A witness with
its own voice.

JPS1917 Genesis 1:4

And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.

JPS1917 Genesis 1:31

And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

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JPS1917 Genesis 1:26

And God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'

JPS1917 Genesis 1:27

And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.

JPS1917 Genesis 9:6

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man.

JPS1917 Genesis 2:7

Then the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

JPS1917 Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.'

JPS1917 Genesis 2:15

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

JPS1917 Genesis 2:17

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.'

JPS1917 Genesis 4:9

And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Where is Abel thy brother?' And he said: 'I know not; am I my brother's keeper?'

JPS1917 Genesis 4:10

And He said: 'What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto Me from the ground.

JPS1917 Genesis 9:10

and with every living creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

JPS1917 Genesis 9:15

that I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

JPS1917 Genesis 12:1

Now the LORD said unto Abram: 'Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee.

JPS1917 Genesis 12:4

So Abram went, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him; and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

JPS1917 Genesis 12:2

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.

JPS1917 Genesis 12:3

And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'

JPS1917 Genesis 16:13

And she called the name of the LORD that spoke unto her, Thou art a God of seeing; for she said: 'Have I even here seen Him that seeth Me?'

JPS1917 Genesis 21:17

And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her: 'What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

JPS1917 Genesis 18:23

And Abraham drew near, and said: 'Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

JPS1917 Genesis 18:25

That be far from Thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from Thee; shall not the Judge of all the earth do justly?'

JPS1917 Genesis 22:12

And he said: 'Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him; for now I know that thou art a God-fearing man, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from Me.'

JPS1917 Genesis 22:13

And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.

JPS1917 Genesis 15:13

And He said unto Abram: 'Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

JPS1917 Genesis 15:14

and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge; and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

JPS1917 Genesis 15:15

But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

JPS1917 Genesis 15:16

And in the fourth generation they shall come back hither; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.'

JPS1917 Genesis 23:4

'I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.'

JPS1917 Genesis 23:13

And he spoke unto Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying: 'But if thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me: I will give the price of the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.'

JPS1917 Genesis 23:16

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

JPS1917 Genesis 23:17

So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the border thereof round about, were made sure

JPS1917 Genesis 23:20

And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the children of Heth.

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JPS1917 Genesis 13:6

And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together; for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

JPS1917 Genesis 13:7

And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land.

JPS1917 Genesis 13:8

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 are brethren.

JPS1917 Genesis 13:9

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 take the right hand, then I will go to the left.'

JPS1917 Genesis 21:25

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

JPS1917 Genesis 21:26

And Abimelech said: 'I know not who hath done this thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day.'

JPS1917 Genesis 21:27

And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they two made a covenant.

JPS1917 Genesis 21:30

And he said: 'Verily, these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.'

JPS1917 Genesis 21:31

Wherefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there they swore both of them.

JPS1917 Genesis 45:4

And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'Come near to me, I pray you.' And they came near. And he said: 'I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

JPS1917 Genesis 45:15

And he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them; and after that his brethren talked with him.

JPS1917 Genesis 50:20

And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

JPS1917 Genesis 24:55

And her brother and her mother said: 'Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.'

JPS1917 Genesis 24:57

And they said: 'We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.'

JPS1917 Genesis 24:58

And they called Rebekah, and said unto her: 'Wilt thou go with this man?' And she said: 'I will go.'

JPS1917 Genesis 38:24

And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying: 'Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and moreover, behold, she is with child by harlotry.' And Judah said: 'Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.'

JPS1917 Genesis 38:25

When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying: 'By the man, whose these are, am I with child'; and she said: 'Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and the cords, and the staff.'

JPS1917 Genesis 38:26

And Judah acknowledged them, and said: 'She is more righteous than I; forasmuch as I gave her not to Shelah my son.' And he knew her again no more.

JPS1917 Genesis 44:30

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his soul is bound up with the lad's soul;

JPS1917 Genesis 44:31

it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die; and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

JPS1917 Genesis 44:32

For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying: If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I bear the blame to my father for ever.

JPS1917 Genesis 44:33

Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

JPS1917 Genesis 44:34

For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I look upon the evil that shall come on my father.'

JPS1917 Genesis 47:19

Wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bondmen unto Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.'

JPS1917 Genesis 47:20

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them; and the land became Pharaoh's.

JPS1917 Genesis 47:22

Only the land of the priests bought he not, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their land.

JPS1917 Genesis 47:23

Then Joseph 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.

JPS1917 Genesis 47:24

And it shall come to pass at the ingatherings, that ye shall give a fifth unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.'

JPS1917 Genesis 47:25

And they said: 'Thou hast saved our lives. Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's bondmen.'

JPS1917 Genesis 47:26

And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests alone became not Pharaoh's.

JPS1917 Exodus 2:23

And it came to pass in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

JPS1917 Exodus 3:7

And the LORD said: 'I have surely seen the affliction of My people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their pains;

JPS1917 Exodus 1:16

and he said: 'When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, ye shall look upon the birthstool: if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.'

JPS1917 Exodus 1:17

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.

JPS1917 Exodus 12:14

And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

JPS1917 Exodus 12:27

that ye shall say: It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, for that He passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.' And the people bowed the head and worshipped.

JPS1917 Exodus 14:21

And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

JPS1917 Exodus 14:28

And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; there remained not so much as one of them.

JPS1917 Exodus 16:4

Then said the LORD unto Moses: 'Behold, I will cause to rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in My law, or not.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 8:2

And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that He might afflict thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep His commandments, or no.

JPS1917 Exodus 16:18

And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.

JPS1917 Exodus 16:20

Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and rotted; and Moses was wroth with them.

JPS1917 Exodus 19:4

Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto Myself.

JPS1917 Exodus 19:5

Now therefore, if ye will hearken unto My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be Mine own treasure from among all peoples; for all the earth is Mine;

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 6:4

Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 6:5

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

JPS1917 Exodus 34:1

And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which thou didst break.

JPS1917 Exodus 34:6

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed: 'The LORD, the LORD, God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth;

JPS1917 Exodus 34:7

keeping mercy unto the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and unto the fourth generation.'

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 5:13

but the seventh day is a sabbath unto the LORD thy God, in it thou shalt not do any manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 5:14

And thou shalt remember that thou was a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

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JPS1917 Deuteronomy 6:6

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart;

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 6:7

and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 30:19

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed;

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 30:20

to love the LORD thy God, to hearken to His voice, and to cleave unto Him; for that is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

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JPS1917 Deuteronomy 8:12

lest when thou hast eaten and art satisfied, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 8:13

and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 8:14

then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 8:17

and thou say in thy heart: 'My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.'

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 8:18

But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God, for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

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JPS1917 Deuteronomy 9:4

Speak not thou in thy heart, after that the LORD thy God hath thrust them out from before thee, saying: 'For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land'; whereas for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 9:5

Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that He may establish the word which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 9:6

Know therefore that it is not for thy righteousness that the LORD thy God giveth thee this good land to possess it; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 29:28

The secret things belong unto the LORD our God; but the things that 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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JPS1917 Deuteronomy 30:11

For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not too hard for thee, neither is it far off.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 30:12

It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say: 'Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?'

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 30:13

Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say: 'Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?'

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 30:14

But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

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JPS1917 Leviticus 10:10

And that ye may put difference between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

JPS1917 Leviticus 19:2

Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them: Ye shall be holy; for I the LORD your God am holy.

JPS1917 Leviticus 12:2

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If a woman be delivered, and bear a man-child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of the impurity of her sickness shall she be unclean.

JPS1917 Numbers 19:11

He that toucheth the dead, even any man's dead body, shall be unclean seven days;

JPS1917 Exodus 25:8

And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

JPS1917 Exodus 40:34

Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

JPS1917 Leviticus 16:21

And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of an appointed man into the wilderness.

JPS1917 Leviticus 16:30

For on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins shall ye be clean before the LORD.

JPS1917 Exodus 35:30

And Moses said unto the children of Israel: 'See, the LORD hath called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

JPS1917 Exodus 35:31

And He hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.

JPS1917 Exodus 35:32

And to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

JPS1917 Exodus 35:34

And He hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

JPS1917 Exodus 35:35

Them hath He filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the craftsman, and of the skilful workman, and of the weaver in colours, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any workmanship, and of those that devise skilful works.

JPS1917 Exodus 36:4

And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they wrought.

JPS1917 Exodus 36:5

And they spoke unto Moses, saying: 'The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.'

JPS1917 Exodus 36:6

And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying: 'Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary.' So the people were restrained from bringing.

JPS1917 Exodus 36:7

For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.

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JPS1917 Leviticus 5:6

and he shall bring his forfeit unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his sin.

JPS1917 Leviticus 5:7

And if his means suffice not for a lamb, then he shall bring his forfeit for that wherein he hath sinned, two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD: one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering.

JPS1917 Leviticus 5:11

But if his means suffice not for two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that wherein he hath sinned, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon; for it is a sin-offering.

JPS1917 Leviticus 5:12

And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial-part thereof, and make it smoke on the altar, upon the offerings of the LORD made by fire; it is a sin-offering.

JPS1917 Leviticus 5:13

And the priest shall make atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in any of these things, and he shall be forgiven; and the remnant shall be the priest's, as the meal-offering.

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JPS1917 Leviticus 10:2

And there came forth fire from before the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

JPS1917 Leviticus 10:16

And Moses diligently inquired for the goat of the sin-offering, and, behold, it was burnt; and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, saying:

JPS1917 Leviticus 10:17

'Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and He hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?

JPS1917 Leviticus 10:19

And Aaron spoke unto Moses: 'Behold, this day have they offered their sin-offering and their burnt-offering before the LORD, and there have befallen me such things as these; and if I had eaten the sin-offering to-day, would it have been well-pleasing in the sight of the LORD?

JPS1917 Leviticus 10:20

And when Moses heard that, it was well-pleasing in his sight.

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JPS1917 Leviticus 21:17

Speak unto Aaron, saying: Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout their generations that hath a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.

JPS1917 Leviticus 21:18

For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath any thing maimed, or anything too long,

JPS1917 Leviticus 21:21

no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a blemish, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire; he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

JPS1917 Leviticus 21:22

He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

JPS1917 Leviticus 21:23

Only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not My holy places; for I am the LORD who sanctify them.

JPS1917 Numbers 6:2

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When either man or woman shall clearly utter a vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to consecrate himself unto the LORD,

JPS1917 Numbers 6:3

he shall abstain from wine and strong drink: he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

JPS1917 Numbers 6:5

All the days of his vow of Naziriteship there shall no razor come upon his head; until the days be fulfilled, in which he consecrateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

JPS1917 Numbers 6:6

All the days that he consecrateth himself unto the LORD he shall not come near to a dead body.

JPS1917 Numbers 6:13

And this is the law of the Nazirite, when the days of his consecration are fulfilled: he shall bring it unto the door of the tent of meeting;

JPS1917 Numbers 6:18

And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the door of the tent of meeting, and shall take the hair of his consecrated head, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace-offerings.

JPS1917 Numbers 6:20

And the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before the LORD; this is holy for the priest, together with the breast of waving and the thigh of heaving; and after that the Nazirite may drink wine.

JPS1917 Numbers 15:27

And if one person sin through error, then he shall offer a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering.

JPS1917 Numbers 15:28

And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that erreth, when he sinneth through error, before the LORD, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven,

JPS1917 Numbers 15:29

both he that is home-born among the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them: ye shall have one law for him that doeth aught in error.

JPS1917 Numbers 15:30

But the soul that doeth aught with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a stranger, the same blasphemeth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

JPS1917 Numbers 15:31

Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken His commandment; that soul shall utterly be cut off, his iniquity shall be upon him.

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JPS1917 2 Chronicles 30:17

For there were many in the congregation that had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the passover lambs for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.

JPS1917 2 Chronicles 30:18

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 is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying: 'The good LORD pardon

JPS1917 2 Chronicles 30:19

every one that setteth his heart to seek God, the LORD, the God of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the purification that pertaineth to holy things.'

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JPS1917 2 Chronicles 30:20

And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

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JPS1917 1 Chronicles 29:9

Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with a whole heart they offered willingly to the LORD; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

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JPS1917 1 Chronicles 29:14

But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of Thee, and of Thine own have we given Thee.

JPS1917 1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before Thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

JPS1917 1 Chronicles 29:16

O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build Thee a house for Thy holy name cometh of Thy hand, and is all Thine own.

JPS1917 1 Chronicles 29:17

I know also, my God, that Thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things; and now have I seen with joy Thy people, that are present here, offer willingly unto Thee.

JPS1917 Leviticus 19:9

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corner of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest.

JPS1917 Leviticus 19:10

And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the fallen fruit of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

JPS1917 Leviticus 19:33

And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.

JPS1917 Leviticus 19:34

The stranger that sojourneth with you shall be unto you as the home-born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 15:2

And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 15:9

Beware that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying: 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand'; and thine eye be evil against thy needy brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin in thee.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 15:11

For the poor shall never cease out of the land; therefore I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt surely open thy hand unto thy poor and needy brother, in thy land.'

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JPS1917 Leviticus 25:10

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

JPS1917 Leviticus 25:23

And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with Me.

JPS1917 Exodus 23:8

And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

JPS1917 Leviticus 19:15

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor favour the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 19:15

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth; at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 19:18

And the judges shall inquire diligently; and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;

JPS1917 Leviticus 19:17

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbour, and not bear sin because of him.

JPS1917 Leviticus 19:18

Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

JPS1917 Exodus 21:20

And if a man smite his bondman, or his bondwoman, with a rod, and he die under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

JPS1917 Exodus 21:26

And if a man smite the eye of his bondman, or the eye of his bondwoman, and destroy it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

JPS1917 Leviticus 25:44

And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou mayest have: of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

JPS1917 Leviticus 25:46

And ye may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession: of them may ye take your bondmen for ever; but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigour.

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JPS1917 Exodus 22:24

If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

JPS1917 Exodus 22:25

If thou at all take thy neighbour's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him by that the sun goeth down;

JPS1917 Exodus 22:26

for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin; wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto Me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

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JPS1917 Exodus 23:10

And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in the increase thereof;

JPS1917 Exodus 23:11

but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat; and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

JPS1917 Leviticus 19:14

Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but thou shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 22:8

When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 22:1

Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep driven away, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely bring them back unto thy brother.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 22:2

And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, and thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it home to thy house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother require it, and thou shalt restore it to him.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 22:3

And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his garment; and so shalt thou do with every lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found; thou mayest not hide thyself.

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JPS1917 Deuteronomy 22:4

Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.

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JPS1917 Deuteronomy 24:14

Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 24:15

In the same 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 the LORD and it be sin in thee.

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JPS1917 Deuteronomy 24:6

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

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JPS1917 Deuteronomy 24:10

When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 24:11

Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 24:12

And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 24:13

thou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee; and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.

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JPS1917 Leviticus 24:22

Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for the home-born; for I am the LORD your God.'

JPS1917 Numbers 15:15

As for the congregation, there shall be one statute both for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you, a statute for ever throughout your generations; as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.

JPS1917 Numbers 15:16

One law and one ordinance shall be both for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

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JPS1917 Deuteronomy 23:16

Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a bondman that is escaped from his master unto thee;

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 23:17

he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it liketh him best; thou shalt not wrong him.

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JPS1917 Numbers 35:27

and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the manslayer; there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him;

JPS1917 Numbers 35:30

Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

JPS1917 Numbers 35:31

Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

JPS1917 Numbers 35:32

And ye shall take no ransom for him that is fled to his city of refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

JPS1917 Numbers 35:33

So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it polluteth the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

JPS1917 Numbers 27:4

Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father.'

JPS1917 Numbers 27:7

'The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 20:16

Howbeit of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth,

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 20:17

but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee;

JPS1917 Joshua 6:21

And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

JPS1917 Joshua 11:23

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD spoke unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.

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JPS1917 Joshua 15:63

And as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites dwelt with the children of Judah at Jerusalem, unto this day.

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JPS1917 Judges 1:27

And Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its towns, nor of Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites were resolved to dwell in that land.

JPS1917 Numbers 36:3

And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong; so will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

JPS1917 Numbers 36:6

This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying: Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married.

JPS1917 Numbers 36:7

So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

JPS1917 Numbers 36:8

And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.

JPS1917 Numbers 36:9

So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave each one to its own inheritance.'

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 20:19

When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, but thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of thee?

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 20:20

Only the trees of which thou knowest that they are not trees for food, them thou mayest destroy and cut down, that thou mayest build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall.

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JPS1917 Deuteronomy 22:6

If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young;

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 22:7

thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, but the young thou mayest take unto thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

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JPS1917 Exodus 23:4

If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

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JPS1917 Exodus 23:5

If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under its burden, thou shalt forbear to pass by him; thou shalt surely release it with him.

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JPS1917 Joshua 22:11

And the children of Israel heard say: 'Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertaineth to the children of Israel.'

JPS1917 Joshua 22:12

And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.

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JPS1917 Joshua 22:26

Therefore we said: Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice;

JPS1917 Joshua 22:27

but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of the LORD 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 portion in the LORD.

JPS1917 Joshua 22:28

Therefore said we: It shall be, when they so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say: Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.

JPS1917 Joshua 22:30

And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.

JPS1917 Joshua 22:34

And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar--: 'for it is a witness between us that the LORD is God.'

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JPS1917 Joshua 2:12

Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that ye also will deal kindly with my father's house--and give me a true token--

JPS1917 Joshua 2:13

and save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.'

JPS1917 Joshua 2:14

And the men said unto her: 'Our life for yours, if ye tell not this our business; and it shall be, when the LORD giveth us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.'

JPS1917 Joshua 6:22

And Joshua said unto the two men that had spied out the land: 'Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye swore unto her.'

JPS1917 Joshua 6:23

And the young men the spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had, all her kindred also they brought out; and they set them without the camp of Israel.

JPS1917 Joshua 6:25

But Rahab the harlot, and her father's household, and all that she had, did Joshua save alive; and she dwelt in the midst of Israel, unto this day; because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

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JPS1917 Numbers 22:23

And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with 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.

JPS1917 Numbers 22:27

And the ass saw the angel of the LORD, and she lay down under Balaam; and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with his staff.

JPS1917 Numbers 22:28

And the LORD 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?'

JPS1917 Numbers 22:31

Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.

JPS1917 Numbers 22:32

And the angel of the LORD said unto him: 'Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, because thy way is contrary unto me;

JPS1917 Numbers 22:33

and the ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times; unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain thee, and saved her alive.'

JPS1917 Numbers 22:34

And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD: '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.'

JPS1917 1 Samuel 8:11

And he said: 'This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them unto him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots.

JPS1917 1 Samuel 9:16

'To-morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be prince over My people Israel, and he shall save My people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon My people, because their cry is come unto Me.'

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 17:19

And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 17:20

that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left; to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.

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JPS1917 1 Kings 21:10

and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them bear witness against him, saying: Thou didst curse God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he die.'

JPS1917 1 Kings 21:13

And the two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him; and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying: 'Naboth did curse God and the king.' Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.

JPS1917 2 Samuel 7:14

I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son; if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

JPS1917 2 Samuel 7:16

And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure for ever before thee; thy throne shall be established for ever.'

JPS1917 2 Samuel 12:7

And Nathan said to David: 'Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;

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JPS1917 2 Samuel 12:9

Wherefore hast thou despised the word of the LORD, to do that which is evil in My sight? Uriah the Hittite thou hast smitten with the sword, and his wife thou hast taken to be thy wife, and him thou hast slain with the sword of the children of Ammon.

JPS1917 1 Kings 12:4

'Thy father made our yoke grievous; now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.'

JPS1917 1 Kings 12:14

and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying: 'My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.'

JPS1917 Judges 4:4

Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

JPS1917 Judges 4:5

And she sat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

JPS1917 Judges 4:6

And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him: 'Hath not the LORD, the God of Israel, 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?

JPS1917 Judges 4:8

And Barak said unto her: 'If thou wilt go with me, then I will go; but if thou wilt not go with me, I will not go.'

JPS1917 Judges 4:9

And she said: 'I will surely go with thee; notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thy honour; for the LORD will give Sisera over into the hand of a woman.' And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

JPS1917 Judges 8:22

Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon: 'Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also; for thou hast saved us out of the hand of Midian.'

JPS1917 Judges 8:23

And Gideon said unto them: 'I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you; the LORD shall rule over you.'

JPS1917 Judges 8:24

And Gideon said unto them: 'I would make a request of you, that ye would give me every man the ear-rings of his spoil.'--For they had golden ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.

JPS1917 Judges 8:27

And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah; and all Israel went astray after it there; and it became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

JPS1917 1 Samuel 25:26

Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from bloodguiltiness, and from finding redress for thyself with thine own hand, now therefore let thine enemies, and them that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

JPS1917 1 Samuel 25:31

that this shall be no stumbling-block unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord hath found redress for himself. And when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.'

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JPS1917 1 Samuel 25:32

And David said to Abigail: 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me;

JPS1917 1 Samuel 25:33

and blessed be thy discretion, and blessed be thou, that hast kept me this day from bloodguiltiness, and from finding redress for myself with mine own hand.

JPS1917 1 Samuel 25:34

For in very deed, as the LORD, the God of Israel, liveth, who hath withholden me from hurting thee, except thou hadst made haste and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light so much as one male.'

JPS1917 1 Samuel 25:35

So David received of her hand that which she had brought him; and he said unto her: 'Go up in peace to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.'

JPS1917 1 Samuel 30:21

And David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to abide at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him; and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.

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JPS1917 1 Samuel 30:22

Then answered all the wicked men and base fellows, of those that went with David, and said: 'Because they went not with us, we will not give them aught of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.'

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JPS1917 1 Samuel 30:23

Then said David: 'Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given unto us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

JPS1917 1 Samuel 30:24

And who will hearken unto you in this matter? for as is the share of him that goeth down to the battle, so shall be the share of him that tarrieth by the baggage; they shall share alike.'

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JPS1917 1 Samuel 30:25

And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.

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JPS1917 1 Samuel 26:8

Then said Abishai to David: 'God hath delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day; now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.'

JPS1917 1 Samuel 26:9

And David said to Abishai: 'Destroy him not; for who can put forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?'

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JPS1917 1 Samuel 26:10

And David said: 'As the LORD liveth, nay, but the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle, and be swept away.

JPS1917 1 Samuel 26:11

The LORD forbid it me, that I should put forth my hand against the LORD'S anointed; but now take, I pray thee, the spear that is at his head, and the cruse of water and let us go.'

JPS1917 2 Samuel 15:2

And Absalom used to rise up early, and stand beside the way of the gate; and it was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said: 'Of what city art thou?' And he said: 'Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.'

JPS1917 2 Samuel 15:3

And Absalom said unto him: 'See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.'

JPS1917 2 Samuel 15:4

Absalom said moreover: 'Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!'

JPS1917 2 Samuel 15:5

And it was so, that when any man came nigh to prostrate himself before him, he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.

JPS1917 2 Samuel 15:6

And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment; so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

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JPS1917 2 Samuel 21:8

But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;

JPS1917 2 Samuel 21:9

and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before the LORD, and they fell all seven together; and they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.

JPS1917 2 Samuel 21:10

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven; and she suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

JPS1917 2 Samuel 21:11

And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

JPS1917 2 Samuel 21:13

and he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

JPS1917 2 Samuel 21:14

And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father; and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was entreated for the land.

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JPS1917 1 Kings 1:50

And Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

JPS1917 1 Kings 1:52

And Solomon said: 'If he shall show himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found in him, he shall die.'

JPS1917 1 Kings 1:53

So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and prostrated himself before king Solomon; and Solomon said unto him: 'Go to thy house.'

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JPS1917 1 Kings 2:28

And the tidings came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the Tent of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

JPS1917 1 Kings 2:31

And the king said unto him: 'Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.

JPS1917 1 Kings 2:34

Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

JPS1917 Proverbs 31:1

The words of king Lemuel; the burden wherewith his mother corrected him.

JPS1917 Proverbs 31:4

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine: nor for princes to say: 'Where is strong drink?'

JPS1917 Proverbs 31:5

Lest they drink, and forget that which is decreed, and pervert the justice due to any that is afflicted.

JPS1917 Proverbs 31:8

Open thy mouth for the dumb, in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

JPS1917 Proverbs 31:9

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

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JPS1917 1 Kings 8:27

But will God in very truth dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house that I have builded!

JPS1917 1 Kings 8:41

Moreover concerning the stranger that is not of Thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for Thy name's sake--

JPS1917 1 Kings 8:43

hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to Thee for; that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee, as doth Thy people Israel, and that they may know that Thy name is called upon this house which I have built.

JPS1917 Numbers 11:26

But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were recorded, but had not gone out unto the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.

JPS1917 Numbers 11:27

And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said: 'Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.'

JPS1917 Numbers 11:28

And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses from his youth up, answered and said: 'My lord Moses, shut them in.'

JPS1917 Numbers 11:29

And Moses said unto him: 'Art thou jealous for my sake? would that all the LORD'S people were prophets, that the LORD would put His spirit upon them!'

JPS1917 1 Kings 22:6

Then the king of Israel 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 the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king.'

JPS1917 1 Kings 22:13

And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spoke unto him, saying: 'Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth, let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak thou good.'

JPS1917 1 Kings 22:14

And Micaiah said: 'As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.'

JPS1917 1 Kings 22:17

And he said: 'I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd; and the LORD said: These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace.'

JPS1917 1 Kings 22:18

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat: 'Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?'

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JPS1917 1 Kings 22:23

Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets; and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.'

JPS1917 1 Kings 22:27

and say: Thus saith the king: Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with scant bread and with scant water, until I come in peace.'

JPS1917 2 Kings 5:10

And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying: 'Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come back to thee, and thou shalt be clean.'

JPS1917 2 Kings 5:11

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 the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

JPS1917 2 Kings 5:12

Are not Amanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean?' So he turned, and went away in a rage.

JPS1917 2 Kings 5:13

And his servants came near, and spoke unto him, and said: 'My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee: Wash, and be clean?'

JPS1917 2 Kings 5:14

Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh came back like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

JPS1917 2 Kings 5:17

And Naaman said: 'If not, yet I pray thee let there 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 the LORD.

JPS1917 2 Kings 5:18

In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant: when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I prostrate myself in the house of Rimmon, when I prostrate myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.'

JPS1917 2 Kings 5:19

And he said unto him: 'Go in peace.' So he departed from him some way.

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JPS1917 2 Kings 6:20

And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said: 'LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see.' And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.

JPS1917 2 Kings 6:21

And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them: 'My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?'

JPS1917 2 Kings 6:22

And he answered: 'Thou shalt not smite them; hast thou taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow those whom thou wouldest smite? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.'

JPS1917 2 Kings 6:23

And he prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the bands of Aram came no more into the land of Israel.

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JPS1917 2 Kings 4:16

And he said: 'At this season, when the time cometh round, thou shalt embrace a son.' And she said: 'Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thy handmaid.'

JPS1917 2 Kings 4:20

And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

JPS1917 2 Kings 4:27

And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said: 'Let her alone; for her soul is bitter within her; and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told Me.'

JPS1917 2 Kings 4:28

Then she said: 'Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say: Do not deceive me?'

JPS1917 2 Kings 4:30

And the mother of the child said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.' And he arose, and followed her.

JPS1917 1 Kings 17:9

'Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee.'

JPS1917 1 Kings 17:12

And she said: 'As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, only a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the 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.'

JPS1917 1 Kings 17:13

And Elijah said unto her: 'Fear not; go and do as thou hast said; but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it forth unto me, and afterward make for thee and for thy son.

JPS1917 1 Kings 17:14

For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: The jar of meal shall not be spent, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the land.'

JPS1917 1 Kings 17:15

And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.

JPS1917 1 Kings 17:16

The jar of meal was not spent, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by Elijah.

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JPS1917 Deuteronomy 13:2

If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams--and he give thee a sign or a wonder,

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 13:3

and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke unto thee--saying: 'Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them';

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 13:4

thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God putteth you to proof, to know whether ye do love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 13:5

After the LORD your God shall ye walk, and Him shall ye fear, and His commandments shall ye keep, and unto His voice shall ye hearken, and Him shall ye serve, and unto Him shall ye cleave.

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 13:6

And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken perversion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

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JPS1917 Isaiah 1:15

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide Mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.

JPS1917 Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

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JPS1917 Amos 5:24

But let justice well up as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

JPS1917 Jeremiah 6:14

They have healed also the hurt of My people lightly, saying: 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace.

JPS1917 Isaiah 10:20

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

JPS1917 Micah 2:12

I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will render them all as sheep in a fold; as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.

JPS1917 Psalms 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

JPS1917 Psalms 137:4

How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land?

JPS1917 Lamentations 1:3

Judah is gone into exile because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest; all her pursuers overtook her within the straits.

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JPS1917 Ezra 1:3

Whosoever there is among you of all His people--his God be with him--let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel, He is the God who is in Jerusalem.

JPS1917 Ezra 3:12

But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' houses, the old men that had seen the first house standing on its foundation, wept with a loud voice, when this house was before their eyes; and many shouted aloud for joy;

JPS1917 Nehemiah 2:17

Then said I unto them: 'Ye see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire; come and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.'

JPS1917 Ezekiel 36:26

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

JPS1917 Ezekiel 36:27

And I will put My spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep Mine ordinances, and do them.

JPS1917 Ezekiel 34:4

The weak have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force have ye ruled over them and with rigour.

JPS1917 Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; and the fat and the strong I will destroy, I will feed them in justice.

JPS1917 Jeremiah 18:7

At one instant I may speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;

JPS1917 Jeremiah 18:8

but if that nation turn from their evil, because of which I have spoken against it, I repent of the evil that I thought to do unto it.

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JPS1917 Leviticus 26:34

Then shall the land be paid her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and repay her sabbaths.

JPS1917 2 Chronicles 36:21

to fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had been paid her sabbaths; for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

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JPS1917 Haggai 2:3

Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? and how do ye see it now? is not such a one as nothing in your eyes?

JPS1917 Haggai 2:4

Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work; for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts.

JPS1917 Zechariah 4:10

For who hath despised the day of small things? even they shall see with joy the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, even these seven, which are the eyes of the LORD, that run to and fro through the whole earth.'

JPS1917 Jeremiah 29:4

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem unto Babylon:

JPS1917 Jeremiah 29:5

Build ye houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

JPS1917 Jeremiah 29:6

take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

JPS1917 Jeremiah 29:7

And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray unto the LORD for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

JPS1917 Jeremiah 29:10

For thus saith the LORD: After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will remember you, and perform My good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

JPS1917 Jeremiah 36:23

And it came to pass, when Jehudi had read three or four columns, that he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

JPS1917 Jeremiah 36:27

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying:

JPS1917 Jeremiah 36:28

'Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.

JPS1917 Jeremiah 36:32

Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides unto them many like words.

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JPS1917 Jeremiah 34:8

The word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

JPS1917 Jeremiah 34:9

that every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free; that none should make bondmen of them, even of a Jew his brother;

JPS1917 Jeremiah 34:10

and all the princes and all the people hearkened, that had entered into the covenant to let every one his man-servant, and every one his maid-servant, go free, and not to make bondmen of them any more; they hearkened, and let them go;

JPS1917 Jeremiah 34:11

but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids;

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JPS1917 Jeremiah 34:16

but ye turned and profaned My name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and ye brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

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JPS1917 Jeremiah 34:17

Therefore thus saith the LORD: Ye have not hearkened unto Me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbour; behold, I proclaim for you a liberty, saith the LORD, unto the sword, unto the pestilence, and unto the famine; and I will make you a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth.

JPS1917 Jeremiah 38:7

Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an officer, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the pit; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;

JPS1917 Jeremiah 38:8

Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying:

JPS1917 Jeremiah 38:9

'My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the pit; and he is like to die in the place where he is because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.'

JPS1917 Jeremiah 38:11

So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence worn clouts and worn rags, and let them down by cords into the pit to Jeremiah.

JPS1917 Jeremiah 38:12

And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah: 'Put now these worn clouts and rags under thine armholes under the cords.' And Jeremiah did so.

JPS1917 Jeremiah 38:13

So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the pit; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

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JPS1917 Jeremiah 24:2

One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

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JPS1917 Jeremiah 24:5

'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

JPS1917 Jeremiah 24:6

And I will set Mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

JPS1917 Jeremiah 24:7

And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God; for they shall return unto Me with their whole heart.

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JPS1917 Jeremiah 24:8

And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad; surely thus saith the LORD: So will I make Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt;

JPS1917 Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

JPS1917 Ezekiel 16:50

And they were haughty, and committed abomination before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.

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JPS1917 Isaiah 49:14

But Zion said: 'The LORD hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.'

JPS1917 Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.

JPS1917 Isaiah 49:16

Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands; thy walls are continually before Me.

JPS1917 Isaiah 52:13

Behold, My servant shall prosper, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.

JPS1917 Isaiah 53:3

He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of pains, and acquainted with disease, and as one from whom men hide their face: he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

JPS1917 Isaiah 53:11

Of the travail of his soul he shall see to the full, even My servant, who by his knowledge did justify the Righteous One to the many, and their iniquities he did bear.

JPS1917 Isaiah 2:4

And He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

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JPS1917 Micah 4:4

But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken.

JPS1917 Isaiah 65:17

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

JPS1917 Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, saith the LORD.

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JPS1917 Jonah 3:10

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, which He said He would do unto them; and He did it not.

JPS1917 Jonah 4:1

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

JPS1917 Jonah 4:11

and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?'

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JPS1917 Isaiah 19:23

In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians.

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JPS1917 Isaiah 19:24

In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;

JPS1917 Isaiah 19:25

for that the LORD of hosts hath blessed him, saying: 'Blessed be Egypt My people and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel Mine inheritance.'

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JPS1917 Isaiah 45:1

Thus saith the LORD to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him, and to loose the loins of kings; to open the doors before him, and that the gates may not be shut:

JPS1917 Isaiah 45:4

For the sake of Jacob My servant, and Israel Mine elect, I have called thee by thy name, I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known Me.

JPS1917 Isaiah 45:5

I am the LORD, and there is none else, beside Me there is no God; I have girded thee, though thou hast not known Me;

JPS1917 Isaiah 56:3

Neither let the alien, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying: 'The LORD will surely separate me from His people'; neither let the eunuch say: 'Behold, I am a dry tree.'

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JPS1917 Isaiah 56:4

For thus saith the LORD concerning the eunuchs that keep My sabbaths, and choose the things that please Me, and hold fast by My covenant:

JPS1917 Isaiah 56:5

Even unto them will I give in My house and within My walls a monument and a memorial better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting memorial, that shall not be cut off.

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JPS1917 Isaiah 56:6

Also the aliens, that join themselves to the LORD, to minister unto Him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and holdeth fast by My covenant:

JPS1917 Isaiah 56:7

Even them will I bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer; their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be acceptable upon Mine altar; for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.

JPS1917 Ezekiel 47:21

So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.

JPS1917 Ezekiel 47:22

And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you and to the strangers that sojourn among you, who shall beget children among you; and they shall be unto you as the home-born among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

JPS1917 Ezekiel 47:23

And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.

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JPS1917 Psalms 148:3

Praise ye Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all ye stars of light.

JPS1917 Psalms 148:10

Beasts and all cattle, creeping things and winged fowl;

JPS1917 Song of Songs 2:16

My beloved is mine, and I am his, that feedeth among the lilies.

JPS1917 Song of Songs 8:7

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it; if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, he would utterly be contemned.

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JPS1917 Psalms 42:5

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I passed on with the throng, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.

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JPS1917 Psalms 42:6

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him for the salvation of His countenance.

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JPS1917 Psalms 42:7

O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore do I remember Thee from the land of Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

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JPS1917 Psalms 42:12

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him, the salvation of my countenance, and my God.

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JPS1917 Psalms 73:3

For I was envious at the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

JPS1917 Psalms 73:16

And when I pondered how I might know this, it was wearisome in mine eyes;

JPS1917 Psalms 73:17

Until I entered into the sanctuary of God, and considered their end.

JPS1917 Psalms 73:21

For my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins.

JPS1917 Psalms 73:25

Whom have I in heaven but Thee? And beside Thee I desire none upon earth.

JPS1917 Psalms 73:26

My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.

JPS1917 Psalms 77:7

In the night I will call to remembrance my song; I will commune with mine own heart; and my spirit maketh diligent search:

JPS1917 Psalms 77:8

'Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will He be favourable no more?

JPS1917 Psalms 77:9

Is His mercy clean gone for ever? Is His promise come to an end for evermore?

JPS1917 Psalms 77:10

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath He in anger shut up his compassions?' Selah

JPS1917 Psalms 77:12

I will make mention of the deeds of the LORD; yea, I will remember Thy wonders of old.

JPS1917 Song of Songs 2:7

'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor stir up love, until it please.'

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JPS1917 Song of Songs 3:5

'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor stir up love, until it please.'

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JPS1917 Song of Songs 8:4

'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem: Why should ye awaken, or stir up love, until it please?'

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JPS1917 Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and discipline.

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JPS1917 Job 28:28

And unto man He said: 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.'

JPS1917 Proverbs 26:4

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

JPS1917 Proverbs 26:5

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

JPS1917 Job 2:3

And the LORD said unto Satan: 'Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a whole-hearted and an upright man, one that feareth God, and shunneth evil? and he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou didst move Me against him, to destroy him without cause.'

JPS1917 Job 21:7

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

JPS1917 Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth: that there are righteous men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous--I said that this also is vanity.

JPS1917 Proverbs 15:1

A soft answer turneth away wrath; but a grievous word stirreth up anger.

JPS1917 Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that indulge it shall eat the fruit thereof.

JPS1917 Ecclesiastes 9:11

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

JPS1917 Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

JPS1917 Job 2:11

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him and to comfort him.

JPS1917 Job 2:12

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and threw dust upon their heads toward heaven.

JPS1917 Job 2:13

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word unto him; for they saw that his grief was very great.

JPS1917 Job 13:7

Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him?

JPS1917 Job 13:8

Will ye show Him favour? Will ye contend for God?

JPS1917 Job 13:9

Would it be good that He should search you out? Or as one mocketh a man, will ye mock Him?

JPS1917 Job 13:10

He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly show favour.

JPS1917 Job 42:7

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: 'My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of Me the thing that is right, as My servant Job hath.

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JPS1917 Job 28:9

He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He overturneth the mountains by the roots.

JPS1917 Job 28:12

But wisdom, where shall it be found? And where is the place of understanding?

JPS1917 Job 28:13

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

JPS1917 Job 28:15

It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

JPS1917 Job 28:23

God understandeth the way thereof, and He knoweth the place thereof.

JPS1917 Job 28:28

And unto man He said: 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.'

JPS1917 Job 31:13

If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me--

JPS1917 Job 31:14

What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when He remembereth, what shall I answer Him?

JPS1917 Job 31:15

Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb?

JPS1917 Proverbs 31:16

She considereth a field, and buyeth it; with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

JPS1917 Proverbs 31:18

She perceiveth that her merchandise is good; her lamp goeth not out by night.

JPS1917 Proverbs 31:20

She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

JPS1917 Proverbs 31:24

She maketh linen garments and selleth them; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

JPS1917 Proverbs 31:26

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and the law of kindness is on her tongue.

JPS1917 Proverbs 31:27

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

JPS1917 Proverbs 31:31

Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her works praise her in the gates.

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JPS1917 Proverbs 25:21

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink;

JPS1917 Proverbs 25:22

For thou wilt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD will reward thee.

JPS1917 Proverbs 18:17

He that pleadeth his cause first seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him out.

JPS1917 Ecclesiastes 4:1

But I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun; and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter.

JPS1917 Ecclesiastes 4:2

Wherefore I praised the dead that are already dead more than the living that are yet alive;

JPS1917 Ecclesiastes 4:3

but better than they both is he that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

JPS1917 Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy pleasure for his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

JPS1917 Ecclesiastes 3:9

What profit hath he that worketh in that he laboureth?

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JPS1917 Ecclesiastes 3:12

I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to get pleasure so long as they live.

JPS1917 Ecclesiastes 3:13

But also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy pleasure for all his labour, is the gift of God.

JPS1917 Ecclesiastes 4:9

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

JPS1917 Ecclesiastes 4:10

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up.

JPS1917 Ecclesiastes 4:11

Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone?

JPS1917 Ecclesiastes 4:12

And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

JPS1917 Ruth 1:16

And Ruth said: 'Entreat me not to leave thee, and 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;

JPS1917 Ruth 2:11

And Boaz answered and said unto her: 'It hath fully been told me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the death of thy husband; and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people that thou knewest not heretofore.

JPS1917 Nehemiah 9:33

Howbeit Thou art just in all that is come upon us; for Thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;

JPS1917 Nehemiah 9:36

Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that Thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it.

JPS1917 Ezra 10:3

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of the LORD, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

JPS1917 Ezra 10:44

All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

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JPS1917 Nehemiah 8:8

And they read in the book, in the Law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

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JPS1917 Nehemiah 8:12

And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

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JPS1917 Exodus 34:7

keeping mercy unto the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and unto the fourth generation.'

JPS1917 Deuteronomy 24:16

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

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JPS1917 Ezekiel 18:20

The soul that sinneth, it shall die; the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father with him, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son with him; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

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JPS1917 2 Samuel 24:1

And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He moved David against them, saying: 'Go, number Israel and Judah.'

JPS1917 2 Samuel 24:10

And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD: 'I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.'

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JPS1917 1 Chronicles 21:1

And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

JPS1917 1 Chronicles 21:7

And God was displeased with this thing; therefore He smote Israel.

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JPS1917 1 Chronicles 21:8

And David said unto God: 'I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing; but now, put away, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.'

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JPS1917 2 Chronicles 33:10

And the LORD spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they gave no heed.

JPS1917 2 Chronicles 33:11

Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

JPS1917 2 Chronicles 33:12

And when he was in distress, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

JPS1917 2 Chronicles 33:13

And he prayed unto Him; and He was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD He was God.

JPS1917 2 Chronicles 33:15

And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

JPS1917 2 Chronicles 33:16

And he built up the altar of the LORD, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace-offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.

JPS1917 2 Chronicles 33:17

Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, but only unto the LORD their God.

JPS1917 Ruth 4:14

And the women said unto Naomi: 'Blessed be the LORD, who hath not left thee this day without a near kinsman, and let his name be famous in Israel.

JPS1917 Ruth 4:15

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of life, and a nourisher of thine old age; for thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.'

JPS1917 Ruth 4:16

And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

JPS1917 Ruth 4:17

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.

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JPS1917 Ezra 10:12

Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice: 'As thou hast said, so it is for us to do.

JPS1917 Ezra 10:13

But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two; for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

JPS1917 Ezra 10:14

Let now our princes of all the congregation stand, and let all them that are in our cities that have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, as touching this matter.'

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JPS1917 Ezra 10:16

And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers' houses, after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were separated; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

JPS1917 Ezra 10:17

And they were finished with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

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JPS1917 Nehemiah 5:5

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already; neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.'

JPS1917 Nehemiah 5:7

Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said unto them: 'Ye lend upon pledge, every one to his brother.' And I held a great assembly against them.

JPS1917 Nehemiah 5:8

And I said unto them: 'We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that sold themselves unto the heathen; and would ye nevertheless sell your brethren, and should they sell themselves unto us?' Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

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JPS1917 Nehemiah 5:10

And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, have lent them money and corn. I pray you, let us leave off this exaction.

JPS1917 Nehemiah 5:11

Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundred pieces of silver, and the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.'

JPS1917 Nehemiah 5:12

Then said they: 'We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as thou sayest.' Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.

JPS1917 Nehemiah 5:13

Also I shook out my lap, and said: 'So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied.' And all the congregation said: 'Amen', and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.

JPS1917 Nehemiah 5:14

Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.

JPS1917 Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors that were before me laid burdens upon the people, and took of them for bread and wine above forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants lorded over the people; but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

JPS1917 Nehemiah 5:17

Moreover there were at my table of the Jews and the rulers a hundred and fifty men, beside those that came unto us from among the nations that were round about us.

JPS1917 Nehemiah 5:18

Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep, also fowls were prepared for me; and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine; yet for all this I demanded not the bread of the governor, because the service was heavy upon this people.

JPS1917 Nehemiah 5:19

Remember unto me, O my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

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JPS1917 Daniel 3:17

If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, He will deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and out of thy hand, O king.

JPS1917 Daniel 3:18

But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.'

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JPS1917 Daniel 7:17

'These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth.

JPS1917 Daniel 7:26

But the judgment shall sit, and his dominions shall be taken away, to be consumed and to be destroy unto the end.

JPS1917 Daniel 12:2

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence.

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JPS1917 Daniel 12:3

And they that are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn the many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

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JPS1917 Esther 4:14

For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then will relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but thou and thy father's house will perish; and who knoweth whether thou art not come to royal estate for such a time as this?'

JPS1917 Esther 4:16

'Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day; I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.'

JPS1917 Esther 8:11

that the king had granted the Jews that were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, and to slay, and to cause to perish, all the forces of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,

JPS1917 Esther 9:16

And the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of them that hated them seventy and five thousand--but on the spoil they laid not their hand--

JPS1917 Habakkuk 3:17

For though the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls;

JPS1917 Habakkuk 3:18

Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will exult in the God of my salvation.

JPS1917 Esther 6:1

On that night could not the king sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

JPS1917 Esther 6:2

And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, of those that kept the door, who had sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.

JPS1917 Esther 6:3

And the king said: 'What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?' Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him: 'There is nothing done for him.'

JPS1917 Daniel 3:17

If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, He will deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and out of thy hand, O king.

JPS1917 Daniel 3:18

But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.'

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