Bible Reading May 3-6
World English Bible
May
3
Deuteronomy
21, 22
Deu
21:1 If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives
you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has
struck him;
Deu
21:2 then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they
shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:
Deu
21:3 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain
man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd,
which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;
Deu
21:4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a
valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and
shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
Deu
21:5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh
your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of
Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every
stroke be.
Deu
21:6 All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man,
shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the
valley;
Deu
21:7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this
blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
Deu
21:8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed,
and don't allow innocent blood to remain
in the midst of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven them.
Deu
21:9 So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you,
when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
Deu
21:10 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh
your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away
captive,
Deu
21:11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a
desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;
Deu
21:12 then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall
shave her head, and pare her nails;
Deu
21:13 and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her,
and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother
a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her
husband, and she shall be your wife.
Deu
21:14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let
her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money,
you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
Deu
21:15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated,
and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and
if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;
Deu
21:16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to
inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the
beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the
firstborn:
Deu
21:17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated,
by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the
beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
Deu
21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey
the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they
chasten him, will not listen to them;
Deu
21:19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and
bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his
place;
Deu
21:20 and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is
stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton,
and a drunkard.
Deu
21:21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones:
so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel
shall hear, and fear.
Deu
21:22 If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put
to death, and you hang him on a tree;
Deu
21:23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall
surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of
God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you
for an inheritance.
Deu
22:1 You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and
hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your
brother.
Deu
22:2 If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him,
then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you
until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.
Deu
22:3 So you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with his
garment; and so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother's,
which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.
Deu
22:4 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down
by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to
lift them up again.
Deu
22:5 A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put
on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination
to Yahweh your God.
Deu
22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any
tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting
on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the
young:
Deu
22:7 you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to
yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your
days.
Deu
22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement
for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man
fall from there.
Deu
22:9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest
the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the
increase of the vineyard.
Deu
22:10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
Deu
22:11 You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.
Deu
22:12 You shall make yourselves fringes on the four borders of your
cloak, with which you cover yourself.
Deu
22:13 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her,
Deu
22:14 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name
on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I
didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;
Deu
22:15 then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take
and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the
elders of the city in the gate;
Deu
22:16 and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, I gave my
daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;
Deu
22:17 and behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, I
didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these
are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. They shall spread the
garment before the elders of the city.
Deu
22:18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
Deu
22:19 and they shall fine him one hundred shekels
of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he
has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be
his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
Deu
22:20 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were
not found in the young lady;
Deu
22:21 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her
father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with
stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute
in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst
of you.
Deu
22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband,
then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and
the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.
Deu
22:23 If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married
to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
Deu
22:24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city,
and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she
didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled
his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of
you.
Deu
22:25 But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in
the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only
who lay with her shall die:
Deu
22:26 but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no
sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor,
and kills him, even so is this matter;
Deu
22:27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady
cried, and there was none to save her.
Deu
22:28 If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be
married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
Deu
22:29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father
fifty shekels
of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he
may not put her away all his days.
Deu
22:30 A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover
his father's skirt.
Deuteronomy
23, 24
Deu
23:1 He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut
off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
Deu
23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to
the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of
Yahweh.
Deu
23:3 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of
Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them
enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever:
Deu
23:4 because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the
way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against
you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
Deu
23:5 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but
Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because
Yahweh your God loved you.
Deu
23:6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your
days forever.
Deu
23:7 You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you
shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his
land.
Deu
23:8 The children of the third generation who are born to them shall
enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
Deu
23:9 When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall
keep yourselves from every evil thing.
Deu
23:10 If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of
that which happens him by night, then shall he go outside of the
camp. He shall not come within the camp:
Deu
23:11 but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself
in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.
Deu
23:12 You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you
shall go forth abroad:
Deu
23:13 and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall
be, when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn
back and cover that which comes from you:
Deu
23:14 for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp, to
deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore your
camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and
turn away from you.
Deu
23:15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped
from his master to you:
Deu
23:16 he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place
which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him
best: you shall not oppress him.
Deu
23:17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel,
neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Deu
23:18 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of
a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow: for even both
these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deu
23:19 You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of
money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on
interest:
Deu
23:20 to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother
you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in
all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess
it.
Deu
23:21 When you shall vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be
slack to pay it: for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you;
and it would be sin in you.
Deu
23:22 But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.
Deu
23:23 That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do;
according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill offering,
which you have promised with your mouth.
Deu
23:24 When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat
of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any
in your vessel.
Deu
23:25 When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you
may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to
your neighbor's standing grain.
Deu
24:1 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if
she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly
thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it
in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Deu
24:2 When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be
another man's wife.
Deu
24:3 If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of
divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or
if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
Deu
24:4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again
to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination
before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh
your God gives you for an inheritance.
Deu
24:5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army,
neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home
one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
Deu
24:6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge;
for he takes a man's
life to pledge.
Deu
24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children
of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that
thief shall die: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of
you.
Deu
24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe
diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites
shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
Deu
24:9 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you
came forth out of Egypt.
Deu
24:10 When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall
not go into his house to get his pledge.
Deu
24:11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall
bring forth the pledge outside to you.
Deu
24:12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
Deu
24:13 you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes
down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall
be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
Deu
24:14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy,
whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your
land within your gates:
Deu
24:15 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun
go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry
against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
Deu
24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children,
neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man
shall be put to death for his own sin.
Deu
24:17 You shall not wrest the justice due
to the foreigner, or
to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;
Deu
24:18 but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt,
and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do
this thing.
Deu
24:19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a
sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for
the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh
your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deu
24:20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the
boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and
for the widow.
Deu
24:21 When you gather the grapes of
your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be
for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deu
24:22 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of
Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
Deuteronomy
25, 26
Deu
25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to
judgment, and the judges
judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the
wicked;
Deu
25:2 and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that
the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his
face, according to his wickedness, by number.
Deu
25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he
should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your
brother should seem vile to you.
Deu
25:4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the
grain.
Deu
25:5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no
son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger:
her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as
wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
Deu
25:6 It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in
the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out
of Israel.
Deu
25:7 If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his
brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My
husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in
Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.
Deu
25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him:
and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her;
Deu
25:9 then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of
the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his
face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man
who does not build up his brother's house.
Deu
25:10 His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has
his shoe untied.
Deu
25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the
one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who
strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;
Deu
25:12 then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.
Deu
25:13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a
small.
Deu
25:14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and
a small.
Deu
25:15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a
perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land
which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deu
25:16 For all who do such things, even
all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deu
25:17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth
out of Egypt;
Deu
25:18 how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all
who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he
didn't fear God.
Deu
25:19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest
from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God
gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out
the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.
Deu
26:1 It shall be, when you are come in to the land which Yahweh your
God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein,
Deu
26:2 that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the
ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God
gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the
place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell
there.
Deu
26:3 You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and
tell him, I profess this day to Yahweh your God, that I am come to
the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.
Deu
26:4 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it
down before the altar of Yahweh your God.
Deu
26:5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, A Syrian ready
to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned
there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty,
and populous.
Deu
26:6 The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on
us hard bondage:
Deu
26:7 and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh
heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our
oppression;
Deu
26:8 and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand,
and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs,
and with wonders;
Deu
26:9 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this
land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deu
26:10 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the
ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me. You shall set it down
before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.
Deu
26:11 You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has
given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the
foreigner who is in the midst of you.
Deu
26:12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your
increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you
shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and
to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
Deu
26:13 You shall say before Yahweh your God, I have put away the holy
things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and
to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to
all your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not
transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
Deu
26:14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away
of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened
to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done according to all that you
have commanded me.
Deu
26:15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless
your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you
swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deu
26:16 This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and
ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart,
and with all your soul.
Deu
26:17 You have declared Yahweh this day to be your God, and that you
would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments,
and his ordinances, and listen to his voice:
Deu
26:18 and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his
own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all
his commandments;
Deu
26:19 and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in
praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people
to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
Deuteronomy
27, 28
Deu
27:1 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying,
Keep all the commandment which I command you this day.
Deu
27:2 It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to
the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself
up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:
Deu
27:3 and you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you
have passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your
God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God
of your fathers, has promised you.
Deu
27:4 It shall be, when you have passed over the Jordan, that you
shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in Mount
Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.
Deu
27:5 There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of
stones: you shall lift up no iron tool
on them.
Deu
27:6 You shall build the altar of Yahweh your God of uncut stones;
and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh your God:
Deu
27:7 and you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there;
and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.
Deu
27:8 You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very
plainly.
Deu
27:9 Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying,
Keep silence, and listen, Israel: this day you have become the people
of Yahweh your God.
Deu
27:10 You shall therefore obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and do
his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day.
Deu
27:11 Moses commanded the people the same day, saying,
Deu
27:12 These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when
you have passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and
Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.
Deu
27:13 These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad,
and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
Deu
27:14 The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with
a loud voice,
Deu
27:15 Cursed be the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an
abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and
sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Deu
27:16 Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All
the people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:17 Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. All the
people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:18 Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. All
the people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:19 Cursed be he who wrests the justice due
to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say,
Amen.
Deu
27:20 Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has
uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:21 Cursed be he who lies with any manner of animal. All the
people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:22 Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his
father, or the daughter of his mother. All the people shall say,
Amen.
Deu
27:23 Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people
shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:24 Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret. All the
people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:25 Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All
the people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:26 Cursed be he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do
them. All the people shall say, Amen.
Deu
28:1 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of
Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I
command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you on high above
all the nations of the earth:
Deu
28:2 and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if
you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
Deu
28:3 You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in
the field.
Deu
28:4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of
your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your
livestock, and the young of your flock.
Deu
28:5 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
Deu
28:6 You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed
when you go out.
Deu
28:7 Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be
struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will
flee before you seven ways.
Deu
28:8 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in
all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land
which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deu
28:9 Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he
has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your
God, and walk in his ways.
Deu
28:10 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by
the name of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you.
Deu
28:11 Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your
body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your
ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
Deu
28:12 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give
the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of
your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not
borrow.
Deu
28:13 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall
be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to
the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day, to
observe and to do them,
Deu
28:14 and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command
you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other
gods to serve them.
Deu
28:15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice
of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his
statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall
come on you, and overtake you.
Deu
28:16 You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in
the field.
Deu
28:17 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed.
Deu
28:18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase
of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.
Deu
28:19 You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed
when you go out.
Deu
28:20 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all
that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you
perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have
forsaken me.
Deu
28:21 Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has
consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.
Deu
28:22 Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and
with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with
blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.
Deu
28:23 Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth
that is under you shall be iron.
Deu
28:24 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from
the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.
Deu
28:25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you
shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before
them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms
of the earth.
Deu
28:26 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to
the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them
away.
Deu
28:27 Yahweh will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the
tumors, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not
be healed.
Deu
28:28 Yahweh will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and
with astonishment of heart;
Deu
28:29 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in
darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be
only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save
you.
Deu
28:30 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her:
you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall
plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.
Deu
28:31 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat
of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your
face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to
your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.
Deu
28:32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people;
and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day:
and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand.
Deu
28:33 The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation
which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and
crushed always;
Deu
28:34 so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you
shall see.
Deu
28:35 Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a
sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot
to the crown of your head.
Deu
28:36 Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over
you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and
there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.
Deu
28:37 You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword,
among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away.
Deu
28:38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather
little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Deu
28:39 You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall
neither drink of the wine, nor gather the
grapes; for the worm shall eat them.
Deu
28:40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but
you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast
its fruit.
Deu
28:41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be
yours; for they shall go into captivity.
Deu
28:42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust
possess.
Deu
28:43 The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above
you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
Deu
28:44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall
be the head, and you shall be the tail.
Deu
28:45 All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and
overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to
the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his
statutes which he commanded you:
Deu
28:46 and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on
your seed forever.
Deu
28:47 Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and
with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
Deu
28:48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send
against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want
of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he
has destroyed you.
Deu
28:49 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end
of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall
not understand;
Deu
28:50 a nation of fierce facial expressions, that shall not regard
the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,
Deu
28:51 and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of
your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you
grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young
of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
Deu
28:52 They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and
fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your
land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all
your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.
Deu
28:53 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your
sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in
the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress
you.
Deu
28:54 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye
shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom,
and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;
Deu
28:55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his
children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the
siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in
all your gates.
Deu
28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not
adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness
and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her
bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
Deu
28:57 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet,
and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them
for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress
with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
Deu
28:58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that
are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful
name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD;
Deu
28:59 then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues
of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore
sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Deu
28:60 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which
you were afraid of; and they shall cling to you.
Deu
28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in
the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you, until you are
destroyed.
Deu
28:62 You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars
of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of
Yahweh your God.
Deu
28:63 It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you
good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause
you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off
the land where you go in to possess it.
Deu
28:64 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of
the earth even to the other end of the earth; and there you shall
serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers,
even wood and stone.
Deu
28:65 Among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be
no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a
trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;
Deu
28:66 and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall
fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
Deu
28:67 In the morning you shall say, Would it were evening! and at
evening you shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your
heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you
shall see.
Deu
28:68 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way
of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you
shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for
bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.
Luke 18
Luk
18:1 He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and
not give up,
Luk
18:2 saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't
fear God, and didn't respect man.
Luk
18:3 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying,
'Defend me from my adversary!'
Luk
18:4 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself,
'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
Luk
18:5 yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else
she will wear me out by her continual coming.' "
Luk
18:6 The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.
Luk
18:7 Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day
and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
Luk
18:8 I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when
the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
Luk
18:9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced
of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
Luk
18:10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a
Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
Luk
18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I
thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners,
unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
Luk
18:12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'
Luk
18:13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift
up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful
to me, a sinner!'
Luk
18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather
than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but
he who humbles himself will be exalted."
Luk
18:15 They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might
touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
Luk
18:16 Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children
to come to me, and don't hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs
to such as these.
Luk
18:17 Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the
Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."
Luk
18:18 A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what
shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
Luk
18:19 Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is
good, except one-God.
Luk
18:20 You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't
murder,' 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your
father and your mother.' "
Luk
18:21 He said, "I have observed all these things from my youth
up."
Luk
18:22 When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still
lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the
poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."
Luk
18:23 But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was
very rich.
Luk
18:24 Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it
is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!
Luk
18:25 For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's
eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
Luk
18:26 Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?"
Luk
18:27 But he said, "The things which are impossible with men
are possible with God."
Luk
18:28 Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed
you."
Luk
18:29 He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no
one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or
children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,
Luk
18:30 who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the
world to come, eternal life."
Luk
18:31 He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we
are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written
through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.
Luk
18:32 For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked,
treated shamefully, and spit on.
Luk
18:33 They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise
again."
Luk
18:34 They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden
from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said.
Luk
18:35 It happened, as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat
by the road, begging.
Luk
18:36 Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant.
Luk
18:37 They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.
Luk
18:38 He cried out, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on
me!"
Luk
18:39 Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet;
but he cried out all the more, "You son of David, have mercy on
me!"
Luk
18:40 Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When
he had come near, he asked him,
Luk
18:41 "What do you want me to do?" He said, "Lord,
that I may see again."
Luk
18:42 Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has
healed you."
Luk
18:43 Immediately he received his sight, and followed him,
glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.
Luke 19
Luk
19:1 He entered and was passing through Jericho.
Luk
19:2 There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector,
and he was rich.
Luk
19:3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the
crowd, because he was short.
Luk
19:4 He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see
him, for he was to pass that way.
Luk
19:5 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and
said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must
stay at your house."
Luk
19:6 He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
Luk
19:7 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone
in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."
Luk
19:8 Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half
of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything
of anyone, I restore four times as much."
Luk
19:9 Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this
house, because he also is a son of Abraham.
Luk
19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was
lost."
Luk
19:11 As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable,
because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of
God would be revealed immediately.
Luk
19:12 He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far
country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
Luk
19:13 He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins,
and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'
Luk
19:14 But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him,
saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'
Luk
19:15 "It happened when he had come back again, having received
the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given
the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had
gained by conducting business.
Luk
19:16 The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made
ten more minas.'
Luk
19:17 "He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because
you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority
over ten cities.'
Luk
19:18 "The second came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has made five
minas.'
Luk
19:19 "So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'
Luk
19:20 Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept
laid away in a handkerchief,
Luk
19:21 for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up
that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'
Luk
19:22 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you,
you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up
that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.
Luk
19:23 Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my
coming, I might have earned interest on it?'
Luk
19:24 He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him,
and give it to him who has the ten minas.'
Luk
19:25 "They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!'
Luk
19:26 'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given;
but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken
away from him.
Luk
19:27 But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign
over them here, and kill them before me.' "
Luk
19:28 Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to
Jerusalem.
Luk
19:29 It happened, when he drew near to Bethsphage and Bethany, at
the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,
Luk
19:30 saying, "Go your way into the village on the other side,
in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no man
ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it.
Luk
19:31 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say to him: 'The
Lord needs it.' "
Luk
19:32 Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had
told them.
Luk
19:33 As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, "Why
are you untying the colt?"
Luk
19:34 They said, "The Lord needs it."
Luk
19:35 They brought it to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the colt,
and set Jesus on them.
Luk
19:36 As he went, they spread their cloaks in the way.
Luk
19:37 As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of
Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and
praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had
seen,
Luk
19:38 saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the
Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!"
Luk
19:39 Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him,
"Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"
Luk
19:40 He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent,
the stones would cry out."
Luk
19:41 When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,
Luk
19:42 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things
which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
Luk
19:43 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up
a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
Luk
19:44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground.
They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't
know the time of your visitation."
Luk
19:45 He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who
bought and sold in it,
Luk
19:46 saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of
prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"
Luk
19:47 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and
the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy
him.
Luk
19:48 They couldn't find what they might do, for all the people hung
on to every word that he said.
Luke 20
Luk
20:1 It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people
in the temple and preaching the Good News, that the priests and
scribes came to him with the elders.
Luk
20:2 They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do
these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"
Luk
20:3 He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell
me:
Luk
20:4 the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?"
Luk
20:5 They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From
heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?'
Luk
20:6 But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for
they are persuaded that John was a prophet."
Luk
20:7 They answered that they didn't know where it was from.
Luk
20:8 Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what
authority I do these things."
Luk
20:9 He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a
vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another
country for a long time.
Luk
20:10 At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to
collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat
him, and sent him away empty.
Luk
20:11 He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and
treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
Luk
20:12 He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him
out.
Luk
20:13 The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send
my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'
Luk
20:14 "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among
themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the
inheritance may be ours.'
Luk
20:15 They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What
therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?
Luk
20:16 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the
vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it
never be!"
Luk
20:17 But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that
is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made
the chief cornerstone?'
Luk
20:18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but
it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."
Luk
20:19 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him
that very hour, but they feared the people-for they knew he had
spoken this parable against them.
Luk
20:20 They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be
righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to
deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
Luk
20:21 They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach
what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way
of God.
Luk
20:22 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
Luk
20:23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why
do you test me?
Luk
20:24 Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?"
They answered, "Caesar's."
Luk
20:25 He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are
Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
Luk
20:26 They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people.
They marveled at his answer, and were silent.
Luk
20:27 Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there
is a resurrection.
Luk
20:28 They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a
man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother
should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.
Luk
20:29 There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife,
and died childless.
Luk
20:30 The second took her as wife, and he died childless.
Luk
20:31 The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no
children, and died.
Luk
20:32 Afterward the woman also died.
Luk
20:33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be?
For the seven had her as a wife."
Luk
20:34 Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and
are given in marriage.
Luk
20:35 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and
the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in
marriage.
Luk
20:36 For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and
are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
Luk
20:37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush,
when he called the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob.'
Luk
20:38 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all
are alive to him."
Luk
20:39 Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well."
Luk
20:40 They didn't dare to ask him any more questions.
Luk
20:41 He said to them, "Why do they say that the Christ is
David's son?
Luk
20:42 David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my
Lord, "Sit at my right hand,
Luk
20:43 until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet." '
Luk
20:44 "David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?"
Luk
20:45 In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,
Luk
20:46 "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes,
and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the
synagogues, and the best places at feasts;
Luk
20:47 who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long
prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."
