World English Bible
May
18
Joshua
17, 18
Jos
17:1 This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the
firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the
father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had
Gilead and Bashan.
Jos
17:2 So this was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according
to their families: for the children of Abiezer, for the children of
Helek, for the children of Asriel, for the children of Shechem, for
the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were
the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their
families.
Jos
17:3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son
of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these
are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and
Tirzah.
Jos
17:4 They came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the
son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, "Yahweh commanded
Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers." Therefore
according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance
among the brothers of their father.
Jos
17:5 Ten parts fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and
Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;
Jos
17:6 because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his
sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of
Manasseh.
Jos
17:7 The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is
before Shechem. The border went along to the right hand, to the
inhabitants of En Tappuah.
Jos
17:8 The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the
border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.
Jos
17:9 The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the
brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh.
The border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and ended
at the sea.
Jos
17:10 Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's,
and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and
to Issachar on the east.
Jos
17:11 Manasseh had three heights in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean
and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor
and its towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, and the
inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo
and its towns.
Jos
17:12 Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out the
inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that
land.
Jos
17:13 It happened, when the children of Israel had grown strong,
that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn't utterly
drive them out.
Jos
17:14 The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why have
you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since I am
a great people, because Yahweh has blessed me so far?"
Jos
17:15 Joshua said to them, "If you are a great people, go up to
the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the
Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is
too narrow for you."
Jos
17:16 The children of Joseph said, "The hill country is not
enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley
have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its
towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel."
Jos
17:17 Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to
Manasseh, saying, "You are a great people, and have great power.
You shall not have one lot only;
Jos
17:18 but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest,
you shall cut it down, and it's farthest extent shall be yours; for
you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of
iron, and though they are strong."
Jos
18:1 The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled
themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there.
The land was subdued before them.
Jos
18:2 Seven tribes remained among the children of Israel, which had
not yet divided their inheritance.
Jos
18:3 Joshua said to the children of Israel, "How long will you
neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your
fathers, has given you?
Jos
18:4 Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe. I will send
them, and they shall arise, walk through the land, and describe it
according to their inheritance; and they shall come to me.
Jos
18:5 They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall live in
his borders on the south, and the house of Joseph shall live in their
borders on the north.
Jos
18:6 You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the
description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before
Yahweh our God.
Jos
18:7 For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood
of Yahweh is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of
Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward,
which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them."
Jos
18:8 The men arose and went. Joshua commanded those who went to
survey the land, saying, "Go walk through the land, survey it,
and come again to me. I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in
Shiloh."
Jos
18:9 The men went and passed through the land, and surveyed it by
cities into seven portions in a book. They came to Joshua to the camp
at Shiloh.
Jos
18:10 Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh. There
Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their
divisions.
Jos
18:11 The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up
according to their families. The border of their lot went out between
the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
Jos
18:12 Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The
border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up
through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth
Aven.
Jos
18:13 The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz
(the same is Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth
Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the
lower.
Jos
18:14 The border extended, and turned around on the west quarter
southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward;
and ended at Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), a city of
the children of Judah. This was the west quarter.
Jos
18:15 The south quarter was from the farthest part of Kiriath
Jearim. The border went out westward, and went out to the spring of
the waters of Nephtoah.
Jos
18:16 The border went down to the farthest part of the mountain that
lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley
of Rephaim northward. It went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the
side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel.
Jos
18:17 It extended northward, went out at En Shemesh, and went out to
Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adummim. It went down
to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
Jos
18:18 It passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward,
and went down to the Arabah.
Jos
18:19 The border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward;
and the border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south
end of the Jordan. This was the south border.
Jos
18:20 The Jordan was its border on the east quarter. This was the
inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders around it,
according to their families.
Jos
18:21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin
according to their families were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,
Jos
18:22 Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
Jos
18:23 Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,
Jos
18:24 Chephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their
villages.
Jos
18:25 Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
Jos
18:26 Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,
Jos
18:27 Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,
Jos
18:28 Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (the same is Jerusalem), Gibeath,
and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the
inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
May
19
Joshua
19, 20
Jos
19:1 The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the
children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was
in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah.
Jos
19:2 They had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,
Jos
19:3 Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem,
Jos
19:4 Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,
Jos
19:5 Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah,
Jos
19:6 Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their
villages;
Jos
19:7 Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
Jos
19:8 and all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath
Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the
children of Simeon according to their families.
Jos
19:9 Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance of
the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children of Judah was
too much for them. Therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance
in the midst of their inheritance.
Jos
19:10 The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to
their families. The border of their inheritance was to Sarid.
Jos
19:11 Their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to
Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook that is before Jokneam.
Jos
19:12 It turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border
of Chisloth Tabor. It went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia.
Jos
19:13 From there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher, to
Ethkazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah.
Jos
19:14 The border turned around it on the north to Hannathon; and it
ended at the valley of Iphtah El;
Jos
19:15 Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve
cities with their villages.
Jos
19:16 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according
to their families, these cities with their villages.
Jos
19:17 The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of
Issachar according to their families.
Jos
19:18 Their border was to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,
Jos
19:19 Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,
Jos
19:20 Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez,
Jos
19:21 Remeth, Engannim, En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez.
Jos
19:22 The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh.
Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
Jos
19:23 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
Jos
19:24 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher
according to their families.
Jos
19:25 Their border was Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph,
Jos
19:26 Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It reached to Carmel westward, and
to Shihorlibnath.
Jos
19:27 It turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to
Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and
Neiel. It went out to Cabul on the left hand,
Jos
19:28 and Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Sidon.
Jos
19:29 The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of Tyre; and
the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the region of
Achzib;
Jos
19:30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities with their
villages.
Jos
19:31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher
according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Jos
19:32 The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even for
the children of Naphtali according to their families.
Jos
19:33 Their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim,
Adaminekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakkum. It ended at the Jordan.
Jos
19:34 The border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from
there to Hukkok. It reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to
Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.
Jos
19:35 The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath,
Chinnereth,
Jos
19:36 Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,
Jos
19:37 Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor,
Jos
19:38 Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; nineteen
cities with their villages.
Jos
19:39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.
Jos
19:40 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan
according to their families.
Jos
19:41 The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
Jos
19:42 Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
Jos
19:43 Elon, Timnah, Ekron,
Jos
19:44 Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,
Jos
19:45 Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon,
Jos
19:46 Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa.
Jos
19:47 The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for
the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it,
and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived
therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
Jos
19:48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan
according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Jos
19:49 So they made an end of distributing the land for inheritance
by its borders. The children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua
the son of Nun in the midst of them.
Jos
19:50 According to the commandment of Yahweh, they gave him the city
which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and
he built the city, and lived there.
Jos
19:51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua
the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of
the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh
before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. So they made an
end of dividing the land.
Jos
20:1 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
Jos
20:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Assign the
cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
Jos
20:3 that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally or
unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge
from the avenger of blood.
Jos
20:4 He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the
entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears
of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with
them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.
Jos
20:5 If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not
deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his
neighbor unintentionally, and didn't hate him before.
Jos
20:6 He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the
congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that
shall be in those days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to
his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.' "
Jos
20:7 They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of
Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba
(the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
Jos
20:8 Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in
the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in
Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe
of Manasseh.
Jos
20:9 These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel,
and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any
person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of
the avenger of blood, until he stands before the congregation.
May 18,
19
John 2
Joh 2:1
The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus'
mother was there.
Joh 2:2
Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.
Joh 2:3
When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no
wine."
Joh 2:4
Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you
and me? My hour has not yet come."
Joh 2:5
His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do
it."
Joh 2:6
Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews'
manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.
Joh 2:7
Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." They
filled them up to the brim.
Joh 2:8
He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler
of the feast." So they took it.
Joh 2:9
When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and
didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the
water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,
Joh
2:10 and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and
when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have
kept the good wine until now!"
Joh
2:11 This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and
revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
Joh
2:12 After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his
brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
Joh
2:13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem.
Joh
2:14 He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves,
and the changers of money sitting.
Joh
2:15 He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both
the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and
overthrew their tables.
Joh
2:16 To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things
out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"
Joh
2:17 His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for
your house will eat me up."
Joh
2:18 The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show
us, seeing that you do these things?"
Joh
2:19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three
days I will raise it up."
Joh
2:20 The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple
in building, and will you raise it up in three days?"
Joh
2:21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.
Joh
2:22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples
remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and
the word which Jesus had said.
Joh
2:23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast,
many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
Joh
2:24 But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew
everyone,
Joh
2:25 and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning
man; for he himself knew what was in man.
