13th April

¹ Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;² The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying,³ Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,⁴ Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:⁵ Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.⁶ And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?⁷ And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?⁸ Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.⁹ For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.¹⁰ And the LORD's anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,¹¹ Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:¹² Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.¹³ 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.¹⁴ And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.¹⁵ For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.¹⁶ And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:¹⁷ But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.¹⁸ We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.¹⁹ For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.²⁰ And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,²¹ And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,²² And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.²³ But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.²⁴ Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.²⁵ And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.²⁶ Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:²⁷ But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith.²⁸ So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:²⁹ And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:³⁰ But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.³¹ And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.³² We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.³³ And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.³⁴ And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,³⁵ And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,³⁶ And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.³⁷ And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,³⁸ And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.³⁹ And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.⁴⁰ And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.⁴¹ And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.⁴² And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

¹ When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:² And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.³ Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.⁴ Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.⁵ Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.⁶ Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:⁷ For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.⁸ The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.⁹ Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.¹⁰ Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:¹¹ For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.¹² Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.¹³ Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.¹⁴ Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.¹⁵ My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.¹⁶ Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.¹⁷ Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.¹⁸ For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.¹⁹ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.²⁰ Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.²² Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.²³ Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.²⁴ The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.²⁵ Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.²⁶ My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.²⁷ For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.²⁸ She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.²⁹ Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?³⁰ They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.³¹ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.³² At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.³³ Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.³⁴ Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.³⁵ They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

¹ After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.² Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.³ In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.⁴ For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.⁵ And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.⁶ When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?⁷ The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.⁸ Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.⁹ And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.¹⁰ The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.¹¹ He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.¹² Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?¹³ And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.¹⁴ Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.¹⁵ The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.¹⁶ And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.¹⁸ Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.¹⁹ Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.²⁰ For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.²¹ For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.²² For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:²³ That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.²⁴ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.²⁵ Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.²⁶ For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;²⁷ And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.²⁸ Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,²⁹ And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.³⁰ I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.³¹ If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.³² There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.³³ Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.³⁴ But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.³⁵ He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.³⁶ But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.³⁷ And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.³⁸ And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.³⁹ Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.⁴⁰ And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.⁴¹ I receive not honour from men.⁴² But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.⁴³ I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.⁴⁴ How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?⁴⁵ Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.⁴⁶ For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.⁴⁷ But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?