They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.

Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:

That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house.

Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord.

And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed.

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord’s people to transgress.

If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Beth–lehem–judah, and was there four whole months.

Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

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 again.

Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the Lord liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the Lord’s anointed. And now see where the king’s spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.

Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.

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

Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.

And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.

And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

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 also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;

Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:

Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.

But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

For because ye did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

O Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

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

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.

And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.

Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.

And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.

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;

So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.

Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.

And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord.

And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed.

And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.

Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord.

Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.

And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.

Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord.

One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the Lord; and he slew him.

Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.

If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the Lord, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the Lord done this thing unto thee this day.

The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.

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

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.

And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

And though they say, The Lord liveth; surely they swear falsely.

And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Beth–el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.

And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

They joined themselves also unto Baal–peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.

And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:

And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.

And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

For thy name’s sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.

As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.

And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.

And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house.

And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.

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:

Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: