11 verses
1After the plague, Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, 2"Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and older, by their fathers' houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel." 3Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 4"[Take a census], from twenty years old and older, as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel." These are those who came from the land of Egypt. 5Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: [of] Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites; 6From Hezron [came] the family of the Hezronites; from Carmi [came] the family of the Carmites. 7These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were counted of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty. 8The son of Pallu was Eliab. 9The sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram who were called by the congregation, who rebelled against Moses and against Aaron in the group of Korah when they rebelled against Yahweh; 10and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that group died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign. 11Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn't die.
17 verses
1"You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You shall take it as a barber's razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair. 2A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. 3You shall take a small number of these and bind them in the folds of your robe. 4Take some and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From it a fire will proceed into all the house of Israel."
5LordOfMine Yahweh says, "This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are around her. 6She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them."
7Therefore LordOfMine Yahweh says, "Because you are turbulent more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you;" 8therefore LordOfMine Yahweh says, "Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations. 9I will do in you what I have not done, and to which I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations. 10Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you I will scatter to all the winds. 11Therefore, as I live," says LordOfMine Yahweh, "surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish [you]; nor will my eye spare, and I also will have no pity. 12A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
13"Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.
14"Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by. 15So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;) 16when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread; 17and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword on you: I, Yahweh, have spoken it."
27 verses
A Song of Ascents.
1Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction, 2how he swore to Yahweh, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob: 3"Surely I will not enter the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed; 4I will not give sleep to my eyes, or dozing to my eyelids; 5until I find out a place for Yahweh, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob." 6Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar: 7"We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool. 8Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place; you, and the ark of your strength. 9Let your priest be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!" 10For your servant David's sake, don't turn away the face of your anointed. 11Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: "I will set the fruit of your body on your throne. 12If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forevermore." 13For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation. 14"This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it. 15I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread. 16Her priests I will also clothe with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy. 17There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed. 18I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will be resplendent."
A Song of Ascents. By David.
1See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! 2It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron's beard; that came down on the edge of his robes; 3like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion: for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forevermore.
A Song of Ascents.
1Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh's house! 2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh! 3May Yahweh bless you from Zion; even he who made heaven and earth.
21 verses
1For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of AnointedOne Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles, 2if indeed you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you, 3how by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words. 4By which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of AnointedOne, 5which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy ambassadors and prophets in the Spirit. 6The Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in AnointedOne Jesus through the Good News, 7of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power. 8To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of AnointedOne, 9and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus AnointedOne, 10to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places, 11according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in AnointedOne Jesus our Lord; 12in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him. 13Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
14For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus AnointedOne, 15from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person, 17that AnointedOne may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in selfless-love, 18may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth, 19and to know AnointedOne's selfless-love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
20Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21to him be the glory in the assembly and in AnointedOne Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Absolutely.
