And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

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

And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king’s, saying,

And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession in Bashan: but unto the other half thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them,

He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.

And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.

And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:

Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.

These are they whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

Then the Lord said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

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 bracelets, and staff.

Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.

Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the Lord to war,

And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.

And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.

But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

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:

And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;

He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon’s house, and dress him meat.

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

And thou shalt kill the bullock before the Lord, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.

Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.

But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand:

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the Lord hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them.

That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:

And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.

And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king’s friend:

And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed–edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.

Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.

In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.

Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the Lord hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?

And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

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:

And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master’s servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.

And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the Lord had given him in commandment unto them;

And Abraham said, I will swear.

And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses:

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.

Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the Lord hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?

And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.

Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.

And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.

Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.

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

This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.

The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.

And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

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:

Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?

And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.

Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.

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

And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.

As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.

Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.

And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.

Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the Lord do sanctify him.

Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the Lord, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;

He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?

He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.

And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?

Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.

It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place.

Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.

Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.

And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the Lord commanded Moses.

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.

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

And if so be that the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.

And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.

And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying,

Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.

And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.

And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.

And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.

The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

And it was so, when the king went into the house of the Lord, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.

Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:

And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.

The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.

And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.

He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.

And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;

And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.

(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)

In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.

Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.

And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins.

The children of Merari by their families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.

But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.

From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation:

And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.

And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.

Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.

And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.

Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,

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

And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.

And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king’s friend:

And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed–edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.

And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,

And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.

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

And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.

And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.

And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.

And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

These are the commandments and the judgments, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!

Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.

And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.

And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:

And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.