This section lists all the verses in the books from Bereshith to the Second Book of Dibre haYamim {2 Chronicles} that include the Name Yah
Book 1: Bereshith {Genesis}
CHAPTER 2
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
7 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
15 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
18 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19 And out of the ground Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
21 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
CHAPTER 3
NOW the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath the Almighty said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
8 And they heard the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty amongst the trees of the garden.
9 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
13 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
23 Therefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
CHAPTER 4
AND Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
6 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
9 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?
13 And Cain said unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
15 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
16 And Cain went out from the presence of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 5
29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath cursed.
CHAPTER 6
3 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
6 And it repented Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 7
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
5 And Noah did according unto all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded him.
16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as the Almighty had commanded him: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shut him in.
CHAPTER 8
20 And Noah builded an altar unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing smelled a sweet savour; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
CHAPTER 9
26 And he said, Blessed be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
CHAPTER 10
9 He was a mighty hunter before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 11
5 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
8 So Yah the Eternally Self-Existing scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Yah the Eternally Self-Existing scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
CHAPTER 12
NOW Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
4 So Abram departed, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
7 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, who appeared unto him.
8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-El, and pitched his tent, having Beth-El on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and called upon the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
17 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.
CHAPTER 13
4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing exceedingly.
14 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 14
22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the most high the Almighty, the possessor of heaven and earth,
CHAPTER 15
AFTER these things the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
2 And Abram said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
4 And, behold, the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
6 And he believed in Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
7 And he said unto him, I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
8 And he said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
18 In the same day Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
CHAPTER 16
2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing judge between me and thee.
7 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
9 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
10 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
11 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath heard thy affliction.
13 And she called the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that spake unto her, Thou the Almighty seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
CHAPTER 17
AND when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty the Almighty; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
CHAPTER 18
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
13 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
14 Is any thing too hard for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
17 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to do justice and judgment; that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
20 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
26 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which am but dust and ashes:
30 And he said unto him, Oh let not Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.
32 And he said, Oh let not Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.
33 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
CHAPTER 19
13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath sent us to destroy it.
14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; Yah the Eternally Self-Existing being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
24 Then Yah the Eternally Self-Existing rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing out of heaven;
27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
CHAPTER 20
4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
18 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
CHAPTER 21
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing visited Sarah as he had said, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the everlasting the Almighty.
CHAPTER 22
2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Yitshaq, whom thou Chesedst, and get thee into the land of MoriYah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
11 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
14 And Abraham called the name of that place Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Provides: as it is said to this day, In the mount of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing it shall be seen.
15 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
CHAPTER 24
AND Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had blessed Abraham in all things.
3 And I will make thee swear by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the Almighty of heaven, and the Almighty of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
7 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
12 And he said, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.
21 And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had made his journey prosperous or not.
26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
27 And he said, Blessed be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing led me to the house of my master’s brethren.
31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.
35 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
40 And he said unto me, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house:
42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
44 And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath appointed out for my master’s son.
48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and blessed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter unto his son.
50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s wife, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath spoken.
52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham’s servant heard their words, he worshipped Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, bowing himself to the earth.
56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
CHAPTER 25
21 And Yitshaq intreated Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for his wife, because she was barren: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
23 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
CHAPTER 26
2 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
12 Then Yitshaq sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing blessed him.
22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
24 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the Almighty of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.
25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and pitched his tent there: and there Yitshaq’s servants digged a well.
28 And they said, We saw certainly that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Yahuwdiyt the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
CHAPTER 27
7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing before my death.
20 And Yitshaq said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty brought it to me.
27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath blessed:
CHAPTER 28
13 And, behold, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing stood above it, and said, I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of Abraham thy father, and the Almighty of Yitshaq: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
16 And Ya‛aqoḇ awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is in this place; and I knew it not.
21 So that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be my the Almighty:
CHAPTER 29
31 And when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will Chesed me.
33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.
35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: therefore she called his name Yahoowdah; and left bearing.
CHAPTER 30
24 And she called his name Yahooceph; and said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall add to me another son.
25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Yahooceph, that Ya‛aqoḇ said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.
27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath blessed me for thy sake.
30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
CHAPTER 31
3 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Ya‛aqoḇ, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
49 And Mizpah; for he said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
CHAPTER 32
9 And Ya‛aqoḇ said, O the Almighty of my father Abraham, and the Almighty of my father Yitshaq, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
CHAPTER 33
2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Yahooceph hindermost.
7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Yahooceph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
CHAPTER 35
23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Ya‛aqoḇ’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Yahoowdah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
24 The sons of Rachel; Yahooceph, and Benjamin:
CHAPTER 37
2 These are the generations of Ya‛aqoḇ. Yahooceph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Yahooceph brought unto his father their evil report.
3 Now YsraEl Cheseded Yahooceph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
5 And Yahooceph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
13 And YsraEl said unto Yahooceph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.
17 And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Yahooceph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.
23 And it came to pass, when Yahooceph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Yahooceph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;
26 And Yahoowdah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
28 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Yahooceph out of the pit, and sold Yahooceph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Yahooceph into Egypt.
29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Yahooceph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
31 And they took Yahooceph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
33 And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Yahooceph is without doubt rent in pieces.
CHAPTER 38
AND it came to pass at that time, that Yahoowdah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
2 And Yahoowdah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.
6 And Yahoowdah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.
7 And Er, Yahoowdah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing slew him.
8 And Yahoowdah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
10 And the thing which he did displeased Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: wherefore he slew him also.
11 Then said Yahoowdah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Yahoowdah’s wife died; and Yahoowdah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
15 When Yahoowdah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.
20 And Yahoowdah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman’s hand: but he found her not.
22 And he returned to Yahoowdah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
23 And Yahoowdah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.
24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Yahoowdah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Yahoowdah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
26 And Yahoowdah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
CHAPTER 39
AND Yahooceph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
2 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was with Yahooceph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
3 And his master saw that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was with him, and that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
4 And Yahooceph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing blessed the Egyptian’s house for Yahooceph’s sake; and the blessing of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
6 And he left all that he had in Yahooceph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Yahooceph was a goodly person, and well favoured.
7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Yahooceph; and she said, Lie with me.
10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Yahooceph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
11 And it came to pass about this time, that Yahooceph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.
20 And Yahooceph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
21 But Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was with Yahooceph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Yahooceph’s hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was with him, and that which he did, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made it to prosper.
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3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Yahooceph was bound.
4 And the captain of the guard charged Yahooceph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
6 And Yahooceph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.
8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Yahooceph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to the Almighty? tell me them, I pray you.
9 And the chief butler told his dream to Yahooceph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
12 And Yahooceph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:
16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Yahooceph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:
18 And Yahooceph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:
22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Yahooceph had interpreted to them.
23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Yahooceph, but forgat him.
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14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Yahooceph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
15 And Pharaoh said unto Yahooceph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.
16 And Yahooceph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: the Almighty shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
17 And Pharaoh said unto Yahooceph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:
25 And Yahooceph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: the Almighty hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
39 And Pharaoh said unto Yahooceph, Forasmuch as the Almighty hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:
41 And Pharaoh said unto Yahooceph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Yahooceph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
44 And Pharaoh said unto Yahooceph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
45 And Pharaoh called Yahooceph’s name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Yahooceph went out over all the land of Egypt.
46 And Yahooceph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Yahooceph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
49 And Yahooceph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
50 And unto Yahooceph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.
51 And Yahooceph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For the Almighty, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.
54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Yahooceph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Yahooceph; what he saith to you, do.
56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Yahooceph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
57 And all countries came into Egypt to Yahooceph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.
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3 And Yahooceph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
4 But Benjamin, Yahooceph’s brother, Ya‛aqoḇ sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
6 And Yahooceph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Yahooceph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
7 And Yahooceph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
8 And Yahooceph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
9 And Yahooceph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
14 And Yahooceph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:
18 And Yahooceph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear the Almighty:
23 And they knew not that Yahooceph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
25 Then Yahooceph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
36 And Ya‛aqoḇ their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Yahooceph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
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3 And Yahoowdah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
8 And Yahoowdah said unto YsraEl his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
15 And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Yahooceph.
16 And when Yahooceph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.
17 And the man did as Yahooceph bade; and the man brought the men into Yahooceph’s house.
18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Yahooceph’s house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
19 And they came near to the steward of Yahooceph’s house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,
24 And the man brought the men into Yahooceph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
25 And they made ready the present against Yahooceph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.
26 And when Yahooceph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.
30 And Yahooceph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
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2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Yahooceph had spoken.
4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Yahooceph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
14 And Yahoowdah and his brethren came to Yahooceph’s house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
15 And Yahooceph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
16 And Yahoowdah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? the Almighty hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
18 Then Yahoowdah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
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THEN Yahooceph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Yahooceph made himself known unto his brethren.
3 And Yahooceph said unto his brethren, I am Yahooceph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
4 And Yahooceph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Yahooceph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Yahooceph, the Almighty hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, Yahooceph’s brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
17 And Pharaoh said unto Yahooceph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
21 And the children of YsraEl did so: and Yahooceph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
26 And told him, saying, Yahooceph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Ya‛aqoḇ’s heart fainted, for he believed them not.
27 And they told him all the words of Yahooceph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Yahooceph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Ya‛aqoḇ their father revived:
28 And YsraEl said, It is enough; Yahooceph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
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4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Yahooceph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
12 And the sons of Yahoowdah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Yahleel.
19 The sons of Rachel Ya‛aqoḇ’s wife; Yahooceph, and Benjamin.
20 And unto Yahooceph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.
24 And the sons of Naphtali; Yahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
27 And the sons of Yahooceph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Ya‛aqoḇ, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
28 And he sent Yahoowdah before him unto Yahooceph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
29 And Yahooceph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet YsraEl his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
30 And YsraEl said unto Yahooceph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
31 And Yahooceph said unto his brethren, and unto his father’s house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father’s house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;
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THEN Yahooceph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
5 And Pharaoh spake unto Yahooceph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:
7 And Yahooceph brought in Ya‛aqoḇ his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Ya‛aqoḇ blessed Pharaoh.
11 And Yahooceph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
12 And Yahooceph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
14 And Yahooceph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Yahooceph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Yahooceph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
16 And Yahooceph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
17 And they brought their cattle unto Yahooceph: and Yahooceph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
20 And Yahooceph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.
23 Then Yahooceph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
26 And Yahooceph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh’s.
29 And the time drew nigh that YsraEl must die: and he called his son Yahooceph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
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AND it came to pass after these things, that one told Yahooceph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
2 And one told Ya‛aqoḇ, and said, Behold, thy son Yahooceph cometh unto thee: and YsraEl strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
3 And Ya‛aqoḇ said unto Yahooceph, the Almighty Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
8 And YsraEl beheld Yahooceph’s sons, and said, Who are these?
9 And Yahooceph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom the Almighty hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
11 And YsraEl said unto Yahooceph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, the Almighty hath shewed me also thy seed.
12 And Yahooceph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
13 And Yahooceph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward YsraEl’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward YsraEl’s right hand, and brought them near unto him.
15 And he blessed Yahooceph, and said, the Almighty, before whom my fathers Abraham and Yitshaq did walk, the Almighty which fed me all my life long unto this day,
17 And when Yahooceph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head.
18 And Yahooceph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
21 And YsraEl said unto Yahooceph, Behold, I die: but the Almighty shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
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8 Yahoowdah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.
9 Yahoowdah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10 The sceptre shall not depart from Yahoowdah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
18 I have waited for thy salvation, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
22 Yahooceph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Yahooceph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
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AND Yahooceph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
2 And Yahooceph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed YsraEl.
4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Yahooceph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
7 And Yahooceph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8 And all the house of Yahooceph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
14 And Yahooceph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
15 And when Yahooceph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Yahooceph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
16 And they sent a messenger unto Yahooceph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
17 So shall ye say unto Yahooceph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the Almighty of thy father. And Yahooceph wept when they spake unto him.
19 And Yahooceph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of the Almighty?
22 And Yahooceph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Yahooceph lived an hundred and ten years.
23 And Yahooceph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Yahooceph’s knees.
24 And Yahooceph said unto his brethren, I die: and the Almighty will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Yitshaq, and to Ya‛aqoḇ.
25 And Yahooceph took an oath of the children of YsraEl, saying, the Almighty will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
26 So Yahooceph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Book 2: Shemoth {Exodus}
Chapter 1
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Yahoowdah,
5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Ya‛aqoḇ were seventy souls: for Yahooceph was in Egypt already.
6 And Yahooceph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Yahooceph.
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2 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
4 And when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing saw that he turned aside to see, the Almighty called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
7 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
15 And the Almighty said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of YsraEl, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of your fathers, the Almighty of Abraham, the Almighty of Yitshaq, and the Almighty of Ya‛aqoḇ, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
16 Go, and gather the elders of YsraEl together, and say unto them, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of your fathers, the Almighty of Abraham, of Yitshaq, and of Ya‛aqoḇ, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of YsraEl, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty.
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AND Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath not appeared unto thee.
2 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
4 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
5 That they may believe that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of their fathers, the Almighty of Abraham, the Almighty of Yitshaq, and the Almighty of Ya‛aqoḇ, hath appeared unto thee.
6 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
10 And Moses said unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, O my Adonay, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
11 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I Yah the Eternally Self-Existing?
14 And the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
19 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
21 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, YsraEl is my son, even my firstborn:
24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing met him, and sought to kill him.
27 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of the Almighty, and kissed him.
28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
30 And Aaron spake all the words which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
31 And the people believed: and when they heard that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had visited the children of YsraEl, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
CHAPTER 5
AND afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
2 And Pharaoh said, Who is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that I should obey his voice to let YsraEl go? I know not Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, neither will I let YsraEl go.
3 And they said, The Almighty of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
17 But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
21 And they said unto them, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
22 And Moses returned unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, Adonay, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?
CHAPTER 6
THEN Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
2 And the Almighty spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
6 Wherefore say unto the children of YsraEl, I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a the Almighty: and ye shall know that I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Yitshaq, and to Ya‛aqoḇ; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
10 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
12 And Moses spake before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, Behold, the children of YsraEl have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
13 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of YsraEl, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of YsraEl out of the land of Egypt.
20 And Amram took him Yahoowkebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.
26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, Bring out the children of YsraEl from the land of Egypt according to their armies.
28 And it came to pass on the day when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt,
29 That Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying, I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.
30 And Moses said before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
CHAPTER 7
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of YsraEl from among them.
6 And Moses and Aaron did as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded them, so did they.
8 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
13 And he hardened Pharaoh’s heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had said.
14 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Pharaoh’s heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.
16 And thou shalt say unto him, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.
17 Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, In this thou shalt know that I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
19 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
22 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had said.
25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had smitten the river.
CHAPTER 8
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
5 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
10 And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty.
12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.
13 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had said.
16 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of the Almighty: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had said.
20 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the midst of the earth.
24 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.
26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
27 We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty, as he shall command us.
28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.
29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
31 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one.
CHAPTER 9
THEN Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
3 Behold, the hand of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.
4 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall sever between the cattle of YsraEl and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children’s of YsraEl.
5 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appointed a set time, saying, To morrow Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall do this thing in the land.
6 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of YsraEl died not one.
8 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
12 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had spoken unto Moses.
13 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
20 He that feared the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:
21 And he that regarded not the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing left his servants and his cattle in the field.
22 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.
23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
28 Intreat Yah the Eternally Self-Existing (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.
29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s.
30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty.
33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of YsraEl go; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had spoken by Moses.
CHAPTER 10
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:
2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
7 And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty: but who are they that shall go?
9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
10 And he said unto them, Let Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.
11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
12 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, and against you.
17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, that he may take away from me this death only.
18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
19 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
20 But Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the children of YsraEl go.
21 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you.
25 And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty.
26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty; and we know not with what we must serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, until we come thither.
27 But Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go.
CHAPTER 11
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.
3 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.
4 And Moses said, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
7 But against any of the children of YsraEl shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing doth put a difference between the Egyptians and YsraEl.
9 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the children of YsraEl go out of his land.
CHAPTER 12
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
23 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of YsraEl in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
28 And the children of YsraEl went away, and did as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
29 And it came to pass, that at midnight Yah the Eternally Self-Existing smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of YsraEl; and go, serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as ye have said.
36 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much observed unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to be observed of all the children of YsraEl in their generations.
43 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
50 Thus did all the children of YsraEl; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did bring the children of YsraEl out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
CHAPTER 13
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yah the Eternally Self-Existing brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
5 And it shall be when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing brought thee out of Egypt.
11 And it shall be when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
12 That thou shalt set apart unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s.
14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand Yah the Eternally Self-Existing brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand Yah the Eternally Self-Existing brought us forth out of Egypt.
19 And Moses took the bones of Yahooceph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of YsraEl, saying, the Almighty will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
21 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
CHAPTER 14
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And they did so.
8 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of YsraEl: and the children of YsraEl went out with an high hand.
10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of YsraEl lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of YsraEl cried out unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he will shew to you today: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
14 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
15 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of YsraEl, that they go forward:
18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch Yah the Eternally Self-Existing looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of YsraEl; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
26 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
30 Thus Yah the Eternally Self-Existing saved YsraEl that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and YsraEl saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
31 And YsraEl saw that great work which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and believed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and his servant Moses.
CHAPTER 15
THEN sang Moses and the children of YsraEl this song unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and spake, saying, I will sing unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
2 Yah is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my the Almighty, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s the Almighty, and I will exalt him.
3 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is a man of war: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is his name.
6 Thy right hand, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
11 Who is like unto thee, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which thy hands have established.
18 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall reign for ever and ever.
19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of YsraEl went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
25 And he cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that healeth thee.
CHAPTER 16
3 And the children of YsraEl said unto them, Would to the Almighty we had died by the hand of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
4 Then said Yah the Eternally Self-Existing unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of YsraEl, At even, then ye shall know that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:
7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; for that he heareth your murmurings against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
8 And Moses said, This shall be, when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of YsraEl, Come near before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: for he hath heard your murmurings.
10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of YsraEl, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared in the cloud.
11 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of YsraEl: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
15 And when the children of YsraEl saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath given you to eat.
16 This is the thing which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
23 And he said unto them, This is that which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath said, To morrow is the rest of the Set-Apart sabbath unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: bake that which ye will bake today, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
25 And Moses said, Eat that today; for today is a sabbath unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: today ye shall not find it in the field.
28 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
29 See, for that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
32 And Moses said, This is the thing which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to be kept for your generations.
34 As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
CHAPTER 17
AND all the congregation of the children of YsraEl journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt Yah the Eternally Self-Existing?
4 And Moses cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
5 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of YsraEl; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of YsraEl, and because they tempted Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, Is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing among us, or not?
9 And Moses said unto Yahooshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of the Almighty in mine hand.
10 So Yahooshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
13 And Yahooshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Yahooshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is my Banner:
16 For he said, Because Yah hath sworn that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
CHAPTER 18
WHEN Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that the Almighty had done for Moses, and for YsraEl his people, and that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had brought YsraEl out of Egypt;
8 And Moses told his father in law all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for YsraEl’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how Yah the Eternally Self-Existing delivered them.
9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had done to YsraEl, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
10 And Jethro said, Blessed be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
11 Now I know that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
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3 And Moses went up unto the Almighty, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Ya‛aqoḇ, and tell the children of YsraEl;
7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded him.
8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
9 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
10 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them today and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
20 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
21 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to gaze, and many of them perish.
22 And let the priests also, which come near to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, sanctify themselves, lest Yah the Eternally Self-Existing break forth upon them.
23 And Moses said unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
24 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, lest he break forth upon them.
CHAPTER 20
2 I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty am a jealous the Almighty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
7 Thou shalt not take the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty in vain; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee.
22 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of YsraEl, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
CHAPTER 22
11 Then shall an oath of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
CHAPTER 23
17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty.
19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
25 And ye shall serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
CHAPTER 24
AND he said unto Moses, Come up unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of YsraEl; and worship ye afar off.
2 And Moses alone shall come near Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath said will we do.
4 And Moses wrote all the words of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of YsraEl.
5 And he sent young men of the children of YsraEl, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath said will we do, and be obedient.
8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath made with you concerning all these words.
12 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Yahooshua: and Moses went up into the mount of the Almighty.
16 And the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
17 And the sight of the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of YsraEl.
CHAPTER 25
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
CHAPTER 27
21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of YsraEl.
CHAPTER 28
12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of YsraEl: and Aaron shall bear their names before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of YsraEl in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the Set-Apart place, for a memorial before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing continually.
30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goeth in before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of YsraEl upon his heart before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing continually.
35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the Set-Apart place before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and when he cometh out, that he die not.
36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
38 And it shall be upon Aaron’s forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the Set-Apart things, which the children of YsraEl shall hallow in all their Set-Apart gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 29
11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
24 And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
25 And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: it is an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
26 And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and it shall be thy part.
28 And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’ by a statute for ever from the children of YsraEl: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of YsraEl of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.
46 And they shall know that I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty.
CHAPTER 30
8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing throughout your generations.
10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most Set-Apart unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
11 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
12 When thou takest the sum of the children of YsraEl after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to make an atonement for your souls.
16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of YsraEl, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of YsraEl before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to make an atonement for your souls.
17 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
22 Moreover Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
34 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
37 And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee Set-Apart for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 31
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
2 See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Yahoowdah:
12 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
13 Speak thou also unto the children of YsraEl, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that doth sanctify you.
15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, Set-Apart to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
17 It is a sign between me and the children of YsraEl for ever: for in six days Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
CHAPTER 32
5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
7 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
9 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
11 And Moses besought Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty, and said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
14 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
17 And when Yahooshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
27 And he said unto them, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
31 And Moses returned unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
33 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
35 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
CHAPTER 33
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Yitshaq, and to Ya‛aqoḇ, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
5 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of YsraEl, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought Yah the Eternally Self-Existing went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.
9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing talked with Moses.
11 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Yahooshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
12 And Moses said unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
17 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
21 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
CHAPTER 34
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
5 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
6 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing passed by before him, and proclaimed, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, let my Adonay, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous the Almighty:
23 Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, the Almighty of YsraEl.
24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty thrice in the year.
26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
27 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with YsraEl.
28 And he was there with Yah the Eternally Self-Existing forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
32 And afterward all the children of YsraEl came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
34 But when Moses went in before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of YsraEl that which he was commanded.
CHAPTER 35
AND Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of YsraEl together, and said unto them, These are the words which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath commanded, that ye should do them.
2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an Set-Apart day, a sabbath of rest to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
4 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of YsraEl, saying, This is the thing which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded, saying,
5 Take ye from among you an offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; gold, and silver, and brass,
10 And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath commanded;
21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the Set-Apart garments.
22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.
29 The children of YsraEl brought a willing offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.
30 And Moses said unto the children of YsraEl, See, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Yahoowdah;
CHAPTER 36
THEN wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had commanded.
2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
5 And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded to make.
CHAPTER 38
22 And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Yahoowdah, made all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
CHAPTER 39
AND of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the Set-Apart place, and made the Set-Apart garments for Aaron; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
5 And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of YsraEl; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
21 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
29 And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
30 And they made the plate of the Set-Apart crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
32 Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of YsraEl did according to all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses, so did they.
42 According to all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses, so the children of YsraEl made all the work.
43 And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.
CHAPTER 40
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
16 Thus did Moses: according to all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded him, so did he.
19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
23 And he set the bread in order upon it before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had commanded Moses.
25 And he lighted the lamps before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
29 And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
32 When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
34 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing filled the tabernacle.
35 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing filled the tabernacle.
38 For the cloud of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of YsraEl, throughout all their journeys.
3: Wayyiqra {Leviticus}
Chapter 1
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of YsraEl, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.
3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
5 And he shall kill the bullock before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar.
13 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
14 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.
17 And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 2
AND when any will offer a meat offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:
2 And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
3 And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most Set-Apart of the offerings of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made by fire.
8 And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these things unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and when it is presented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the altar.
9 And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
10 And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most Set-Apart of the offerings of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made by fire.
11 No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made by fire.
12 As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.
14 And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.
16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 3
AND if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
5 And Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
6 And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
7 If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
11 And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
12 And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
14 And he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s.
CHAPTER 4
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of YsraEl, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:
3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for a sin offering.
4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock’s head, and kill the bullock before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
6 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, before the vail of the sanctuary.
7 And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
13 And if the whole congregation of YsraEl sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;
15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and the bullock shall be killed before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
17 And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even before the vail.
18 And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that is in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
22 When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;
24 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: it is a sin offering.
27 And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;
31 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
35 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
CHAPTER 5
6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.
7 And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
12 Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: it is a sin offering.
14 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the Set-Apart things of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; then he shall bring for his trespass unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:
17 And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
19 It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 6
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.
8 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
14 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, before the altar.
15 And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be Set-Apart.
19 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
20 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
22 And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; it shall be wholly burnt.
24 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: it is most Set-Apart.
CHAPTER 7
5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: it is a trespass offering.
11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and it shall be the priest’s that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.
20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
22 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people.
28 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
29 Speak unto the children of YsraEl, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall bring his oblation unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
35 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the priest’s office;
36 Which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded to be given them of the children of YsraEl, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.
38 Which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of YsraEl to offer their oblations unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, in the wilderness of Sinai.
CHAPTER 8
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
4 And Moses did as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded him; and the assembly was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
5 And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded to be done.
9 And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the Set-Apart crown; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
13 And Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
17 But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
21 And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour, and an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:
27 And he put all upon Aaron’s hands, and upon his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt them on the altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for a sweet savour: it is an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses’ part; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
34 As he hath done this day, so Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you.
35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded by the hand of Moses.
CHAPTER 9
2 And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for today Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will appear unto you.
5 And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and stood before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
6 And Moses said, This is the thing which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded that ye should do: and the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall appear unto you.
7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded.
10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
21 And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; as Moses commanded.
23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared unto all the people.
24 And there came a fire out from before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
CHAPTER 10
AND Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he commanded them not.
2 And there went out fire from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and devoured them, and they died before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of YsraEl, bewail the burning which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath kindled.
7 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
8 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Aaron, saying,
11 And that ye may teach the children of YsraEl all the statutes which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
12 And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most Set-Apart:
13 And ye shall eat it in the Set-Apart place, because it is thy due, and thy sons’ due, of the sacrifices of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made by fire: for so I am commanded.
15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and it shall be thine, and thy sons’ with thee, by a statute for ever; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath commanded.
17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the Set-Apart place, seeing it is most Set-Apart, and the Almighty hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing?
19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin offering today, should it have been accepted in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing?
CHAPTER 11
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
44 For I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be Set-Apart; for I am Set-Apart: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
45 For I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your the Almighty: ye shall therefore be Set-Apart, for I am Set-Apart.
CHAPTER 12
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
7 Who shall offer it before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
CHAPTER 13
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying,
CHAPTER 14
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
11 And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
18 And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
31 Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
33 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
CHAPTER 15
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,
14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest:
15 And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for his issue.
30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for the issue of her uncleanness.
CHAPTER 16
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and died;
2 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the Set-Apart place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.
30 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of YsraEl for all their sins once a year. And he did as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
CHAPTER 17
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of YsraEl, and say unto them; This is the thing which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath commanded, saying,
4 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing before the tabernacle of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:
5 To the end that the children of YsraEl may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them for peace offerings unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn the fat for a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
9 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.
CHAPTER 18
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of YsraEl, and say unto them, I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy the Almighty: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
CHAPTER 19
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of YsraEl, and say unto them, Ye shall be Set-Apart: for I Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty am Set-Apart.
3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
4 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
5 And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, ye shall offer it at your own will.
8 Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy the Almighty: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy the Almighty: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt Chesed thy neighbour as thyself: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.
22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.
24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be Set-Apart to praise Yah the Eternally Self-Existing withal.
25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy the Almighty: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt Chesed him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 20
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye Set-Apart: for I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing which sanctify you.
24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, which have separated you from other people.
26 And ye shall be Set-Apart unto me: for I Yah the Eternally Self-Existing am Set-Apart, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
CHAPTER 21
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:
6 They shall be Set-Apart unto their the Almighty, and not profane the name of their the Almighty: for the offerings of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made by fire, and the bread of their the Almighty, they do offer: therefore they shall be Set-Apart.
8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy the Almighty: he shall be Set-Apart unto thee: for I Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which sanctify you, am Set-Apart.
12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his the Almighty; for the crown of the anointing oil of his the Almighty is upon him: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I Yah the Eternally Self-Existing do sanctify him.
16 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his the Almighty.
23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I Yah the Eternally Self-Existing do sanctify them.
CHAPTER 22
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the Set-Apart things of the children of YsraEl, and that they profane not my Set-Apart name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the Set-Apart things, which the children of YsraEl hallow unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
9 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I Yah the Eternally Self-Existing do sanctify them.
15 And they shall not profane the Set-Apart things of the children of YsraEl, which they offer unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing;
16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their Set-Apart things: for I Yah the Eternally Self-Existing do sanctify them.
17 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of YsraEl, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of YsraEl, or of the strangers in YsraEl, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for a burnt offering;
21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
24 Ye shall not offer unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.
26 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, offer it at your own will.
30 On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
32 Neither shall ye profane my Set-Apart name; but I will be hallowed among the children of YsraEl: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing which hallow you,
33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your the Almighty: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 23
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of YsraEl, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which ye shall proclaim to be Set-Apart convocations, even these are my feasts.
3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an Set-Apart convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in all your dwellings.
4 These are the feasts of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even Set-Apart convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s passover.
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing seven days: in the seventh day is an Set-Apart convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
9 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
11 And he shall wave the sheaf before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, with the two lambs: they shall be Set-Apart to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for the priest.
22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
23 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
26 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an Set-Apart convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
33 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
34 Speak unto the children of YsraEl, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: on the eighth day shall be an Set-Apart convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
37 These are the feasts of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which ye shall proclaim to be Set-Apart convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
38 Beside the sabbaths of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty seven days.
41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
43 That your generations may know that I made the children of YsraEl to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
44 And Moses declared unto the children of YsraEl the feasts of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 24
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing continually.
6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing continually, being taken from the children of YsraEl by an everlasting covenant.
9 And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the Set-Apart place: for it is most Set-Apart unto him of the offerings of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made by fire by a perpetual statute.
11 And the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing might be shewed them.
13 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
16 And he that blasphemeth the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, shall be put to death.
22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
23 And Moses spake to the children of YsraEl, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of YsraEl did as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
CHAPTER 25
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of YsraEl, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy the Almighty: for I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
38 I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your the Almighty.
55 For unto me the children of YsraEl are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
CHAPTER 26
YE shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
13 I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty.
45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their the Almighty: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made between him and the children of YsraEl in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
CHAPTER 27
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of YsraEl, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing by thy estimation.
9 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, all that any man giveth of such unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall be Set-Apart.
11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, then he shall present the beast before the priest:
14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be Set-Apart unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
16 And if a man shall sanctify unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be Set-Apart unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest’s.
22 And if a man sanctify unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a Set-Apart thing unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s.
28 Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most Set-Apart unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s: it is Set-Apart unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be Set-Apart unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
34 These are the commandments, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses for the children of YsraEl in mount Sinai.
Book 4: Bemidbar {Numbers}
Chapter 1
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
7 Of Yahoowdah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
10 Of the children of Yahooceph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
19 As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
26 Of the children of Yahoowdah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
27 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Yahoowdah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
32 Of the children of Yahooceph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
48 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had spoken unto Moses, saying,
54 And the children of YsraEl did according to all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses, so did they.
CHAPTER 2
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
3 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Yahoowdah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Yahoowdah.
9 All that were numbered in the camp of Yahoowdah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of YsraEl; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
34 And the children of YsraEl did according to all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.
CHAPTER 3
THESE also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
4 And Nadab and Abihu died before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, when they offered strange fire before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the sight of Aaron their father.
5 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
11 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
13 Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in YsraEl, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
14 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as he was commanded.
39 All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.
40 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of YsraEl from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing) instead of all the firstborn among the children of YsraEl; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of YsraEl.
42 And Moses numbered, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of YsraEl.
44 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
45 Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of YsraEl, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
51 And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
CHAPTER 4
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
17 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
21 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
37 These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing by the hand of Moses.
41 These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
45 These be those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing by the hand of Moses.
49 According to the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
CHAPTER 5
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
4 And the children of YsraEl did so, and put them out without the camp: as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, so did the children of YsraEl.
5 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
6 Speak unto the children of YsraEl, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and that person be guilty;
8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.
11 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
18 And the priest shall set the woman before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and offer it upon the altar:
30 Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
CHAPTER 6
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of YsraEl, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no rasor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, he shall be Set-Apart, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
6 All the days that he separateth himself unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing he shall come at no dead body.
8 All the days of his separation he is Set-Apart unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
12 And he shall consecrate unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.
14 And he shall offer his offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
16 And the priest shall bring them before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:
17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.
20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: this is Set-Apart for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
21 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.
22 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
24 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing bless thee, and keep thee:
25 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
26 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
CHAPTER 7
3 And they brought their offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.
4 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
11 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.
12 And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Yahoowdah:
CHAPTER 8
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
4 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.
5 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
10 And thou shalt bring the Levites before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and the children of YsraEl shall put their hands upon the Levites:
11 And Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for an offering of the children of YsraEl, that they may execute the service of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
12 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to make an atonement for the Levites.
13 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of YsraEl, did to the Levites according unto all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of YsraEl unto them.
21 And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.
22 And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.
23 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
CHAPTER 9
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses, so did the children of YsraEl.
7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in his appointed season among the children of YsraEl?
8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will command concerning you.
9 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
10 Speak unto the children of YsraEl, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
18 At the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing the children of YsraEl journeyed, and at the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.
19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of YsraEl kept the charge of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and journeyed not.
20 And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing they journeyed.
23 At the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing they journeyed: they kept the charge of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, at the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing by the hand of Moses.
CHAPTER 10
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your the Almighty: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
13 And they first took their journey according to the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing by the hand of Moses.
14 In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Yahoowdah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses’ father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath spoken good concerning YsraEl.
32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.
33 And they departed from the mount of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing three days’ journey: and the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing went before them in the three days’ journey, to search out a resting place for them.
34 And the cloud of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.
35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
36 And when it rested, he said, Return, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, unto the many thousands of YsraEl.
CHAPTER 11
AND when the people complained, it displeased Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the fire was quenched.
3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing burnt among them.
10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
11 And Moses said unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
16 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of YsraEl, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
20 But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised Yah the Eternally Self-Existing which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
23 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.
25 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
28 And Yahooshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would the Almighty that all Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s people were prophets, and that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing would put his spirit upon them!
31 And there went forth a wind from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was kindled against the people, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing smote the people with a very great plague.
CHAPTER 12
2 And they said, Hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing heard it.
4 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.
5 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.
6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
9 And the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was kindled against them; and he departed.
13 And Moses cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, Heal her now, O the Almighty, I beseech thee.
14 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.
CHAPTER 13
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
3 And Moses by the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of YsraEl.
6 Of the tribe of Yahoowdah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Yahooceph.
11 Of the tribe of Yahooceph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
16 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Yahooshua.
CHAPTER 14
3 And wherefore hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
6 And Yahooshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
8 If Yah the Eternally Self-Existing delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
9 Only rebel not ye against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is with us: fear them not.
10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of YsraEl.
11 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
13 And Moses said unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Yah the Eternally Self-Existing art among this people, that thou Yah the Eternally Self-Existing art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
16 Because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
18 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
20 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
26 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Yahooshua the son of Nun.
35 I Yah the Eternally Self-Existing have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
38 But Yahooshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath promised: for we have sinned.
41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing? but it shall not prosper.
42 Go not up, for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, therefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will not be with you.
44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
CHAPTER 15
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
3 And will make an offering by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, of the herd, or of the flock:
4 Then shall he that offereth his offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.
7 And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
10 And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
13 All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; as ye do, so he shall do.
15 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
17 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
19 Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing an heave offering in your generations.
22 And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath spoken unto Moses,
23 Even all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations;
24 Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of YsraEl, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and their sin offering before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, for their ignorance:
28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
30 But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
31 Because he hath despised the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
35 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
37 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
41 I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your the Almighty: I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
CHAPTER 16
3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are Set-Apart, every one of them, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing?
5 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will shew who are his, and who is Set-Apart; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.
7 And put fire therein, and put incense in them before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing doth choose, he shall be Set-Apart: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the Almighty of YsraEl hath separated you from the congregation of YsraEl, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?
11 For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:
17 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared unto all the congregation.
20 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
23 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.
29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath not sent me.
30 But if Yah the Eternally Self-Existing make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
35 And there came out a fire from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
36 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of YsraEl.
40 To be a memorial unto the children of YsraEl, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said to him by the hand of Moses.
41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of YsraEl murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared.
44 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; the plague is begun.
CHAPTER 17
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
7 And Moses laid up the rods before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the tabernacle of witness.
9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing unto all the children of YsraEl: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
10 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
11 And Moses did so: as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded him, so did he.
13 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
CHAPTER 18
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of YsraEl: to you they are given as a gift for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
8 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of YsraEl; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, them have I given thee.
13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.
15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are Set-Apart: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
19 All the heave offerings of the Set-Apart things, which the children of YsraEl offer unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
20 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of YsraEl.
24 But the tithes of the children of YsraEl, which they offer as an heave offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of YsraEl they shall have no inheritance.
25 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of YsraEl the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even a tenth part of the tithe.
28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of YsraEl; and ye shall give thereof Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s heave offering to Aaron the priest.
29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
CHAPTER 19
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
2 This is the ordinance of the law which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of YsraEl, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and that soul shall be cut off from YsraEl: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
CHAPTER 20
3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would the Almighty that we had died when our brethren died before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing!
4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared unto them.
7 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
9 And Moses took the rod from before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as he commanded him.
12 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of YsraEl, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
13 This is the water of Meribah; because the children of YsraEl strove with Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and he was sanctified in them.
16 And when we cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
23 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
27 And Moses did as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
CHAPTER 21
2 And YsraEl vowed a vow unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
3 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hearkened to the voice of YsraEl, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
6 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of YsraEl died.
7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and against thee; pray unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
8 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
16 And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to MattanYah:
19 And from MattanYah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
23 And Sihon would not suffer YsraEl to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against YsraEl into the wilderness: and he came to Yahaz, and fought against YsraEl.
34 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
CHAPTER 22
8 And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
13 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing refuseth to give me leave to go with you.
18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty, to do less or more.
19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will say unto me more.
22 And the Almighty’s anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.
23 And the ass saw the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
24 But the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
25 And when the ass saw the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
26 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
27 And when the ass saw the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.
28 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
31 Then Yah the Eternally Self-Existing opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
32 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:
34 And Balaam said unto the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.
35 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
CHAPTER 23
3 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
5 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
8 How shall I curse, whom the Almighty hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath not defied?
12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath put in my mouth?
15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet Yah the Eternally Self-Existing yonder.
16 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spoken?
21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Ya‛aqoḇ, neither hath he seen perverseness in YsraEl: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing speaketh, that I must do?
CHAPTER 24
AND when Balaam saw that it pleased Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to bless YsraEl, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
11 Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath kept thee back from honour.
13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what Yah the Eternally Self-Existing saith, that will I speak?
CHAPTER 25
3 And YsraEl joined himself unto the lord [Baal]-peor: and the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was kindled against YsraEl.
4 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing against the sun, that the fierce anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing may be turned away from YsraEl.
10 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
16 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
CHAPTER 26
AND it came to pass after the plague, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
4 Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses and the children of YsraEl, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
19 The sons of Yahoowdah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
20 And the sons of Yahoowdah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
22 These are the families of Yahoowdah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.
26 Of the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Yahleel, the family of Yahleelites.
28 The sons of Yahooceph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Yahooceph after their families.
48 Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Yahzeel, the family of Yahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
52 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
59 And the name of Amram’s wife was Yahoowkebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
65 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Yahooshua the son of Nun.
CHAPTER 27
THEN came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Yahooceph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
5 And Moses brought their cause before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
6 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
11 And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of YsraEl a statute of judgment, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
12 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of YsraEl.
15 And Moses spake unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying,
16 Let Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the Almighty of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be not as sheep which have no shepherd.
18 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Take thee Yahooshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of YsraEl with him, even all the congregation.
22 And Moses did as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded him: and he took Yahooshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:
23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded by the hand of Moses.
CHAPTER 28
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
3 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
6 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
7 And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the Set-Apart place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for a drink offering.
8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
11 And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
13 And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil for a meat offering unto one lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
15 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
19 But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish:
24 After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
26 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an Set-Apart convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
27 But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;
CHAPTER 29
2 And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
6 Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
8 But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for a sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish:
12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an Set-Apart convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing seven days:
13 And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish:
36 But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
39 These things ye shall do unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
40 And Moses told the children of YsraEl according to all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
CHAPTER 30
AND Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of YsraEl, saying, This is the thing which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath commanded.
2 If a man vow a vow unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
3 If a woman also vow a vow unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;
5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall forgive her.
12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall forgive her.
16 These are the statutes, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.
CHAPTER 31
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of Midian.
7 And they warred against the Midianites, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
16 Behold, these caused the children of YsraEl, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses;
25 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
28 And levy a tribute unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
29 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
30 And of the children of YsraEl’s half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
37 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
38 And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s tribute was threescore and twelve.
39 And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s tribute was threescore and one.
40 And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s tribute was thirty and two persons.
41 And Moses gave the tribute, which was Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
47 Even of the children of YsraEl’s half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
50 We have therefore brought an oblation for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
52 And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.
54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of YsraEl before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 32
4 Even the country which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing smote before the congregation of YsraEl, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
7 And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of YsraEl from going over into the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath given them?
9 For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of YsraEl, that they should not go into the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had given them.
10 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,
12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Yahooshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
13 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s anger was kindled against YsraEl, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, was consumed.
14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing toward YsraEl.
20 And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to war,
21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
22 And the land be subdued before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and before YsraEl; and this land shall be your possession before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and be sure your sin will find you out.
27 But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to battle, as my lord saith.
28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Yahooshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of YsraEl:
29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
31 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
32 We will pass over armed before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.
33 And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Yahooceph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
CHAPTER 33
2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
4 For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had smitten among them: upon their gods also Yah the Eternally Self-Existing executed judgments.
38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of YsraEl were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
50 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
CHAPTER 34
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
13 And Moses commanded the children of YsraEl, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:
16 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
17 These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Yahooshua the son of Nun.
19 And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Yahoowdah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
23 The prince of the children of Yahooceph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
29 These are they whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of YsraEl in the land of Canaan.
CHAPTER 35
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
9 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses, saying,
34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I Yah the Eternally Self-Existing dwell among the children of YsraEl.
CHAPTER 36
AND the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Yahooceph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of YsraEl:
2 And they said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of YsraEl: and my lord was commanded by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
5 And Moses commanded the children of YsraEl according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, The tribe of the sons of Yahooceph hath said well.
6 This is the thing which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.
10 Even as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
12 And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Yahooceph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
13 These are the commandments and the judgments, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of YsraEl in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Book 5: Debarim {Deuteronomy}
Chapter 1
3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of YsraEl, according unto all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had given him in commandment unto them;
6 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Yitshaq, and Ya‛aqoḇ, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
10 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
11 (Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty doth give unto us.
21 Behold, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty doth give us.
26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty:
27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
30 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty,
34 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
37 Also Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
38 But Yahooshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause YsraEl to inherit it.
41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
42 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and went presumptuously up into the hill.
45 And ye returned and wept before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; but Yah the Eternally Self-Existing would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
CHAPTER 2
THEN we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
2 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto me, saying,
7 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
9 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as YsraEl did unto the land of his possession, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing gave unto them.
14 And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sware unto them.
15 For indeed the hand of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
17 That Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto me, saying,
21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but Yah the Eternally Self-Existing destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
29 (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty giveth us.
30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
31 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.
32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Yahaz.
33 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty delivered all unto us:
37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty forbad us.
CHAPTER 3
2 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
3 So Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of YsraEl, all that are meet for the war.
20 Until Yah the Eternally Self-Existing have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
21 And I commanded Yahooshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty hath done unto these two kings: so shall Yah the Eternally Self-Existing do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.
22 Ye shall not fear them: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty he shall fight for you.
23 And I besought Yah the Eternally Self-Existing at that time, saying,
24 O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what the Almighty is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
26 But Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.
28 But charge Yahooshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
CHAPTER 4
NOW therefore hearken, O YsraEl, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of your fathers giveth you.
2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty which I command you.
3 Your eyes have seen what Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did because of the lord [Baal]-peor: for all the men that followed the lord [Baal]-peor, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath destroyed them from among you.
4 But ye that did cleave unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty are alive every one of you this day.
5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
7 For what nation is there so great, who hath the Almighty so nigh unto them, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty is in all things that we call upon him for?
10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty in Horeb, when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
12 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
14 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
20 But Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
21 Furthermore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee for an inheritance:
23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath forbidden thee.
24 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty is a consuming fire, even a jealous the Almighty.
25 When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, to provoke him to anger:
27 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall lead you.
29 But if from thence thou shalt seek Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
31 (For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty is a merciful the Almighty;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
34 Or hath the Almighty assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing he is the Almighty; there is none else beside him.
39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing he is the Almighty in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee, for ever.
CHAPTER 5
2 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty made a covenant with us in Horeb.
3 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
4 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
5 (I stood between Yah the Eternally Self-Existing and you at that time, to shew you the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
6 I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty am a jealous the Almighty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
11 Thou shalt not take the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty in vain: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath commanded thee.
14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee.
22 These words Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
24 And ye said, Behold, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that the Almighty doth talk with man, and he liveth.
25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty any more, then we shall die.
27 Go thou near, and hear all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty shall say: and speak thou unto us all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
28 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.
32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
CHAPTER 6
NOW these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
2 That thou mightest fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
3 Hear therefore, O YsraEl, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
4 Hear, O YsraEl: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty is one Adonay:
5 And thou shalt Chesed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
10 And it shall be, when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Yitshaq, and to Ya‛aqoḇ, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
12 Then beware lest thou forget Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13 Thou shalt fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
15 (For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty is a jealous the Almighty among you) lest the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
16 Ye shall not tempt Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, as ye tempted him in Massah.
17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sware unto thy fathers,
19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath spoken.
20 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty hath commanded you?
21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
22 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
24 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty, as he hath commanded us.
CHAPTER 7
WHEN Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2 And when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
6 For thou art an Set-Apart people unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
7 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did not set his Chesed upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Cheseded you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Know therefore that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, he is the Almighty, the faithful the Almighty, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that Chesed him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
15 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
16 And thou shalt consume all the people which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty brought thee out: so shall Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
20 Moreover Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty is among you, a mighty the Almighty and terrible.
22 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
23 But Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
CHAPTER 8
ALL the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sware unto your fathers.
2 And thou shalt remember all the way which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing doth man live.
5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty chasteneth thee.
6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
7 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty for the good land which he hath given thee.
11 Beware that thou forget not Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
18 But thou shalt remember Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
20 As the nations which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
CHAPTER 9
3 Understand therefore this day, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath said unto thee.
4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations Yah the Eternally Self-Existing doth drive them out from before thee.
5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Yitshaq, and Ya‛aqoḇ.
6 Understand therefore, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
8 Also in Horeb ye provoked Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to wrath, so that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was angry with you to have destroyed you.
9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
10 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of the Almighty; and on them was written according to all the words, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
12 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
13 Furthermore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had commanded you.
18 And I fell down before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to provoke him to anger.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was wroth against you to destroy you. But Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hearkened unto me at that time also.
20 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to wrath.
23 Likewise when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
24 Ye have been rebellious against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing from the day that I knew you.
25 Thus I fell down before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had said he would destroy you.
26 I prayed therefore unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
CHAPTER 10
AT that time Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing gave them unto me.
5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded me.
8 At that time Yah the Eternally Self-Existing separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to stand before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is his inheritance, according as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty promised him.
10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hearkened unto me at that time also, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing would not destroy thee.
11 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
12 And now, YsraEl, what doth Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty require of thee, but to fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, to walk in all his ways, and to Chesed him, and to serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
13 To keep the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s thy the Almighty, the earth also, with all that therein is.
15 Only Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had a delight in thy fathers to Chesed them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
17 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty is the Almighty of gods, and Adonay of adonays, a great the Almighty, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
20 Thou shalt fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
CHAPTER 11
THEREFORE thou shalt Chesed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath destroyed them unto this day;
7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing which he did.
9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
12 A land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty careth for: the eyes of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to Chesed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
17 And then Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing giveth you.
21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to Chesed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
23 Then will Yah the Eternally Self-Existing drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, which I command you this day:
28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
29 And it shall come to pass, when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
CHAPTER 12
THESE are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
4 Ye shall not do so unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
5 But unto the place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
7 And there ye shall eat before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath blessed thee.
9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty giveth you.
10 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
11 Then there shall be a place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
12 And ye shall rejoice before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
14 But in the place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
18 But thou must eat them before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty in the place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
20 When Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
21 If the place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
26 Only thy Set-Apart things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall choose:
27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
29 When Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
31 Thou shalt not do so unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty: for every abomination to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
CHAPTER 13
3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty proveth you, to know whether ye Chesed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty with all your heart and with all your soul.
4 Ye shall walk after Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
CHAPTER 14
YE are the children of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2 For thou art an Set-Apart people unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an Set-Apart people unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
23 And thou shalt eat before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty always.
24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall choose to set his name there, when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath blessed thee:
25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall choose:
26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
CHAPTER 15
2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s release.
4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall greatly bless thee in the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
6 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing today.
18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
20 Thou shalt eat it before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty year by year in the place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall choose, thou and thy household.
21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
CHAPTER 16
OBSERVE the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty: for in the month of Abib Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall choose to place his name there.
5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee:
6 But at the place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty: thou shalt do no work therein.
10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, according as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath blessed thee:
11 And thou shalt rejoice before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath chosen to place his name there.
15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty in the place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall choose: because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing empty:
17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty which he hath given thee.
18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee.
21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, which thou shalt make thee.
22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hateth.
CHAPTER 17
THOU shalt not sacrifice unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, in transgressing his covenant,
8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall choose;
10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from YsraEl.
14 When thou art come unto the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
CHAPTER 18
THE priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with YsraEl: they shall eat the offerings of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made by fire, and his inheritance.
2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
5 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, him and his sons for ever.
6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all YsraEl, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall choose;
7 Then he shall minister in the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
9 When thou art come into the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and because of these abominations Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty doth drive them out from before thee.
13 Thou shalt be perfect with Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath not suffered thee so to do.
15 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
16 According to all that thou desiredst of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
17 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath not spoken?
22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
CHAPTER 19
WHEN Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath cut off the nations, whose land Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee to possess it.
3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
8 And if Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to Chesed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee to possess it.
17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
CHAPTER 20
WHEN thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
4 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
13 And when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath given thee.
16 But of the cities of these people, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath commanded thee:
18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
CHAPTER 21
IF one be found slain in the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:
5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:
8 Be merciful, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, unto thy people YsraEl, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of YsraEl’s charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,
23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of the Almighty;) that thy land be not defiled, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee for an inheritance.
CHAPTER 22
5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
CHAPTER 23
HE that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for ever:
5 Nevertheless Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty would not hearken unto Balaam; but Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty Cheseded thee.
8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in their third generation.
14 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be Set-Apart: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
CHAPTER 24
4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee for an inheritance.
9 Remember what Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and it be sin unto thee.
18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
19 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
CHAPTER 25
15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee.
16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
19 Therefore it shall be, when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
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AND it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;
2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall choose to place his name there.
3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, that I am come unto the country which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sware unto our fathers for to give us.
4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
5 And thou shalt speak and say before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
7 And when we cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of our fathers, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
8 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:
10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, and worship before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty:
11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.
13 Then thou shalt say before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
16 This day Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
17 Thou hast avouched Yah the Eternally Self-Existing this day to be thy the Almighty, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
18 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an Set-Apart people unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, as he hath spoken.
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2 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:
3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of thy fathers hath promised thee.
5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
6 Thou shalt build the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty:
7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all YsraEl, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O YsraEl; this day thou art become the people of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Yahoowdah, and Issachar, and Yahooceph, and Benjamin:
15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
CHAPTER 28
AND it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
7 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
8 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty giveth thee.
9 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall establish thee an Set-Apart people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, and walk in his ways.
10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and they shall be afraid of thee.
11 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
12 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
13 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
20 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
21 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
24 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
25 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
27 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
28 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
35 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
36 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall lead thee.
45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
47 Because thou servedst not Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
49 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath given thee.
53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing THY Almighty;
59 Then Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Yah the Eternally Self-Existing bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
63 And it shall come to pass, that as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
64 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
68 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
CHAPTER 29
THESE are the words of the covenant, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses to make with the children of YsraEl in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
2 And Moses called unto all YsraEl, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
4 Yet Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
10 Ye stand this day all of you before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of YsraEl,
12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, and into his oath, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty maketh with thee this day:
15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
20 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will not spare him, but then the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall blot out his name from under heaven.
21 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of YsraEl, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath laid upon it;
23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
27 And the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
28 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
29 The secret things belong unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
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AND it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath driven thee,
2 And shalt return unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
3 That then Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath scattered thee.
4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
5 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
6 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to Chesed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
7 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
9 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
16 In that I command thee this day to Chesed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
20 That thou mayest Chesed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Yitshaq, and to Ya‛aqoḇ, to give them.
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2 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
3 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Yahooshua, he shall go over before thee, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath said.
4 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
5 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
7 And Moses called unto Yahooshua, and said unto him in the sight of all YsraEl, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
8 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and unto all the elders of YsraEl.
11 When all YsraEl is come to appear before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all YsraEl in their hearing.
12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, and observe to do all the words of this law:
13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
14 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Yahooshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Yahooshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
15 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
16 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
23 And he gave Yahooshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of YsraEl into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.
25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying,
26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and how much more after my death?
29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
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3 Because I will publish the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: ascribe ye greatness unto our the Almighty.
6 Do ye thus requite Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
9 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s portion is his people; Ya‛aqoḇ is the lot of his inheritance.
12 So Yah the Eternally Self-Existing alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
19 And when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath not done all this.
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had shut them up?
36 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
48 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
CHAPTER 33
2 And he said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
7 And this is the blessing of Yahoowdah: and he said, Hear, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the voice of Yahoowdah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.
11 Bless, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.
12 And of Benjamin he said, The Cheseded of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall dwell in safety by him; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.
13 And of Yahooceph he said, Blessed of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,
16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Yahooceph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and his judgments with YsraEl.
23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: possess thou the west and the south.
29 Happy art thou, O YsraEl: who is like unto thee, O people saved by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
CHAPTER 34
AND Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Yahoowdah, unto the utmost sea,
4 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Yitshaq, and unto Ya‛aqoḇ, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
5 So Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
9 And Yahooshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of YsraEl hearkened unto him, and did as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
10 And there arose not a prophet since in YsraEl like unto Moses, whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing knew face to face,
11 In all the signs and the wonders, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
Book 6: Yahooshua {Joshua}
Chapter 1
NOW after the death of Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing it came to pass, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Yahooshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying,
9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
10 Then Yahooshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
11 Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty giveth you to possess it.
12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Yahooshua, saying,
13 Remember the word which Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded you, saying, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.
15 Until Yah the Eternally Self-Existing have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.
16 And they answered Yahooshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.
17 According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty be with thee, as he was with Moses.
CHAPTER 2
AND Yahooshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot’s house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
9 And she said unto the men, I know that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
10 For we have heard how Yah the Eternally Self-Existing dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, he is the Almighty in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father’s house, and give me a true token:
14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
23 So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Yahooshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them:
24 And they said unto Yahooshua, Truly Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.
CHAPTER 3
AND Yahooshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of YsraEl, and lodged there before they passed over.
3 And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.
5 And Yahooshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will do wonders among you.
6 And Yahooshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
7 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Yahooshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all YsraEl, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.
9 And Yahooshua said unto the children of YsraEl, Come hither, and hear the words of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
10 And Yahooshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living the Almighty is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan.
13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.
CHAPTER 4
AND it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Yahooshua, saying,
4 Then Yahooshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of YsraEl, out of every tribe a man:
5 And Yahooshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of YsraEl:
7 Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of YsraEl for ever.
8 And the children of YsraEl did so as Yahooshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Yahooshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of YsraEl, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
9 And Yahooshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Yahooshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Yahooshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people.
13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
14 On that day Yah the Eternally Self-Existing magnified Yahooshua in the sight of all YsraEl; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
15 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Yahooshua, saying,
17 Yahooshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.
18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.
20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Yahooshua pitch in Gilgal.
23 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
24 That all the people of the earth might know the hand of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that it is mighty: that ye might fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty for ever.
CHAPTER 5
AND it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of YsraEl, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of YsraEl.
2 At that time Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Yahooshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of YsraEl the second time.
3 And Yahooshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of YsraEl at the hill of the foreskins.
4 And this is the cause why Yahooshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
6 For the children of YsraEl walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: unto whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sware that he would not shew them the land, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
7 And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Yahooshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.
9 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Yahooshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.
13 And it came to pass, when Yahooshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Yahooshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing am I now come. And Yahooshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
15 And the captain of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s host said unto Yahooshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is Set-Apart. And Yahooshua did so.
CHAPTER 6
2 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Yahooshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
6 And Yahooshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
8 And it came to pass, when Yahooshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns passed on before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing followed them.
10 And Yahooshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.
11 So the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
12 And Yahooshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Yahooshua said unto the people, Shout; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath given you the city.
17 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: they shall come into the treasury of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
22 But Yahooshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot’s house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
25 And Yahooshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in YsraEl even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Yahooshua sent to spy out Jericho.
26 And Yahooshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
27 So Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was with Yahooshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.
CHAPTER 7
BUT the children of YsraEl committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Yahoowdah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was kindled against the children of YsraEl.
2 And Yahooshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-El, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
3 And they returned to Yahooshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.
6 And Yahooshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing until the eventide, he and the elders of YsraEl, and put dust upon their heads.
7 And Yahooshua said, Alas, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to the Almighty we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
8 O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, what shall I say, when YsraEl turneth their backs before their enemies!
10 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Yahooshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?
13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O YsraEl: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall take shall come by households; and the household which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall take shall come man by man.
15 And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and because he hath wrought folly in YsraEl.
16 So Yahooshua rose up early in the morning, and brought YsraEl by their tribes; and the tribe of Yahoowdah was taken:
17 And he brought the family of Yahoowdah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
18 And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Yahoowdah, was taken.
19 And Yahooshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
20 And Achan answered Yahooshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, and thus and thus have I done:
22 So Yahooshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Yahooshua, and unto all the children of YsraEl, and laid them out before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
24 And Yahooshua, and all YsraEl with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
25 And Yahooshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall trouble thee this day. And all YsraEl stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So Yah the Eternally Self-Existing turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
CHAPTER 8
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Yahooshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:
3 So Yahooshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Yahooshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.
7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty will deliver it into your hand.
8 And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.
9 Yahooshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beth-El and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Yahooshua lodged that night among the people.
10 And Yahooshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of YsraEl, before the people to Ai.
13 And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Yahooshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
15 And Yahooshua and all YsraEl made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
16 And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Yahooshua, and were drawn away from the city.
18 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Yahooshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Yahooshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.
21 And when Yahooshua and all YsraEl saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Yahooshua.
26 For Yahooshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city YsraEl took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing which he commanded Yahooshua.
28 And Yahooshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Yahooshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
30 Then Yahooshua built an altar unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl in mount Ebal,
31 As Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded the children of YsraEl, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and sacrificed peace offerings.
33 And all YsraEl, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had commanded before, that they should bless the people of YsraEl.
35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Yahooshua read not before all the congregation of YsraEl, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.
CHAPTER 9
2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Yahooshua and with YsraEl, with one accord.
3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Yahooshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
6 And they went to Yahooshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of YsraEl, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us.
8 And they said unto Yahooshua, We are thy servants. And Yahooshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?
9 And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
14 And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
15 And Yahooshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
18 And the children of YsraEl smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.
19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl: now therefore we may not touch them.
22 And Yahooshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us?
24 And they answered Yahooshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
27 And Yahooshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
CHAPTER 10
NOW it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Yahooshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with YsraEl, and were among them;
4 Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Yahooshua and with the children of YsraEl.
6 And the men of Gibeon sent unto Yahooshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
7 So Yahooshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.
8 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Yahooshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.
9 Yahooshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.
10 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing discomfited them before YsraEl, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before YsraEl, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of YsraEl slew with the sword.
12 Then spake Yahooshua to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the day when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing delivered up the Amorites before the children of YsraEl, and he said in the sight of YsraEl, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hearkened unto the voice of a man: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing fought for YsraEl.
15 And Yahooshua returned, and all YsraEl with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
17 And it was told Yahooshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.
18 And Yahooshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them:
19 And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty hath delivered them into your hand.
20 And it came to pass, when Yahooshua and the children of YsraEl had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.
21 And all the people returned to the camp to Yahooshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of YsraEl.
22 Then said Yahooshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave.
24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Yahooshua, that Yahooshua called for all the men of YsraEl, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.
25 And Yahooshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall Yah the Eternally Self-Existing do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.
26 And afterward Yahooshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Yahooshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave’s mouth, which remain until this very day.
28 And that day Yahooshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho.
29 Then Yahooshua passed from Makkedah, and all YsraEl with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
30 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of YsraEl; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of Jericho.
31 And Yahooshua passed from Libnah, and all YsraEl with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:
32 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing delivered Lachish into the hand of YsraEl, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Yahooshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
34 And from Lachish Yahooshua passed unto Eglon, and all YsraEl with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:
36 And Yahooshua went up from Eglon, and all YsraEl with him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it:
38 And Yahooshua returned, and all YsraEl with him, to Debir; and fought against it:
40 So Yahooshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl commanded.
41 And Yahooshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
42 And all these kings and their land did Yahooshua take at one time, because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl fought for YsraEl.
43 And Yahooshua returned, and all YsraEl with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
CHAPTER 11
6 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Yahooshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before YsraEl: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
7 So Yahooshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.
8 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing delivered them into the hand of YsraEl, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephoth-maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.
9 And Yahooshua did unto them as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
10 And Yahooshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms.
12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Yahooshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded.
13 But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, YsraEl burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Yahooshua burn.
15 As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Yahooshua, and so did Yahooshua; he left nothing undone of all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
16 So Yahooshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of YsraEl, and the valley of the same;
18 Yahooshua made war a long time with all those kings.
20 For it was of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to harden their hearts, that they should come against YsraEl in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
21 And at that time came Yahooshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Yahoowdah, and from all the mountains of YsraEl: Yahooshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.
23 So Yahooshua took the whole land, according to all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses; and Yahooshua gave it for an inheritance unto YsraEl according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
CHAPTER 12
6 Them did Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing and the children of YsraEl smite: and Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
7 And these are the kings of the country which Yahooshua and the children of YsraEl smote on this side Jordan on the west, from the lord [Baal]-gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Yahooshua gave unto the tribes of YsraEl for a possession according to their divisions;
CHAPTER 13
NOW Yahooshua was old and stricken in years; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.
8 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing gave them;
14 Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl made by fire are their inheritance, as he said unto them.
18 And Yahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
33 But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl was their inheritance, as he said unto them.
CHAPTER 14
AND these are the countries which the children of YsraEl inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Yahooshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of YsraEl, distributed for inheritance to them.
2 By lot was their inheritance, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.
4 For the children of Yahooceph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
5 As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses, so the children of YsraEl did, and they divided the land.
6 Then the children of Yahoowdah came unto Yahooshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Moses the man of the Almighty concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea.
7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty.
9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children’s for ever, because thou hast wholly followed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty.
10 And now, behold, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake this word unto Moses, while the children of YsraEl wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said.
13 And Yahooshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.
14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl.
CHAPTER 15
THIS then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Yahoowdah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.
12 And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Yahoowdah round about according to their families.
13 And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Yahoowdah, according to the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to Yahooshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.
20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Yahoowdah according to their families.
21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Yahoowdah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Yahoowdah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Yahoowdah at Jerusalem unto this day.
CHAPTER 16
AND the lot of the children of Yahooceph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Beth-El,
4 So the children of Yahooceph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
CHAPTER 17
THERE was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Yahooceph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
2 There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Yahooceph by their families.
4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Yahooshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
14 And the children of Yahooceph spake unto Yahooshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath blessed me hitherto?
15 And Yahooshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
16 And the children of Yahooceph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Beth-shean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
17 And Yahooshua spake unto the house of Yahooceph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only:
CHAPTER 18
3 And Yahooshua said unto the children of YsraEl, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of your fathers hath given you?
5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Yahoowdah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Yahooceph shall abide in their coasts on the north.
6 Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty.
7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing gave them.
8 And the men arose, and went away: and Yahooshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in Shiloh.
9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Yahooshua to the host at Shiloh.
10 And Yahooshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and there Yahooshua divided the land unto the children of YsraEl according to their divisions.
11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Yahoowdah and the children of Yahooceph.
14 And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Yahoowdah: this was the west quarter.
CHAPTER 19
AND the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Yahoowdah.
9 Out of the portion of the children of Yahoowdah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Yahoowdah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.
34 And then the coast turneth westward to Aznoth-tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Yahoowdah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.
45 And Yahud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon,
49 When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of YsraEl gave an inheritance to Yahooshua the son of Nun among them:
50 According to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Yahooshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of YsraEl, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.
CHAPTER 20
THE Yah the Eternally Self-Existing also spake unto Yahooshua, saying,
7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Yahoowdah.
CHAPTER 21
THEN came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Yahooshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of YsraEl;
2 And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.
3 And the children of YsraEl gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, these cities and their suburbs.
4 And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Yahoowdah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
8 And the children of YsraEl gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded by the hand of Moses.
9 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Yahoowdah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name,
11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Yahoowdah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Yahazah with her suburbs,
43 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing gave unto YsraEl all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
44 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; Yah the Eternally Self-Existing delivered all their enemies into their hand.
45 There failed not ought of any good thing which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had spoken unto the house of YsraEl; all came to pass.
CHAPTER 22
THEN Yahooshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
2 And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:
3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
4 And now Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing gave you on the other side Jordan.
5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing charged you, to Chesed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
6 So Yahooshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.
7 Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession in Bashan: but unto the other half thereof gave Yahooshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Yahooshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them,
9 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of YsraEl out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing by the hand of Moses.
16 Thus saith the whole congregation of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the Almighty of YsraEl, to turn away this day from following Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing?
17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing,
18 But that ye must turn away this day from following Yah the Eternally Self-Existing? and it will be, seeing ye rebel today against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of YsraEl.
19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, wherein Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty.
22 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of gods, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of gods, he knoweth, and YsraEl he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, (save us not this day,)
23 That we have built us an altar to turn from following Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let Yah the Eternally Self-Existing himself require it;
24 And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl?
25 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
27 But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.
29 the Almighty forbid that we should rebel against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and turn this day from following Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty that is before his tabernacle.
31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: now ye have delivered the children of YsraEl out of the hand of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is the Almighty.
CHAPTER 23
AND it came to pass a long time after that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had given rest unto YsraEl from all their enemies round about, that Yahooshua waxed old and stricken in age.
2 And Yahooshua called for all YsraEl, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:
3 And ye have seen all that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty hath done unto all these nations because of you; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty is he that hath fought for you.
5 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty hath promised unto you.
8 But cleave unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, as ye have done unto this day.
9 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.
10 One man of you shall chase a thousand: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.
11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye Chesed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty.
13 Know for a certainty that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty hath given you.
14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty promised you; so shall Yah the Eternally Self-Existing bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty hath given you.
16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.
CHAPTER 24
AND Yahooshua gathered all the tribes of YsraEl to Shechem, and called for the elders of YsraEl, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before the Almighty.
2 And Yahooshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
7 And when they cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
14 Now therefore fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
16 And the people answered and said, the Almighty forbid that we should forsake Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to serve other gods;
17 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
18 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; for he is our the Almighty.
19 And Yahooshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: for he is an Set-Apart the Almighty; he is a jealous the Almighty; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
20 If ye forsake Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
21 And the people said unto Yahooshua, Nay; but we will serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
22 And Yahooshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
23 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl.
24 And the people said unto Yahooshua, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
25 So Yahooshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
26 And Yahooshua wrote these words in the book of the law of the Almighty, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
27 And Yahooshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your the Almighty.
28 So Yahooshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
29 And it came to pass after these things, that Yahooshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
31 And YsraEl served Yah the Eternally Self-Existing all the days of Yahooshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Yahooshua, and which had known all the works of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that he had done for YsraEl.
32 And the bones of Yahooceph, which the children of YsraEl brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Ya‛aqoḇ bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Yahooceph.
Book 7: Shophetim {Judges}
Chapter 1
NOW after the death of Yahooshua it came to pass, that the children of YsraEl asked Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
2 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, Yahoowdah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.
3 And Yahoowdah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.
4 And Yahoowdah went up; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
8 Now the children of Yahoowdah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
9 And afterward the children of Yahoowdah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.
10 And Yahoowdah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.
16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Yahoowdah into the wilderness of Yahoowdah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.
17 And Yahoowdah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.
18 Also Yahoowdah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.
19 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was with Yahoowdah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
22 And the house of Yahooceph, they also went up against Beth-El: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was with them.
23 And the house of Yahooceph sent to descry Beth-El. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
35 But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Yahooceph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.
CHAPTER 2
AND an angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
4 And it came to pass, when the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake these words unto all the children of YsraEl, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
6 And when Yahooshua had let the people go, the children of YsraEl went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
7 And the people served Yah the Eternally Self-Existing all the days of Yahooshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Yahooshua, who had seen all the great works of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that he did for YsraEl.
8 And Yahooshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, nor yet the works which he had done for YsraEl.
11 And the children of YsraEl did evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and served the lord [Baal]im:
12 And they forsook Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to anger.
13 And they forsook Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and served the lord [Baal] and Ashtaroth.
14 And the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was hot against YsraEl, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was against them for evil, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had said, and as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
16 Nevertheless Yah the Eternally Self-Existing raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; but they did not so.
18 And when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing raised them up judges, then Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented Yah the Eternally Self-Existing because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
20 And the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was hot against YsraEl; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Yahooshua left when he died:
22 That through them I may prove YsraEl, whether they will keep the way of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
23 Therefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Yahooshua.
CHAPTER 3
NOW these are the nations which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing left, to prove YsraEl by them, even as many of YsraEl as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
4 And they were to prove YsraEl by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
7 And the children of YsraEl did evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and forgat Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty, and served the lord [Baal]im and the groves.
8 Therefore the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was hot against YsraEl, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of YsraEl served Chushan-rishathaim eight years.
9 And when the children of YsraEl cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing raised up a deliverer to the children of YsraEl, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
10 And the Spirit of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came upon him, and he judged YsraEl, and went out to war: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim.
12 And the children of YsraEl did evil again in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against YsraEl, because they had done evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
15 But when the children of YsraEl cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of YsraEl sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
28 And he said unto them, Follow after me: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
CHAPTER 4
AND the children of YsraEl again did evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, when Ehud was dead.
2 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
3 And the children of YsraEl cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of YsraEl.
6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not Yah the Eternally Self-Existing gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
15 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
CHAPTER 5
2 Praise ye Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for the avenging of YsraEl, when the people willingly offered themselves.
3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; I will sing praise to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl.
4 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
5 The mountains melted from before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even that Sinai from before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl.
9 My heart is toward the governors of YsraEl, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in YsraEl: then shall the people of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing go down to the gates.
13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made me have dominion over the mighty.
23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to the help of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing against the mighty.
31 So let all thine enemies perish, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: but let them that Chesed him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
CHAPTER 6
AND the children of YsraEl did evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
6 And YsraEl was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of YsraEl cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
7 And it came to pass, when the children of YsraEl cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing because of the Midianites,
8 That Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent a prophet unto the children of YsraEl, which said unto them, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
10 And I said unto you, I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.
11 And there came an angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Yahoow’aash the Abi-ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
12 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared unto him, and said unto him, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, if Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yah the Eternally Self-Existing bring us up from Egypt? but now Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
14 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save YsraEl from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?
16 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
21 Then the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing departed out of his sight.
22 And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Gideon said, Alas, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty! for because I have seen an angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing face to face.
23 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.
24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and called it Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Shalowm: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.
25 And it came to pass the same night, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of the lord [Baal] that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:
26 And build an altar unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father’s household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
29 And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Yahoow’aash hath done this thing.
30 Then the men of the city said unto Yahoow’aash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of the lord [Baal], and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it.
31 And Yahoow’aash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for the lord [Baal]? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar.
34 But the Spirit of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abi-ezer was gathered after him.
CHAPTER 7
2 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest YsraEl vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
4 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.
5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
7 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
9 And it came to pass the same night, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.
14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Yahoow’aash, a man of YsraEl: for into his hand hath the Almighty delivered Midian, and all the host.
15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of YsraEl, and said, Arise; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and of Gideon.
20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and of Gideon.
22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abel-meholah, unto Tabbath.
CHAPTER 8
7 And Gideon said, Therefore when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
13 And Gideon the son of Yahoow’aash returned from battle before the sun was up,
19 And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.
23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall rule over you.
29 And Jerubbaal the son of Yahoow’aash went and dwelt in his own house.
32 And Gideon the son of Yahoow’aash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Yahoow’aash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.
34 And the children of YsraEl remembered not Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:
CHAPTER 9
5 And he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Yahootham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
7 And when they told it to Yahootham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that the Almighty may hearken unto you.
21 And Yahootham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem did the Almighty render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Yahootham the son of Jerubbaal.
CHAPTER 10
6 And the children of YsraEl did evil again in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and served the lord [Baal]im, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and served not him.
7 And the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was hot against YsraEl, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
9 Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Yahoowdah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that YsraEl was sore distressed.
10 And the children of YsraEl cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our the Almighty, and also served the lord [Baal]im.
11 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto the children of YsraEl, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
15 And the children of YsraEl said unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.
16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and his soul was grieved for the misery of YsraEl.
CHAPTER 11
9 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
10 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.
11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in Mizpeh.
20 But Sihon trusted not YsraEl to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Yahaz, and fought against YsraEl.
21 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of YsraEl, and they smote them: so YsraEl possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
23 So now Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people YsraEl, and shouldest thou possess it?
24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.
27 Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing the Judge be judge this day between the children of YsraEl and the children of Ammon.
29 Then the Spirit of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing delivered them into his hands.
35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and I cannot go back.
36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
CHAPTER 12
3 And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
CHAPTER 13
AND the children of YsraEl did evil again in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
3 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.
8 Then Manoah intreated Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, O my Adonay, let the man of the Almighty which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.
13 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.
15 And Manoah said unto the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
16 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
17 And Manoah said unto the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
18 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
21 But the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
23 But his wife said unto him, If Yah the Eternally Self-Existing were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
24 And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing blessed him.
25 And the Spirit of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
CHAPTER 14
4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over YsraEl.
6 And the Spirit of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
19 And the Spirit of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father’s house.
CHAPTER 15
9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Yahoowdah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10 And the men of Yahoowdah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
11 Then three thousand men of Yahoowdah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
14 And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
18 And he was sore athirst, and called on Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
CHAPTER 16
20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was departed from him.
28 And Samson called unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O the Almighty, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
CHAPTER 17
AND there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was MiykaaYahoo.
2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, my son.
3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of MiykaaYahoo.
5 And the man MiykaaYahoo had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
7 And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Yahoowdah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
8 And the man departed out of the city from Beth-lehem-judah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of MiykaaYahoo, as he journeyed.
9 And MiykaaYahoo said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.
10 And MiykaaYahoo said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.
12 And MiykaaYahoo consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of MiykaaYahoo.
13 Then said MiykaaYahoo, Now know I that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
CHAPTER 18
2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of MiykaaYahoo, they lodged there.
3 When they were by the house of MiykaaYahoo, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?
4 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth MiykaaYahoo with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
6 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is your way wherein ye go.
12 And they went up, and pitched in Kirjath-jearim, in Yahoowdah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjath-jearim.
13 And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of MiykaaYahoo.
15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of MiykaaYahoo, and saluted him.
18 And these went into MiykaaYahoo’s house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?
22 And when they were a good way from the house of MiykaaYahoo, the men that were in the houses near to MiykaaYahoo’s house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.
23 And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto MiykaaYahoo, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?
26 And the children of Dan went their way: and when MiykaaYahoo saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
27 And they took the things which MiykaaYahoo had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.
30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Yahoonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
31 And they set them up MiykaaYahoo’s graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of the Almighty was in Shiloh.
CHAPTER 19
18 And he said unto him, We are passing from Beth-lehem-judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Beth-lehem-judah, but I am now going to the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and there is no man that receiveth me to house.
CHAPTER 20
THEN all the children of YsraEl went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in Mizpeh.
18 And the children of YsraEl arose, and went up to the house of the Almighty, and asked counsel of the Almighty, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, Yahoowdah shall go up first.
23 (And the children of YsraEl went up and wept before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing until even, and asked counsel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, Go up against him.)
26 Then all the children of YsraEl, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of the Almighty, and wept, and sat there before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
27 And the children of YsraEl inquired of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, (for the ark of the covenant of the Almighty was there in those days,
28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
35 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing smote Benjamin before YsraEl: and the children of YsraEl destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
CHAPTER 21
3 And said, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, why is this come to pass in YsraEl, that there should be today one tribe lacking in YsraEl?
5 And the children of YsraEl said, Who is there among all the tribes of YsraEl that came not up with the congregation unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
8 And they said, What one is there of the tribes of YsraEl that came not up to Mizpeh to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.
15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had made a breach in the tribes of YsraEl.
19 Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth-El, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-El to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
Book 8: Ruth
Chapter 1
6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had visited his people in giving them bread.
7 Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Yahoowdah.
8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother’s house: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
9 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
13 Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is gone out against me.
17 Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
21 I went out full, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
CHAPTER 2
4 And, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be with you. And they answered him, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing bless thee.
12 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
20 And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.
CHAPTER 3
10 And he said, Blessed be thou of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.
13 Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman’s part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth: lie down until the morning.
CHAPTER 4
11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Yah the Eternally Self-Existing make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of YsraEl: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Beth-lehem:
12 And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Yahoowdah, of the seed which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall give thee of this young woman.
13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing gave her conception, and she bare a son.
14 And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in YsraEl.
Book 9: The First Book of ShemuEl {Samuel}
Chapter 1
3 And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, were there.
5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he Cheseded Hannah: but Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had shut up her womb.
6 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had shut up her womb.
7 And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and wept sore.
11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of Hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing all the days of his life, and there shall no rasor come upon his head.
12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that Eli marked her mouth.
15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing remembered her.
20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
22 But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and there abide for ever.
23 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only Yah the Eternally Self-Existing establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.
24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in Shiloh: and the child was young.
26 And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
27 For this child I prayed; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
28 Therefore also I have lent him to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And he worshipped Yah the Eternally Self-Existing there.
CHAPTER 2
AND Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, mine horn is exalted in Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
2 There is none Set-Apart as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our the Almighty.
3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is a the Almighty of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
6 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
7 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s, and he hath set the world upon them.
10 The adversaries of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing before Eli the priest.
12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: for men abhorred the offering of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
18 But Samuel ministered before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And they went unto their own home.
21 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
24 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s people to transgress.
25 If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing would slay them.
26 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and also with men.
27 And there came a man of the Almighty unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house?
30 Wherefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now Yah the Eternally Self-Existing saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
CHAPTER 3
AND the child Samuel ministered unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing before Eli. And the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was precious in those days; there was no open vision.
3 And ere the lamp of the Almighty went out in the temple of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, where the ark of the Almighty was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;
4 That Yah the Eternally Self-Existing called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.
6 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.
7 Now Samuel did not yet know Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, neither was the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing yet revealed unto him.
8 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had called the child.
9 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
10 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.
11 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in YsraEl, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
15 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.
17 And he said, What is the thing that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: the Almighty do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.
18 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: let him do what seemeth him good.
19 And Samuel grew, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.
20 And all YsraEl from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
21 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared again in Shiloh: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 4
3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of YsraEl said, Wherefore hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing smitten us today before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.
4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of the Almighty.
5 And when the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came into the camp, all YsraEl shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was come into the camp.
CHAPTER 5
3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
6 But the hand of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.
CHAPTER 6
AND the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.
8 And take the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
11 And they laid the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
14 And the cart came into the field of Yahooshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
15 And the Levites took down the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
17 And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
18 And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Yahooshua, the Beth-shemite.
19 And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
20 And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this Set-Apart Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty? and to whom shall he go up from us?
21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.
CHAPTER 7
AND the men of Kirjath-jearim came, and fetched up the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
2 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of YsraEl lamented after Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of YsraEl, saying, If ye do return unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
4 Then the children of YsraEl did put away the lord [Baal]im and Ashtaroth, and served Yah the Eternally Self-Existing only.
5 And Samuel said, Gather all YsraEl to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
6 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And Samuel judged the children of YsraEl in Mizpeh.
8 And the children of YsraEl said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.
9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and Samuel cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for YsraEl; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing heard him.
10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against YsraEl: but Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before YsraEl.
12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing helped us.
13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of YsraEl: and the hand of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
17 And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged YsraEl; and there he built an altar unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 8
2 Now the name of his firstborn was YahooEl; and the name of his second, AbiYah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
7 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
10 And Samuel told all the words of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing unto the people that asked of him a king.
18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will not hear you in that day.
21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
22 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of YsraEl, Go ye every man unto his city.
CHAPTER 9
15 Now Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,
17 And when Samuel saw Saul, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.
CHAPTER 10
THEN Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?
6 And the Spirit of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.
17 And Samuel called the people together unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to Mizpeh;
18 And said unto the children of YsraEl, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, I brought up YsraEl out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:
19 And ye have this day rejected your the Almighty, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing by your tribes, and by your thousands.
22 Therefore they inquired of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing further, if the man should yet come thither. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff.
24 And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, the Almighty save the king.
25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
CHAPTER 11
7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of YsraEl by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
8 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of YsraEl were three hundred thousand, and the men of Yahoowdah thirty thousand.
13 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for today Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath wrought salvation in YsraEl.
15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and there Saul and all the men of YsraEl rejoiced greatly.
CHAPTER 12
3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
5 And he said unto them, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
6 And Samuel said unto the people, It is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of all the righteous acts of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he did to you and to your fathers.
8 When Ya‛aqoḇ was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, then Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
9 And when they forgat Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
10 And they cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and have served the lord [Baal]im and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.
11 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.
12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty was your king.
13 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath set a king over you.
14 If ye will fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty:
15 But if ye will not obey the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, but rebel against the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, then shall the hand of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be against you, as it was against your fathers.
16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will do before your eyes.
17 Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, in asking you a king.
18 So Samuel called unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared Yah the Eternally Self-Existing and Samuel.
19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.
20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, but serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing with all your heart;
22 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to make you his people.
23 Moreover as for me, the Almighty forbid that I should sin against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
24 Only fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
CHAPTER 13
2 Saul chose him three thousand men of YsraEl; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth-El, and a thousand were with Yahoonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
3 And Yahoonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, which he commanded thee: for now would Yah the Eternally Self-Existing have established thy kingdom upon YsraEl for ever.
14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath sought him a man after his own heart, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded thee.
16 And Saul, and Yahoonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Yahoonathan: but with Saul and with Yahoonathan his son was there found.
CHAPTER 14
NOW it came to pass upon a day, that Yahoonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.
3 And AhiYah, the son of Ahitub, I-chabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Yahoonathan was gone.
4 And between the passages, by which Yahoonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines’ garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
6 And Yahoonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will work for us: for there is no restraint to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to save by many or by few.
8 Then said Yahoonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.
10 But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be a sign unto us.
12 And the men of the garrison answered Yahoonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Yahoonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath delivered them into the hand of YsraEl.
13 And Yahoonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Yahoonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.
14 And that first slaughter, which Yahoonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
17 Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Yahoonathan and his armourbearer were not there.
18 And Saul said unto AhiYah, Bring hither the ark of the Almighty. For the ark of the Almighty was at that time with the children of YsraEl.
21 Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Yahoonathan.
23 So Yah the Eternally Self-Existing saved YsraEl that day: and the battle passed over unto Beth-aven.
27 But Yahoonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
29 Then said Yahoonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.
35 And Saul built an altar unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: the same was the first altar that he built unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
39 For, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, which saveth YsraEl, though it be in Yahoonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
40 Then said he unto all YsraEl, Be ye on one side, and I and Yahoonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.
41 Therefore Saul said unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, Give a perfect lot. And Saul and Yahoonathan were taken: but the people escaped.
42 And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Yahoonathan my son. And Yahoonathan was taken.
43 Then Saul said to Yahoonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Yahoonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.
44 And Saul answered, the Almighty do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Yahoonathan.
45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Yahoonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in YsraEl? the Almighty forbid: as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with the Almighty this day. So the people rescued Yahoonathan, that he died not.
49 Now the sons of Saul were Yahoonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-shua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
CHAPTER 15
SAMUEL also said unto Saul, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over YsraEl: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
2 Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to YsraEl, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Yahoowdah.
10 Then came the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing unto Samuel, saying,
11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing all night.
13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: I have performed the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
17 And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of YsraEl, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing anointed thee king over YsraEl?
18 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing?
20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and have gone the way which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty in Gilgal.
22 And Samuel said, Hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath rejected thee from being king over YsraEl.
28 And Samuel said unto him, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath rent the kingdom of YsraEl from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.
30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before YsraEl, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
33 And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in Gilgal.
35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing repented that he had made Saul king over YsraEl.
CHAPTER 16
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over YsraEl? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
4 And Samuel did that which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake, and came to Beth-lehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s anointed is before him.
7 But Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Yah the Eternally Self-Existing looketh on the heart.
8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing chosen this.
9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing chosen this.
10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath not chosen these.
12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
14 But the Spirit of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing troubled him.
18 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is with him.
CHAPTER 17
NOW the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Yahoowdah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.
37 David said moreover, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be with thee.
45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of hosts, the Almighty of the armies of YsraEl, whom thou hast defied.
46 This day will Yah the Eternally Self-Existing deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a the Almighty in YsraEl.
47 And all this assembly shall know that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s, and he will give you into our hands.
52 And the men of YsraEl and of Yahoowdah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
CHAPTER 18
AND it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Yahoonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Yahoonathan Cheseded him as his own soul.
3 Then Yahoonathan and David made a covenant, because he Cheseded him as his own soul.
4 And Yahoonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
12 And Saul was afraid of David, because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was with him, and was departed from Saul.
14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was with him.
16 But all YsraEl and Yahoowdah Cheseded David, because he went out and came in before them.
17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
28 And Saul saw and knew that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was with David, and that Michal Saul’s daughter Cheseded him.
CHAPTER 19
AND Saul spake to Yahoonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.
2 But Yahoonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Yahoonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:
4 And Yahoonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:
5 For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing wrought a great salvation for all YsraEl: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Yahoonathan: and Saul sware, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, he shall not be slain.
7 And Yahoonathan called David, and Yahoonathan shewed him all those things. And Yahoonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.
9 And the evil spirit from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand.
CHAPTER 20
AND David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Yahoonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Yahoonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
4 Then said Yahoonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do it for thee.
5 And David said unto Yahoonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.
8 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
9 And Yahoonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?
10 Then said David to Yahoonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?
11 And Yahoonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.
12 And Yahoonathan said unto David, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;
13 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing do so and much more to Yahoonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be with thee, as he hath been with my father.
14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that I die not:
15 But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.
16 So Yahoonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let Yah the Eternally Self-Existing even require it at the hand of David’s enemies.
17 And Yahoonathan caused David to swear again, because he Cheseded him: for he Cheseded him as he Cheseded his own soul.
18 Then Yahoonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
21 And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth.
22 But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath sent thee away.
23 And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be between thee and me for ever.
25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Yahoonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, and David’s place was empty.
27 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David’s place was empty: and Saul said unto Yahoonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor today?
28 And Yahoonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem:
30 Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Yahoonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother’s nakedness?
32 And Yahoonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?
33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Yahoonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.
34 So Yahoonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.
35 And it came to pass in the morning, that Yahoonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.
37 And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Yahoonathan had shot, Yahoonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?
38 And Yahoonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Yahoonathan’s lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
39 But the lad knew not any thing: only Yahoonathan and David knew the matter.
40 And Yahoonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city.
42 And Yahoonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Yahoonathan went into the city.
CHAPTER 21
6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
CHAPTER 22
5 And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Yahoowdah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.
10 And he inquired of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
17 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
21 And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s priests.
CHAPTER 23
2 Therefore David inquired of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.
3 And David’s men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Yahoowdah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?
4 Then David inquired of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing yet again. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
10 Then said David, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, He will come down.
12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, They will deliver thee up.
16 And Yahoonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in the Almighty.
18 And they two made a covenant before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and David abode in the wood, and Yahoonathan went to his house.
21 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; for ye have compassion on me.
23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Yahoowdah.
CHAPTER 24
4 And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe privily.
6 And he said unto his men, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
10 Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had delivered thee today into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s anointed.
12 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing judge between me and thee, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
15 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
18 And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.
19 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.
21 Swear now therefore unto me by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father’s house.
CHAPTER 25
26 Now therefore, my lord, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
30 And it shall come to pass, when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over YsraEl;
31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, which sent thee this day to meet me:
34 For in very deed, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing smote Nabal, that he died.
39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
CHAPTER 26
6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Yahoow’aab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s anointed, and be guiltless?
10 David said furthermore, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.
11 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was fallen upon them.
16 This thing is not good that thou hast done. As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s anointed. And now see where the king’s spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If Yah the Eternally Self-Existing have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, Go, serve other gods.
20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: for the king of YsraEl is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
23 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing delivered thee into my hand today, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s anointed.
24 And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
CHAPTER 27
6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Yahoowdah unto this day.
10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road today? And David said, Against the south of Yahoowdah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
CHAPTER 28
6 And when Saul inquired of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
10 And Saul sware to her by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
17 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath done to him, as he spake by me: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to David:
18 Because thou obeyedst not the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing done this thing unto thee this day.
19 Moreover Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will also deliver YsraEl with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing also shall deliver the host of YsraEl into the hand of the Philistines.
CHAPTER 29
6 Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.
CHAPTER 30
6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty.
8 And David inquired at Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.
14 We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Yahoowdah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Yahoowdah.
23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.
26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Yahoowdah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing;
CHAPTER 31
2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Yahoonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, Saul’s sons.
Book 1: The Second Book of ShemuEl {Samuel}
Chapter 1
4 And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Yahoonathan his son are dead also.
5 And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Yahoonathan his son be dead?
12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Yahoonathan his son, and for the people of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and for the house of YsraEl; because they were fallen by the sword.
14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s anointed?
16 And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s anointed.
17 And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Yahoonathan his son:
18 (Also he bade them teach the children of Yahoowdah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Yahoonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
23 Saul and Yahoonathan were Chesedly and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
25 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Yahoonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Yahoonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy Chesed to me was wonderful, passing the Chesed of women.
CHAPTER 2
AND it came to pass after this, that David inquired of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Yahoowdah? And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron.
4 And the men of Yahoowdah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Yahoowdah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried Saul.
5 And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him.
6 And now Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.
7 Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Yahoowdah have anointed me king over them.
10 Ish-bosheth Saul’s son was forty years old when he began to reign over YsraEl, and reigned two years. But the house of Yahoowdah followed David.
11 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Yahoowdah was seven years and six months.
13 And Yahoow’aab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
14 And Abner said to Yahoow’aab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Yahoow’aab said, Let them arise.
18 And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Yahoow’aab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
22 And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Yahoow’aab thy brother?
24 Yahoow’aab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
26 Then Abner called to Yahoow’aab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?
27 And Yahoow’aab said, As the Almighty liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.
28 So Yahoow’aab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after YsraEl no more, neither fought they any more.
30 And Yahoow’aab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David’s servants nineteen men and Asahel.
32 And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Beth-lehem. And Yahoow’aab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.
CHAPTER 3
4 And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, ShephatiYah the son of Abital;
8 Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog’s head, which against Yahoowdah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me today with a fault concerning this woman?
9 So do the Almighty to Abner, and more also, except, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;
10 To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over YsraEl and over Yahoowdah, from Dan even to Beer-sheba.
18 Now then do it: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people YsraEl out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
22 And, behold, the servants of David and Yahoow’aab came from pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.
23 When Yahoow’aab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Yahoow’aab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
24 Then Yahoow’aab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?
26 And when Yahoow’aab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.
27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Yahoow’aab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
28 And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
29 Let it rest on the head of Yahoow’aab, and on all his father’s house; and let there not fail from the house of Yahoow’aab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.
30 So Yahoow’aab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
31 And David said to Yahoow’aab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
39 And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
CHAPTER 4
4 And Yahoonathan, Saul’s son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Yahoonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
8 And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
CHAPTER 5
2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in YsraEl: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people YsraEl, and thou shalt be a captain over YsraEl.
3 So all the elders of YsraEl came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and they anointed David king over YsraEl.
5 In Hebron he reigned over Yahoowdah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all YsraEl and Yahoowdah.
10 And David went on, and grew great, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of hosts was with him.
12 And David perceived that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had established him king over YsraEl, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people YsraEl’s sake.
19 And David inquired of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
20 And David came to the Baal-perazim, and David smote them there, and said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place the Baal-perazim.
23 And when David inquired of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
24 And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall Yah the Eternally Self-Existing go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
25 And David did so, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.
CHAPTER 6
2 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from the lord [Baal]e of Yahoowdah, to bring up from thence the ark of the Almighty, whose name is called by the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.
5 And David and all the house of YsraEl played before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
7 And the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was kindled against Uzzah; and the Almighty smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of the Almighty.
8 And David was displeased, because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this day.
9 And David was afraid of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that day, and said, How shall the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing come to me?
10 So David would not remove the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
11 And the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing continued in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing blessed Obed-edom, and all his household.
12 And it was told king David, saying, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of the Almighty. So David went and brought up the ark of the Almighty from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness.
13 And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
14 And David danced before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
15 So David and all the house of YsraEl brought up the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
16 And as the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and she despised him in her heart.
17 And they brought in the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
18 And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of hosts.
21 And David said unto Michal, It was before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, over YsraEl: therefore will I play before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 7
AND it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is with thee.
4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came unto Nathan, saying,
5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
8 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over YsraEl:
11 And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people YsraEl, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also Yah the Eternally Self-Existing telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
18 Then went king David in, and sat before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and he said, Who am I, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty?
20 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, knowest thy servant.
22 Wherefore thou art great, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty: for there is none like thee, neither is there any the Almighty beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
24 For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people YsraEl to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, art become their the Almighty.
25 And now, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.
26 And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of Hosts is the Almighty over YsraEl: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.
27 For thou, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of Hosts, the Almighty of YsraEl, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.
28 And now, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, thou art that the Almighty, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
29 Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.
CHAPTER 8
6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing preserved David whithersoever he went.
10 Then Toi sent Yahooram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Yahooram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:
11 Which also king David did dedicate unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;
14 And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David’s servants. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing preserved David whithersoever he went.
16 And Yahoow’aab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Yahooshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
17 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and SeraiYah was the scribe;
18 And BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief rulers.
CHAPTER 9
AND David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Yahoonathan’s sake?
3 And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of the Almighty unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Yahoonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.
6 Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Yahoonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!
7 And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Yahoonathan thy father’s sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.
CHAPTER 10
7 And when David heard of it, he sent Yahoow’aab, and all the host of the mighty men.
9 When Yahoow’aab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of YsraEl, and put them in array against the Syrians:
12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our the Almighty: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing do that which seemeth him good.
13 And Yahoow’aab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
14 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So Yahoow’aab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
CHAPTER 11
AND it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Yahoow’aab, and his servants with him, and all YsraEl; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
3 And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of UriYah the Hittite?
6 And David sent to Yahoow’aab, saying, Send me UriYah the Hittite. And Yahoow’aab sent UriYah to David.
7 And when UriYah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Yahoow’aab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.
8 And David said to UriYah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And UriYah departed out of the king’s house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king.
9 But UriYah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
10 And when they had told David, saying, UriYah went not down unto his house, David said unto UriYah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?
11 And UriYah said unto David, The ark, and YsraEl, and Yahoowdah, abide in tents; and my lord Yahoow’aab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
12 And David said to UriYah, Tarry here today also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So UriYah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.
14 And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Yahoow’aab, and sent it by the hand of UriYah.
15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye UriYah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
16 And it came to pass, when Yahoow’aab observed the city, that he assigned UriYah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.
17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with Yahoow’aab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and UriYah the Hittite died also.
18 Then Yahoow’aab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
21 Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant UriYah the Hittite is dead also.
22 So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Yahoow’aab had sent him for.
24 And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king’s servants be dead, and thy servant UriYah the Hittite is dead also.
25 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Yahoow’aab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
26 And when the wife of UriYah heard that UriYah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 12
AND Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
5 And David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:
7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, I anointed thee king over YsraEl, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
8 And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of YsraEl and of Yahoowdah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.
9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed UriYah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of UriYah the Hittite to be thy wife.
11 Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And Nathan said unto David, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing struck the child that UriYah’s wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
24 And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Cheseded him.
25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name YadiydaYah, because of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
26 And Yahoow’aab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
27 And Yahoow’aab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.
CHAPTER 13
3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Yahoonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother: and Yahoonadab was a very subtil man.
5 And Yahoonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.
32 And Yahoonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
35 And Yahoonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king’s sons come: as thy servant said, so it is.
CHAPTER 14
NOW Yahoow’aab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.
2 And Yahoow’aab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
3 And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Yahoow’aab put the words in her mouth.
11 Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
17 Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of the Almighty, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty will be with thee.
19 And the king said, Is not the hand of Yahoow’aab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Yahoow’aab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
20 To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Yahoow’aab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of the Almighty, to know all things that are in the earth.
21 And the king said unto Yahoow’aab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.
22 And Yahoow’aab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king: and Yahoow’aab said, To day thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant.
23 So Yahoow’aab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
29 Therefore Absalom sent for Yahoow’aab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time, he would not come.
30 Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Yahoow’aab’s field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
31 Then Yahoow’aab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?
32 And Absalom answered Yahoow’aab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king’s face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.
33 So Yahoow’aab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.
CHAPTER 15
7 And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, in Hebron.
8 For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
21 And Ittai answered the king, and said, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.
25 And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of the Almighty into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, he will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:
27 The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Yahoonathan the son of Abiathar.
31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok’s son, and Yahoonathan Abiathar’s son; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear.
CHAPTER 16
8 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.
10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?
11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath bidden him.
12 It may be that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will look on mine affliction, and that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will requite me good for his cursing this day.
18 And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and this people, and all the men of YsraEl, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.
CHAPTER 17
14 And Absalom and all the men of YsraEl said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing might bring evil upon Absalom.
17 Now Yahoonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.
20 And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Yahoonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
25 And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Yahoow’aab: which Amasa was a man’s son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Yahoow’aab’s mother.
CHAPTER 18
2 And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Yahoow’aab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Yahoow’aab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.
5 And the king commanded Yahoow’aab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.
10 And a certain man saw it, and told Yahoow’aab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
11 And Yahoow’aab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.
12 And the man said unto Yahoow’aab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
14 Then said Yahoow’aab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
15 And ten young men that bare Yahoow’aab’s armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
16 And Yahoow’aab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after YsraEl: for Yahoow’aab held back the people.
19 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath avenged him of his enemies.
20 And Yahoow’aab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king’s son is dead.
21 Then said Yahoow’aab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Yahoow’aab, and ran.
22 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Yahoow’aab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Yahoow’aab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?
28 And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.
29 And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Yahoow’aab sent the king’s servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.
31 And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.
CHAPTER 19
AND it was told Yahoow’aab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
5 And Yahoow’aab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
11 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Yahoowdah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all YsraEl is come to the king, even to his house.
13 And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? the Almighty do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Yahoow’aab.
14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Yahoowdah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.
15 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Yahoowdah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.
16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Yahoowdah to meet king David.
20 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Yahooceph to go down to meet my lord the king.
21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s anointed?
40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Yahoowdah conducted the king, and also half the people of YsraEl.
41 And, behold, all the men of YsraEl came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Yahoowdah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David’s men with him, over Jordan?
42 And all the men of Yahoowdah answered the men of YsraEl, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king’s cost? or hath he given us any gift?
43 And the men of YsraEl answered the men of Yahoowdah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Yahoowdah were fiercer than the words of the men of YsraEl.
CHAPTER 20
2 So every man of YsraEl went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Yahoowdah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.
4 Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Yahoowdah within three days, and be thou here present.
5 So Amasa went to assemble the men of Yahoowdah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
7 And there went out after him Yahoow’aab’s men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Yahoow’aab’s garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
9 And Yahoow’aab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Yahoow’aab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.
10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Yahoow’aab’s hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Yahoow’aab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
11 And one of Yahoow’aab’s men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Yahoow’aab, and he that is for David, let him go after Yahoow’aab.
13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Yahoow’aab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
15 And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Yahoow’aab battered the wall, to throw it down.
16 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Yahoow’aab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.
17 And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Yahoow’aab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.
19 I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in YsraEl: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in YsraEl: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing?
20 And Yahoow’aab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
21 The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Yahoow’aab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.
22 Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Yahoow’aab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Yahoow’aab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.
23 Now Yahoow’aab was over all the host of YsraEl: and BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:
24 And Adoram was over the tribute: and Yahooshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:
25 And ShevYah was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
CHAPTER 21
THEN there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of YsraEl, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of YsraEl had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of YsraEl and Yahoowdah.)
3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing?
6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in Gibeah of Saul, whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Yahoonathan the son of Saul, because of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s oath that was between them, between David and Yahoonathan the son of Saul.
9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Yahoonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Yahoonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
14 And the bones of Saul and Yahoonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that the Almighty was intreated for the land.
21 And when he defied YsraEl, Yahoonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.
CHAPTER 22
AND David spake unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing the words of this song in the day that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
2 And he said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
4 I will call on Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
7 In my distress I called upon Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and cried to my the Almighty: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
14 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was my stay.
21 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
22 For I have kept the ways of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and have not wickedly departed from my the Almighty.
25 Therefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
29 For thou art my lamp, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will lighten my darkness.
31 As for the Almighty, his way is perfect; the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
32 For who is the Almighty, save Yah the Eternally Self-Existing? and who is a rock, save our the Almighty?
42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, but he answered them not.
47 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the Almighty of the rock of my salvation.
50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
CHAPTER 23
2 The Spirit of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing wrought a great victory.
16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
17 And he said, Be it far from me, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.
18 And Abishai, the brother of Yahoow’aab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.
20 And BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
22 These things did BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada, and had the name among three mighty men.
24 Asahel the brother of Yahoow’aab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
30 BenaiYah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
32 EliYahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Yahoonathan,
37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armourbearer to Yahoow’aab the son of Zeruiah,
39 UriYah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
CHAPTER 24
AND again the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was kindled against YsraEl, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number YsraEl and Yahoowdah.
2 For the king said to Yahoow’aab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of YsraEl, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.
3 And Yahoow’aab said unto the king, Now Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
4 Notwithstanding the king’s word prevailed against Yahoow’aab, and against the captains of the host. And Yahoow’aab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of YsraEl.
7 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Yahoowdah, even to Beer-sheba.
9 And Yahoow’aab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in YsraEl eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Yahoowdah were five hundred thousand men.
10 And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
15 So Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent a pestilence upon YsraEl from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.
16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
17 And David spake unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house.
18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded.
21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
23 All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty accept thee.
24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
25 And David built there an altar unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from YsraEl.
Book 1: The First Book of Melakim {1 Kings}
Chapter 1
7 And he conferred with Yahoow’aab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.
8 But Zadok the priest, and BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En-rogel, and called all his brethren the king’s sons, and all the men of Yahoowdah the king’s servants:
10 But Nathan the prophet, and BenaiYah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.
17 And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
19 And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Yahoow’aab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.
26 But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.
29 And the king sware, and said, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,
30 Even as I sware unto thee by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.
32 And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada. And they came before the king.
35 Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over YsraEl and over Yahoowdah.
36 And BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada answered the king, and said, Amen: Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of my lord the king say so too.
37 As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.
38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.
41 And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Yahoow’aab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
42 And while he yet spake, behold, Yahoonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.
43 And Yahoonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king.
44 And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king’s mule:
48 And also thus said the king, Blessed be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, which hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.
CHAPTER 2
3 And keep the charge of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
4 That Yah the Eternally Self-Existing may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of YsraEl.
5 Moreover thou knowest also what Yahoow’aab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of YsraEl, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
8 And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all YsraEl set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother’s: for it was his from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
22 And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Yahoow’aab the son of Zeruiah.
23 Then king Solomon sware by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, the Almighty do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.
24 Now therefore, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada; and he fell upon him that he died.
26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; that he might fulfil the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
28 Then tidings came to Yahoow’aab: for Yahoow’aab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Yahoow’aab fled unto the tabernacle of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
29 And it was told king Solomon that Yahoow’aab was fled unto the tabernacle of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada, saying, Go, fall upon him.
30 And BenaiYah came to the tabernacle of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And BenaiYah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Yahoow’aab, and thus he answered me.
31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Yahoow’aab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
32 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of YsraEl, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Yahoowdah.
33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Yahoow’aab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
34 So BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
35 And the king put BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good.
43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?
44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
45 And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for ever.
46 So the king commanded BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
CHAPTER 3
AND Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, until those days.
3 And Solomon Cheseded Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
5 In Gibeon Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and the Almighty said, Ask what I shall give thee.
7 And now, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
10 And the speech pleased Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that Solomon had asked this thing.
15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
CHAPTER 4
2 And these were the princes which he had; AzariYah the son of Zadok the priest,
3 Elihoreph and AhiYah, the sons of ShishYah, scribes; Yahooshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.
4 And BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
5 And AzariYah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king’s friend:
17 Yahooshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
20 Yahoowdah and YsraEl were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
25 And Yahoowdah and YsraEl dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
CHAPTER 5
3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty for the wars which were about him on every side, until Yah the Eternally Self-Existing put them under the soles of his feet.
4 But now Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
5 And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.
7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.
12 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
CHAPTER 6
AND it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of YsraEl were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over YsraEl, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
2 And the house which king Solomon built for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.
11 And the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came to Solomon, saying,
19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing laid, in the month Zif:
CHAPTER 7
12 And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and for the porch of the house.
40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, were of bright brass.
48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 8
THEN Solomon assembled the elders of YsraEl, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of YsraEl, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing out of the city of David, which is Zion.
4 And they brought up the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the Set-Apart vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most Set-Apart place, even under the wings of the cherubims.
9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made a covenant with the children of YsraEl, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the Set-Apart place, that the cloud filled the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing,
11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had filled the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
12 Then spake Solomon, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
15 And he said, Blessed be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl.
18 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.
20 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of YsraEl, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing promised, and have built an house for the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl.
21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
22 And Solomon stood before the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the presence of all the congregation of YsraEl, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
23 And he said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, there is no the Almighty like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:
25 Therefore now, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of YsraEl; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee today:
44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:
53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty.
54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, he arose from before the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
56 Blessed be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that hath given rest unto his people YsraEl, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
57 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, be nigh unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people YsraEl at all times, as the matter shall require:
60 That all the people of the earth may know that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is the Almighty, and that there is none else.
61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
62 And the king, and all YsraEl with him, offered sacrifice before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of YsraEl dedicated the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all YsraEl with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had done for David his servant, and for YsraEl his people.
CHAPTER 9
AND it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,
2 That Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
3 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing done thus unto this land, and to this house?
9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing brought upon them all this evil.
10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the king’s house,
15 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
25 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. So he finished the house.
CHAPTER 10
AND when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, she came to prove him with hard questions.
5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; there was no more spirit in her.
9 Blessed be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of YsraEl: because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Cheseded YsraEl for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and for the king’s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
CHAPTER 11
2 Of the nations concerning which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto the children of YsraEl, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in Chesed.
4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty, as was the heart of David his father.
6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and went not fully after Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as did David his father.
9 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, which had appeared unto him twice,
10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded.
11 Wherefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
14 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king’s seed in Edom.
15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Yahoow’aab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;
16 (For six months did Yahoow’aab remain there with all YsraEl, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)
21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Yahoow’aab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.
28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Yahooceph.
31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the Almighty of YsraEl, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
CHAPTER 12
15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that he might perform his saying, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
17 But as for the children of YsraEl which dwelt in the cities of Yahoowdah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
20 And it came to pass, when all YsraEl heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all YsraEl: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Yahoowdah only.
21 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Yahoowdah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of YsraEl, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
22 But the word of the Almighty came unto ShemaiYah the man of the Almighty, saying,
23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Yahoowdah, and unto all the house of Yahoowdah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
24 Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of YsraEl: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and returned to depart, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Yahoowdah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Yahoowdah.
32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Yahoowdah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-El, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-El the priests of the high places which he had made.
CHAPTER 13
AND, behold, there came a man of the Almighty out of Yahoowdah by the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing unto Beth-El: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
2 And he cried against the altar in the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, JosiYah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee.
3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.
5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of the Almighty had given by the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
6 And the king answered and said unto the man of the Almighty, Intreat now the face of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of the Almighty besought Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the king’s hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.
9 For so was it charged me by the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.
12 And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of the Almighty went, which came from Yahoowdah.
14 And went after the man of the Almighty, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of the Almighty that camest from Yahoowdah? And he said, I am.
17 For it was said to me by the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.
18 He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.
20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came unto the prophet that brought him back:
21 And he cried unto the man of the Almighty that came from Yahoowdah, saying, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and hast not kept the commandment which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty commanded thee,
22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of the Almighty, who was disobedient unto the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: therefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he spake unto him.
32 For the saying which he cried by the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing against the altar in Beth-El, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
CHAPTER 14
5 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people YsraEl,
11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath spoken it.
13 And all YsraEl shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl in the house of Jeroboam.
14 Moreover Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall raise him up a king over YsraEl, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
15 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall smite YsraEl, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up YsraEl out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to anger.
18 And they buried him; and all YsraEl mourned for him, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Yahoowdah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did choose out of all the tribes of YsraEl, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
22 And Yahoowdah did evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing cast out before the children of YsraEl.
26 And he took away the treasures of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
28 And it was so, when the king went into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yahoowdah?
CHAPTER 15
NOW in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Yahoowdah.
3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty, as the heart of David his father.
4 Nevertheless for David’s sake did Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of UriYah the Hittite.
7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yahoowdah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of YsraEl reigned Asa over Yahoowdah.
11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as did David his father.
14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with Yah the Eternally Self-Existing all his days.
15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, silver, and gold, and vessels.
17 And Baasha king of YsraEl went up against Yahoowdah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Yahoowdah.
18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Yahoowdah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yahoowdah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Yahooshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over YsraEl in the second year of Asa king of Yahoowdah, and reigned over YsraEl two years.
26 And he did evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made YsraEl to sin.
28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Yahoowdah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made YsraEl sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl to anger.
33 In the third year of Asa king of Yahoowdah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all YsraEl in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
34 And he did evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made YsraEl to sin.
CHAPTER 16
THEN the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came to Yahuw the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
7 And also by the hand of the prophet Yahuw the son of Hanani came the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.
8 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Yahoowdah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over YsraEl in Tirzah, two years.
10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Yahoowdah, and reigned in his stead.
12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he spake against Baasha by Yahuw the prophet,
13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made YsraEl to sin, in provoking Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl to anger with their vanities.
15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Yahoowdah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make YsraEl to sin.
23 In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Yahoowdah began Omri to reign over YsraEl, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.
25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and did worse than all that were before him.
26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made YsraEl to sin, to provoke Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl to anger with their vanities.
29 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Yahoowdah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over YsraEl: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over YsraEl in Samaria twenty and two years.
30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing above all that were before him.
33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl to anger than all the kings of YsraEl that were before him.
34 In his days did Hiel the BethElite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he spake by Yahooshua the son of Nun.
CHAPTER 17
AND EliYah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
2 And the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came unto him, saying,
5 So he went and did according unto the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
8 And the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came unto him, saying,
12 And she said, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
13 And EliYah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
14 For thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sendeth rain upon the earth.
15 And she went and did according to the saying of EliYah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
16 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he spake by EliYah .
18 And she said unto EliYah , What have I to do with thee, O thou man of the Almighty? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
20 And he cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty, I pray thee, let this child’s soul come into him again.
22 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing heard the voice of EliYah ; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
23 And EliYah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and EliYah said, See, thy son liveth.
24 And the woman said to EliYah , Now by this I know that thou art a man of the Almighty, and that the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in thy mouth is truth.
CHAPTER 18
AND it came to pass after many days, that the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came to EliYah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
2 And EliYah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
3 And Ahab called ObadYah, which was the governor of his house. (Now ObadYah feared Yah the Eternally Self-Existing greatly:
4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that ObadYah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
5 And Ahab said unto ObadYah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and ObadYah went another way by himself.
7 And as ObadYah was in the way, behold, EliYah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord EliYah ?
8 And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, EliYah is here.
10 As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, EliYah is here.
12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing from my youth.
13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, how I hid an hundred men of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
14 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, EliYah is here: and he shall slay me.
15 And EliYah said, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him today.
16 So ObadYah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet EliYah .
17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw EliYah , that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth YsraEl?
18 And he answered, I have not troubled YsraEl; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and thou hast followed the lord [Baal]im.
21 And EliYah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be the Almighty, follow him: but if the lord [Baal], then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
22 Then said EliYah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; but the lord [Baal]’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and the Almighty that answereth by fire, let him be the Almighty. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
25 And EliYah said unto the prophets of the lord [Baal], Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
27 And it came to pass at noon, that EliYah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
30 And EliYah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that was broken down.
31 And EliYah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ, unto whom the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came, saying, YsraEl shall be thy name:
32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that EliYah the prophet came near, and said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of Abraham, Yitshaq, and of YsraEl, let it be known this day that thou art the Almighty in YsraEl, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
37 Hear me, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, hear me, that this people may know that thou art Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
38 Then the fire of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, he is the Almighty; Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, he is the Almighty.
40 And EliYah said unto them, Take the prophets of the lord [Baal]; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and EliYah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
41 And EliYah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And EliYah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
46 And the hand of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was on EliYah ; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
CHAPTER 19
AND Ahab told Jezebel all that EliYah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto EliYah , saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Yahoowdah, and left his servant there.
4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
7 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.
9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, EliYah ?
10 And he said, I have been very jealous for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of hosts: for the children of YsraEl have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And, behold, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; but Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was not in the earthquake:
12 And after the earthquake a fire; but Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
13 And it was so, when EliYah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, EliYah ?
14 And he said, I have been very jealous for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of hosts: because the children of YsraEl have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
15 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:
16 And Yahuw the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over YsraEl: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.
17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Yahuw slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Yahuw shall Elisha slay.
19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and EliYah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
20 And he left the oxen, and ran after EliYah , and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after EliYah , and ministered unto him.
CHAPTER 20
13 And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of YsraEl, saying, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.
28 And there came a man of the Almighty, and spake unto the king of YsraEl, and said, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Because the Syrians have said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is the Almighty of the hills, but he is not the Almighty of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.
36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
42 And he said unto him, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.
CHAPTER 21
3 And Naboth said to Ahab, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
17 And the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came to EliYah the Tishbite, saying,
19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
20 And Ahab said to EliYah , Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
23 And of Jezebel also spake Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing cast out before the children of YsraEl.
28 And the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came to EliYah the Tishbite, saying,
CHAPTER 22
2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Yahooshaphat the king of Yahoowdah came down to the king of YsraEl.
4 And he said unto Yahooshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Yahooshaphat said to the king of YsraEl, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
5 And Yahooshaphat said unto the king of YsraEl, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing today.
6 Then the king of YsraEl gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
7 And Yahooshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing besides, that we might inquire of him?
8 And the king of YsraEl said unto Yahooshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Yahooshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
10 And the king of YsraEl and Yahooshaphat the king of Yahoowdah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
11 And ZedekiYah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall deliver it into the king’s hand.
14 And Micaiah said, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, what Yah the Eternally Self-Existing saith unto me, that will I speak.
15 So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing?
17 And he said, I saw all YsraEl scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.
18 And the king of YsraEl said unto Yahooshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: I saw Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
20 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.
21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, I will persuade him.
22 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
23 Now therefore, behold, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath spoken evil concerning thee.
24 But ZedekiYah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing from me to speak unto thee?
26 And the king of YsraEl said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Yahoow’aash the king’s son;
28 And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.
29 So the king of YsraEl and Yahooshaphat the king of Yahoowdah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
30 And the king of YsraEl said unto Yahooshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of YsraEl disguised himself, and went into the battle.
32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Yahooshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of YsraEl. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Yahooshaphat cried out.
38 And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing which he spake.
41 And Yahooshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Yahoowdah in the fourth year of Ahab king of YsraEl.
42 Yahooshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
44 And Yahooshaphat made peace with the king of YsraEl.
45 Now the rest of the acts of Yahooshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yahoowdah?
48 Yahooshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.
49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Yahooshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Yahooshaphat would not.
50 And Yahooshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Yahooram his son reigned in his stead.
51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over YsraEl in Samaria the seventeenth year of Yahooshaphat king of Yahoowdah, and reigned two years over YsraEl.
52 And he did evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made YsraEl to sin:
53 For he served the lord [Baal], and worshipped him, and provoked to anger Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, according to all that his father had done.
Book 1: The Second Book of Melakim {2 Kings}
Chapter 1
3 But the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said to EliYah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a the Almighty in YsraEl, that ye go to inquire of the lord [Baal]-zebub the god of Ekron?
4 Now therefore thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And EliYah departed.
6 And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Is it not because there is not a the Almighty in YsraEl, that thou sendest to inquire of the lord [Baal]-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
8 And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is EliYah the Tishbite.
10 And EliYah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of the Almighty, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
12 And EliYah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of the Almighty, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of the Almighty came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
13 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before EliYah , and besought him, and said unto him, O man of the Almighty, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
15 And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto EliYah , Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.
16 And he said unto him, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of the lord [Baal]-zebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no the Almighty in YsraEl to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
17 So he died according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing which EliYah had spoken. And Yahooram reigned in his stead in the second year of Yahooram the son of Yahooshaphat king of Yahoowdah; because he had no son.
CHAPTER 2
AND it came to pass, when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing would take up EliYah into heaven by a whirlwind, that EliYah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
2 And EliYah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath sent me to Beth-El. And Elisha said unto him, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth-El.
3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-El came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will take away thy master from thy head today? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
4 And EliYah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will take away thy master from thy head today? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
6 And EliYah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
8 And EliYah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.
9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that EliYah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and EliYah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
13 He took up also the mantle of EliYah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
14 And he took the mantle of EliYah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of EliYah ? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of EliYah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
CHAPTER 3
NOW Yahooram the son of Ahab began to reign over YsraEl in Samaria the eighteenth year of Yahooshaphat king of Yahoowdah, and reigned twelve years.
2 And he wrought evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of the lord [Baal] that his father had made.
6 And king Yahooram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all YsraEl.
7 And he went and sent to Yahooshaphat the king of Yahoowdah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.
9 So the king of YsraEl went, and the king of Yahoowdah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days’ journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
10 And the king of YsraEl said, Alas! that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
11 But Yahooshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that we may inquire of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing by him? And one of the king of YsraEl’s servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of EliYah .
12 And Yahooshaphat said, The word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is with him. So the king of YsraEl and Yahooshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
13 And Elisha said unto the king of YsraEl, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of YsraEl said unto him, Nay: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
14 And Elisha said, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Yahooshaphat the king of Yahoowdah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.
15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came upon him.
16 And he said, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Make this valley full of ditches.
17 For thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
CHAPTER 4
NOW there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
27 And when she came to the man of the Almighty to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of the Almighty said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
30 And the mother of the child said, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.
33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.
44 So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 5
NOW Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
16 But he said, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules’ burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
18 In this thing Yah the Eternally Self-Existing pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing pardon thy servant in this thing.
20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of the Almighty, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
CHAPTER 6
17 And Elisha prayed, and said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
27 And he said, If Yah the Eternally Self-Existing do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; what should I wait for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing any longer?
CHAPTER 7
THEN Elisha said, Hear ye the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of the Almighty, and said, Behold, if Yah the Eternally Self-Existing would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
6 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of YsraEl hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
19 And that lord answered the man of the Almighty, and said, Now, behold, if Yah the Eternally Self-Existing should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
CHAPTER 8
THEN spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of the Almighty, and inquire of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath shewed me that he shall surely die.
13 And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
16 And in the fifth year of Yahooram the son of Ahab king of YsraEl, Yahooshaphat being then king of Yahoowdah, Yahooram the son of Yahooshaphat king of Yahoowdah began to reign.
18 And he walked in the way of the kings of YsraEl, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
19 Yet Yah the Eternally Self-Existing would not destroy Yahoowdah for David his servant’s sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.
20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Yahoowdah, and made a king over themselves.
21 So Yahooram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.
22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Yahoowdah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
23 And the rest of the acts of Yahooram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yahoowdah?
24 And Yahooram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
25 In the twelfth year of Yahooram the son of Ahab king of YsraEl did Ahaziah the son of Yahooram king of Yahoowdah begin to reign.
26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was AthaliYah, the daughter of Omri king of YsraEl.
27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.
28 And he went with Yahooram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth-gilead; and the Syrians wounded Yahooram.
29 And king Yahooram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Yahooram king of Yahoowdah went down to see Yahooram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
CHAPTER 9
2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Yahuw the son of Yahooshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
3 Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, I have anointed thee king over YsraEl. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Yahuw said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.
6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, I have anointed thee king over the people of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even over YsraEl.
7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, at the hand of Jezebel.
11 Then Yahuw came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
12 And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, I have anointed thee king over YsraEl.
13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Yahuw is king.
14 So Yahuw the son of Yahooshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Yahooram. (Now Yahooram had kept Ramoth-gilead, he and all YsraEl, because of Hazael king of Syria.
15 But king Yahooram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Yahuw said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
16 So Yahuw rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Yahooram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Yahoowdah was come down to see Yahooram.
17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Yahuw as he came, and said, I see a company. And Yahooram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?
18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Yahuw said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Yahuw answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Yahuw the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
21 And Yahooram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Yahooram king of YsraEl and Ahaziah king of Yahoowdah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Yahuw, and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
22 And it came to pass, when Yahooram saw Yahuw, that he said, Is it peace, Yahuw? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
23 And Yahooram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
24 And Yahuw drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Yahooram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
25 Then said Yahuw to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing laid this burden upon him;
26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
27 But when Ahaziah the king of Yahoowdah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Yahuw followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
29 And in the eleventh year of Yahooram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Yahoowdah.
30 And when Yahuw was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
31 And as Yahuw entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?
36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he spake by his servant EliYah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
CHAPTER 10
AND Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Yahuw wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab’s children, saying,
5 And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Yahuw, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.
10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake concerning the house of Ahab: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath done that which he spake by his servant EliYah .
11 So Yahuw slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
13 Yahuw met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Yahoowdah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.
15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Yahonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Yahonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. So they made him ride in his chariot.
17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he spake to EliYah .
18 And Yahuw gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served the lord [Baal] a little; but Yahuw shall serve him much.
19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of the lord [Baal], all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to the lord [Baal]; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Yahuw did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of the lord [Baal].
20 And Yahuw said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for the lord [Baal]. And they proclaimed it.
21 And Yahuw sent through all YsraEl: and all the worshippers of the lord [Baal] came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of the lord [Baal]; and the house of the lord [Baal] was full from one end to another.
23 And Yahuw went, and Yahonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of the lord [Baal], and said unto the worshippers of the lord [Baal], Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, but the worshippers of the lord [Baal] only.
24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Yahuw appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Yahuw said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of the lord [Baal].
28 Thus Yahuw destroyed the lord [Baal] out of YsraEl.
29 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made YsraEl to sin, Yahuw departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Beth-El, and that were in Dan.
30 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto Yahuw, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of YsraEl.
31 But Yahuw took no heed to walk in the law of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made YsraEl to sin.
32 In those days Yah the Eternally Self-Existing began to cut YsraEl short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of YsraEl;
34 Now the rest of the acts of Yahuw, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of YsraEl?
35 And Yahuw slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Yahoo’achaz his son reigned in his stead.
36 And the time that Yahuw reigned over YsraEl in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
CHAPTER 11
AND when AthaliYah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2 But Yahowsheba, the daughter of king Yahooram, sister of Ahaziah, took Yahoow’aash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from AthaliYah, so that he was not slain.
3 And he was with her hid in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing six years. And AthaliYah did reign over the land.
4 And the seventh year Yahooyada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and shewed them the king’s son.
7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing about the king.
9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Yahooyada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Yahooyada the priest.
10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David’s spears and shields, that were in the temple of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
13 And when AthaliYah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and AthaliYah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
15 But Yahooyada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
17 And Yahooyada made a covenant between Yah the Eternally Self-Existing and the king and the people, that they should be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s people; between the king also and the people.
18 And all the people of the land went into the house of the lord [Baal], and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of the lord [Baal] before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew AthaliYah with the sword beside the king’s house.
21 Seven years old was Yahow’ash when he began to reign.
CHAPTER 12
IN the seventh year of Yahuw Yahow’ash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
2 And Yahow’ash did that which was right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing all his days wherein Yahooyada the priest instructed him.
4 And Yahow’ash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing,
6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Yahow’ash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
7 Then king Yahow’ash called for Yahooyada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
9 But Yahooyada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
10 And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing,
12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: it was the priests’.
18 And Yahow’ash king of Yahoowdah took all the hallowed things that Yahooshaphat, and Yahooram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Yahoowdah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and in the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
19 And the rest of the acts of Yahoow’aash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yahoowdah?
20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Yahoow’aash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
21 For Yahoozachar the son of Shimeath, and Yahowzabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and AmaziYah his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER 13
IN the three and twentieth year of Yahoow’aash the son of Ahaziah king of Yahoowdah Yahoo’achaz the son of Yahuw began to reign over YsraEl in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made YsraEl to sin; he departed not therefrom.
3 And the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was kindled against YsraEl, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
4 And Yahoo’achaz besought Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of YsraEl, because the king of Syria oppressed them.
5 (And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing gave YsraEl a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of YsraEl dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
7 Neither did he leave of the people to Yahoo’achaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
8 Now the rest of the acts of Yahoo’achaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of YsraEl?
9 And Yahoo’achaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Yahoow’aash his son reigned in his stead.
10 In the thirty and seventh year of Yahoow’aash king of Yahoowdah began Yahow’ash the son of Yahoo’achaz to reign over YsraEl in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.
11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made YsraEl sin: but he walked therein.
12 And the rest of the acts of Yahoow’aash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against AmaziYah king of Yahoowdah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of YsraEl?
13 And Yahoow’aash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Yahoow’aash was buried in Samaria with the kings of YsraEl.
14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Yahoow’aash the king of YsraEl came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of YsraEl, and the horsemen thereof.
17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed YsraEl all the days of Yahoo’achaz.
23 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Yitshaq, and Ya‛aqoḇ, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
25 And Yahow’ash the son of Yahoo’achaz took again out of the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Yahoo’achaz his father by war. Three times did Yahoow’aash beat him, and recovered the cities of YsraEl.
CHAPTER 14
IN the second year of Yahoow’aash son of Yahoo’achaz king of YsraEl reigned AmaziYah the son of Yahoow’aash king of Yahoowdah.
2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Yahooadaan of Jerusalem.
3 And he did that which was right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Yahoow’aash his father did.
6 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
8 Then AmaziYah sent messengers to Yahow’ash, the son of Yahoo’achaz son of Yahuw, king of YsraEl, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
9 And Yahow’ash the king of YsraEl sent to AmaziYah king of Yahoowdah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Yahoowdah with thee?
11 But AmaziYah would not hear. Therefore Yahow’ash king of YsraEl went up; and he and AmaziYah king of Yahoowdah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Yahoowdah.
12 And Yahoowdah was put to the worse before YsraEl; and they fled every man to their tents.
13 And Yahow’ash king of YsraEl took AmaziYah king of Yahoowdah, the son of Yahow’ash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
15 Now the rest of the acts of Yahow’ash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with AmaziYah king of Yahoowdah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of YsraEl?
16 And Yahow’ash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of YsraEl; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
17 And AmaziYah the son of Yahoow’aash king of Yahoowdah lived after the death of Yahow’ash son of Yahoo’achaz king of YsraEl fifteen years.
18 And the rest of the acts of AmaziYah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yahoowdah?
21 And all the people of Yahoowdah took AzariYah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father AmaziYah.
22 He built Elath, and restored it to Yahoowdah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
23 In the fifteenth year of AmaziYah the son of Yahoow’aash king of Yahoowdah Jeroboam the son of Yahoow’aash king of YsraEl began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made YsraEl to sin.
25 He restored the coast of YsraEl from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, which he spake by the hand of his servant Yonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath-hepher.
26 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing saw the affliction of YsraEl, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for YsraEl.
27 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said not that he would blot out the name of YsraEl from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Yahoow’aash.
28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Yahoowdah, for YsraEl, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of YsraEl?
CHAPTER 15
IN the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of YsraEl began AzariYah son of AmaziYah king of Yahoowdah to reign.
3 And he did that which was right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, according to all that his father AmaziYah had done;
5 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Yahootham the king’s son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
6 And the rest of the acts of AzariYah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yahoowdah?
7 So AzariYah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Yahootham his son reigned in his stead.
8 In the thirty and eighth year of AzariYah king of Yahoowdah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over YsraEl in Samaria six months.
9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made YsraEl to sin.
12 This was the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing which he spake unto Yahuw, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of YsraEl unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass.
13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of UzziYah king of Yahoowdah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.
17 In the nine and thirtieth year of AzariYah king of Yahoowdah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over YsraEl, and reigned ten years in Samaria.
18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made YsraEl to sin.
22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and PekahiYah his son reigned in his stead.
23 In the fiftieth year of AzariYah king of Yahoowdah PekahiYah the son of Menahem began to reign over YsraEl in Samaria, and reigned two years.
24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made YsraEl to sin.
25 But Pekah the son of RemaliYah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
26 And the rest of the acts of PekahiYah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of YsraEl.
27 In the two and fiftieth year of AzariYah king of Yahoowdah Pekah the son of RemaliYah began to reign over YsraEl in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made YsraEl to sin.
30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of RemaliYah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Yahootham the son of UzziYah.
32 In the second year of Pekah the son of RemaliYah king of YsraEl began Yahootham the son of UzziYah king of Yahoowdah to reign.
34 And he did that which was right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: he did according to all that his father UzziYah had done.
35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
36 Now the rest of the acts of Yahootham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yahoowdah?
37 In those days Yah the Eternally Self-Existing began to send against Yahoowdah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of RemaliYah.
38 And Yahootham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER 16
IN the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of RemaliYah Ahaz the son of Yahootham king of Yahoowdah began to reign.
2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty, like David his father.
3 But he walked in the way of the kings of YsraEl, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing cast out from before the children of YsraEl.
5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of RemaliYah king of YsraEl came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave Yahoodi’iy from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.
8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
14 And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and put it on the north side of the altar.
18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry without, turned he from the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for the king of Assyria.
19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yahoowdah?
20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and HezekiYah his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER 17
IN the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Yahoowdah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over YsraEl nine years.
2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, but not as the kings of YsraEl that were before him.
7 For so it was, that the children of YsraEl had sinned against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing cast out from before the children of YsraEl, and of the kings of YsraEl, which they had made.
9 And the children of YsraEl did secretly those things that were not right against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to anger:
12 For they served idols, whereof Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
13 Yet Yah the Eternally Self-Existing testified against YsraEl, and against Yahoowdah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty.
15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had charged them, that they should not do like them.
16 And they left all the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served the lord [Baal].
17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to provoke him to anger.
18 Therefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was very angry with YsraEl, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Yahoowdah only.
19 Also Yahoowdah kept not the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty, but walked in the statutes of YsraEl which they made.
20 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing rejected all the seed of YsraEl, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
21 For he rent YsraEl from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave YsraEl from following Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and made them sin a great sin.
23 Until Yah the Eternally Self-Existing removed YsraEl out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was YsraEl carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: therefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent lions among them, which slew some of them.
28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-El, and taught them how they should fear Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
32 So they feared Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
33 They feared Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded the children of Ya‛aqoḇ, whom he named YsraEl;
35 With whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
36 But Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
39 But Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
41 So these nations feared Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
CHAPTER 18
NOW it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of YsraEl, that HezekiYah the son of Ahaz king of Yahoowdah began to reign.
3 And he did that which was right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, according to all that David his father did.
5 He trusted in Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Yahoowdah, nor any that were before him.
6 For he clave to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Moses.
7 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king HezekiYah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of YsraEl, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of HezekiYah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of YsraEl, Samaria was taken.
12 Because they obeyed not the voice of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
13 Now in the fourteenth year of king HezekiYah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Yahoowdah, and took them.
14 And HezekiYah king of Yahoowdah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto HezekiYah king of Yahoowdah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15 And HezekiYah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and in the treasures of the king’s house.
16 At that time did HezekiYah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and from the pillars which HezekiYah king of Yahoowdah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king HezekiYah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of HilkiYah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and JoYah the son of Asaph the recorder.
19 And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to HezekiYah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars HezekiYah hath taken away, and hath said to Yahoowdah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
25 Am I now come up without Yah the Eternally Self-Existing against this place to destroy it? Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
26 Then said Eliakim the son of HilkiYah, and Shebna, and JoYah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in Yahoodi’iy’ language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
28 Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in Yahoodi’iy’ language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
29 Thus saith the king, Let not HezekiYah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
30 Neither let HezekiYah make you trust in Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
31 Hearken not to HezekiYah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto HezekiYah, when he persuadeth you, saying, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will deliver us.
35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
37 Then came Eliakim the son of HilkiYah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and JoYah the son of Asaph the recorder, to HezekiYah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.
CHAPTER 19
AND it came to pass, when king HezekiYah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to YeshaYahoo the prophet the son of Amoz.
3 And they said unto him, Thus saith HezekiYah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4 It may be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living the Almighty; and will reprove the words which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
5 So the servants of king HezekiYah came to YeshaYahoo.
6 And YeshaYahoo said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto HezekiYah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye speak to HezekiYah king of Yahoowdah, saying, Let not thy the Almighty in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
14 And HezekiYah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and HezekiYah went up into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and spread it before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
15 And HezekiYah prayed before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the Almighty, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
16 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living the Almighty.
17 Of a truth, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
19 Now therefore, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, even thou only.
20 Then YeshaYahoo the son of Amoz sent to HezekiYah, saying, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
21 This is the word that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath spoken concerning him; The bethulah the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Yahoowdah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of hosts shall do this.
32 Therefore thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
CHAPTER 20
IN those days was HezekiYah sick unto death. And the prophet YeshaYahoo the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying,
3 I beseech thee, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And HezekiYah wept sore.
4 And it came to pass, afore YeshaYahoo was gone out into the middle court, that the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came to him, saying,
5 Turn again, and tell HezekiYah the captain of my people, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the Almighty of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
7 And YeshaYahoo said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
8 And HezekiYah said unto YeshaYahoo, What shall be the sign that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing the third day?
9 And YeshaYahoo said, This sign shalt thou have of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
10 And HezekiYah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
11 And YeshaYahoo the prophet cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
12 At that time Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto HezekiYah: for he had heard that HezekiYah had been sick.
13 And HezekiYah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that HezekiYah shewed them not.
14 Then came YeshaYahoo the prophet unto king HezekiYah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And HezekiYah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And HezekiYah answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
16 And YeshaYahoo said unto HezekiYah, Hear the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
19 Then said HezekiYah unto YeshaYahoo, Good is the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?
20 And the rest of the acts of HezekiYah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yahoowdah?
21 And HezekiYah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER 21
2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, after the abominations of the heathen, whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing cast out before the children of YsraEl.
3 For he built up again the high places which HezekiYah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for the lord [Baal], and made a grove, as did Ahab king of YsraEl; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
4 And he built altars in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, of which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to provoke him to anger.
7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of YsraEl, will I put my name for ever:
9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing destroyed before the children of YsraEl.
10 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
11 Because Manasseh king of Yahoowdah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Yahoowdah also to sin with his idols:
12 Therefore thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Yahoowdah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Yahoowdah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yahoowdah?
20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as his father Manasseh did.
22 And he forsook Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of his fathers, and walked not in the way of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
24 And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made JosiYah his son king in his stead.
25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yahoowdah?
26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and JosiYah his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER 22
JOSIAH was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jedidah, the daughter of AdaiYah of Boscath.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king JosiYah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of AzaliYah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying,
4 Go up to HilkiYah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to repair the breaches of the house,
8 And HilkiYah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And HilkiYah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, HilkiYah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
12 And the king commanded HilkiYah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and AsahiYah a servant of the king’s, saying,
13 Go ye, inquire of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for me, and for the people, and for all Yahoowdah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
14 So HilkiYah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and AsahiYah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
15 And she said unto them, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, Tell the man that sent you to me,
16 Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Yahoowdah hath read:
18 But to the king of Yahoowdah which sent you to inquire of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 23
AND the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Yahoowdah and of Jerusalem.
2 And the king went up into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and all the men of Yahoowdah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to walk after Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
4 And the king commanded HilkiYah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing all the vessels that were made for the lord [Baal], and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-El.
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Yahoowdah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Yahoowdah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto the lord [Baal], to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
6 And he brought out the grove from the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Yahoowdah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Yahooshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.
9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Yahoowdah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Yahoowdah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
16 And as JosiYah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing which the man of the Almighty proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of the Almighty, which came from Yahoowdah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-El.
19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of YsraEl had made to provoke Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to anger, JosiYah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-El.
21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged YsraEl, nor in all the days of the kings of YsraEl, nor of the kings of Yahoowdah;
23 But in the eighteenth year of king JosiYah, wherein this passover was holden to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in Jerusalem.
24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Yahoowdah and in Jerusalem, did JosiYah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that HilkiYah the priest found in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
26 Notwithstanding Yah the Eternally Self-Existing turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Yahoowdah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
27 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, I will remove Yahoowdah also out of my sight, as I have removed YsraEl, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
28 Now the rest of the acts of JosiYah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yahoowdah?
29 In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king JosiYah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Yahoo’achaz the son of JosiYah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.
31 Yahoo’achaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of YirmeYahoo of Libnah.
32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, according to all that his fathers had done.
34 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of JosiYah king in the room of JosiYah his father, and turned his name to Yahooyaqiym, and took Yahoo’achaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
35 And Yahooyaqiym gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh-nechoh.
36 Yahooyaqiym was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zebudah, the daughter of PedaiYah of Rumah.
37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, according to all that his fathers had done.
CHAPTER 24
IN his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Yahooyaqiym became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
2 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Yahoowdah to destroy it, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
3 Surely at the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came this upon Yahoowdah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing would not pardon.
5 Now the rest of the acts of Yahooyaqiym, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yahoowdah?
6 So Yahooyaqiym slept with his fathers: and Yahooyakiyn his son reigned in his stead.
8 Yahooyakiyn was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother’s name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, according to all that his father had done.
12 And Yahooyakiyn the king of Yahoowdah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of YsraEl had made in the temple of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had said.
15 And he carried away Yahooyakiyn to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
17 And the king of Babylon made MattaniYah his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to ZedekiYah.
18 ZedekiYah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of YirmeYahoo of Libnah.
19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, according to all that Yahooyaqiym had done.
20 For through the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing it came to pass in Jerusalem and Yahoowdah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that ZedekiYah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
CHAPTER 25
2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king ZedekiYah.
7 And they slew the sons of ZedekiYah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of ZedekiYah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
9 And he burnt the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.
13 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
18 And the captain of the guard took SeraiYah the chief priest, and TsephanYah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Yahoowdah was carried away out of their land.
22 And as for the people that remained in the land of Yahoowdah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made GedaliYah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made GedaliYah governor, there came to GedaliYah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of NethaniYah, and Yahoohanan the son of Careah, and SeraiYah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and JaazaniYah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
24 And GedaliYah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of NethaniYah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote GedaliYah, that he died, and Yahoodi’iy and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Yahooyakiyn king of Yahoowdah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Yahooyakiyn king of Yahoowdah out of prison;
Book 1: The First Book of Dibre haYamim {1 Chronicles}
Chapter 1
CHAPTER 2
THESE are the sons of YsraEl; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Yahoowdah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
2 Dan, Yahooceph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
3 The sons of Yahoowdah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Yahoowdah, was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and he slew him.
4 And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Yahoowdah were five.
8 And the sons of Ethan; AzariYah.
10 And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Yahoowdah;
16 Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Yahoow’aab, and Asahel, three.
24 And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah, then AbiYah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.
32 And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Yahoonathan: and Jether died without children.
33 And the sons of Yahoonathan; Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
38 And Obed begat Yahuw, and Yahuw begat AzariYah,
39 And AzariYah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,
47 And the sons of Yahdai; Regem, and Yahootham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.
49 She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, ShevYah the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
54 The sons of Salma; Beth-lehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Yahoow’aab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.
CHAPTER 3
3 The fifth, ShephatiYah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.
10 And Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Yahooshaphat his son,
11 Yahooram his son, Ahaziah his son, Yahoow’aash his son,
12 AmaziYah his son, AzariYah his son, Yahootham his son,
13 Ahaz his son, HezekiYah his son, Manasseh his son,
14 Amon his son, JosiYah his son.
15 And the sons of JosiYah were, the firstborn Yahoohanan, the second Yahooyaqiym, the third ZedekiYah, the fourth Shallum.
16 And the sons of Yahooyaqiym: JeconiYah his son, ZedekiYah his son.
17 And the sons of JeconiYah; Assir, Salathiel his son,
18 Malchiram also, and PedaiYah, and Shenazar, JecamiYah, Hoshama, and NedabiYah.
19 And the sons of PedaiYah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and HananiYah, and Shelomith their sister:
20 And Hashubah, and Ohel, and BerechiYah, and HasadiYah, Jushab-hesed, five.
21 And the sons of HananiYah; PelatiYah, and JesaiYah: the sons of RephaiYah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of ObadYah, the sons of ShechaniYah.
22 And the sons of ShechaniYah; ShemaiYah: and the sons of ShemaiYah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and NeariYah, and Shaphat, six.
23 And the sons of NeariYah; Elioenai, and HezekiYah, and Azrikam, three.
24 And the sons of Elioenai were, HodaiYah, and Eliashib, and PelaiYah, and Akkub, and Yahoohanan, and DalaiYah, and Anani, seven.
CHAPTER 4
THE sons of Yahoowdah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
2 And ReaiYah the son of Shobal begat Yahath; and Yahath begat Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
13 And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and SeraiYah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.
14 And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and SeraiYah begat Yahoow’aab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen.
16 And the sons of Yahalel’eel; Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.
17 And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Yahlon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
18 And his wife Yahudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of BithiYah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.
19 And the sons of his wife HodiYah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.
21 The sons of Shelah the son of Yahoowdah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,
22 And Yahookim, and the men of Chozeba, and Yahoow’aash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And these are ancient things.
27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Yahoowdah.
34 And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Yahooshah the son of AmaziYah,
35 And YahooEl, and Yahuw the son of Yahoosibiah, the son of SeraiYah, the son of Asiel,
36 And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and JeshohaiYah, and AsaiYah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and BenaiYah,
37 And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of JedaYah, the son of Shimri, the son of ShemaiYah;
41 And these written by name came in the days of HezekiYah king of Yahoowdah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.
42 And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains PelatiYah, and NeariYah, and RephaiYah, and UzziEl, the sons of Ishi.
CHAPTER 5
NOW the sons of Reuben the firstborn of YsraEl, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Yahooceph the son of YsraEl: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
2 For Yahoowdah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Yahooceph’s:)
4 The sons of YahooEl; ShemaiYah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,
5 MiykaaYahoo his son, ReaiYah his son, the lord [Baal] his son,
7 And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and ZekarYah,
8 And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of YahooEl, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and the lord [Baal]-meon:
12 YahooEl the chief, and Shapham the next, and Yahanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
13 And their brethren of the house of their fathers were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Yahoorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven.
14 These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Yahdo, the son of Buz;
17 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Yahootham king of Yahoowdah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of YsraEl.
24 And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and EliEl, and AzriEl, and YirmeYahoo, and HodaviYah, and YahdiEl, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.
CHAPTER 6
6 And Uzzi begat ZerahiYah, and ZerahiYah begat Meraioth,
7 Meraioth begat AmariYah, and AmariYah begat Ahitub,
9 And Ahimaaz begat AzariYah, and AzariYah begat Yahoohanan,
10 And Yahoohanan begat AzariYah, (he it is that executed the priest’s office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)
11 And AzariYah begat AmariYah, and AmariYah begat Ahitub,
13 And Shallum begat HilkiYah, and HilkiYah begat AzariYah,
14 And AzariYah begat SeraiYah, and SeraiYah begat Yahootsadaq,
15 And Yahootsadaq went into captivity, when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing carried away Yahoowdah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
20 Of Gershom; Libni his son, Yahath his son, Zimmah his son,
21 JoYah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son.
24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, UzziYah his son, and Shaul his son.
28 And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and AbiYah.
30 Shimea his son, HaggiYah his son, AsaiYah his son.
31 And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, after that the ark had rest.
32 And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according to their order.
33 And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of YahooEl, the son of Shemuel,
36 The son of Elkanah, the son of YahooEl, the son of AzariYah, the son of TsephanYah,
39 And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of BerachiYah, the son of Shimea,
40 The son of Michael, the son of BaaseiYah, the son of MalchiYah,
41 The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of AdaiYah,
43 The son of Yahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
45 The son of HashabiYah, the son of AmaziYah, the son of HilkiYah,
51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, ZerahiYah his son,
52 Meraioth his son, AmariYah his son, Ahitub his son,
55 And they gave them Hebron in the land of Yahoowdah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.
57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Yahoowdah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,
65 And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Yahoowdah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names.
78 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Yahzah with her suburbs,
CHAPTER 7
2 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and RephaiYah, and Jeriel, and Yahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
3 And the sons of Uzzi; IzrahiYah: and the sons of IzrahiYah; Michael, and ObadYah, and YahooEl, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
8 And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Yahoow’aash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and AbiYah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
13 The sons of Naphtali; Yahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
27 Non his son, Yahooshua his son.
29 And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her towns. In these dwelt the children of Yahooceph the son of YsraEl.
34 And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Yahuwbbah, and Aram.
CHAPTER 8
7 And Naaman, and AhiYah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza, and Ahihud.
15 And ZebadiYah, and Arad, and Ader,
16 And Michael, and Ispah, and Yahoowchaa, the sons of Beriah;
17 And ZebadiYah, and Meshullam, and Hezeki, and Heber,
21 And AdaiYah, and BeraiYah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi;
24 And HananiYah, and Elam, and Antothijah,
25 And IphedeiYah, and PenuEl, the sons of Shashak;
26 And Shamsherai, and ShehariYah, and AthaliYah,
27 And JaresiYah, and EliYah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.
33 And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Yahoonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Esh-baal.
34 And the son of Yahoonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal begat MiykaaYahoo.
35 And the sons of MiykaaYahoo were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.
36 And Ahaz begat Yahoo`adaah; and Yahoo`adaah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza,
38 And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and SheariYah, and ObadYah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
39 And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn, Yahuwsh the second, and Eliphelet the third.
CHAPTER 9
SO all YsraEl were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of YsraEl and Yahoowdah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.
3 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Yahoowdah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh;
4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Yahoowdah.
5 And of the Shilonites; AsaiYah the firstborn, and his sons.
7 And of the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of HodaviYah, the son of Hasenuah,
8 And IbneiYah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephathiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
10 And of the priests; JedaYah, and Yahooyariyb, and Jachin,
11 And AzariYah the son of HilkiYah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of the Almighty;
12 And AdaiYah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Yahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;
14 And of the Levites; ShemaiYah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of HashabiYah, of the sons of Merari;
15 And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and MattaniYah the son of MiykaaYahoo, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;
16 And ObadYah the son of ShemaiYah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and BerechiYah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.
19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, were keepers of the entry.
20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was with him.
21 And ZekarYah the son of MeshelemiYah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
23 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.
31 And MattithiYah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans.
37 And Gedor, and Ahio, and ZekarYah, and Mikloth.
39 And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat Yahoonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Esh-baal.
40 And the son of Yahoonathan was Merib-baal: and Merib-baal begat MiykaaYahoo.
41 And the sons of MiykaaYahoo were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, and Ahaz.
43 And Moza begat Binea; and RephaiYah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
44 And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and SheariYah, and ObadYah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.
CHAPTER 10
2 And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Yahoonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.
13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even against the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it;
14 And inquired not of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
CHAPTER 11
2 And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in YsraEl: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people YsraEl, and thou shalt be ruler over my people YsraEl.
3 Therefore came all the elders of YsraEl to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and they anointed David king over YsraEl, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing by Samuel.
6 And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Yahoow’aab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.
8 And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Yahoow’aab repaired the rest of the city.
9 So David waxed greater and greater: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of hosts was with him.
10 These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all YsraEl, to make him king, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing concerning YsraEl.
14 And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing saved them by a great deliverance.
18 And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing,
20 And Abishai the brother of Yahoow’aab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.
22 BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
24 These things did BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada, and had the name among the three mighties.
26 Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Yahoow’aab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, BenaiYah the Pirathonite,
33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, EliYahba the Shaalbonite,
34 The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Yahoonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,
38 YahooEl the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri,
39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Yahoow’aab the son of Zeruiah,
41 UriYah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
43 Hanan the son of Maachah, and Yahooshaphat the Mithnite,
45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Yahoowchaa his brother, the Tizite,
46 EliEl the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Yahooshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
CHAPTER 12
3 The chief was Ahiezer, then Yahoow’aash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Yahuw the Antothite,
4 And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and YirmeYahoo, and Yahaziel, and Yahoohanan, and Yahoosabad the Gederathite,
5 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and BealiYah, and ShemariYah, and ShephatiYah the Haruphite,
6 Elkanah, and JesiYah, and Azareel, and Yahooezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites,
7 And Joelah, and ZebadiYah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
9 Ezer the first, ObadYah the second, Eliab the third,
10 Mishmannah the fourth, YirmeYahoo the fifth,
12 Yahoohanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
13 YirmeYahoo the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.
16 And there came of the children of Benjamin and Yahoowdah to the hold unto David.
20 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Yahoozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Yahoozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh.
23 And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
24 The children of Yahoowdah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
27 And Yahooyada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;
CHAPTER 13
2 And David said unto all the congregation of YsraEl, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of YsraEl, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
6 And David went up, and all YsraEl, to the lord [Baal]ah, that is, to Kirjath-jearim, which belonged to Yahoowdah, to bring up thence the ark of the Almighty Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.
10 And the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before the Almighty.
11 And David was displeased, because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez-uzza to this day.
14 And the ark of the Almighty remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that he had.
CHAPTER 14
2 And David perceived that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had confirmed him king over YsraEl, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his people YsraEl.
10 And David inquired of the Almighty, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.
17 And the fame of David went out into all lands; and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing brought the fear of him upon all nations.
CHAPTER 15
2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of the Almighty but the Levites: for them hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing chosen to carry the ark of the Almighty, and to minister unto him for ever.
3 And David gathered all YsraEl together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing unto his place, which he had prepared for it.
6 Of the sons of Merari; AsaiYah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:
7 Of the sons of Gershom; YahooEl the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty:
8 Of the sons of Elizaphan; ShemaiYah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:
11 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, AsaiYah, and YahooEl, ShemaiYah, and EliEl, and Amminadab,
12 And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl unto the place that I have prepared for it.
13 For because ye did it not at the first, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.
14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl.
15 And the children of the Levites bare the ark of the Almighty upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of YahooEl; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of BerechiYah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of KushaiYah;
18 And with them their brethren of the second degree, ZekarYah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and BenaiYah, and MaaseiYah, and MattithiYah, and Elipheleh, and MikneiYah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the porters.
20 And ZekarYah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and MaaseiYah, and BenaiYah, with psalteries on Alamoth;
21 And MattithiYah, and Elipheleh, and MikneiYah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and AzaziYah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.
22 And ChenaniYah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.
23 And BerechiYah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
24 And ShebaniYah, and Yahooshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and ZekarYah, and BenaiYah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of the Almighty: and Obed-edom and JehiYah were doorkeepers for the ark.
25 So David, and the elders of YsraEl, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing out of the house of Obed-edom with joy.
26 And it came to pass, when the Almighty helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.
27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and ChenaniYah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.
28 Thus all YsraEl brought up the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
29 And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.
CHAPTER 16
2 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
4 And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and to record, and to thank and praise Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl:
5 Asaph the chief, and next to him ZekarYah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and MattithiYah, and Eliab, and BenaiYah, and Obed-edom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;
6 BenaiYah also and Yahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of the Almighty.
7 Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank Yah the Eternally Self-Existing into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
8 Give thanks unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.
10 Glory ye in his Set-Apart name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
11 Seek Yah the Eternally Self-Existing and his strength, seek his face continually.
14 He is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty; his judgments are in all the earth.
23 Sing unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, all the earth; shew forth from day today his salvation.
25 For great is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.
26 For all the gods of the people are idols: but Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made the heavens.
28 Give unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, ye kindreds of the people, give unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing glory and strength.
29 Give unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the beauty of holiness.
31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing reigneth.
33 Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, because he cometh to judge the earth.
34 O give thanks unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
36 Blessed be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
37 So he left there before the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every day’s work required:
39 And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the high place that was at Gibeon,
40 To offer burnt offerings unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing upon the altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the law of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he commanded YsraEl;
41 And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, because his mercy endureth for ever;
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NOW it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing remaineth under curtains.
4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people YsraEl:
10 And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people YsraEl. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will build thee an house.
16 And David the king came and sat before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, Who am I, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
17 And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O the Almighty; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant’s house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty.
19 O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, for thy servant’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
20 O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, there is none like thee, neither is there any the Almighty beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
22 For thy people YsraEl didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, becamest their the Almighty.
23 Therefore now, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
24 Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of Hosts is the Almighty of YsraEl, even a the Almighty to YsraEl: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.
26 And now, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, thou art the Almighty, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
27 Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and it shall be blessed for ever.
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6 Then David put garrisons in Syria-damascus; and the Syrians became David’s servants, and brought gifts. Thus Yah the Eternally Self-Existing preserved David whithersoever he went.
11 Them also king David dedicated unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
13 And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David’s servants. Thus Yah the Eternally Self-Existing preserved David whithersoever he went.
15 And Yahoow’aab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Yahooshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.
17 And BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.
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8 And when David heard of it, he sent Yahoow’aab, and all the host of the mighty men.
10 Now when Yahoow’aab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of YsraEl, and put them in array against the Syrians.
13 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our the Almighty: and let Yah the Eternally Self-Existing do that which is good in his sight.
14 So Yahoow’aab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
15 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Yahoow’aab came to Jerusalem.
CHAPTER 20
AND it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Yahoow’aab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Yahoow’aab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.
7 But when he defied YsraEl, Yahoonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother slew him.
CHAPTER 21
2 And David said to Yahoow’aab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number YsraEl from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
3 And Yahoow’aab answered, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to YsraEl?
4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Yahoow’aab. Wherefore Yahoow’aab departed, and went throughout all YsraEl, and came to Jerusalem.
5 And Yahoow’aab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of YsraEl were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Yahoowdah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king’s word was abominable to Yahoow’aab.
9 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying,
10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Choose thee
12 Either three years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing destroying throughout all the coasts of YsraEl. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
14 So Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent pestilence upon YsraEl: and there fell of YsraEl seventy thousand men.
15 And the Almighty sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of YsraEl, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
17 And David said unto the Almighty, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty, be on me, and on my father’s house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
18 Then the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.
24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
26 And David built there an altar unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
27 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
28 At that time when David saw that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
29 For the tabernacle of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
30 But David could not go before it to inquire of the Almighty: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 22
THEN David said, This is the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for YsraEl.
5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl.
7 And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty:
8 But the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.
11 Now, my son, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, as he hath said of thee.
12 Only Yah the Eternally Self-Existing give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning YsraEl, that thou mayest keep the law of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty.
13 Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing charged Moses with concerning YsraEl: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.
14 Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.
16 Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be with thee.
18 Is not Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and before his people.
19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, to bring the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the Set-Apart vessels of the Almighty, into the house that is to be built to the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 23
4 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and six thousand were officers and judges:
5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised Yah the Eternally Self-Existing with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
8 The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and YahooEl, three.
10 And the sons of Shimei were, Yahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
11 And Yahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their father’s house.
13 The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most Set-Apart things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name for ever.
17 And the sons of Eliezer were, RehabiYah the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of RehabiYah were very many.
19 Of the sons of Hebron; JeriYah the first, AmariYah the second, Yahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
20 Of the sons of UzziEl; Michah the first, and JesiYah the second.
24 These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, from the age of twenty years and upward.
25 For David said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
28 Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all Set-Apart things, and the work of the service of the house of the Almighty;
30 And to stand every morning to thank and praise Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and likewise at even;
31 And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
32 And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the Set-Apart place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 24
6 And ShemaiYah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
7 Now the first lot came forth to Yahooyariyb, the second to JedaYah,
11 The ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to ShecaniYah,
16 The nineteenth to PethahiYah, the twentieth to Jehezekel,
18 The three and twentieth to DelaiYah, the four and twentieth to MaaziYah.
19 These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl had commanded him.
20 And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; JehdeiYah.
21 Concerning RehabiYah: of the sons of RehabiYah, the first was Isshiah.
22 Of the Izharites; Shelomoth: of the sons of Shelomoth; Yahath.
23 And the sons of Hebron; JeriYah the first, AmariYah the second, Yahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.
25 The brother of Michah was Isshiah: of the sons of Isshiah; ZekarYah.
26 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi: the sons of JaaziYah; Beno.
27 The sons of Merari by JaaziYah; Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.
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2 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Yahooceph, and NethaniYah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king.
3 Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; GedaliYah, and Zeri, and JeshaiYah, HashabiYah, and MattithiYah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
4 Of Heman: the sons of Heman; BukkiYah, MattaniYah, UzziEl, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, HananiYah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth:
6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of the Almighty, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
7 So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
9 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Yahooceph: the second to GedaliYah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve:
12 The fifth to NethaniYah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
13 The sixth to BukkiYah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
15 The eighth to JeshaiYah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
16 The ninth to MattaniYah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
19 The twelfth to HashabiYah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
21 The fourteenth to MattithiYah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
23 The sixteenth to HananiYah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
CHAPTER 26
CONCERNING the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was MeshelemiYah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
2 And the sons of MeshelemiYah were, ZekarYah the firstborn, Jediael the second, ZebadiYah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
3 Elam the fifth, Yahoochanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.
4 Moreover the sons of Obed-edom were, ShemaiYah the firstborn, Yahowzabad the second, JoYah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth,
6 Also unto ShemaiYah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they were mighty men of valour.
7 The sons of ShemaiYah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were strong men, Elihu, and SemachiYah.
9 And MeshelemiYah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen.
11 HilkiYah the second, Tebaliah the third, ZekarYah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.
12 Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
14 And the lot eastward fell to ShelemiYah. Then for ZekarYah his son, a wise counseller, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
22 The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and YahooEl his brother, which were over the treasures of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
25 And his brethren by Eliezer; RehabiYah his son, and JeshaiYah his son, and Yahooram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.
27 Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
28 And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Yahoow’aab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; and whosoever had dedicated any thing, it was under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren.
29 Of the Izharites, ChenaniYah and his sons were for the outward business over YsraEl, for officers and judges.
30 And of the Hebronites, HashabiYah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of YsraEl on this side Jordan westward in all the business of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and in the service of the king.
CHAPTER 27
5 The third captain of the host for the third month was BenaiYah the son of Yahooyada, a chief priest: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
6 This is that BenaiYah, who was mighty among the thirty, and above the thirty: and in his course was Ammizabad his son.
7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Yahoow’aab, and ZebadiYah his son after him: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
14 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was BenaiYah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
16 Furthermore over the tribes of YsraEl: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, ShephatiYah the son of Maachah:
17 Of the Levites, HashabiYah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok:
18 Of Yahoowdah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:
19 Of Zebulun, IshmaiYah the son of ObadYah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of AzriEl:
20 Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of AzaziYah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, YahooEl the son of PedaiYah:
21 Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of ZekarYah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:
23 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had said he would increase YsraEl like to the stars of the heavens.
24 Yahoow’aab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against YsraEl; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.
25 And over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Yahonathan the son of UzziYah:
28 And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was the lord [Baal]-hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Yahoow’aash:
30 Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was JehdeiYah the Meronothite:
32 Also Yahoonathan David’s uncle was a counseller, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons:
34 And after Ahithophel was Yahooyada the son of BenaiYah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king’s army was Yahoow’aab.
CHAPTER 28
2 Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and for the footstool of our the Almighty, and had made ready for the building:
4 Howbeit Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl chose me before all the house of my father to be king over YsraEl for ever: for he hath chosen Yahoowdah to be the ruler; and of the house of Yahoowdah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all YsraEl:
5 And of all my sons, (for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing over YsraEl.
8 Now therefore in the sight of all YsraEl the congregation of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and in the audience of our the Almighty, keep and seek for all the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.
9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the Almighty of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
10 Take heed now; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
12 And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of the Almighty, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things:
13 Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and for all the vessels of service in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
18 And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
19 All this, said David, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.
20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, even my the Almighty, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
CHAPTER 29
FURTHERMORE David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone the Almighty hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty.
5 The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing?
8 And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
9 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
10 Wherefore David blessed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl our father, for ever and ever.
11 Thine, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and thou art exalted as head above all.
16 O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine Set-Apart name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.
18 O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of Abraham, Yitshaq, and of YsraEl, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:
20 And David said to all the congregation, Now bless Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty. And all the congregation blessed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the king.
21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and offered burnt offerings unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all YsraEl:
22 And did eat and drink before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest.
23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all YsraEl obeyed him.
25 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all YsraEl, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in YsraEl.
Book 14: The Second Book of Dibre haYamim {2 Chronicles}
Chapter 1
AND Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
3 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of the Almighty, which Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had made in the wilderness.
5 Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.
6 And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.
9 Now, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
CHAPTER 2
AND Solomon determined to build an house for the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and an house for his kingdom.
4 Behold, I build an house to the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty. This is an ordinance for ever to YsraEl.
7 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Yahoowdah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath Cheseded his people, he hath made thee king over them.
12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and an house for his kingdom.
CHAPTER 3
THEN Solomon began to build the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing at Jerusalem in mount MoriYah, where Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
CHAPTER 4
16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of bright brass.
CHAPTER 5
THUS all the work that Solomon made for the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of the Almighty.
2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of YsraEl, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of YsraEl, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing out of the city of David, which is Zion.
7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most Set-Apart place, even under the wings of the cherubims:
10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing made a covenant with the children of YsraEl, when they came out of Egypt.
13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing;
14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had filled the house of the Almighty.
CHAPTER 6
THEN said Solomon, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
4 And he said, Blessed be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,
7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl.
8 But Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:
10 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of YsraEl, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing promised, and have built the house for the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl.
11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that he made with the children of YsraEl.
12 And he stood before the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the presence of all the congregation of YsraEl, and spread forth his hands:
14 And said, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, there is no the Almighty like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
16 Now therefore, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of YsraEl; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.
17 Now then, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:
41 Now therefore arise, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
42 O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
CHAPTER 7
NOW when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing filled the house.
2 And the priests could not enter into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, because the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had filled Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s house.
3 And when all the children of YsraEl saw how the fire came down, and the glory of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
6 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which David the king had made to praise Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all YsraEl stood.
7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to YsraEl his people.
11 Thus Solomon finished the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the king’s house: and all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
12 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.
21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
CHAPTER 8
AND it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and his own house,
11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of YsraEl, because the places are Set-Apart, whereunto the ark of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath come.
12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing on the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which he had built before the porch,
16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and until it was finished. So the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was perfected.
CHAPTER 9
4 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; there was no more spirit in her.
8 Blessed be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty: because thy the Almighty Cheseded YsraEl, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
11 And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and to the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Yahoowdah.
CHAPTER 10
15 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of the Almighty, that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
17 But as for the children of YsraEl that dwelt in the cities of Yahoowdah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
CHAPTER 11
AND when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Yahoowdah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against YsraEl, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
2 But the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came to ShemaiYah the man of the Almighty, saying,
3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Yahoowdah, and to all YsraEl in Yahoowdah and Benjamin, saying,
4 Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Yahoowdah.
10 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Yahoowdah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
12 And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Yahoowdah and Benjamin on his side.
14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Yahoowdah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest’s office unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
16 And after them out of all the tribes of YsraEl such as set their hearts to seek Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of their fathers.
17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Yahoowdah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Yahoowdah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.
CHAPTER 12
AND it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and all YsraEl with him.
2 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing,
4 And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Yahoowdah, and came to Jerusalem.
5 Then came ShemaiYah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Yahoowdah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
6 Whereupon the princes of YsraEl and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is righteous.
7 And when Yah the Eternally Self-Existing saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came to ShemaiYah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the treasures of the king’s house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
11 And when the king entered into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.
12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Yahoowdah things went well.
13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had chosen out of all the tribes of YsraEl, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of ShemaiYah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
CHAPTER 13
NOW in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Yahoowdah.
5 Ought ye not to know that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl gave the kingdom over YsraEl to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
8 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
9 Have ye not cast out the priests of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no Mighty Ones.
10 But as for us, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is our the Almighty, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:
11 And they burn unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty; but ye have forsaken him.
12 And, behold, the Almighty himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of YsraEl, fight ye not against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Yahoowdah, and the ambushment was behind them.
14 And when Yahoowdah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
15 Then the men of Yahoowdah gave a shout: and as the men of Yahoowdah shouted, it came to pass, that the Almighty smote Jeroboam and all YsraEl before Abijah and Yahoowdah.
16 And the children of YsraEl fled before Yahoowdah: and the Almighty delivered them into their hand.
18 Thus the children of YsraEl were brought under at that time, and the children of Yahoowdah prevailed, because they relied upon Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of their fathers.
20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing struck him, and he died.
CHAPTER 14
2 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty:
4 And commanded Yahoowdah to seek Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Yahoowdah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
6 And he built fenced cities in Yahoowdah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had given him rest.
7 Therefore he said unto Yahoowdah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
8 And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Yahoowdah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.
11 And Asa cried unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty, and said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, thou art our the Almighty; let not man prevail against thee.
12 So Yah the Eternally Self-Existing smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Yahoowdah; and the Ethiopians fled.
13 And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.
14 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.
CHAPTER 15
AND the Spirit of the Almighty came upon AzariYah the son of Oded:
2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Yahoowdah and Benjamin; Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
4 But when they in their trouble did turn unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, and sought him, he was found of them.
8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Yahoowdah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that was before the porch of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
9 And he gathered all Yahoowdah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of YsraEl in abundance, when they saw that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty was with him.
11 And they offered unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
12 And they entered into a covenant to seek Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
13 That whosoever would not seek Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
14 And they sware unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
15 And all Yahoowdah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing gave them rest round about.
CHAPTER 16
IN the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of YsraEl came up against Yahoowdah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Yahoowdah.
2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
6 Then Asa the king took all Yahoowdah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.
7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Yahoowdah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on Yah the Eternally Self-Existing thy the Almighty, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.
8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, he delivered them into thine hand.
9 For the eyes of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
11 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Yahoowdah and YsraEl.
12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, but to the physicians.
CHAPTER 17
AND Yahooshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against YsraEl.
2 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Yahoowdah, and set garrisons in the land of Yahoowdah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
3 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was with Yahooshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto the lord [Baal]im;
4 But sought to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of YsraEl.
5 Therefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all Yahoowdah brought to Yahooshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in abundance.
6 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Yahoowdah.
7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Ben-hail, and to ObadYah, and to ZekarYah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Yahoowdah.
8 And with them he sent Levites, even ShemaiYah, and NethaniYah, and ZebadiYah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Yahonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Yahooram, priests.
9 And they taught in Yahoowdah, and had the book of the law of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Yahoowdah, and taught the people.
10 And the fear of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Yahoowdah, so that they made no war against Yahooshaphat.
11 Also some of the Philistines brought Yahooshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.
12 And Yahooshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Yahoowdah castles, and cities of store.
13 And he had much business in the cities of Yahoowdah: and the men of war, mighty men of valour, were in Jerusalem.
14 And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Yahoowdah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.
15 And next to him was Yahoochanan the captain, and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand.
16 And next him was AmasiYah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour.
18 And next him was Yahowzabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.
19 These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Yahoowdah.
CHAPTER 18
NOW Yahooshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.
3 And Ahab king of YsraEl said unto Yahooshaphat king of Yahoowdah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war.
4 And Yahooshaphat said unto the king of YsraEl, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing today.
6 But Yahooshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing besides, that we might inquire of him?
7 And the king of YsraEl said unto Yahooshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may inquire of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Yahooshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
9 And the king of YsraEl and Yahooshaphat king of Yahoowdah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
10 And ZedekiYah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.
11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
13 And Micaiah said, As Yah the Eternally Self-Existing liveth, even what my the Almighty saith, that will I speak.
15 And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing?
16 Then he said, I did see all YsraEl scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, These have no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace.
17 And the king of YsraEl said to Yahooshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?
18 Again he said, Therefore hear the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; I saw Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.
19 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, Who shall entice Ahab king of YsraEl, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.
20 Then there came out a spirit, and stood before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and said, I will entice him. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said unto him, Wherewith?
21 And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.
22 Now therefore, behold, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath spoken evil against thee.
23 Then ZedekiYah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing from me to speak unto thee?
25 Then the king of YsraEl said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Yahoow’aash the king’s son;
27 And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people.
28 So the king of YsraEl and Yahooshaphat the king of Yahoowdah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
29 And the king of YsraEl said unto Yahooshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of YsraEl disguised himself; and they went to the battle.
31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Yahooshaphat, that they said, It is the king of YsraEl. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Yahooshaphat cried out, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing helped him; and the Almighty moved them to depart from him.
CHAPTER 19
AND Yahooshaphat the king of Yahoowdah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
2 And Yahuw the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Yahooshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and Chesed them that hate Yah the Eternally Self-Existing? therefore is wrath upon thee from before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
4 And Yahooshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beer-sheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of their fathers.
5 And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Yahoowdah, city by city,
6 And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, who is with you in the judgment.
7 Wherefore now let the fear of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
8 Moreover in Jerusalem did Yahooshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of YsraEl, for the judgment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.
9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
10 And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and so wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.
11 And, behold, AmariYah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and ZebadiYah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Yahoowdah, for all the king’s matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall be with the good.
CHAPTER 20
IT came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Yahooshaphat to battle.
2 Then there came some that told Yahooshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazon-tamar, which is En-gedi.
3 And Yahooshaphat feared, and set himself to seek Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Yahoowdah.
4 And Yahoowdah gathered themselves together, to ask help of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: even out of all the cities of Yahoowdah they came to seek Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
5 And Yahooshaphat stood in the congregation of Yahoowdah and Jerusalem, in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, before the new court,
6 And said, O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of our fathers, art not thou the Almighty in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?
13 And all Yahoowdah stood before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
14 Then upon Yahaziel the son of ZekarYah, the son of BenaiYah, the son of Jeiel, the son of MattaniYah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in the midst of the congregation;
15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Yahoowdah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Yahooshaphat, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but the Almighty’s.
17 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing with you, O Yahoowdah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will be with you.
18 And Yahooshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Yahoowdah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, worshipping Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl with a loud voice on high.
20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Yahooshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Yahoowdah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; for his mercy endureth for ever.
22 And when they began to sing and to praise, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Yahoowdah; and they were smitten.
24 And when Yahoowdah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.
25 And when Yahooshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.
27 Then they returned, every man of Yahoowdah and Jerusalem, and Yahooshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
29 And the fear of the Almighty was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing fought against the enemies of YsraEl.
30 So the realm of Yahooshaphat was quiet: for his the Almighty gave him rest round about.
31 And Yahooshaphat reigned over Yahoowdah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
34 Now the rest of the acts of Yahooshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Yahuw the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of YsraEl.
35 And after this did Yahooshaphat king of Yahoowdah join himself with Ahaziah king of YsraEl, who did very wickedly:
37 Then Eliezer the son of DodavYah of Mareshah prophesied against Yahooshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
CHAPTER 21
NOW Yahooshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Yahooram his son reigned in his stead.
2 And he had brethren the sons of Yahooshaphat, AzariYah, and Jehiel, and ZekarYah, and AzariYah, and Michael, and ShephatiYah: all these were the sons of Yahooshaphat king of YsraEl.
3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Yahoowdah: but the kingdom gave he to Yahooram; because he was the firstborn.
4 Now when Yahooram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of YsraEl.
5 Yahooram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
6 And he walked in the way of the kings of YsraEl, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
7 Howbeit Yah the Eternally Self-Existing would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
8 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Yahoowdah, and made themselves a king.
9 Then Yahooram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.
10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Yahoowdah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of his fathers.
11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Yahoowdah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Yahoowdah thereto.
12 And there came a writing to him from EliYah the prophet, saying, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Yahooshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Yahoowdah,
13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of YsraEl, and hast made Yahoowdah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father’s house, which were better than thyself:
14 Behold, with a great plague will Yah the Eternally Self-Existing smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
16 Moreover Yah the Eternally Self-Existing stirred up against Yahooram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
17 And they came up into Yahoowdah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king’s house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Yahoo’achaz, the youngest of his sons.
18 And after all this Yah the Eternally Self-Existing smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
CHAPTER 22
AND the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Yahooram king of Yahoowdah reigned.
2 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was AthaliYah the daughter of Omri.
4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellers after the death of his father to his destruction.
5 He walked also after their counsel, and went with Yahooram the son of Ahab king of YsraEl to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians smote Yahooram.
6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And AzariYah the son of Yahooram king of Yahoowdah went down to see Yahooram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.
7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of the Almighty by coming to Yahooram: for when he was come, he went out with Yahooram against Yahuw the son of Nimshi, whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
8 And it came to pass, that, when Yahuw was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Yahoowdah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.
9 And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Yahuw: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Yahooshaphat, who sought Yah the Eternally Self-Existing with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.
10 But when AthaliYah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Yahoowdah.
11 But Yahooshab`ath, the daughter of the king, took Yahoow’aash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Yahooshab`ath, the daughter of king Yahooram, the wife of Yahooyada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from AthaliYah, so that she slew him not.
12 And he was with them hid in the house of the Almighty six years: and AthaliYah reigned over the land.
CHAPTER 23
AND in the seventh year Yahooyada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, AzariYah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Yahoochanan, and AzariYah the son of Obed, and MaaseiYah the son of AdaiYah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
2 And they went about in Yahoowdah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Yahoowdah, and the chief of the fathers of YsraEl, and they came to Jerusalem.
3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of the Almighty. And he said unto them, Behold, the king’s son shall reign, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath said of the sons of David.
5 And a third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
6 But let none come into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are Set-Apart: but all the people shall keep the watch of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
8 So the Levites and all Yahoowdah did according to all things that Yahooyada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Yahooyada the priest dismissed not the courses.
9 Moreover Yahooyada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David’s, which were in the house of the Almighty.
11 Then they brought out the king’s son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Yahooyada and his sons anointed him, and said, the Almighty save the king.
12 Now when AthaliYah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then AthaliYah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
14 Then Yahooyada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
16 And Yahooyada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s people.
18 Also Yahooyada appointed the offices of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to offer the burnt offerings of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.
19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and they came through the high gate into the king’s house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.
21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain AthaliYah with the sword.
CHAPTER 24
2 And Yahoow’aash did that which was right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing all the days of Yahooyada the priest.
3 And Yahooyada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
4 And it came to pass after this, that Yahoow’aash was minded to repair the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Yahoowdah, and gather of all YsraEl money to repair the house of your the Almighty from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.
6 And the king called for Yahooyada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Yahoowdah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and of the congregation of YsraEl, for the tabernacle of witness?
7 For the sons of AthaliYah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of the Almighty; and also all the dedicated things of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing did they bestow upon the lord [Baal]im.
8 And at the king’s commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
9 And they made a proclamation through Yahoowdah and Jerusalem, to bring in to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing the collection that Moses the servant of the Almighty laid upon YsraEl in the wilderness.
12 And the king and Yahooyada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
14 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Yahooyada, whereof were made vessels for the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing continually all the days of Yahooyada.
15 But Yahooyada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
17 Now after the death of Yahooyada came the princes of Yahoowdah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
18 And they left the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Yahoowdah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
20 And the Spirit of the Almighty came upon ZekarYah the son of Yahooyada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith the Almighty, Why transgress ye the commandments of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, he hath also forsaken you.
21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
22 Thus Yahoow’aash the king remembered not the kindness which Yahooyada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing look upon it, and require it.
23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Yahoowdah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.
24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and Yah the Eternally Self-Existing delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Yahoow’aash.
25 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Yahooyada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
26 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Yahowzabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of the Almighty, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And AmaziYah his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER 25
AMAZIYAH was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Yahooadaan of Jerusalem.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, but not with a perfect heart.
4 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
5 Moreover AmaziYah gathered Yahoowdah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Yahoowdah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
7 But there came a man of the Almighty to him, saying, O king, let not the army of YsraEl go with thee; for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is not with YsraEl, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
9 And AmaziYah said to the man of the Almighty, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of YsraEl? And the man of the Almighty answered, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is able to give thee much more than this.
10 Then AmaziYah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Yahoowdah, and they returned home in great anger.
11 And AmaziYah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.
12 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Yahoowdah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.
13 But the soldiers of the army which AmaziYah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Yahoowdah, from Samaria even unto Beth-horon, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.
14 Now it came to pass, after that AmaziYah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
15 Wherefore the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was kindled against AmaziYah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?
17 Then AmaziYah king of Yahoowdah took advice, and sent to Yahoow’aash, the son of Yahoo’achaz, the son of Yahuw, king of YsraEl, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.
18 And Yahoow’aash king of YsraEl sent to AmaziYah king of Yahoowdah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Yahoowdah with thee?
20 But AmaziYah would not hear; for it came of the Almighty, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.
21 So Yahoow’aash the king of YsraEl went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and AmaziYah king of Yahoowdah, at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Yahoowdah.
22 And Yahoowdah was put to the worse before YsraEl, and they fled every man to his tent.
23 And Yahoow’aash the king of YsraEl took AmaziYah king of Yahoowdah, the son of Yahoow’aash, the son of Yahoo’achaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
25 And AmaziYah the son of Yahoow’aash king of Yahoowdah lived after the death of Yahoow’aash son of Yahoo’achaz king of YsraEl fifteen years.
26 Now the rest of the acts of AmaziYah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Yahoowdah and YsraEl?
27 Now after the time that AmaziYah did turn away from following Yah the Eternally Self-Existing they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.
28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Yahoowdah.
CHAPTER 26
THEN all the people of Yahoowdah took UzziYah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father AmaziYah.
2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Yahoowdah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
3 Sixteen years old was UzziYah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was JecoliYah of Jerusalem.
4 And he did that which was right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, according to all that his father AmaziYah did.
5 And he sought the Almighty in the days of ZekarYah, who had understanding in the visions of the Almighty: and as long as he sought Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the Almighty made him to prosper.
8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to UzziYah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.
9 Moreover UzziYah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
11 Moreover UzziYah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and MaaseiYah the ruler, under the hand of HananiYah, one of the king’s captains.
14 And UzziYah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty, and went into the temple of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
17 And AzariYah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that were valiant men:
18 And they withstood UzziYah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, UzziYah, to burn incense unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty.
19 Then UzziYah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, from beside the incense altar.
20 And AzariYah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had smitten him.
21 And UzziYah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and Yahootham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.
22 Now the rest of the acts of UzziYah, first and last, did YeshaYahoo the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
23 So UzziYah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Yahootham his son reigned in his stead.
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2 And he did that which was right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, according to all that his father UzziYah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And the people did yet corruptly.
3 He built the high gate of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Yahoowdah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
6 So Yahootham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty.
7 Now the rest of the acts of Yahootham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of YsraEl and Yahoowdah.
9 And Yahootham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER 28
AHAZ was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, like David his father:
3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had cast out before the children of YsraEl.
5 Wherefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of YsraEl, who smote him with a great slaughter.
6 For Pekah the son of RemaliYah slew in Yahoowdah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of their fathers.
7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew MaaseiYah the king’s son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.
9 But a prophet of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of your fathers was wroth with Yahoowdah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.
10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Yahoowdah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty?
11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is upon you.
12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, AzariYah the son of Yahoohanan, BerechiYah the son of Meshillemoth, and JehizkiYah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,
13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing already, ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against YsraEl.
17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Yahoowdah, and carried away captives.
18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Yahoowdah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
19 For Yah the Eternally Self-Existing brought Yahoowdah low because of Ahaz king of YsraEl; for he made Yahoowdah naked, and transgressed sore against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: this is that king Ahaz.
24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of the Almighty, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of the Almighty, and shut up the doors of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
25 And in every several city of Yahoowdah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of his fathers.
26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Yahoowdah and YsraEl.
27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of YsraEl: and HezekiYah his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER 29
HEZEKIAH began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of ZekarYah.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, according to all that David his father had done.
3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and repaired them.
5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the Set-Apart place.
6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and turned their backs.
8 Wherefore the wrath of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was upon Yahoowdah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
10 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
11 My sons, be not now negligent: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.
12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and YahooEl the son of AzariYah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and AzariYah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; JoYah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of JoYah:
13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; ZekarYah, and MattaniYah:
14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; ShemaiYah, and UzziEl.
15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to cleanse the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing into the court of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: so they sanctified the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
18 Then they went in to HezekiYah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
20 Then HezekiYah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Yahoowdah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
25 And he set the Levites in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing by his prophets.
27 And HezekiYah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of YsraEl.
30 Moreover HezekiYah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
31 Then HezekiYah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
35 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was set in order.
36 And HezekiYah rejoiced, and all the people, that the Almighty had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
CHAPTER 30
AND HezekiYah sent to all YsraEl and Yahoowdah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl.
5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all YsraEl, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all YsraEl and Yahoowdah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of YsraEl, turn again unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of Abraham, Yitshaq, and YsraEl, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
9 For if ye turn again unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
12 Also in Yahoowdah the hand of the Almighty was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
17 For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But HezekiYah prayed for them, saying, The good Yah the Eternally Self-Existing pardon every one
19 That prepareth his heart to seek the Almighty, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
20 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hearkened to HezekiYah, and healed the people.
21 And the children of YsraEl that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised Yah the Eternally Self-Existing day by day, singing with loud instruments unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
22 And HezekiYah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of their fathers.
24 For HezekiYah king of Yahoowdah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
25 And all the congregation of Yahoowdah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of YsraEl, and the strangers that came out of the land of YsraEl, and that dwelt in Yahoowdah, rejoiced.
CHAPTER 31
NOW when all this was finished, all YsraEl that were present went out to the cities of Yahoowdah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Yahoowdah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of YsraEl returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 And HezekiYah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
3 He appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
6 And concerning the children of YsraEl and Yahoowdah, that dwelt in the cities of Yahoowdah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of Set-Apart things which were consecrated unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty, and laid them by heaps.
8 And when HezekiYah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and his people YsraEl.
9 Then HezekiYah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
10 And AzariYah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
11 Then HezekiYah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; and they prepared them,
12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which CononiYah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
13 And Jehiel, and AzaziYah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Yahoozabad, and EliEl, and IsmachiYah, and Mahath, and BenaiYah, were overseers under the hand of CononiYah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of HezekiYah the king, and AzariYah the ruler of the house of the Almighty.
14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of the Almighty, to distribute the oblations of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the most Set-Apart things.
15 And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and ShemaiYah, AmariYah, and ShecaniYah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:
16 Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;
20 And thus did HezekiYah throughout all Yahoowdah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty.
CHAPTER 32
AFTER these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Yahoowdah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
2 And when HezekiYah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
8 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of HezekiYah king of Yahoowdah.
9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto HezekiYah king of Yahoowdah, and unto all Yahoowdah that were at Jerusalem, saying,
11 Doth not HezekiYah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing our the Almighty shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
12 Hath not the same HezekiYah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Yahoowdah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
15 Now therefore let not HezekiYah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no Mighty One of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your the Almighty deliver you out of mine hand?
16 And his servants spake yet more against Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty, and against his servant HezekiYah.
17 He wrote also letters to rail on Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the Almighty of HezekiYah deliver his people out of mine hand.
18 Then they cried with a loud voice in Yahoodi’iy’ speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
20 And for this cause HezekiYah the king, and the prophet YeshaYahoo the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
21 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
22 Thus Yah the Eternally Self-Existing saved HezekiYah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on every side.
23 And many brought gifts unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to Jerusalem, and presents to HezekiYah king of Yahoowdah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
24 In those days HezekiYah was sick to the death, and prayed unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.
25 But HezekiYah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Yahoowdah and Jerusalem.
26 Notwithstanding HezekiYah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came not upon them in the days of HezekiYah.
27 And HezekiYah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;
30 This same HezekiYah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And HezekiYah prospered in all his works.
32 Now the rest of the acts of HezekiYah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of YeshaYahoo the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Yahoowdah and YsraEl.
33 And HezekiYah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Yahoowdah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER 33
2 But did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had cast out before the children of YsraEl.
3 For he built again the high places which HezekiYah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for the lord [Baal]im, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
4 Also he built altars in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, whereof Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to provoke him to anger.
9 So Manasseh made Yahoowdah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had destroyed before the children of YsraEl.
10 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
11 Wherefore Yah the Eternally Self-Existing brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
12 And when he was in affliction, he besought Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty, and humbled himself greatly before the Almighty of his fathers,
13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing he was the Almighty.
14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Yahoowdah.
15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
16 And he repaired the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Yahoowdah to serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl.
17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty only.
18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his the Almighty, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of YsraEl.
22 But he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
23 And humbled not himself before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
25 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made JosiYah his son king in his stead.
CHAPTER 34
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the Almighty of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Yahoowdah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Yahoowdah and Jerusalem.
8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of AzaliYah, and MaaseiYah the governor of the city, and JoYah the son of Yahooahaz the recorder, to repair the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty.
9 And when they came to HilkiYah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of the Almighty, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of YsraEl, and of all Yahoowdah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.
10 And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to repair and amend the house:
11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Yahoowdah had destroyed.
12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Yahath and ObadYah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and ZekarYah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.
14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, HilkiYah the priest found a book of the law of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing given by Moses.
15 And HilkiYah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And HilkiYah delivered the book to Shaphan.
17 And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.
18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, HilkiYah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
20 And the king commanded HilkiYah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of MiykaaYahoo, and Shaphan the scribe, and AsaiYah a servant of the king’s, saying,
21 Go, inquire of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing for me, and for them that are left in YsraEl and in Yahoowdah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to do after all that is written in this book.
22 And HilkiYah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.
23 And she answered them, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,
24 Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Yahoowdah:
26 And as for the king of Yahoowdah, who sent you to inquire of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl concerning the words which thou hast heard;
27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before the Almighty, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Yahoowdah and Jerusalem.
30 And the king went up into the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and all the men of Yahoowdah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, to walk after Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
33 And JosiYah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of YsraEl, and made all that were present in YsraEl to serve, even to serve Yah the Eternally Self-Existing their the Almighty. And all his days they departed not from following Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, the Almighty of their fathers.
CHAPTER 35
MOREOVER JosiYah kept a passover unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing,
3 And said unto the Levites that taught all YsraEl, which were Set-Apart unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, Put the Set-Apart ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of YsraEl did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your the Almighty, and his people YsraEl,
6 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing by the hand of Moses.
7 And JosiYah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king’s substance.
8 And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: HilkiYah and ZekarYah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of the Almighty, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.
9 ConaniYah also, and ShemaiYah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and HashabiYah and Jeiel and Yahoozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.
12 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.
16 So all the service of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, according to the commandment of king JosiYah.
18 And there was no passover like to that kept in YsraEl from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of YsraEl keep such a passover as JosiYah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Yahoowdah and YsraEl that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of JosiYah was this passover kept.
20 After all this, when JosiYah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and JosiYah went out against him.
21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Yahoowdah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for the Almighty commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with the Almighty, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
22 Nevertheless JosiYah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of the Almighty, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
23 And the archers shot at king JosiYah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Yahoowdah and Jerusalem mourned for JosiYah.
25 And YirmeYahoo lamented for JosiYah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of JosiYah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in YsraEl: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
26 Now the rest of the acts of JosiYah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing,
27 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of YsraEl and Yahoowdah.
CHAPTER 36
THEN the people of the land took Yahoo’achaz the son of JosiYah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.
2 Yahoo’achaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Yahoowdah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Yahooyaqiym. And Necho took Yahoo’achaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
5 Yahooyaqiym was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty.
7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
8 Now the rest of the acts of Yahooyaqiym, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of YsraEl and Yahoowdah: and Yahooyakiyn his son reigned in his stead.
9 Yahooyakiyn was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and made ZedekiYah his brother king over Yahoowdah and Jerusalem.
11 ZedekiYah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty, and humbled not himself before YirmeYahoo the prophet speaking from the mouth of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by the Almighty: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of YsraEl.
14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
15 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
16 But they mocked the messengers of the Almighty, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
18 And all the vessels of the house of the Almighty, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
21 To fulfil the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing by the mouth of YirmeYahoo, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing spoken by the mouth of YirmeYahoo might be accomplished, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Almighty of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Yahoowdah. Who is there among you of all his people? Yah the Eternally Self-Existing his the Almighty be with him, and let him go up.