Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.

Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.

Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.

And the sons of Ethan; Azariah.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:

Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.

And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.

And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.

He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.

Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.

But the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.

And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:

The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:

Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth–el; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth–el: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:

Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.

To them which were in Beth–el, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,

For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.

Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.

And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,

Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.

And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.

And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left! set it before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.

Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.

O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.

But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.

Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king’s household.

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.

And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered, Here am I.

These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.

Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.

Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.

And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:

Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?

And the sons of Ethan; Azariah.

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.

My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.

But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:

Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;

Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,

Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.

And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;

So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.

And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother’s house these things.

And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.

And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house.

Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

And the sons of Ethan; Azariah.

The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Tamah,

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

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?

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:

And it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying,

And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.

And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep: for she kept them.

Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

And the Lord spake unto Aaron, saying,

And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;

And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthah–el:

And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.

And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods;

A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.

Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.

Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:

And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the Lord which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.

Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjath–jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:

And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;

But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

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?

To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.

So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal’s wife the Carmelite.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Beth–shemesh, and passed on to Timnah:

And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king.

And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:

Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;

And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,

And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,

But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

Which the Lord commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai.

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.

Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.

Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.

Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal–hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.

And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.

And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the Lord your God.

And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.

And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjath–jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:

And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The Lord be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.

But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:

And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim–hodshi; and they came to Dan–jaan, and about to Zidon,

And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house?

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

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

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.

But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

And from Heshbon unto Ramath–mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;

And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.

When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.

Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.

And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?

Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.

And 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.

And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac:

And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.