And
if
any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Eye
for eye, tooth for tooth, hand
for hand, foot for foot,
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
***
Ye
have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
***
And Lamech
took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
And Zillah,
she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor
of every artificer in brass and iron:
*****
But I say
unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on
thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
***
And Adah
bare Jabal: he was the father of
such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
And his
brother's name was Jubal: he was the
father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
*****
And God
came to Laban the Syrian in a dream
by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. . . .
Then
Laban
overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren
pitched in the mount of Gilead.
***
And he
said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth
unto me from the ground.
***
And Laban
said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou
hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters,
as captives taken with the sword?
Wherefore
didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away
with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
***
And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with
the right hand to kiss him.
But Amasa took no heed to the sword that
was in Joab'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.
***
And hast not
suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly
in so doing.
It
is in the power
of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight,
saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
*****
And if any man
will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
***
Above
it
stood
the seraphims:
each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and
with twain he covered his feet, and
with twain he did fly.
And one cried
unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is
full of his glory.
*****
And whosoever
shall compel thee to go a
mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him
that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Ye
have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
But I say
unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he
maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain
on the just and on the unjust.
For if ye love
them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
And if ye
salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do
not even the publicans so?
***
Noah was a just
man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked
with God.
***
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the
Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God;
walk before me, and be thou perfect.
*****
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
***
And in
process of time it came to pass,
that Cain brought of the fruit of
the ground an offering unto the Lord.
***
But
unto Cain and to his offering he had
not respect.
***
Simeon and Levi
are brethren; instruments of cruelty
are in their habitations.
O
my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their
assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Cursed
be their anger, for it was fierce;
and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter
them in Israel.
***
But the
Levites shall do the service of
the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their
iniquity: it shall be a statute for
ever throughout your generations, that among
the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
But the
tithes of the children of Israel,
which they offer as an heave offering unto the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among
the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
*****
Take
heed
that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in
heaven.
***
Wherefore
do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:
but I will maintain mine own ways before him. He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite
shall not come before him.
*****
Therefore
when thou doest thine alms, do not sound
a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They
have their reward.
***
Behold, I go
forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot
perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold
him:
he
hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
***
And the name
of the third river is Hiddekel: that
is it which goeth toward the east of
Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
***
And Abram
said unto Lot, Let there be no
strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen
and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
Is not the whole
land before thee? separate thyself,
I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then
I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right
hand, then I will go to the left.
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan,
that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and
Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt,
as thou comest unto Zoar.
*****
But
when thou doest alms, let not thy left
hand know what thy right hand doeth:
That thine
alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
***
Come,
my people, enter thou
into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were
for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
For, behold,
the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants
of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no
more cover her slain.
In
that day the Lord with his
sore and great and strong sword
shall punish leviathan the piercing
serpent, even leviathan that crooked
serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
In
that day sing ye unto
her, A vineyard of red wine.
I
the
Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt
it, I will keep it night and day.
Fury is not
in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them
together.
Or let him
take hold of my strength, that he may
make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
He
shall cause them that come of Jacob
to take root: Israel shall blossom and
bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
Hath he
smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to
the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he
stayeth his rough wind in the day of the
east wind.
By this therefore
shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to
take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
Yet the defenced
city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like
a wilderness: there shall the calf feed,
and there shall he lie down, and consume
the branches thereof.
When
the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be
broken off: the women come, and
set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore
he that made them will not have
mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
***
And when thou
prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they
may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
***
Gather
the people, sanctify
the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that
suck the breasts: let the bridegroom
go forth of his chamber, and the bride
out of her closet.
***
If I
be wicked, why then labour I in vain? If I wash myself with snow water, and make my
hands never so clean; Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
For he is not
a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
Neither
is there any daysman
betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Let
him take his rod away from me, and let not his
fear terrify me:
Then would I
speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me. My soul is weary of my life; . . . I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me
wherefore thou contendest with me.
***
And ye
shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt
me and you.
***
Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou
found of all thy household stuff?
set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they
may judge betwixt us both.
This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy
she goats have not cast their young,
and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
That which was
torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I
bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether
stolen by day, or stolen by night.
Thus I was;
in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Thus have I
been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for
thy two daughters, and six years
for thy cattle: and thou hast
changed my wages ten times.
Except
the God of my father, the God of
Abraham, and the fear of Isaac,
had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour
of my hands, and rebuked thee
yesternight.
And Laban
answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my
daughters, and these
children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what
can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
Now therefore
come thou, let us make a covenant, I and
thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
***
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.
***
And Jacob took
a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and
they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
And Laban
called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob
called it Galeed.
And Laban said, This
heap is a witness between me and
thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
And Mizpah;
for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from
another.
If thou
shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my
daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold
this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
This
heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I
will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
***
And Moses
answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me,
nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared
unto thee.
And the Lord said unto him, What
is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
And he said,
Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a
serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
And
the Lord 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:
***
Let him
take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify
me: Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
***
Let
the priests, the ministers of the Lord,
weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy
people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach,
that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Then
will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
Yea,
the Lord will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no
more make you a reproach among the heathen:
But I will
remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,
with his face toward the east sea, and
his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up,
because he hath done great things.
Fear not, O
land; be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things.
***
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.
