled your hands to the\nLord, come and offer victims, and praises in the house of the Lord. And\nall the multitude offered victims, and praises, and holocausts with a\ndevout mind.\n\n29:32. And the number of the holocausts which the multitude offered,\nwas seventy bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs.\n\n29:33. And they consecrated to the Lord six hundred oxen, and three\nthousand sheep.\n\n29:34. But the priests were few, and were not enough to flay the\nholocausts: wherefore the Levites their brethren helped them, till the\nwork was ended, and priests were sanctified, for the Levites are\nsanctified with an easier rite than the priests.\n\n29:35. So there were many holocausts, and the fat of peace offerings,\nand the libations of holocausts: and the service of the house of the\nLord was completed.\n\n29:36. And Ezechias, and all the people rejoiced because the ministry\nof the Lord was accomplished. For the resolution of doing this thing\nwas taken suddenly.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 30\n\n\nEzechias inviteth all Israel to celebrate the pasch; the solemnity is\nkept fourteen days.\n\n30:1. And Ezechias sent to all Israel and Juda: and he wrote letters to\nEphraim and Manasses, that they should come to the house of the Lord in\nJerusalem, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel,\n\n30:2. For the king, taking counsel, and the princes, and all the\nassembly of Jerusalem, decreed to keep the phase the second month.\n\n30:3. For they could not keep it in its time; because there were not\npriests enough sanctified, and the people was not as yet gathered\ntogether to Jerusalem.\n\nThe host of heaven. . .The sun, moon, and stars.\n\n30:4. And the thing pleased the king, and all the people.\n\n30:5. And they decreed to send messengers to all Israel from Bersabee\neven to Dan, that they should come, and keep the phase to the Lord the\nGod of Israel in Jerusalem: for many had not kept it as it is\nprescribed by the law.\n\n30:6. And the posts went with letters by commandment of the king, and\nhis princes, to all Israel and Juda, proclaiming according to the\nking's orders: Ye children of Israel, turn again to the Lord the God of\nAbraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel: and he will return to the remnant\nof you that have escaped the hand of the king of the Assyrians.\n\n30:7. Be not like your fathers, and brethren, who departed from the\nLord the God of their fathers, and he hath given them up to\ndestruction, as you see.\n\n30:8. Harden not your necks, as your fathers did: yield yourselves to\nthe Lord, and come to his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified forever:\nserve the Lord the God of your fathers, and the wrath of his\nindignation shall be turned away from you.\n\n30:9. For if you turn again to the Lord, your brethren, and children\nshall find mercy before their masters, that have led them away captive,\nand they shall return into this land: for the Lord your God is\nmerciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to\nhim.\n\n30:10. So the posts went speedily from city to city, through the land\nof Ephraim, and of Manasses, even to Zabulon, whilst they laughed at\nthem and mocked them.\n\n30:11. Nevertheless some men of Aser, and of Manasses, and of Zabulon,\nyielding to the counsel, came to Jerusalem.\n\n30:12. But the hand of God was in Juda, to give them one heart to do\nthe word of the Lord, according to the commandment of the king, and of\nthe princes.\n\n30:13. And much people were assembled to Jerusalem to celebrate the\nsolemnity of the unleavened bread in the second month:\n\n30:14. And they arose and destroyed the altars that were in Jerusalem,\nand took away all things in which incense was burnt to idols and cast\nthem into the torrent Cedron.\n\n30:15. And they immolated the phase on the fourteenth day of the second\nmonth. And the priests and the Levites being at length sanctified\noffered holocausts in the house of the Lord.\n\n30:16. And they stood in their order according to the disposition and\nlaw of Moses the man of God: but the priests received the blood which\nwas to be poured out, from the hands of the Levites,\n\n30:17. Because a great number was not sanctified: and therefore the\nLevites immolated the phase for them that came not in time to be\nsanctified to the Lord.\n\n30:18. For a great part of the people from Ephraim, and Manasses, and\nIssachar, and Zabulon, that had not been sanctified, ate the phase\notherwise than it is written: and Ezechias prayed for them, saying: The\nLord who is good will shew mercy,\n\n30:19. To all them, who with their whole heart, seek the Lord the God\nof their fathers: and will not impute it to them that they are not\nsanctified.\n\n30:20. And the Lord heard him, and was merciful to the people.\n\n30:21. And the children of Israel, that were found at Jerusalem, kept\nthe feast of unleavened bread seven days with great joy, praising the\nLord every day. the Levites also, and the priests, with instruments\nthat agreed to their office.\n\n30:22. And Ezechias spoke to the heart of all the Levites, that had\ngood understanding concerning the Lord: and they ate during the seven\ndays of the solemnity, immolating victims of peace offerings, and\npraising the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n30:23. And it pleased the whole multitude to keep other seven days:\nwhich they did with great joy.\n\n30:24. For Ezechias the king of Juda had given to the multitude a\nthousand bullocks, and seven thousand sheep: and the princes had given\nthe people a thousand bullocks, and ten thousand sheep: and a great\nnumber of priests was sanctified.\n\n30:25. And all the multitude of Juda with the priests and Levites, and\nall the assembly, that came out of Israel; and the proselytes of the\nland of Israel, and that dwelt in Juda were full of joy.\n\n30:26. And there was a great solemnity in Jerusalem, such as had not\nbeen in that city since the time of Solomon the son of David king of\nIsrael.\n\n30:27. And the priests and the Levites rose up and blessed the people:\nand their voice was heard: and their prayer came to the holy dwelling\nplace of heaven.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 31\n\n\nIdolatry is abolished; and provisions made for the ministers.\n\n31:1. And when these things had been duly celebrated, all Israel that\nwere found in the cities of Juda, went out, and they broke the idols,\nand cut down the groves, demolished the high places, and destroyed the\naltars, not only out of all Juda and Benjamin, but out of Ephraim also\nand Manasses, till they had utterly destroyed them: then all the\nchildren of Israel returned to their possessions and cities.\n\n31:2. And Ezechias appointed companies of the priests, and the Levites,\nby their courses, every man in his own office, to wit, both of the\npriests, and of the Levites, for holocausts, and for peace offerings,\nto minister, and to praise, and to sing in the gates of the camp of the\nLord.\n\n31:3. And the king's part was, that of his proper substance the\nholocaust should be offered always morning and evening, and on the\nsabbaths, and the new moons and the other solemnities, as it is written\nin the law of Moses.\n\n31:4. He commanded also the people that dwelt in Jerusalem, to give to\nthe priests, and the Levites their portion, that they might attend to\nthe law of the Lord.\n\n31:5. Which when it was noised abroad in the ears of the people, the\nchildren of Israel offered in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine,\nand oil, and honey: and brought the tithe of all things which the\nground bringeth forth.\n\n31:6. Moreover the children of Israel and Juda, that dwelt in the\ncities of Juda, brought in the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and the\ntithes of holy things, which they had vowed to the Lord their God: and\ncarrying them all, made many heaps.\n\n31:7. In the third month they began to lay the foundations of the\nheaps, and in the seventh month, they finished them.\n\n31:8. And when Ezechias and his princes came in, they saw the heaps,\nand they blessed the Lord and the people of Israel.\n\n31:9. And Ezechias asked the priests and the Levites, why the heaps lay\nso.\n\n31:10. Azarias the chief priest of the race of Sadoc answered him,\nsaying: Since the firstfruits began to be offered in the house of the\nLord, we have eaten, and have been filled, and abundance is left,\nbecause the Lord hath blessed his people: and of that which is left is\nthis great store which thou seest.\n\n31:11. Then Ezechias commanded to prepare storehouses in the house of\nthe Lord. And when they had done so,\n\n31:12. They brought in faithfully both the firstfruits, and the tithes,\nand all they had vowed. And the overseer of them was Chonenias the\nLevite, and Semei his brother was the second,\n\n31:13. And after him Jehiel, and Azarias, and Nahath, and Asael, and\nJerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Jesmachias, and Mahath, and\nBanaias, overseers under the hand of Chonenias, and Semei his brother,\nby the commandment of Ezechias the king, and Azarias the high priest of\nthe house of God, to whom all things appertained.\n\n31:14. But Core the son of Jemna the Levite, the porter of the east\ngate, was overseer of the things which were freely offered to the Lord,\nand of the firstfruits and the things dedicated for the holy of holies.\n\n31:15. And under his charge were Eden, and Benjamin, Jesue, and\nSemeias, and Amarias, and Sechenias, in the cities of the priests, to\ndistribute faithfully portions to their brethren, both little and\ngreat:\n\n31:16. Besides the males from three years old and upward, to all that\nwent into the temple of the Lord, and whatsoever there was need of in\nthe ministry, and their offices according to their courses, day by day.\n\n31:17. To the priests by their families, and to the Levites from the\ntwentieth year and upward, by their classes and companies.\n\n31:18. And to all the multitude, both to their wives, and to their\nchildren of both sexes, victuals were given faithfully out of the\nthings that had been sanctified.\n\n31:19. Also of the sons of Aaron who were in the fields and in the\nsuburbs of each city, there were men appointed, to distribute portions\nto all the males, among the priests and the Levites.\n\n31:20. So Ezechias did all things which we have said in all Juda, and\nwrought that which was good, and right, and truth, before the Lord his\nGod,\n\n31:21. In all the service of the house of the Lord according to the law\nand the ceremonies, desiring to seek his God with all his heart, and he\ndid it and prospered.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 32\n\n\nSennacherib invadeth Juda: his army is destroyed by an angel. Ezechias\nrecovereth from his sickness: his other acts.\n\n32:1. After these things, and this truth, Sennacherib king of the\nAssyrians came and entered into Juda, and besieged the fenced cities,\ndesiring to take them.\n\n32:2. And when Ezechias saw that Sennacherib was come, and that the whole\nforce of the war was turning against Jerusalem,\n\n32:3. He took counsel with the princes, and the most valiant men, to stop\nup the heads of the springs, that were without the city: and as they\nwere all of this mind,\n\n32:4. He gathered together a very great multitude, and they stopped up\nall the springs, and the brook, that ran through the midst of the land,\nsaying: Lest the kings of the Assyrians should come, and find abundance\nof water.\n\n32:5. He built up also with great diligence all the wall that had been\nbroken down, and built towers upon it, and another wall without: and he\nrepaired Mello in the city of David, and made all sorts of arms and\nshields:\n\n32:6. And he appointed captains of the soldiers of the army: and he\ncalled them all together in the street of the gate of the city, and spoke\nto their heart, saying:\n\n32:7. Behave like men, and take courage: be not afraid nor dismayed for\nthe king of the Assyrians, nor for all the multitude that is with him:\nfor there are many more with us than with him.\n\n32:8. For with him is an arm of flesh: with us the Lord our God, who is\nour helper, and fighteth for us. And the people were encouraged with\nthese words of Ezechias king of Juda.\n\n32:9. After this, Sennacherib king of the Assyrians sent his servants to\nJerusalem, (for he with all his army was besieging Lachis,) to Ezechias\nking of Juda, and to all the people that were in the city, saying:\n\n32:10. Thus saith Sennacherib king of the Assyrians: In whom do you\ntrust, that you sit still besieged in Jerusalem?\n\n32:11. Doth not Ezechias deceive you, to give you up to die by hunger and\nthirst, affirming that the Lord your God shall deliver you from the hand\nof the king of the Assyrians?\n\n32:12. Is it not this same Ezechias, that hath destroyed his high places,\nand his altars, and commanded Juda and Jerusalem, saying: You shall\nworship before one altar, and upon it you shall burn incense?\n\n32:13. Know you not what I and my fathers have done to all the people of\nthe lands? have the gods of any nations and lands been able to deliver\ntheir country out of my hand?\n\n32:14. Who is there among all the gods of the nations, which my fathers\nhave destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your\nGod should be able to deliver you out of this hand?\n\n32:15. Therefore let not Ezechias deceive you, nor delude you with a vain\npersuasion, and do not believe him. For if no god of all the nations and\nkingdoms, could deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of\nmy fathers, consequently neither shall your God be able to deliver you\nout of my hand.\n\n32:16. And many other things did his servants speak against the Lord God,\nand against Ezechias his servant.\n\n32:17. He wrote also letters full of blasphemy against the Lord the God\nof Israel, and he spoke against him: As the gods of other nations could\nnot deliver their people out of my hand, so neither can the God of\nEzechias deliver his people out of this hand.\n\n32:18. Moreover he cried out with a loud voice, in the Jews' tongue, to\nthe people that sat on the walls of Jerusalem, that he might frighten\nthem, and take the city.\n\n32:19. And he spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of\nthe people of the earth, the works of the hands of men.\n\n32:20. And Ezechias the king, and Isaias the prophet the son of Amos,\nprayed against this blasphemy, and cried out to heaven.\n\n32:21. And the Lord sent an angel, who cut off all the stout men and the\nwarriors, and the captains of the army of the king of the Assyrians: and\nhe returned with disgrace into his own country. And when he was come\ninto the house of his god, his sons that came out of his bowels, slew him\nwith the sword.\n\n32:22. And the Lord saved Ezechias and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out\nof the hand of Sennacherib king of the Assyrians, and out of the hand of\nall, and gave them treasures on every side.\n\n32:23. Many also brought victims, and sacrifices to the Lord to\nJerusalem, and presents to Ezechias king of Juda: and he was magnified\nthenceforth in the sight of all nations.\n\n32:24. In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and he prayed to\nthe Lord: and he heard him, and gave him a sign.\n\n32:25. But he did not render again according to the benefits which he had\nreceived, for his heart was lifted up: and wrath was enkindled against\nhim, and against Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n32:26. And he humbled himself afterwards, because his heart had been\nlifted up, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and therefore the\nwrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Ezechias.\n\n32:27. And Ezechias was rich, and very glorious, and he gathered himself\ngreat treasures of silver and of gold, and of precious stones, of spices,\nand of arms, of all kinds, and of vessels of great price.\n\n32:28. Storehouses also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and stalls for all\nbeasts, and folds for cattle.\n\n32:29. And he built himself cities: for he had flocks of sheep, and\nherds without number, for the Lord had given him very much substance.\n\n32:30. This same Ezechias was, he that stopped the upper source of the\nwaters of Gihon, and turned them away underneath toward the west of the\ncity of David: in all his works he did prosperously what he would.\n\n32:31. But yet in the embassy of the princes of Babylon, that were sent\nto him, to inquire of the wonder that had happened upon the earth, God\nleft him that he might be tempted, and all things might be made known\nthat were in his heart.\n\n32:32. Now the rest of the acts of Ezechias, and of his mercies are\nwritten in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.\n\n32:33. And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and they buried him above the\nsepulchres of the sons of David: and all Juda, and all the inhabitants\nof Jerusalem celebrated his funeral: and Manasses his son reigned in his\nstead.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 33\n\n\nManasses for his manifold wickedness is led captive to Babylon: he\nrepenteth, and is restored to his kingdom, and destroyeth idolatry: his\nsuccessor Amon is slain by his servants.\n\n33:1. Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.\n\n33:2. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all the\nabominations of the nations, which the Lord cast out before the\nchildren of Israel:\n\n33:3. And he turned, and built again the high places which Ezechias his\nfather had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves,\nand he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them.\n\nThe host of heaven. . .The sun, moon, and stars.\n\n33:4. He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord\nhad said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.\n\n33:5. And he built them for all the host of heaven in the two courts of\nthe house of the Lord.\n\n33:6. And he made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of\nBenennom: he observed dreams, followed divinations, gave himself up to\nmagic arts, had with him magicians, and enchanters: and he wrought many\nevils before the Lord, to provoke him to anger.\n\n33:7. He set also a graven, and a molten statue in the house of God, of\nwhich God had said to David, and to Solomon his son: In this house, and\nin Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will\nI put my name for ever.\n\n33:8. And I will not make the foot of Israel to be removed out of the\nland which I have delivered to their fathers: yet so if they will take\nheed to do what I have commanded them, and all the law, and the\nceremonies, and judgments by the hand of Moses.\n\n33:9. So Manasses seduced Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do\nevil beyond all the nations, which the Lord had destroyed before the\nface of the children of Israel.\n\n33:10. And the Lord spoke to his people, and they would not hearken.\n\n33:11. Therefore he brought upon them the captains of he army of the\nking of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses, and carried him bound\nwith chains and fetters to Babylon.\n\n33:12. And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God:\nand did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers.\n\n33:13. And he entreated him, and besought him earnestly: and he heard\nhis prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom, and\nManasses knew that the Lord was God.\n\n33:14. After this he built a wall without the city of David, on the\nwest side of Gihon in the valley, from the entering in of the gate\nround about to Ophel, and raised it up to a great height: and he\nappointed captains of the army in all the fenced cities of Juda:\n\n33:15. And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house\nof the Lord: the altars also which he had made in the mount of the\nhouse of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and he cast them all out of the\ncity.\n\n33:16. And he repaired the altar of the Lord, and sacrificed upon it\nvictims, and peace offerings, and praise: and he commanded Juda to\nserve the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n33:17. Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places to\nthe Lord their God.\n\n33:18. But the rest of the acts of Manasses, and his prayer to his God,\nand the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the Lord\nthe God of Israel, are contained in the words of the kings of Israel.\n\n33:19. His prayer also, and his being heard and all his sins, and\ncontempt, and places wherein he built high places, and set up groves,\nand statues before he did penance, are written in the words of Hozai.\n\n33:20. And Manasses slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his\nhouse: and his son Amon reigned in his stead.\n\n33:21. Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned two years in Jerusalem.\n\n33:22. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses his father\nhad done: he sacrificed to all the idols which Manasses his father had\nmade, and served them.\n\n33:23. And he did not humble himself before the lord, as Manasses his\nfather had humbled himself, but committed far greater sin.\n\n33:24. And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own\nhouse.\n\n33:25. But the rest of the multitude of the people slew them that had\nkilled Amon, and made Josias his son king in his stead.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 34\n\n\nJosias destroyeth idolatry, repaireth the temple, and reneweth the\ncovenant between God and the people.\n\n34:1. Josias was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned\none and thirty years in Jerusalem.\n\n34:2. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and\nwalked in the ways of David his father: he declined not, neither to the\nright hand, nor to the left.\n\n34:3. And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he\nbegan to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year\nafter he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high\nplaces, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things.\n\n34:4. And they broke down before him the altars of Baalim, and\ndemolished the idols that had been set upon them: and he cut down the\ngroves and the graven things, and broke them in pieces: and strewed the\nfragments upon the graves of them that had sacrificed to them.\n\n34:5. And he burnt the bones of the priests on the altars of the idols,\nand he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n34:6. And in the cities of Manasses, and of Ephraim, and of Simeon,\neven to Nephtali he demolished all.\n\n34:7. And when he had destroyed the altars, and the groves, and had\nbroken the idols in pieces, and had demolished all profane temples\nthroughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.\n\n34:8. Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed the\nland, and the temple of the Lord, he sent Saphan the son of Elselias,\nand Maasias the governor of the city, Joha the son of Joachaz the\nrecorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.\n\n34:9. And they came to Helcias the high priest: and received of him the\nmoney which had been brought into the house of the Lord, and which the\nLevites and porters had gathered together from Manasses, and Ephraim,\nand all the remnant of Israel, and from all Juda, and Benjamin, and the\ninhabitants of Jerusalem,\n\n34:10. Which they delivered into the hands of them that were over the\nworkmen in the house of the Lord, to repair the temple, and mend all\nthat was weak.\n\n34:11. But they gave it to the artificers, and to the masons, to buy\nstones out of the quarries, and timber for the couplings of the\nbuilding, and to rafter the houses, which the kings of Juda had\ndestroyed.\n\n34:12. And they did all faithfully. Now the overseers of the workmen\nwere Jahath and Abdias of the sons of Merari, Zacharias and Mosollam of\nthe sons of Caath, who hastened the work: all Levites skilful to play\non instruments.\n\n34:13. But over them that carried burdens for divers uses, were\nscribes, and masters of the number of the Levites, and porters.\n\n34:14. Now when they carried out the money that had been brought into\nthe temple of the Lord, Helcias the priest found the book of the law of\nthe Lord, by the hand of Moses.\n\n34:15. And he said to Saphan the scribe: I have found the book of the\nlaw in the house of the Lord: and he delivered it to him.\n\n34:16. But he carried the book to the king, and told him, saying: Lo,\nall that thou hast committed to thy servants, is accomplished.\n\n34:17. They have gathered together the silver that was found in the\nhouse of the Lord: and it is given to the overseers of the artificers,\nand of the workmen, for divers works.\n\n34:18. Moreover Helcias the priest gave me this book. And he read it\nbefore the king.\n\n34:19. And when he had heard the words of the law, he rent his\ngarments:\n\n34:20. And he commanded Helcias, and Ahicam the son of Saphan, and\nAbdon the son of Micha, and Saphan the scribe, and Asaa the king's\nservant, saying:\n\n34:21. Go, and pray to the Lord for me, and for the remnant of Israel,\nand Juda, concerning all the words of this book, which is found: for\nthe great wrath of the Lord hath fallen upon us, because our fathers\nhave not kept the words of the Lord, to do all things that are written\nin this book.\n\n34:22. And Helcias and they that were sent with him by the king, went\nto Olda the prophetess, the wife of Sellum the son of Thecuath, the son\nof Hasra keeper of the wardrobe: who dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second\npart: and they spoke to her the words above mentioned.\n\n34:23. And she answered them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel:\nTell the man that sent you to me:\n\n34:24. Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring evils upon this place,\nand upon the inhabitants thereof, and all the curses that are written\nin this book which they read before the king of Juda.\n\n34:25. Because they have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange\ngods, to provoke me to wrath with all the works of their hands,\ntherefore my wrath shall fail upon this place, and shall not be\nquenched.\n\n34:26. But as to the king of Juda that sent you to beseech the Lord,\nthus shall you say to him: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel:\nBecause thou hast heard the words of this book,\n\n34:27. And thy heart was softened, and thou hast humbled thyself in the\nsight of God for the things that are spoken against this place, and the\ninhabitants of Jerusalem, and reverencing my face, hast rent thy\ngarments, and wept before me: I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.\n\n34:28. For now I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be\nbrought to thy tomb in peace: and thy eyes shall not see all the evil\nthat I will bring upon this place, and the inhabitants thereof. They\ntherefore reported to the king all that she had said.\n\n34:29. And he called together all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n34:30. And went up to the house of the Lord, and all the men of Juda,\nand the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites, and all\nthe people from the least to the greatest. And the king read in their\nhearing, in the house of the Lord, all the words of the book.\n\n34:31. And standing up in his tribunal, he made a covenant before the\nLord to walk after him, and keep his commandments, and testimonies, and\njustifications with all his heart, and with all his soul, and to do the\nthings that were written in that book which he had read.\n\n34:32. And he adjured all that were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to\ndo the same: and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the\ncovenant of the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n34:33. And Josias took away all the abominations out of all the\ncountries of the children of Israel and made all that were left in\nIsrael, to serve the Lord their God. As long as he lived they departed\nnot from the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 35\n\n\nJosias celebrateth a most solemn pasch. He is slain by the king of\nEgypt.\n\n35:1. And Josias kept a phase to the Lord in Jerusalem, and it was\nsacrificed on the fourteenth day of the first month.\n\n35:2. And he set the priests in their offices, and exhorted them to\nminister in the house of the Lord.\n\n35:3. And he spoke to the Levites, by whose instruction all Israel was\nsanctified to the Lord, saying: Put the ark in the sanctuary of the\ntemple, which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built: for you\nshall carry it no more: but minister now to the Lord your God, and to\nhis people Israel.\n\n35:4. And prepare yourselves by your houses, and families according to\nyour courses, as David king of Israel commanded, and Solomon his son\nhath written.\n\n35:5. And serve ye in the sanctuary by the families and companies of\nLevi.\n\n35:6. And being sanctified kill the phase, and prepare your brethren,\nthat they may do according to the words which the Lord spoke by the\nhand of Moses.\n\n35:7. And Josias gave to all the people that were found there in the\nsolemnity of the phase, of lambs and of kids of the flocks, and of\nother small cattle thirty thousand, and of oxen three thousand, all\nthese were of the king's substance.\n\n35:8. And his princes willingly offered what they had vowed, both to\nthe people and to the priests and the Levites. Moreover Helcias, and\nZacharias, and Jahiel rulers of the house of the Lord, gave to the\npriests to keep the phase two thousand six hundred small cattle, and\nthree hundred oxen.\n\n35:9. And Chonenias, and Semeias and Nathanael, his brethren, and\nHasabias, and Jehiel, and Jozabad princes of the Levites, gave to the\nrest of the Levites to celebrate the phase five thousand small cattle,\nand five hundred oxen.\n\n35:10. And the ministry was prepared, and the priests stood in their\noffice: the Levites also in their companies, according to the king's\ncommandment.\n\n35:11. And the phase was immolated: and the priests sprinkled the blood\nwith their hand, and the Levites flayed the holocausts:\n\n35:12. And they separated them, to give them by the houses and families\nof every one, and to be offered to the Lord, as it is written in the\nbook of Moses, and with the oxen they did in like manner.\n\n35:13. And they roasted the phase with fire, according to that which is\nwritten in the law: but the victims of peace offerings they boiled in\ncaldrons, and kettles, and pots, and they distributed them speedily\namong all the people.\n\n35:14. And afterwards they made ready for themselves, and for the\npriests: for the priests were busied in offering of holocausts and the\nfat until night, wherefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for\nthe priests the sons of Aaron last.\n\n35:15. And the singers the sons of Asaph stood in their order,\naccording to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and\nIdithun, the prophets of the king: and the porters kept guard at every\ngate, so as not to depart one moment from their service, and therefore\ntheir brethren the Levites prepared meats for them.\n\n35:16. So all the service of the Lord was duly accomplished that day,\nboth in keeping the phase and offering holocausts upon the altar of the\nLord, according to the commandment of king Josias.\n\n35:17. And the children of Israel that were found there, kept the phase\nat that time, and the feast of unleavened seven days.\n\n35:18. There was no phase like to this in Israel, from the days of\nSamuel the prophet: neither did any of all the kings of Israel keep\nsuch a phase as Josias kept, with the priests, and the Levites, and all\nJuda, and Israel that were found, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.\n\n35:19. In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this phase\ncelebrated.\n\n35:20. After that Josias had repaired the temple, Nechao king of Egypt\ncame up to fight in Charcamis by the Euphrates: and Josias went out to\nmeet him.\n\n35:21. But he sent messengers to him, saying: What have I to do with\nthee, O king of Juda? I come not against thee this day, but I fight\nagainst another house, to which God hath commanded me to go in haste:\nforbear to do against God, who is with me, lest he kill thee.\n\n35:22. Josias would not return, but prepared to fight against him, and\nhearkened not to the words of Nechao from the mouth of God, but went to\nfight in the field of Mageddo.\n\n35:23. And there he was wounded by the archers, and he said to his\nservants: Carry me out of the battle, for I am grievously wounded.\n\n35:24. And they removed him from the chariot into another, that\nfollowed him after the manner of kings, and they carried him away to\nJerusalem, and he died, and was buried in the monument of his fathers,\nand all Juda and Jerusalem mourned for him,\n\n35:25. Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations for Josias all the\nsinging men and singing women repeat unto this day, and it became like\na law in Israel: Behold it is found written in the Lamentations.\n\n35:26. Now the rest of the acts of Josias and of his mercies, according\nto what was commanded by the law of the Lord:\n\n35:27. And his works first and last, are written in the book of the\nkings of Juda and Israel.\n\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 36\n\n\nThe reigns of Joachaz, Joakim, Joachin, and Sedecias: the captivity of\nBabylon released at length by Cyrus.\n\n36:1. Then the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and\nmade him king instead of his father in Jerusalem.\n\n36:2. Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign,\nand he reigned three months in Jerusalem.\n\n36:3. And the king of Egypt came to Jerusalem, and deposed him, and\ncondemned the land in a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of\ngold.\n\n36:4. And he made Eliakim his brother king in his stead, over Juda and\nJerusalem: and he turned his name to Joakim: but he took Joachaz with\nhim and carried him away into Egypt.\n\n36:5. Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and\nhe reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did evil before the Lord\nhis God.\n\n36:6. Against him came up Nabuchodonosor king of the Chaldeans, and led\nhim bound in chains into Babylon.\n\n36:7. And he carried also thither the vessels of the Lord, and put them\nin his temple.\n\n36:8. But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and his abominations, which\nhe wrought, and the things that were found in him, are contained in the\nbook of the kings of Juda and Israel. And Joachin his son reigned in\nhis stead.\n\n36:9. Joachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the\nsight of the Lord.\n\nEight years old. . .He was associated by his father to the kingdom, when\nhe was but eight years old; but after his father's death, when he\nreigned alone, he was eighteen years old. 4 Kings 24.8.\n\n36:10. And at the return of the year, king Nabuchodonosor sent, and\nbrought him to Babylon, carrying away at the same time the most\nprecious vessels of the house of the Lord: and he made Sedecias his\nuncle king over Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n36:11. Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign:\nand he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.\n\n36:12. And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God, and did not\nreverence the face of Jeremias the prophet speaking to him from the\nmouth of the Lord.\n\n36:13. He also revolted from king Nabuchodonosor, who had made him\nswear by God: and he hardened his neck and his heart, from returning to\nthe Lord the God of Israel.\n\n36:14. Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people wickedly\ntransgressed according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and\nthey defiled the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself\nin Jerusalem.\n\n36:15. And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand\nof his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he\nspared his people and his dwelling place.\n\n36:16. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words,\nand misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his\npeople, and there was no remedy.\n\n36:17. For he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, and he slew\ntheir young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, he had no\ncompassion on young man, or maiden, old man or even him that stooped\nfor age, but he delivered them all into his hands.\n\n36:18. And all the vessels of the house of Lord, great and small, and\nthe treasures of the temple and of the king, and of the princes he\ncarried away to Babylon.\n\n36:19. And the enemies set fire to the house of God, and broke down the\nwall of Jerusalem, burnt all the towers, and what soever was precious\nthey destroyed.\n\n36:20. Whosoever escaped the sword, was led into Babylon, and there\nserved the king and his sons, till the reign of the king of Persia,\n\n36:21. That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be\nfulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of\nthe desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.\n\n36:22. But in the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, to fulfil\nthe word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the mouth of Jeremias, the\nLord stirred up the heart of Cyrus, king of the Persians: who commanded\nit to be proclaimed through all his kingdom, and by writing also,\nsaying:\n\n36:23. Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: All the kingdoms of the\nearth hath the Lord the God of heaven given to me, and he hath charged\nme to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea: who is there\namong you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him\ngo up.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST BOOK OF ESDRAS\n\n\n\nThis Book taketh its name from the writer: who was a holy priest, and\ndoctor of the law. He is called by the Hebrews, Ezra.\n\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 1\n\n\nCyrus king of Persia releaseth God's people from their captivity, with\nlicense to return and build the temple in Jerusalem: and restoreth the\nholy vessels which Nabuchodonosor had taken from thence.\n\n1:1. In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of\nthe Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred\nup the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians: and he made a proclamation\nthroughout all his kingdom, and in writing also, saying:\n\n1:2. Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: The Lord the God of heaven\nhath given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he hath charged me\nto build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea.\n\n1:3. Who is there among you of all his people? His God be with him. Let\nhim go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judea, and build the house of the\nLord the God of Israel: he is the God that is in Jerusalem.\n\n1:4. And let all the rest in all places wheresoever they dwell, help\nhim every man from his place, with silver and gold, and goods, and\ncattle, besides that which they offer freely to the temple of God,\nwhich is in Jerusalem.\n\n1:5. Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Juda and Benjamin, and\nthe priests, and Levites, and every one whose spirit God had raised up,\nto go up to build the temple of the Lord, which was in Jerusalem.\n\n1:6. And all they that were round about, helped their hands with\nvessels of silver, and gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with\nfurniture, besides what they had offered on their own accord.\n\n1:7. And king Cyrus brought forth vessels of the temple of the Lord,\nwhich Nabuchodonosor had taken from Jerusalem, and had put them in the\ntemple of his god.\n\n1:8. Now Cyrus king of Persia brought them forth by the hand of\nMithridates the son of Gazabar, and numbered them to Sassabasar the\nprince of Juda.\n\n1:9. And this is the number of them: thirty bowls of gold, a thousand\nbowls of silver, nine and twenty knives, thirty cups of gold,\n\n1:10. Silver cups of a second sort, four hundred and ten: other vessels\na thousand.\n\n1:11. All the vessels of gold and silver, five thousand four hundred:\nall these Sassabasar brought with them that came up from the captivity\nof Babylon to Jerusalem.\n\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 2\n\n\nThe number of them that returned to Judea: their oblations.\n\n2:1. Now these are the children of the province, that went out of the\ncaptivity, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away to\nBabylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Juda, every man to his city.\n\n2:2. Who came with Zorobabel, Josue, Nehemia, Saraia, Rahelaia,\nMardochai, Belsan, Mesphar, Beguai, Rehum, Baana. The number of the men\nof the people of Israel:\n\n2:3. The children of Pharos two thousand one hundred seventy-two.\n\n2:4. The children of Sephatia, three hundred seventy-two.\n\n2:5. The children of Area, seven hundred seventy-five.\n\n2:6. The children of Phahath Moab, of the children of Josue: Joab, Two\nthousand eight hundred twelve.\n\n2:7. The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty-four.\n\n2:8. The children of Zethua, nine hundred forty-five.\n\n2:9. The children of Zachai, seven hundred sixty.\n\n2:10. The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.\n\n2:11. The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three.\n\n2:12. The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty-two.\n\n2:13. The children of Adonicam, six hundred sixty-six.\n\n2:14. The children of Beguai, two thousand fifty-six.\n\n2:15. The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four.\n\n2:16. The children of Ather, who were of Ezechias, ninety-eight.\n\n2:17. The children of Besai, three hundred and twenty-three.\n\n2:18. The children of Jora, a hundred and twelve.\n\n2:19. The children of Hasum, two hundred twenty-three.\n\n2:20. The children of Gebbar, ninety-five.\n\n2:21. The children of Bethlehem, a hundred twenty-three.\n\n2:22. The men of Netupha, fifty-six.\n\n2:23. The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty-eight.\n\n2:24. The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.\n\n2:25. The children of Cariathiarim, Cephira, and Beroth, seven hundred\nforty-three.\n\n2:26. The children of Rama and Gabaa, six hundred twenty-one.\n\n2:27. The men of Machmas, a hundred twenty-two.\n\n2:28. The men of Bethel and Hai, two hundred twenty-three.\n\n2:29. The children of Nebo, fifty-two.\n\n2:30. The children of Megbis, a hundred fifty-six.\n\n2:31. The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred\nfifty-five.\n\n2:32. The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.\n\n2:33. The children of Lod, Hadid and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.\n\n2:34. The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.\n\n2:35. The children of Senaa, three thousand six hundred thirty.\n\n2:36. The priests: the children of Jadaia of the house of Josue, nine\nhundred seventy-three.\n\n2:37. The children of Emmer, a thousand fifty-two.\n\n2:38. The children of Pheshur, a thousand two hundred forty-seven.\n\n2:39. The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.\n\n2:40. The Levites: the children of Josue and of Cedmihel, the children\nof Odovia, seventy-four.\n\n2:41. The singing men: the children of Asaph, a hundred twenty-eight.\n\n2:42. The children of the porters: the children of Sellum, the children\nof Ater, the children of Telmon, the children of Accub, the children of\nHatita, the children of Sobai: in all a hundred thirty-nine.\n\n2:43. The Nathinites: the children of Siha, the children of Hasupha,\nthe children of Tabbaoth,\n\n2:44. The children of Ceros, the children of Sia, the children of\nPhadon,\n\n2:45. The children of Lebana, the children of Hegaba, the children of\nAccub,\n\n2:46. The children of Hagab, the children of Semlai, the children of\nHanan,\n\n2:47. The children of Gaddel, the children of Gaher, the children of\nRaaia,\n\n2:48. The children of Rasin, the children of Necoda, the children of\nGazam,\n\n2:49. The children of Asa, the children of Phasea, the children of\nBesee,\n\n2:50. The children of Asena, the children of Munim, the children of\nNephusim,\n\n2:51. The children of Bacbuc, the children of Hacupha, the children of\nHarhur,\n\n2:52. The children of Besluth, the children of Mahida, the children of\nHarsa,\n\n2:53. The children of Bercos, the children of Sisara, the children of\nThema,\n\n2:54. The children of Nasia, the children of Hatipha,\n\n2:55. The children of the servants of Solomon, the children of Sotai,\nthe children of Sopheret, the children of Pharuda,\n\n2:56. The children of Jala, the children of Dercon, the children of\nGeddel,\n\n2:57. The children of Saphatia, the children of Hatil, the children of\nPhochereth, which were of Asebaim, the children of Ami,\n\n2:58. All the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon,\nthree hundred ninety-two.\n\n2:59. And these are they that came up from Thelmela, Thelharsa, Cherub,\nand Adon, and Emer. And they could not shew the house of their fathers\nand their seed, whether they were of Israel.\n\n2:60. The children of Dalaia, the children of Tobia, the children of\nNecoda, six hundred fifty-two.\n\n2:61. And of the children of the priests: the children of Hobia, the\nchildren of Accos, the children of Berzellai, who took a wife of the\ndaughters of Berzellai, the Galaadite, and was called by their name:\n\n2:62. These sought the writing of their genealogy, and found it not,\nand they were cast out of the priesthood.\n\n2:63. And Athersatha said to them, that they should not eat of the holy\nof holies, till there arose a priest learned and perfect.\n\n2:64. All the multitudes as one man, were forty-two thousand three\nhundred and sixty:\n\nForty-two thousand, etc. . .Those who are reckoned up above of the\ntribes of Juda, Benjamin, and Levi, fall short of this number. The\nrest, who must be taken in to make up the whole sum, were of the other\ntribes.\n\n2:65. Besides their menservants, and womenservants, of whom there were\nseven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven: and among them singing\nmen, and singing women two hundred.\n\n2:66. Their horses seven hundred thirty-six, their mules two hundred\nforty-five,\n\n2:67. Their camels four hundred thirty-five, their asses six thousand\nseven hundred and twenty.\n\n2:68. And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the\ntemple of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, offered freely to the house\nof the Lord to build it in its place.\n\n2:69. According to their ability, they gave towards the expenses of the\nwork, sixty-one thousand solids of gold, five thousand pounds of\nsilver, and a hundred garments for the priests.\n\n2:70. So the priests and the Levites, and some of the people, and the\nsinging men, and the porters, and the Nathinites dwelt in their cities,\nand all Israel in their cities.\n\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 3\n\n\nAn altar is built for sacrifice, the feast of tabernacles is solemnly\ncelebrated, and the foundations of the temple are laid.\n\n3:1. And now the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel\nwere in their cities: and the people gathered themselves together as\none man to Jerusalem.\n\n3:2. And Josue the son of Josedec rose up, and his brethren the\npriests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they\nbuilt the altar of the God of Israel that they might offer holocausts\nupon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.\n\nJosue. . .or Jesus (Jeshua) the son of Josedec; he was the high priest,\nat that time.\n\n3:3. And they set the altar of God upon its bases, while the people of\nthe lands round about put them in fear, and they offered upon it a\nholocaust to the Lord morning and evening.\n\n3:4. And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and\noffered the holocaust every day orderly according to the commandment,\nthe duty of the day in its day.\n\n3:5. And afterwards the continual holocaust, both on the new moons, and\non all the solemnities of the Lord, that were consecrated, and on all\nin which a freewill offering was made to the Lord.\n\n3:6. From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer\nholocausts to the Lord: but the temple of God was not yet founded.\n\n3:7. And they gave money to hewers of stones and to masons: and meat\nand drink, and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees\nfrom Libanus to the sea of Joppe, according to the orders which Cyrus\nking of the Persians had given them.\n\n3:8. And in the second year of their coming to the temple of God in\nJerusalem, the second month, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue\nthe son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests, and the\nLevites, and all that were come from the captivity to Jerusalem began,\nand they appointed Levites from twenty years old and upward, to hasten\nforward the work of the Lord.\n\n3:9. Then Josue and his sons and his brethren, Cedmihel, and his sons,\nand the children of Juda, as one man, stood to hasten them that did the\nwork in the temple of God: the sons of Henadad, and their sons, and\ntheir brethren the Levites.\n\n3:10. And when the masons laid the foundations of the temple of the\nLord, the priests stood in their ornaments with trumpets: and the\nLevites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise God by the hands of\nDavid king of Israel.\n\n3:11. And they sung together hymns, and praise to the Lord: because he\nis good, for his mercy endureth for ever towards Israel. And all the\npeople shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord, because the\nfoundations of the temple of the Lord were laid.\n\n3:12. But many of the priests and the Levites, and the chief of the\nfathers and the ancients that had seen the former temple; when they had\nthe foundation of this temple before their eyes, wept with a loud\nvoice: and many shouting for joy, lifted up their voice.\n\n3:13. So that one could not distinguish the voice of the shout of joy,\nfrom the noise of the weeping of the people: for one with another the\npeople shouted with a loud shout, and the voice was heard afar off.\n\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 4\n\n\nThe Samaritans by their letter to the king hinder the building.\n\n4:1. Now the enemies of Juda and Benjamin heard that the children of\nthe captivity were building a temple to the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n4:2. And they came to Zorobabel, and the chief of the fathers, and said\nto them: Let us build with you, for we seek your God as ye do: behold\nwe have sacrificed to him, since the days of Asor Haddan king of\nAssyria, who brought us hither.\n\n4:3. But Zorobabel, and Josue, and the rest of the chief of the fathers\nof Israel said to them: You have nothing to do with us to build a house\nto our God, but we ourselves alone will build to the Lord our God, as\nCyrus king of the Persians hath commanded us.\n\n4:4. Then the people of the land hindered the hands of the people of\nJuda, and troubled them in building.\n\n4:5. And they hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their design\nall the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius\nking of the Persians.\n\n4:6. And in the reign of Assuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they\nwrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Juda and Jerusalem.\n\nAssuerus. . .Otherwise called Cambyses the son and successor of Cyrus.\nHe is also in the following verse named Artaxerxes, a name common to\nalmost all the kings of Persia.\n\n4:7. And in the days of Artaxerxes, Beselam, Mithridates, and Thabeel,\nand the rest that were in the council wrote to Artaxerxes king of the\nPersians: and the letter of accusation was written in Syrian, and was\nread in the Syrian tongue.\n\n4:8. Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe wrote a letter from Jerusalem\nto king Artaxerxes, in this manner:\n\n4:9. Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe and the rest of their\ncounsellors, the Dinites, and the Apharsathacites, the Therphalites,\nthe Apharsites, the Erchuites, the Babylonians, the Susanechites, the\nDievites, and the Elamites,\n\n4:10. And the rest of the nations, whom the great and glorious\nAsenaphar brought over: and made to dwell in the cities of Samaria and\nin the rest of the countries of this side of the river in peace.\n\n4:11. (This is the copy of the letter, which they sent to him:) To\nArtaxerxes the king, thy servants, the men that are on this side of the\nriver, send greeting.\n\n4:12. Be it known to the king, that the Jews, who came up from thee to\nus, are come to Jerusalem a rebellious and wicked city, which they are\nbuilding, setting up the ramparts thereof and repairing the walls.\n\n4:13. And now be it known to the king, that if this city be built up,\nand the walls thereof repaired, they will not pay tribute nor toll, nor\nyearly revenues, and this loss will fall upon the kings.\n\n4:14. But we remembering the salt that we have eaten in the palace, and\nbecause we count it a crime to see the king wronged, have therefore\nsent and certified the king,\n\n4:15. That search may be made in the books of the histories of thy\nfathers, and thou shalt find written in the records: and shalt know\nthat this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to the kings and\nprovinces, and that wars were raised therein of old time: for which\ncause also the city was destroyed.\n\n4:16. We certify the king, that if this city be built, and the walls\nthereof repaired, thou shalt have no possession on this side of the\nriver.\n\n4:17. The king sent word to Reum Beelteem and Samsai the scribe, and to\nthe rest that were in their council, inhabitants of Samaria, and to the\nrest beyond the river, sending greeting and peace.\n\n4:18. The accusation, which you have sent to us, hath been plainly read\nbefore me,\n\n4:19. And I commanded: and search hath been made, and it is found, that\nthis city of old time hath rebelled against kings, and seditions and\nwars have been raised therein.\n\n4:20. For there have been powerful kings in Jerusalem, who have had\ndominion over all the country that is beyond the river: and have\nreceived tribute, and toll and revenues.\n\n4:21. Now therefore hear the sentence: Hinder those men, that this city\nbe not built, till further orders be given by me.\n\n4:22. See that you be not negligent in executing this, lest by little\nand little the evil grow to the hurt of the kings.\n\n4:23. Now the copy of the edict of king Artaxerxes was read before Reum\nBeelteem, and Samsai the scribe, and their counsellors: and they went\nup in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and hindered them with arm and\npower.\n\n4:24. Then the work of the house of the Lord in Jerusalem was\ninterrupted, and ceased till the second year of the reign of Darius\nking of the Persians.\n\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 5\n\n\nBy the exhortation of Aggeus, and Zacharias, the people proceed in\nbuilding the temple. Which their enemies strive in vain to hinder.\n\n5:1. Now Aggeus the prophet, and Zacharias the son of Addo, prophesied\nto the Jews that were in Judea and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of\nIsrael.\n\n5:2. Then rose up Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the son of\nJosedec, and began to build the temple of God in Jerusalem, and with\nthem were the prophets of God helping them.\n\n5:3. And at the same time came to them Thathanai, who was governor\nbeyond the river, and Stharbuzanai, and their counsellors: and said\nthus to them: Who hath given you counsel to build this house, and to\nrepair the walls thereof?\n\n5:4. In answer to which we gave them the names of the men who were the\npromoters of that building.\n\n5:5. But the eye of their God was upon the ancients of the Jews, and\nthey could not hinder them. And it was agreed that the matter should be\nreferred to Darius, and then they should give satisfaction concerning\nthat accusation.\n\n5:6. The copy of the letter that Thathanai governor of the country\nbeyond the river, and Stharbuzanai, and his counsellors the\nArphasachites, who dwelt beyond the river, sent to Darius the king.\n\n5:7. The letter which they sent him, was written thus: To Darius the\nking all peace.\n\n5:8. Be it known to the king, that we went to the province of Judea, to\nthe house of the great God, which they are building with unpolished\nstones, and timber is laid in the walls: and this work is carried on\ndiligently and advanceth in their hands.\n\n5:9. And we asked those ancients, and said to them thus: Who hath given\nyou authority to build this house, and to repair these walls?\n\n5:10. We asked also of them their names, that we might give thee\nnotice: and we have written the names of the men that are the chief\namong them.\n\n5:11. And they answered us in these words, saying: We are the servants\nof the God of heaven and earth, and we are building a temple that was\nbuilt these many years ago, and which a great king of Israel built and\nset up.\n\n5:12. But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to\nwrath, he delivered them into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king of\nBabylon the Chaldean: and he destroyed this house, and carried away the\npeople to Babylon.\n\n5:13. But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon, king Cyrus\nset forth a decree, that this house of God should be built.\n\n5:14. And the vessels also of gold and silver of the temple of God,\nwhich Nabuchodonosor had taken out of the temple, that was in\nJerusalem, and had brought them to the temple of Babylon, king Cyrus\nbrought out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one\nSassabasar, whom also he appointed governor,\n\n5:15. And said to him: Take these vessels, and go, and put them in the\ntemple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in its\nplace.\n\n5:16. Then came this same Sassabasar, and laid the foundations of the\ntemple of God in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it is in\nbuilding, and is not yet finished.\n\n5:17. Now therefore if it seem good to the king, let him search in the\nking's library, which is in Babylon, whether it hath been decreed by\nCyrus the king, that the house of God in Jerusalem should be built, and\nlet the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.\n\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 6\n\n\nKing Darius favoureth the building and contributeth to it.\n\n6:1. Then king Darius gave orders, and they searched in the library of\nthe books that were laid up in Babylon,\n\n6:2. And there was found in Ecbatana, which is a castle in the province\nof Media, a book in which this record was written.\n\n6:3. In the first year of Cyrus the king: Cyrus the king decreed, that\nthe house of God should be built, which is in Jerusalem, in the place\nwhere they may offer sacrifices, and that they lay the foundations that\nmay support the height of threescore cubits, and the breadth of\nthreescore cubits,\n\n6:4. Three rows of unpolished stones, and so rows of new timber: and\nthe charges shall be given out of the king's house.\n\n6:5. And also let the golden and silver vessels of the temple of God,\nwhich Nabuchodonosor took out of the temple of Jerusalem, and brought\nto Babylon, be restored, and carried back to the temple of Jerusalem to\ntheir place, which also were placed in the temple of God.\n\n6:6. Now therefore Thathanai, governor of the country beyond the river,\nStharbuzanai, and your counsellors the Apharsachites, who are beyond\nthe river, depart far from them,\n\n6:7. And let that temple of God be built by the governor of the Jews,\nand by their ancients, that they may build that house of God in its\nplace.\n\n6:8. I also have commanded what must be done by those ancients of the\nJews, that the house of God may be built, to wit, that of the king's\nchest, that is, of the tribute that is paid out of the country beyond\nthe river, the charges be diligently given to those men, lest the work\nbe hindered.\n\n6:9. And if it shall be necessary, let calves also, and lambs, and\nkids, for holocausts to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil,\naccording to the custom of the priests that are in Jerusalem, be given\nthem day by day, that there be no complaint in any thing.\n\n6:10. And let them offer oblations to the God of heaven, and pray for\nthe life of the king, and of his children.\n\n6:11. And I have made a decree: That if any whosoever, shall alter this\ncommandment, a beam be taken from his house, and set up, and he be\nnailed upon it, and his house be confiscated.\n\n6:12. And may the God, that hath caused his name to dwell there,\ndestroy all kingdoms, and the people that shall put out their hand to\nresist, and to destroy the house of God, that is in Jerusalem. I Darius\nhave made the decree, which I will have diligently complied with.\n\n6:13. So then Thathanai, governor of the country beyond the river, and\nStharbuzanai, and his counsellors diligently executed what Darius the\nking had commanded.\n\n6:14. And the ancients of the Jews built, and prospered according to\nthe prophecy of Aggeus the prophet, and of Zacharias the son of Addo:\nand they built and finished, by the commandment of the God of Israel,\nand by the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes kings of\nthe Persians.\n\n6:15. And they were finishing this house of God, until the third day of\nthe month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of king\nDarius.\n\n6:16. And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the\nrest of the children of the captivity kept the dedication of the house\nof God with joy.\n\n6:17. And they offered at the dedication of the house of God, a hundred\ncalves, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and for a sin offering\nfor all Israel twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes\nof Israel.\n\n6:18. And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in\ntheir courses over the works of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in\nthe book of Moses.\n\n6:19. And the children of Israel of the captivity kept the phase, on\nthe fourteenth day of the first month.\n\n6:20. For all the priests and the Levites were purified as one man: all\nwere clean to kill the phase for all the children of the captivity, and\nfor their brethren the priests, and themselves.\n\n6:21. And the children of Israel that were returned from captivity, and\nall that had separated themselves from the filthiness of the nations of\nthe earth to them, to seek the Lord the God of Israel, did eat.\n\n6:22. And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy,\nfor the Lord had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king\nof Assyria to them, that he should help their hands in the work of the\nhouse of the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 7\n\n\nEsdras goeth up to Jerusalem to teach, and assist the people, with a\ngracious decree of Artaxerxes.\n\n7:1. Now after these things in the reign of Artaxerxes king of the\nPersians, Esdras the son of Saraias, the son of Azarias, the son of\nHelcias,\n\n7:2. The son of Sellum, the son of Sadoc, the son of Achitob,\n\n7:3. The son of Amarias, the son of Azarias, the son of Maraioth,\n\n7:4. The son of Zarahias, the son of Ozi, the son of Bocci,\n\n7:5. The son of Abisue, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son\nof Aaron, the priest from the beginning.\n\n7:6. This Esdras went up from Babylon, and he was a ready scribe in the\nlaw of Moses, which the Lord God had given to Israel: and the king\ngranted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God\nupon him.\n\n7:7. And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the\nchildren of the priests, and of the children of the Levites, and of the\nsinging men, and of the porters, and of the Nathinites to Jerusalem in\nthe seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.\n\n7:8. And they came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, in the seventh year\nof the king.\n\n7:9. For upon the first day of the first month he began to go up from\nBabylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem\naccording to the good hand of his God upon him.\n\n7:10. For Esdras had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord,\nand to do and to teach in Israel the commandments and judgment.\n\n7:11. And this is the copy of the letter of the edict, which king\nArtaxerxes gave to Esdras the priest, the scribe instructed in the\nwords and commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies in Israel.\n\n7:12. Artaxerxes king of kings to Esdras the priest, the most learned\nscribe of the law of the God of heaven, greeting.\n\n7:13. It is decreed by me, that all they of the people of Israel, and\nof the priests and of the Levites in my realm, that are minded to go\ninto Jerusalem, should go with thee.\n\n7:14. For thou art sent from before the king, and his seven\ncounsellors, to visit Judea and Jerusalem according to the law of thy\nGod, which is in thy hand.\n\n7:15. And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his\ncounsellors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose tabernacle\nis in Jerusalem.\n\n7:16. And all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the\nprovince of Babylon, and that the people is willing to offer, and that\nthe priests shall offer of their own accord to the house of their God,\nwhich is in Jerusalem,\n\n7:17. Take freely, and buy diligently with this money, calves, rams,\nlambs, with the sacrifices and libations of them, and offer them upon\nthe altar of the temple of your God, that is in Jerusalem.\n\n7:18. And if it seem good to thee, and to thy brethren to do any thing\nwith the rest of the silver and gold, do it according to the will of\nyour God.\n\n7:19. The vessels also, that are given thee for the sacrifice of the\nhouse of thy God, deliver thou in the sight of God in Jerusalem.\n\n7:20. And whatsoever more there shall be need of for the house of thy\nGod, how much soever thou shalt have occasion to spend, it shall be\ngiven out of the treasury, and the king's exchequer, and by me.\n\n7:21. I Artaxerxes the king have ordered and decreed to all the keepers\nof the public chest, that are beyond the river, that whatsoever Esdras\nthe priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require\nof you, you give it without delay,\n\n7:22. Unto a hundred talents of silver, and unto a hundred cores of\nwheat, and unto a hundred bates of wine, and unto a hundred bates of\noil, and salt without measure.\n\n7:23. All that belongeth to the rites of the God of heaven, let it be\ngiven diligently in the house of the God of heaven: lest his wrath\nshould be enkindled against the realm of the king, and of his sons.\n\n7:24. We give you also to understand concerning all the priests, and\nthe Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nathinites, and\nministers of the house of this God, that you have no authority to\nimpose toll or tribute, or custom upon them.\n\n7:25. And thou Esdras according to the wisdom of thy God, which is in\nthy hand, appoint judges and magistrates, that may judge all the\npeople, that is beyond the river, that is, for them who know the law of\nthy God, yea and the ignorant teach ye freely.\n\n7:26. And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the\nking diligently, judgment shall be executed upon him, either unto\ndeath, or unto banishment, or to the confiscation of goods, or at least\nto prison.\n\n7:27. Blessed be the Lord the God of our fathers, who hath put this in\nthe king's heart, to glorify the house of the Lord, which is in\nJerusalem,\n\n7:28. And hath inclined his mercy toward me before the king and his\ncounsellors, and all the mighty princes of the king: and I being\nstrengthened by the hand of the Lord my God, which was upon me,\ngathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.\n\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 8\n\n\nThe companions of Esdras. The fast which he appointed. They bring the\nholy vessels into the temple.\n\n8:1. Now these are the chief of families, and the genealogy of them,\nwho came up with me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.\n\n8:2. Of the sons of Phinees, Gersom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of\nthe sons of David, Hattus.\n\n8:3. Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Pharos, Zacharias, and with\nhim were numbered a hundred and fifty men.\n\n8:4. Of the sons of Phahath Moab, Eleoenai the son of Zareha, and with\nhim two hundred men.\n\n8:5. Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Ezechiel, and with him three\nhundred men.\n\n8:6. Of the sons of Adan, Abed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty\nmen.\n\n8:7. Of the sons of Alam, Isaias the son of Athalias, and with him\nseventy men.\n\n8:8. Of the sons of Saphatia: Zebodia the son of Michael, and with him\neighty men.\n\n8:9. Of the sons of Joab, Obedia the son of Jahiel, and with him two\nhundred and eighteen men.\n\n8:10. Of the sons of Selomith, the son of Josphia, and with him a\nhundred and sixty men.\n\n8:11. Of the sons of Bebai, Zacharias the son of Bebai: and with him\neight and twenty men.\n\n8:12. Of the sons of Azgad, Joanan the son of Eccetan, and with him a\nhundred and ten men.\n\n8:13. Of the sons of Adonicam, who were the last: and these are their\nnames: Eliphelet, and Jehiel, and Samaias, and with them sixty men.\n\n8:14. Of the sons of Begui, Uthai and Zachur, and with them seventy\nmen.\n\n8:15. And I gathered them together to the river, which runneth down to\nAhava, and we stayed there three days: and I sought among the people\nand among the priests for the sons of Levi, and found none there.\n\n8:16. So I sent Eliezer, and Ariel, and Semeias, and Elnathan, and\nJarib, and another Elnathan, and Nathan, and Zacharias, and Mosollam,\nchief men: and Joiarib, and Elnathan, wise men.\n\n8:17. And I sent them to Eddo, who is chief in the place of Chasphia,\nand I put in their mouth the words that they should speak to Eddo, and\nhis brethren the Nathinites in the place of Chasphia, that they should\nbring us ministers of the house of our God.\n\n8:18. And by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a most\nlearned man of the sons of Moholi the son of Levi the son of Israel,\nand Sarabias and his sons, and his brethren eighteen,\n\n8:19. And Hasabias, and with him Isaias of the sons of Merari, and his\nbrethren, and his sons twenty.\n\n8:20. And of the Nathinites, whom David, and the princes gave for the\nservice of the Levites, Nathinites two hundred and twenty: all these\nwere called by their names.\n\n8:21. And I proclaimed there a fast by the river Ahava, that we might\nafflict ourselves before the Lord our God, and might ask of him a right\nway for us and for our children, and for all our substance.\n\nAnd I proclaimed a fast. . .It is not enough to part from Babylon, that\nis, figuratively from sin, but we must also do works of penance; and\ntherefore Esdras here proclaimed an extraordinary fast to those that\nwere come from captivity. This shews that fasting was commanded and\npractised from the earliest times.\n\n8:22. For I was ashamed to ask the king for aid and for horsemen, to\ndefend us from the enemy in the way: because we had said to the king:\nThe hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness: and his\npower and strength, and wrath upon all them that forsake him.\n\n8:23. And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it fell out\nprosperously unto us.\n\n8:24. And I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sarabias, and\nHasabias, and with them ten of their brethren,\n\n8:25. And I weighed unto them the silver and gold, and the vessels\nconsecrated for the house of our God, which the king and his\ncounsellors, and his princes, and all Israel, that were found had\noffered.\n\n8:26. And I weighed to their hands six hundred and fifty talents of\nsilver, and a hundred vessels of silver, and a hundred talents of gold,\n\n8:27. And twenty cups of gold, of a thousand solids, and two vessels of\nthe best shining brass, beautiful as gold.\n\n8:28. And I said to them: You are the holy ones of the Lord, and the\nvessels are holy, and the silver and gold, that is freely offered to\nthe Lord the God of our fathers.\n\n8:29. Watch ye and keep them, till you deliver them by weight before\nthe chief of the priests, and of the Levites, and the heads of the\nfamilies of Israel in Jerusalem, into the treasure of the house of the\nLord.\n\n8:30. And the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver\nand gold, and the vessels, to carry them to Jerusalem to the house of\nour God.\n\n8:31. Then we set forward from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of\nthe first month to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon\nus, and delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in\nwait by the way.\n\n8:32. And we came to Jerusalem, and we stayed there three days.\n\n8:33. And on the fourth day the silver and the gold, and the vessels\nwere weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of\nUrias the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with\nthem Jozabad the son of Josue, and Noadaia the son of Benoi, Levites.\n\n8:34. According to the number and weight of everything: and all the\nweight was written at that time.\n\n8:35. Moreover the children of them that had been carried away that\nwere come out of the captivity, offered holocausts to the God of\nIsrael, twelve calves for all the people of Israel, ninety-six rams,\nseventy-seven lambs, and twelve he goats for sin: all for a holocaust\nto the Lord.\n\n8:36. And they gave the king's edicts to the lords that were from the\nking's court, and the governors beyond the river, and they furthered\nthe people and the house of God.\n\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 9\n\n\nEsdras mourneth for the transgression of the people: his confession and\nprayer.\n\n9:1. And after these things were accomplished, the princes came to me,\nsaying: The people of Israel, and the priests and Levites have not\nseparated themselves from the people of the lands, and from their\nabominations, namely, of the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, and the\nPherezites, and the Jebusites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites, and\nthe Egyptians, and the Amorrhites.\n\nThis shows how sinful it is to intermarry with those that the Church\nforbids us, on account of the danger of perversion and falling off from\nthe true faith.\n\n9:2. For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for\ntheir sons, and they have mingled the holy seed with the people of the\nlands. And the hand of the princes and magistrates hath been first in\nthis transgression.\n\n9:3. And when I had heard this word, I rent my mantle and my coat, and\nplucked off the hairs of my head and my beard, and I sat down mourning.\n\n9:4. And there were assembled to me all that feared the God of Israel,\nbecause of the transgression of those that were come from the\ncaptivity, and I sat sorrowful, until the evening sacrifice.\n\n9:5. And at the evening sacrifice I rose up from my affliction, and\nhaving rent my mantle and my garment, I fell upon my knees, and spread\nout my hands to the Lord my God,\n\n9:6. And said: My God I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to\nthee: for our iniquities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins\nare grown up even unto heaven,\n\n9:7. From the days of our fathers: and we ourselves also have sinned\ngrievously unto this day, and for our iniquities we and our kings, and\nour priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the\nlands, and to the sword, and to captivity, and to spoil, and to\nconfusion of face, as it is at this day.\n\n9:8. And now as a little, and for a moment has our prayer been made\nbefore the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant, and give us a pin in\nhis holy place, and that our God would enlighten our eyes, and would\ngive us a little life in our bondage.\n\nA pin. . .or nail, here signifies a small settlement or holding; which\nEsdras begs for, to preserve even a part of the people, who, by their\ngreat iniquity had incurred the anger of God.\n\n9:9. For we are bondmen, and in our bondage our God hath not forsaken\nus, but hath extended mercy upon us before the king of the Persians, to\ngive us life, and to set up the house of our God, and to rebuild the\ndesolations thereof, and to give us a fence in Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n9:10. And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have\nforsaken thy commandments,\n\n9:11. Which thou hast commanded by the hand of thy servants the\nprophets, saying: The land which you go to possess, is an unclean land,\naccording to the uncleanness of the people, and of other lands, with\ntheir abominations, who have filled it from mouth to mouth with their\nfilth.\n\n9:12. Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, and take not\ntheir daughters for your sons, and seek not their peace, nor their\nprosperity for ever: that you may be strengthened, and may eat the good\nthings of the land, and may have your children your heirs for ever.\n\n9:13. And after all that is come upon us, for our most wicked deeds,\nand our great sin, seeing that thou our God hast saved us from our\niniquity, and hast given us a deliverance as at this day,\n\n9:14. That we should not turn away, nor break thy commandments, nor\njoin in marriage with the people of these abominations. Art thou angry\nwith us unto utter destruction, not to leave us a remnant to be saved?\n\n9:15. O Lord God of Israel, thou art just: for we remain yet to be\nsaved as at this day. Behold we are before thee in our sin, for there\ncan be no standing before thee in this matter.\n\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 10\n\n\nOrder is given for discharging strange women: the names of the guilty.\n\n10:1. Now when Esdras was thus praying, and beseeching, and weeping,\nand lying before the temple of God, there was gathered to him of Israel\nan exceeding great assembly of men and women and children, and the\npeople wept with much lamentation.\n\n10:2. And Sechenias the son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam answered, and\nsaid to Esdras: We have sinned against our God, and have taken strange\nwives of the people of the land: and now if there be repentance in\nIsrael concerning this,\n\n10:3. Let us make a covenant with the Lord our God, to put away all the\nwives, and such as are born of them, according to the will of the Lord,\nand of them that fear the commandment of the Lord our God: let it be\ndone according to the law.\n\n10:4. Arise, it is thy part to give orders, and we will be with thee:\ntake courage, and do it.\n\n10:5. So Esdras arose, and made the chiefs of the priests and of the\nLevites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this\nword, and they swore.\n\n10:6. And Esdras rose up from before the house of God, and went to the\nchamber of Johanan the son of Eliasib, and entered in thither: he ate\nno bread, and drank no water: for he mourned for the transgression of\nthem that were come out of the captivity.\n\n10:7. And proclamation was made in Juda and Jerusalem to all the\nchildren of the captivity, that they should assemble together into\nJerusalem.\n\n10:8. And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to\nthe counsel of the princes and the ancients, all his substance should\nbe taken away, and he should be cast out of the company of them that\nwere returned from captivity.\n\n10:9. Then all the men of Juda, and Benjamin gathered themselves\ntogether to Jerusalem within three days, in the ninth month, the\ntwentieth day of the month: and all the people sat in the street of the\nhouse of God, trembling because of the sin, and the rain.\n\n10:10. And Esdras the priest stood up, and said to them: You have\ntransgressed, and taken strange wives, to add to the sins of Israel.\n\n10:11. And now make confession to the Lord the God of your fathers, and\ndo his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the people of the land,\nand from your strange wives.\n\n10:12. And all the multitude answered and said with a loud voice:\nAccording to thy word unto us, so be it done.\n\n10:13. But as the people are many, and it is time of rain, and we are\nnot able to stand without, and it is not a work of one day or two, (for\nwe have exceedingly sinned in this matter,)\n\n10:14. Let rulers be appointed in all the multitude: and in all our\ncities, let them that have taken strange wives come at the times\nappointed, and with them the ancients and the judges of every city,\nuntil the wrath of our God be turned away from us for this sin.\n\n10:15. Then Jonathan the son of Azahel, and Jaasia the son of Thecua\nwere appointed over this, and Mesollam and Sebethai, Levites, helped\nthem:\n\n10:16. And the children of the captivity did so. And Esdras the priest,\nand the men heads of the families in the houses of their fathers, and\nall by their names, went and sat down in the first day of the tenth\nmonth to examine the matter.\n\n10:17. And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange\nwives by the first day of the first month.\n\n10:18. And there were found among the sons of the priests that had\ntaken strange wives: Of the sons of Josue the son of Josedec, and his\nbrethren, Maasia, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Godolia.\n\n10:19. And they gave their hands to put away their wives, and to offer\nfor their offence a ram of the flock.\n\n10:20. And of the sons of Emmer, Hanani, and Zebedia.\n\n10:21. And of the sons of Harim, Maasia, and Elia, and Semeia, and\nJehiel, and Ozias.\n\n10:22. And of the sons of Pheshur, Elioenai, Maasia, Ismael, Nathanael,\nJozabed, and Elasa.\n\n10:23. And of the sons of the Levites, Jozabed, and Semei, and Celaia,\nthe same is Calita, Phataia, Juda, and Eliezer.\n\n10:24. And of the singing men, Elisiab: and of the porters, Sellum, and\nTelem, and Uri.\n\n10:25. And of Israel, of the sons of Pharos, Remeia, and Jezia, and\nMelchia, and Miamin, and Eliezer, and Melchia, and Banea.\n\n10:26. And of the sons of Elam, Mathania, Zacharias, and Jehiel, and\nAbdi, and Jerimoth, and Elia.\n\n10:27. And of the sons of Zethua, Elioenai, Eliasib, Mathania,\nJerimuth, and Zabad, and Aziaza.\n\n10:28. And of the sons of Babai, Johanan, Hanania, Zabbai, Athalai:\n\n10:29. And of the sons of Bani, Mosollam, and Melluch, and Adaia,\nJasub, and Saal, and Ramoth.\n\n10:30. And of the sons of Phahath, Moab, Edna, and Chalal, Banaias, and\nMaasias, Mathanias, Beseleel, Bennui, and Manasse.\n\n10:31. And of the sons of Herem, Eliezer, Josue, Melchias, Semeias,\nSimeon,\n\n10:32. Benjamin, Maloch, Samarias.\n\n10:33. And of the sons of Hasom, Mathanai, Mathatha, Zabad, Eliphelet,\nJermai, Manasse, Semei.\n\n10:34. Of the sons of Bani, Maaddi, Amram, and Uel,\n\n10:35. Baneas, and Badaias, Cheliau,\n\n10:36. Vania, Marimuth, and Eliasib,\n\n10:37. Mathanias, Mathania, and Jasi,\n\n10:38. And Bani, and Bennui, Semei,\n\n10:39. And Salmias, and Nathan, and Adaias,\n\n10:40. And Mechnedebai, Sisai, Sarai,\n\n10:41. Ezrel, and Selemiau, Semeria,\n\n10:42. Sellum, Amaria, Joseph.\n\n10:43. Of the sons of Nebo, Jehiel, Mathathias, Zabad, Zabina, Jeddu,\nand Joel, and Banaia.\n\n10:44. All these had taken strange wives, and there were among them\nwomen that had borne children.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF NEHEMIAS, WHICH IS CALLED THE SECOND OF ESDRAS\n\n\n\nThis Book takes its name from the writer, who was cupbearer to\nArtaxerxes (surnamed Longimanus) king of Persia, and was sent by him\nwith a commission to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. It is also called\nthe second book of Esdras; because it is a continuation of the history,\nbegun by Esdras, of the state of the people of God after their return\nfrom captivity.\n\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 1\n\n\nNehemias hearing the miserable state of his countrymen in Judea,\nlamenteth, fasteth, and prayeth to God for their relief.\n\n1:1. The words of Nehemias the son of Helchias. And it came to pass in\nthe month of Casleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in the castle of\nSusa,\n\n1:2. That Hanani one of my brethren came, he and some men of Juda; and\nI asked them concerning the Jews, that remained and were left of the\ncaptivity, and concerning Jerusalem.\n\n1:3. And they said to me: They that have remained, and are left of the\ncaptivity there in the province, are in great affliction, and reproach:\nand the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and the gates thereof are\nburnt with fire.\n\n1:4. And when I had heard these words, I sat down, and wept, and\nmourned for many days: and I fasted, and prayed before the face of the\nGod of heaven.\n\n1:5. And I said: I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, strong, great,\nand terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy with those that love thee,\nand keep thy commandments:\n\n1:6. Let thy ears be attentive, and thy eyes open, to hear the prayer\nof thy servant, which I pray before thee now, night and day, for the\nchildren of Israel thy servants: and I confess the sins of the children\nof Israel, by which they have sinned against thee: I and my father's\nhouse have sinned.\n\n1:7. We have been seduced by vanity, and have not kept thy\ncommandments, and ceremonies and judgments, which thou hast commanded\nthy servant Moses.\n\n1:8. Remember the word that thou commandedst to Moses thy servant,\nsaying: If you shall transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the\nnations:\n\n1:9. But if you return to me, and keep my commandments, and do them,\nthough you should be led away to the uttermost parts of the world, I\nwill gather you from thence, and bring you back to the place which I\nhave chosen for my name to dwell there.\n\n1:10. And these are thy servants, and thy people: whom thou hast\nredeemed by thy great strength, and by thy mighty hand.\n\n1:11. I beseech thee, O Lord, let thy ear be attentive to the prayer of\nthy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who desire to fear thy\nname: and direct thy servant this day, and give him mercy before this\nman. For I was the king's cupbearer.\n\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 2\n\n\nNehemias with commission from king Artaxerxes cometh to Jerusalem: and\nexhorteth the Jews to rebuild the walls.\n\n2:1. And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year\nof Artaxerxes the king: that wine was before him, and I took up the\nwine, and gave it to the king: and I was as one languishing away before\nhis face.\n\n2:2. And the king said to me: Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou\ndost not appear to be sick? this is not without cause, but some evil, I\nknow not what, is in thy heart. And I was seized with an exceeding\ngreat fear:\n\n2:3. And I said to the king: O king, live for ever: why should not my\ncountenance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the place of the\nsepulchres of my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are burnt\nwith fire?\n\n2:4. Then the king said to me: For what dost thou make request? And I\nprayed to the God of heaven,\n\n2:5. And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, and if thy\nservant hath found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldst send me into\nJudea to the city of the sepulchre of my father, and I will build it.\n\n2:6. And the king said to me, and the queen that sat by him: For how\nlong shall thy journey be, and when wilt thou return? And it pleased\nthe king, and he sent me: and I fixed him a time.\n\n2:7. And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, let him give\nme letters to the governors of the country beyond the river, that they\nconvey me over, till I come into Judea:\n\n2:8. And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, to give me\ntimber that I may cover the gates of the tower of the house, and the\nwalls of the city, and the house that I shall enter into. And the king\ngave me according to the good hand of my God with me.\n\n2:9. And I came to the governors of the country beyond the river, and\ngave them the king's letters. And the king had sent with me captains of\nsoldiers, and horsemen.\n\n2:10. And Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the\nAmmonite, heard it, and it grieved them exceedingly, that a man was\ncome, who sought the prosperity of the children of Israel.\n\n2:11. And I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.\n\n2:12. And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me, and I told\nnot any man what God had put in my heart to do in Jerusalem, and there\nwas no beast with me, but the beast that I rode upon.\n\n2:13. And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, and before the\ndragon fountain, and to the dung gate, and I viewed the wall of\nJerusalem which was broken down, and the gates thereof which were\nconsumed with fire.\n\n2:14. And I passed to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's\naqueduct, and there was no place for the beast on which I rode to pass.\n\n2:15. And I went up in the night by the torrent, and viewed the wall,\nand going back I came to the gate of the valley, and returned.\n\n2:16. But the magistrates knew not whither I went, or what I did:\nneither had I as yet told any thing to the Jews, or to the priests, or\nto the nobles, or to the magistrates, or to the rest that did the work.\n\n2:17. Then I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are,\nbecause Jerusalem is desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with\nfire: come, and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be\nno longer a reproach.\n\n2:18. And I shewed them how the hand of my God was good with me, and\nthe king's words, which he had spoken to me, and I said: Let us rise\nup, and build. And their hands were strengthened in good.\n\n2:19. But Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the\nAmmonite, and Gossem the Arabian heard of it, and they scoffed at us,\nand despised us, and said: What is this thing that you do? are you\ngoing to rebel against the king?\n\n2:20. And I answered them, and said to them: The God of heaven he\nhelpeth us, and we are his servants: let us rise up and build: but you\nhave no part, nor justice, nor remembrance in Jerusalem.\n\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 3\n\n\nThey begin to build the walls: the names and order of the builders.\n\n3:1. Then Eliasib the high priest arose, and his brethren the priests,\nand they built the flock gate: they sanctified it, and set up the doors\nthereof, even unto the tower of a hundred cubits they sanctified it\nunto the tower of Hananeel.\n\n3:2. And next to him the men of Jericho built: and next to them built\nZachur the son of Amri.\n\n3:3. But the fish gate the sons of Asnaa built: they covered it, and\nset up the doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars. And next to them\nbuilt Marimuth the son of Urias the son of Accus.\n\n4. And next to him built Mosollam the son of Barachias, the son of\nMerezebel, and next to them built Sadoc the son of Baana.\n\n5. And next to them the Thecuites built: but their great men did not\nput their necks to the work of their Lord.\n\n3:6. And Joiada the son of Phasea, and Mosollam the son of Besodia\nbuilt the old gate: they covered it and set up the doors thereof, and\nthe locks, and the bars.\n\n3:7. And next to them built Meltias the Gabaonite, and Jadon the\nMeronathite, the men of Gabaon and Maspha, for the governor that was in\nthe country beyond the river.\n\n3:8. And next to him built Eziel the son of Araia the goldsmith: and\nnext to him built Ananias the son of the perfumer: and they left\nJerusalem unto the wall of the broad street.\n\n3:9. And next to him built Raphaia the son of Hur, lord of the street\nof Jerusalem.\n\n3:10. And next to him Jedaia the son of Haromaph over against his own\nhouse: and next to him built Hattus the son of Hasebonia.\n\n3:11. Melchias the son of Herem, and Hasub the son of Phahath Moab,\nbuilt half the street, and the tower of the furnaces.\n\n3:12. And next to him built Sellum the son of Alohes, lord of half the\nstreet of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.\n\n3:13. And the gate of the valley Hanun built, and the inhabitants of\nZanoe: they built it, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks, and\nthe bars, and a thousand cubits in the wall unto the gate of the\ndunghill.\n\n3:14. And the gate of the dunghill Melchias the son of Rechab built,\nlord of the street of Bethacharam: he built it, and set up the doors\nthereof, and the locks, and the bars.\n\n3:15. And the gate of the fountain, Sellum, the son of Cholhoza, built,\nlord of the street of Maspha: he built it, and covered it, and set up\nthe doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars, and the walls of the\npool of Siloe unto the king's guard, and unto the steps that go down\nfrom the city of David.\n\n3:16. After him built Nehemias the son of Azboc, lord of half the\nstreet of Bethsur, as far as over against the sepulchre of David, and\nto the pool, that was built with great labour, and to the house of the\nmighty.\n\n3:17. After him built the Levites, Rehum the son of Benni. After him\nbuilt Hasebias, lord of half the street of Ceila in his own street.\n\n3:18. After him built their brethren Bavai the son of Enadad, lord of\nhalf Ceila.\n\n3:19. And next to him Aser the son of Josue, lord of Maspha, built\nanother measure, over against the going up of the strong corner.\n\n3:20. After him in the mount Baruch the son of Zachai built another\nmeasure, from the corner to the door of the house of Eliasib the high\npriest.\n\n3:21. After him Merimuth the son of Urias the son of Haccus, built\nanother measure, from the door of the house of Eliasib, to the end of\nthe house of Eliasib.\n\n3:22. And after him built the priests, the men of the plains of the\nJordan.\n\n3:23. After him built Benjamin and Hasub, over against their own house:\nand after him built Azarias the son of Maasias the son of Ananias over\nagainst his house.\n\n3:24. After him built Bennui the son of Hanadad another measure, from\nthe house of Azarias unto the bending, and unto the corner.\n\n3:25. Phalel, the son of Ozi, over against the bending and the tower,\nwhich lieth out from the king's high house, that is, in the court of\nthe prison: after him Phadaia the son of Pharos.\n\n3:26. And the Nathinites dwelt in Ophel, as far as over against the\nwater gate toward the east, and the tower that stood out.\n\n3:27. After him the Thecuites built another measure over against, from\nthe great tower that standeth out unto the wall of the temple.\n\n3:28. And upward from the horse gate the priests built, every man over\nagainst his house.\n\n3:29. After them built Sadoc the son of Emmer over against his house.\nAnd after him built Semaia the son of Sechenias, keeper of the east\ngate.\n\n3:30. After him built Hanania the son of Selemia, and Hanun the sixth\nson of Seleph, another measure: after him built Mosollam the son of\nBarachias over against his treasury. After him Melcias the goldsmith's\nson built unto the house of the Nathinites, and of the sellers of small\nwares, over against the judgment gate, and unto the chamber of the\ncorner.\n\n3:31. And within the chamber of the corner of the flock gate, the\ngoldsmiths and the merchants built.\n\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 4\n\n\nThe building is carried on notwithstanding the opposition of their\nenemies.\n\n4:1. And it came to pass, that when Sanaballat heard that we were\nbuilding the wall he was angry: and being moved exceedingly he scoffed\nat the Jews.\n\n4:2. And said before his brethren, and the multitude of the Samaritans:\nWhat are the silly Jews doing? Will the Gentiles let them alone? will\nthey sacrifice and make an end in a day? are they able to raise stones\nout of the heaps of the rubbish, which are burnt?\n\n4:3. Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said: Let them build: if a\nfox go up, he will leap over their stone wall.\n\n4:4. Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon\ntheir own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity.\n\n4:5. Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out\nfrom before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.\n\n4:6. So we built the wall, and joined it all together unto the half\nthereof: and the heart of the people was excited to work.\n\n4:7. And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and the\nArabians, and the Ammonites, and the Azotians heard that the walls of\nJerusalem were made up, and the breaches began to be closed, that they\nwere exceedingly angry.\n\n4:8. And they all assembled themselves together, to come, and to fight\nagainst Jerusalem, and to prepare ambushes.\n\n4:9. And we prayed to our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and\nnight against them.\n\n4:10. And Juda said: The strength of the bearer of burdens is decayed,\nand the rubbish is very much, and we shall not be able to build the\nwall.\n\n4:11. And our enemies said: Let them not know, nor understand, till we\ncome in the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.\n\n4:12. And it came to pass, that when the Jews that dwelt by them came\nand told us ten times, out of all the places from whence they came to\nus,\n\n4:13. I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in\norder, with their swords, and spears, and bows.\n\n4:14. And I looked and rose up: and I said to the chief men and the\nmagistrates, and to the rest of the common people: be not afraid of\nthem. Remember the Lord who is great and terrible, and fight for your\nbrethren, your sons, and your daughters, and your wives, and your\nhouses.\n\n4:15. And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that the thing had\nbeen told us, that God defeated their counsel. And we returned all of\nus to the walls, every man to his work.\n\n4:16. And it came to pass from that day forward, that half of their\nyoung men did the work, and half were ready for to fight, with spears,\nand shields, and bows, and coats of mail, and the rulers were behind\nthem in all the house of Juda.\n\n4:17. Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that\nladed: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he\nheld a sword.\n\n4:18. For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his\nreins. And they built, and sounded with a trumpet by me.\n\n4:19. And I said to the nobles, and to the magistrates, and to the rest\nof the common people: The work is great and wide, and we are separated\non the wall one far from another:\n\n4:20. In what place soever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, run\nall thither unto us: our God will fight for us.\n\n4:21. And let us do the work: and let one half of us hold our spears\nfrom the rising of the morning, till the stars appear.\n\n4:22. At that time also I said to the people: Let every one with his\nservant stay in the midst of Jerusalem, and let us take our turns in\nthe night, and by day, to work.\n\n4:23. Now I and my brethren, and my servants, and the watchmen that\nfollowed me, did not put off our clothes: only every man stripped\nhimself when he was to be washed.\n\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 5\n\n\nNehemias blameth the rich, for their oppressing the poor. His\nexhortation, and bounty to his countrymen.\n\n5:1. Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives\nagainst their brethren the Jews.\n\n5:2. And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very\nmany: let us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and\nlive.\n\n5:3. And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our\nvineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine.\n\n5:4. And others said: Let us borrow money for the king's tribute, and\nlet us give up our fields and vineyards:\n\n5:5. And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our\nchildren as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and\nour daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither\nhave we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards\nother men possess.\n\n5:6. And I was exceedingly angry when I heard their cry according to\nthese words.\n\n5:7. And my heart thought with myself: and I rebuked the nobles and\nmagistrates, and said to them: Do you every one exact usury of your\nbrethren? And I gathered together a great assembly against them,\n\n5:8. And I said to them: We, as you know, have redeemed according to\nour ability our brethren the Jews, that were sold to the Gentiles: and\nwill you then sell your brethren, for us to redeem them? And they held\ntheir peace, and found not what to answer.\n\n5:9. And I said to them: The thing you do is not good: why walk you not\nin the fear of our God, that we be not exposed to the reproaches of the\nGentiles our enemies?\n\n5:10. Both I and my brethren, and my servants, have lent money and corn\nto many: let us all agree not to call for it again; let us forgive the\ndebt that is owing to us.\n\n5:11. Restore ye to them this day their fields, and their vineyards,\nand their oliveyards, and their houses: and the hundredth part of the\nmoney, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, which you were wont to\nexact of them, give it rather for them.\n\n5:12. And they said: We will restore, and we will require nothing of\nthem: and we will do as thou sayest. And I called the priests and took\nan oath of them, to do according to what I had said.\n\n5:13. Moreover I shook my lap, and said: So may God shake every man\nthat shall not accomplish this word, out of his house, and out of his\nlabours, thus may he be shaken out, and become empty. And all the\nmultitude said: Amen. And they praised God. And the people did\naccording to what was said.\n\n5:14. And from the day, in which the king commanded me to be governor\nin the land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the two and\nthirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my\nbrethren did not eat the yearly allowance that was due to the\ngovernors.\n\n5:15. But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable\nto the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every\nday forty sicles: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I\ndid not so for the fear of God.\n\n5:16. Moreover I built in the work of the wall, and I bought no land,\nand all my servants were gathered together to the work.\n\n5:17. The Jews also and the magistrates to the number of one hundred\nand fifty men, were at my table, besides them that came to us from\namong the nations that were round about us.\n\n5:18. And there was prepared for me day be day one ox, and six choice\nrams, besides fowls, and once in ten days I gave store of divers wines,\nand many other things: yet I did not require my yearly allowance as\ngovernor: for the people were very much impoverished.\n\n5:19. Remember me, O my God, for good according to all that I have done\nfor this people.\n\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 6\n\n\nThe enemies seek to terrify Nehemias. He proceedeth and finisheth the\nwall.\n\n6:1. And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and Gossem the\nArabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall,\nand that there was no breach left in it, (though at that time I had not\nset up the doors in the gates,)\n\n6:2. Sanaballat and Gossem sent to me, saying: Come, and let us make a\nleague together in the villages, in the plain of Ono. But they thought\nto do me mischief.\n\n6:3. And I sent messengers to them, saying: I am doing a great work,\nand I cannot come down, lest it be neglected whilst I come, and go down\nto you.\n\n6:4. And they sent to me according to this word, four times: and I\nanswered them after the same manner.\n\n6:5. And Sanaballat sent his servant to me the fifth time according to\nthe former word, and he had a letter in his hand written in this\nmanner:\n\n6:6. It is reported amongst the Gentiles, and Gossem hath said it, that\nthou and the Jews think to rebel, and therefore thou buildest the wall,\nand hast a mind to set thyself king over them: for which end\n\n6:7. Thou hast also set up prophets, to preach of thee at Jerusalem,\nsaying: There is a king in Judea. The king will hear of these things:\ntherefore come now, that we may take counsel together.\n\n6:8. And I sent to them, saying: There is no such thing done as thou\nsayest: but thou feignest these things out of thy own heart.\n\n6:9. For all these men thought to frighten us, thinking that our hands\nwould cease from the work, and that we would leave off. Wherefore I\nstrengthened my hands the more:\n\n6:10. And I went into the house of Samaia the son of Delaia, the son of\nMetabeel privately. And he said: Let us consult together in the house\nof God in the midst of the temple: and let us shut the doors of the\ntemple, for they will come to kill thee, and in the night they will\ncome to slay thee.\n\n6:11. And I said: Should such a man as I flee? and who is there that\nbeing as I am, would go into the temple, to save his life? I will not\ngo in.\n\n6:12. And I understood that God had not sent him, but that he had\nspoken to me as if he had been prophesying, and Tobias, and Sanaballat\nhad hired him.\n\n6:13. For he had taken money, that I being afraid should do this thing,\nand sin, and they might have some evil to upbraid me withal.\n\n6:14. Remember me, O Lord, for Tobias and Sanaballat, according to\ntheir works of this kind: and Noadias the prophet, and the rest of the\nprophets that would have put me in fear.\n\n6:15. But the wall was finished the five and twentieth day of the month\nof Elul, in two and fifty days.\n\n6:16. And it came to pass when all our enemies heard of it, that all\nnations which were round about us, were afraid, and were cast down\nwithin themselves, for they perceived that this work was the work of\nGod.\n\n6:17. Moreover in those days many letters were sent by the principal\nmen of the Jews to Tobias, and from Tobias there came letters to them.\n\n6:18. For there were many in Judea sworn to him, because he was the son\nin law of Sechenias the son of Area, and Johanan his son had taken to\nwife the daughter of Mosollam the son of Barachias.\n\n6:19. And they praised him also before me, and they related my words to\nhim: And Tobias sent letters to put me in fear.\n\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 7\n\n\nNehemias appointeth watchmen in Jerusalem. The list of those who came\nfirst from Babylon.\n\n7:1. Now after the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and\nnumbered the porters and singing men, and Levites:\n\n7:2. I commanded Hanani my brother, and Hananias ruler of the house of\nJerusalem, (for he seemed as a sincere man, and one that feared God\nabove the rest,)\n\n7:3. And I said to them: Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened till\nthe sun be hot. And while they were yet standing by the gates were\nshut, and barred: and I set watchmen of the inhabitants of Jerusalem,\nevery one by their courses, and every man over against his house.\n\n7:4. And the city was very wide and great, and the people few in the\nmidst thereof, and the houses were not built.\n\n7:5. But God had put in my heart, and I assembled the princes and\nmagistrates, and common people, to number them: and I found a book of\nthe number of them who came up at first and therein it was found\nwritten:\n\n7:6. These are the children of the province, who came up from the\ncaptivity of them that had been carried away, whom Nabuchodonosor the\nking of Babylon had carried away, and who returned into Judea, every\none into his own city.\n\n7:7. Who came with Zorobabel, Josue, Nehemias, Azarias, Raamias,\nNahamani, Mardochai, Belsam, Mespharath, Begoia, Nahum, Baana. The\nnumber of the men of the people of Israel:\n\n7:8. The children of Pharos, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.\n\n7:9. The children of Sephatia, three hundred seventy-two.\n\n7:10. The children of Area, six hundred fifty-two.\n\n7:11. The children of Phahath Moab of the children of Josue and Joab,\ntwo thousand eight hundred eighteen.\n\n7:12. The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.\n\n7:13. The children of Zethua, eight hundred forty-five.\n\n7:14. The children of Zachai, seven hundred sixty.\n\n7:15. The children of Bannui, six hundred forty-eight.\n\n7:16. The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.\n\n7:17. The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two.\n\n7:18. The children of Adonicam, six hundred sixty-seven.\n\n7:19. The children of Beguai, two thousand sixty-seven.\n\n7:20. The children of Adin, six hundred fifty-five.\n\n7:21. The children of Ater, children of Hezechias, ninety-eight.\n\n7:22. The children of Hasem, three hundred twenty-eight.\n\n7:23. The children of Besai, three hundred twenty-four.\n\n7:24. The children of Hareph, a hundred and twelve.\n\n7:25. The children of Gabaon, ninety-five.\n\n7:26. The children of Bethlehem, and Netupha, a hundred eighty-eight.\n\n7:27. The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty-eight.\n\n7:28. The men of Bethazmoth, forty-two.\n\n7:29. The men of Cariathiarim, Cephira, and Beroth, seven hundred\nforty-three.\n\n7:30. The men of Rama and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.\n\n7:31. The men of Machmas, a hundred twenty-two.\n\n7:32. The men of Bethel and Hai, a hundred twenty-three.\n\n7:33. The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.\n\n7:34. The men of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.\n\n7:35. The children of Harem, three hundred and twenty.\n\n7:36. The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.\n\n7:37. The children of Lod, of Hadid and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one.\n\n7:38. The children of Senaa, three thousand nine hundred thirty.\n\n7:39. The priests: the children of Idaia in the house of Josue, nine\nhundred and seventy-three.\n\n7:40. The children of Emmer, one thousand fifty-two.\n\n7:41. The children of Phashur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.\n\n7:42. The children of Arem, one thousand and seventeen. The Levites:\n\n7:43. The children of Josue and Cedmihel, the sons\n\n7:44. Of Oduia, seventy-four. The singing men:\n\n7:45. The children of Asaph, a hundred forty-eight.\n\n7:46. The porters: the children of Sellum, the children of Ater, the\nchildren of Telmon, the children of Accub, the children of Hatita, the\nchildren of Sobai: a hundred thirty-eight.\n\n7:47. The Nathinites: the children of Soha, the children of Hasupha,\nthe children of Tebbaoth,\n\n7:48. The children of Ceros, the children os Siaa, the children of\nPhadon, the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of\nSelmai,\n\n7:49. The children of Hanan, the children of Geddel, the children of\nGaher,\n\n7:50. The children of Raaia, the children of Rasin, the children of\nNecoda,\n\n7:51. The children of Gezem, the children of Asa, the children of\nPhasea,\n\n7:52. The children of Besai, the children of Munim, the children of\nNephussim,\n\n7:53. The children of Bacbuc, the children of Hacupha, the children of\nHarhur,\n\n7:54. The children of Besloth, the children of Mahida, the children of\nHarsa,\n\n7:55. The children of Bercos, the children of Sisara, the children of\nThema,\n\n7:56. The children of Nasia, the children of Hatipha,\n\n7:57. The children of the servants of Solomon, the children of Sothai,\nthe children of Sophereth, the children of Pharida,\n\n7:58. The children of Jahala, the children of Darcon, the children of\nJeddel,\n\n7:59. The children of Saphatia, the children of Hatil, the children of\nPhochereth, who was born of Sabaim, the son of Amon.\n\n7:60. All the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon,\nthree hundred ninety-two.\n\n7:61. And these are they that came up from Telmela, Thelharsa, Cherub,\nAddon, and Emmer: and could not shew the house of their fathers, nor\ntheir seed, whether they were of Israel.\n\n7:62. The children of Dalaia, the children of Tobia, the children of\nNecoda, six hundred forty-two.\n\n7:63. And of the priests, the children of Habia, the children of Accos,\nthe children of Berzellai, who took a wife of the daughters of\nBerzellai the Galaadite, and he was called by their name.\n\n7:64. These sought their writing in the record, and found it not: and\nthey were cast out of the priesthood.\n\n7:65. And Athersatha said to them, that they should not eat of the\nholies of holies, until there stood up a priest learned and skilful.\n\n7:66. All the multitude as it were one man, forty-two thousand three\nhundred sixty,\n\n7:67. Beside their menservants and womenservants, who were seven\nthousand three hundred thirty-seven: and among them singing men, and\nsinging women, two hundred forty-five.\n\n7:68. Their horses, seven hundred thirty-six: their mules two hundred\nforty-five.\n\n7:69. Their camels, four hundred thirty-five, their asses, six thousand\nseven hundred and twenty.\n\n(Hitherto is related what was written in the record. From this place\nforward goeth on the history of Nehemias.)\n\n7:70. And some of the heads of the families gave unto the work.\nAthersatha gave into the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty\nbowls, and five hundred and thirty garments for priests.\n\nAthersatha. . .That is, Nehemias; as appears from chap. 12. Either that\nhe was so called at the court of the king of Persia, where he was\ncupbearer: or that, as some think, this name signifies governor; and he\nwas at that time governor of Judea.\n\n7:71. And some of the heads of families gave to the treasure of the\nwork, twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand two hundred\npounds of silver.\n\n7:72. And that which the rest of the people gave, was twenty thousand\ndrams of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven\ngarments for priests.\n\n7:73. And the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the\nsinging men, and the rest of the common people, and the Nathinites, and\nall Israel dwelt in their cities.\n\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 8\n\n\nEsdras readeth the law before the people. Nehemias comforteth them.\nThey celebrate the feast of tabernacles.\n\n8:1. And the seventh month came: and the children of Israel were in\ntheir cities. And all the people were gathered together as one man to\nthe street which is before the water gate, and they spoke to Esdras the\nscribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had\ncommanded to Israel.\n\n8:2. Then Esdras the priest brought the law before the multitude of men\nand women, and all those that could understand, in the first day of the\nseventh month.\n\n8:3. And he read it plainly in the street that was before the water\ngate, from the morning until midday, before the men, and the women, and\nall those that could understand: and the ears of all the people were\nattentive to the book.\n\n8:4. And Esdras the scribe stood upon a step of wood, which he had made\nto speak upon, and there stood by him Mathathias, and Semeia, and Ania,\nand Uria, and Helcia, and Maasia, on his right hand: and on the left,\nPhadaia, Misael, and Melchia, and Hasum, and Hasbadana, Zacharia and\nMosollam.\n\n8:5. And Esdras opened the book before all the people: for he was above\nall the people: and when he had opened it, all the people stood.\n\n8:6. And Esdras blessed the Lord the great God: and all the people\nanswered, Amen, amen: lifting up their hands: and they bowed down, and\nadored God with their faces to the ground.\n\n8:7. Now Josue, and Bani, and Serebia, Jamin, Accub, Sephtai, Odia,\nMaasia, Celtia, Azarias, Jozabed, Hanan, Phalaia, the Levites, made\nsilence among the people to hear the law: and the people stood in their\nplace.\n\n8:8. And they read in the book of the law of God distinctly and plainly\nto be understood: and they understood when it was read.\n\n8:9. And Nehemias (he is Athersatha) and Esdras the priest and scribe,\nand the Levites who interpreted to all the people, said: This is a holy\nday to the Lord our God: do not mourn, nor weep: for all the people\nwept, when they heard the words of the law.\n\n8:10. And he said to them: Go, eat fat meats, and drink sweet wine, and\nsend portions to them that have not prepared for themselves: because it\nis the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad: for the joy of the Lord is\nour strength.\n\n8:11. And the Levites stilled all the people, saying: Hold your peace,\nfor the day is holy, and be not sorrowful.\n\n8:12. So all the people went to eat and drink, and to send portions,\nand to make great mirth: because they understood the words that he had\ntaught them.\n\n8:13. And on the second day the chiefs of the families of all the\npeople, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Esdras\nthe scribe, that he should interpret to them the words of the law.\n\n8:14. And they found written in the law, that the Lord had commanded by\nthe hand of Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in\ntabernacles, on the feast, in the seventh month:\n\n8:15. And that they should proclaim and publish the word in all their\ncities, and in Jerusalem, saying: Go forth to the mount, and fetch\nbranches of olive, and branches of beautiful wood, branches of myrtle,\nand branches of palm, and branches of thick trees, to make tabernacles,\nas it is written.\n\n8:16. And the people went forth, and brought. And they made themselves\ntabernacles every man on the top of his house, and in their courts, and\nin the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate,\nand in the street of the gate of Ephraim.\n\n8:17. And all the assembly of them that were returned from the\ncaptivity, made tabernacles, and dwelt in tabernacles: for since the\ndays of Josue the son of Nun the children of Israel had not done so,\nuntil that day: and there was exceeding great joy.\n\n8:18. And he read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the\nfirst day till the last, and they kept the solemnity seven days, and in\nthe eighth day a solemn assembly according to the manner.\n\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 9\n\n\nThe people repent with fasting and sackcloth. The Levites confess God's\nbenefits, and the people's ingratitude: they pray for them, and make a\ncovenant with God.\n\n9:1. And in the four and twentieth day of the month the children of\nIsrael came together with fasting and with sackcloth, and earth upon\nthem.\n\n9:2. And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from\nevery stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the\niniquities of their fathers.\n\n9:3. And they rose up to stand: and they read in the book of the law of\nthe Lord their God, four times in the day, and four times they\nconfessed, and adored the Lord their God.\n\n9:4. And there stood up upon the step of the Levites, Josue, and Bani,\nand Cedmihel, Sabania, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, and Chanani: and they\ncried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.\n\n9:5. And the Levites Josue and Cedmihel, Bonni, Hasebnia, Serebia,\nOduia, Sebnia, and Phathahia, said: Arise, bless the Lord your God from\neternity to eternity: and blessed be the high name of thy glory with\nall blessing and praise.\n\n9:6. Thou thyself, O Lord alone, thou hast made heaven, and the heaven\nof heavens, and all the host thereof: the earth and all things that are\nin it: the seas and all that are therein: and thou givest life to all\nthese things, and the host of heaven adoreth thee.\n\n9:7. Thou O Lord God, art he who chosest Abram, and broughtest him\nforth out of the fire of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of\nAbraham.\n\nThe fire of the Chaldeans. . .The city of Ur in Chaldea, the name of\nwhich signifies fire. Or out of the fire of the tribulations and\ntemptations, to which he was there exposed.--The ancient Rabbins\nunderstood this literally, affirming that Abram was cast into the fire\nby the idolaters, and brought out by a miracle without any hurt.\n\n9:8. And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou\nmadest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of\nthe Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the\nJebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast\nfulfilled thy words, because thou art just.\n\n9:9. And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt: and thou\ndidst hear their cry by the Red Sea.\n\n9:10. And thou shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharao, and upon all his\nservants, and upon the people of his land: for thou knewest that they\ndealt proudly against them: and thou madest thyself a name, as it is at\nthis day.\n\n9:11. And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they passed\nthrough the midst of the sea on dry land: but their persecutors thou\nthrewest into the depth, as a stone into mighty waters.\n\n9:12. And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in\na pillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they\nwent.\n\n9:13. Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them\nfrom heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of\ntruth, ceremonies, and good precepts.\n\n9:14. Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbath, and didst prescribe\nto them commandments, and ceremonies, and the law by the hand of Moses\nthy servant.\n\n9:15. And thou gavest them bread from heaven in their hunger, and\nbroughtest forth water for them out of the rock in their thirst, and\nthou saidst to them that they should go in, and possess the land, upon\nwhich thou hadst lifted up thy hand to give it them.\n\n9:16. But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks\nand hearkened not to thy commandments.\n\n9:17. And they would not hear, and they remembered not thy wonders\nwhich thou hadst done for them. And they hardened their necks, and gave\nthe head to return to their bondage, as it were by contention. But\nthou, a forgiving God, gracious, and merciful, longsuffering, and full\nof compassion, didst not forsake them.\n\nAnd gave the head. . .That is, they set their head, or were bent to\nreturn to Egypt.\n\n9:18. Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had\nsaid: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had\ncommitted great blasphemies:\n\n9:19. Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the\ndesert: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead\nthem in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way\nby which they should go.\n\n9:20. And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna\nthou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water\nfor their thirst.\n\n9:21. Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing was\nwanting to them: their garments did not grow old, and their feet were\nnot worn.\n\n9:22. And thou gavest them kingdoms, and nations, and didst divide lots\nfor them: and they possessed the land of Sehon, and the land of the\nking of Hesebon, and the land of Og king of Basan.\n\n9:23. And thou didst multiply their children as the stars of heaven,\nand broughtest them to the land concerning which thou hadst said to\ntheir fathers, that they should go in and possess it.\n\n9:24. And the children came and possessed the land, and thou didst\nhumble before them the inhabitants of the land, the Chanaanites, and\ngavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the\nland, that they might do with them as it pleased them.\n\n9:25. And they took strong cities and a fat land, and possessed houses\nfull of all goods: cisterns made by others, vineyards, and oliveyards,\nand fruit trees in abundance: and they ate, and were filled, and became\nfat, and abounded with delight in thy great goodness.\n\n9:26. But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and\nthrew thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who\nadmonished them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of\ngreat blasphemies.\n\n9:27. And thou gavest them into the hands of their enemies, and they\nafflicted them. And in the time of their tribulation they cried to\nthee, and thou heardest from heaven, and according to the multitude of\nthy tender mercies thou gavest them saviours, to save them from the\nhands of their enemies.\n\n9:28. But after they had rest, they returned to do evil in thy sight:\nand thou leftest them in the hand of their enemies, and they had\ndominion over them. Then they returned, and cried to thee: and thou\nheardest from heaven, and deliveredst them many times in thy mercies.\n\n9:29. And thou didst admonish them to return to thy law. But they dealt\nproudly, and hearkened not to thy commandments, but sinned against thy\njudgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they withdrew\nthe shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.\n\n9:30. And thou didst forbear with them for many years, and didst\ntestify against them by thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets: and\nthey heard not, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the people\nof the lands.\n\n9:31. Yet in thy very many mercies thou didst not utterly consume them,\nnor forsake them: because thou art a merciful and gracious God.\n\n9:32. Now therefore our God, great, strong, and terrible, who keepest\ncovenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour which\nhath come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes, and our priests,\nand our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of\nthe king of Assur, until this day.\n\n9:33. And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because\nthou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly.\n\n9:34. Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not\nkept thy law, and have not minded thy commandments, and thy testimonies\nwhich thou hast testified among them.\n\n9:35. And they have not served thee in their kingdoms, and in thy\nmanifold goodness, which thou gavest them, and in the large and fat\nland, which thou deliveredst before them, nor did they return from\ntheir most wicked devices.\n\n9:36. Behold we ourselves this day are bondmen: and the land, which\nthou gavest our fathers, to eat the bread thereof, and the good things\nthereof, and we ourselves are servants in it.\n\n9:37. And the fruits thereof grow up for the kings, whom thou hast set\nover us for our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and over\nour beasts, according to their will, and we are in great tribulation.\n\n9:38. And because of all this we ourselves make a covenant, and write\nit, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests sign it.\n\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 10\n\n\nThe names of the subscribers to the covenant, and the contents of it.\n\n10:1. And the subscribers were Nehemias, Athersatha the son of\nHachelai, and Sedecias,\n\n10:2. Saraias, Azarias, Jeremias,\n\n10:3. Pheshur, Amarias, Melchias,\n\n10:4. Hattus, Sebenia, Melluch,\n\n10:5. Harem, Merimuth, Obdias,\n\n10:6. Daniel, Genthon, Baruch,\n\n10:7. Mosollam, Abia, Miamin,\n\n10:8. Maazia, Belgia, Semeia: these were priests.\n\n10:9. And the Levites, Josue the son of Azanias, Bennui of the sons of\nHenadad, Cedmihel,\n\n10:10. And their brethren, Sebenia, Oduia, Celita, Phalaia, Hanan,\n\n10:11. Micha, Rohob, Hasebia,\n\n10:12. Zachur, Serebia, Sabania,\n\n10:13. Odaia, Bani, Baninu.\n\n10:14. The heads of the people, Pharos, Phahath Moab, Elam, Zethu,\nBani,\n\n10:15. Bonni, Azgad, Bebai,\n\n10:16. Adonia, Begoai, Adin,\n\n10:17. Ater, Hezecia, Azur,\n\n10:18. Odaia, Hasum, Besai,\n\n10:19. Hareph, Anathoth, Nebai,\n\n10:20. Megphias, Mosollam, Hazir,\n\n10:21. Mesizabel, Sadoc, Jeddua,\n\n10:22. Pheltia, Hanan, Anaia,\n\n10:23. Osee, Hanania, Hasub,\n\n10:24. Alohes, Phalea, Sobec,\n\n10:25. Rehum, Hasebna, Maasia,\n\n10:26. Echaia, Hanan, Anan,\n\n10:27. Melluch, Haran, Baana:\n\n10:28. And the rest of the people, priests, Levites, porters, and\nsinging men, Nathinites, and all that had separated themselves from the\npeople of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and\ntheir daughters.\n\n10:29. All that could understand, promising for their brethren, with\ntheir chief men, and they came to promise, and swear that they would\nwalk in the law of God, which he gave in the hand of Moses the servant\nof God, that they would do and keep all the commandments of the Lord\nour God, and his judgments and his ceremonies.\n\n10:30. And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the\nland, nor take their daughters for our sons.\n\n10:31. And if the people of the land bring in things to sell, or any\nthings for use, to sell them on the sabbath day, that we would not buy\nthem on the sabbath, or on the holy day. And that we would leave the\nseventh year, and the exaction of every hand.\n\n10:32. And we made ordinances for ourselves, to give the third part of\na sicle every year for the work of the house of our God,\n\n10:33. For the loaves of proposition, and for the continual sacrifice,\nand for a continual holocaust on the sabbaths, on the new moons, on the\nset feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offering: that\natonement might be made for Israel, and for every use of the house of\nour God.\n\n10:34. And we cast lots among the priests, and the Levites, and the\npeople for the offering of wood, that it might be brought into the\nhouse of our God by the houses of our fathers at set times, from year\nto year: to burn upon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written\nin the law of Moses:\n\n10:35. And that we would bring the firstfruits of our land, and the\nfirstfruits of all fruit of every tree, from year to year, in the house\nof our Lord.\n\n10:36. And the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is\nwritten in the law, and the firstlings of our oxen, and of our sheep,\nto be offered in the house of our God, to the priests who minister in\nthe house of our God.\n\n10:37. And that we would bring the firstfruits of our meats, and of our\nlibations, and the fruit of every tree, of the vintage also and of oil\nto the priests, to the storehouse of our God, and the tithes of our\nground to the Levites. The Levites also shall receive the tithes of our\nworks out of all the cities.\n\n10:38. And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites in the\ntithes of the Levites, and the Levites shall offer the tithe of their\ntithes in the house of our God, to the storeroom into the treasure\nhouse.\n\n10:39. For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall carry\nto the treasury the firstfruits of corn, of wine, and of oil: and the\nsanctified vessels shall be there, and the priests, and the singing\nmen, and the porters, and ministers, and we will not forsake the house\nof our God.\n\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 11\n\n\nWho were the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the other cities.\n\n11:1. And the princes of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: but the rest of\nthe people cast lots, to take one part in ten to dwell in Jerusalem the\nholy city, and nine parts in the other cities.\n\n11:2. And the people blessed all the men that willingly offered\nthemselves to dwell in Jerusalem.\n\n11:3. These therefore are the chief men of the province, who dwelt in\nJerusalem, and in the cities of Juda. And every one dwelt in his\npossession, in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the\nNathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon.\n\n11:4. And in Jerusalem there dwelt some of the children of Juda, and\nsome of the children of Benjamin: of the children of Juda, Athaias the\nson of Aziam, the son of Zacharias, the son of Amarias, the son of\nSaphatias, the son of Malaleel: of the sons of Phares,\n\n11:5. Maasia the son of Baruch, the son of Cholhoza, the son of Hazia,\nthe son of Adaia, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zacharias, the son of\nthe Silonite:\n\n11:6. All these the sons of Phares, who dwelt in Jerusalem, were four\nhundred sixty-eight valiant men.\n\n11:7. And these are the children of Benjamin: Sellum the son of\nMosollam, the son of Joed, the son of Phadaia, the son of Colaia, the\nson of Masia, the son of Etheel, the son of Isaia.\n\n11:8. And after him Gebbai, Sellai, nine hundred twenty-eight.\n\n11:9. And Joel the son of Zechri their ruler, and Judas the son of\nSenua was second over the city.\n\n11:10. And of the priests Idaia the son of Joarib, Jachin,\n\n11:11. Saraia the son of Helcias, the son of Mosollam, the son of\nSadoc, the son of Meraioth, the son of Achitob the prince of the house\nof God,\n\n11:12. And their brethren that do the works of the temple: eight\nhundred twenty-two. And Adaia the son of Jeroham, the son of Phelelia,\nthe son of Amsi, the son of Zacharias, the son of Pheshur, the son of\nMelchias,\n\n11:13. And his brethren the chiefs of the fathers: two hundred\nforty-two. And Amassai the son of Azreel, the son of Ahazi, the son of\nMosollamoth, the son of Emmer,\n\n11:14. And their brethren who were very mighty, a hundred twenty-eight:\nand their ruler Zabdiel son of the mighty.\n\n11:15. And of the Levites Semeia the son of Hasub, the son of Azaricam,\nthe son of Hasabia, the son of Boni,\n\n11:16. And Sabathai and Jozabed, who were over all the outward business\nof the house of God, of the princes of the Levites,\n\n11:17. And Mathania the son of Micha, the son of Zebedei, the son of\nAsaph, was the principal man to praise, and to give glory in prayer,\nand Becbecia, the second, one of his brethren, and Abda the son of\nSamua, the son of Galal, the son of Idithun.\n\n11:18. All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.\n\n11:19. And the porters, Accub, Telmon, and their brethren, who kept the\ndoors: a hundred seventy-two.\n\n11:20. And the rest of Israel, the priests and the Levites were in all\nthe cities of Juda, every man in his possession.\n\n11:21. And the Nathinites, that dwelt in Ophel, and Siaha, and Gaspha\nof the Nathinites.\n\n11:22. And the overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem, was Azzi the son\nof Bani, the son of Hasabia, the son of Mathania, the son of Micha. Of\nthe sons of Asaph, were the singing men in the ministry of the house of\nGod.\n\n11:23. For the king's commandment was concerning them, and an order\namong the singing men day by day.\n\n11:24. And Phathahia the son of Mesezebel of the children of Zara the\nson of Juda was at the hand of the king, in all matters concerning the\npeople,\n\n11:25. And in the houses through all their countries. Of the children\nof Juda some dwelt at Cariath-Arbe, and in the villages thereof: and at\nDibon, and in the villages thereof: and at Cabseel, and in the villages\nthereof.\n\n11:26. And at Jesue, and at Molada, and at Bethphaleth,\n\n11:27. And at Hasersuel, and at Bersabee, and in the villages thereof,\n\n11:28. And at Siceleg, and at Mochona, and in the villages thereof,\n\n11:29. And at Remmon, and at Saraa, and at Jerimuth,\n\n11:30. Zanoa, Odollam, and in their villages, at Lachis and its\ndependencies, and at Azeca and the villages thereof. And they dwelt\nfrom Bersabee unto the valley of Ennom.\n\n11:31. And the children of Benjamin, from Geba, at Mechmas, and at Hai,\nand at Bethel, and in the villages thereof,\n\n11:32. At Anathoth, Nob, Anania,\n\n11:33. Asor, Rama, Gethaim,\n\n11:34. Hadid, Seboim, and Neballat, Lod,\n\n11:35. And Ono the valley of craftsmen.\n\n11:36. And of the Levites were portions of Juda and Benjamin.\n\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 12\n\n\nThe priests, and Levites that came up with Zorobabel. The succession of\nhigh priests: the solemnity of the dedication of the wall.\n\n12:1. Now these are the priests and the Levites, that went up with\nZorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue: Saraia, Jeremias, Esdras,\n\n12:2. Amaria, Melluch, Hattus,\n\n12:3. Sebenias, Rheum, Merimuth,\n\n12:4. Addo, Genthon, Abia,\n\n12:5. Miamin, Madia, Belga,\n\n12:6. Semeia, and Joiarib, Idaia, Sellum Amoc, Helcias,\n\n12:7. Idaia. These were the chief of the priests, and of their brethren\nin the days of Josue.\n\n12:8. And the Levites, Jesua, Bennui, Cedmihel, Sarebia, Juda,\nMathanias, they and their brethren were over the hymns:\n\n12:9. And Becbecia, and Hanni, and their brethren every one in his\noffice.\n\n12:10. And Josue begot Joacim, and Joacim begot Eliasib, and Eliasib\nbegot Joiada,\n\n12:11. And Joiada begot Jonathan and Jonathan begot Jeddoa.\n\n12:12. And in the days of Joacim the priests and heads of the families\nwere: Of Saraia, Maraia: of Jeremias, Hanania:\n\n12:13. Of Esdras, Mosollam: and of Amaria, Johanan:\n\n12:14. Of Milicho, Jonathan: of Sebenia, Joseph:\n\n12:15. Of Haram, Edna: of Maraioth, Helci:\n\n12:16. Of Adaia, Zacharia: of Genthon, Mosollam:\n\n12:17. Of Abia, Zechri: of Miamin and Moadia, Phelti:\n\n12:18. Of Belga, Sammua of Semaia, Jonathan:\n\n12:19. Of Joiarib, Mathanai: of Jodaia, Azzi:\n\n12:20. Of Sellai, Celai: of Amoc, Heber:\n\n12:21. Of Helcias, Hasebia: of Idaia, Nathanael.\n\n12:22. The Levites the chiefs of the families in the days of Eliasib,\nand Joiada, and Johanan, and Jeddoa, were recorded, and the priests in\nthe reign of Darius the Persian.\n\n12:23. The sons of Levi, heads of the families were written in the book\nof Chronicles, even unto the days of Jonathan the son of Eliasib.\n\n12:24. Now the chief of the Levites were Hasebia, Serebia, and Josue\nthe son of Cedmihel: and their brethren by their courses, to praise and\nto give thanks according to the commandment of David the man of God,\nand to wait equally in order.\n\n12:25. Mathania, and Becbecia, Obedia, and Mosollam, Telmon, Accub,\nwere keepers of the gates and of the entrances before the gates.\n\n12:26. These were in the days of Joacim the son of Josue, the son of\nJosedec, and in the days of Nehemias the governor, and of Esdras the\npriest and scribe.\n\n12:27. And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the\nLevites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, and to\nkeep the dedication, and to rejoice with thanksgiving, and with\nsinging, and with cymbals, and psalteries and harps.\n\n12:28. And the sons of the singing men were gathered together out of\nthe plain country about Jerusalem, and out of the villages of\nNethuphati,\n\n12:29. And from the house of Galgal, and from the countries of Geba and\nAzmaveth: for the singing men had built themselves villages round about\nJerusalem.\n\n12:30. And the priests and the Levites were purified, and they purified\nthe people, and the gates, and the wall.\n\n12:31. And I made the princes of Juda go up upon the wall, and I\nappointed two great choirs to give praise. And they went on the right\nhand upon the wall toward the dung gate.\n\n12:32. And after them went Osaias, and half of the princes of Juda,\n\n12:33. And Azarias, Esdras, and Mosollam, Judas, and Benjamin, and\nSemeia, and Jeremias.\n\n12:34. And of the sons of the priests with trumpets, Zacharias the son\nof Jonathan, the son of Semeia, the son of Mathania, the son of\nMichaia, the son of Zechur, the son of Asaph,\n\n12:35. And his brethren Semeia, and Azareel, Malalai, Galalai, Maai,\nNathanael, and Judas, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David\nthe man of God: and Esdras the scribe before them at the fountain gate.\n\n12:36. And they went up over against them by the stairs of the city of\nDavid, at the going up of the wall of the house of David, and to the\nwater gate eastward:\n\n12:37. And the second choir of them that gave thanks went on the\nopposite side, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the\nwall, and upon the tower of the furnaces, even to the broad wall,\n\n12:38. And above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above\nthe fish gate and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Emath, and\neven to the flock gate: and they stood still in the watch gate.\n\n12:39. And the two choirs of them that gave praise stood still at the\nhouse of God, and I and the half of the magistrates with me.\n\n12:40. And the priests, Eliachim, Maasia, Miamin, Michea, Elioenai,\nZacharia, Hanania with trumpets,\n\n12:41. And Maasia, and Semeia, and Eleazar, and Azzi, and Johanan, and\nMelchia, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sung loud, and Jezraia was\ntheir overseer:\n\n12:42. And they sacrificed on that day great sacrifices, and they\nrejoiced: for God had made them joyful with great joy: their wives also\nand their children rejoiced, and the joy of Jerusalem was heard afar\noff.\n\n12:43. They appointed also in that day men over the storehouses of the\ntreasure, for the libations, and for the firstfruits, and for the\ntithes, that the rulers of the city might bring them in by them in\nhonour of thanksgiving, for the priests and Levites: for Juda was\njoyful in the priests and Levites that assisted.\n\n12:44. And they kept the watch of their God, and the observance of\nexpiation, and the singing men, and the porters, according to the\ncommandment of David, and of Solomon his son.\n\n12:45. For in the days of David and Asaph from the beginning there were\nchief singers appointed, to praise with canticles, and give thanks to\nGod.\n\n12:46. And all Israel, in the days of Zorobabel, and in the days of\nNehemias gave portions to the singing men, and to the porters, day by\nday, and they sanctified the Levites, and the Levites sanctified the\nsons of Aaron.\n\nSanctified. . .That is, they gave them that which by the law was set\naside, and sanctified for their use.\n\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 13\n\n\nDivers abuses are reformed.\n\n13:1. And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of\nthe people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the\nMoabites should not come in to the church of God for ever:\n\n13:2. Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water:\nand they hired against them Balaam, to curse them, and our God turned\nthe curse into blessing.\n\n13:3. And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they\nseparated every stranger from Israel.\n\n13:4. And over this thing was Eliasib the priest, who was set over the\ntreasury of the house of our God, and was near akin to Tobias.\n\nOver this thing, etc. . .Or, he was faulty in this thing, or in this\nkind.\n\n13:5. And he made him a great storeroom, where before him they laid up\ngifts, and frankincense, and vessels, and the tithes of the corn, of\nthe wine, and of the oil, the portions of the Levites, and of the\nsinging men, and of the porters, and the firstfruits of the priests.\n\n13:6. But in all this time I was not in Jerusalem, because in the two\nand thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, I went to the king,\nand after certain days I asked the king:\n\n13:7. And I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the evil that Eliasib\nhad done for Tobias, to make him a storehouse in the courts of the\nhouse of God.\n\n13:8. And it seemed to me exceeding evil. And I cast forth the vessels\nof the house of Tobias out of the storehouse.\n\n13:9. And I commanded and they cleansed again the vessels of the house\nof God, the sacrifice, and the frankincense.\n\n13:10. And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been\ngiven them: and that the Levites, and the singing men, and they that\nministered were fled away every man to his own country:\n\n13:11. And I pleaded the matter against the magistrates, and said: Why\nhave we forsaken the house of God? And I gathered them together, and I\nmade them to stand in their places.\n\n13:12. And all Juda brought the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and\nthe oil into the storehouses.\n\n13:13. And we set over the storehouses Selemias the priest, and Sadoc\nthe scribe, and of the Levites Phadaia, and next to them Hanan the son\nof Zachur, the son of Mathania: for they were approved as faithful, and\nto them were committed the portions of their brethren.\n\n13:14. Remember me, O my God, for this thing, and wipe not out my\nkindnesses, which I have done relating to the house of my God and his\nceremonies.\n\n13:15. In those days I saw in Juda some treading the presses on the\nsabbath, and carrying sheaves, and lading asses with wine, and grapes,\nand figs, and all manner of burthens, and bringing them into Jerusalem\non the sabbath day. And I charged them that they should sell on a day\non which it was lawful to sell.\n\n13:16. Some Tyrians also dwelt there, who brought fish, and all manner\nof wares: and they sold them on the sabbaths to the children of Juda in\nJerusalem.\n\n13:17. And I rebuked the chief men of Juda, and said to them: What is\nthis evil thing that you are doing, profaning the sabbath day:\n\n13:18. Did not our fathers do these things, and our God brought all\nthis evil upon us, and upon this city? And you bring more wrath upon\nIsrael by violating the sabbath.\n\n13:19. And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem were at\nrest on the sabbath day, I spoke: and they shut the gates, and I\ncommanded that they should not open them till after the sabbath: and I\nset some of my servants at the gates, that none should bring in\nburthens on the sabbath day.\n\n13:20. So the merchants, and they that sold all kinds of wares, stayed\nwithout Jerusalem, once or twice.\n\n13:21. And I charged them, and I said to them: Why stay you before the\nwall? if you do so another time, I will lay hands on you. And from that\ntime they came no more on the sabbath.\n\n13:22. I spoke also to the Levites that they should be purified, and\nshould come to keep the gates, and to sanctify the sabbath day: for\nthis also remember me, O my God, and spare me according to the\nmultitude of thy tender mercies.\n\n13:23. In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of\nAzotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.\n\n13:24. And their children spoke half in the speech of Azotus, and could\nnot speak the Jews' language, but they spoke according to the language\nof this and that people.\n\n13:25. And I chid them, and laid my curse upon them. And I beat some of\nthem, and shaved off their hair, and made them swear by God that they\nwould not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters\nfor their sons, nor for themselves, saying:\n\n13:26. Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing: and\nsurely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was\nbeloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: and yet\nwomen of other countries brought even him to sin.\n\n13:27. And shall we also be disobedient and do all this great evil to\ntransgress against our God, and marry strange women:\n\n13:28. And one of the sons of Joiada the son of Eliasib the high\npriest, was son in law to Sanaballat the Horonite, and I drove him from\nme.\n\n13:29. Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and\nthe law of priests and Levites.\n\n13:30. So I separated from them all strangers, and I appointed the\ncourses of the priests and the Levites, every man in his ministry:\n\n13:31. And for the offering of wood at times appointed, and for the\nfirstfruits: remember me, O my God, unto good. Amen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF TOBIAS\n\n\n\nThis Book takes its name from the holy man Tobias, whose wonderful\nvirtues are herein recorded. It contains most excellent documents of\ngreat piety, extraordinary patience, and of a perfect resignation to\nthe will of God. His humble prayer was heard, and the angel Raphael was\nsent to relieve him: he is thankful and praises the Lord, calling on\nthe children of Israel to do the same. Having lived to the age of one\nhundred and two years, he exhorts his son and grandsons to piety,\nforetells the destruction of Ninive and the rebuilding of Jerusalem: he\ndies happily.\n\n\n\nTobias Chapter 1\n\n\nTobias's early piety: his works of mercy, particularly in burying the\ndead.\n\n1:1. Tobias of the tribe and city of Nephtali, (which is in the upper\nparts of Galilee above Naasson, beyond the way that leadeth to the\nwest, having on the right hand the city of Sephet,)\n\n1:2. When he was made captive in the days of Salmanasar king of the\nAssyrians, even in his captivity, forsook not the way of truth,\n\n1:3. But every day gave all he could get to his brethren his fellow\ncaptives, that were of his kindred.\n\n1:4. And when he was younger than any of the tribe of Nephtali, yet did\nhe no childish thing in his work.\n\n1:5. Moreover when all went to the golden calves which Jeroboam king of\nIsrael had made, he alone fled the company of all,\n\n1:6. And went to Jerusalem to the temple of the Lord, and there adored\nthe Lord God of Israel, offering faithfully all his firstfruits, and\nhis tithes,\n\n1:7. So that in the third year he gave all his tithes to the\nproselytes, and strangers.\n\n1:8. These and such like things did he observe when but a boy according\nto the law of God.\n\n1:9. But when he was a man, he took to wife Anna of his own tribe, and\nhad a son by her, whom he called after his own name,\n\n1:10. And from his infancy he taught him to fear God, and to abstain\nfrom all sin.\n\n1:11. And when by the captivity he with his wife and his son and all\nhis tribe was come to the city of Ninive,\n\n1:12. (When all ate of the meats of the Gentiles) he kept his soul and\nnever was defiled with their meats.\n\n1:13. And because he was mindful of the Lord with all his heart, God\ngave him favour in the sight of Salmanasar the king.\n\n1:14. And he gave him leave to go whithersoever he would, with liberty\nto do whatever he had a mind.\n\n1:15. He therefore went to all that were in captivity, and gave them\nwholesome admonitions.\n\n1:16. And when he was come to Rages a city of the Medes, and had ten\ntalents of silver of that with which he had been honoured by the king:\n\n1:17. And when amongst a great multitude of his kindred, he saw Gabelus\nin want, who was one of his tribe, taking a note of his hand he gave\nhim the aforesaid sum of money.\n\n1:18. But after a long time, Salmanasar the king being dead, when\nSennacherib his son, who reigned in his place, had a hatred for the\nchildren of Israel:\n\n1:19. Tobias daily went among all his kindred and comforted them, and\ndistributed to every one as he was able, out of his goods:\n\n1:20. He fed the hungry, and gave clothes to the naked, and was careful\nto bury the dead, and they that were slain.\n\n1:21. And when king Sennacherib was come back, fleeing from Judea by\nreason of the slaughter that God had made about him for his blasphemy,\nand being angry slew many of the children of Israel, Tobias buried\ntheir bodies.\n\n1:22. But when it was told the king, he commanded him to be slain, and\ntook away all his substance.\n\n1:23. But Tobias fleeing naked away with his son and with his wife, lay\nconcealed, for many loved him.\n\n1:24. But after forty-five days, the king was killed by his own sons.\n\n1:25. And Tobias returned to his house, and all his substance was\nrestored to him.\n\n\n\nTobias Chapter 2\n\n\nTobias leaveth his dinner to bury the dead: he loseth his sight by\nGod's permission, for manifestation of his patience.\n\n2:1. But after this, when there was a festival of the Lord, and a good\ndinner was prepared in Tobias's house,\n\n2:2. He said to his son: Go, and bring some of our tribe that fear God,\nto feast with us.\n\n2:3. And when he had gone, returning he told him, that one of the\nchildren of Israel lay slain in the street. And he forthwith leaped up\nfrom his place at the table, and left his dinner, and came fasting to\nthe body.\n\n2:4. And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the\nsun was down, he might bury him cautiously.\n\n2:5. And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear,\n\n2:6. Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet:\nYour festival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.\n\n2:7. So when the sun was down, he went and buried him.\n\n2:8. Now all his neighbours blamed him, saying: once already\ncommandment was given for thee to be slain because of this matter, and\nthou didst scarce escape the sentence of death, and dost thou again\nbury the dead?\n\n2:9. But Tobias fearing God more than the king, carried off the bodies\nof them that were slain, and hid them in his house, and at midnight\nburied them.\n\n2:10. Now it happened one day that being wearied with burying, he came\nto his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept,\n\n2:11. And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell\nupon his eyes, and he was made blind.\n\n2:12. Now this trial the Lord therefore permitted to happen to him,\nthat an example might be given to posterity of his patience, as also of\nholy Job.\n\n2:13. For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept\nhis commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of\nblindness had befallen him,\n\n2:14. But continued immoveable in the fear of God, giving thanks to God\nall the days of his life.\n\n2:15. For as the kings insulted over holy Job: so his relations and\nkinsmen mocked at his life, saying:\n\nKings. . .So Job's three friends are here called, because they were\nprinces in their respective territories.\n\n2:16. Where is thy hope, for which thou gavest alms, and buriedst the\ndead?\n\n2:17. But Tobias rebuked them, saying: Speak not so:\n\n2:18. For we are the children of saints, and look for that life which\nGod will give to those that never change their faith from him.\n\n2:19. Now Anna his wife went daily to weaving work, and she brought\nhome what she could get for their living by the labour of her hands.\n\n2:20. Whereby it came to pass, that she received a young kid, and\nbrought it home:\n\n2:21. And when her husband heard it bleating, he said: Take heed, lest\nperhaps it be stolen: restore ye it to its owners, for it is not lawful\nfor us either to eat or to touch any thing that cometh by theft.\n\n2:22. At these words his wife being angry answered: It is evident the\nhope is come to nothing, and thy alms now appear.\n\n2:23. And with these and other, such like words she upbraided him.\n\n\n\nTobias Chapter 3\n\n\nThe prayer of Tobias, and of Sara, in their several afflictions, are\nheard by God, and the angel Raphael is sent to relieve them.\n\n3:1. Then Tobias sighed, and began to pray with tears,\n\n3:2. Saying, Thou art just, O Lord, and all thy judgments are just, and\nall thy ways mercy, and truth, and judgment:\n\n3:3. And now, O Lord, think of me, and take not revenge of my sins,\nneither remember my offences, nor those of my parents.\n\n3:4. For we have not obeyed thy commandments, therefore are we\ndelivered to spoil and to captivity, and death, and are made a fable,\nand a reproach to all nations, amongst which thou hast scattered us.\n\n3:5. And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done\naccording to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee.\n\n3:6. And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my\nspirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to\nlive.\n\n3:7. Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in\nRages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father's\nservant maids,\n\nRages. . .In the Greek it is Ecbatana, which was also called Rages. For\nthere were two cities in Media of the name of Rages. Raguel dwelt in\none of them, and Gabelus in the other.\n\n3:8. Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named\nAsmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her.\n\n3:9. So when she reproved the maid for her fault, she answered her,\nsaying: May we never see son, or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou\nmurderer of thy husbands.\n\n3:10. Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already killed seven\nhusbands? At these words, she went into an upper chamber of her house:\nand for three days and three nights did neither eat nor drink:\n\n3:11. But continuing in prayer with tears besought God, that he would\ndeliver her from this reproach.\n\n3:12. And it came to pass on the third day when she was making an end\nof her prayer, blessing the Lord,\n\n3:13. She said: Blessed is thy name, O God of our fathers, who when\nthou hast been angry, wilt shew mercy, and in the time of tribulation\nforgivest the sins of them that call upon thee.\n\n3:14. To thee, O Lord, I turn my face, to thee I direct my eyes.\n\n3:15. I beg, O Lord, that thou loose me from the bond of this reproach,\nor else take me away from the earth.\n\n3:16. Thou knowest, O Lord, that I never coveted a husband, and have\nkept my soul clean from all lust.\n\n3:17. Never have I joined myself with them that play: neither have I\nmade myself partaker with them that walk in lightness.\n\n3:18. But a husband I consented to take, with thy fear, not with my\nlust.\n\n3:19. And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not\nworthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man,\n\n3:20. For thy counsel is not in man's power.\n\n3:21. But this every one is sure of that worshippeth thee, that his\nlife, if it be under trial, shall be crowned and if it be under\ntribulation, it shall be delivered: and if it be under correction, it\nshall be allowed to come to thy mercy.\n\n3:22. For thou art not delighted in our being lost, because after a\nstorm thou makest a calm, and after tears and weeping thou pourest in\njoyfulness.\n\n3:23. Be thy name, O God of Israel, blessed for ever,\n\n3:24. At that time the prayers of them both were heard in the sight of\nthe glory of the most high God:\n\n3:25. And the holy angel of the Lord, Raphael was sent to heal them\nboth, whose prayers at one time were rehearsed in the sight of the\nLord.\n\n\n\nTobias Chapter 4\n\n\nTobias thinking he shall die, giveth his son godly admonitions: and\ntelleth him of money he had lent to a friend.\n\n4:1. Therefore when Tobias thought that his prayer was heard that he\nmight die, he called to him Tobias his son,\n\n4:2. And said to him: Hear, my son, the words of my mouth, and lay them\nas a foundation in thy heart.\n\n4:3. When God shall take my soul, thou shalt bury my body: and thou\nshalt honour thy mother all the days of her life:\n\n4:4. For thou must be mindful what and how great perils she suffered\nfor thee in her womb.\n\n4:5. And when she also shall have ended the time of her life, bury her\nby me.\n\n4:6. And all the days of thy life have God in thy mind: and take heed\nthou never consent to sin, nor transgress the commandments of the Lord\nour God.\n\n4:7. Give alms out of thy substance, and turn not away thy face from\nany poor person: for so it shall come to pass that the face of the Lord\nshall not be turned from thee.\n\n4:8. According to thy ability be merciful.\n\n4:9. If thou have much give abundantly: if thou have little, take care\neven so to bestow willingly a little.\n\n4:10. For thus thou storest up to thyself a good reward for the day of\nnecessity.\n\n4:11. For alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not\nsuffer the soul to go into darkness.\n\n4:12. Alms shall be a great confidence before the most high God, to all\nthem that give it.\n\n4:13. Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all fornication, and\nbeside thy wife never endure to know a crime.\n\n4:14. Never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for\nfrom it all perdition took its beginning.\n\n4:15. If any man hath done any work for thee, immediately pay him his\nhire, and let not the wages of thy hired servant stay with thee at all.\n\n4:16. See thou never do to another what thou wouldst hate to have done\nto thee by another.\n\n4:17. Eat thy bread with the hungry and the needy, and with thy\ngarments cover the naked,\n\n4:18. Lay out thy bread, and thy wine upon the burial of a just man,\nand do not eat and drink thereof with the wicked.\n\n4:19. Seek counsel always of a wise man.\n\n4:20. Bless God at all times: and desire of him to direct thy ways, and\nthat all thy counsels may abide in him.\n\n4:21. I tell thee also, my son, that I lent ten talents of silver,\nwhile thou wast yet a child, to Gabelus, in Rages a city of the Medes,\nand I have a note of his hand with me:\n\n4:22. Now therefore inquire how thou mayst go to him, and receive of\nhim the foresaid sum of money, and restore to him the note of his hand.\n\n4:23. Fear not, my son: we lead indeed a poor life, but we shall have\nmany good things if we fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that\nwhich is good.\n\n\n\nTobias Chapter 5\n\n\nYoung Tobias seeking a guide for his journey, the angel Raphael, in\nshape of a man, undertaketh this office.\n\n5:1. Then Tobias answered his father, and said: I will do all things,\nfather, which thou hast commanded me.\n\n5:2. But how I shall get this money, I cannot tell; he knoweth not me,\nand I know not him: what token shall I give him? nor did I ever know\nthe way which leadeth thither.\n\n5:3. Then his father answered him, and said: I have a note of his hand\nwith me, which when thou shalt shew him, he will presently pay it.\n\n5:4. But go now, and seek thee out some faithful man, to go with thee\nfor his hire: that thou mayst receive it, while I yet live.\n\n5:5. Then Tobias going forth, found a beautiful young man, standing\ngirded, and as it were ready to walk.\n\n5:6. And not knowing that he was an angel of God, he saluted him, and\nsaid: From whence art thou, good young man?\n\n5:7. But he answered: Of the children of Israel. And Tobias said to\nhim: Knowest thou the way that leadeth to the country of the Medes?\n\n5:8. And he answered: I know it: and I have often walked through all\nthe ways thereof, and I have abode with Gabelus our brother, who\ndwelleth at Rages a city of the Medes, which is situate in the mount of\nEcbatana.\n\n5:9. And Tobias said to him: Stay for me, I beseech thee, till I tell\nthese same things to my father.\n\n5:10. Then Tobias going in told all these things to his father. Upon\nwhich his father being in admiration, desired that he would come in\nunto him.\n\n5:11. So going in he saluted him, and said: Joy be to thee always.\n\n5:12. And Tobias said: What manner of joy shall be to me, who sit in\ndarkness and see not the light of heaven?\n\n5:13. And the young man said to him: Be of good courage, thy cure from\nGod is at hand.\n\n5:14. And Tobias said to him: Canst thou conduct my son to Gabelus at\nRages, a city of the Medes? and when thou shalt return, I will pay thee\nthy hire.\n\n5:15. And the angel said to him: I will conduct him thither, and bring\nhim back to thee.\n\n5:16. And Tobias said to him: I pray thee, tell me, of what family, or\nwhat tribe art thou?\n\n5:17. And Raphael the angel answered: Dost thou seek the family of him\nthou hirest, or the hired servant himself to go with thy son?\n\n5:18. But lest I should make thee uneasy, I am Azarias the son of the\ngreat Ananias.\n\nAzarias. . .The angel took the form of Azarias: and therefore might call\nhimself by the name of the man whom he personated. Azarias, in Hebrew,\nsignifies the help of God, and Ananias the grace of God.\n\n5:19. And Tobias answered: Thou art of a great family. But I pray thee\nbe not angry that I desired to know thy family.\n\n5:20. And the angel said to him: I will lead thy son safe, and bring\nhim to thee again safe.\n\n5:21. And Tobias answering, said: May you have a good journey, and God\nbe with you in your way, and his angel accompany you.\n\n5:22. Then all things being ready, that were to be carried in their\njourney, Tobias bade his father and his mother farewell, and they set\nout both together.\n\n5:23. And when they were departed, his mother began to weep, and to\nsay: Thou hast taken the staff of our old age, and sent him away from\nus.\n\n5:24. I wish the money for which thou hast sent him, had never been.\n\n5:25. For our poverty was sufficient for us, that we might account it\nas riches, that we saw our son.\n\n5:26. And Tobias said to her: Weep not, our son will arrive thither\nsafe, and will return safe to us, and thy eyes shall see him.\n\n5:27. For I believe that the good angel of God doth accompany him, and\ndoth order all things well that are done about him, so that he shall\nreturn to us with joy.\n\n5:28. At these words his mother ceased weeping, and held her peace.\n\n\n\nTobias Chapter 6\n\n\nBy the angel's advice young Tobias taketh hold on a fish that\nassaulteth him. Reserveth the heart, the gall, and the liver for\nmedicines. They lodge at the house of Raguel, whose daughter Sara,\nTobias is to marry; she had before been married to seven husbands, who\nwere all slain by a devil.\n\n6:1. And Tobias went forward, and the dog followed him, and he lodged\nthe first night by the river of Tigris.\n\n6:2. And he went out to wash his feet, and behold a monstrous fish came\nup to devour him.\n\n6:3. And Tobias being afraid of him, cried out with a loud voice,\nsaying: Sir, he cometh upon me.\n\n6:4. And the angel said to him: Take him by the gill, and draw him to\nthee. And when he had done so, he drew him out upon the land, and he\nbegan to pant before his feet.\n\n6:5. Then the angel said to him: Take out the entrails of this fish,\nand lay up his heart, and his gall, and his liver for thee: for these\nare necessary for useful medicines.\n\n6:6. And when he had done so, he roasted the flesh thereof, and they\ntook it with them in the way: the rest they salted as much as might\nserve them, till they came to Rages the city of the Medes.\n\n6:7. Then Tobias asked the angel, and said to him: I beseech thee,\nbrother Azarias, tell me what remedies are these things good for, which\nthou hast bid me keep of the fish?\n\n6:8. And the angel, answering, said to him: If thou put a little piece\nof its heart upon coals, the smoke thereof driveth away all kind of\ndevils, either from man or from woman, so that they come no more to\nthem.\n\nIts heart, etc. The liver (ver. 19). . .God was pleased to give these\nthings a virtue against those proud spirits, to make them, who affected\nto be like the Most High, subject to such mean corporeal creatures as\ninstruments of his power.\n\n6:9. And the gall is good for anointing the eyes, in which there is a\nwhite speck, and they shall be cured.\n\n6:10. And Tobias said to him: Where wilt thou that we lodge?\n\n6:11. And the angel answering, said: Here is one whose name is Raguel,\na near kinsman of thy tribe, and he hath a daughter named Sara, but he\nhath no son nor any other daughter beside her.\n\n6:12. All his substance is due to thee, and thou must take her to wife.\n\n6:13. Ask her therefore of her father, and he will give her thee to\nwife.\n\n6:14. Then Tobias answered, and said: I hear that she hath been given\nto seven husbands, and they all died: moreover I have heard, that a\ndevil killed them.\n\n6:15. Now I am afraid, lest the same thing should happen to me also:\nand whereas I am the only child of my parents, I should bring down\ntheir old age with sorrow to hell.\n\nHell. . .That is, to the place where the souls of the good were kept\nbefore the coming of Christ.\n\n6:16. Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee\nwho they are, over whom the devil can prevail.\n\n6:17. For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God\nfrom themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to their\nlust, as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over them\nthe devil hath power.\n\n6:18. But thou when thou shalt take her, go into the chamber, and for\nthree days keep thyself continent from her, and give thyself to nothing\nelse but to prayers with her.\n\n6:19. And on that night lay the liver of the fish on the fire, and the\ndevil shall be driven away.\n\n6:20. But the second night thou shalt be admitted into the society of\nthe holy Patriarchs.\n\n6:21. And the third night thou shalt obtain a blessing that sound\nchildren may be born of you.\n\n6:22. And when the third night is past, thou shalt take the virgin with\nthe fear of the Lord, moved rather for love of children than for lust,\nthat in the seed of Abraham thou mayst obtain a blessing in children.\n\n\n\nTobias Chapter 7\n\n\nThey are kindly entertained by Raguel. Tobias demandeth Sara to wife.\n\n7:1. And they went in to Raguel, and Raguel received them with joy.\n\n7:2. And Raguel looking upon Tobias, said to Anna his wife: How like is\nthis young man to my cousin?\n\n7:3. And when he had spoken these words, he said: Whence are ye young\nmen our brethren?\n\n7:4. But they said: We are of the tribe of Nephtali, of the captivity\nof Ninive.\n\n7:5. And Raguel said to them: Do you know Tobias my brother? And they\nsaid: We know him.\n\n7:6. And when he was speaking many good things of him, the angel said\nto Raguel: Tobias concerning whom thou inquirest is this young man's\nfather.\n\n7:7. And Raguel went to him, and kissed him with tears and weeping upon\nhis neck, said: A blessing be upon thee, my son, because thou art the\nson of a good and most virtuous man.\n\n7:8. And Anna his wife, and Sara their daughter wept.\n\n7:9. And after they had spoken, Raguel commanded a sheep to be killed,\nand a feast to be prepared. And when he desired them to sit down to\ndinner,\n\n7:10. Tobias said: I will not eat nor drink here this day, unless thou\nfirst grant me my petition, and promise to give me Sara thy daughter.\n\n7:11. Now when Raguel heard this he was afraid, knowing what had\nhappened to those seven husbands, that went in unto her: and he began\nto fear lest it might happen to him also in like manner: and as he was\nin suspense, and gave no answer to his petition,\n\n7:12. The angel said to him: Be not afraid to give her to this man, for\nto him who feareth God is thy daughter due to be his wife: therefore\nanother could not have her.\n\n7:13. Then Raguel said: I doubt not but God hath regarded my prayers\nand tears in his sight.\n\n7:14. And I believe he hath therefore made you come to me, that this\nmaid might be married to one of her own kindred, according to the law\nof Moses: and now doubt not but I will give her to thee.\n\n7:15. And taking the right hand of his daughter, he gave it into the\nright hand of Tobias, saying: The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac,\nand the God of Jacob be with you, and may he join you together, and\nfulfil his blessing in you.\n\n7:16. And taking paper they made a writing of the marriage.\n\n7:17. And afterwards they made merry, blessing God.\n\n7:18. And Raguel called to him Anna his wife, and bade her to prepare\nanother chamber.\n\n7:19. And she brought Sara her daughter in thither, and she wept.\n\n7:20. And she said to her: Be of good cheer, my daughter: the Lord of\nheaven give thee joy for the trouble thou hast undergone.\n\n\n\nTobias Chapter 8\n\n\nTobias burneth part of the fish's liver, and Raphael bindeth the devil.\nTobias and Sara pray.\n\n8:1. And after they had supped, they brought in the young man to her.\n\n8:2. And Tobias remembering the angel's word, took out of his bag part\nof the liver, and laid it upon burning coals.\n\n8:3. Then the angel Raphael took the devil, and bound him in the desert\nof upper Egypt.\n\n8:4. Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said to her: Sara, arise, and\nlet us pray to God to day, and to morrow, and the next day: because for\nthese three nights we are joined to God: and when the third night is\nover, we will be in our own wedlock.\n\n8:5. For we are the children of saints, and we must not be joined\ntogether like heathens that know not God.\n\n8:6. So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both together that health\nmight be given them,\n\n8:7. And Tobias said: Lord God of our fathers, may the heavens and the\nearth, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all thy\ncreatures that are in them, bless thee.\n\n8:8. Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for\na helper.\n\n8:9. And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust do I take\nmy sister to wife, but only for the love of posterity, in which thy\nname may be blessed for ever and ever.\n\n8:10. Sara also said: Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, and\nlet us grow old both together in health.\n\n8:11. And it came to pass about the cockcrowing, Raguel ordered his\nservants to be called for, and they went with him together to dig a\ngrave.\n\n8:12. For he said: Lest perhaps it may have happened to him, in like\nmanner as it did to the other seven husbands, that went in unto her.\n\n8:13. And when they had prepared the pit, Raguel went back to his wife,\nand said to her:\n\n8:14. Send one of thy maids, and let her see if he be dead, that I may\nbury him before it be day.\n\n8:15. So she sent one of her maidservants, who went into the chamber,\nand found them safe and sound, sleeping both together.\n\n8:16. And returning she brought the good news: and Raguel and Anna his\nwife blessed the Lord,\n\n8:17. And said: We bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because it hath\nnot happened as we suspected.\n\n8:18. For thou hast shewn thy mercy to us, and hast shut out from us\nthe enemy that persecuted us.\n\n8:19. And thou hast taken pity upon two only children. Make them, O\nLord, bless thee more fully: and to offer up to thee a sacrifice of thy\npraise, and of their health, that all nations may know, that thou alone\nart God in all the earth.\n\n8:20. And immediately Raguel commanded his servants, to fill up the pit\nthey had made, before it was day.\n\n8:21. And he spoke to his wife to make ready a feast, and prepare all\nkind of provisions that are necessary for such as go a journey.\n\n8:22. He caused also two fat kine, and four wethers to be killed, and a\nbanquet to be prepared for all his neighbours, and all his friends,\n\n8:23. And Raguel adjured Tobias, to abide with him two weeks.\n\n8:24. And of all things which Raguel possessed, he gave one half to\nTobias, and made a writing, that the half that remained should after\ntheir decease come also to Tobias.\n\n\n\nTobias Chapter 9\n\n\nThe angel Raphael goeth to Gabelus, receiveth the money, and bringeth\nhim to the marriage.\n\n9:1. Then Tobias called the angel to him, whom he took to be a man, and\nsaid to him: Brother Azarias, I pray thee hearken to my words:\n\n9:2. If I should give myself to be thy servant I should not make a\nworthy return for thy care.\n\n9:3. However, I beseech thee, to take with thee beasts and servants,\nand to go to Gabelus to Rages the city of the Medes: and to restore to\nhim his note of hand, and receive of him the money, and desire him to\ncome to my wedding.\n\n9:4. For thou knowest that my father numbereth the days: and if I stay\none day more, his soul will be afflicted.\n\n9:5. And indeed thou seest how Raguel hath adjured me, whose adjuring I\ncannot despise.\n\n9:6. Then Raphael took four of Raguel's servants, and two camels, and\nwent to Rages the city of the Medes: and finding Gabelus, gave him his\nnote of hand, and received of him all the money.\n\n9:7. And he told him concerning Tobias the son of Tobias, all that had\nbeen done: and made him come with him to the wedding.\n\n9:8. And when he was come into Raguel's house he found Tobias sitting\nat the table: and he leaped up, and they kissed each other: and Gabelus\nwept, and blessed God,\n\n9:9. And said: The God of Israel bless thee, because thou art the son\nof a very good and just man, and that feareth God, and doth almsdeeds:\n\n9:10. And may a blessing come upon thy wife and upon your parents.\n\n9:11. And may you see your children, and your children's children, unto\nthe third and fourth generation: and may your seed be blessed by the\nGod of Israel, who reigneth for ever and ever.\n\n9:12. And when all had said, Amen, they went to the feast: but the\nmarriage feast they celebrated also with the fear of the Lord.\n\n\n\nTobias Chapter 10\n\n\nThe parents lament the long absence of their son Tobias. He sets out to\nreturn.\n\n10:1. But as Tobias made longer stay upon occasion of the marriage,\nTobias his father was solicitous, saying: Why thinkest thou doth my son\ntarry, or why is he detained there?\n\n10:2. Is Gabelus dead, thinkest thou, and no man will pay him the\nmoney?\n\n10:3. And he began to be exceeding sad, both he and Anna his wife with\nhim: and they began both to weep together, because their son did not\nreturn to them on the day appointed.\n\n10:4. But his mother wept and was quite disconsolate, and said: Woe,\nwoe is me, my son; why did we send thee to go to a strange country, the\nlight of our eyes, the staff of our old age, the comfort of our life,\nthe hope of our posterity?\n\n10:5. We having all things together in thee alone, ought not to have\nlet thee go from us.\n\n10:6. And Tobias said to her: Hold thy peace, and be not troubled, our\nson is safe: that man with whom we sent him is very trusty.\n\n10:7. But she could by no means be comforted, but daily running out\nlooked round about, and went into all the ways by which there seemed\nany hope he might return, that she might if possible see him coming\nafar off.\n\n10:8. But Raguel said to his son in law: Stay here, and I will send a\nmessenger to Tobias thy father, that thou art in health.\n\n10:9. And Tobias said to him: I know that my father and mother now\ncount the days, and their spirit is grievously afflicted within them.\n\n10:10. And when Raguel had pressed Tobias with many words, and he by no\nmeans would hearken to him, he delivered Sara unto him, and half of all\nhis substance in menservants, and womenservants, in cattle, in camels,\nand in kine, and in much money, and sent him away safe and joyful from\nhim,\n\n10:11. Saying: The holy angel of the Lord be with you in your journey,\nand bring you through safe, and that you may find all things well about\nyour parents, and my eyes may see your children before I die.\n\n10:12. And the parents taking their daughter kissed her, and let her\ngo:\n\n10:13. Admonishing her to honour her father and mother in law, to love\nher husband, to take care of the family, to govern the house, and to\nbehave herself irreprehensibly.\n\n\n\nTobias Chapter 11\n\n\nTobias anointeth his father's eyes with the fish's gall, and he\nrecovereth his sight.\n\n11:1. And as they were returning they came to Charan, which is in the\nmidway to Ninive, the eleventh day.\n\n11:2. And the angel said: Brother Tobias, thou knowest how thou didst\nleave thy father.\n\n11:3. If it please thee therefore, let us go before, and let the family\nfollow softly after us, together with thy wife, and with the beasts.\n\n11:4. And as this their going pleased him, Raphael said to Tobias: Take\nwith thee of the gall of the fish, for it will be necessary. So Tobias\ntook some of that gall and departed.\n\n11:5. But Anna sat beside the way daily, on the top of a hill, from\nwhence she might see afar off.\n\n11:6. And while she watched his coming from that place, she saw him\nafar off, and presently perceived it was her son coming: and returning\nshe told her husband, saying: Behold thy son cometh.\n\n11:7. And Raphael said to Tobias: As soon as thou shalt come into thy\nhouse, forthwith adore the Lord thy God: and giving thanks to him, go\nto thy father, and kiss him.\n\n11:8. And immediately anoint his eyes with this gall of the fish, which\nthou carriest with thee. For be assured that his eyes shall be\npresently opened, and thy father shall see the light of heaven, and\nshall rejoice in the sight of thee.\n\n11:9. Then the dog, which had been with them in the way, ran before,\nand coming as if he had brought the news, shewed his joy by his fawning\nand wagging his tail.\n\nThe dog, etc. . .This may seem a very minute circumstance to be recorded\nin sacred history: but as we learn from our Saviour, St. Matt. 5.18,\nthere are iotas and tittles in the word of God: that is to say, things\nthat appear minute, but which have indeed a deep and mysterious meaning\nin them.\n\n11:10. And his father that was blind, rising up, began to run stumbling\nwith his feet: and giving a servant his hand, went to meet his son.\n\n11:11. And receiving him kissed him, as did also his wife, and they\nbegan to weep for joy.\n\n11:12. And when they had adored God, and given him thanks, they sat\ndown together.\n\n11:13. Then Tobias taking of the gall of the fish, anointed his\nfather's eyes.\n\n11:14. And he stayed about half an hour: and a white skin began to come\nout of his eyes, like the skin of an egg.\n\n11:15. And Tobias took hold of it, and drew it from his eyes, and\nrecovered his sight.\n\n11:16. And they glorified God, both he and his wife and all that knew\nhim.\n\n11:17. And Tobias said: I bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because\nthou hast chastised me, and thou hast saved me and behold I see Tobias\nmy son.\n\n11:18. And after seven days Sara his son's wife and all the family\narrived safe, and the cattle, and the camels, and an abundance of money\nof his wife's: and that money also which he had received of Gabelus,\n\n11:19. And he told his parents all the benefits of God, which he had\ndone to him by the man that conducted him.\n\n11:20. And Achior and Nabath the kinsmen of Tobias came, rejoicing for\nTobias, and congratulating with him for all the good things that God\nhad done for him.\n\n11:21. And for seven days they feasted and rejoiced all with great joy.\n\n\n\nTobias Chapter 12\n\n\nRaphael maketh himself known.\n\n12:1. Then Tobias called to him his son and said to him: What can we\ngive to this holy man, that is come with thee?\n\n12:2. Tobias answering, said to his father: Father, what wages shall we\ngive him? or what can be worthy of his benefits?\n\n12:3. He conducted me and brought me safe again, he received the money\nof Gabelus, he caused me to have my wife, and he chased from her the\nevil spirit, he gave joy to her parents, myself he delivered from being\ndevoured by the fish, thee also he hath made to see the light of\nheaven, and we are filled with all good things through him. What can we\ngive him sufficient for these things?\n\n12:4. But I beseech thee, my father, to desire him, that he would\nvouchsafe to accept of one half of all things that have been brought.\n\n12:5. So the father and the son calling him, took him aside: and began\nto desire him that he would vouchsafe to accept of half of all things\nthat they had brought,\n\n12:6. Then he said to them secretly, Bless ye the God of heaven, give\nglory to him in the sight of all that live, because he hath shewn his\nmercy to you.\n\n12:7. For it is good to hide the secret of a king: to reveal and\nconfess the works of God.\n\n12:8. Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up\ntreasures of gold.\n\n12:9. For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which\npurgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.\n\n12:10. But they that commit sin and iniquity, are enemies to their own\nsoul.\n\n12:11. I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the\nsecret from you.\n\n12:12. When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and\ndidst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury\nthem by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord.\n\n12:13. And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that\ntemptation should prove thee.\n\n12:14. And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara\nthy son's wife from the devil.\n\n12:15. For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before\nthe Lord.\n\n12:16. And when they had heard these things, they were troubled, and\nbeing seized with fear they fell upon the ground on their face.\n\n12:17. And the angel said to them: Peace be to you, fear not.\n\n12:18. For when I was with you, I was there by the will of God: bless\nye him, and sing praises to him.\n\n12:19. I seemed indeed to eat and to drink with you but I use an\ninvisible meat and drink, which cannot be seen by men.\n\n12:20. It is time therefore that I return to him that sent me: but\nbless ye God, and publish all his wonderful works.\n\n12:21. And when he had said these things, he was taken from their\nsight, and they could see him no more.\n\n12:22. Then they lying prostrate for three hours upon their face,\nblessed God, and rising up, they told all his wonderful works.\n\n\n\nTobias Chapter 13\n\n\nTobias the father praiseth God, exhorting all Israel to do the same.\nProphesieth the restoration and better state of Jerusalem.\n\n13:1. And Tobias the elder opening his mouth, blessed the Lord, and\nsaid: Thou art great O Lord, for ever, and thy kingdom is unto all\nages.\n\n13:2. For thou scourgest, and thou savest: thou leadest down to hell,\nand bringest up again: and there is none that can escape thy hand.\n\n13:3. Give glory to the Lord, ye children of Israel, and praise him in\nthe sight of the Gentiles:\n\n13:4. Because he hath therefore scattered you among the Gentiles, who\nknow not him, that you may declare his wonderful works, and make them\nknow that there is no other almighty God besides him.\n\n13:5. He hath chastised us for our iniquities: and he will save us for\nhis own mercy.\n\n13:6. See then what he hath done with us, and with fear and trembling\ngive ye glory to him: and extol the eternal King of worlds in your\nworks.\n\n13:7. As for me, I will praise him in the land of my captivity: because\nhe hath shewn his majesty toward a sinful nation,\n\n13:8. Be converted therefore, ye sinners, and do justice before God,\nbelieving that he will shew his mercy to you.\n\n13:9. And I and my soul will rejoice in him.\n\n13:10. Bless ye the Lord, all his elect, keep days of joy, and give\nglory to him.\n\n13:11. Jerusalem, city of God, the Lord hath chastised thee for the\nworks of thy hands.\n\nJerusalem. . .What is prophetically delivered here, and in the following\nchapter, with relation to Jerusalem, is partly to be understood of the\nrebuilding of the city after the captivity: and partly of the spiritual\nJerusalem, which is the church of Christ, and the eternal Jerusalem in\nheaven.\n\n13:12. Give glory to the Lord for thy good things, and bless the God\neternal that he may rebuild his tabernacle in thee, and may call back\nall the captives to thee, and thou mayst rejoice for ever and ever.\n\n13:13. Thou shalt shine with a glorious light: and all the ends of the\nearth shall worship thee,\n\n13:14. Nations from afar shall come to thee: and shall bring gifts, and\nshall adore the Lord in thee, and shall esteem thy land as holy.\n\n13:15. For they shall call upon the great name in thee,\n\n13:16. They shall be cursed that shall despise thee: and they shall be\ncondemned that shall blaspheme thee: and blessed shall they be that\nshall build thee up,\n\n13:17. But thou shalt rejoice in thy children, because they shall all\nbe blessed, and shall be gathered together to the Lord.\n\n13:18. Blessed are all they that love thee, and that rejoice in thy\npeace,\n\n13:19. My soul, bless thou the Lord, because the Lord our God hath\ndelivered Jerusalem his city from all her troubles.\n\n13:20. Happy shall I be if there shall remain of my seed, to see the\nglory of Jerusalem.\n\n13:21. The gates of Jerusalem shall be built of sapphire, and of\nemerald, and all the walls thereof round about of precious stones.\n\n13:22. All its streets shall be paved with white and clean stones: and\nAlleluia shall be sung in its streets,\n\n13:23. Blessed be the Lord, who hath exalted it, and may he reign over\nit for ever and ever, Amen.\n\n\n\nTobias Chapter 14\n\n\nOld Tobias dieth at the age of a hundred and two years, after exhorting\nhis son and grandsons to piety, foreshewing that Ninive shall be\ndestroyed, and Jerusalem rebuilt. The younger Tobias returneth with his\nfamily to Raguel, and dieth happily as he had lived.\n\n14:1. And the words of Tobias were ended. And after Tobias was restored\nto his sight, he lived two and forty years, and saw the children of his\ngrandchildren.\n\n14:2. And after he had lived a hundred and two years, he was buried\nhonorably in Ninive.\n\n14:3. For he was six and fifty years old when he lost the sight of his\neyes, and sixty when he recovered it again.\n\n14:4. And the rest of his life was in joy, and with great increase of\nthe fear of God he departed in peace.\n\n14:5. And at the hour of his death he called unto him his son Tobias\nand his children, seven young men, his grandsons, and said to them:\n\n14:6. The destruction of Ninive is at hand: for the word of the Lord\nmust be fulfilled: and our brethren, that are scattered abroad from the\nland of Israel, shall return to it.\n\n14:7. And all the land thereof that is desert shall be filled with\npeople, and the house of God which is burnt in it, shall again be\nrebuilt: and all that fear God shall return thither.\n\n14:8. And the Gentiles shall leave their idols, and shall come into\nJerusalem, and shall dwell in it.\n\n14:9. And all the kings of the earth shall rejoice in it, adoring the\nKing of Israel.\n\n14:10. Hearken therefore, my children, to your father: serve the Lord\nin truth, and seek to do the things that please him:\n\n14:11. And command your children that they do justice and almsdeeds,\nand that they be mindful of God, and bless him at all times in truth,\nand with all their power.\n\n14:12. And now, children, hear me, and do not stay here: but as soon as\nyou shall bury your mother by me in one sepulchre, without delay direct\nyour steps to depart hence:\n\n14:13. For I see that its iniquity will bring it to destruction.\n\n14:14. And it came to pass that after the death of his mother, Tobias\ndeparted out of Ninive with his wife, and children, and children's\nchildren, and returned to his father and mother in law.\n\n14:15. And he found them in health in a good old age: and he took care\nof them, and he closed their eyes: and all the inheritance of Raguel's\nhouse came to him: and he saw his children's children to the fifth\ngeneration.\n\n14:16. And after he had lived ninety-nine years in the fear of the\nLord, with joy they buried him.\n\n14:17. And all his kindred, and all his generation continued in good\nlife, and in holy conversation, so that they were acceptable both to\nGod, and to men, and to all that dwelt in the land.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF JUDITH\n\n\n\nThe sacred writer of this Book is generally believed to be the high\npriest Eliachim (called also Joachim). The transactions herein related,\nmost probably happened in his days, and in the reign of Manasses, after\nhis repentance and return from captivity. It takes its name from that\nillustrious woman, by whose virtue and fortitude, and armed with\nprayer, the children of Israel were preserved from the destruction\nthreatened them by Holofernes and his great army. It finishes with her\ncanticle of thanksgiving to God.\n\n\n\nJudith Chapter 1\n\n\nNabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians overcometh Arphaxad king of the\nMedes.\n\n1:1. Now Arphaxad king of the Medes had brought many nations under his\ndominions, and he built a very strong city, which he called Ecbatana,\n\nArphaxad. . .He was probably the same as is called Dejoces by Herodotus;\nto whom he attributes the building of Ecbatana, the capital city of\nMedia.\n\n1:2. Of stones squared and hewed: he made the walls thereof seventy\ncubits broad, and thirty cubits high, and the towers thereof he made a\nhundred cubits high. But on the square of them, each side was extended\nthe space of twenty feet.\n\n1:3. And he made the gates thereof according to the height of the\ntowers:\n\n1:4. And he gloried as a mighty one in the force of his army and in the\nglory of his chariots.\n\n1:5. Now in the twelfth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor king of the\nAssyrians, who reigned in Ninive the great city, fought against\nArphaxad and overcame him,\n\nNabuchodonosor. . .Not the king of Babylon, who took and destroyed\nJerusalem, but another of the same name, who reigned in Ninive: and is\ncalled by profane historians Saosduchin. He succeeded Asarhaddan in the\nkingdom of the Assyrians, and was contemporary with Manasses king of\nJuda.\n\n1:6. In the great plain which is called Ragua, about the Euphrates, and\nthe Tigris, and the Jadason, in the plain of Erioch the king of the\nElicians.\n\n1:7. Then was the kingdom of Nabuchodonosor exalted, and his heart was\nelevated: and he sent to all that dwelt in Cilicia and Damascus, and\nLibanus,\n\n1:8. And to the nations that are in Carmelus, and Cedar, and to the\ninhabitants of Galilee in the great plain of Asdrelon,\n\n1:9. And to all that were in Samaria, and beyond the river Jordan even\nto Jerusalem, and all the land of Jesse till you come to the borders of\nEthiopia.\n\n1:10. To all these Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, sent\nmessengers:\n\n1:11. But they all with one mind refused, and sent them back empty, and\nrejected them without honour.\n\n1:12. Then king Nabuchodonosor being angry against all that land, swore\nby his throne and kingdom that he would revenge himself of all those\ncountries.\n\n\n\nJudith Chapter 2\n\n\nNabuchodonosor sendeth Holofernes to waste the countries of the west.\n\n2:1. In the thirteenth year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, the two and\ntwentieth day of the first month, the word was given out in the house\nof Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, that he would revenge himself.\n\n2:2. And he called all the ancients, and all the governors, and his\nofficers of war, and communicated to them the secret of his counsel:\n\n2:3. And he said that his thoughts were to bring all the earth under\nhis empire.\n\n2:4. And when this saying pleased them all, Nabuchodonosor, the king,\ncalled Holofernes the general of his armies,\n\n2:5. And said to him: Go out against all the kingdoms of the west, and\nagainst them especially that despised my commandment.\n\n2:6. Thy eye shall not spare any kingdom, and all the strong cities\nthou shalt bring under my yoke.\n\n2:7. Then Holofernes called the captains, and officers of the power of\nthe Assyrians: and he mustered men for the expedition, and the king\ncommanded him, a hundred and twenty thousand fighting men on foot, and\ntwelve thousand archers, horsemen.\n\n2:8. And he made all his warlike preparations to go before with a\nmultitude of innumerable camels, with all provisions sufficient for the\narmies in abundance, and herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep, without\nnumber.\n\n2:9. He appointed corn to be prepared out of all Syria in his passage.\n\n2:10. But gold and silver he took out of the king's house in great\nabundance.\n\n2:11. And he went forth he and all the army, with the chariots, and\nhorsemen, and archers, who covered the face of the earth, like locusts.\n\n2:12. And when he had passed through the borders of the Assyrians, he\ncame to the great mountains of Ange, which are on the left of Cilicia:\nand he went up to all their castles, and took all the strong places.\n\n2:13. And he took by assault the renowned city of Melothus, and\npillaged all the children of Tharsis, and the children of Ismahel, who\nwere over against the face of the desert, and on the south of the land\nof Cellon.\n\n2:14. And he passed over the Euphrates and came into Mesopotamia: and\nhe forced all the stately cities that were there, from the torrent of\nMambre, till one comes to the sea:\n\n2:15. And he took the borders thereof, from Cilicia to the coasts of\nJapheth, which are towards the south.\n\n2:16. And he carried away all the children of Madian, and stripped them\nof all their riches, and all that resisted him he slew with the edge of\nthe sword.\n\n2:17. And after these things he went down into the plains of Damascus\nin the days of the harvest, and he set all the corn on fire, and he\ncaused all the trees and vineyards to be cut down.\n\n2:18. And the fear of them fell upon all the inhabitants of the land.\n\n\n\nJudith Chapter 3\n\n\nMany submit themselves to Holofernes. He destroyeth their cities, and\ntheir gods, that Nabuchodonosor only might be called God.\n\n3:1. Then the kings and the princes of all the cities and provinces, of\nSyria, Mesopotamia, and Syria Sobal, and Libya, and Cilicia sent their\nambassadors, who coming to Holofernes, said:\n\n3:2. Let thy indignation towards us cease, for it is better for us to\nlive and serve Nabuchodonosor the great king, and be subject to thee,\nthan to die and to perish, or suffer the miseries of slavery.\n\n3:3. All our cities and our possessions, all mountains and hills, and\nfields, and herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep, and goats, and horses,\nand camels, and all our goods, and families are in thy sight:\n\n3:4. Let all we have be subject to thy law,\n\n3:5. Both we and our children are thy servants.\n\n3:6. Come to us a peaceable lord, and use our service as it shall\nplease thee,\n\n3:7. Then he came down from the mountains with horsemen, in great\npower, and made himself master of every city, and all the inhabitants\nof the land.\n\n3:8. And from all the cities he took auxiliaries valiant men, and\nchosen for war,\n\n3:9. And so great a fear lay upon all those provinces, that the\ninhabitants of all the cities, both princes and nobles, as well as the\npeople, went out to meet him at his coming.\n\n3:10. And received him with garlands, and lights, and dances, and\ntimbrels, and flutes.\n\n3:11. And though they did these things, they could not for all that\nmitigate the fierceness of his heart:\n\n3:12. For he both destroyed their cities, and cut down their groves.\n\n3:13. For Nabuchodonosor the king had commanded him to destroy all the\ngods of the earth, that he only might be called God by those nations\nwhich could be brought under him by the power of Holofernes.\n\n3:14. And when he had passed through all Syria Sobal, and all Apamea,\nand all Mesopotamia, he came to the Idumeans into the land of Gabaa,\n\n3:15. And he took possession of their cities, and stayed there for\nthirty days, in which days he commanded all the troops of his army to\nbe united.\n\n\n\nJudith Chapter 4\n\n\nThe children of Israel prepare themselves to resist Holofernes. They\ncry to the Lord for help.\n\n4:1. Then the children of Israel, who dwelt in the land of Juda,\nhearing these things, were exceedingly afraid of him.\n\n4:2. Dread and horror seized upon their minds, lest he should do the\nsame to Jerusalem and to the temple of the Lord, that he had done to\nother cities and their temples.\n\n4:3. And they sent into all Samaria round about, as far as Jericho, and\nseized upon all the tops of the mountains:\n\n4:4. And they compassed their towns with walls and gathered together\ncorn for provision for war.\n\n4:5. And Eliachim the priest wrote to all that were over against\nEsdrelon, which faceth the great plain near Dothain, and to all by whom\nthere might be a passage of way, that they should take possession of\nthe ascents of the mountains, by which there might be any way to\nJerusalem, and should keep watch where the way was narrow between the\nmountains.\n\n4:6. And the children of Israel did as the priests of the Lord Eliachim\nhad appointed them.\n\n4:7. And all the people cried to the Lord with great earnestness, and\nthey humbled their souls in fastings, and prayers, both they and their\nwives.\n\n4:8. And the priests put on haircloths, and they caused the little\nchildren to lie prostrate before the temple of the Lord, and the altar\nof the Lord they covered with haircloth.\n\n4:9. And they cried to the Lord the God of Israel with one accord, that\ntheir children might not be made a prey, and their wives carried off,\nand their cities destroyed, and their holy things profaned, and that\nthey might not be made a reproach to the Gentiles.\n\n4:10. Then Eliachim the high priest of the Lord went about all Israel\nand spoke to them,\n\n4:11. Saying: Know ye that the Lord will hear your prayers, if you\ncontinue with perseverance in fastings and prayers in the sight of the\nLord.\n\n4:12. Remember Moses the servant of the Lord overcame Amalec that\ntrusted in his own strength, and in his power, and in his army, and in\nhis shields, and in his chariots, and in his horsemen, not by fighting\nwith the sword, but by holy prayers:\n\n4:13. So all the enemies of Israel be, if you persevere in this work\nwhich you have begun.\n\n4:14. So they being moved by this exhortation of his, prayed to the\nLord, and continued in the sight of the Lord.\n\n4:15. So that even they who offered the holocausts to the Lord, offered\nthe sacrifices to the Lord girded with haircloths, and with ashes upon\ntheir head.\n\n4:16. And they all begged of God with all their heart, that he would\nvisit his people Israel.\n\n\n\nJudith Chapter 5\n\n\nAchior gives Holofernes an account of the people of Israel.\n\n5:1. And it was told Holofernes the general of the army of the\nAssyrians, that the children of Israel prepared themselves to resist,\nand had shut up the ways of the mountains.\n\n5:2. And he was transported with exceeding great fury and indignation,\nand he called all the princes of Moab and the leaders of Ammon.\n\n5:3. And he said to them: Tell me what is this people that besetteth\nthe mountains: or what are their cities, and of what sort, and how\ngreat: also what is their power, or what is their multitude: or who is\nthe king over their warfare:\n\n5:4. And why they above all that dwell in the east, have despised us,\nand have not come out to meet us, that they might receive us with\npeace?\n\n5:5. Then Achior captain of all the children of Ammon answering, said;\nIf thou vouchsafe, my lord, to hear, I will tell the truth in thy sight\nconcerning this people, that dwelleth in the mountains, and there shall\nnot a false word come out of my mouth.\n\n5:6. This people is of the offspring of the Chaldeans.\n\n5:7. They dwelt first in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the\ngods of their fathers, who were in the land of the Chaldeans.\n\n5:8. Wherefore forsaking the ceremonies of their fathers, which\nconsisted in the worship of many gods,\n\n5:9. They worshipped one God of heaven, who also commanded them to\ndepart from thence, and to dwell in Charan. And when there was a famine\nover all the land, they went down into Egypt, and there for four\nhundred years were so multiplied, that the army of them could not be\nnumbered.\n\n5:10. And when the king of Egypt oppressed them, and made slaves of\nthem to labour in clay and brick, in the building of his cities, they\ncried to their Lord, and he struck the whole land of Egypt with divers\nplagues.\n\n5:11. And when the Egyptians had cast them out from them, and the\nplague had ceased from them, and they had a mind to take them again,\nand bring them back to their service,\n\n5:12. The God of heaven opened the sea to them in their flight, so that\nthe waters were made to stand firm as a wall on either side, and they\nwalked through the bottom of the sea and passed it dry foot.\n\n5:13. And when an innumerable army of the Egyptians pursued after them\nin that place, they were so overwhelmed with the waters, that there was\nnot one left, to tell what had happened to posterity.\n\n5:14. After they came out of the Red Sea, they abode in the deserts of\nmount Sina, in which never man could dwell, or son of man rested.\n\n5:15. There bitter fountains were made sweet for them to drink, and for\nforty years they received food from heaven.\n\n5:16. Wheresoever they went in without bow and arrow, and without\nshield and sword, their God fought for them and overcame.\n\n5:17. And there was no one that triumphed over this people, but when\nthey departed from the worship of the Lord their God.\n\n5:18. But as often as beside their own God, they worshipped any other,\nthey were given to spoil and to the sword, and to reproach.\n\n5:19. And as often as they were penitent for having revolted from the\nworship of their God, the God of heaven gave them power to resist.\n\n5:20. So they overthrew the king of the Chanaanites, and of the\nJebusites, and of the Pherezites, and of the Hethites, and of the\nHevites, and of the Amorrhites, and all the mighty ones in Hesebon, and\nthey possessed their lands, and their cities:\n\n5:21. And as long as they sinned not in the sight of their God, it was\nwell with them: for their God hateth iniquity.\n\n5:22. And even some years ago when they had revolted from the way which\nGod had given them to walk therein, they were destroyed in battles by\nmany nations and very many of them were led away captive into a strange\nland.\n\n5:23. But of late returning to the Lord their God, from the different\nplaces wherein they were scattered, they are come together and are gone\nup into all these mountains, and possess Jerusalem again, where their\nholies are.\n\n5:24. Now therefore, my lord, search if there be any iniquity of theirs\nin the sight of their God: let us go up to them, because their God will\nsurely deliver them to thee, and they shall be brought under the yoke\nof thy power:\n\n5:25. But if there be no offence of this people in the sight of their\nGod, we cannot resist them because their God will defend them: and we\nshall be a reproach to the whole earth.\n\n5:26. And it came to pass, when Achior had ceased to speak these words,\nall the great men of Holofernes were angry, and they had a mind to kill\nhim, saying to each other:\n\n5:27. Who is this, that saith the children of Israel can resist king\nNabuchodonosor, and his armies, men unarmed, and without force, and\nwithout skill in the art of war?\n\n5:28. That Achior therefore may know that he deceiveth us, let us go up\ninto the mountains: and when the bravest of them shall be taken, then\nshall he with them be stabbed with the sword,\n\n5:29. That every nation may know that Nabuchodonosor is god of the\nearth, and besides him there is no other.\n\n\n\nJudith Chapter 6\n\n\nHolofernes in great rage sendeth Achior to Bethulia, there to be slain\nwith the Israelites.\n\n6:1. And it came to pass when they had left off speaking, that\nHolofernes being in a violent passion, said to Achior:\n\n6:2. Because thou hast prophesied unto us, saying: That the nation of\nIsrael is defended by their God, to shew thee that there is no God, but\nNabuchodonosor:\n\n6:3. When we shall slay them all as one man, then thou also shalt die\nwith them by the sword of the Assyrians, and all Israel shall perish\nwith thee:\n\n6:4. And thou shalt find that Nabuchodonosor is lord of the whole\nearth: and then the sword of my soldiers shall pass through thy sides,\nand thou shalt be stabbed and fall among the wounded of Israel, and\nthou shalt breathe no more till thou be destroyed with them.\n\n6:5. But if thou think thy prophecy true, let not thy countenance sink,\nand let the paleness that is in thy face, depart from thee, if thou\nimaginest these my words cannot be accomplished.\n\n6:6. And that thou mayst know that thou shalt experience these things\ntogether with them, behold from this hour thou shalt be associated to\ntheir people, that when they shall receive the punishment they deserve\nfrom my sword, thou mayst fall under the same vengeance.\n\n6:7. Then Holofernes commanded his servants to take Achior, and to lead\nhim to Bethulia, and to deliver him into the hands of the children of\nIsrael.\n\n6:8. And the servants of Holofernes taking him, went through the\nplains: but when they came near the mountains, the slingers came out\nagainst them.\n\n6:9. Then turning out of the way by the side of the mountain, they tied\nAchior to a tree hand and foot, and so left him bound with ropes, and\nreturned to their master.\n\n6:10. And the children of Israel coming down from Bethulia, came to\nhim, and loosing him they brought him to Bethulia, and setting him in\nthe midst of the people, asked him what was the matter that the\nAssyrians had left him bound.\n\n6:11. In those days the rulers there, were Ozias the son of Micha of\nthe tribe of Simeon, and Charmi, called also Gothoniel.\n\n6:12. And Achior related in the midst of the ancients, and in the\npresence of all the people, all that he had said being asked by\nHolofernes: and how the people of Holofernes would have killed him for\nthis word,\n\n6:13. And how Holofernes himself being angry had commanded him to be\ndelivered for this cause to the Israelites: that when he should\novercome the children of Israel, then he might command Achior also\nhimself to be put to death by diverse torments, for having said: The\nGod of heaven is their defender.\n\n6:14. And when Achior had declared all these things, all the people\nfell upon their faces, adoring the Lord, and all of them together\nmourning and weeping poured out their prayers with one accord to the\nLord,\n\n6:15. Saying: O Lord God of heaven and earth, behold their pride, and\nlook on our low condition, and have regard to the face of thy saints,\nand shew that thou forsakest not them that trust on thee, and that thou\nhumblest them that presume of themselves, and glory in their own\nstrength.\n\n6:16. So when their weeping was ended, and the people's prayer, in\nwhich they continued all the day, was concluded, they comforted Achior,\n\n6:17. Saying: The God of our fathers, whose power thou hast set forth,\nwill make this return to thee, that thou rather shalt see their\ndestruction.\n\n6:18. And when the Lord our God shall give this liberty to his\nservants, let God be with thee also in the midst of us: that as it\nshall please thee, so thou with all thine mayst converse with us.\n\n6:19. Then Ozias, after the assembly was broken up, received him into\nhis house, and made him a great supper.\n\n6:20. And all the ancients were invited, and they refreshed themselves\ntogether after their fast was over.\n\n6:21. And afterwards all the people were called together, and they\nprayed all the night long within the church, desiring help of the God\nof Israel.\n\nThe church. . .That is, the synagogue or place where they met for\nprayer.\n\n\n\nJudith Chapter 7\n\n\nHolofernes besiegeth Bethulia. The distress of the besieged.\n\n7:1. But Holofernes on the next day gave orders to his army, to go up\nagainst Bethulia.\n\n7:2. Now there were in his troops a hundred and twenty thousand\nfootmen, and two and twenty thousand horsemen, besides the preparations\nof those men who had been taken, and who had been brought away out of\nthe provinces and cities of all the youth.\n\n7:3. All these prepared themselves together to fight against the\nchildren of Israel, and they came by the hillside to the top, which\nlooketh toward Dothain, from the place which is called Belma, unto\nChelmon, which is over against Esdrelon.\n\n7:4. But the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them,\nprostrated themselves upon the ground, putting ashes upon their heads,\npraying with one accord, that the God of Israel would shew his mercy\nupon his people.\n\n7:5. And taking their arms of war, they posted themselves at the\nplaces, which by a narrow pathway lead directly between the mountains,\nand they guarded them all day and night.\n\n7:6. Now Holofernes, in going round about, found that the fountain\nwhich supplied them with water, ran through an aqueduct without the\ncity on the south side: and he commanded their aqueduct to be cut off.\n\n7:7. Nevertheless there were springs not far from the walls, out of\nwhich they were seen secretly to draw water, to refresh themselves a\nlittle rather than to drink their fill.\n\n7:8. But the children of Ammon and Moab came to Holofernes, saying: The\nchildren of Israel trust not in their spears, nor in their arrows, but\nthe mountains are their defence, and the steep hills and precipices\nguard them.\n\n7:9. Wherefore that thou mayst overcome them without joining battle,\nset guards at the springs that they may not draw water out of them, and\nthou shalt destroy them without sword, or at least being wearied out\nthey will yield up their city, which they suppose, because it is\nsituate in the mountains, to be impregnable.\n\n7:10. And these words pleased Holofernes, and his officers, and he\nplaced all round about a hundred men at every spring.\n\n7:11. And when they had kept this watch for full twenty days, the\ncisterns, and the reserve of waters failed among all the inhabitants of\nBethulia, so that there was not within the city, enough to satisfy\nthem, no not for one day, for water was daily given out to the people\nby measure.\n\n7:12. Then all the men and women, young men, and children, gathering\nthemselves together to Ozias, all together with one voice,\n\n7:13. Said: God be judge between us and thee, for thou hast done evil\nagainst us, in that thou wouldst not speak peaceably with the\nAssyrians, and for this cause God hath sold us into their hands.\n\n7:14. And therefore there is no one to help us, while we are cast down\nbefore their eyes in thirst, and sad destruction.\n\n7:15. And now assemble ye all that are in the city, that we may of our\nown accord yield ourselves all up to the people of Holofernes.\n\n7:16. For it is better, that being captives we should live and bless\nthe Lord, than that we should die, and be a reproach to all flesh,\nafter we have seen our wives and our infants die before our eyes.\n\n7:17. We call to witness this day heaven and earth, and the God of our\nfathers, who taketh vengeance upon us according to our sins, conjuring\nyou to deliver now the city into the hand of the army of Holofernes,\nthat our end may be short by the edge of the sword, which is made\nlonger by the drought of thirst.\n\n7:18. And when they had said these things, there was great weeping and\nlamentation of all in the assembly, and for many hours with one voice\nthey cried to God, saying:\n\n7:19. We have sinned with our fathers, we have done unjustly, we have\ncommitted iniquity:\n\n7:20. Have thou mercy on us, because thou art good, or punish our\niniquities by chastising us thyself, and deliver not them that trust in\nthee to a people that knoweth not thee,\n\n7:21. That they may not say among the Gentiles: Where is their God?\n\n7:22. And when being wearied with these cries, and tired with these\nweepings, they held their peace,\n\n7:23. Ozias rising up all in tears, said: Be of good courage, my\nbrethren, and let us wait these five days for mercy from the Lord.\n\n7:24. For perhaps he will put a stop to his indignation, and will give\nglory to his own name.\n\n7:25. But if after five days be past there come no aid, we will do the\nthings which you have spoken.\n\n\n\nJudith Chapter 8\n\n\nThe character of Judith: her discourse to the ancients.\n\n8:1. Now it came to pass, when Judith a widow had heard these words,\nwho was the daughter of Merari, the son of Idox, the son of Joseph, the\nson of Ozias, the son of Elai, the son of Jamnor, the son of Gedeon,\nthe son of Raphaim, the son of Achitob, the son of Melchias, the son of\nEnan, the son of Nathanias, the son of Salathiel, the son of Simeon,\nthe son of Ruben:\n\nSimeon the son of Ruben. . .In the Greek, it is the son of Israel. For\nSimeon the patriarch, from whom Judith descended, was not the son, but\nthe brother of Ruben. It seems more probable that the Simeon and the\nRuben here mentioned are not the patriarchs: but two of the descendants\nof the patriarch Simeon: and that the genealogy of Judith, recorded in\nthis place, is not carried up so high as the patriarchs. No more than\nthat of Elcana the father of Samuel, 1 Kings 1.1, and that of king\nSaul, 1 Kings 9.1.\n\n8:2. And her husband was Manasses, who died in the time of the barley\nharvest:\n\n8:3. For he was standing over them that bound sheaves in the field; and\nthe heat came upon his head, and he died in Bethulia his own city, and\nwas buried there with his fathers.\n\n8:4. And Judith his relict was a widow now three years and six months.\n\n8:5. And she made herself a private chamber in the upper part of her\nhouse, in which she abode shut up with her maids.\n\n8:6. And she wore haircloth upon her loins, and fasted all the days of\nher life, except the sabbaths, and new moons, and the feasts of the\nhouse of Israel.\n\n8:7. And she was exceedingly beautiful, and her husband left her great\nriches, and very many servants, and large possessions of herds of oxen,\nand flocks of sheep.\n\n8:8. And she was greatly renowned among all, because she feared the\nLord very much, neither was there any one that spoke an ill word of\nher.\n\n8:9. When therefore she had heard that Ozias had promised that he would\ndeliver up the city after the fifth day, she sent to the ancients\nChabri and Charmi.\n\n8:10. And they came to her, and she said to them: What is this word, by\nwhich Ozias hath consented to give up the city to the Assyrians, if\nwithin five days there come no aid to us?\n\n8:11. And who are you that tempt the Lord?\n\n8:12. This is not a word that may draw down mercy, but rather that may\nstir up wrath, and enkindle indignation.\n\n8:13. You have set a time for the mercy of the Lord, and you have\nappointed him a day, according to your pleasure.\n\n8:14. But forasmuch as the Lord is patient, let us be penitent for this\nsame thing, and with many tears let us beg his pardon:\n\n8:15. For God will not threaten like man, nor be inflamed to anger like\nthe son of man.\n\n8:16. And therefore let us humble our souls before him, and continuing\nin an humble spirit, in his service:\n\n8:17. Let us ask the Lord with tears, that according to his will so he\nwould shew his mercy to us: that as our heart is troubled by their\npride, so also we may glorify in our humility.\n\n8:18. For we have not followed the sins of our fathers, who forsook\ntheir God, and worshipped strange gods.\n\n8:19. For which crime they were given up to their enemies, to the\nsword, and to pillage, and to confusion: but we know no other God but\nhim.\n\n8:20. Let us humbly wait for his consolation, and the Lord our God will\nrequire our blood of the afflictions of our enemies, and he will humble\nall the nations that shall rise up against us, and bring them to\ndisgrace.\n\n8:21. And now, brethren, as you are the ancients among the people of\nGod, and their very soul resteth upon you: comfort their hearts by your\nspeech, that they may be mindful how our fathers were tempted that they\nmight be proved, whether they worshipped their God truly.\n\n8:22. They must remember how our father Abraham was tempted, and being\nproved by many tribulations, was made the friend of God.\n\n8:23. So Isaac, so Jacob, so Moses, and all that have pleased God,\npassed through many tribulations, remaining faithful.\n\n8:24. But they that did not receive the trials with the fear of the\nLord, but uttered their impatience and the reproach of their murmuring\nagainst the Lord,\n\n8:25. Were destroyed by the destroyer, and perished by serpents.\n\n8:26. As for us therefore let us not revenge ourselves for these things\nwhich we suffer.\n\n8:27. But esteeming these very punishments to be less than our sins\ndeserve, let us believe that these scourges of the Lord, with which\nlike servants we are chastised, have happened for our amendment, and\nnot for our destruction.\n\n8:28. And Ozias and the ancients said to her: All things which thou\nhast spoken are true, and there is nothing to be reprehended in thy\nwords.\n\n8:29. Now therefore pray for us, for thou art a holy woman, and one\nfearing God.\n\n8:30. And Judith said to them: As you know that what I have been able\nto say is of God:\n\n8:31. So that which I intend to do prove ye if it be of God, and pray\nthat God may strengthen my design.\n\n8:32. You shall stand at the gate this night, and I will go out with my\nmaidservant: and pray ye, that as you have said, in five days the Lord\nmay look down upon his people Israel.\n\n8:33. But I desire that you search not into what I am doing, and till I\nbring you word let nothing else be done but to pray for me to the Lord\nour God.\n\n8:34. And Ozias the prince of Juda said to her: Go in peace, and the\nLord be with thee to take revenge of our enemies. So returning they\ndeparted.\n\n\n\nJudith Chapter 9\n\n\nJudith's prayer, to beg of God to fortify her in her undertaking.\n\n9:1. And when they were gone, Judith went into her oratory: and putting\non haircloth, laid ashes on her head: and falling down prostrate before\nthe Lord, she cried to the Lord, saying:\n\n9:2. Lord God of my father Simeon, who gavest him a sword to execute\nvengeance against strangers, who had defiled by their uncleanness, and\nuncovered the virgin unto confusion:\n\nGavest him a sword, etc. . .The justice of God is here praised, in\npunishing by the sword of Simeon the crime of the Sichemites: and not\nthe act of Simeon, which was justly condemned by his father, Gen. 49.5.\nThough even with regard to this act, we may distinguish between his\nzeal against the crime committed by the ravishers of his sister, which\nzeal may be considered just: and the manner of his punishing that\ncrime, which was irregular and excessive.\n\n9:3. And who gavest their wives to be made a prey, and their daughters\ninto captivity: and all their spoils to be divided to the servants, who\nwere zealous with thy zeal: assist, I beseech thee, O Lord God, me a\nwidow.\n\n9:4. For thou hast done the things of old, and hast devised one thing\nafter another: and what thou hast designed hath been done.\n\n9:5. For all thy ways are prepared, and in thy providence thou hast\nplaced thy judgments.\n\n9:6. Look upon the camp of the Assyrians now, as thou wast pleased to\nlook upon the camp of the Egyptians, when they pursued armed after thy\nservants, trusting in their chariots, and in their horsemen, and in a\nmultitude of warriors.\n\n9:7. But thou lookedst over their camp, and darkness wearied them.\n\n9:8. The deep held their feet, and the waters overwhelmed them.\n\n9:9. So may it be with these also, O Lord, who trust in their\nmultitude, and in their chariots, and in their pikes, and in their\nshields, and in their arrows, and glory in their spears,\n\n9:10. And know not that thou art our God, who destroyest wars from the\nbeginning, and the Lord is thy name.\n\n9:11. Lift up thy arm as from the beginning, and crush their power with\nthy power: let their power fall in their wrath, who promise themselves\nto violate thy sanctuary, and defile the dwelling place of thy name,\nand to beat down with their sword the horn of thy altar.\n\n9:12. Bring to pass, O Lord, that his pride may be cut off with his own\nsword.\n\n9:13. Let him be caught in the net of his own eyes in my regard, and do\nthou strike him by the graces of the words of my lips.\n\n9:14. Give me constancy in my mind, that I may despise him: and\nfortitude that I may overthrow him.\n\n9:15. For this will be a glorious monument for thy name, when he shall\nfall by the hand of a woman.\n\n9:16. For thy power, O Lord, is not in a multitude, nor is thy pleasure\nin the strength of horses, nor from the beginning have the proud been\nacceptable to thee: but the prayer of the humble and the meek hath\nalways pleased thee.\n\n9:17. O God of the heavens, creator of the waters, and Lord of the\nwhole creation, hear me a poor wretch, making supplication to thee, and\npresuming of thy mercy.\n\n9:18. Remember, O Lord, thy covenant, and put thou words in my mouth,\nand strengthen the resolution in my heart, that thy house may continue\nin thy holiness:\n\n9:19. And all nations may acknowledge that thou art God, and there is\nno other besides thee.\n\n\n\nJudith Chapter 10\n\n\nJudith goeth out towards the camp, and is taken, and brought to\nHolofernes.\n\n10:1. And it came to pass, when she had ceased to cry to the Lord, that\nshe rose from the place wherein she lay prostrate before the Lord.\n\n10:2. And she called her maid, and going down into her house she took\noff her haircloth, and put away the garments of her widowhood,\n\n10:3. And she washed her body, and anointed herself with the best\nointment, and plaited the hair of her head, and put a bonnet upon her\nhead, and clothed herself with the garments of her gladness, and put\nsandals on her feet, and took her bracelets, and lilies, and earlets,\nand rings, and adorned herself with all her ornaments.\n\n10:4. And the Lord also gave her more beauty: because all this dressing\nup did not proceed from sensuality, but from virtue: and therefore the\nLord increased this her beauty, so that she appeared to all men's eyes\nincomparably lovely.\n\n10:5. And she gave to her maid a bottle of wine to carry, and a vessel\nof oil, and parched corn, and dry figs, and bread and cheese, and went\nout.\n\n10:6. And when they came to the gate of the city, they found Ozias, and\nthe ancients of the city waiting.\n\n10:7. And when they saw her they were astonished, and admired her\nbeauty exceedingly.\n\n10:8. But they asked her no question, only they let her pass, saying:\nThe God of our fathers give thee grace, and may he strengthen all the\ncounsel of thy heart with his power, that Jerusalem may glory in thee,\nand thy name may be in the number of the holy and just.\n\n10:9. And they that were there said, all with one voice: So be it, so\nbe it.\n\n10:10. But Judith praying to the Lord, passed through the gates, she\nand her maid.\n\n10:11. And it came to pass, when she went down the hill, about break of\nday, that the watchmen of the Assyrians met her, and stopped her,\nsaying: Whence comest thou or whither goest thou?\n\n10:12. And she answered: I am a daughter of the Hebrews, and I am fled\nfrom them, because I knew they would be made a prey to you, because\nthey despised you, and would not of their own accord yield themselves,\nthat they might find mercy in your sight.\n\nBecause I knew, etc. . .In this and the following chapter, some things\nare related to have been said by Judith, which seem hard to reconcile\nwith truth. But all that is related in scripture of the servants of God\nis not approved by the scripture; and even the saints in their good\nenterprises may sometimes slip into venial sins.\n\n10:13. For this reason I thought with myself, saying: I will go to the\npresence of the prince Holofernes, that I may tell him their secrets,\nand shew him by what way he may take them, without the loss of one man\nof his army.\n\n10:14. And when the men had heard her words, they beheld her face, and\ntheir eyes were amazed, for they wondered exceedingly at her beauty.\n\n10:15. And they said to her: Thou hast saved thy life by taking this\nresolution, to come down to our lord.\n\n10:16. And be assured of this, that when thou shalt stand before him,\nhe will treat thee well, and thou wilt be most acceptable to his heart.\nAnd they brought her to the tent of Holofernes, telling him of her.\n\n10:17. And when she was come into his presence, forthwith Holofernes\nwas caught by his eyes.\n\n10:18. And his officers said to him: Who can despise the people of the\nHebrews, who have such beautiful women, that we should not think it\nworth our while for their sakes to fight against them?\n\n10:19. And Judith seeing Holofernes sitting under a canopy, which was\nwoven of purple and gold, with emeralds and precious stones:\n\n10:20. After she had looked on his face, bowed down to him, prostrating\nherself to the ground. And the servants of Holofernes lifted her up, by\nthe command of their master.\n\n\n\nJudith Chapter 11\n\n\nJudith's speech to Holofernes.\n\n11:1. Then Holofernes said to her: Be of good comfort, and fear not in\nthy heart: for I have never hurt a man that was willing to serve\nNabuchodonosor the king.\n\n11:2. And if thy people had not despised me, I would never have lifted\nup my spear against them.\n\n11:3. But now tell me, for what cause hast thou left them, and why it\nhath pleased thee to come to us?\n\n11:4. And Judith said to him: Receive the words of thy handmaid, for if\nthou wilt follow the words of thy handmaid, the Lord will do with thee\na perfect thing.\n\n11:5. For as Nabuchodonosor the king of the earth liveth, and his power\nliveth which is in thee for chastising of all straying souls: not only\nmen serve him through thee, but also the beasts of the field obey him.\n\n11:6. For the industry of thy mind is spoken of among all nations, and\nit is told through the whole world, that thou only art excellent, and\nmighty in all his kingdom, and thy discipline is cried up in all\nprovinces.\n\n11:7. It is known also what Achior said, nor are we ignorant of what\nthou hast commanded to be done to him.\n\n11:8. For it is certain that our God is so offended with sins, that he\nhath sent word by his prophets to the people, that he will deliver them\nup for their sins.\n\n11:9. And because the children of Israel know they have offended their\nGod, thy dread is upon them.\n\n11:10. Moreover also a famine hath come upon them, and for drought of\nwater they are already to be counted among the dead.\n\n11:11. And they have a design even to kill their cattle, and to drink\nthe blood of them.\n\n11:12. And the consecrated things of the Lord their God which God\nforbade them to touch, in corn, wine, and oil, these have they purposed\nto make use of, and they design to consume the things which they ought\nnot to touch with their hands: therefore because they do these things,\nit is certain they will be given up to destruction.\n\n11:13. And I thy handmaid knowing this, am fled from them, and the Lord\nhath sent me to tell thee these very things.\n\n11:14. For I thy handmaid worship God even now that I am with thee, and\nthy handmaid will go out, and I will pray to God,\n\n11:15. And he will tell me when he will repay them for their sins, and\nI will come and tell thee, so that I may bring thee through the midst\nof Jerusalem, and thou shalt have all the people of Israel, as sheep\nthat have no shepherd, and there shall not so much as one dog bark\nagainst thee:\n\n11:16. Because these things are told me by the providence of God.\n\n11:17. And because God is angry with them, I am sent to tell these very\nthings to thee.\n\n11:18. And all these words pleased Holofernes, and his servants, and\nthey admired her wisdom, and they said one to another:\n\n11:19. There is not such another woman upon earth in look, in beauty,\nand in sense of words.\n\n11:20. And Holofernes said to her: God hath done well who sent thee\nbefore the people, that thou mightest give them into our hands:\n\n11:21. And because thy promise is good, if thy God shall do this for\nme, he shall also be my God, and thou shalt be great in the house of\nNabuchodonosor, and thy name shall be renowned through all the earth.\n\n\n\nJudith Chapter 12\n\n\nJudith goeth out in the night to pray: she is invited to a banquet with\nHolofernes.\n\n12:1. Then he ordered that she should go in where his treasures were\nlaid up, and bade her tarry there, and he appointed what should be\ngiven her from his own table.\n\n12:2. And Judith answered him and said: Now I cannot eat of these\nthings which thou commandest to be given me, lest sin come upon me: but\nI will eat of the things which I have brought.\n\n12:3. And Holofernes said to her: If these things which thou hast\nbrought with thee fail thee, what shall we do for thee?\n\n12:4. And Judith said: As thy soul liveth, my lord, thy handmaid shall\nnot spend all these things till God do by my hand that which I have\npurposed. And his servants brought her into the tent which he had\ncommanded.\n\n12:5. And when she was going in, she desired that she might have\nliberty to go out at night and before day to prayer, and to beseech the\nLord.\n\n12:6. And he commanded his chamberlains, that she might go out and in,\nto adore her God as she pleased, for three days.\n\n12:7. And she went out in the nights into the valley of Bethulia, and\nwashed herself in a fountain of water.\n\n12:8. And as she came up, she prayed to the Lord the God of Israel,\nthat he would direct her way to the deliverance of his people.\n\n12:9. And going in, she remained pure in the tent, until she took her\nown meat in the evening.\n\n12:10. And it came to pass on the fourth day, that Holofernes made a\nsupper for his servants, and said to Vagao his eunuch: Go, and persuade\nthat Hebrew woman, to consent of her own accord to dwell with me.\n\n12:11. For it is looked upon as shameful among the Assyrians, if a\nwoman mock a man, by doing so as to pass free from him.\n\n12:12. Then Vagao went in to Judith, and said: Let not my good maid be\nafraid to go in to my lord, that she may be honoured before his face,\nthat she may eat with him and drink wine and be merry.\n\n12:13. And Judith answered him: Who am I, that I should gainsay my\nlord?\n\n12:14. All that shall be good and best before his eyes, I will do. And\nwhatsoever shall please him, that shall be best to me all the days of\nmy life.\n\n12:15. And she arose and dressed herself out with her garments, and\ngoing in she stood before his face.\n\n12:16. And the heart of Holofernes was smitten, for he was burning with\nthe desire of her.\n\n12:17. And Holofernes said to her: Drink now, and sit down and be\nmerry; for thou hast found favour before me.\n\n12:18. And Judith said: I will drink my lord, because my life is\nmagnified this day above all my days.\n\n12:19. And she took and ate and drank before him what her maid had\nprepared for her.\n\n12:20. And Holofernes was made merry on her occasion, and drank\nexceeding much wine, so much as he had never drunk in his life.\n\n\n\nJudith Chapter 13\n\n\nJudith cutteth off the head of Holofernes, and returneth to Bethulia.\n\n13:1. And when it was grown late, his servants made haste to their\nlodgings, and Vagao shut the chamber doors, and went his way.\n\n13:2. And they were all overcharged with wine.\n\n13:3. And Judith was alone in the chamber.\n\n13:4. But Holofernes lay on his bed, fast asleep, being exceedingly\ndrunk.\n\n13:5. And Judith spoke to her maid to stand without before the chamber,\nand to watch:\n\n13:6. And Judith stood before the bed praying with tears, and the\nmotion of her lips in silence,\n\n13:7. Saying: Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, and in this hour\nlook on the works of my hands, that as thou hast promised, thou mayst\nraise up Jerusalem thy city: and that I may bring to pass that which I\nhave purposed, having a belief that it might be done by thee.\n\n13:8. And when she had said this, she went to the pillar that was at\nhis bed's head, and loosed his sword that hung tied upon it.\n\n13:9. And when she had drawn it out, she took him by the hair of his\nhead, and said: Strengthen me, O Lord God, at this hour.\n\n13:10. And she struck twice upon his neck, and cut off his head, and\ntook off his canopy from the pillars, and rolled away his headless\nbody.\n\n13:11. And after a while she went out, and delivered the head of\nHolofernes to her maid, and bade her put it into her wallet.\n\n13:12. And they two went out according to their custom, as it were to\nprayer, and they passed the camp, and having compassed the valley, they\ncame to the gate of the city.\n\n13:13. And Judith from afar off cried to the watchmen upon the walls:\nOpen the gates for God is with us, who hath shewn his power in Israel.\n\n13:14. And it came to pass, when the men had heard her voice, that they\ncalled the ancients of the city.\n\n13:15. And all ran to meet her from the least to the greatest: for they\nnow had no hopes that she would come.\n\n13:16. And lighting up lights they all gathered round about her: and\nshe went up to a higher place, and commanded silence to be made. And\nwhen all had held their peace,\n\n13:17. Judith said: Praise ye the Lord our God, who hath not forsaken\nthem that hope in him.\n\n13:18. And by me his handmaid he hath fulfilled his mercy, which he\npromised to the house of Israel: and he hath killed the enemy of his\npeople by my hand this night.\n\n13:19. Then she brought forth the head of Holofernes out of the wallet,\nand shewed it them, saying: Behold the head of Holofernes the general\nof the army of the Assyrians, and behold his canopy, wherein he lay in\nhis drunkenness, where the Lord our God slew him by the hand of a\nwoman.\n\n13:20. But as the same Lord liveth, his angel hath been my keeper both\ngoing hence, and abiding there, and returning from thence hither: and\nthe Lord hath not suffered me his handmaid to be defiled, but hath\nbrought me back to you without pollution of sin, rejoicing for his\nvictory, for my escape, and for your deliverance.\n\n13:21. Give all of you glory to him, because he is good, because his\nmercy endureth for ever.\n\n13:22. And they all adored the Lord, and said to her: The Lord hath\nblessed thee by his power, because by thee he hath brought our enemies\nto nought.\n\n13:23. And Ozias the prince of the people of Israel, said to her:\nBlessed art thou, O daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above all\nwomen upon the earth.\n\n13:24. Blessed be the Lord who made heaven and earth, who hath directed\nthee to the cutting off the head of the prince of our enemies.\n\n13:25. Because he hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise\nshall not depart out of the mouth of men who shall be mindful of the\npower of the Lord for ever, for that thou hast not spared thy life, by\nreason of the distress and tribulation of thy people, but hast\nprevented our ruin in the presence of our God.\n\n13:26. And all the people said: So be it, so be it.\n\n13:27. And Achior being called for came, and Judith said to him: The\nGod of Israel, to whom thou gavest testimony, that he revengeth himself\nof his enemies, he hath cut off the head of all the unbelievers this\nnight by my hand.\n\n13:28. And that thou mayst find that it is so, behold the head of\nHolofernes, who in the contempt of his pride despised the God of\nIsrael: and threatened them with death, saying: When the people of\nIsrael shall be taken, I will command thy sides to be pierced with a\nsword.\n\n13:29. Then Achior seeing the head of Holofernes, being seized with a\ngreat fear he fell on his face upon the earth, and his soul swooned\naway.\n\n13:30. But after he had recovered his spirits he fell down at her feet,\nand reverenced her, and said:\n\n13:31. Blessed art thou by thy God in every tabernacle of Jacob, for in\nevery nation which shall hear thy name, the God of Israel shall be\nmagnified on occasion of thee.\n\n\n\nJudith Chapter 14\n\n\nThe Israelites assault the Assyrians, who finding their general slain,\nare seized with a panic fear.\n\n14:1. And Judith said to all the people: Hear me, my brethren, hang ye\nup this head upon our walls.\n\n14:2. And as soon as the sun shall rise, let every man take his arms,\nand rush ye out, not as going down beneath, but as making an assault.\n\n14:3. Then the watchmen must needs run to awake their prince for the\nbattle.\n\n14:4. And when the captains of them shall run to the tent of\nHolofernes, and shall find him without his head wallowing in his blood,\nfear shall fall upon them.\n\n14:5. And when you shall know that they are fleeing, go after them\nsecurely, for the Lord will destroy them under your feet.\n\n14:6. Then Achior seeing the power that the God of Israel had wrought,\nleaving the religion of the Gentiles, he believed God, and circumcised\nthe flesh of his foreskin, and was joined to the people of Israel, with\nall the succession of his kindred until this present day.\n\n14:7. And immediately at break of day, they hung up the head of\nHolofernes upon the walls, and every man took his arms, and they went\nout with a great noise and shouting.\n\n14:8. And the watchmen seeing this, ran to the tent of Holofernes.\n\n14:9. And they that were in the tent came, and made a noise, before the\ndoor of the chamber to awake him, endeavouring by art to break his\nrest, that Holofernes might awake, not by their calling him, but by\ntheir noise.\n\n14:10. For no man durst knock, or open and go into the chamber of the\ngeneral of the Assyrians.\n\n14:11. But when his captains and tribunes were come, and all the chiefs\nof the army of the king of the Assyrians, they said to the\nchamberlains:\n\n14:12. Go in, and awake him, for the mice, coming out of their holes,\nhave presumed to challenge us to fight.\n\n14:13. Then Vagao going into his chamber, stood before the curtain, and\nmade a clapping with his hands: for he thought that he was sleeping\nwith Judith.\n\n14:14. But when with hearkening, he perceived no motion of one lying,\nhe came near to the curtain, and lifting it up, and seeing the body of\nHolofernes, lying upon the ground, without the head, weltering in his\nblood, he cried out with a loud voice, with weeping, and rent his\ngarments.\n\n14:15. And he went into the tent of Judith, and not finding her, he ran\nout to the people,\n\n14:16. And said: One Hebrew woman hath made confusion in the house of\nking Nabuchodonosor: for behold Holofernes lieth upon the ground, and\nhis head is not upon him.\n\n14:17. Now when the chiefs of the army of the Assyrians had heard this,\nthey all rent their garments, and an intolerable fear and dread fell\nupon them, and their minds were troubled exceedingly.\n\n14:18. And there was a very great cry in the midst of their camp.\n\n\n\nJudith Chapter 15\n\n\nThe Assyrians flee: the Hebrews pursue after them, and are enriched by\ntheir spoils.\n\n15:1. And when all the army heard that Holofernes was beheaded, courage\nand counsel fled from them, and being seized with trembling and fear\nthey thought only to save themselves by flight.\n\n15:2. So that no one spoke to his neighbour, but hanging down the head,\nleaving all things behind, they made haste to escape from the Hebrews,\nwho, as they heard, were coming armed upon them, and fled by the ways\nof the fields, and the paths of the hills.\n\n15:3. So the children of Israel seeing them fleeing, followed after\nthem. And they went down sounding with trumpets and shouting after\nthem.\n\n15:4. And because the Assyrians were not united together, they went\nwithout order in their flight; but the children of Israel pursuing in\none body, defeated all that they could find.\n\n15:5. And Ozias sent messengers through all the cities and countries of\nIsrael.\n\n15:6. And every country, and every city, sent their chosen young men\narmed after them, and they pursued them with the edge of the sword\nuntil they came to the extremities of their confines.\n\n15:7. And the rest that were in Bethulia went into the camp of the\nAssyrians, and took away the spoils which the Assyrians in their flight\nhad left behind them, and they were laden exceedingly,\n\n15:8. But they that returned conquerors to Bethulia, brought with them\nall things that were theirs, so that there was no numbering of their\ncattle, and beasts, and all their moveables, insomuch that from the\nleast to the greatest all were made rich by their spoils.\n\n15:9. And Joachim the high priest came from Jerusalem to Bethulia with\nall his ancients to see Judith.\n\n15:10. And when she was come out to him, they all blessed her with one\nvoice, saying: Thou art the glory of Jerusalem, thou art the joy of\nIsrael, thou art the honour of our people:\n\n15:11. For thou hast done manfully, and thy heart has been\nstrengthened, because thou hast loved chastity, and after thy husband\nhast not known any other: therefore also the hand of the Lord hath\nstrengthened thee, and therefore thou shalt be blessed for ever.\n\n15:12. And all the people said: So be it, so be it.\n\n15:13. And thirty days were scarce sufficient for the people of Israel\nto gather up the spoils of the Assyrians.\n\n15:14. But all those things that were proved to be the peculiar goods\nof Holofernes, they gave to Judith in gold, and silver, and garments\nand precious stones, and all household stuff, and they all were\ndelivered to her by the people.\n\n15:15. And all the people rejoiced, with the women, and virgins, and\nyoung men, playing on instruments and harps.\n\n\n\nJudith Chapter 16\n\n\nThe canticle of Judith: her virtuous life and death.\n\n16:1. Then Judith sung this canticle to the Lord, saying:\n\n16:2. Begin ye to the Lord with timbrels, sing ye to the Lord with\ncymbals, tune unto him a new psalm, extol and call upon his name.\n\n16:3. The Lord putteth an end to wars, the Lord is his name.\n\n16:4. He hath set his camp in the midst of his people, to deliver us\nfrom the hand of all our enemies.\n\n16:5. The Assyrian came out of the mountains from the north in the\nmultitude of his strength: his multitude stopped up the torrents, and\ntheir horses covered the valleys.\n\n16:6. He bragged that he would set my borders on fire, and kill my\nyoung men with the sword, to make my infants a prey, and my virgins\ncaptives.\n\n16:7. But the almighty Lord hath struck him, and hath delivered him\ninto the hands of a woman, and hath slain him.\n\n16:8. For their mighty one did not fall by young men, neither did the\nsons of Titan strike him, nor tall giants oppose themselves to him, but\nJudith the daughter of Merari weakened him with the beauty of her face.\n\n16:9. For she put off her the garments of widowhood, and put on her the\ngarments of joy, to give joy to the children of Israel.\n\n16:10. She anointed her face with ointment, and bound up her locks with\na crown, she took a new robe to deceive him.\n\n16:11. Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty made his soul her\ncaptive, with a sword she cut off his head.\n\n16:12. The Persians quaked at her constancy, and the Medes at her\nboldness.\n\n16:13. Then the camp of the Assyrians howled, when my lowly ones\nappeared, parched with thirst.\n\n16:14. The sons of the damsels have pierced them through, and they have\nkilled them like children fleeing away: they perished in battle before\nthe face of the Lord my God.\n\n16:15. Let us sing a hymn to the Lord, let us sing a new hymn to our\nGod.\n\n16:16. O Adonai, Lord, great art thou, and glorious in thy power, and\nno one can overcome thee.\n\n16:17. Let all thy creatures serve thee: because thou hast spoken, and\nthey were made: thou didst send forth thy spirit, and they were\ncreated, and there is no one that can resist thy voice.\n\n16:18. The mountains shall be moved from the foundations with the\nwaters: the rocks shall melt as wax before thy face.\n\n16:19. But they that fear thee, shall be great with thee in all things.\n\n16:20. Woe be to the nation that riseth up against my people: for the\nLord almighty will take revenge on them, in the day of judgment he will\nvisit them.\n\n16:21. For he will give fire, and worms into their flesh, that they may\nburn, and may feel for ever.\n\n16:22. And it came to pass after these things, that all the people,\nafter the victory, came to Jerusalem to adore the Lord: and as soon as\nthey were purified, they all offered holocausts, and vows, and their\npromises.\n\n16:23. And Judith offered for an anathema of oblivion all the arms of\nHolofernes, which the people gave her, and the canopy that she had\ntaken away out of his chamber.\n\nAn anathema of oblivion. . .That is, a gift or offering made to God, by\nway of an everlasting monument, to prevent the oblivion or forgetting\nso great a benefit.\n\n16:24. And the people were joyful in the sight of the sanctuary, and\nfor three months the joy of this victory was celebrated with Judith.\n\n16:25. And after those days every man returned to his house, and Judith\nwas made great in Bethulia, and she was most renowned in all the land\nof Israel.\n\n16:26. And chastity was joined to her virtue, so that she knew no man\nall the days of her life, after the death of Manasses her husband.\n\n16:27. And on festival days she came forth with great glory.\n\n16:28. And she abode in her husband's house a hundred and five years,\nand made her handmaid free, and she died, and was buried with her\nhusband in Bethulia.\n\n16:29. And all the people mourned for seven days.\n\n16:30. And all the time of her life there was none that troubled\nIsrael, nor many years after her death.\n\n16:31. But the day of the festivity of this victory is received by the\nHebrews in the number of holy days, and is religiously observed by the\nJews from that time until this day.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF ESTHER\n\n\n\nThis Book takes its name from queen Esther, whose history is here\nrecorded. The general opinion of almost all commentators on the Holy\nScriptures makes Mardochai the writer of it: which also may be\ncollected below from chap. 9 ver. 20.\n\n\n\nEsther Chapter 1\n\n\nKing Assuerus maketh a great feast. Queen Vasthi being sent for\nrefuseth to come: for which disobedience she is deposed.\n\n1:1. In the days of Assuerus, who reigned from India to Ethiopia over a\nhundred and twenty seven provinces:\n\n1:2. When he sat on the throne of his kingdom, the city Susan was the\ncapital of his kingdom.\n\n1:3. Now in the third year of his reign he made a great feast for all\nthe princes, and for his servants, for the most mighty of the Persians,\nand the nobles of the Medes, and the governors of the provinces in his\nsight,\n\n1:4. That he might shew the riches of the glory of his kingdom, and the\ngreatness, and boasting of his power, for a long time, to wit, for a\nhundred and fourscore days.\n\n1:5. And when the days of the feast were expired, he invited all the\npeople that were found in Susan, from the greatest to the least: and\ncommanded a feast to be made seven days in the court of the garden, and\nof the wood, which was planted by the care and the hand of the king.\n\n1:6. And there were hung up on every side sky coloured, and green, and\nviolet hangings, fastened with cords of silk, and of purple, which were\nput into rings of ivory, and were held up with marble pillars. The beds\nalso were of gold and silver, placed in order upon a floor paved with\nporphyry and white marble: which was embellished with painting of\nwonderful variety.\n\n1:7. And they that were invited, drank in golden cups, and the meats\nwere brought in divers vessels one after another. Wine also in\nabundance and of the best was presented, as was worthy of a king's\nmagnificence.\n\n1:8. Neither was there any one to compel them to drink that were not\nwilling, but as the king had appointed, who set over every table one of\nhis nobles, that every man might take what he would.\n\n1:9. Also Vasthi the queen made a feast for the women in the palace,\nwhere king Assuerus was used to dwell.\n\n1:10. Now on the seventh day, when the king was merry, and after very\nmuch drinking was well warmed with wine, he commanded Mauman, and\nBazatha, and Harbona, and Bagatha, and Abgatha, and Zethar, and\nCharcas, the seven eunuchs that served in his presence,\n\n1:11. To bring in queen Vasthi before the king, with the crown set upon\nher head, to shew her beauty to all the people and the princes: for she\nwas exceeding beautiful.\n\n1:12. But she refused, and would not come at the king's commandment,\nwhich he had signified to her by the eunuchs. Whereupon the king, being\nangry, and inflamed with a very great fury,\n\n1:13. Asked the wise men, who according to the custom of the kings,\nwere always near his person, and all he did was by their counsel, who\nknew the laws, and judgments of their forefathers:\n\n1:14. (Now the chief and nearest him were, Charsena, and Sethar, and\nAdmatha, and Tharsis, and Mares, and Marsana, and Mamuchan, seven\nprinces of the Persians and of the Medes, who saw the face of the king,\nand were used to sit first after him:)\n\n1:15. What sentence ought to pass upon Vasthi the queen, who had\nrefused to obey the commandment of king Assuerus, which he had sent to\nher by the eunuchs?\n\n1:16. And Mamuchan answered, in the hearing of the king and the\nprinces: Queen Vasthi hath not only injured the king, but also all the\npeople and princes that are in all the provinces of king Assuerus.\n\n1:17. For this deed of the queen will go abroad to all women, so that\nthey will despise their husbands, and will say: King Assuerus commanded\nthat queen Vasthi should come in to him, and she would not.\n\n1:18. And by this example all the wives of the princes of the Persians\nand the Medes will slight the commandments of their husbands: wherefore\nthe king's indignation is just.\n\n1:19. If it please thee, let an edict go out from thy presence, and let\nit be written according to the law of the Persians and of the Medes,\nwhich must not be altered, that Vasthi come in no more to the king, but\nanother, that is better than her, be made queen in her place.\n\n1:20. And let this be published through all the provinces of thy\nempire, (which is very wide,) and let all wives, as well of the greater\nas of the lesser, give honour to their husbands.\n\n1:21. His counsel pleased the king, and the princes: and the king did\naccording to the counsel of Mamuchan.\n\n1:22. And he sent letters to all the provinces of his kingdom, as every\nnation could hear and read, in divers languages and characters, that\nthe husbands should be rulers and masters in their houses: and that\nthis should be published to every people.\n\n\n\nEsther Chapter 2\n\n\nEsther is advanced to be queen. Mardochai detecteth a plot against the\nking.\n\n2:1. After this, when the wrath of king Assuerus was appeased, he\nremembered Vasthi, and what she had done and what she had suffered:\n\n2:2. And the king's servants and his officers said: Let young women be\nsought for the king, virgins and beautiful,\n\n2:3. And let some persons be sent through all the provinces to look for\nbeautiful maidens and virgins: and let them bring them to the city of\nSusan, and put them into the house of the women under the hand of Egeus\nthe eunuch, who is the overseer and keeper of the king's women: and let\nthem receive women's ornaments, and other things necessary for their\nuse.\n\n2:4. And whosoever among them all shall please the king's eyes, let her\nbe queen instead of Vasthi. The word pleased the king: and he commanded\nit should be done as they had suggested.\n\n2:5. There was a man in the city of Susan, a Jew, named Mardochai, the\nson of Jair, the son of Semei, the son of Cis, of the race of Jemini,\n\n2:6. Who had been carried away from Jerusalem at the time that\nNabuchodonosor king of Babylon carried away Jechonias king of Juda,\n\n2:7. And he had brought up his brother's daughter Edissa, who by\nanother name was called Esther: now she had lost both her parents: and\nwas exceeding fair and beautiful. And her father and mother being dead,\nMardochai adopted her for his daughter.\n\n2:8. And when the king's ordinance was noised abroad, and according to\nhis commandment many beautiful virgins were brought to Susan, and were\ndelivered to Egeus the eunuch: Esther also among the rest of the\nmaidens was delivered to him to be kept in the number of the women.\n\n2:9. And she pleased him, and found favour in his sight. And he\ncommanded the eunuch to hasten the women's ornaments, and to deliver to\nher her part, and seven of the most beautiful maidens of the king's\nhouse, and to adorn and deck out both her and her waiting maids.\n\n2:10. And she would not tell him her people nor her country. For\nMardochai had charged her to say nothing at all of that:\n\n2:11. And he walked every day before the court of the house, in which\nthe chosen virgins were kept, having a care for Esther's welfare, and\ndesiring to know what would befall her.\n\n2:12. Now when every virgin's turn came to go in to the king, after all\nhad been done for setting them off to advantage, it was the twelfth\nmonth: so that for six months they were anointed with oil of myrrh, and\nfor other six months they used certain perfumes and sweet spices.\n\n2:13. And when they were going in to the king, whatsoever they asked to\nadorn themselves they received: and being decked out, as it pleased\nthem, they passed from the chamber of the women to the king's chamber.\n\n2:14. And she that went in at evening, came out in the morning, and\nfrom thence she was conducted to the second house, that was under the\nhand of Susagaz the eunuch, who had the charge over the king's\nconcubines: neither could she return any more to the king, unless the\nking desired it, and had ordered her by name to come.\n\n2:15. And as the time came orderly about, the day was at hand, when\nEsther, the daughter of Abihail the brother of Mardochai, whom he had\nadopted for his daughter, was to go in to the king. But she sought not\nwomen's ornaments, but whatsoever Egeus the eunuch the keeper of the\nvirgins had a mind, he gave her to adorn her. For she was exceeding\nfair, and her incredible beauty made her appear agreeable and amiable\nin the eyes of all.\n\n2:16. So she was brought to the chamber of king Assuerus the tenth\nmonth, which is called Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.\n\n2:17. And the king loved her more than all the women, and she had\nfavour and kindness before him above all the women, and he set the\nroyal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vasthi.\n\n2:18. And he commanded a magnificent feast to be prepared for all the\nprinces, and for his servants, for the marriage and wedding of Esther,\nAnd he gave rest to all the provinces, and bestowed gifts according to\nprincely magnificence.\n\n2:19. And when the virgins were sought the second time, and gathered\ntogether, Mardochai stayed at the king's gate,\n\n2:20. Neither had Esther as yet declared her country and people,\naccording to his commandment. For whatsoever he commanded, Esther\nobserved: and she did all things in the same manner as she was wont at\nthat time when he brought her up a little one.\n\n2:21. At that time, therefore, when Mardochai abode at the king's gate,\nBagathan and Thares, two of the king's eunuchs, who were porters, and\npresided in the first entry of the palace, were angry: and they\ndesigned to rise up against the king, and to kill him.\n\n2:22. And Mardochai had notice of it, and immediately he told it to\nqueen Esther: and she to the king in Mardochai's name, who had reported\nthe thing unto her.\n\n2:23. It was inquired into, and found out: and they were both hanged on\na gibbet. And it was put in the histories, and recorded in the\nchronicles before the king.\n\n\n\nEsther Chapter 3\n\n\nAman, advanced by the king, is offended at Mardochai, and therefore\nprocureth the king's decree to destroy the whole nation of the Jews.\n\n3:1. After these things, king Assuerus advanced Aman, the son of\nAmadathi, who was of the race of Agag: and he set his throne above all\nthe princes that were with him.\n\n3:2. And all the king's servants, that were at the doors of the palace,\nbent their knees, and worshipped Aman: for so the emperor had commanded\nthem, only Mardochai did not bend his knee, nor worship him.\n\n3:3. And the king's servants that were chief at the doors of the\npalace, said to him: Why dost thou alone not observe the king's\ncommandment?\n\n3:4. And when they were saying this often, and he would not hearken to\nthem, they told Aman, desirous to know whether he would continue in his\nresolution: for he had told them that he was a Jew.\n\n3:5. Now when Aman had heard this, and had proved by experience that\nMardochai did not bend his knee to him, nor worship him, he was\nexceeding angry.\n\n3:6. And he counted it nothing to lay his hands upon Mardochai alone:\nfor he had heard that he was of the nation of the Jews, and he chose\nrather to destroy all the nation of the Jews that were in the kingdom\nof Assuerus.\n\n3:7. In the first month (which is called Nisan) in the twelfth year of\nthe reign of Assuerus, the lot was cast into an urn, which in Hebrew is\ncalled Phur, before Aman, on what day and what month the nation of the\nJews should be destroyed: and there came out the twelfth month, which\nis called Adar.\n\n3:8. And Aman said to king Assuerus: There is a people scattered\nthrough all the provinces of thy kingdom, and separated one from\nanother, that use new laws and ceremonies, and moreover despise the\nking's ordinances: and thou knowest very well that it is not expedient\nfor thy kingdom that they should grow insolent by impunity.\n\n3:9. If it please thee, decree that they may be destroyed, and I will\npay ten thousand talents to thy treasurers.\n\n3:10. And the king took the ring that he used, from his own hand, and\ngave it to Aman, the son of Amadathi of the race of Agag, the enemy of\nthe Jews,\n\n3:11. And he said to him: As to the money which thou promisest, keep it\nfor thyself: and as to the people, do with them as seemeth good to\nthee.\n\n3:12. And the king's scribes were called in the first month Nisan, on\nthe thirteenth day of the same mouth: and they wrote, as Aman had\ncommanded, to all the king's lieutenants, and to the judges of the\nprovinces, and of divers nations, as every nation could read, and hear\naccording to their different languages, in the name of king Assuerus:\nand the letters, sealed with his ring,\n\n3:13. Were sent by the king's messengers to all provinces, to kill and\ndestroy all the Jews, both young and old, little children, and women,\nin one day, that is, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is\ncalled Adar, and to make a spoil of their goods.\n\n3:14. And the contents of the letters were to this effect, that all\nprovinces might know and be ready against that day.\n\n3:15. The couriers that were sent made haste to fulfil the king's\ncommandment. And immediately the edict was hung up in Susan, the king\nand Aman feasting together, and all the Jews that were in the city\nweeping.\n\n\n\nEsther Chapter 4\n\n\nMardochai desireth Esther to petition the king for the Jews. They join\nin fasting and prayer.\n\n4:1. Now when Mardochai had heard these things, he rent his garments,\nand put on sackcloth, strewing ashes on his head and he cried with a\nloud voice in the street in the midst of the city, shewing the anguish\nof his mind.\n\n4:2. And he came lamenting in this manner even to the gate of the\npalace: for no one clothed with sackcloth might enter the king's court.\n\n4:3. And in all provinces, towns, and places, to which the king's cruel\nedict was come, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting,\nwailing, and weeping, many using sackcloth and ashes for their bed.\n\n4:4. Then Esther's maids and her eunuchs went in, and told her. And\nwhen she heard it she was in a consternation and she sent a garment, to\nclothe him, and to take away the sackcloth: but he would not receive\nit.\n\n4:5. And she called for Athach the eunuch, whom the king had appointed\nto attend upon her, and she commanded him to go to Mardochai, and learn\nof him why he did this.\n\n4:6. And Athach going out went to Mardochai, who was standing in the\nstreet of the city, before the palace gate:\n\n4:7. And Mardochai told him all that had happened, how Aman had\npromised to pay money into the king's treasures, to have the Jews\ndestroyed.\n\n4:8. He gave him also a copy of the edict which was hanging up in\nSusan, that he should shew it to the queen, and admonish her to go in\nto the king, and to entreat him for her people.\n\n4:9. And Athach went back and told Esther all that Mardochai had said.\n\n4:10. She answered him, and bade him say to Mardochai:\n\n4:11. All the king's servants, and all the provinces that are under his\ndominion, know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, cometh into the\nking's inner court, who is not called for, is immediately to be put to\ndeath without any delay: except the king shall hold out the golden\nsceptre to him, in token of clemency, that so he may live. How then can\nI go in to the king, who for these thirty days now have not been called\nunto him?\n\n4:12. And when Mardochai had heard this,\n\n4:13. He sent word to Esther again, saying: Think not that thou mayst\nsave thy life only, because thou art in the king's house, more than all\nthe Jews:\n\n4:14. For if thou wilt now hold thy peace, the Jews shall be delivered\nby some other occasion: and thou, and thy father's house shall perish.\nAnd who knoweth whether thou art not therefore come to the kingdom,\nthat thou mightest be ready in such a time as this?\n\n4:15. And again Esther sent to Mardochai in these words:\n\n4:16. Go, and gather together all the Jews whom thou shalt find in\nSusan, and pray ye for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and\nthree nights: and I with my handmaids will fast in like manner, and\nthen I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and\nexpose myself to death and to danger.\n\n4:17. So Mardochai went, and did all that Esther had commanded him.\n\n\n\nEsther Chapter 5\n\n\nEsther is graciously received: she inviteth the king and Aman to\ndinner, Aman prepareth a gibbet for Mardochai.\n\n5:1. And on the third day Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in\nthe inner court of the king's house, over against the king's hall: now\nhe sat upon his throne in the hall of the palace, over against the door\nof the house.\n\n5:2. And when he saw Esther the queen standing, she pleased his eyes,\nand he held out toward her the golden sceptre, which he held in his\nhand and she drew near, and kissed the top of his sceptre.\n\n5:3. And the king said to her: What wilt thou, queen Esther? what is\nthy request? if thou shouldst even ask one half of the kingdom, it\nshall be given to thee.\n\n5:4. But she answered: If it please the king, I beseech thee to come to\nme this day, and Aman with thee to the banquet which I have prepared.\n\n5:5. And the king said forthwith: Call ye Aman quickly, that he may\nobey Esther's will. So the king and Aman came to the banquet which the\nqueen had prepared for them.\n\n5:6. And the king said to her, after he had drunk wine plentifully:\nWhat dost thou desire should be given thee? and for what thing askest\nthou? although thou shouldst ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt\nhave it.\n\n5:7. And Esther answered: My petition and request is this:\n\n5:8. If I have found favour in the king's sight, and if it please the\nking to give me what I ask, and to fulfil my petition: let the king and\nAman come to the banquet which I have prepared them, and to morrow I\nwill open my mind to the king.\n\n5:9. So Aman went out that day joyful and merry. And when he saw\nMardochai sitting before the gate of the palace, and that he not only\ndid not rise up to honour him, but did not so much as move from the\nplace where he sat, he was exceedingly angry:\n\n5:10. But dissembling his anger, and returning into his house, he\ncalled together to him his friends, and Zares his wife:\n\n5:11. And he declared to them the greatness of his riches, and the\nmultitude of his children, and with how great glory the king had\nadvanced him above all his princes and servants.\n\n5:12. And after this he said: Queen Esther also hath invited no other\nto the banquet with the king, but me: and with her I am also to dine to\nmorrow with the king:\n\n5:13. And whereas I have all these things, I think I have nothing, so\nlong as I see Mardochai the Jew sitting before the king's gate.\n\n5:14. Then Zares his wife, and the rest of his friends answered him:\nOrder a great beam to be prepared, fifty cubits high, and in the\nmorning speak to the king, that Mardochai may be hanged upon it, and so\nthou shalt go full of joy with the king to the banquet. The counsel\npleased him, and he commanded a high gibbet to be prepared.\n\n\n\nEsther Chapter 6\n\n\nThe king hearing of the good service done him by Mardochai, commandeth\nAman to honour him next to the king, which he performeth.\n\n6:1. That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the\nhistories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when\nthey were reading them before him,\n\n6:2. They came to that place where it was written, how Mardochai had\ndiscovered the treason of Bagathan and Thares the eunuchs, who sought\nto kill king Assuerus.\n\n6:3. And when the king heard this, he said: What honour and reward hath\nMardochai received for this fidelity? His servants and ministers said\nto him: He hath received no reward at all.\n\nNo reward at all. . .He received some presents from the king, chap.\n12.5; but these were so inconsiderable in the opinion of the courtiers,\nthat they esteemed them as nothing at all.\n\n6:4. And the king said immediately: Who is in the court? for Aman was\ncoming in to the inner court of the king's house, to speak to the king,\nthat he might order Mardochai to be hanged upon the gibbet, which was\nprepared for him.\n\n6:5. The servants answered: Aman standeth in the court, and the king\nsaid: Let him come in.\n\n6:6. And when he was come in, he said to him: What ought to be done to\nthe man whom the king is desirous to honour? But Aman thinking in his\nheart, and supposing that the king would honour no other but himself,\n\n6:7. Answered: The man whom the king desireth to honour,\n\n6:8. Ought to be clothed with the king's apparel, and to be set upon\nthe horse that the king rideth upon, and to have the royal crown upon\nhis head,\n\n6:9. And let the first of the king's princes and nobles hold his horse,\nand going through the street of the city, proclaim before him and say:\nThus shall he be honoured, whom the king hath a mind to honour.\n\n6:10. And the king said to him: Make haste and take the robe and the\nhorse, and do as thou hast spoken to Mardochai the Jew, who sitteth\nbefore the gates of the palace. Beware thou pass over any of those\nthings which thou hast spoken.\n\n6:11. So Aman took the robe and the horse, and arraying Mardochai in\nthe street of the city, and setting him on the horse, went before him,\nand proclaimed: This honour is he worthy of, whom the king hath a mind\nto honour.\n\n6:12. But Mardochai returned to the palace gate: and Aman made haste to\ngo to his house, mourning and having his head covered:\n\n6:13. And he told Zares his wife, and his friends, all that had\nbefallen him. And the wise men whom he had in counsel, and his wife\nanswered him: If Mardochai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou\nhast begun to fall, thou canst not resist him, but thou shalt fall in\nhis sight.\n\n6:14. As they were yet speaking, the king's eunuchs came, and compelled\nhim to go quickly to the banquet which the queen had prepared.\n\n\n\nEsther Chapter 7\n\n\nEsther's petition for herself and her people: Aman is hanged upon the\ngibbet he had prepared for Mardochai.\n\n7:1. So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.\n\n7:2. And the king said to her again the second day, after he was warm\nwith wine: What is thy petition, Esther, that it may be granted thee?\nand what wilt thou have done: although thou ask the half of my kingdom,\nthou shalt have it.\n\n7:3. Then she answered: If I have found favour in thy sight, O king,\nand if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people\nfor which I request.\n\n7:4. For we are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be\nslain, and to perish. And would God we were sold for bondmen and\nbondwomen: the evil might be borne with, and I would have mourned in\nsilence: but now we have an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth upon the\nking.\n\n7:5. And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what\npower, that he should do these things?\n\n7:6. And Esther said: It is this Aman that is our adversary and most\nwicked enemy. Aman hearing this was forthwith astonished, not being\nable to bear the countenance of the king and of the queen.\n\n7:7. But the king being angry rose up, and went from the place of the\nbanquet into the garden set with trees. Aman also rose up to entreat\nEsther the queen for his life, for he understood that evil was prepared\nfor him by the king.\n\n7:8. And when the king came back out of the garden set with trees, and\nentered into the place of the banquet, he found Aman was fallen upon\nthe bed on which Esther lay, and he said: He will force the queen also\nin my presence, in my own house. The word was not yet gone out of the\nking's mouth, and immediately they covered his face.\n\n7:9. And Harbona, one of the eunuchs that stood waiting on the king,\nsaid: Behold the gibbet which he hath prepared for Mardochai, who spoke\nfor the king, standeth in Aman's house, being fifty cubits high. And\nthe king said to him: Hang him upon it.\n\n7:10. So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for\nMardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.\n\n\n\nEsther Chapter 8\n\n\nMardochai is advanced: Aman's letters are reversed.\n\n8:1. On that day king Assuerus gave the house of Aman, the Jews' enemy,\nto queen Esther, and Mardochai came in before the king. For Esther had\nconfessed to him that he was her uncle.\n\n8:2. And the king took the ring which he had commanded to be taken\nagain from Aman, and gave it to Mardochai. And Esther set Mardochai\nover her house.\n\n8:3. And not content with these things, she fell down at the king's\nfeet and wept, and speaking to him besought him, that he would give\norders that the malice of Aman the Agagite, and his most wicked devices\nwhich he had invented against the Jews, should be of no effect.\n\n8:4. But he, as the manner was, held out the golden sceptre with his\nhand, which was the sign of clemency: and she arose up and stood before\nhim,\n\n8:5. And said: If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his\nsight, and my request be not disagreeable to him, I beseech thee, that\nthe former letters of Aman the traitor and enemy of the Jews, by which\nhe commanded that they should be destroyed in all the king's provinces,\nmay be reversed by new letters.\n\n8:6. For how can I endure the murdering and slaughter of my people?\n\n8:7. And king Assuerus answered Esther the queen, and Mardochai the\nJew: I have given Aman's house to Esther, and I have commanded him to\nbe hanged on a gibbet, because he durst lay hands on the Jews.\n\n8:8. Write ye therefore to the Jews, as it pleaseth you in the king's\nname, and seal the letters with my ring. For this was the custom, that\nno man durst gainsay the letters which were sent in the king's name,\nand were sealed with his ring.\n\n8:9. Then the king's scribes and secretaries were called for (now it\nwas the time of the third month which is called Siban) the three and\ntwentieth day of the month, and letters were written, as Mardochai had\na mind, to the Jews, and to the governors, and to the deputies, and to\nthe judges, who were rulers over the hundred and twenty-seven\nprovinces, from India even to Ethiopia: to province and province, to\npeople and people, according to their languages and characters, and to\nthe Jews, according as they could read and hear.\n\n8:10. And these letters which were sent in the king's name, were sealed\nwith his ring, and sent by posts: who were to run through all the\nprovinces, to prevent the former letters with new messages.\n\n8:11. And the king gave orders to them, to speak to the Jews in every\ncity, and to command them to gather themselves together, and to stand\nfor their lives, and to kill and destroy all their enemies with their\nwives and children and all their houses, and to take their spoil.\n\n8:12. And one day of revenge was appointed through all the provinces,\nto wit, the thirteenth of the twelfth month Adar.\n\n8:13. And this was the content of the letter, that it should be\nnotified in all lands and peoples that were subject to the empire of\nking Assuerus, that the Jews were ready to be revenged of their\nenemies.\n\n8:14. So the swift posts went out carrying the messages, and the king's\nedict was hung up in Susan.\n\n8:15. And Mardochai going forth out of the palace, and from the king's\npresence, shone in royal apparel, to wit, of violet and sky colour,\nwearing a golden crown on his head, and clothed with a cloak of silk\nand purple. And all the city rejoiced, and was glad.\n\n8:16. But to the Jews, a new light seemed to rise, joy, honour, and\ndancing.\n\n8:17. And in all peoples, cities, and provinces, whithersoever the\nking's commandments came, there was wonderful rejoicing, feasts and\nbanquets, and keeping holy day: Insomuch that many of other nations and\nreligion, joined themselves to their worship and ceremonies. For a\ngreat dread of the name of the Jews had fallen upon all.\n\n\n\nEsther Chapter 9\n\n\nThe Jews kill their enemies that would have killed them. The days of\nPhurim are appointed to be kept holy.\n\n9:1. So on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which as we have\nsaid above is called Adar, when all the Jews were designed to be\nmassacred, and their enemies were greedy after their blood, the case\nbeing altered, the Jews began to have the upper hand, and to revenge\nthemselves of their adversaries.\n\nTo revenge, etc. . .The Jews on this occasion, by authority from the\nking, were made executioners of the public justice, for punishing by\ndeath a crime worthy of death, viz., a malicious conspiracy for\nextirpating their whole nation.\n\n9:2. And they gathered themselves together in every city, and town, and\nplace, to lay their hands on their enemies, and their persecutors. And\nno one durst withstand them, for the fear of their power had gone\nthrough every people.\n\n9:3. And the judges of the provinces, and the governors, and\nlieutenants, and every one in dignity, that presided over every place\nand work, extolled the Jews for fear of Mardochai:\n\n9:4. For they knew him to be prince of the palace, and to have great\npower: and the fame of his name increased daily, and was spread abroad\nthrough all men's mouths.\n\n9:5. So the Jews made a great slaughter of their enemies, and killed\nthem, repaying according to what they had prepared to do to them:\n\n9:6. Insomuch that even in Susan they killed five hundred men, besides\nthe ten sons of Aman the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews: whose names\nare these:\n\n9:7. Pharsandatha, and Delphon, and Esphatha\n\n9:8. And Phoratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,\n\n9:9. And Phermesta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Jezatha.\n\n9:10. And when they had slain them, they would not touch the spoils of\ntheir goods.\n\n9:11. And presently the number of them that were killed in Susan was\nbrought to the king.\n\n9:12. And he said to the queen: The Jews have killed five hundred men\nin the city of Susan, besides the ten sons of Aman: how many dost thou\nthink they have slain in all the provinces? What askest thou more, and\nwhat wilt thou have me to command to be done?\n\n9:13. And she answered: If it please the king, let it be granted to the\nJews, to do to morrow in Susan as they have done to day, and that the\nten sons of Aman may be hanged upon gibbets.\n\n9:14. And the king commanded that it should be so done. And forthwith\nthe edict was hung up in Susan, and the ten sons of Aman were hanged.\n\n9:15. And on the fourteenth day of the month Adar the Jews gathered\nthemselves together, and they killed in Susan three hundred men: but\nthey took not their substance.\n\n9:16. Moreover through all the provinces which were subject to the\nking's dominion the Jews stood for their lives, and slew their enemies\nand persecutors: insomuch that the number of them that were killed\namounted to seventy-five thousand, and no man took any of their goods.\n\n9:17. Now the thirteenth day of the month Adar was the first day with\nthem all of the slaughter, and on the fourteenth day they left off.\nWhich they ordained to be kept holy day, so that all times hereafter\nthey should celebrate it with feasting, joy, and banquets.\n\n9:18. But they that were killing in the city of Susan, were employed in\nthe slaughter on the thirteenth and fourteenth day of the same month:\nand on the fifteenth day they rested. And therefore they appointed that\nday to be a holy day of feasting and gladness.\n\n9:19. But those Jews that dwelt in towns not walled and in villages,\nappointed the fourteenth day of the month Adar for banquets and\ngladness, so as to rejoice on that day, and send one another portions\nof their banquets and meats.\n\n9:20. And Mardochai wrote all these things, and sent them comprised in\nletters to the Jews that abode in all the king's provinces, both those\nthat lay near and those afar off,\n\n9:21. That they should receive the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the\nmonth Adar for holy days, and always at the return of the year should\ncelebrate them with solemn honour:\n\n9:22. Because on those days the Jews revenged themselves of their\nenemies, and their mourning and sorrow were turned into mirth and joy,\nand that these should be days of feasting and gladness, in which they\nshould send one to another portions of meats, and should give gifts to\nthe poor.\n\n9:23. And the Jews undertook to observe with solemnity all they had\nbegun to do at that time, which Mardochai by letters had commanded to\nbe done.\n\n9:24. For Aman, the son of Amadathi of the race of Agag, the enemy and\nadversary of the Jews, had devised evil against them, to kill them and\ndestroy them; and had cast Phur, that is, the lot.\n\n9:25. And afterwards Esther went in to the king, beseeching him that\nhis endeavours might be made void by the king's letters: and the evil\nthat he had intended against the Jews, might return upon his own head.\nAnd so both he and his sons were hanged upon gibbets.\n\n9:26. And since that time these days are called Phurim, that is, of\nlots: because Phur, that is, the lot, was cast into the urn. And all\nthings that were done, are contained in the volume of this epistle,\nthat is, of this book:\n\n9:27. And the things that they suffered, and that were afterwards\nchanged, the Jews took upon themselves and their seed, and upon all\nthat had a mind to be joined to their religion, so that it should be\nlawful for none to pass these days without solemnity: which the writing\ntestifieth, and certain times require, as the years continually succeed\none another.\n\n9:28. These are the days which shall never be forgot: and which all\nprovinces in the whole world shall celebrate throughout all\ngenerations: neither is there any city wherein the days of Phurim, that\nis, of lots, must not be observed by the Jews, and by their posterity,\nwhich is bound to these ceremonies.\n\n9:29. And Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mardochai the\nJew, wrote also a second epistle, that with all diligence this day\nshould be established a festival for the time to come.\n\n9:30. And they sent to all the Jews that were in the hundred and\ntwenty-seven provinces of king Assuerus, that they should have peace,\nand receive truth,\n\n9:31. And observe the days of lots, and celebrate them with joy in\ntheir proper time: as Mardochai and Esther had appointed, and they\nundertook them to be observed by themselves and by their seed, fasts,\nand cries, and the days of lots,\n\n9:32. And all things which are contained in the history of this book,\nwhich is called Esther.\n\n\n\nEsther Chapter 10\n\n\nAssuerus's greatness. Mardochai's dignity.\n\n10:1. And king Assuerus made all the land, and all the islands of the\nsea tributary.\n\n10:2. And his strength and his empire, and the dignity and greatness\nwherewith he exalted Mardochai, are written in the books of the Medes,\nand of the Persians:\n\n10:3. And how Mardochai of the race of the Jews, was next after king\nAssuerus: and great among the Jews, and acceptable to the people of his\nbrethren, seeking the good of his people, and speaking those things\nwhich were for the welfare of his seed.\n\n10:4. Then Mardochai said: God hath done these things.\n\nThen Mardochai, etc. . .Here St. Jerome advertiseth the reader, that\nwhat follows is not in the Hebrew, but is found in the septuagint Greek\nedition, which the seventy-two interpreters translated out of the\nHebrew, or added by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.\n\n10:5. I remember a dream that I saw, which signified these same things:\nand nothing thereof hath failed.\n\nA dream. . .This dream was prophetical and extraordinary: otherwise the\ngeneral rule is not to observe dreams.\n\n10:6. The little fountain which grew into a river, and was turned into\na light, and into the sun, and abounded into many waters, is Esther,\nwhom the king married, and made queen.\n\n10:7. But the two dragons are I and Aman.\n\n10:8. The nations that were assembled are they that endeavoured to\ndestroy the name of the Jews.\n\n10:9. And my nation is Israel, who cried to the Lord, and the Lord\nsaved his people: and he delivered us from all evils, and hath wrought\ngreat signs and wonders among the nations:\n\n10:10. And he commanded that there should be two lots, one of the\npeople of God, and the other of all the nations.\n\n10:11. And both lots came to the day appointed already from that time\nbefore God to all nations:\n\n10:12. And the Lord remembered his people, and had mercy on his\ninheritance.\n\n10:13. And these days shall be observed in the month of Adar on the\nfourteenth, and fifteenth day of the same month, with all diligence,\nand joy of the people gathered into one assembly, throughout all the\ngenerations hereafter of the people of Israel.\n\n\n\nEsther Chapter 11\n\n\nThe dream of Mardochai, which in the ancient Greek and Latin Bibles was\ninto the beginning of the book, but was detached by St. Jerome, and put\nin this place.\n\n11:1. In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra,\nDositheus, who said he was a priest, and of the Levitical race, and\nPtolemy his son brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said\nLysimachus the son of Ptolemy had interpreted in Jerusalem.\n\n11:2. In the second year of the reign of Artaxerxes the great, in the\nfirst day of the month Nisan, Mardochai the son of Jair, the son of\nSemei, the son of Cis, of the tribe of Benjamin:\n\n11:3. A Jew who dwelt in the city of Susan, a great man and among the\nfirst of the king's court, had a dream.\n\n11:4. Now he was of the number of the captives, whom Nabuchodonosor\nking of Babylon had carried away from Jerusalem with Jechonias king of\nJuda:\n\n11:5. And this was his dream: Behold there were voices, and tumults,\nand thunders, and earthquakes, and a disturbance upon the earth.\n\n11:6. And behold two great dragons came forth ready to fight one\nagainst another.\n\n11:7. And at their cry all nations were stirred up to fight against the\nnation of the just.\n\n11:8. And that was a day of darkness and danger, of tribulation and\ndistress, and great fear upon the earth.\n\n11:9. And the nation of the just was troubled fearing their own evils,\nand was prepared for death.\n\n11:10. And they cried to God: and as they were crying, a little\nfountain grew into a very great river, and abounded into many waters.\n\n11:11. The light and the sun rose up, and the humble were exalted, and\nthey devoured the glorious.\n\n11:12. And when Mardochai had seen this, and arose out of his bed, he\nwas thinking what God would do: and he kept it fixed in his mind,\ndesirous to know what the dream should signify.\n\n\n\nEsther Chapter 12\n\n\nMardochai detects the conspiracy of the two eunuchs.\n\n12:1. And he abode at that time in the king's court with Bagatha and\nThara the king's eunuchs, who were porters of the palace.\n\n12:2. And when he understood their designs, and had diligently searched\ninto their projects, he learned that they went about to lay violent\nhands on king Artaxerxes, and he told the king thereof.\n\n12:3. Then the king had them both examined, and after they had\nconfessed, commanded them to be put to death.\n\n12:4. But the king made a record of what was done: and Mardochai also\ncommitted the memory of the thing to writing.\n\n12:5. And the king commanded him, to abide in the court of the palace,\nand gave him presents for the information.\n\n12:6. But Aman the son of Amadathi the Bugite was in great honour with\nthe king, and sought to hurt Mardochai and his people, because of the\ntwo eunuchs of the king who were put to death.\n\n\n\nEsther Chapter 13\n\n\nA copy of a letter sent by Aman to destroy the Jews. Mardochai's prayer\nfor the people.\n\n13:1. And this was the copy of the letter: Artaxerxes the great king\nwho reigneth from India to Ethiopia, to the princes and governors of\nthe hundred and twenty-seven provinces, that are subject to his empire,\ngreeting.\n\n13:2. Whereas I reigned over many nations, and had brought all the\nworld under my dominion, I was not willing to abuse the greatness of my\npower, but to govern my subjects with clemency and that they might live\nquietly without any terror, and might enjoy peace, which is desired by\nall men,\n\n13:3. But when I asked my counsellors how this might be accomplished,\none that excelled the rest in wisdom and fidelity, and was second after\nthe king, Aman by name,\n\n13:4. Told me that there was a people scattered through the whole\nworld, which used new laws, and acted against the customs of all\nnations, despised the commandments of kings, and violated by their\nopposition the concord of all nations.\n\n13:5. Wherefore having learned this, and seeing one nation in\nopposition to all mankind using perverse laws, and going against our\ncommandments, and disturbing the peace and concord of the provinces\nsubject to us,\n\n13:6. We have commanded that all whom Aman shall mark out, who is chief\nover all the provinces, and second after the king, and whom we honour\nas a father, shall be utterly destroyed by their enemies, with their\nwives and children, and that none shall have pity on them, on the\nfourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar of this present year:\n\n13:7. That these wicked men going down to hell in one day, may restore\nto our empire the peace which they had disturbed.\n\n13:8. But Mardochai besought the Lord, remembering all his works,\n\n13:9. And said: O Lord, Lord, almighty king, for all things are in thy\npower, and there is none that can resist thy will, if thou determine to\nsave Israel.\n\n13:10. Thou hast made heaven and earth and all things that are under\nthe cope of heaven.\n\n13:11. Thou art Lord of all, and there is none that can resist thy\nmajesty.\n\n13:12. Thou knowest all things, and thou knowest that it was not out of\npride and or any desire of glory, that I refused to worship the proud\nAman,\n\n13:13. (For I would willingly and readily for the salvation of Israel\nhave kissed even the steps of his feet,)\n\n13:14. But I feared lest I should transfer the honour of my God to a\nman, and lest I should adore any one except my God.\n\n13:15. And now, O Lord, O king, O God of Abraham, have mercy on thy\npeople, because our enemies resolve to destroy us, and extinguish thy\ninheritance.\n\n13:16. Despise not thy portion, which thou hast redeemed for thyself\nout of Egypt.\n\n13:17. Hear my supplication, and be merciful to thy lot and\ninheritance, and turn our mourning into joy, that we may live and\npraise thy name, O Lord, and shut not the mouths of them that sing to\nthee.\n\n13:18. And all Israel with like mind and supplication cried to the\nLord, because they saw certain death hanging over their heads.\n\n\n\nEsther Chapter 14\n\n\nThe prayer of Esther for herself and her people.\n\n14:1. Queen Esther also, fearing the danger that was at hand, had\nrecourse to the Lord.\n\n14:2. And when she had laid away her royal apparel, she put on garments\nsuitable for weeping and mourning: instead of divers precious\nointments, she covered her head with ashes and dung, and she humbled\nher body with fasts: and all the places in which before she was\naccustomed to rejoice, she filled with her torn hair.\n\n14:3. And she prayed to the Lord the God of Israel, saying: O my Lord,\nwho alone art our king, help me a desolate woman, and who have no other\nhelper but thee.\n\n14:4. My danger is in my hands.\n\n14:5. I have heard of my father that thou, O Lord, didst take Israel\nfrom among all nations, and our fathers from all their predecessors, to\npossess them as an everlasting inheritance, and thou hast done to them\nas thou hast promised.\n\n14:6. We have sinned in thy sight, and therefore thou hast delivered us\ninto the hands of our enemies:\n\n14:7. For we have worshipped their gods. Thou art just, O Lord.\n\n14:8. And now they are not content to oppress us with most hard\nbondage, but attributing the strength of their hands to the power of\ntheir idols.\n\n14:9. They design to change thy promises, and destroy thy inheritance,\nand shut the mouths of them that praise thee, and extinguish the glory\nof thy temple and altar,\n\n14:10. That they may open the mouths of Gentiles, and praise the\nstrength of idols, and magnify for ever a carnal king.\n\n14:11. Give not, O Lord, thy sceptre to them that are not, lest they\nlaugh at our ruin: but turn their counsel upon themselves, and destroy\nhim that hath begun to rage against us.\n\n14:12. Remember, O Lord, and shew thyself to us in the time of our\ntribulation, and give me boldness, O Lord, king of gods, and of all\npower:\n\n14:13. Give me a well ordered speech in my mouth in the presence of the\nlion, and turn his heart to the hatred of our enemy, that both he\nhimself may perish, and the rest that consent to him.\n\n14:14. But deliver us by thy hand, and help me, who have no other\nhelper, but thee, O Lord, who hast the knowledge of all things.\n\n14:15. And thou knowest that I hate the glory of the wicked, and abhor\nthe bed of the uncircumcised, and of every stranger.\n\n14:16. Thou knowest my necessity, that I abominate the sign of my pride\nand glory, which is upon my head in the days of my public appearance,\nand detest it as a menstruous rag, and wear it not in the days of my\nsilence,\n\n14:17. And that I have not eaten at Aman's table, nor hath the king's\nbanquet pleased me, and that I have not drunk the wine of the drink\nofferings:\n\n14:18. And that thy handmaid hath never rejoiced, since I was brought\nhither unto this day but in thee, O Lord, the God of Abraham.\n\n14:19. O God, who art mighty above all, hear the voice of them, that\nhave no other hope, and deliver us from the hand of the wicked, and\ndeliver me from my fear.\n\n\n\nEsther Chapter 15\n\n\nEsther comes into the king's presence: she is terrified, but God turns\nhis heart.\n\n15:1. And he commanded her (no doubt but he was Mardochai) to go to the\nking, and petition for her people, and for her country.\n\n15:2. Remember, (said he,) the days of thy low estate, how thou wast\nbrought up by my hand, because Aman the second after the king hath\nspoken against us unto death.\n\n15:3. And do thou call upon the Lord, and speak to the king for us, and\ndeliver us from death.\n\n15:4. And on the third day she laid away the garments she wore, and put\non her glorious apparel.\n\n15:5. And glittering in royal robes, after she had called upon God the\nruler and Saviour of all, she took two maids with her,\n\n15:6. And upon one of them she leaned, as if for delicateness and\novermuch tenderness she were not able to bear up her own body.\n\n15:7. And the other maid followed her lady, bearing up her train\nflowing on the ground.\n\n15:8. But she with a rosy colour in her face, and with gracious and\nbright eyes hid a mind full of anguish, and exceeding great fear.\n\n15:9. So going in she passed through all doors in order, and stood\nbefore the king, where he sat upon his royal throne, clothed with his\nroyal robes, and glittering with gold, and precious stones, and he was\nterrible to behold.\n\n15:10. And when he had lifted up his countenance, and with burning eyes\nhad shewn the wrath of his heart, the queen sunk down, and her colour\nturned pale, and she rested her weary head upon her handmaid.\n\n15:11. And God changed the king's spirit into mildness, and all in\nhaste and in fear he leaped from his throne, and holding her up in his\narms, till she came to herself, caressed her with these words:\n\n15:12. What is the matter, Esther? I am thy brother, fear not.\n\n15:13. Thou shalt not die: for this law is not made for thee, but for\nall others.\n\n15:14. Come near then, and touch the sceptre.\n\n15:15. And as she held her peace, he took the golden sceptre, and laid\nit upon her neck, and kissed her, and said: Why dost thou not speak to\nme?\n\n15:16. She answered: I saw thee, my lord, as an angel of God, and my\nheart was troubled for fear of thy majesty.\n\n15:17. For thou, my lord, art very admirable, and thy face is full of\ngraces.\n\n15:18. And while she was speaking, she fell down again, and was almost\nin a swoon.\n\n15:19. But the king was troubled, and all his servants comforted her.\n\n\n\nEsther Chapter 16\n\n\nA copy of the king's letter in favour of the Jews.\n\n16:1. The great king Artaxerxes, from India to Ethiopia, to the\ngovernors and princes of a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, which\nobey our command, sendeth greeting.\n\nFrom India to Ethiopia. . .That is, who reigneth from India to Ethiopia.\n\n16:2. Many have abused unto pride the goodness of princes, and the\nhonour that hath been bestowed upon them:\n\n16:3. And not only endeavour to oppress the king's subjects, but not\nbearing the glory that is given them, take in hand, to practise also\nagainst them that gave it.\n\n16:4. Neither are they content not to return thanks for benefits\nreceived, and to violate in themselves the laws of humanity, but they\nthink they can also escape the justice of God who seeth all things.\n\n16:5. And they break out into so great madness, as to endeavour to\nundermine by lies such as observe diligently the offices committed to\nthem, and do all things in such manner as to be worthy of all men's\npraise,\n\n16:6. While with crafty fraud they deceive the ears of princes that are\nwell meaning, and judge of others by their own nature.\n\n16:7. Now this is proved both from ancient histories, and by the things\nwhich are done daily, how the good designs of kings are depraved by the\nevil suggestions of certain men.\n\n16:8. Wherefore we must provide for the peace of all provinces.\n\n16:9. Neither must you think, if we command different things, that it\ncometh of the levity of our mind, but that we give sentence according\nto the quality and necessity of times, as the profit of the\ncommonwealth requireth.\n\n16:10. Now that you may more plainly understand what we say, Aman the\nson of Amadathi, a Macedonian both in mind and country, and having\nnothing of the Persian blood, but with his cruelty staining our\ngoodness, was received being a stranger by us:\n\n16:11. And found our humanity so great towards him, that he was called\nour father, and was worshipped by all as the next man after the king:\n\n16:12. But he was so far puffed up with arrogancy, as to go about to\ndeprive us of our kingdom and life.\n\n16:13. For with certain new and unheard of devices he hath sought the\ndestruction of Mardochai, by whose fidelity and good services our life\nwas saved, and of Esther the partner of our kingdom with all their\nnation:\n\n16:14. Thinking that after they were slain, he might work treason\nagainst us left alone without friends, and might transfer the kingdom\nof the Persians to the Macedonians.\n\n16:15. But we have found that the Jews, who were by that most wicked\nman appointed to be slain, are in no fault at all, but contrariwise,\nuse just laws,\n\n16:16. And are the children of the highest and the greatest, and the\never living God, by whose benefit the kingdom was given both to our\nfathers and to us, and is kept unto this day.\n\n16:17. Wherefore know ye that those letters which he sent in our name,\nare void and of no effect.\n\n16:18. For which crime both he himself that devised it, and all his\nkindred hang on gibbets, before the gates of this city Susan: not we,\nbut God repaying him as he deserved.\n\n16:19. But this edict, which we now send, shall be published in all\ncities, that the Jews may freely follow their own laws.\n\n16:20. And you shall aid them that they may kill those who had prepared\nthemselves to kill them, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month,\nwhich is called Adar.\n\n16:21. For the almighty God hath turned this day of sadness and\nmourning into joy to them.\n\n16:22. Wherefore you shall also count this day among other festival\ndays, and celebrate it with all joy, that it may be known also in times\nto come,\n\n16:23. That all they who faithfully obey the Persians, receive a worthy\nreward for their fidelity: but they that are traitors to their kingdom,\nare destroyed for their wickedness.\n\n16:24. And let every province and city, that will not be partaker of\nthis solemnity, perish by the sword and by fire, and be destroyed in\nsuch manner as to be made unpassable, both to men and beasts, for an\nexample of contempt, and disobedience.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF JOB\n\n\n\nThis Book takes its name from the holy man of whom it treats: who,\naccording to the more probable opinion, was of the race of Esau; and\nthe same as Jobab, king of Edom, mentioned Gen. 36.33. It is uncertain\nwho was the writer of it. Some attribute it to Job himself; others to\nMoses, or some one of the prophets. In the Hebrew it is written in\nverse, from the beginning of the third chapter to the forty-second\nchapter.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 1\n\n\nJob's virtue and riches. Satan by permission from God strippeth him of\nall his substance. His patience.\n\n1:1. There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that\nman was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.\n\nHus. . .The land of Hus was a part of Edom; as appears from Lam.\n4.21.--Ibid. Simple. . .That is, innocent, sincere, and without guile.\n\n1:2. And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.\n\n1:3. And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand\ncamels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and\na family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people\nof the east.\n\n1:4. And his sons went, and made a feast by houses, every one in his\nday. And sending, they called their three sisters, to eat and drink\nwith them.\n\nAnd made a feast by houses. . .That is, each made a feast in his own\nhouse and had his day, inviting the others, and their sisters.\n\n1:5. And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to\nthem, and sanctified them: and rising up early, offered holocausts for\nevery one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and\nhave blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days.\n\nBlessed. . .For greater horror of the very thought of blasphemy, the\nscripture both here and ver. 11, and in the following chapter, ver. 5\nand 9, uses the word bless to signify its contrary.\n\n1:6. Now on a certain day, when the sons of God came to stand before\nthe Lord, Satan also was present among them.\n\nThe sons of God. . .The angels.--Ibid. Satan also, etc. This passage\nrepresents to us in a figure, accommodated to the ways and\nunderstandings of men, 1. The restless endeavours of Satan against the\nservants of God; 2. That he can do nothing without God's permission; 3.\nThat God doth not permit him to tempt them above their strength: but\nassists them by his divine grace in such manner, that the vain efforts\nof the enemy only serve to illustrate their virtue and increase their\nmerit.\n\n1:7. And the Lord said to him: Whence comest thou? And he answered and\nsaid: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.\n\n1:8. And the Lord said to him: Hast thou considered my servant, Job,\nthat there is none like him in the earth, a simple and upright man, and\nfearing God, and avoiding evil?\n\n1:9. And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear God in vain?\n\n1:10. Hast thou not made a fence for him, and his house, and all his\nsubstance round about, blessed the works of his hands, and his\npossession hath increased on the earth?\n\n1:11. But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath,\nand see if he bless thee not to thy face.\n\n1:12. Then the Lord said to Satan: Behold, all that he hath is in thy\nhand: only put not forth thy hand upon his person. And Satan went forth\nfrom the presence of the Lord.\n\n1:13. Now upon a certain day, when his sons and daughters were eating\nand drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother,\n\n1:14. There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing,\nand the asses feeding beside them,\n\n1:15. And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the\nservants with the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.\n\n1:16. And while he was yet speaking, another came, and said: The fire\nof God fell from heaven, and striking the sheep and the servants, hath\nconsumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.\n\n1:17. And while he also was yet speaking, there came another, and said:\nThe Chaldeans made three troops, and have fallen upon the camels, and\ntaken them; moreover, they have slain the servants with the sword: and\nI alone have escaped to tell thee.\n\n1:18. He was yet speaking, and behold another came in, and said: Thy\nsons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their\neldest brother,\n\n1:19. A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and\nshook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children, and\nthey are dead: and I alone have escaped to tell thee.\n\n1:20. Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his\nhead, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,\n\n1:21. And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I\nreturn thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath\npleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.\n\n1:22. In all these things Job sinned not by his lips, nor spoke he any\nfoolish thing against God.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 2\n\n\n2:1. And it came to pass, when on a certain day the sons of God came,\nand stood before the Lord, and Satan came amongst them, and stood in\nhis sight,\n\n2:2. That the Lord said to Satan: Whence comest thou? And he answered,\nand said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.\n\n2:3. And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job,\nthat there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and\nfearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But\nthou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without\ncause.\n\n2:4. And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man\nhath, he will give for his life:\n\n2:5. But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then\nthou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.\n\n2:6. And the Lord said to Satan: Behold, he is in thy hand, but yet\nsave his life.\n\n2:7. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job\nwith a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top\nof his head:\n\n2:8. And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on\na dunghill.\n\n2:9. And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy\nsimplicity? bless God and die.\n\n2:10. And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish\nwomen: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should\nwe not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.\n\n2:11. Now when Job's three friends heard all the evil that had befallen\nhim, they came every one from his own place, Eliphaz, the Themanite,\nand Baldad, the Suhite, and Sophar, the Naamathite. For they had made\nan appointment to come together and visit him, and comfort him.\n\n2:12. And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him\nnot, and crying out, they wept, and rending their garments, they\nsprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.\n\n2:13. And they sat with him on the ground seven day and seven nights\nand no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very\ngreat.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 3\n\n\n3:1. After this, Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,\n\nCursed his day. . .Job cursed the day of his birth, not by way of\nwishing evil to any thing of God's creation; but only to express in a\nstronger manner his sense of human miseries in general, and of his own\ncalamities in particular.\n\n3:2. And he said:\n\n3:3. Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it\nwas said: A man child is conceived.\n\n3:4. Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from\nabove, and let not the light shine upon it.\n\n3:5. Let darkness, and the shadow of death, cover it, let a mist\noverspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.\n\n3:6. Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be\ncounted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.\n\n3:7. Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.\n\n3:8. Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a\nleviathan:\n\n3:9. Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect\nlight, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:\n\n3:10. Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor\ntook away evils from my eyes.\n\n3:11. Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came\nout of the belly?\n\n3:12. Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts?\n\n3:13. For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest\nin my sleep:\n\n3:14. With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves\nsolitudes:\n\n3:15. Or with princes, that possess gold, and fill their houses with\nsilver:\n\n3:16. Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that,\nbeing conceived, have not seen the light.\n\n3:17. There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in\nstrength are at rest.\n\n3:18. And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard\nthe voice of the oppressor.\n\n3:19. The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his\nmaster.\n\n3:20. Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them\nthat are in bitterness of soul?\n\n3:21. That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a\ntreasure:\n\n3:22. And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave?\n\n3:23. To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with\ndarkness?\n\n3:24. Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:\n\n3:25. For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I\nwas afraid of, hath befallen me.\n\n3:26. Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been\nquiet? and indignation is come upon me.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 4\n\n\n4:1. Then Eliphaz, the Themanite, answered, and said:\n\n4:2. If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill; but\nwho can withhold the words he hath conceived?\n\n4:3. Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary\nhands:\n\n4:4. Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast\nstrengthened the trembling knees:\n\n4:5. But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: It hath\ntouched thee, and thou art troubled.\n\n4:6. Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection\nof thy ways?\n\n4:7. Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when\nwere the just destroyed?\n\n4:8. On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow\nsorrows, and reap them,\n\n4:9. Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his\nwrath.\n\n4:10. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the\nteeth of the whelps of lions, are broken:\n\n4:11. The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are\nscattered abroad.\n\n4:12. Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by\nstealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper.\n\n4:13. In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to\nhold men,\n\n4:14. Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were\naffrighted:\n\n4:15. And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood\nup.\n\n4:16. There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my\neyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind.\n\n4:17. Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be\nmore pure than his maker?\n\nShall man be justified in comparison of God, etc. . .These are the words\nwhich Eliphaz had heard from an angel, which, ver. 15, he calls a\nspirit.\n\n4:18. Behold, they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels\nhe found wickedness:\n\n4:19. How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have\nan earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?\n\n4:20. From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no\none understandeth, they shall perish for ever.\n\n4:21. And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they\nshall die, and not in wisdom.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 5\n\n\n5:1. Call now, if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some\nof the saints.\n\n5:2. Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.\n\n5:3. I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty\nimmediately.\n\n5:4. His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in\nthe gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.\n\n5:5. Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take\nhim by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.\n\n5:6. Nothing upon earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not\nspring out of the ground.\n\n5:7. Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.\n\n5:8. Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:\n\n5:9. Who doth great things, and unsearchable and wonderful things\nwithout number:\n\n5:10. Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all\nthings with waters:\n\n5:11. Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health\nthose that mourn.\n\n5:12. Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that\ntheir hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:\n\n5:13. Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the\ncounsel of the wicked:\n\n5:14. They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as\nin the night.\n\n5:15. But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and\nthe poor from the hand of the violent.\n\n5:16. And to the needy there shall be hope, but iniquity shall draw in\nher mouth.\n\n5:17. Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore,\nthe chastising of the Lord.\n\n5:18. For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall\nheal.\n\n5:19. In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil\nshall not touch thee.\n\n5:20. In famine he shall deliver thee from death; and in battle, from\nthe hand of the sword.\n\n5:21. Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou\nshalt not fear calamity when it cometh.\n\n5:22. In destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be\nafraid of the beasts of the earth.\n\n5:23. But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and\nthe beasts of the earth shall be at peace with thee.\n\n5:24. And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting\nthy beauty, thou shalt not sin.\n\n5:25. Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy\noffspring like the grass of the earth.\n\n5:26. Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat\nis brought in its season.\n\n5:27. Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou\nhaving heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 6\n\n\n6:1. But Job answered, and said:\n\n6:2. O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity\nthat I suffer, were weighed in a balance.\n\nMy sins, etc. . .He does not mean to compare his sufferings with his\nreal sins: but with the imaginary crimes which his friends imputed to\nhim: and especially with his wrath, or grief, expressed in the third\nchapter, which they so much accused. Though, as he tells them here, it\nbore no proportion with the greatness of his calamity.\n\n6:3. As the sand of the sea, this would appear heavier: therefore, my\nwords are full of sorrow:\n\n6:4. For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up\nmy spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.\n\n6:5. Will the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or will the ox low when\nhe standeth before a full manger?\n\n6:6. Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that is not seasoned with\nsalt? or can a man taste that which, when tasted, bringeth death?\n\n6:7. The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through\nanguish, are my meats.\n\n6:8. Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me\nwhat I look for?\n\n6:9. And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose\nhis hand, and cut me off?\n\n6:10. And that this may be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow,\nhe spare not, nor I contradict the words of the Holy one.\n\n6:11. For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end,\nthat I should keep patience?\n\n6:12. My strength is not the strength of stones, nor is my flesh of\nbrass.\n\n6:13. Behold there is no help for me in myself, and my familiar friends\nalso are departed from me.\n\n6:14. He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of\nthe Lord.\n\n6:15. My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth\nswiftly in the valleys.\n\n6:16. They that fear the hoary frost, the snow shall fall upon them.\n\n6:17. At the time when they shall be scattered they shall perish: and\nafter it groweth hot, they shall be melted out of their place.\n\n6:18. The paths of their steps are entangled: they shall walk in vain,\nand shall perish.\n\n6:19. Consider the paths of Thema, the ways of Saba, and wait a little\nwhile.\n\n6:20. They arc confounded, because I have hoped: they are come also\neven unto me, and are covered with shame.\n\n6:21. Now you are come: and now, seeing my affliction, you are afraid.\n\n6:22. Did I say: Bring to me, and give me of your substance?\n\n6:23. Or deliver me from the hand of the enemy, and rescue me out of\nthe hand of the mighty?\n\n6:24. Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and if I have been ignorant\nof any thing, instruct me.\n\n6:25. Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none\nof you that can reprove me?\n\n6:26. You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the\nwind.\n\n6:27. You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow\nyour friend.\n\n6:28. However, finish what you have begun: give ear and see whether I\nlie.\n\n6:29. Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that\nwhich is just, judge ye.\n\n6:30. And you shall not find iniquity in my tongue, neither shall folly\nsound in my mouth.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 7\n\n\n7:1. The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the\ndays of a hireling.\n\n7:2. As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for\nthe end of his work;\n\n7:3. So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself\nwearisome nights.\n\n7:4. If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall I rise? and again,\nI shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even\ntill darkness.\n\n7:5. My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust; my skin\nis withered and drawn together.\n\n7:6. My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the\nweaver, and are consumed without any hope.\n\n7:7. Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to\nsee good things.\n\n7:8. Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I\nshall be no more.\n\n7:9. As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down\nto hell shall not come up.\n\n7:10. Nor shall he return any more into his house, neither shall his\nplace know him any more\n\n7:11. Wherefore, I will not spare my month, I will speak in the\naffliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.\n\n7:12. Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast inclosed me in a prison?\n\n7:13. If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved,\nspeaking with myself on my couch:\n\n7:14. Thou wilt frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions.\n\n7:15. So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.\n\n7:16. I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for\nmy days are nothing.\n\n7:17. What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou\nset thy heart upon him?\n\n7:18. Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him\nsuddenly.\n\n7:19. How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my\nspittle?\n\n7:20. I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast\nthou set me opposite to thee. and am I become burdensome to myself?\n\n7:21. Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away\nmy iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me\nin the morning, I shall not be.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 8\n\n\n8:1. Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said:\n\n8:2. How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the\nwords of thy mouth be like a strong wind?\n\n8:3. Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that\nwhich is just?\n\n8:4. Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left\nthem in the hand of their iniquity:\n\n8:5. Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the\nAlmighty:\n\n8:6. If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto\nthee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:\n\n8:7. In so much, that if thy former things were small thy latter things\nwould be multiplied exceedingly.\n\n8:8. For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into\nthe memory of the fathers:\n\n8:9. (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon\nearth are but a shadow\n\n8:10. And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter\nwords out of their hearts.\n\n8:11. Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow\nwithout water?\n\n8:12. When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked u with the hand, it\nwithereth before all herbs.\n\n8:13. Even so are the ways of all that forget God, an the hope of the\nhypocrite shall perish:\n\n8:14. His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the\nspider's web.\n\n8:15. He shall lean upon his house, and it shall no stand: he shall\nprop it up, and it shall not rise:\n\n8:16. He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh; and at his\nrising, his blossom shall shoot forth.\n\n8:17. His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the\nstones he shall abide.\n\n8:18. If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and\nshall say: I know thee not.\n\n8:19. For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out\nof the earth.\n\n8:20. God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the\nevil doer:\n\n8:21. Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with\nrejoicing.\n\n8:22. They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the\ndwelling of the wicked shall not stand.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 9\n\n\n9:1. And Job answered, and said:\n\n9:2. Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared\nwith God.\n\n9:3. If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a\nthousand.\n\n9:4. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted\nhim, and hath had peace?\n\n9:5. Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his\nwrath, knew it not.\n\n9:6. Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof\ntremble.\n\n9:7. Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not: and shutteth up the\nstars, as it were, under a seal:\n\n9:8. Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of\nthe sea\n\n9:9. Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of\nthe south.\n\nArcturus, etc. . .These are names of stars or constellations. In Hebrew,\nAsh, Cesil, and Cimah. See note chap. 38, ver. 31.\n\n9:10. Who doth things great and incomprehensible, and wonderful, of\nwhich there is no number.\n\n9:11. If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart, I shall not\nunderstand.\n\n9:12. If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say:\nWhy dost thou so?\n\n9:13. God, whose wrath no man can resist, and under whom they stoop\nthat bear up the world.\n\n9:14. What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with\nhim?\n\n9:15. I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer,\nbut would make supplication to my judge.\n\n9:16. And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that\nhe had heard my voice.\n\n9:17. For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even\nwithout cause.\n\nWithout cause. . .That is, without my knowing the cause: or without any\ncrime of mine.\n\n9:18. He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with\nbitterness.\n\n9:19. If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of\njudgment, no man dare bear witness for me.\n\n9:20. If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I\nwould shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.\n\n9:21. Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant\nof, and I shall be weary of my life.\n\n9:22. One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the\nwicked he consumeth.\n\n9:23. If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains\nof the innocent.\n\n9:24. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the\nface of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?\n\n9:25. My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and\nhave not seen good.\n\n9:26. They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying\nto the prey.\n\n9:27. If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented\nwith sorrow.\n\n9:28. I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the\noffender.\n\n9:29. But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?\n\n9:30. If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall\nshine ever so clean:\n\n9:31. Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor\nme.\n\n9:32. For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that\nmay be heard with me equally in judgment.\n\n9:33. There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his\nhand between both.\n\n9:34. Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify\nme.\n\n9:35. I will speak, and will not fear him: for I cannot answer while I\nam in fear.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 10\n\n\n10:1. My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against\nmyself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.\n\n10:2. I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me\nso?\n\n10:3. Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and\noppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the\nwicked?\n\n10:4. Hast thou eyes of flesh: or, shalt thou see as man seeth?\n\n10:5. Are thy days as the days of man, and are thy years as the times\nof men:\n\n10:6. That thou shouldst inquire after my iniquity, and search after my\nsin?\n\n10:7. And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there\nis no man that can deliver out of thy hand?\n\n10:8. Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and\ndost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?\n\n10:9. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and\nthou wilt bring me into dust\n\n10:10. Hast thou not milked me as milk, and curdled me like cheese?\n\n10:11. Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh: thou hast put me\ntogether with bones and sinews:\n\n10:12. Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and thy visitation hath\npreserved my spirit.\n\n10:13. Although thou conceal these things in thy heart, yet I know that\nthou rememberest all things.\n\n10:14. If I have sinned, and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost\nthou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity?\n\n10:15. And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift\nup my head, being filled with affliction and misery.\n\n10:16. And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning,\nthou tormentest me wonderfully.\n\n10:17. Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and multipliest thy\nwrath upon me, and pains war against me.\n\n10:18. Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been\nconsumed, that eye might not see me l\n\n10:19. I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb\nto the grave.\n\n10:20. Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me,\ntherefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:\n\n10:21. Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and\ncovered with the mist of death:\n\n10:22. A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no\norder, but everlasting horror dwelleth.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 11\n\n\nSophar reproves Job, for justifying himself, and invites him to\nrepentance.\n\n11:1. Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:\n\n11:2. Shall not he that speaketh much, hear also? or shall a man full\nof talk be justified?\n\n11:3. Shall men hold their peace to thee only? and when thou hast\nmocked others, shall no man confute thee?\n\n11:4. For thou hast said: My word is pure, and I am clean in thy sight.\n\n11:5. And I wish that God would speak with thee, and would open his\nlips to thee,\n\n11:6. That he might shew thee the secrets of wisdom, and that his law\nis manifold, and thou mightest understand that he exacteth much less of\nthee, than thy iniquity deserveth.\n\n11:7. Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find\nout the Almighty perfectly?\n\n11:8. He is higher than heaven, and what wilt thou do? he is deeper\nthan hell, and how wilt thou know?\n\n11:9. The measure of him is longer than the earth, and broader than the\nsea.\n\n11:10. If he shall overturn all things, or shall press them together,\nwho shall contradict him?\n\n11:11. For he knoweth the vanity of men, and when he seeth iniquity,\ndoth he not consider it?\n\n11:12. A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born\nfree like a wild ass's colt.\n\n11:13. But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to\nhim.\n\n11:14. If thou wilt put away from thee the iniquity that is in thy\nhand, and let not injustice remain in thy tabernacle:\n\n11:15. Then mayst thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be\nsteadfast, and shalt not fear.\n\n11:16. Thou shalt also forget misery, and remember it only as waters\nthat are passed away.\n\n11:17. And brightness like that of the noonday, shall arise to thee at\nevening: and when thou shalt think thyself consumed, thou shalt rise as\nthe day star.\n\n11:18. And thou shalt have confidence, hope being set before thee, and\nbeing buried thou shalt sleep secure.\n\n11:19. Thou shalt rest, and there shall be none to make thee afraid:\nand many shall entreat thy face.\n\n11:20. But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape\nshall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 12\n\n\nJob's reply to Sophar. He extols God's power and wisdom.\n\n12:1. Then Job answered, and said:\n\n12:2. Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you?\n\n12:3. I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these\nthings, which you know?\n\n12:4. He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he\nwill hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.\n\n12:5. The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the\ntime appointed.\n\n12:6. The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly;\nwhereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:\n\n12:7. But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds\nof the air, and they shall tell thee.\n\n12:8. Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and the fishes of\nthe sea shall tell.\n\n12:9. Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord hath made all these\nthings?\n\n12:10. In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit\nof all flesh of man.\n\n12:11. Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that\neateth, the taste?\n\n12:12. In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence.\n\n12:13. With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and\nunderstanding.\n\n12:14. If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut\nup a man, there is none that can open.\n\n12:15. If he withhold the waters, all things shall be dried up: and if\nhe send them out, they shall overturn the earth.\n\n12:16. With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceivers,\nand him that is deceived.\n\n12:17. He bringeth counsellors to a foolish end, and judges to\ninsensibility.\n\n12:18. He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a\ncord.\n\n12:19. He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth nobles.\n\n12:20. He changeth the speech of the true speakers, and taketh away the\ndoctrine of the aged.\n\n12:21. He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were\noppressed.\n\n12:22. He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth up to\nlight the shadow of death.\n\n12:23. He multiplieth nations, and destroyeth them, and restoreth them\nagain after they were overthrown.\n\n12:24. He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth,\nand deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way.\n\n12:25. They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he\nshall make them stagger like men that are drunk.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 13\n\n\nJob persists in maintaining his innocence: and reproves his friends.\n\n13:1. Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard\nthem, and I have understood them all.\n\n13:2. According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to\nyou.\n\n13:3. But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with\nGod.\n\n13:4. Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers\nof perverse opinions.\n\n13:5. And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought\nto be wise men.\n\n13:6. Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my\nlips.\n\n13:7. Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully\nfor him?\n\n13:8. Do you accept this person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?\n\n13:9. Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or\nshall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?\n\n13:10. He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person.\n\n13:11. As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his\ndread shall fall upon you.\n\n13:12. Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks\nshall be brought to clay.\n\n13:13. Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my\nmind shall suggest to me.\n\n13:14. Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my\nhands?\n\n13:15. Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will\nreprove my ways in his sight.\n\n13:16. And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before\nhis presence.\n\n13:17. Hear ye my speech, and receive with your ears hidden truths.\n\n13:18. If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.\n\n13:19. Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I\nconsumed holding my peace?\n\n13:20. Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not\nbe hid:\n\n13:21. Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.\n\n13:22. Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do\nthou answer me.\n\n13:23. How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my crimes and\noffenses.\n\n13:24. Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?\n\n13:25. Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest\nthy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.\n\n13:26. For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me\nfor the sins of my youth.\n\n13:27. Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my\npaths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:\n\n13:28. Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is\nmotheaten.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 14\n\n\nJob declares the shortness of man's days: and professes his belief of a\nresurrection.\n\n14:1. Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many\nmiseries.\n\n14:2. Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a\nshadow, and never continueth in the same state.\n\n14:3. And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one,\nand to bring him into judgment with thee?\n\n14:4. Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it\nnot thou who only art?\n\n14:5. The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with\nthee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.\n\n14:6. Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for\nday come, as that of the hireling.\n\n14:7. A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it growth green again, and the\nboughs thereof sprout.\n\n14:8. If its roots be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the\ndust:\n\n14:9. At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves,\nas when it was first planted.\n\n14:10. But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray\nyou where is he?\n\n14:11. As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied\nriver should be dried up;\n\n14:12. So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the\nheavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.\n\n14:13. Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and\nhide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt\nremember me?\n\nThat thou mayst protect me in hell. . .That is, in the state of the\ndead; and in the place where the souls are kept waiting for their\nRedeemer.\n\n14:14. Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days\nin which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.\n\n14:15. Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy\nhands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.\n\n14:16. Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.\n\n14:17. Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast\ncured my iniquity.\n\n14:18. A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out\nof its place.\n\n14:19. Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by\nlittle and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy\nman.\n\n14:20. Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass\naway for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.\n\n14:21. Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not\nunderstand.\n\n14:22. But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his\nsoul shall mourn over him.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 15\n\n\nEliphaz returns to the charge against Job, and describes the wretched\nstate of the wicked.\n\n15:1. And Eliphaz the Themanite, answered, and said:\n\n15:2. Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and\nfill his stomach with burning heat?\n\n15:3. Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou\nspeakest that which is not good for thee.\n\n15:4. As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken\naway prayers from before God.\n\nThou hast made void fear. . .That is, cast off the fear of offending\nGod.\n\n15:5. For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the\ntongue of blasphemers.\n\n15:6. Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy own lips\nshall answer thee.\n\n15:7. Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before\nthe hills?\n\n15:8. Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior\nto thee?\n\n15:9. What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou\nunderstand that we know not?\n\n15:10. There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy\nfathers.\n\n15:11. Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy\nwicked words hinder this.\n\n15:12. Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why dost thou stare with\nthy eyes, as if they were thinking great things?\n\n15:13. Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out\nof thy mouth?\n\n15:14. What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born\nof a woman that he should appear just?\n\n15:15. Behold among his saints none is unchangeable, and the heavens\nare not pure in his sight.\n\n15:16. How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh\niniquity like water?\n\n15:17. I will shew thee, hear me: and I will tell thee what I have\nseen.\n\n15:18. Wise men confess and hide not their fathers.\n\nWise men confess and hide not their fathers. . .That is, the knowledge\nand documents they have received from their fathers they are not\nashamed to own.\n\n15:19. To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger hath passed\namong them.\n\n15:20. The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the\nyears of his tyranny is uncertain.\n\n15:21. The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is\npeace, he always suspecteth treason.\n\n15:22. He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light,\nlooking round about for the sword on every side.\n\n15:23. When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of\ndarkness is ready at his hand.\n\n15:24. Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him,\nas a king that is prepared for the battle.\n\n15:25. For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath\nstrengthened himself against the Almighty.\n\n15:26. He hath run against him with his neck raised up, and is armed\nwith a fat neck.\n\n15:27. Fatness hath covered his face, and the fat hangeth down on his\nsides.\n\n15:28. He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are\nreduced into heaps.\n\n15:29. He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue,\nneither shall he push his root in the earth.\n\n15:30. He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his\nbranches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own mouth.\n\n15:31. He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he\nmay be redeemed with any price.\n\n15:32. Before his days be full he shall perish: and his hands shall\nwither away.\n\n15:33. He shall be blasted as a vine when its grapes are in the first\nflower, and as an olive tree that casteth its flower.\n\n15:34. For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall\ndevour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.\n\n15:35. He hath conceived sorrow, and hath brought forth iniquity, and\nhis womb prepareth deceits.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 16\n\n\nJob expostulates with his friends: and appeals to the judgment of God.\n\n16:1. Then Job answered, and said:\n\n16:2. I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome\ncomforters.\n\n16:3. Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to\nspeak?\n\n16:4. I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my\nsoul.\n\n16:5. I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over\nyou.\n\n16:6. I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as\nsparing you.\n\n16:7. But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I\nhold my peace, it will not depart from me.\n\n16:8. But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought\nto nothing.\n\n16:9. My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth\nup against my face, contradicting me.\n\n16:10. He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening\nme he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with\nterrible eyes.\n\n16:11. They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they\nhave struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains.\n\n16:12. God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me\ninto the hands of the wicked.\n\n16:13. I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to\npieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me\nup to be his mark.\n\n16:14. He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath\nwounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on\nthe earth,\n\n16:15. He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me\nlike a giant.\n\n16:16. I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh\nwith ashes.\n\n16:17. My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.\n\n16:18. These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand,\nwhen I offered pure prayers to God.\n\n16:19. O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a\nhiding place in thee.\n\n16:20. For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my\nconscience is on high.\n\n16:21. My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.\n\n16:22. And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man\nis judged with his companion!\n\n16:23. For behold short years pass away, and I am walking in a path by\nwhich I shall not return.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 17\n\n\nJob's hope in God: he expects rest in death.\n\n17:1. My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only\nthe grave remaineth for me.\n\n17:2. I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.\n\nNot sinned. . .That is, I am not guilty of such sins as they charge me\nwith.\n\n17:3. Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's\nhand fight against me.\n\n17:4. Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they\nshall not be exalted.\n\n17:5. He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his\nchildren shall fail.\n\n17:6. He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an\nexample before them.\n\n17:7. My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it\nwere to nothing.\n\n17:8. The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be\nraised up against the hypocrite.\n\n17:9. And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean\nhands shall be stronger and stronger.\n\n17:10. Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find\namong you any wise man.\n\n17:11. My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting\nmy heart.\n\n17:12. They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for\nlight again.\n\n17:13. If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.\n\nHell. . .Sheol. The region of the dead.\n\n17:14. I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my\nmother and my sister.\n\n17:15. Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my\npatience?\n\n17:16. All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest\nthou that there at least I shall have rest?\n\nDeepest pit. . .Literally, hell.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 18\n\n\nBaldad again reproves Job and describes the miseries of the wicked.\n\n18:1. Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:\n\n18:2. How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let\nus speak.\n\n18:3. Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?\n\n18:4. Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be\nforsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place?\n\n18:5. Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame\nof his fire not shine?\n\n18:6. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is\nover him, shall be put out.\n\n18:7. The step of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel\nshall cast him down headlong.\n\n18:8. For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its\nmeshes.\n\n18:9. The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall\nburn against him.\n\n18:10. A gin is hidden for him in the earth, and his trap upon the\npath.\n\n18:11. Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his\nfeet.\n\n18:12. Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade\nhis ribs.\n\n18:13. Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death\nconsume his arms.\n\n18:14. Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let\ndestruction tread upon him like a king.\n\n18:15. Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle,\nlet brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.\n\n18:16. Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed\nabove.\n\n18:17. Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his\nname be renowned in the streets.\n\n18:18. He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove\nhim out of the world.\n\n18:19. His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people,\nnor any remnants in his country.\n\n18:20. They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, and\nhorror shall fall upon them that went before.\n\n18:21. These then are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place\nof him that knoweth not God.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 19\n\n\nJob complains of the cruelty of his friends; he describes his own\nsufferings: and his belief of a future resurrection.\n\n19:1. Then Job answered, and said:\n\n19:2. How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with\nwords?\n\n19:3. Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to\noppress me.\n\n19:4. For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.\n\n19:5. But you set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my\nreproaches.\n\n19:6. At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an\nequal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.\n\nWith an equal judgment. . .St. Gregory explains these words thus: Job\nbeing a just man, and truly considering his own life, thought that his\naffliction was greater than his sins deserved: and in that respect,\nthat the punishment was not equal, yet it was just, as coming from God,\nwho gives a crown of justice to those who suffer for righteousness'\nsake, and proves the just with tribulations, as gold is tried by fire.\n\n19:7. Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I\nshall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.\n\n19:8. He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in\nmy way he hath set darkness.\n\n19:9. He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my\nhead.\n\n19:10. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath\ntaken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.\n\n19:11. His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his\nenemy.\n\n19:12. His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by\nme, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.\n\n19:13. He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like\nstrangers have departed from me.\n\n19:14. My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have\nforgotten me.\n\n19:15. They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants have counted me\nas a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes.\n\n19:16. I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him\nwith my own mouth.\n\n19:17. My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of\nmy womb.\n\n19:18. Even fools despised me, and when I was gone from them, they\nspoke against me.\n\n19:19. They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he\nwhom I loved most is turned against me.\n\n19:20. The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and\nnothing but lips are left about my teeth.\n\n19:21. Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends,\nbecause the hand of the Lord hath touched me.\n\n19:22. Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my\nflesh?\n\n19:23. Who will grant me that my words may be written? who will grant\nme that they may be marked down in a book?\n\n19:24. With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with\nan instrument in flint stone?\n\n19:25. For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall\nrise out of the earth.\n\nVer. 25, 26, and 27 shew Job's explicit belief in his Redeemer, and\nalso of the resurrection of the flesh, not as one tree riseth in place\nof another, but that the selfsame flesh shall rise at the last day, by\nthe power of God, changed in quality but not in substance, every one to\nreceive sentence according to his works in this life.\n\n19:26. And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I\nshall see my God.\n\n19:27. Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not\nanother: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.\n\n19:28. Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find\noccasion of word against him?\n\n19:29. Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the\nrevenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is a judgment.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 20\n\n\nSophar declares the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked: and\ntheir sudden downfall.\n\n20:1. Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:\n\n20:2. Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind\nis hurried away to different things.\n\n20:3. The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the\nspirit of my understanding shall answer for me.\n\n20:4. This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the\nearth,\n\n20:5. That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the\nhypocrite but for a moment.\n\n20:6. If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the\nclouds:\n\n20:7. In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that\nhad seen him, shall say: Where is he?\n\n20:8. As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass\nas a vision of the night:\n\n20:9. The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall\nhis place any more behold him.\n\n20:10. His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall\nrender to him his sorrow.\n\n20:11. His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they\nshall sleep with him in the dust.\n\n20:12. For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under\nhis tongue.\n\n20:13. He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his\nthroat.\n\n20:14. His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps\nwithin him,\n\n20:15. The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God\nshall draw them out of his belly.\n\n20:16. He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall\nkill him.\n\n20:17. Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey\nand of butter.\n\n20:18. He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be\nconsumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he\nsuffer.\n\nAccording to the multitude of his devices. . .That is, his stratagems to\ngratify his passions and to oppress and destroy the poor.\n\n20:19. Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently\ntaken away a house which he did not build.\n\n20:20. And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he\ncoveted, he shall not be able to possess them.\n\n20:21. There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall\ncontinue of his goods:\n\n20:22. When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn,\nand every sorrow shall fall upon him.\n\n20:23. May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of\nhis indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.\n\n20:24. He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of\nbrass.\n\n20:25. The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and\nglittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon\nhim.\n\n20:26. All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not\nkindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his\ntabernacle.\n\n20:27. The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise\nup against him.\n\n20:28. The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled\ndown in the day of God's wrath.\n\n20:29. This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the\ninheritance of his doings from the Lord.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 21\n\n\nJob shews that the wicked often prosper in this world, even to the end\nof their life: but that their judgment is in another world.\n\n21:1. Then Job answered, and said:\n\n21:2. Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.\n\n21:3. Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at\nmy words.\n\n21:4. Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to\nbe troubled?\n\n21:5. Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your\nmouth.\n\n21:6. As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh\nhold on my flesh.\n\n21:7. Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened\nwith riches?\n\n21:8. Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of\nchildren's children in their sight.\n\n21:9. Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not\nupon them.\n\n21:10. Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has\ncalved, and is not deprived of her fruit.\n\n21:11. Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance\nand play.\n\n21:12. They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of\nthe organ.\n\n21:13. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to\nhell.\n\n21:14. Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the\nknowledge of thy ways.\n\n21:15. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it\nprofit us if we pray to him?\n\n21:16. Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the\ncounsel of the wicked be far from me.\n\n21:17. How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge\ncome upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?\n\n21:18. They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes\nwhich the whirlwind scattereth.\n\n21:19. God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and\nwhen he shall repay, then shall he know.\n\n21:20. His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of\nthe wrath of the Almighty.\n\n21:21. For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if\nthe number of his months be diminished by one half?\n\n21:22. Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are\nhigh?\n\n21:23. One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.\n\n21:24. His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with\nmarrow.\n\n21:25. But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:\n\n21:26. And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall\ncover them.\n\n21:27. Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against\nme.\n\n21:28. For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the\ndwelling places of the wicked?\n\n21:29. Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive\nthat he knoweth these same things.\n\n21:30. Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction,\nand he shall be brought to the day of wrath.\n\n21:31. Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him\nwhat he hath done?\n\n21:32. He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap\nof the dead.\n\n21:33. He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall\ndraw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.\n\nAcceptable to the gravel of Cocytus. . .The Hebrew word, which St.\nJerome has here rendered by the name Cocytus, (which the poets\nrepresent as a river in hell,) signifies a valley or a torrent: and in\nthis place, is taken for the low region of death and hell: which\nwillingly, as it were, receives the wicked at their death: who are\nushered in by innumerable others that have gone before them; and are\nfollowed by multitudes above number.\n\n21:34. How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn\nto be repugnant to truth?\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 22\n\n\nEliphaz falsely imputes many crimes to Job, but promises him prosperity\nif he will repent.\n\n22:1. Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:\n\n22:2. Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect\nknowledge?\n\n22:3. What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give\nhim if thy way be unspotted?\n\n22:4. Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:\n\n22:5. And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities?\n\n22:6. For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without\ncause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.\n\n22:7. Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread\nfrom the hungry.\n\n22:8. In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being\nthe most mighty thou holdest it.\n\n22:9. Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless\nthou hast broken in pieces.\n\n22:10. Therefore art thou surrounded with shares, and sudden fear\ntroubleth thee.\n\n22:11. And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and\nthat thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing\nwaters?\n\n22:12. Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is\nelevated above the height of the stars?\n\n22:13. And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were\nthrough a mist.\n\n22:14. The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things,\nand he walketh about the poles of heaven.\n\n22:15. Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have\ntrodden?\n\n22:16. Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath\noverthrown their foundation.\n\n22:17. Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as\nif he could do nothing:\n\n22:18. Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way\nof thinking be far from me.\n\n22:19. The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall\nlaugh them to scorn.\n\n22:20. Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the\nremnants of them?\n\n22:21. Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou\nshalt have the best fruits.\n\n22:22. Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.\n\n22:23. If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and\nshalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.\n\n22:24. He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.\n\n22:25. And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall\nbe heaped together for thee.\n\n22:26. Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt\nlift up thy face to God.\n\n22:27. Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt\npay vows.\n\n22:28. Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light\nshall shine in thy ways.\n\n22:29. For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that\nshall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.\n\n22:30. The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the\ncleanness of his hands.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 23\n\n\nJob wishes to be tried at God's tribunal.\n\n23:1. Then Job answered, and said:\n\n23:2. Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge\nis more grievous than my mourning.\n\n23:3. Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even\nto his throne?\n\n23:4. I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with\ncomplaints.\n\n23:5. That I might know the words that he would answer me, and\nunderstand what he would say to me.\n\n23:6. I would not that he should contend with me with much strength,\nnor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness.\n\n23:7. Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to\nvictory.\n\n23:8. But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if to the west, I\nshall not understand him.\n\n23:9. If to the left hand, what shall I do? I shall not take hold on\nhim: if I turn myself to the right hand, I shall not see him.\n\n23:10. But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth\nthrough the fire:\n\n23:11. My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have\nnot declined from it.\n\n23:12. I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the\nwords of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.\n\n23:13. For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and\nwhatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done.\n\n23:14. And when he shall have fulfilled his will in me, many other like\nthings are also at hand with him.\n\n23:15. And therefore I am troubled at his presence, and when I consider\nhim I am made pensive with fear.\n\n23:16. God hath softened my heart, and the Almighty hath troubled me.\n\n23:17. For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over\nme, neither hath the mist covered my face.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 24\n\n\nGod's providence often suffers the wicked to go on a long time in their\nsins: but punisheth them in another life.\n\n24:1. Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they that know him, know\nnot his days.\n\n24:2. Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and\nfed them.\n\n24:3. They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken\naway the widow's ox for a pledge.\n\n24:4. They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed\ntogether the meek of the earth.\n\n24:5. Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by\nwatching for a prey they get bread for their children.\n\n24:6. They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage\nof his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.\n\n24:7. They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no\ncovering in the cold:\n\n24:8. Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no\ncovering embrace the stones.\n\n24:9. They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor\ncommon people.\n\n24:10. From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the\nhungry they have taken away the ears of corn.\n\n24:11. They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who\nafter having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.\n\n24:12. Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of\nthe wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass\nunrevenged.\n\n24:13. They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his\nways, neither have they returned by his paths.\n\n24:14. The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the\nneedy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief.\n\n24:15. The eye of the adulterer observeth darkness, saying: No eye\nshall see me: and he will cover his face.\n\n24:16. He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had\nappointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.\n\n24:17. If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of\ndeath: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.\n\n24:18. He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on\nthe earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards.\n\n24:19. Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin\neven to hell.\n\n24:20. Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be\nremembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.\n\n24:21. For he hath fed the barren that beareth not, and to the widow he\nhath done no good.\n\n24:22. He hath pulled down the strong by his might: and when he\nstandeth up, he shall not trust to his life.\n\n24:23. God hath given him place for penance, and he abuseth it unto\npride: but his eyes are upon his ways.\n\n24:24. They are lifted up for a little while and shall not stand, and\nshall be brought down as all things, and shall be taken away, and as\nthe tops of the ears of corn they shall be broken.\n\n24:25. And if it be not so, who can convince me that I have lied, and\nset my words before God?\n\n\nJob Chapter 25\n\n\nGod's providence often suffers the wicked to go on a long time in their\nsins: but punisheth them in another life.\n\n25:1. Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and I said:\n\n25:2. Power and terror are with him, who maketh peace in his high places.\n\n25:3. Is there any numbering of his soldiers? and upon whom shall not his light arise?\n\n25:4. Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?\n\n25:5. Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight.\n\n25:6. How much less man that is rottenness and the son of man who is a worm?\n\n\nJob Chapter 26\n\nJob declares his sentiments of the wisdom and power of God.\n\n26:1. Then Job answered, and said:\n\n26:2. Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou\nhold up the arm of him that has no strength?\n\n26:3. To whom hast thou given counsel? perhaps to him that hath no\nwisdom, and thou hast shewn thy very great prudence.\n\n26:4. Whom hast thou desired to teach? was it not him that made life?\n\n26:5. Behold the giants groan under the waters, and they that dwell\nwith them.\n\n26:6. Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for\ndestruction.\n\n26:7. He stretched out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the\nearth upon nothing.\n\n26:8. He bindeth up the waters in his clouds, so that they break not\nout and fall down together.\n\n26:9. He withholdeth the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud\nover it.\n\n26:10. He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness\ncome to an end.\n\n26:11. The pillars of heaven tremble, and dread at his beck.\n\n26:12. By his power the seas are suddenly gathered together, and his\nwisdom has struck the proud one.\n\n26:13. His spirit hath adorned the heavens, and his obstetric hand\nbrought forth the winding serpent.\n\nHis obstetric hand brought forth the winding serpent. . .That is, the\nomnipotent power of God: which brought forth all things created in\ntime, but conceived in the Divine mind from all eternity. The winding\nserpent, a constellation of fixed stars winding round the north pole,\ncalled Draco. This appears from the foregoing part of the same verse,\nHis spirit hath adorned the heavens.\n\n26:14. Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we\nhave heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to\nbehold the thunder of his greatness?\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 27\n\n\nJob persists in asserting his own innocence, and that hypocrites will\nbe punished in the end.\n\n27:1. Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:\n\n27:2. As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty,\nwho hath brought my soul to bitterness,\n\n27:3. As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my\nnostrils,\n\n27:4. My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue\ncontrive lying.\n\n27:5. God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will\nnot depart from my innocence.\n\n27:6. My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake:\nfor my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.\n\n27:7. Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked\none.\n\n27:8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he\ntake by violence, and God deliver not his soul?\n\n27:9. Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?\n\n27:10. Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at\nall times?\n\n27:11. I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and\nI will not conceal it.\n\n27:12. Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without\ncause?\n\n27:13. This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the\ninheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.\n\n27:14. If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his\ngrandsons shall not be filled with bread.\n\n27:15. They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his\nwidows shall not weep.\n\n27:16. If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment\nas clay,\n\n27:17. He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with\nit: and the innocent shall divide the silver.\n\n27:18. He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made\na booth.\n\n27:19. The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with\nhim: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.\n\n27:20. Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall\noppress him in the night:\n\n27:21. A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a\nwhirlwind shall snatch him from his place.\n\n27:22. And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand\nhe would willingly flee.\n\n27:23. He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him,\nbeholding his place.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 28\n\n\nMan's industry searcheth out many things: true wisdom is taught by God\nalone.\n\n28:1. Silver hath beginnings of its veins, and gold hath a place\nwherein it is melted.\n\n28:2. Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is\nturned into brass.\n\n28:3. He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he\nconsidereth, the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of\ndeath.\n\n28:4. The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey,\nthose whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be\ncome at.\n\n28:5. The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been\noverturned with fire.\n\n28:6. The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it\nare gold.\n\n28:7. The bird hath not known the path, neither hath the eye of the\nvulture beheld it.\n\n28:8. The children of the merchants have not trodden it, neither hath\nthe lioness passed by it.\n\n28:9. He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned\nmountains from the roots.\n\n28:10. In the rocks he hath cut out rivers, and his eye hath seen every\nprecious thing.\n\n28:11. The depths also of rivers he hath searched, and hidden things he\nhath brought forth to light.\n\n28:12. But where is wisdom to be found, and where is the place of\nunderstanding?\n\n28:13. Man knoweth not the price thereof, neither is it found in the\nland of them that live in delights.\n\n28:14. The depth saith: It is not in me: and the sea saith: It is not\nwith me.\n\n28:15. The finest gold shall not purchase it, neither shall silver be\nweighed in exchange for it.\n\n28:16. It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with\nthe most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.\n\n28:17. Gold or crystal cannot equal it, neither shall any vessels of\ngold be changed for it.\n\n28:18. High and eminent things shall not be mentioned in comparison of\nit: but wisdom is drawn out of secret places.\n\n28:19. The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal to it, neither shall it\nbe compared to the cleanest dyeing.\n\n28:20. Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of\nunderstanding?\n\n28:21. It is hid from the eyes of all living, and the fowls of the air\nknow it not.\n\n28:22. Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the\nfame thereof.\n\n28:23. God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place\nthereof.\n\n28:24. For he beholdeth the ends of the world: and looketh on all\nthings that are under heaven.\n\n28:25. Who made a weight for the winds, and weighed the waters by\nmeasure.\n\n28:26. When he gave a law for the rain, and a way for the sounding\nstorms.\n\n28:27. Then he saw it, and declared, and prepared, and searched it.\n\n28:28. And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom:\nand to depart from evil, is understanding.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 29\n\n\nJob relates his former happiness, and the respect that all men shewed\nhim.\n\n29:1. Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:\n\n29:2. Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past,\naccording to the days in which God kept me?\n\n29:3. When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in\ndarkness?\n\n29:4. As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my\ntabernacle?\n\n29:5. When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?\n\n29:6. When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out\nrivers of oil?\n\n29:7. When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they\nprepared me a chair?\n\n29:8. The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up\nand stood.\n\n29:9. The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.\n\n29:10. The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their\nthroat.\n\n29:11. The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave\nwitness to me:\n\n29:12. Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the\nfatherless, that had no helper.\n\n29:13. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I\ncomforted the heart of the widow.\n\n29:14. I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment,\nas with a robe and a diadem.\n\n29:15. I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.\n\n29:16. I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I\nsearched out most diligently.\n\n29:17. I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took\naway the prey.\n\n29:18. And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall\nmultiply my days.\n\n29:19. My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in\nmy harvest.\n\n29:20. My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be\nrepaired.\n\n29:21. They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive\nheld their peace at my counsel.\n\n29:22. To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon\nthem.\n\n29:23. They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as\nfor a latter shower.\n\n29:24. If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the\nlight of my countenance fell not on earth.\n\n29:25. If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a\nking, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them\nthat mourned.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 30\n\n\nJob shews the wonderful change of his temporal estate, from welfare to\ngreat calamity.\n\n30:1. But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not\nhave set with the dogs of my flock:\n\nBut now the younger in time. . .That is, younger than I am, and as it\nwere obscure, when I was conspicuous and in magnificence; they now look\ndown on me.\n\n30:2. The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were\nthought unworthy of life itself.\n\n30:3. Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness,\ndisfigured with calamity and misery.\n\n30:4. And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers\nwas their food.\n\n30:5. Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they\nhad found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.\n\n30:6. They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of\nearth, or upon the gravel.\n\n30:7. They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted\nit delightful to be under the briers.\n\n30:8. The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all\nupon the earth.\n\n30:9. Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.\n\n30:10. They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit\nin my face.\n\n30:11. For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath\nput a bridle into my mouth.\n\n30:12. At the right hand of my rising, my calamities forthwith arose:\nthey have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths\nas with waves.\n\n30:13. They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me,\nand they have prevailed, and there was none to help.\n\n30:14. They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a\ngate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries.\n\n30:15. I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my\ndesire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.\n\n30:16. And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction\npossess me.\n\n30:17. In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed\nupon me, do not sleep.\n\n30:18. With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have\ngirded me about, as with the collar of my coat.\n\n30:19. I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.\n\n30:20. I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou\ndost not regard me.\n\n30:21. Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of\nthy hand thou art against me.\n\n30:22. Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and\nthou hast mightily dashed me.\n\n30:23. I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is\nappointed for every one that liveth.\n\n30:24. But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption:\nand if they shall fall down thou wilt save.\n\n30:25. I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had\ncompassion on the poor.\n\n30:26. I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for\nlight, and darkness broke out.\n\n30:27. My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of\naffliction have prevented me.\n\n30:28. I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the\ncrowd.\n\n30:29. I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.\n\nBrother of dragons, etc. . .Imitating these creatures in their\nlamentable noise.\n\n30:30. My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with\nheat.\n\n30:31. My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of\nthose that weep.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 31\n\n\nJob, to defend himself from the unjust judgments of his friends, gives\na sincere account of his own virtues.\n\n31:1. I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think\nupon a virgin.\n\n31:2. For what part should God from above have in me, and what\ninheritance the Almighty from on high?\n\n31:3. Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work\niniquity?\n\n31:4. Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?\n\n31:5. If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to\ndeceit:\n\n31:6. Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my\nsimplicity.\n\n31:7. If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath\nfollowed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:\n\n31:8. Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be\nrooted out.\n\n31:9. If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid\nwait at my friend's door:\n\n31:10. Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with\nher.\n\n31:11. For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.\n\n31:12. It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up\nall things that spring.\n\n31:13. If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my\nmaidservant, when they had any controversy against me:\n\n31:14. For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he\nshall examine, what shall I answer him?\n\n31:15. Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not\none and the same form me in the womb?\n\n31:16. If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made\nthe eyes of the widow wait:\n\n31:17. If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not\neaten thereof:\n\n31:18. (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with\nme from my mother's womb:)\n\n31:19. If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing,\nand the poor man that had no covering:\n\n31:20. If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with\nthe fleece of my sheep:\n\n31:21. If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I\nsaw myself superior in the gate:\n\n31:22. Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its\nbones be broken.\n\n31:23. For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his\nweight I was unable to bear.\n\n31:24. If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold:\nMy confidence:\n\n31:25. If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had\ngotten much.\n\n31:26. If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in\nbrightness:\n\nIf I beheld the sun, etc. . .If I behold the sun and moon with\nadmiration, knowing them to be created and governed by the power of\nGod, I call on my adversaries to produce any thing against me, whereby\nI could be charged with worshipping the sun or moon.\n\n31:27. And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand\nwith, my mouth:\n\n31:28. Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most\nhigh God.\n\n31:29. If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and\nhave rejoiced that evil had found him.\n\n31:30. For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his\nsoul.\n\n31:31. If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of\nhis flesh that we may be filled?\n\n31:32. The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the\ntraveller.\n\n31:33. If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in\nmy bosom.\n\n31:34. If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the\ncontempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and have not rather held my\npeace, and not gone out of the door.\n\n31:35. Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my\ndesire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,\n\n31:36. That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a\ncrown?\n\n31:37. At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a\nprince.\n\n31:38. If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof\nmourn:\n\n31:39. If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have\nafflicted the son of the tillers thereof:\n\n31:40. Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead\nof barley.\n\nThe words of Job are ended.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 32\n\n\nEliu is angry with Job and his friends. He boasts of himself.\n\n32:1. So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just\nto himself.\n\n32:2. And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram,\nwas angry and was moved to indignation: now he was angry against Job,\nbecause he said he was just before God.\n\n32:3. And he was angry with his friends, because they had not found a\nreasonable answer, but only had condemned Job.\n\n32:4. So Eliu waited while Job was speaking because they were his\nelders that were speaking.\n\n32:5. But when he saw that the three were not able to answer, he was\nexceedingly angry.\n\n32:6. Then Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, and said: I am\nyounger in days, and you are more ancient, therefore hanging down my\nhead, I was afraid to shew you my opinion.\n\n32:7. For I hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of\nyears would teach wisdom.\n\n32:8. But, as I see, there is a spirit in men, and the inspiration of\nthe Almighty giveth understanding.\n\n32:9. They that are aged are not the wise men, neither do the ancients\nunderstand judgment.\n\n32:10. Therefore I will speak: Hearken to me, I also will shew you my\nwisdom.\n\n32:11. For I have waited for your words, I have given ear to your\nwisdom, as long as you were disputing in words.\n\n32:12. And as long as I thought you said some thing, I considered: but,\nas I see, there is none of you that can convince Job, and answer his\nwords.\n\n32:13. Lest you should say: We have found wisdom, God hath cast him\ndown, not man.\n\n32:14. He hath spoken nothing to me, and I will not answer him\naccording to your words.\n\n32:15. They were afraid, and answered no more, and they left off\nspeaking.\n\n32:16. Therefore because I have waited, and they have not spoken: they\nstood, and answered no more:\n\n32:17. I also will answer my part, and will shew my knowledge.\n\n32:18. For I am full of matter to speak of, and the spirit of my bowels\nstraiteneth me.\n\n32:19. Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which\nbursteth the new vessels.\n\n32:20. I will speak and take breath a little: I will open my lips, and\nwill answer.\n\n32:21. I will not accept the person of man, and I will not level God\nwith man.\n\nI will not level God with man. . .Here Eliu considers that Job hath put\nhimself on a level with God, by the manner he assumed to justify his\nown life in speaking to God as if he spoke to an equal: Eliu expresses\nin the following ver. 22 his fear of punishment hereafter for such an\nattempt.\n\n32:22. For I know not how long I shall continue, and whether after a\nwhile my Maker may take me away.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 33\n\n\nEliu blames Job for asserting his own innocence.\n\n33:1. Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words.\n\n33:2. Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my\njaws.\n\n33:3. My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a\npure sentence.\n\n33:4. The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me\nlife.\n\n33:5. If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.\n\n33:6. Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I\nalso was formed.\n\n33:7. But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence\nbe burdensome to thee.\n\n33:8. Now thou hast said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of\nthy words:\n\n33:9. I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no\niniquity in me.\n\n33:10. Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath\ncounted me for his enemy.\n\n33:11. He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my\npaths.\n\n33:12. Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will\nanswer thee, that God is greater than man.\n\n33:13. Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee\nto all words?\n\n33:14. God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the\nsecond time.\n\n33:15. By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon\nmen, and they are sleeping in their beds:\n\n33:16. Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them\nin what they are to learn.\n\n33:17. That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may\ndeliver him from pride.\n\n33:18. Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to\nthe sword.\n\n33:19. He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his\nbones to wither.\n\n33:20. Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul\nthe meat which before he desired.\n\n33:21. His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were\ncovered shall be made bare.\n\n33:22. His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the\ndestroyers.\n\n33:23. If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among\nthousands, to declare man's uprightness,\n\n33:24. He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he\nmay not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful\nto him.\n\n33:25. His flesh is consumed with punishments, let him return to the\ndays of his youth.\n\n33:26. He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him: and he\nshall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice.\n\n33:27. He shall look upon men, and shall say: I have sinned, and indeed\nI have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved.\n\n33:28. He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it\nmay live and see the light.\n\n33:29. Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every\none.\n\n33:30. That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten\nthem with the light of the living.\n\n33:31. Attend, Job, and hearken to me, and hold thy peace, whilst I\nspeak.\n\n33:32. But if thou hast any thing to say, answer me, speak: for I would\nhave thee to appear just.\n\n33:33. And if thou have not, hear me: hold thy peace, and I will teach\nthee wisdom.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 34\n\n\nEliu charges Job with blasphemy: and sets forth the power and justice\nof God.\n\n34:1. And Eliu continued his discourse, and said:\n\n34:2. Hear ye, wise men, my words, and ye learned, hearken to me:\n\n34:3. For the ear trieth words, and the mouth discerneth meats by the\ntaste.\n\n34:4. Let us choose to us judgment, and let us see among ourselves what\nis the best.\n\n34:5. For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my\njudgment.\n\n34:6. For in judging me there is a lie: my arrow is violent without any\nsin.\n\n34:7. What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?\n\n34:8. Who goeth in company with them that work iniquity, and walketh\nwith wicked men?\n\n34:9. For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with\nhim.\n\n34:10. Therefore, ye men of understanding, hear me: far from God be\nwickedness, and iniquity from the Almighty.\n\n34:11. For he will render to a man his work, and according to the ways\nof every one he will reward them.\n\n34:12. For in very deed God will not condemn without cause, neither\nwill the Almighty pervert judgment.\n\n34:13. What other hath he appointed over the earth? or whom hath he set\nover the world which he made?\n\n34:14. If he turn his heart to him, he shall draw his spirit and breath\nunto himself.\n\n34:15. All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return into\nashes.\n\n34:16. If then thou hast understanding, hear what is said, and hearken\nto the voice of my words.\n\n34:17. Can he be healed that loveth not judgment? and how dost thou so\nfar condemn him that is just?\n\n34:18. Who saith to the king: Thou art an apostate: who calleth rulers\nungodly:\n\n34:19. Who accepteth not the persons of princes: nor hath regarded the\ntyrant, when he contended against the poor man: for all are the work of\nhis hands.\n\n34:20. They shall suddenly die, and the people shall be troubled at\nmidnight, and they shall pass, and take away the violent without hand.\n\n34:21. For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he considereth all\ntheir steps.\n\n34:22. There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where\nthey may be hid who work iniquity.\n\n34:23. For it is no longer in the power of man to enter into judgment\nwith God.\n\n34:24. He shall break in pieces many and innumerable, and shall make\nothers to stand in their stead.\n\n34:25. For he knoweth their works: and therefore he shall bring night\non them, and they shall be destroyed.\n\n34:26. He hath struck them, as being wicked, in open sight.\n\n34:27. Who as it were on purpose have revolted from him, and would not\nunderstand all his ways:\n\n34:28. So that they caused the cry of the needy to come to him, and he\nheard the voice of the poor.\n\n34:29. For when he granteth peace, who is there that can condemn? When\nhe hideth his countenance, who is there that can behold him, whether it\nregard nations, or all men?\n\n34:30. Who maketh a man that is a hypocrite to reign for the sins of\nthe people?\n\n34:31. Seeing then I have spoken of God, I will not hinder thee in thy\nturn.\n\n34:32. If I have erred, teach thou me: if I have spoken iniquity, I\nwill add no more.\n\n34:33. Doth God require it of thee, because it hath displeased thee?\nfor thou begannest to speak, and not I: but if thou know any thing\nbetter, speak.\n\n34:34. Let men of understanding speak to me, and let a wise man hearken\nto me.\n\n34:35. But Job hath spoken foolishly, and his words sound not\ndiscipline.\n\n34:36. My father, let Job be tried even to the end: cease not from the\nman of iniquity.\n\n34:37. Because he addeth blasphemy upon his sins, let him be tied fast\nin the mean time amongst us: and then let him provoke God to judgment\nwith his speeches.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 35\n\n\nEliu declares that the good or evil done by man cannot reach God.\n\n35:1. Moreover Eliu spoke these words:\n\n35:2. Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am\nmore just than God?\n\n35:3. For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or\nwhat will it profit thee if I sin?\n\n35:4. Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.\n\n35:5. Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher\nthan thee.\n\n35:6. If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be\nmultiplied, what shalt thou do against him?\n\n35:7. And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he\nreceive of thy hand?\n\n35:8. Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice\nmay help the son of man.\n\n35:9. By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and\nshall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.\n\n35:10. And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given\nsongs in the night?\n\n35:11. Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and\ninstructeth us more than the fowls of the air.\n\n35:12. There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride\nof evil men.\n\n35:13. God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look\ninto the causes of every one.\n\n35:14. Yea, when thou shalt say: He considereth not: be judged before\nhim, and expect him.\n\n35:15. For he doth not now bring on his fury, neither doth he revenge\nwickedness exceedingly.\n\n35:16. Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words\nwithout knowledge.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 36\n\n\nEliu proceeds in setting forth the justice and power of God.\n\n36:1. Eliu also proceeded, and said:\n\n36:2. Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee: for I have yet somewhat\nto speak in God's behalf.\n\n36:3. I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove\nmy Maker just.\n\n36:4. For indeed my words are without a lie, and perfect knowledge\nshall be proved to thee.\n\n36:5. God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is\nmighty.\n\n36:6. But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor.\n\n36:7. He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth\nkings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted.\n\n36:8. And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of\npoverty:\n\n36:9. He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because\nthey have been violent.\n\n36:10. He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak,\nthat they may return from iniquity.\n\n36:11. If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days\nin good, and their years in glory.\n\n36:12. But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be\nconsumed in folly.\n\n36:13. Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall\nthey cry when they are bound.\n\n36:14. Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the\neffeminate.\n\n36:15. He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open\nhis ear in affliction.\n\n36:16. Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth,\nand which hath no foundation under it: and the rest of thy table shall\nbe full of fatness.\n\nOut of the narrow mouth. . .That is, out of hell, whose entrance is\nnarrow, and its depth bottomless; but figuratively meant here, that is,\nfrom his miseries and calamity to be restored to his former state of\nhappiness.\n\n36:17. Thy cause hath been judged as that of the wicked, cause and\njudgment thou shalt recover.\n\n36:18. Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man:\nneither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.\n\n36:19. Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty\nof strength.\n\n36:20. Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.\n\n36:21. Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun\nto follow after misery.\n\nFor this thou hast begun to follow after misery. . .Eliu charges Job,\nthat notwithstanding his misery, he does not fear God as he ought: but\nin his judgment, falls into iniquity.\n\n36:22. Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among\nthe lawgivers.\n\n36:23. Who can search out his ways? or who can say to him: Thou hast\nwrought iniquity?\n\n36:24. Remember that thou knowest not his work, concerning which men\nhave sung.\n\n36:25. All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.\n\n36:26. Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his\nyears is inestimable.\n\n36:27. He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like\nfloods:\n\n36:28. Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.\n\n36:29. If he will spread out clouds as his tent,\n\n36:30. And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the\nends of the sea.\n\n36:31. For by these he judgeth people, and giveth food to many mortals.\n\n36:32. In his hands he hideth the light, and commandeth it to come\nagain.\n\n36:33. He sheweth his friend concerning it, that it is his possession,\nand that he may come up to it.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 37\n\n\nEliu goes on in his discourse, shewing God's wisdom and power, by his\nwonderful works.\n\n37:1. At this my heart trembleth, and is moved out of its place.\n\n37:2. Hear ye attentively the terror of his voice, and the sound that\ncometh out of his mouth.\n\n37:3. He beholdeth under all the heavens, and his light is upon the\nends of the earth.\n\n37:4. After it a noise shall roar, he shall thunder with the voice of\nhis majesty, and shall not be found out, when his voice shall be heard.\n\n37:5. God shall thunder wonderfully with his voice, he that doth great\nand unsearchable things.\n\n37:6. He commandeth the snow to go down upon the earth, and the winter\nrain, and the shower of his strength.\n\n37:7. He sealeth up the hand of all men, that every one may know his\nworks.\n\nHe sealeth up, etc. . .When he sends those showers of his strength, that\nis, those storms of rain, he seals up, that is, he shuts up the hands\nof men from their usual works abroad, and confines them within doors,\nto consider his works; or to forecast their works, that is, what they\nthemselves are to do.\n\n37:8. Then the beast shall go into his covert, and shall abide in his\nden.\n\n37:9. Out of the inner parts shall a tempest come, and cold out of the\nnorth.\n\n37:10. When God bloweth there cometh frost, and again the waters are\npoured out abundantly.\n\n37:11. Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light:\n\n37:12. Which go round about, whithersoever the will of him that\ngoverneth them shall lead them, to whatsoever he shall command them\nupon the face of the whole earth:\n\n37:13. Whether in one tribe, or in his own land, or in what place\nsoever of his mercy he shall command them to be found.\n\n37:14. Hearken to these things, Job: Stand, and consider the wondrous\nworks of God.\n\n37:15. Dost thou know when God commanded the rains, to shew his light\nof his clouds?\n\n37:16. Knowest thou the great paths of the clouds, and the perfect\nknowledges?\n\n37:17. Are not thy garments hot, when the south wind blows upon the\nearth?\n\n37:18. Thou perhaps hast made the heavens with him, which are most\nstrong, as if they were of molten brass.\n\n37:19. Shew us what we may say to him: or we are wrapped up in\ndarkness.\n\n37:20. Who shall tell him the things I speak? even if a man shall\nspeak, he shall be swallowed up.\n\nHe shall be swallowed up. . .All that man can say when he speaks of God,\nis so little and inconsiderable in comparison with the subject, that\nman is lost, and as it were swallowed up in so immense an ocean.\n\n37:21. But now they see not the light: the air on a sudden shall be\nthickened into clouds, and the wind shall pass and drive them away.\n\n37:22. Cold cometh out of the north, and to God praise with fear.\n\n37:23. We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in\njudgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.\n\n37:24. Therefore men shall fear him, and all that seem to themselves to\nbe wise, shall not dare to behold him.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 38\n\n\nGod interposes and shews from the things he hath made, that man cannot\ncomprehend his power and wisdom.\n\n38:1. Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said:\n\nThe Lord. That is, an angel speaking in the name of the Lord.\n\n38:2. Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskilful words?\n\n38:3. Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou\nme.\n\n38:4. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell me\nif thou hast understanding.\n\n38:5. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest or who hath\nstretched the line upon it?\n\n38:6. Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone\nthereof,\n\n38:7. When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of\nGod made a joyful melody?\n\n38:8. Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing\nout of the womb:\n\n38:9. When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist\nas in swaddling bands?\n\n38:10. I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:\n\n38:11. And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further,\nand here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.\n\n38:12. Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the\ndawning of the day its place?\n\n38:13. And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them,\nand hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?\n\n38:14. The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a\ngarment.\n\n38:15. From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high\narm shall be broken.\n\n38:16. Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the\nlowest parts of the deep?\n\n38:17. Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen\nthe darksome doors?\n\n38:18. Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou\nknowest all things?\n\n38:19. Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of\ndarkness?\n\n38:20. That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and\nunderstand the paths of the house thereof.\n\n38:21. Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou\nknow the number of thy days?\n\n38:22. Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or hast thou\nbeheld the treasures of the hail:\n\n38:23. Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day\nof battle and war?\n\n38:24. By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the\nearth?\n\n38:25. Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy\nthunder:\n\n38:26. That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness,\nwhere no mortal dwelleth:\n\n38:27. That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should\nbring forth green grass?\n\n38:28. Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?\n\n38:29. Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven who\nhath gendered it?\n\n38:30. The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the\ndeep is congealed.\n\n38:31. Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the\nPleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?\n\nPleiades. . .Hebrew, Cimah. A cluster of seven stars in the\nconstellation Taurus or the Bull. Arcturus, a bright star in the\nconstellation Bootes. The Hebrew name Cesil, is variously interpreted;\nby some, Orion; by others, the Great Bear is understood.\n\n38:32. Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the\nevening star to rise upon the children of the earth?\n\n38:33. Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the\nreason thereof on the earth?\n\n38:34. Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of\nwaters may cover thee?\n\n38:35. Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they\nreturn and say to thee: Here we are?\n\n38:36. Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock\nunderstanding?\n\nUnderstanding. . .That instinct by which he distinguishes the times of\ncrowing in the night.\n\n38:37. Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the\nharmony of heaven to sleep?\n\n38:38. When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened\ntogether?\n\n38:39. Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the\nappetite of her whelps,\n\n38:40. When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?\n\n38:41. Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to\nGod, wandering about, because they have no meat?\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 39\n\n\nThe wonders of the power and providence of God in many of his creatures.\n\n39:1. Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the\nrocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn?\n\n39:2. Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest\nthou the time when they bring forth?\n\n39:3. They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and\nsend forth roarings.\n\n39:4. Their young are weaned and go to feed: they go forth, and return\nnot to them.\n\n39:5. Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his\nbonds?\n\n39:6. To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings\nin the barren land.\n\n39:7. He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of\nthe driver.\n\n39:8. He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh\nfor every green thing,\n\n39:9. Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at\nthy crib?\n\n39:10. Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will\nhe break the clods of the valleys after thee?\n\n39:11. Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and leave thy\nlabours to him?\n\n39:12. Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and\ngather it into thy barnfloor?\n\n39:13. The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of\nthe hawk.\n\n39:14. When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm\nthem in the dust.\n\n39:15. She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the\nbeasts of the field may break them.\n\n39:16. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not\nhers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.\n\n39:17. For God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he given her\nunderstanding.\n\n39:18. When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high: she\nscorneth the horse and his rider.\n\n39:19. Wilt thou give strength to the horse or clothe his neck with\nneighing?\n\n39:20. Wilt thou lift him up like the locusts? the glory of his\nnostrils is terror.\n\n39:21. He breaketh up the earth with his hoof, he pranceth boldly, he\ngoeth forward to meet armed men.\n\n39:22. He despiseth fear, he turneth not his back to the sword.\n\n39:23. Above him shall the quiver rattle, the spear and shield shall\nglitter.\n\n39:24. Chasing and raging he swalloweth the ground, neither doth he\nmake account when the noise of the trumpet soundeth.\n\n39:25. When he heareth the trumpet he saith: Ha, ha: he smelleth the\nbattle afar off, the encouraging of the captains, and the shouting of\nthe army.\n\n39:26. Doth the hawk wax feathered by thy wisdom, spreading her wings\nto the south?\n\n39:27. Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in\nhigh places?\n\n39:28. She abideth among the rocks, and dwelleth among cragged flints,\nand stony hills, where there is no access.\n\n39:29. From thence she looketh for the prey, and her eyes behold afar\noff.\n\n39:30. Her young ones shall suck up blood: and wheresoever the carcass\nshall be, she is immediately there.\n\n39:31. And the Lord went on, and said to Job:\n\n39:32. Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely\nhe that reproveth God, ought to answer him.\n\n39:33. Then Job answered the Lord, and said:\n\n39:34. What can I answer, who hath spoken inconsiderately? I will lay\nmy hand upon my mouth.\n\nSpoken inconsiderately. . .If we discuss all Job's words (saith St.\nGregory), we shall find nothing impiously spoken; as may be gathered\nfrom the words of the Lord himself, chap. 42, ver. 7, 8; but what was\nreprehensible in him, was the manner of expressing himself at times,\nspeaking too much of his own affliction, and too little of God's\ngoodness towards him, which here he acknowledges as inconsiderate.\n\n39:35. One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said: and\nanother, to which I will add no more.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 40\n\n\nOf the power of God in the behemoth and the leviathan.\n\n40:1. And the Lord answering Job out of the whirlwind, said:\n\n40:2. Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and do thou tell\nme.\n\n40:3. Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst\nbe justified?\n\n40:4. And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a\nvoice like him?\n\n40:5. Clothe thyself with beauty, and set thyself up on high, and be\nglorious, and put on goodly garments.\n\n40:6. Scatter the proud in thy indignation, and behold every arrogant\nman, and humble him.\n\n40:7. Look on all that are proud, and confound them, and crush the\nwicked in their place,\n\n40:8. Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces into the\npit.\n\n40:9. Then I will confess that thy right hand is able to save thee.\n\n40:10. Behold behemoth whom I made with thee, he eateth grass like an\nox.\n\nBehemoth. . .In Hebrew, behema, which signifies in general an animal;\nbut many authors explain, that here it is put for the elephant.\n\n40:11. His strength is in his loins, and his force in the navel of his\nbelly.\n\n40:12. He setteth up his tail like a cedar, the sinews of his testicles\nare wrapped together.\n\n40:13. His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle like plates of\niron.\n\n40:14. He is the beginning of the ways of God, who made him, he will\napply his sword.\n\nHe will apply his sword. . .This text is variously explained: some\nexplain the sword, the horn given to the animal for his defence:\nothers, the power that God hath given to the animal for his defence:\nothers, the power that God hath given to man to slay him,\nnotwithstanding his great size and strength.\n\n40:15. To him the mountains bring forth grass: there all the beasts of\nthe field shall play.\n\n40:16. He sleepeth under the shadow, in the covert of the reed, and in\nmoist places.\n\n40:17. The shades cover his shadow, the willows of the brook shall\ncompass him about.\n\n40:18. Behold, he will drink up a river, and not wonder: and he\ntrusteth that the Jordan may run into his mouth.\n\n40:19. In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through\nhis nostrils with stakes.\n\n40:20. Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie\nhis tongue with a cord?\n\nLeviathan. . .The whale or some sea monster.\n\n40:21. Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with\na buckle?\n\n40:22. Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to\nthee?\n\n40:23. Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be\na servant for ever,\n\n40:24. Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy\nhandmaids?\n\n40:25. Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall merchants divide him?\n\n40:26. Wilt thou fill nets with his skin, and the cabins of fishes with\nhis head?\n\n40:27. Lay thy hand upon him: remember the battle, and speak no more.\n\n40:28. Behold his hope shall fail him, and in the sight of all he shall\nbe cast down.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 41\n\n\nA further description of the leviathan.\n\n41:1. I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel, for who can\nresist my countenance?\n\n41:2. Who hath given me before that I should repay him? All things that\nare under heaven are mine.\n\n41:3. I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make\nsupplication.\n\n41:4. Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the\nmidst of his mouth?\n\n41:5. Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round\nabout.\n\n41:6. His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales\npressing upon one another.\n\n41:7. One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come\nbetween them:\n\n41:8. They stick one to another and they hold one another fast, and\nshall not be separated.\n\n41:9. His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the\neyelids of the morning.\n\n41:10. Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire.\n\n41:11. Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and\nboiling.\n\n41:12. His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his\nmouth.\n\n41:13. In his neck strength shall dwell, and want goeth before his\nface.\n\n41:14. The members of his flesh cleave one to another: he shall send\nlightnings against him, and they shall not be carried to another place.\n\n41:15. His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith's\nanvil,\n\n41:16. When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being\naffrighted shall purify themselves.\n\nAngels. . .Elim, Hebrew: which signifies here, the mighty, the most\nvaliant, shall fear this monstrous fish, and in their fear shall seek\nto be purified.\n\n41:17. When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, nor\na spear, nor a breastplate.\n\n41:18. For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.\n\n41:19. The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling\nare to him like stubble.\n\n41:20. As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to\nscorn who shaketh the spear.\n\n41:21. The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold\nunder him like mire.\n\nUnder him. . .He shall not value the beams of the sun; and gold to him\nshall be like mire.\n\n41:22. He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it\nas when ointments boil.\n\n41:23. A path shall shine after him, he shall esteem the deep as\ngrowing old.\n\nThe deep as growing old. . .Growing hoary, as it were with the froth\nwhich he leaves behind him.\n\n41:24. There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who\nwas made to fear no one,\n\n41:25. He beholdeth every high thing, he is king over all the children\nof pride.\n\nHe is king, etc. . .He is superior in strength to all that are great and\nstrong amongst living creatures: mystically it is understood of the\ndevil, who is king over all the proud.\n\n\n\nJob Chapter 42\n\n\nJob submits himself. God pronounces in his favour. Job offers sacrifice\nfor his friends. He is blessed with riches and children, and dies\nhappily,\n\n42:1. Then Job answered the Lord, and said:\n\n42:2. I know that thou canst do all things, and no thought is hid from\nthee.\n\n42:3. Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore I\nhave spoken unwisely, and things that above measure exceeded my\nknowledge.\n\n42:4. Hear, and I will speak: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.\n\n42:5. With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye\nseeth thee.\n\n42:6. Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.\n\n42:7. And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to\nEliphaz the Themanite: My wrath is kindled against thee, and against\nthy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right\nbefore me, as my servant Job hath.\n\n42:8. Take unto you therefore seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my\nservant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant Job\nshall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed\nto you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant\nJob hath.\n\n42:9. So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the\nNaamathite went, and did as the Lord had spoken to them, and the Lord\naccepted the face of Job.\n\n42:10. The Lord also was turned at the penance of Job, when he prayed\nfor his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.\n\n42:11. And all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and all\nthat knew him before, and they ate bread with him in his house: and\nbemoaned him, and comforted him upon all the evil that God had brought\nupon him. And every man gave him one ewe, and one earring of gold.\n\n42:12. And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his\nbeginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels,\nand a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.\n\n42:13. And he had seven sons, and three daughters.\n\n42:14. And he called the name of one Dies, and the name of the second\nCassia, and the name of the third Cornustibii.\n\n42:15. And there were not found in all the earth women so beautiful as\nthe daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among\ntheir brethren.\n\n42:16. And Job lived after these things, a hundred and forty years, and\nhe saw his children, and his children's children, unto the fourth\ngeneration, and he died an old man, and full of days.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament \u2014 Part 1","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":434851}