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15I gave Gilead to Machir. 16To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; 17also the Arabah, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward. 18I commanded you at that time, saying, "Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it. All of you men of valor will pass over armed before your brothers, the children of Israel. 19But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have a lot of livestock), will live in your cities that I've given you, 20until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then you'll each return to your own possession, which I have given you."
21I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, "Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings. Yahweh will do the same to all the kingdoms into which you are [about] to enter. 22Don't fear them; for Yahweh your God himself fights for you."
23I begged Yahweh at that time, saying, 24"LordOfMine Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours? 25Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine mountain, and Lebanon."
26But Yahweh was angry with me because of you, and didn't listen to me. Yahweh said to me, "That's enough. Don't speak to me again about this matter. 27Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift your eyes to the west, north, south, and east, and see [it] with your [own] eyes; but you will not be going over this Jordan. 28Commission Joshua, encourage him, and strengthen him. He will go over before this people, and he'll cause them to inherit the land which you'll see." 29So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.
24 verses
1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 2Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says LordOfMine Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep? 3You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep. 4You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed what was sick, neither have you bound up what was broken, neither have you brought back what was driven away, neither have you sought what was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them. 5They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered. 6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.
7Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh: 8As I live, says LordOfMine Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep; 9therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh: 10Thus says LordOfMine Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; nor will the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.
11For thus says LordOfMine Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. 12As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. 13I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel. 15I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says LordOfMine Yahweh. 16I will seek what was lost, and will bring back what was driven away, and will bind up what was broken, and will strengthen what was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
17As for you, O my flock, thus says LordOfMine Yahweh: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats. 18Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet? 19As for my sheep, they eat what you have trodden with your feet, and they drink what you have fouled with your feet.
20Therefore thus says LordOfMine Yahweh to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad; 22therefore I will save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. 23I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. 24I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
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1God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also made the worlds. 3Who being the radiance of the glory [of God], the very image of his substance, upholding all things by the word of his power. Having done cleansing of shortcomings he sat on the right of the Majesty on high, 4having become as much better than the angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. 5For to which of the angels did he say at any time, "You are my Son. Today have I become your father?" and again, "I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a son?"
6Again, when he brings the firstborn into the world he says, "Let all the angels of God worship him." 7Of the angels he says, "He makes his angels winds, and his servants a flame of fire."
8But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom. 9You have selflessly-loved righteousness and hated iniquity; so God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows."
10And, "You, ForeverOne, at the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth; the heavens are the work of your hands. 11They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does. 12You will roll them up like a mantle and they will be changed. But you are the same; your years won't fail."
13But which of the angels has he told at any time, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?"
14Aren't they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
1So we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. 2For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty, 3how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation - which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard; 4God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various acts of power and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?
5For he didn't subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels. 6But one has somewhere testified, saying, "What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him? 7You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor. [*"and set him over the actions of your hands"] 8You have put all things in subjection under his feet." For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don't see all things subjected to him, yet.
