36:1And the heads of the fathers' houses of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel: 36:2and they said, Jehovah commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by Jehovah to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters. 36:3And 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. 36:4And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
36:5And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of Jehovah, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaketh right. 36:6This is the thing which Jehovah doth command 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. 36:7So 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. 36:8And 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. 36:9So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave every one to his own inheritance.
36:10Even as Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad: 36:11for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons. 36:12They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
36:13These are the commandments and the ordinances which Jehovah commanded by Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
For the Chief Musician, set to *Shoshanim Eduth.. A Psalm of Asaph.
80:1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;
Thou that *sittest above the cherubim, shine forth.
80:2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might,
And come to save us.
And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
80:4O Jehovah God of hosts,
How long *wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
80:5Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears,
And given them tears to drink in large measure.
80:6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors;
And our enemies laugh among themselves.
80:7Turn us again, O God of hosts;
And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
80:8Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt:
Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.
80:9Thou preparedst room before it,
And it took deep root, and filled the land.
80:10The mountains were covered with the shadow of it,
And *the boughs thereof were like *cedars of God.
80:11It sent out its branches unto the sea,
And its shoots unto the River.
80:12Why hast thou broken down its walls,
So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?
80:13The boar out of the wood doth ravage it,
And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.
80:14Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts:
Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,
80:15And *the stock which thy right hand planted,
And the *branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
80:16It is burned with fire, it is cut down:
They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
80:17Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand,
Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
80:18So shall we not go back from thee:
Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.
80:19*Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts;
Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
28:1Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine! 28:2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand. 28:3The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot: 28:4and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. 28:5In that day will Jehovah of hosts become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people; 28:6and a spirit of justice to him that sitteth in judgment, and strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate. 28:7And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 28:8For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. 28:9Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? 28:10For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little. 28:11Nay, but by men of strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people; 28:12to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 28:13Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 28:14Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem: 28:15Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 28:16therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner -stone of sure foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste. 28:17And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place. 28:18And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. 28:19As often as it passeth though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nought but terror to understand the message. 28:20For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 28:21For Jehovah will rise up as in mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act. 28:22Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth. 28:23Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. 28:24Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground? 28:25When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border thereof? 28:26For his God doth instruct him aright, and doth teach him. 28:27For the fitches are not threshed with a sharp threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. 28:28Bread grain is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he doth not grind it. 28:29This also cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
1:1The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all they that know the truth; 1:2for the truth's sake which abideth in us, and it shall be with us for ever: 1:3Grace, mercy, peace shall be with us, from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 1:4I rejoice greatly that I have found certain of thy children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father. 1:5And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. 1:6And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it. 1:7For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, even they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. 1:8Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward. 1:9Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son. 1:10If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into your house, and give him no greeting: 1:11for he that giveth him greeting partaketh in his evil works. 1:12Having many things to write unto you, I would not write them with paper and ink: but I hope to come unto you, and to speak face to face, that your joy may be made full. 1:13The children of thine elect sister salute thee.