But
thou,
when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth
in secret shall reward thee openly.
***
Notwithstanding
they would not hear, but hardened their
necks, like to the neck of their fathers,
that did not believe in the Lord their God.
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
the Lord had charged them, that they
should not do like them.
*****
But when ye
pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they
shall be heard for their much speaking.
Be
not ye therefore
like unto them:
for
your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
***
And the dove
came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off:
***
And Noah began
to be an husbandman,
and he planted a vineyard:
And he drank
of the wine,
and was
drunken;
and he was uncovered within his tent.
***
And the men
said unto Lot,
Hast thou here any besides? son in
law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city,
bring them out of this place:
For
we
will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord;
and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.
***
And the sons
of Noah, that went forth of the ark,
were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth:
And a river
went out of Eden to water the garden;
And Cain went
out from the presence of the Lord,
***
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 the Lord will destroy
this city.
But he
seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
And when the
morning arose, then the angels hastened
Lot,
saying,
Arise,
take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in
the iniquity of the city.
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;
the Lord being merciful
unto him:
and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
***
And God said, Let
there be lights in the firmament
of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and
let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
And let them
be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth: and it was so.
***
And it came
to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not
behind thee, neither stay thou
in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
And Lot
said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
***
And the Lord
God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I
will make him an help meet for- - - him.
***
And Noah awoke
from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto
him.
And he said,
Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
***
Now
the Lord 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:
And I will
make of thee a great nation,
and I
will bless thee,
and make thy
name great;
and thou
shalt be a blessing:
***
And God said,
Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, and the fruit
tree yielding fruit after
his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon
the earth: and it
was so.
***
And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
***
Behold now,
thy servant hath found grace in thy sight,
and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in
saving my life;
and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me,
and I die:
Behold now,
this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one:
Oh,
let me escape thither,
(is it not a
little one?)
and my
soul shall live.
***
And the serpent
said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
If thou
doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?
***
And he
said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing
also,
that
I
will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
Haste thee,
escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither.
Therefore
the name of the city was called Zoar.
The
sun
was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
Then
the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
And he
overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which
grew upon the ground.
***
*****
And God called the dry land Earth;
and the
gathering together of the waters called he Seas:
***
And from the
plain to the sea of Chinneroth
on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth;
***
***
And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the
stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured
oil upon the top of it.
*****
But his wife
looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
***
For
God
doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall
be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
***
For
God,
said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
***
And Enoch walked
with God: and he was not; for God took him.
***
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
He
was
a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as RAheme
the mighty hunter before the Lord.
***
What aileth thee,
Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the
lad where he is.
***
And Abraham gat
up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:
And he looked
toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all
the land of the plain, and beheld,
***
Then the Lord
rained upon Sodom and upon
Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
***
and,
lo,
the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
And it came
to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain,
***
I
will make him an help meet for- - - him.
***
that
God
remembered Abraham,
and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow,
when he
overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
***
And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him;
for he
feared to dwell in Zoar:
and he
dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
***
And the firstborn
said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the
earth:
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we
will lie with him, that we may
preserve seed of our father.
***
Apil-Sin
was a King in the First Dynasty of Babylon. He reigned ca. 1767 BC - 1749 BC.
***
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?
and if thou
doest not well, sin lieth at the door.
***
thy
desire shall be to thy husband,
and he
shall rule over thee.
***
And unto thee
shall be his desire,
and thou
shalt rule over him.
***
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 Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
***
(Not Abraham)
And the Lord appeared
unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
And he lift up
his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him:
and when he
saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, . .
***
And he
said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time
of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.
And Sarah heard
it in the tent door, which was behind him.
***
And they
called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night?
***
And they went
in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
***
And
a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
***
And they that
went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him:
and the Lord shut
him in.
***
For the
morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they
are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
***
bring them
out unto us,
that
we
may know them.
And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
And said, I
pray you, brethren, do not so
wickedly.
***
Let mine
outcasts dwell with thee, Moab;
be thou a
covert to them from the face of the spoiler:
for the
extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
***
Behold now,
I have two daughters which have not
known man;
let me, I
pray you, bring them out unto you, and
do ye to them as is good in your eyes:
only unto these
men do nothing; for therefore
came they under the shadow of my roof.
***
And it
came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host
spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee
in all that thou doest:
Now
therefore
swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor
with my son, nor with my son's son:
but according to the kindness that I have
done unto thee,
thou
shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
And Abraham said,
I
will swear.
***
And Laban said, It
must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
Fulfil her
week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt
serve with me yet seven other years.
***
And the Lord
God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good
and evil:
***
And they
said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge:
now
will we deal worse with thee, than
with them.
***
And Jacob was left
alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
***
and now, lest he
put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
***
And they
pressed sore upon the man,
even
Lot,
and came near to break the door.
***
So
he
drove out the man;
***
But
the men put forth their hand, and pulled
Lot into the house to them,
and shut
to the door.
***
And the whole
earth was of one language, and
of one speech.
And it
came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a
plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
***
And God made
the firmament, and divided the waters which were under
the firmament from the waters which
were above the firmament: and it was so.
***
And the Lord came
down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
And the Lord 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.
Go
to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they
may not understand one another's speech.
So
the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth:
and they left off to build the city.
***
And they
smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness,
both small and great:
so
that they wearied themselves to find the door.
***
These
are
the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
***
And he drank
of the wine,
***
And
they made their father drink wine
that night:
***
They
grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
***
and was drunken;
***
and the firstborn
went in, and lay with her father;
and he
perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
And it came
to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger,
Behold, I
lay yesternight with my father:
let us make him drink wine this night also;
and go thou
in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
***
and he
was uncovered within his tent.
***
And they made
their father drink wine that night also:
and the
younger arose, and lay with him;
and he
perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Thus were both
the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
And the firstborn
bare a son, and called his name Moab:
the same
is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
***
But now they
that are younger than I have me in derision, whose
fathers I would have disdained
to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Yea,
whereto might the strength of their
hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
For
want
and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time
desolate and waste.
***
Now
it
came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land.
And
a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country
of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
And the name
of the man was Elimelech, and the name
of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons
Mahlon
and Chilion,
Ephrathites
of Bethlehemjudah.
And they came
into the country of Moab, and
continued there.
And Elimelech Naomi's
husband died;
and she
was left,
and her
two sons.
And they took
them wives of the women of Moab;
the name
of the one was Orpah,
and the name
of the other Ruth:
and they
dwelled there about ten years.
And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them;
and the woman
was left of her two sons and her husband.
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 the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread.
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 Judah.
And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go,
return each to her mother's house:
the Lord deal
kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and
with me.
The Lord grant you that ye may find rest,
each of you in the house of her husband.
***
For
we
will destroy this place, because the
cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord;
***
Then she
kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
***
And they
said unto her, Surely we will return
with thee unto thy people.
***
Unto Adam also
and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
***
And Naomi said, Turn
again, my daughters:
***
why will ye
go with me? are there yet any more sons
in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
Turn
again, my
daughters, go your way;
for
I am too old to have an husband.
If I should
say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also tonight, and should
also bear sons;
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 the Lord is gone
out against me.
And they
lifted up their voice, and wept again:
and Orpah kissed
her mother in law;
but Ruth clave
unto her.
And she
said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone
back unto her people, and unto her gods:
return thou
after thy sister in law.
And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or
to return from following after thee:
for whither thou
goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my
people, and thy God my God:
Where thou
diest, will I die, and there will I be buried:
the Lord do
so to me, and more also, if
aught but death part thee and me.
When she saw
that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she
left speaking unto her.
***
And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight
I shall find grace.
And she
said unto her, Go, my daughter.
***
And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's
wife,
and marry her,
and raise up seed
to thy brother.
And Onan knew
that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went
in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he
should give seed to his brother.
***
And,
behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem,
and said unto the reapers, The Lord be with you.
And they
answered him, The Lord bless thee.
Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set
over the reapers, Whose damsel is
this? . . .
*****
And when she
was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his
young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves,
and reproach her not:
And let fall
also some of the handfuls of purpose for her,
and leave them,
that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
So
she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it
was about an ephah of barley.
And she took
it up, and went into the city:
and her
mother in law saw what she had gleaned:
and she
brought forth,
and gave
to her that she had reserved after she
was sufficed.
*****
And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the Lord, 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. . . .
*****
And now, my
daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest:
for all the
city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.
And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman:
howbeit there
is a kinsman nearer than I. . . .
*****
Then went
Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by;
unto whom he
said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here.
And he turned
aside,
and sat down.
. . .
*****
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have
I purchased to be my wife,
to
raise up the name of the
dead upon his inheritance,
that
the name of the dead
be not cut off from among his
brethren, and from the gate of his place:
ye
are
witnesses this day.
And all the
people that were in the gate,
and the elders, said, We are witnesses.
The Lord make
the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel
and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel:
and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
And let thy
house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah,
of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this young woman.
So
Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife:
and when he
went in unto her,
the Lord gave
her conception,
and she bare
a son.
(for she died)
And the women
said unto Naomi, Blessed be the Lord,
which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.
And he
shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher
of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven
sons, hath borne him.
And Naomi
took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.
And the women
her neighbours gave it a name, saying,
There
is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father
of David.
Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,
And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,
And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,
And Obed begat Jesse,
and Jesse begat David.
***
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the
sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord
blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
**** *
After this
manner therefore pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven,
Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed
be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
***
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and
that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all
the bread in the city were spent.
Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
*****
Give
us
this day our daily bread.
***
Make no
friendship with an angry man;
and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou
learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
Be
not thou one of them
that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts
*****
And forgive us our
debts, as we forgive our debtors.
***
Did ever people hear
the voice of God speaking out of the
midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Or
hath God 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 the Lord your God did for
you in Egypt before your eyes?
The great
temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders,
and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the Lord
thy God brought thee out:
so
shall the Lord thy
God do unto all the people of
whom thou art afraid.
***
And lead us
not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
***
And Adam knew
his wife again; and she bare a son,
and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me
another seed instead of Abel, whom
Cain slew.
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 the Lord.
***
And Joseph knew
his brethren, but they knew not him.
And Joseph
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.
And they said
unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy
food are thy servants come. We are all one
man's sons; we are true men,
thy
servants are no spies.
***
For
thine is the
kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
A men.
