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AB church Renens-Lausanne : Listen to the Basic Ensligh Bible in 1 year. 1 episode per day. An excellent way to learn English! Texts available at=> https://ab-renens.ch/online-bible-basic-english-version/?book=1&chapter=1 By reading 1-2 chapters from both the old and new testaments of the Basic English Bible you can listen to the bible in 1 year in only 15 minutes per day an excellent way to learn English since the English is simplified in this version.
317 : Basic English : Ezekiel 11,12; Titus 3 1. And the wind, lifting me up, took me to the east doorway of the Lord's house, looking to the east: and at the door I saw twenty-five men; and among them I saw Jaazaniah, the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah, rulers of the people.2. Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who are designing evil, who are teaching evil ways in this town:3. Who say, This is not the time for building houses: this town is the cooking-pot and we are the flesh.4. For this cause be a prophet against them, be a prophet, O son of man.5. And the spirit of the Lord came on me, and he said to me, Say, These are the words of the Lord: This is what you have said, O children of Israel; what comes into your mind is clear to me. ; AB church Lausanne
316 : Basic English : Ezekiel 8,9,10; Titus 2 1. Now in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in my house and the responsible men of Judah were seated before me, the hand of the Lord came on me there.2. And looking, I saw a form like fire; from the middle of his body and down there was fire: and up from the middle of his body a sort of shining, like electrum.3. And he put out the form of a hand and took me by the hair of my head; and the wind, lifting me up between the earth and the heaven, took me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the way into the inner door facing to the north; where was the seat of the image of envy.4. And I saw the glory of the Lord there, as in the vision which I saw in the valley.5. Then he said to me, Son of man, now let your eyes be lifted up in the direction of the north; and on looking in the direction of the north, to the north of the doorway of the altar, I saw this image of envy by the way in. ; AB church Lausanne
315 : Basic English : Ezekiel 5,6,7; Titus 1 1. And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, using it like a haircutter's blade, and making it go over your head and the hair of your chin: and take scales for separating the hair by weight.2. You are to have a third part burned with fire inside the town, when the days of the attack are ended; and a third part you are to take and give blows with the sword round about it; and give a third part for the wind to take away, and let loose a sword after them.3. And take from them a small number of hairs, folding them in your skirts.4. And again take some of these and put them in the fire, burning them up in the fire; and say to all the children of Israel,5. This is what the Lord has said: This is Jerusalem: I have put her among the nations, and countries are round her on every side; ; AB church Lausanne
314 : Basic English : Ezekiel 3,4; 2 Timothy 4 1. And he said to me, Son of man, take this roll for your food, and go and say my words to the children of Israel.2. And, on my opening my mouth, he made me take the roll as food.3. And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a meal of it and let your inside be full of this roll which I am giving you. Then I took it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.4. And he said to me, Son of man, go now to the children of Israel, and say my words to them.5. For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel; ; AB church Lausanne
313 : Basic English : Ezekiel 1,2; 2 Timothy 3 1. Now it came about in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, while I was by the river Chebar among those who had been made prisoners, that the heavens were made open and I saw visions of God.2. On the fifth day of the month, in the fifth year after King Jehoiachin had been made a prisoner,3. The word of the Lord came to me, Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldaeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was on me there.4. And, looking, I saw a storm-wind coming out of the north, a great cloud with flames of fire coming after one another, and a bright light shining round about it and in the heart of it was something coloured like electrum.5. And in the heart of it were the forms of four living beings. And this was what they were like; they had the form of a man. ; AB church Lausanne
312 : Basic English : Lamentations 4,5; 2 Timothy 2 1. How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.2. The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!3. Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.4. The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.5. Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust. ; AB church Lausanne
311 : Basic English : Lamentations 2,3; 2 Timothy 1 1. How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.2. The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.3. In his burning wrath every horn of Israel has been cut off; his right hand has been turned back before the attacker: he has put a fire in Jacob, causing destruction round about.4. His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.5. The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah. ; AB church Lausanne
310 : Basic English : Jeremiah 52; Lamentations 1; 1 Timothy 6 1. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was king for eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.2. And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.3. And because of the wrath of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.4. And in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round it.5. So the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. ; AB church Lausanne
309 : Basic English : Jeremiah 51; 1 Timothy 5 1. The Lord has said: See, I will make a wind of destruction come up against Babylon and against those who are living in Chaldaea;2. And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble they will put up their tents against her on every side.3. Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse.4. And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.5. For Israel has not been given up, or Judah, by his God, by the Lord of armies; for their land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel. ; AB church Lausanne
308 : Basic English : Jeremiah 49,50; 1 Timothy 4 1. About the children of Ammon. These are the words of the Lord: Has Israel no sons? has he no one to take the heritage? why then has Milcom taken Gad for himself, putting his people in its towns?2. Because of this, see, the days are coming when I will have a cry of war sounded against Rabbah, the town of the children of Ammon; it will become a waste of broken walls, and her daughter-towns will be burned with fire: then Israel will take the heritage of those who took his heritage, says the Lord.3. Make sounds of grief, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted; give loud cries, O daughters of Rabbah, and put haircloth round you: give yourselves to weeping, running here and there and wounding yourselves; for Milcom will be taken prisoner together with his rulers and his priests.4. Why are you lifted up in pride on account of your valleys, your flowing valley, O daughter ever turning away? who puts her faith in her wealth, saying, Who will come against me?5. See, I will send fear on you, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, from those who are round you on every side; you will be forced out, every man straight before him, and there will be no one to get together the wanderers. ; AB church Lausanne
307 : Basic English : Jeremiah 48; 1 Timothy 3 1. Of Moab. The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Sorrow on Nebo, for it has been made waste; Kiriathaim has been put to shame and is taken: the strong place is put to shame and broken down.2. The praise of Moab has come to an end; as for Heshbon, evil has been designed against her; come, let us put an end to her as a nation. But your mouth will be shut, O Madmen; the sword will go after you.3. There is the sound of crying from Horonaim, wasting and great destruction;4. Moab is broken; her cry has gone out to Zoar.5. For by the slope of Luhith they will go up, weeping all the way; for on the way down to Horonaim the cry of destruction has come to their ears. ; AB church Lausanne
306 : Basic English : Jeremiah 45,46,47; 1 Timothy 2 1. The words which Jeremiah the prophet said to Baruch, the son of Neriah, when he put these words down in a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; he said,2. This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said of you, O Baruch:3. You said, Sorrow is mine! for the Lord has given me sorrow in addition to my pain; I am tired with the sound of my sorrow, and I get no rest.4. This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;5. And as for you, are you looking for great things for yourself? Have no desire for them: for truly I will send evil on all flesh, says the Lord: but your life I will keep safe from attack wherever you go. ; AB church Lausanne
305 : Basic English : Jeremiah 42,43,44; 1 Timothy 1 1. Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah, the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, came near,2. And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:3. That the Lord your God may make clear to us the way in which we are to go and what we are to do.4. Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have given ear to you; see, I will make prayer to the Lord your God, as you have said; and it will be that, whatever the Lord may say in answer to you, I will give you word of it, keeping nothing back.5. Then they said to Jeremiah, May the Lord be a true witness against us in good faith, if we do not do everything which the Lord your God sends you to say to us. ; AB church Lausanne
304 : Basic English : Jeremiah 39,40,41; 2 Thessalonians 3 1. And it came about, that when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, with all his army, came against Jerusalem, shutting it in on every side;2. In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the town was broken into:)3. All the captains of the king of Babylon came in and took their places in the middle doorway of the town, Nergal-shar-ezer, ruler of Sin-magir, the Rabmag, and Nebushazban, the Rab-saris, and all the captains of the king of Babylon.4. And when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw it, they went in flight from the town by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the doorway between the two walls: and they went out by the Arabah.5. But the Chaldaean army went after them and overtook Zedekiah in the lowlands of Jericho: and they made him a prisoner and took him up to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, to be judged by him. ; AB church Lausanne
303 : Basic English : Jeremiah 37,38; 2 Thessalonians 2 1. And Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, became king in place of Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah.2. But he and his servants and the people of the land did not give ear to the words of the Lord which he said by Jeremiah the prophet.3. And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Make prayer now to the Lord our God for us.4. (Now Jeremiah was going about among the people, for they had not put him in prison.5. And Pharaoh's army had come out from Egypt: and the Chaldaeans, who were attacking Jerusalem, hearing news of them, went away from Jerusalem.) ; AB church Lausanne
302 : Basic English : Jeremiah 35,36; 2 Thessalonians 1 1. The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,2. Go into the house of the Rechabites, and have talk with them, and take them into the house of the Lord, into one of the rooms, and give them wine.3. Then I took Jaazaniah, the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons and all the Rechabites;4. And I took them into the house of the Lord, into the room of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the rulers' room, which was over the room of Maaseiah, the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door;5. And I put before the sons of the Rechabites basins full of wine and cups, and I said to them, Take some wine. ; AB church Lausanne
301 : Basic English : Jeremiah 33,34; 1 Thessalonians 5 1. Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, saying,2. These are the words of the Lord, who is doing it, the Lord who is forming it, to make it certain; the Lord is his name;3. Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.4. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and ...;5. ... and to make them full of the dead bodies of men whom I have put to death in my wrath and in my passion, and because of whose evil-doing I have kept my face covered from this town. ; AB church Lausanne
300 : Basic English : Jeremiah 32; 1 Thessalonians 4 1. The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.2. Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was round Jerusalem, shutting it in: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, in the house of the king of Judah.3. For Zedekiah, king of Judah, had had him shut up, saying, Why have you, as a prophet, been saying, The Lord has said, See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;4. And Zedekiah, king of Judah, will not get away from the hands of the Chaldaeans, but will certainly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and will have talk with him, mouth to mouth, and see him, eye to eye.5. And he will take Zedekiah away to Babylon, where he will be till I have pity on him, says the Lord: though you are fighting with the Chaldaeans, things will not go well for you? ; AB church Lausanne
299 : Basic English : Jeremiah 30,31; 1 Thessalonians 3 1. The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,2. The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Put down in a book all the words which I have said to you.3. For see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will let the fate of my people Israel and Judah be changed, says the Lord: and I will make them come back to the land which I gave to their fathers, so that they may take it for their heritage.4. And these are the words which the Lord said about Israel and about Judah.5. This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace. ; AB church Lausanne
298 : Basic English : Jeremiah 28,29; 1 Thessalonians 2 1. And it came about in that year, when Zedekiah first became king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah, the son of Azzur the prophet, who came from Gibeon, said to Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, before the priests and all the people,2. These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: By me the yoke of the king of Babylon has been broken.3. In the space of two years I will send back into this place all the vessels of the Lord's house which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took away from this place to Babylon:4. And I will let Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, come back to this place, with all the prisoners of Judah who went to Babylon, says the Lord: for I will have the yoke of the king of Babylon broken.5. Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, before the priests and all the people who had come into the house of the Lord, ; AB church Lausanne
297 : Basic English : Jeremiah 26,27; 1 Thessalonians 1 1. When Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, first became king, this word came from the Lord, saying,2. This is what the Lord has said: Take your place in the open square of the Lord's house and say to all the towns of Judah, who come into the Lord's house for worship, everything I give you orders to say to them: keep back not a word;3. It may be that they will give ear, and that every man will be turned from his evil way, so that my purpose of sending evil on them because of the evil of their doings may be changed.4. And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,5. And give ear to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you, getting up early and sending them, though you gave no attention; ; AB church Lausanne
296 : Basic English : Jeremiah 24,25; Colossians 4 1. The Lord gave me a vision, and I saw two baskets full of figs put in front of the Temple of the Lord, after Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, had taken prisoner Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the chiefs of Judah, and the expert workmen and metal-workers from Jerusalem, and had taken them to Babylon.2. One basket had very good figs, like the figs which first come to growth: and the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they were of no use for food.3. Then the Lord said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs are very good, and the bad very bad, and of no use for food, they are so bad.4. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,5. This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: Like these good figs, so in my eyes will be the prisoners of Judah, whom I have sent from this place into the land of the Chaldaeans for their good. ; AB church Lausanne
295 : Basic English : Jeremiah 22,23; Colossians 3 1. This is what the Lord has said: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and there give him this word,2. And say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, seated on the seat of David, you and your servants and your people who come in by these doors.3. This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.4. For if you truly do this, then there will come in through the doors of this house kings seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, he and his servants and his people5. But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste. ; AB church Lausanne
294 : Basic English : Jeremiah 19,20,21; Colossians 2 1. This is what the Lord has said: Go and get for money a potter's bottle made of earth, and take with you some of the responsible men of the people and of the priests;2. And go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, by the way into the door of broken pots, and there say in a loud voice the words which I will give you;3. Say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem; the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, I will send evil on this place which will be bitter to the ears of anyone hearing of it.4. Because they have given me up, and made this place a strange place, burning perfumes in it to other gods, of whom they and their fathers and the kings of Judah had no knowledge; and they have made this place full of the blood of those who have done no wrong;5. And they have put up the high places of the Baal, burning their sons in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me, and it was never in my mind: ; AB church Lausanne
293 : Basic English : Jeremiah 17,18; Colossians 1 1. The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:2. Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.3. I will give your wealth and all your stores to be taken away in war without a price, because of your sins in every part of your land.4. And your hand will have to let go your heritage which I gave you; and I will make you a servant to your haters in a land which is strange to you: for you have put my wrath on fire with a flame which will go on burning for ever.5. This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord. ; AB church Lausanne
292 : Basic English : Jeremiah 15,16; Philippians 4 1. Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.2. And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.3. And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.4. And I will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem.5. For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? and who will have sorrow for you? or who will go out of his way to see how you are? ; AB church Lausanne
291 : Basic English : Jeremiah 13,14; Philippians 3 1. This is what the Lord said to me: Go and get yourself a linen band and put it round you and do not put it in water.2. So, as the Lord said, I got a band for a price and put it round my body.3. And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,4. Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock.5. So I went and put it in a secret place by Parah, as the Lord had said to me. ; AB church Lausanne
290 : Basic English : Jeremiah 11,12; Philippians 2 1. The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,2. Give ear to the words of this agreement, and say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem,3. The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Let that man be cursed who does not give ear to the words of this agreement,4. To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:5. So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord. ; AB church Lausanne
289 : Basic English : Jeremiah 9,10; Philippians 1 1. If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!2. If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.3. Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.4. Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.5. Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back. ; AB church Lausanne
288 : Basic English : Jeremiah 7,8; Ephesians 6 1. The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,2. Take your place in the doorway of the Lord's house, and give out this word there, and say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who come inside these doors to give worship to the Lord.3. The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place.4. Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.5. For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour; ; AB church Lausanne
287 : Basic English : Jeremiah 5,6; Ephesians 5 1. Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.2. And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.3. O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.4. Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.5. I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands. ; AB church Lausanne
286 : Basic English : Jeremiah 3,4; Ephesians 4 1. They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.2. Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.3. So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.4. Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?5. Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way. ; AB church Lausanne
285 : Basic English : Jeremiah 1,2; Ephesians 3 1. The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:2. To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his rule.3. And it came again in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, up to the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; till Jerusalem was taken away in the fifth month.4. Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,5. Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations. ; AB church Lausanne
284 : Basic English : Isaiah 64,65,66; Ephesians 2 1. O let the heavens be broken open and come down, so that the mountains may be shaking before you,2. As when fire puts the brushwood in flames, or as when water is boiling from the heat of the fire: to make your name feared by your haters, so that the nations may be shaking before you;3. While you do acts of power for which we are not looking, and which have not come to the ears of men in the past.4. The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, ... any God but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.5. Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past. ; AB church Lausanne
283 : Basic English : Isaiah 61,62,63; Ephesians 1 1. The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;2. To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad;3. To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.4. And they will be building again the old broken walls, and will make new the old waste places, and will put up again the towns which have been waste for long generations.5. And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers. ; AB church Lausanne
282 : Basic English : Isaiah 59,60; Galatians 6 1. Truly, the Lord's hand has not become short, so that he is unable to give salvation; and his ear is not shut from hearing:2. But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.3. For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.4. No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.5. They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake. ; AB church Lausanne
281 : Basic English : Isaiah 56,57,58; Galatians 5 1. The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.2. Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his hand from doing any evil.3. And let not the man from a strange country, who has been joined to the Lord, say, The Lord will certainly put a division between me and his people: and let not the unsexed man say, See, I am a dry tree.4. For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths, and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement with me:5. I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off. ; AB church Lausanne
280 : Basic English : Isaiah 53,54,55; Galatians 4 1. Who would have had faith in the word which has come to our ears, and to whom had the arm of the Lord been unveiled?2. For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;3. Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.4. But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.5. But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was crushed: he took the punishment by which we have peace, and by his wounds we are made well. ; AB church Lausanne
279 : Basic English : Isaiah 50,51,52; Galatians 3 1. This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.2. Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.3. By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.4. The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:5. And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him. ; AB church Lausanne
278 : Basic English : Isaiah 48,49; Galatians 2 1. Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.2. For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.3. I gave word in the past of the things which came about; they came from my mouth, and I made them clear: suddenly I did them, and they came about.4. Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;5. For this reason I made it clear to you in the past, before it came I gave you word of it: for fear that you might say, My god did these things, and my pictured and metal images made them come about. ; AB church Lausanne
277 : Basic English : Isaiah 45,46,47; Galatians 1 1. The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut;2. I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:3. And I will give you the stores of the dark, and the wealth of secret places, so that you may be certain that I am the Lord, who gave you your name, even the God of Israel.4. Because of Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself, I have sent for you by name, giving you a name of honour, though you had no knowledge of me.5. I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me: I will make you ready for war, though you had no knowledge of me: ; AB church Lausanne
276 : Basic English : Isaiah 43,44; 2 Corinthians 13 1. But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine.2. When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.3. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you.4. Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.5. Have no fear, for I am with you: I will take your seed from the east, and get you together from the west; ; AB church Lausanne
275 : Basic English : Isaiah 41,42; 2 Corinthians 12 1. Come quietly before me, O sea-lands, and let the peoples get together their strength: let them come near; then let them say what they have to say: let us put forward our cause against one another.2. Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.3. He goes after them safely, not touching the road with his feet.4. Whose purpose and work was it? His who sent out the generations from the start. I the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he.5. The sea-lands saw it, and were in fear; the ends of the earth were shaking: they came near. ; AB church Lausanne
274 : Basic English : Isaiah 39,40; 2 Corinthians 11 1. At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters with an offering to Hezekiah, because he had news that Hezekiah had been ill, and was well again.2. And Hezekiah was glad at their coming, and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil, and all the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores: there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which he did not let them see.3. Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say, and where did they come from? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon.4. And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.5. Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord of armies: ; AB church Lausanne
273 : Basic English : Isaiah 37,38; 2 Corinthians 10 1. And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.2. And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.3. And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.4. It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.5. So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. ; AB church Lausanne
272 : Basic English : Isaiah 34,35,36; 2 Corinthians 9 1. Come near, you nations, and give ear; take note, you peoples: let the earth and everything in it give ear; the world and all those living in it.2. For the Lord is angry with all the nations, and his wrath is burning against all their armies: he has put them to the curse, he has given them to destruction.3. Their dead bodies will be thick on the face of the earth, and their smell will come up, and the mountains will be flowing with their blood, and all the hills will come to nothing.4. And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree.5. For my sword in heaven is full of wrath: see, it is coming down on Edom, in punishment on the people of my curse. ; AB church Lausanne
271 : Basic English : Isaiah 32,33; 2 Corinthians 8 1. See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions.2. And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.3. And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word.4. The man of sudden impulses will become wise in heart, and he whose tongue is slow will get the power of talking clearly.5. The foolish man will no longer be named noble, and they will not say of the false man that he is a man of honour. ; AB church Lausanne
270 : Basic English : Isaiah 30,31; 2 Corinthians 7 1. Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:2. Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.3. And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.4. For his chiefs are at Zoan, and his representatives have come to Hanes.5. For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name. ; AB church Lausanne
269 : Basic English : Isaiah 28,29; 2 Corinthians 6 1. Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink!2. See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them.3. The crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim will be crushed under foot;4. And the dead flower of his glory, which is on the head of the fertile valley, will be like the first early fruit before the summer; which a man takes and puts in his mouth the minute he sees it.5. In that day will the Lord of armies be a crown of glory, and a fair ornament, to the rest of his people; ; AB church Lausanne
268 : Basic English : Isaiah 25,26,27; 2 Corinthians 5 1. O Lord, you are my God; I will give praise to you, I will give honour to your name; for you have done great acts of power; your purposes in the past have been made true and certain in effect.2. For you have made a town a waste place: a strong town a mass of broken walls; the tower of the men of pride has come to an end; it will never be put up again.3. For this cause will the strong people give glory to you, the town of the cruel ones will be in fear of you.4. For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.5. As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped. ; AB church Lausanne
267 : Basic English : Isaiah 23,24; 2 Corinthians 4 1. The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.2. Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters;3. Who get in the seed of Shihor, whose wealth is the trade of the nations.4. Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins.5. When the news comes to Egypt they will be bitterly pained at the fate of Tyre. ; AB church Lausanne
266 : Basic English : Isaiah 20,21,22; 2 Corinthians 3 1. In the year when the Tartan came to Ashdod, sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, and made war against it and took it;2. At that time the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and take off your robe, and your shoes from your feet; and he did so, walking unclothed and without shoes on his feet.3. And the Lord said, As my servant Isaiah has gone unclothed and without shoes for three years as a sign and a wonder to Egypt and Ethiopia,4. So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.5. And they will be full of fear, and will no longer have faith in Ethiopia which was their hope, or in Egypt which was their glory. ; AB church Lausanne
265 : Basic English : Isaiah 16,17,18,19; 2 Corinthians 2 1. And they will send ... to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.2. For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.3. Give wise directions, make a decision; let your shade be as night in full day: keep safe those who are in flight; do not give up the wandering ones.4. Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land.5. Then a king's seat will be based on mercy, and one will be seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly, and quick to do righteousness. ; AB church Lausanne
264 : Basic English : Isaiah 14,15; 2 Corinthians 1 1. For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.2. And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters.3. And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,4. That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;5. The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord; ; AB church Lausanne
263 : Basic English : Isaiah 11,12,13; 1 Corinthians 16 1. And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.2. And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;3. And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears:4. But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.5. And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast. ; AB church Lausanne
262 : Basic English : Isaiah 9,10; 1 Corinthians 15 1. In earlier times he made the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali of small value, but after that he gave it glory, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the nations.2. The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.3. You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.4. For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in the day of Midian.5. For every boot of the man of war with his sounding step, and the clothing rolled in blood, will be for burning, food for the fire. ; AB church Lausanne
261 : Basic English : Isaiah 7,8; 1 Corinthians 14 1. Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but were not able to overcome it.2. And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up its tents in Ephraim. And the king's heart, and the hearts of his people, were moved, like the trees of the wood shaking in the wind.3. Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across Ahaz at the end of the stream flowing from the higher pool, in the highway of the washerman's field;4. And say to him, Take care and be quiet; have no fear, and do not let your heart be feeble, because of these two ends of smoking fire-wood, because of the bitter wrath of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah.5. Because Aram has made evil designs against you, saying, ; AB church Lausanne
260 : Basic English : Isaiah 4,5,6; 1 Corinthians 13 1. And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away.2. In that day will the young growth of the Lord be beautiful in glory, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride of those who are still living in Israel.3. And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:4. When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.5. And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent; ; AB church Lausanne
259 : Basic English : Isaiah 2,3; 1 Corinthians 12 1. The word which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem.2. And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.3. And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.4. And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.5. O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord. ; AB church Lausanne
258 : Basic English : Song of Solomon 8; Isaiah 1; 1 Corinthians 11 1. Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.2. I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.3. His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand about me.4. I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.5. Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth. ; AB church Lausanne
257 : Basic English : Song of Solomon 5,6,7; 1 Corinthians 10 1. I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.2. I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.3. I have put off my coat; how may I put it on? My feet are washed; how may I make them unclean?4. My loved one put his hand on the door, and my heart was moved for him.5. I got up to let my loved one in; and my hands were dropping with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of the door. ; AB church Lausanne
256 : Basic English : Song of Solomon 2,3,4; 1 Corinthians 9 1. I am a rose of Sharon, a flower of the valleys.2. As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.3. As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.4. He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was love.5. Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love. ; AB church Lausanne
255 : Basic English : Ecclesiastes 11,12; Song of Solomon 1; 1 Corinthians 8 1. Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.2. Give a part to seven or even to eight, because you have no knowledge of the evil which will be on the earth.3. If the clouds are full of rain, they send it down on the earth; and if a tree comes down to the south, or the north, in whatever place it comes down, there it will be.4. He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain.5. As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all. ; AB church Lausanne
254 : Basic English : Ecclesiastes 8,9,10; 1 Corinthians 7 1. Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.2. I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.3. Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.4. The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?5. Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision. ; AB church Lausanne
253 : Basic English : Ecclesiastes 5,6,7; 1 Corinthians 6 1. Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.2. Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.3. As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.4. When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.5. It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it. ; AB church Lausanne
252 : Basic English : Ecclesiastes 3,4; 1 Corinthians 5 1. For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.2. A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;3. A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up;4. A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;5. A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing; ; AB church Lausanne
251 : Basic English : Ecclesiastes 1,2; 1 Corinthians 4 1. The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.2. All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.3. What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?4. One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever.5. The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up. ; AB church Lausanne
250 : Basic English : Job 41,42; 1 Corinthians 3 1. Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?2. Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?3. Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?4. Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?5. Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women? ; AB church Lausanne
249 : Basic English : Job 39,40; 1 Corinthians 2 1. Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?2. Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?3. They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.4. Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.5. Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast? ; AB church Lausanne
248 : Basic English : Job 38; 1 Corinthians 1 1. And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,2. Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?3. Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.4. Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.5. By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it? ; AB church Lausanne
247 : Basic English : Job 36,37; Romans 16 1. And Elihu went on to say,2. Give me a little more time, and I will make it clear to you; for I have still something to say for God.3. I will get my knowledge from far, and I will give righteousness to my Maker.4. For truly my words are not false; one who has all knowledge is talking with you.5. Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner. ; AB church Lausanne
246 : Basic English : Job 34,35; Romans 15 1. And Elihu made answer and said,2. Give ear, you wise, to my words; and you who have knowledge, give attention to me;3. For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth.4. Let us make the decision for ourselves as to what is right; let us have the knowledge among ourselves of what is good.5. For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right; ; AB church Lausanne
245 : Basic English : Job 32,33; Romans 14 1. So these three men gave no more answers to Job, because he seemed to himself to be right.2. And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;3. And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.4. Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he;5. And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, he was very angry. ; AB church Lausanne
244 : Basic English : Job 31; Romans 13 1. I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?2. For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?3. Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?4. Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?5. If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit; ; AB church Lausanne
243 : Basic English : Job 29,30; Romans 12 1. And Job again took up the word and said,2. If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!3. When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.4. As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;5. While the Ruler of all was still with me, and my children were round me; ; AB church Lausanne
242 : Basic English : Job 27,28; Romans 11 1. And Job again took up the word and said,2. By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;3. (For all my breath is still in me, and the spirit of God is my life;)4. Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.5. Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness. ; AB church Lausanne
241 : Basic English : Job 24,25,26; Romans 10 1. Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?2. The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.3. They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.4. The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.5. Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children. ; AB church Lausanne
240 : Basic English : Job 22,23; Romans 9 1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,2. Is it possible for a man to be of profit to God? No, for a man's wisdom is only of profit to himself.3. Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?4. Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?5. Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins. ; AB church Lausanne
239 : Basic English : Job 20,21; Romans 8 1. Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,2. For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.3. I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.4. Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,5. That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute? ; AB church Lausanne
238 : Basic English : Job 17,18,19; Romans 7 1. My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.2. Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.3. Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.4. You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.5. As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children. ; AB church Lausanne
237 : Basic English : Job 15,16; Romans 6 1. And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,2. Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?3. Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?4. Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.5. For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself. ; AB church Lausanne
236 : Basic English : Job 13,14; Romans 5 1. Truly, my eye has seen all this, word of it has come to my ear, and I have knowledge of it.2. The same things are in my mind as in yours; I am equal to you.3. But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.4. But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.5. If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom! ; AB church Lausanne
235 : Basic English : Job 11,12; Romans 4 1. Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,2. Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?3. Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?4. You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.5. But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you; ; AB church Lausanne
234 : Basic English : Job 9,10; Romans 3 1. And Job made answer and said,2. Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?3. If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.4. He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?5. It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath: ; AB church Lausanne
233 : Basic English : Job 7,8; Romans 2 1. Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?2. As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:3. So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.4. When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.5. My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again. ; AB church Lausanne
232 : Basic English : Job 5,6; Romans 1 1. Give now a cry for help; is there anyone who will give you an answer? and to which of the holy ones will you make your prayer?2. For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.3. I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.4. Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.5. Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring. ; AB church Lausanne
231 : Basic English : Job 3,4; Acts 28 1. Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,2. Job made answer and said,3. Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.4. That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;5. Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it. ; AB church Lausanne
230 : Basic English : Esther 10; Job 1,2; Acts 27 1. And King Ahasuerus put a tax on the land and on the islands of the sea.2. And all his acts of power and his great strength and the full story of the high place which the king gave Mordecai, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Media and Persia?3. For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and respected by the body of his countrymen; working for the good of his people, and saying words of peace to all his seed. ; AB church Lausanne
229 : Basic English : Esther 7,8,9; Acts 26 1. So the king and Haman came to take wine with Esther the queen.2. And the king said to Esther again on the second day, while they were drinking, What is your prayer, Queen Esther? for it will be given to you; and what is your request? for it will be done, even to the half of my kingdom.3. Then Esther the queen, answering, said, If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my prayer, and my people at my request:4. For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.5. Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, Who is he and where is he who has had this evil thought in his heart? ; AB church Lausanne
228 : Basic English : Esther 4,5,6; Acts 25 1. Now when Mordecai saw what was done, pulling off his robe, he put on haircloth, with dust on his head, and went out into the middle of the town, crying out with a loud and bitter cry.2. And he came even before the king's doorway; for no one might come inside the king's door clothed in haircloth.3. And in every part of the kingdom, wherever the king's word and his order came, there was great sorrow among the Jews, and weeping and crying and going without food; and numbers of them were stretched on the earth covered with dust and haircloth.4. And Esther's women and her servants came and gave her word of it. Then great was the grief of the queen: and she sent robes for Mordecai, so that his clothing of haircloth might be taken off; but he would not have them.5. Then Esther sent for Hathach, one of the king's unsexed servants whom he had given her for waiting on her, and she gave him orders to go to Mordecai and see what this was and why it was. ; AB church Lausanne
227 : Basic English : Esther 2,3; Acts 24 1. After these things, when the king's feelings were calmer, the thought of Vashti and what she had done and the order he had made against her, came back to his mind.2. Then the servants who were waiting on the king said to him, Let search be made for some fair young virgins for the king:3. Let the king give authority to certain men in all the divisions of his kingdom, to get together all the fair young virgins and send them to Shushan, the king's town, to the women's house, under the care of Hegai, the king's servant, the keeper of the women: and let the things needed for making them clean be given to them;4. And let the girl who is pleasing to the king be queen in place of Vashti. And the king was pleased with this suggestion; and he did so.5. Now there was a certain Jew in Shushan named Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite; ; AB church Lausanne
226 : Basic English : Nehemiah 13; Esther 1; Acts 23 1. On that day there was a reading from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and they saw that it said in the book that no Ammonite or Moabite might ever come into the meeting of God;2. Because they did not give the children of Israel bread and water when they came to them, but got Balaam to put a curse on them: though the curse was turned into a blessing by our God.3. So after hearing the law, they took out of Israel all the mixed people.4. Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who had been placed over the rooms of the house of our God, being a friend of Tobiah,5. Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests. ; AB church Lausanne
225 : Basic English : Nehemiah 11,12; Acts 22 1. And the rulers of the people were living in Jerusalem: the rest of the people made selection, by the decision of chance, of one out of every ten to be living in Jerusalem, the holy town; the other nine to go to the other towns.2. And the people gave a blessing to all the men who were freely offering to take up their places in Jerusalem.3. Now these are the chiefs of the divisions of the country who were living in Jerusalem: but in the towns of Judah everyone was living on his heritage in the towns, that is, Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.4. And in Jerusalem there were living certain of the children of Judah and of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah, the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;5. And Maaseiah, the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite. ; AB church Lausanne
224 : Basic English : Nehemiah 10; Acts 21 1. Now those who put down their names were Nehemiah the Tirshatha, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,2. Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,3. Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,4. Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,5. Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, ; AB church Lausanne
223 : Basic English : Nehemiah 8,9; Acts 20 1. And when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their towns. And all the people came together like one man into the wide place in front of the water-doorway; and they made a request to Ezra the scribe that he would put before them the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to Israel.2. And Ezra the priest put the law before the meeting of the people, before the men and women and all those who were able to take it in, on the first day of the seventh month.3. He was reading it in the wide place in front of the water-doorway, from early morning till the middle of the day, in the hearing of all those men and women whose minds were able to take it in; and the ears of all the people were open to the book of the law.4. And Ezra the scribe took his place on a tower of wood which they had made for the purpose; and by his side were placed Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Uriah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah on the right; and on the left, Pedaiah and Mishael and Malchijah and Hashum and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam.5. And Ezra took the book, opening it before the eyes of all the people (for he was higher than the people); and when it was open, all the people got to their feet: ; AB church Lausanne
222 : Basic English : Nehemiah 6,7; Acts 19 1. Now when word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our haters, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it (though even then I had not put up the doors in the doorways);2. Sanballat and Geshem sent to me saying, Come, let us have a meeting in one of the little towns in the lowland of Ono. But their purpose was to do me evil.3. And I sent men to them saying, I am doing a great work, so that it is not possible for me to come down: is the work to be stopped while I go away from it and come down to you?4. And four times they sent to me in this way, and I sent them the same answer.5. Then Sanballat sent his servant to me a fifth time with an open letter in his hand; ; AB church Lausanne
221 : Basic English : Nehemiah 4,5; Acts 18 1. Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.2. And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust?3. Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Such is their building that if a fox goes up it, their stone wall will be broken down.4. Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:5. Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders. ; AB church Lausanne
220 : Basic English : Nehemiah 1,2,3; Acts 17 1. The history of Nehemiah, the son of Hacaliah. Now it came about, in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, when I was in Shushan, the king's town,2. That Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah; and in answer to my request for news of the Jews who had been prisoners and had got away, and of Jerusalem,3. They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.4. Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,5. And said, O Lord, the God of heaven, the great God, greatly to be feared, keeping faith and mercy with those who have love for him and are true to his laws: ; AB church Lausanne
219 : Basic English : Ezra 10; Acts 16 1. Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.2. And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question.3. Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law.4. Up, now! for this is your business, and we are with you; take heart and do it.5. Then Ezra got up, and made the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do this. So they took an oath. ; AB church Lausanne
218 : Basic English : Ezra 8,9; Acts 15 1. Now these are the heads of families who were listed of those who went up with me from Babylon, when Artaxerxes was king.2. Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, Hattush;3. Of the sons of Shecaniah; of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed a hundred and fifty males.4. Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai, the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.5. Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males. ; AB church Lausanne
217 : Basic English : Ezra 6,7; Acts 14 1. Then Darius the king gave an order and a search was made in the house of the records, where the things of value were stored up in Babylon.2. And at Achmetha, in the great house of the king in the land of Media, they came across a roll, in which this statement was put on record:3. In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made an order: In connection with the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be put up, the place where they make offerings, and let the earth for the bases be put in place; let it be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide;4. With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house;5. And let the gold and silver vessels from the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple at Jerusalem to Babylon, be given back and taken again to the Temple at Jerusalem, every one in its place, and put them in the house of God. ; AB church Lausanne
216 : Basic English : Ezra 3,4,5; Acts 13 1. And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people came together like one man to Jerusalem.2. Then Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, with his brothers, got up and made the altar of the God of Israel for burned offerings as is recorded in the law of Moses, the man of God.3. They put the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of the people of the countries: and they made burned offerings on it to the Lord, even burned offerings morning and evening.4. And they kept the feast of tents, as it is recorded, making the regular burned offerings every day by number, as it is ordered; for every day what was needed.5. And after that, the regular burned offering and the offerings for the new moons and all the fixed feasts of the Lord which had been made holy, and the offering of everyone who freely gave his offering to the Lord. ; AB church Lausanne
215 : Basic English : Ezra 1,2; Acts 12 1. Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the word of the Lord given by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, so that he made a public statement through all his kingdom, and put it in writing, saying,2. These are the words of Cyrus, king of Persia: The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.3. Whoever there is among you of his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and take in hand the building of the house of the Lord, the God of Israel; he is the God who is in Jerusalem.4. And whoever there may be of the rest of Israel, living in any place, let the men of that place give him help with offerings of silver and gold and goods and beasts, in addition to the offering freely given for the house of God in Jerusalem.5. Then the heads of families of Judah and Benjamin, with the priests and the Levites, got ready, even all those whose spirits were moved by God to go up and take in hand the building of the Lord's house in Jerusalem. ; AB church Lausanne
214 : Basic English : 2 Chronicles 35,36; Acts 11 1. And Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem; on the fourteenth day of the first month they put the Passover lamb to death.2. And he gave the priests their places, making them strong for the work of the house of God.3. And he said to the Levites, the teachers of all Israel, who were holy to the Lord, See, the holy ark is in the house which Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, made; it will no longer have to be transported on your backs: now be the servants of the Lord your God and his people Israel,4. And make yourselves ready in your divisions, by your families, as it is ordered in the writings of David, king of Israel, and of Solomon his son;5. And take your positions in the holy place, grouped in the families of your brothers, the children of the people, and for every division let there be a part of a family of the Levites. ; AB church Lausanne
213 : Basic English : 2 Chronicles 33,34; Acts 10 1. Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.2. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.3. For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;4. And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.5. And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord. ; AB church Lausanne
212 : Basic English : 2 Chronicles 31,32; Acts 9 1. Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.2. Then Hezekiah put in order the divisions of the priests and Levites, every man in his division, in relation to his work, for the burned offerings and peace-offerings, and for the ordering of worship and for giving praise at the doors of the Lord's house.3. And he gave the king's part of his private property for the burned offerings, that is, for the morning and evening offerings, and the offerings for the Sabbath and the new moons and the regular feasts, as it is recorded in the law of the Lord.4. In addition, he gave orders to the people of Jerusalem to give to the priests and Levites that part which was theirs by right, so that they might be strong in keeping the law of the Lord.5. And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store. ; AB church Lausanne
211 : Basic English : 2 Chronicles 29,30; Acts 8 1. Hezekiah became king when he was twenty-five years old; and he was king in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; and his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.2. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done.3. In the first year of his rule, in the first month, opening the doors of the Lord's house, he made them strong.4. And he sent for the priests and the Levites, and got them together in the wide place on the east side,5. And said to them, Give ear to me, O Levites: now make yourselves holy, and make holy the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and take away everything unclean from the holy place. ; AB church Lausanne
210 : Basic English : 2 Chronicles 26,27,28; Acts 7 1. Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.2. He was the builder of Eloth, which he got back for Judah after the death of the king.3. Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for fifty-two years; his mother's name was Jechiliah of Jerusalem.4. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.5. He gave himself to searching after God in the days of Zechariah, who made men wise in the fear of God; and as long as he was true to the Lord, God made things go well for him. ; AB church Lausanne
209 : Basic English : 2 Chronicles 24,25; Acts 6 1. Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he was ruling for forty years in Jerusalem: his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.2. And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was living.3. And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.4. Now after this Joash had a desire to put the house of the Lord into good order again;5. And getting together the priests and Levites, he said to them, Go out into the towns of Judah year by year, and get from all Israel money to keep the house of your God in good condition; and see that this is done without loss of time. The Levites, however, were slow in doing so. ; AB church Lausanne
208 : Basic English : 2 Chronicles 21,22,23; Acts 5 1. And Jehoshaphat went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David. And Jehoram his son became king in his place.2. And he had brothers, sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were sons of Jehoshaphat, king of Israel.3. And their father gave them much silver and gold and things of great value, as well as walled towns in Judah; but the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, because he was the oldest.4. Now when Jehoram had taken his place over his father's kingdom, and had made his position safe, he put all his brothers to death with the sword, as well as some of the princes of Israel.5. Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years. ; AB church Lausanne
207 : Basic English : 2 Chronicles 19,20; Acts 4 1. And Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, went back to his house in Jerusalem in peace.2. And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.3. But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.4. And Jehoshaphat was living in Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people, from Beer-sheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, guiding them back to the Lord, the God of their fathers.5. And he put judges through all the land, in every walled town of Judah, ; AB church Lausanne
206 : Basic English : 2 Chronicles 16,17,18; Acts 3 1. In the thirty-sixth year of the rule of Asa, Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.2. Then Asa took silver and gold out of the stores of the Lord's house and of the king's store-house, and sent to Ben-hadad, king of Aram, at Damascus, saying,3. Let there be an agreement between me and you as there was between my father and your father: see, I have sent you silver and gold; go and put an end to your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may give up attacking me.4. And Ben-hadad did as King Asa said, and sent the captains of his armies against the towns of Israel, attacking Ijon and Dan and Abel-maim, and all the store-towns of Naphtali.5. Then Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and let his work come to an end. ; AB church Lausanne
205 : Basic English : 2 Chronicles 13,14,15; Acts 2 1. In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah.2. He was king in Jerusalem for three years; his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.3. And Abijah went out to the fight with an army of men of war, four hundred thousand of his best men; and Jeroboam put his forces in line against him, eight hundred thousand of his best men of war.4. And Abijah took up his position on Mount Zemaraim, in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said, Give ear to me, O Jeroboam and all Israel:5. Is it not clear to you that the Lord, the God of Israel, gave the rule over Israel to David and to his sons for ever, by an agreement made with salt? ; AB church Lausanne
204 : Basic English : 2 Chronicles 11,12; Acts 1 1. And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, and got together the men of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam.2. But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,3. Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,4. The Lord has said, You are not to go to war against your brothers: let every man go back to his house, for this thing is my purpose. So they gave ear to the words of the Lord and were turned back from fighting against Jeroboam.5. Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah. ; AB church Lausanne
203 : Basic English : 2 Chronicles 9,10; Proverbs 31 1. Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to Jerusalem to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions; and with her came a very great train, and camels weighted down with spices, and great stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.2. And Solomon gave her answers to all her questions; there was no secret which he did not make clear to her.3. And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,4. And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants and their robes, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.5. And she said to the king, The account which was given to me in my country of your acts and your wisdom was true. ; AB church Lausanne
202 : Basic English : 2 Chronicles 7,8; Proverbs 30 1. Now when Solomon's prayers were ended, fire came down from heaven, burning up all the offerings; and the house was full of the glory of the Lord.2. And the priests were not able to go into the house of the Lord, for the Lord's house was full of the glory of the Lord.3. And all the children of Israel were looking on when the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord was on the house; and they went down on their knees, with their faces to the earth, worshipping and praising the Lord, and saying, He is good; for his mercy is unchanging for ever.4. Then the king and all the people made offerings before the Lord.5. King Solomon made an offering of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people kept the feast of the opening of the house of God. ; AB church Lausanne
201 : Basic English : 2 Chronicles 4,5,6; Proverbs 29 1. Then he made a brass altar, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.2. And he made the great water-vessel of metal, round in form, measuring ten cubits across from edge to edge; it was five cubits high and thirty cubits round.3. And under it was a design of flowers all round it, ten to a cubit, circling the water-vessel in two lines; they were made from liquid metal at the same time as the water-vessel.4. It was supported on twelve oxen, three facing to the north, three to the west, three to the south, and three to the east, the water-vessel resting on top of them; their back parts were all turned to the middle of it.5. It was as thick as a man's open hand, and the edge of it was curved like the edge of a cup, like a lily flower; it would take three thousand baths. ; AB church Lausanne
200 : Basic English : 2 Chronicles 1,2,3; Proverbs 28 1. And Solomon, the son of David, made himself strong in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and made him very great.2. And Solomon sent word to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every chief in all Israel, heads of their families.3. Then Solomon, and all the men of Israel with him, went to the high place at Gibeon, because the Tent of meeting of God, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had made in the waste land, was there.4. But the ark of God had been moved by David from Kiriath-jearim to the place which he had made ready for it, for he had put up a tent for it at Jerusalem.5. And the altar of brass which Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the Tent of the Lord; and Solomon and all the people went to give worship there. ; AB church Lausanne
199 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 28,29; Proverbs 27 1. And David got together at Jerusalem all the rulers of Israel, the chiefs of the tribes and the captains of the divisions waiting on the king in turn, and the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds and the controllers of all the goods and property of the king and his sons, with the unsexed servants and the great men of war.2. Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.3. But God said to me, You are not to be the builder of a house for my name, because you are a man of war and have taken life;4. Though the Lord, the God of Israel, took me out of all my father's family, to be king over Israel for ever, marking out Judah to be chief, and, of the people of Judah, my father's family; and among the sons of my father he was pleased to make me king over all Israel;5. And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me a great number of sons) he has made selection of Solomon to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel. ; AB church Lausanne
198 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 26,27; Proverbs 26 1. For the divisions of the door-keepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, of the sons of Ebiasaph.2. And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the oldest, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,3. Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh.4. And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the oldest, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth,5. Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for the blessing of God was on him. ; AB church Lausanne
197 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 24,25; Proverbs 25 1. Now the divisions into which the sons of Aaron were grouped were these: the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.2. But Nadab and Abihu came to their end before their father, and had no children; so Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests.3. And David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, made distribution of them into their positions for their work.4. And there were more chiefs among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar; and this is how they were grouped: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, all heads of families; and of the sons of Ithamar, heads of families, there were eight.5. So they were put into groups, by the Lord's decision, one with another; for there were rulers of the holy place and rulers of the house of God among the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar. ; AB church Lausanne
196 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 22,23; Proverbs 24 1. Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for Israel's burned offerings.2. And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.3. And he got together a great store of iron, for the nails for the doors and for the joins; and brass, more in weight than might be measured;4. And cedar-trees without number, for the Zidonians and the men of Tyre came with a great amount of cedar-trees for David.5. And David said, Solomon my son is young and untested, and the house which is to be put up for the Lord is to be very great, a thing of wonder and glory through all countries; so I will make ready what is needed for it. So David got ready a great store of material before his death. ; AB church Lausanne
195 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 19,20,21; Proverbs 23 1. Now it came about after this that death came to Nahash, the king of the children of Ammon, and his son became king in his place.2. And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, because his father was a friend to me. So David sent men to him, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And the servants of David came to Hanun, to the land of the children of Ammon, offering him comfort.3. But the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Does it seem to you that David is honouring your father, by sending comforters to you? is it not clear that these men have only come to go through the land and to make secret observation of it so that they may overcome it?4. So Hanun took David's servants, and cutting off their hair and the skirts of their robes up to the middle, sent them away.5. Then certain men went and gave David word of what had been done to them. And he sent out with the purpose of meeting them; for the men were greatly shamed. And the king said, Keep where you are at Jericho till your hair is long again, and then come back. ; AB church Lausanne
194 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 17,18; Proverbs 22 1. Now when David was living in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, See, I am living in a house of cedar-wood, but the ark of the Lord's agreement is under the curtains of a tent.2. And Nathan said to David, Do whatever is in your heart, for God is with you.3. But that same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,4. Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:5. For from the day when I took Israel up, till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from tent to tent, and from living-place to living-place. ; AB church Lausanne
193 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 16; Proverbs 21 1. Then they took in the ark of God and put it inside the tent which David had put up for it; and they made offerings, burned offerings and peace-offerings before God.2. And when David had come to an end of making the burned offerings and peace-offerings, he gave the people a blessing in the name of the Lord.3. And he gave to everyone, every man and woman of Israel, a cake of bread, some meat, and a cake of dry grapes.4. And he put some of the Levites before the ark of the Lord as servants, to keep the acts of the Lord in memory, and to give worship and praise to the Lord, the God of Israel:5. Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Uzziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Mattithiah and Eliab and Benaiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel, with corded instruments of music; and Asaph, with brass instruments sounding loudly; ; AB church Lausanne
192 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 13,14,15; Proverbs 20 1. Then David had discussions with the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds and with every chief.2. And David said to all the men of Israel who had come together there, If it seems good to you and if it is the purpose of the Lord our God, let us send to all the rest of our brothers, everywhere in the land of Israel, and to the priests and the Levites in their towns and the country round them, and get them to come together here to us;3. And let us get back for ourselves the ark of our God: for in the days of Saul we did not go to it for directions.4. And all the people said they would do so, for it seemed right to them.5. So David sent for all Israel to come together, from Shihor, the river of Egypt, as far as the way into Hamath, to get the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim. ; AB church Lausanne
191 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 12; Proverbs 19 1. Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still shut up, because of Saul, the son of Kish; they were among the strong men, his helpers in war.2. They were armed with bows, and were able to send stones, and arrows from the bow, with right hand or left: they were Saul's brothers, of Benjamin.3. Ahiezer was their chief, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Beracah and Jehu the Anathothite;4. And Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a great man among the thirty, and their chief; and Jeremiah and Jehaziel and Johanan and Jozabad the Gederathite;5. Eluzai and Jerimoth and Bealiah and Shemariah and Shephatiah the Haruphite; ; AB church Lausanne
190 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 10,11; Proverbs 18 1. Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel; and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa.2. And the Philistines went hard after Saul and his sons, and put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.3. And the fight was going against Saul, and the archers came across him, and he was wounded by the archers.4. Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, falling on it himself.5. And when his servant saw that Saul was dead, he did the same, and came to his death. ; AB church Lausanne
189 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 9; Proverbs 17 1. So all Israel was listed by their families; and, truly, they are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away as prisoners to Babylon because of their sin.2. Now the first to take up their heritage in their towns were: Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.3. And in Jerusalem there were living some of the sons of Judah, and of Benjamin, and of Ephraim and Manasseh;4. Uthai, the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the sons of Perez, the son of Judah.5. And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the oldest, and his sons. ; AB church Lausanne
188 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 8; Proverbs 16 1. And Benjamin was the father of Bela his oldest son, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,2. Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.3. And Bela had sons, Addar and Gera, the father of Ehud,4. And Abishua and Naaman and Ahoah5. And Gera and Shephuphan and Huram. ; AB church Lausanne
187 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 7; Proverbs 15 1. And of the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah, Jashub and Shimron, four.2. And the sons of Tola: Uzzi and Rephaiah and Jeriel and Jahmai and Ibsam and Shemuel, heads of their families; they were men of war; in the record of their generations their number in the time of David was twenty-two thousand, six hundred.3. And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah; and the sons of Izrahiah: Michael and Obadiah and Joel and Isshiah, five; all of them chiefs.4. And with them, recorded in generations by their families, were bands of fighting-men, thirty-six thousand of them, for they had a great number of wives and sons.5. And there were recorded among all the families of Issachar, great men of war, eighty-seven thousand. ; AB church Lausanne
186 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 5,6; Proverbs 14 1. And the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, (for he was the oldest son, but, because he made his father's bride-bed unclean, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; but he is not to be given the place of the oldest.2. Though Judah became stronger than his brothers, and from him came the ruler, the birthright was Joseph's:)3. The sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.4. The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,5. Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, ; AB church Lausanne
185 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 3,4; Proverbs 13 1. Now these were David's sons, whose birth took place in Hebron: the oldest Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite woman;2. The third Absalom, the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, the son of Haggith;3. The fifth Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth Ithream, by Eglah his wife.4. He had six sons in Hebron; he was ruling there for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem for thirty-three years.5. And in Jerusalem he had four sons, Shimea and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon, by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel; ; AB church Lausanne
184 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 2; Proverbs 12 1. These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun;2. Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.3. The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah; these three were his sons by Bathshua, the Canaanite woman. And Er, Judah's oldest son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and he put him to death.4. And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had Perez and Zerah by him. All the sons of Judah were five.5. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. ; AB church Lausanne
183 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 1; Proverbs 11 1. Adam, Seth, Enosh;2. Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,3. Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech;4. Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.5. The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. ; AB church Lausanne
182 : Basic English : 2 Kings 24,25; Proverbs 10 1. In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him.2. And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.3. Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did;4. And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.5. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? ; AB church Lausanne
181 : Basic English : 2 Kings 22,23; Proverbs 9 1. Josiah was eight years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years; his mother's name was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.2. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.3. Now in the eighteenth year after he became king, Josiah sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying to him,4. Go up to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and let him give out the money which is taken into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have got together from the people;5. And let it be given to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, to give to the workmen who are making good what was damaged in the house of the Lord; ; AB church Lausanne
180 : Basic English : 2 Kings 20,21; Proverbs 8 1. In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order, for your death is near.2. Then, turning his face to the wall, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying,3. O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.4. Now before Isaiah had gone out of the middle of the town, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,5. Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord. ; AB church Lausanne
179 : Basic English : 2 Kings 18,19; Proverbs 7 1. Now in the third year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz, became king of Judah.2. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.3. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as David his father had done.4. He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.5. He had faith in the Lord, the God of Israel; so that there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah who were before him. ; AB church Lausanne
178 : Basic English : 2 Kings 17; Proverbs 6 1. In the twelfth year of Ahaz, king of Judah, Hoshea, the son of Elah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for nine years.2. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, though not like the kings of Israel before him.3. Against him came up Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant and sent him offerings.4. But Hoshea's broken faith became clear to the king of Assyria because he had sent representatives to So, king of Egypt, and did not send his offering to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: so the king of Assyria had him shut up in prison and put in chains.5. Then the king of Assyria went through all the land and came up to Samaria, shutting it in with his forces for three years. ; AB church Lausanne
177 : Basic English : 2 Kings 15,16; Proverbs 5 1. In the twenty-seventh year of the rule of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, became king of Judah.2. He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for fifty-two years; his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.3. And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.4. But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.5. And the Lord sent disease on the king and he became a leper, and to the day of his death he was living separately in his private house. And Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land. ; AB church Lausanne
176 : Basic English : 2 Kings 13,14; Proverbs 4 1. In the twenty-third year of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for seventeen years.2. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do; he did not keep himself from them.3. So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the power of Hazael, king of Aram, and into the power of Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, again and again.4. Then Jehoahaz made prayer to the Lord, and the Lord gave ear to him, for he saw how cruelly Israel was crushed by the king of Aram.5. (And the Lord gave Israel a saviour, so that they became free from the hands of the Aramaeans; and the children of Israel were living in their tents as in the past. ; AB church Lausanne
175 : Basic English : 2 Kings 11,12; Proverbs 3 1. Now when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she had all the rest of the seed of the kingdom put to death.2. But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, secretly took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, with the woman who took care of him, away from among the king's sons who were put to death, and put him in the bedroom; and they kept him safe from Athaliah, so that he was not put to death.3. And for six years she kept him safe in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.4. Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the captains of hundreds of the Carians, and the armed men, and taking them into the house of the Lord, made an agreement with them, and made them take an oath in the house of the Lord, and let them see the king's son.5. And he gave them orders, saying, This is what you are to do: the third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath and keep the watch of the king's house, ; AB church Lausanne
174 : Basic English : 2 Kings 9,10; Proverbs 2 1. And Elisha the prophet sent for one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Make yourself ready for a journey, and take this bottle of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.2. And when you get there, go in search of Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi; and go in and make him get up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room.3. Then take the bottle and put the oil on his head, and say, The Lord says, I have put the holy oil on you to make you king over Israel. Then, opening the door, go in flight, without waiting.4. So the young prophet went to Ramoth-gilead.5. And when he came, he saw the captains of the army seated together; and he said, I have something to say to you, O captain. And Jehu said, To which of us? And he said, To you, O captain. ; AB church Lausanne
173 : Basic English : 2 Kings 7,8; Proverbs 1 1. Then Elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria.2. Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.3. Now there were four lepers seated at the doorway into the town: and they said to one another, Why are we waiting here for death?4. If we say, We will go into the town, there is no food in the town, and we will come to our end there; and if we go on waiting here, death will come to us. Come then, let us give ourselves up to the army of Aram: if they let us go on living, then life will be ours; and if they put us to death, then death will be ours.5. So in the half light they got up to go to the tents of Aram; but when they came to the outer line of tents, there was no one there. ; AB church Lausanne
172 : Basic English : 2 Kings 5,6; Gospel of John 21 1. Now Naaman, chief of the army of the king of Aram, was a man of high position with his master, and greatly respected, because by him the Lord had given salvation to Aram; but he was a leper.2. Now the Aramaeans had gone out in bands, and taken prisoner from Israel a little girl, who became servant to Naaman's wife.3. And she said to her master's wife, If only my lord would go to the prophet in Samaria, he would make him well.4. And someone went and said to his lord, This is what the girl from the land of Israel says.5. So the king of Aram said, Go then; and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he went, taking with him ten talents of silver and six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing. ; AB church Lausanne
171 : Basic English : 2 Kings 3,4; Gospel of John 20 1. And Jehoram, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; and he was king for twelve years.2. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.3. But still he did the same sins which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do; he went on in them.4. Now Mesha, king of Moab, was a sheep-farmer; and he gave regularly to the king of Israel the wool from a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand sheep.5. But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab got free from the authority of the king of Israel. ; AB church Lausanne
170 : Basic English : 2 Kings 1,2; Gospel of John 19 1. After the death of Ahab, Moab made itself free from the authority of Israel.2. Now Ahaziah had a fall from the window of his room in Samaria, and was ill. And he sent men, and said to them, Put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, about the outcome of my disease, to see if I will get well or not.3. But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Go now, and, meeting the men sent by the king of Samaria, say to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you are going to get directions from Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?4. Give ear then to the words of the Lord: You will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you. Then Elijah went away.5. And the men he had sent came back to the king; and he said to them, Why have you come back? ; AB church Lausanne
169 : Basic English : 1 Kings 21,22; Gospel of John 18 1. Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vine-garden in Jezreel, near the house of Ahab, king of Samaria.2. And Ahab said to Naboth, Give me your vine-garden so that I may have it for a garden of sweet plants, for it is near my house; and let me give you a better vine-garden in exchange, or, if it seems good to you, let me give you its value in money.3. But Naboth said to Ahab, By the Lord, far be it from me to give you the heritage of my fathers.4. So Ahab came into his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, I will not give you the heritage of my fathers. And stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would take no food.5. But Jezebel, his wife, came to him and said, Why is your spirit so bitter that you have no desire for food? ; AB church Lausanne
168 : Basic English : 1 Kings 19,20; Gospel of John 17 1. Ahab gave Jezebel news of all Elijah had done, and how he had put all the prophets to death with the sword.2. Then Jezebel sent a servant to Elijah, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.3. And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and came to Beer-sheba in Judah, parting there from his servant;4. While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.5. And stretching himself on the earth, he went to sleep under the broom-plant; but an angel, touching him, said to him, Get up and have some food. ; AB church Lausanne
167 : Basic English : 1 Kings 18; Gospel of John 16 1. Now after a long time, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go and let Ahab see you, so that I may send rain on the earth.2. So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. Now there was no food to be had in Samaria.3. And Ahab sent for Obadiah, the controller of the king's house. (Now Obadiah had the fear of the Lord before him greatly;4. For when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and kept them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.)5. And Ahab said to Obadiah, Come, let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers, and see if there is any grass to be had for the horses and the transport beasts, so that we may be able to keep some of the beasts from destruction. ; AB church Lausanne
166 : Basic English : 1 Kings 16,17; Gospel of John 15 1. And the word of the Lord came to Jehu, son of Hanani, protesting against Baasha and saying,2. Because I took you up out of the dust, and made you ruler over my people Israel; and you have gone in the ways of Jeroboam, and made my people Israel do evil, moving me to wrath by their sins;3. Truly, I will see that Baasha and all his family are completely brushed away; I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.4. Anyone of the family of Baasha who comes to death in the town, will become food for the dogs; and he to whom death comes in the open country, will be food for the birds of the air.5. Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel? ; AB church Lausanne
165 : Basic English : 1 Kings 14,15; Gospel of John 14 1. At that time Abijah, the son of Jeroboam, became ill.2. And Jeroboam said to his wife, Now come, put on different clothing so that you may not seem to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; see, Ahijah is there, the prophet who said I would be king over this people.3. And take with you ten cakes of bread and dry cakes and a pot of honey, and go to him: he will give you word of what is to become of the child.4. So Jeroboam's wife did so, and got up and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah was unable to see, because he was very old.5. And the Lord had said to Ahijah, The wife of Jeroboam is coming to get news from you about her son, who is ill; give her such and such an answer; for she will make herself seem to be another woman. ; AB church Lausanne
164 : Basic English : 1 Kings 12,13; Gospel of John 13 1. And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,2. And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim;3. And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,4. Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.5. And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away. ; AB church Lausanne
163 : Basic English : 1 Kings 11; Gospel of John 12 1. Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:2. The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.3. He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.4. For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.5. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites. ; AB church Lausanne
162 : Basic English : 1 Kings 9,10; Gospel of John 11 1. Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;2. The Lord came to him again in a vision, as he had done at Gibeon;3. And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.4. As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;5. Then I will make the seat of your rule over Israel certain for ever, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be king in Israel. ; AB church Lausanne
161 : Basic English : 1 Kings 8; Gospel of John 10 1. Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, and all the chiefs of the tribes, and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to him in Jerusalem to take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion.2. And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, the seventh month.3. And all the responsible men of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.4. They took up the ark of the Lord, and the Tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests and the Levites took up.5. And King Solomon and all the men of Israel who had come together there, were with him before the ark, making offerings of sheep and oxen more than might be numbered. ; AB church Lausanne
160 : Basic English : 1 Kings 7; Gospel of John 9 1. Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.2. And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.3. And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.4. There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line.5. And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines. ; AB church Lausanne
159 : Basic English : 1 Kings 5,6; Gospel of John 8 1. Now Hiram, king of Tyre, hearing that Solomon had been made king in place of his father, sent his servants to him; for Hiram had ever been a friend to David.2. And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,3. You have knowledge that David my father was not able to make a house for the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars which were round him on every side, till the Lord put all those who were against him under his feet.4. But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side; no one is making trouble, and no evil is taking place.5. And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name. ; AB church Lausanne
158 : Basic English : 1 Kings 3,4; Gospel of John 7 1. Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.2. But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.3. And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.4. And the king went to Gibeon to make an offering there, because that was the chief high place: it was Solomon's way to make a thousand burned offerings on that altar.5. In Gibeon, Solomon had a vision of the Lord in a dream by night; and God said to him, Say what I am to give you. ; AB church Lausanne
157 : Basic English : 1 Kings 2; Gospel of John 6 1. Now the time of David's death came near; and he gave orders to Solomon his son, saying,2. I am going the way of all the earth: so be strong and be a man;3. And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go,4. So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.5. Now you have knowledge of what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me, and to the two captains of the army of Israel, Abner, the son of Ner, and Amasa, the son of Jether, whom he put to death, taking payment for the blood of war in time of peace, and making the band of my clothing and the shoes on my feet red with the blood of one put to death without cause. ; AB church Lausanne
156 : Basic English : 1 Kings 1; Gospel of John 5 1. Now King David was old and far on in years; and though they put covers over him, his body was cold.2. So his servants said to him, Let search be made for a young virgin for my lord the king, to take care of him and be waiting on him; and you may take her in your arms, and so my lord the king will be warm.3. So after searching through all the land of Israel for a fair young girl, they saw Abishag the Shunammite, and took her to the king.4. Now she was very beautiful; and she took care of the king, waiting on him at all times; but the king had no connection with her.5. Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, lifting himself up in pride, said, I will become king; and he made ready his carriages of war and his horsemen, with fifty runners to go before him. ; AB church Lausanne
155 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 23,24; Gospel of John 4 1. Now these are the last words of David. David, the son of Jesse, says, the man who was lifted up on high, the man on whom the God of Jacob put the holy oil, the loved one of Israel's songs, says:2. The spirit of the Lord had voice through me, his word was on my tongue.3. The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,4. It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.5. For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase? ; AB church Lausanne
154 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 22; Gospel of John 3 1. And David made a song to the Lord in these words, on the day when the Lord made him free from the hands of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul:2. And he said, The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour, even mine;3. My God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my safe place; my saviour, who keeps me safe from the violent man.4. I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.5. For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear; ; AB church Lausanne
153 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 20,21; Gospel of John 2 1. Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel.2. So all the men of Israel, turning away from David, went after Sheba, the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah were true to their king, going with him from Jordan as far as Jerusalem.3. And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.4. Then the king said to Amasa, Get all the men of Judah together, and in three days be here yourself.5. So Amasa went to get all the men of Judah together, but he took longer than the time David had given him. ; AB church Lausanne
152 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 18,19; Psalms 150; Gospel of John 1 1. And David had the people who were with him numbered, and he put over them captains of thousands and captains of hundreds.2. And David sent the people out, a third of them under the orders of Joab, and a third under the orders of Abishai, son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, And I myself will certainly go out with you.3. But the people said, It is better for you not to go out: for if we are put to flight, they will not give a thought to us, and if death overtakes half of us, it will be nothing to them: but you are of more value than ten thousand of us: so it is better for you to be ready to come to our help from this town.4. And the king said to them, I will do whatever seems best to you. So the king took his place by the door of the town, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.5. And the king gave orders to Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Because of me, be gentle to the young man Absalom. And this order about Absalom was given in the hearing of all the people. ; AB church Lausanne
151 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 16,17; Psalms 148,149 1. And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to him, with two asses on which were two hundred cakes of bread and a hundred stems of dry grapes and a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.2. And David said to Ziba, What is your reason for this? And Ziba said, The asses are for the use of the king's people, and the bread and the fruit are food for the young men; and the wine is for drink for those who are overcome by weariness in the waste land.3. And the king said, And where is your master's son? And Ziba said, He is still at Jerusalem: for he said, Today Israel will give back to me the kingdom of my father.4. Then the king said to Ziba, Truly everything which was Mephibosheth's is yours. And Ziba said, I give honour to my lord, may I have grace in your eyes, my lord, O king!5. And when King David came to Bahurim, a man of Saul's family named Shimei, the son of Gera, came out from there, calling curses after him. ; AB church Lausanne
150 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 14,15; Psalms 146,147 1. Now it was clear to Joab, the son of Zeruiah, that the king's heart was turning to Absalom.2. And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:3. And come to the king and say these words to him. So Joab gave her words to say.4. And the woman of Tekoa came to the king, and falling on her face, gave him honour and said, Give me help, O king.5. And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead. ; AB church Lausanne
149 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 12,13; Psalms 145 1. And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And Nathan came to him and said, There were two men in the same town: one a man of great wealth, and the other a poor man.2. The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds;3. But the poor man had only one little she-lamb, which he had got and taken care of: from its birth it had been with him like one of his children; his meat was its food, and from his cup it took its drink, resting in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.4. Now a traveller came to the house of the man of wealth, but he would not take anything from his flock or his herd to make a meal for the traveller who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and made it ready for the man who had come.5. And David was full of wrath against that man; and he said to Nathan, By the living Lord, death is the right punishment for the man who has done this: ; AB church Lausanne
148 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 9,10,11; Psalms 144 1. And David said, Is there still anyone of Saul's family living, so that I may be a friend to him, because of Jonathan?2. Now there was of Saul's people a servant named Ziba, and they sent him to David; and the king said to him, Are you Ziba? And he said, I am.3. And the king said, Is there anyone of Saul's family still living, to whom I may be a friend in God's name? And Ziba said, There is a son of Jonathan, whose feet are damaged.4. And the king said to him, Where is he? And Ziba said to the king, He is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar.5. Then King David sent, and had him taken from Lo-debar, from the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel. ; AB church Lausanne
147 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 7,8; Psalms 142,143 1. Now when the king was living in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from war on every side;2. The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.3. And Nathan said to the king, Go and do whatever is in your heart; for the Lord is with you.4. Now that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,5. Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me? ; AB church Lausanne
146 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 4,5,6; Psalms 140,141 1. And when Saul's son Ish-bosheth had news that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.2. And Saul's son had two men, captains of bands, one named Baanah and the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the tribe of Benjamin; (for Beeroth was at one time taken to be part of Benjamin:3. But the people of Beeroth had gone in flight to Gittaim, where they have been living to this day.)4. Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son whose feet were damaged. He was five years old when news of the death of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and the woman who took care of him took him up and went in flight: and while she was getting him away as quickly as she was able, he had a fall and his feet were damaged. His name was Mephibosheth.5. And Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, went out and came to the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, when he was resting in the middle of the day. Now the woman who kept the door was cleaning grain, and sleep overcame her. ; AB church Lausanne
145 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 2,3; Psalms 139 1. Now after this, David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go up into any of the towns of Judah? And the Lord said to him, Go up. And David said, Where am I to go? And he said, To Hebron.2. So David went there, taking with him his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel.3. And David took all his men with him, every man with his family: and they were living in the towns round Hebron.4. And the men of Judah came there, and with the holy oil made David king over the people of Judah. And word came to David that it was the men of Jabesh-gilead who put Saul's body in its last resting-place.5. And David sent to the men of Jabesh-gilead and said to them, May the Lord give you his blessing, because you have done this kind act to Saul your lord, and have put his body to rest! ; AB church Lausanne
144 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 31; 2 Samuel 1; Psalms 137,138 1. Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel: and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa.2. And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and they put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.3. And the fight was going badly for Saul, and the archers came across him, and he was wounded by the archers.4. Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take out your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, and falling on it, put an end to himself.5. And when his servant saw that Saul was dead, he did the same, and was united with him in death. ; AB church Lausanne
143 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 29,30; Psalms 136 1. Now the Philistines got all their army together at Aphek: and the Israelites put their forces in position by the fountain in Jezreel.2. And the lords of the Philistines went on with their hundreds and their thousands, and David and his men came after with Achish.3. Then the rulers of the Philistines said, What are these Hebrews doing here? And Achish said to the rulers of the Philistines, Is this not David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me for a year or two, and I have never seen any wrong in him from the time when he came to me till now?4. But the rulers of the Philistines were angry with him, and said to him, Make the man go back to the place you have given him; do not let him go down with us to the fight, or he may be turned against us and be false to us: for how will this man make peace with his lord? will it not be with the heads of these men?5. Is this not David, who was named in their songs, when in the dance they said to one another, Saul has put to death thousands, and David tens of thousands? ; AB church Lausanne
142 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 26,27,28; Psalms 133,134,135 1. And the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, and said, Is not David waiting secretly near us in the hill of Hachilah, before the waste land?2. Then Saul went down to the waste land of Ziph, taking with him three thousand of the best men of Israel, to make search for David in the waste land of Ziph.3. And Saul put up his tents on the hill of Hachilah, which is in front of the waste land on the road. But David was in the waste land, and he saw that Saul was coming after him.4. And so David sent out watchers, and got word from them that Saul was certainly coming.5. And David got up and came to the place where Saul's tents were: and David had a view of the place where Saul was sleeping with Abner, the son of Ner, the captain of his army: and Saul was sleeping inside the ring of carts, and the tents of the people were all round him. ; AB church Lausanne
141 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 24,25; Psalms 131,132 1. Now when Saul came back from fighting the Philistines, news was given him that David was in the waste land of En-gedi.2. Then Saul took three thousand of the best men out of all Israel, and went in search of David and his men on the rocks of the mountain goats.3. And on the way he came to a place where sheep were kept, where there was a hollow in the rock; and Saul went in for a private purpose. Now David and his men were in the deepest part of the hollow.4. And David's men said to him, Now is the time when the Lord says to you, I will give up your hater into your hands to do with him whatever seems good to you. Then David, getting up, took the skirt of Saul's robe in his hand, cutting off the end of it without his knowledge.5. And later, David was full of regret for cutting off Saul's skirt. ; AB church Lausanne
140 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 21,22,23; Psalms 128,129,130 1. Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was full of fear at meeting David, and said to him, Why are you by yourself, having no man with you?2. And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has given me orders and has said to me, Say nothing to anyone about the business on which I am sending you and the orders I have given you: and a certain place has been fixed to which the young men are to go.3. So now, if you have here five cakes of bread, give them into my hand, or whatever you have.4. And the priest, answering David, said, I have no common bread here but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.5. And David in answer said to the priest, Certainly women have been kept from us; and as has been done before when I have gone out the arms of the young men were made holy, even though it was a common journey; how much more today will their arms be made holy. ; AB church Lausanne
139 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 20; Psalms 125,126,127 1. And David went in flight from Naioth in Ramah and came to Jonathan and said, What have I done? What is my crime and my sin against your father that he is attempting to take my life?2. And he said to him, Far be the thought: you will not be put to death: see, my father does nothing, great or small, without giving me word of it: would he keep this secret from me? It is not so.3. But David took his oath again and said, Your father sees that I am dear to you; so he says to himself, Let Jonathan have no idea of this, for it will be a grief to him; but as the Lord is living, and as your soul is living, there is only a step between me and death.4. Then Jonathan said to David, Whatever your desire is, I will do it for you.5. And David said to Jonathan, Tomorrow is the new moon, and I will not be seated with the king at his table: but let me go to a safe place in the country till the evening. ; AB church Lausanne
138 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 18,19; Psalms 122,123,124 1. Now after David's talk with Saul was ended, the soul of Jonathan was joined with the soul of David, and David became as dear to him as his very life.2. And that day Saul took David and would not let him go back to his father's house.3. Then Jonathan and David made an agreement together, because of Jonathan's love for David.4. And Jonathan took off the robe he had on and gave it to David, with all his military dress, even to his sword and his bow and the band round his body.5. And David went wherever Saul sent him, and did wisely: and Saul put him at the head of his men of war, and this was pleasing to all the people as well as to Saul's servants. ; AB church Lausanne
137 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 17; Psalms 120,121 1. Now the Philistines got their armies together for war, and came together at Socoh in the land of Judah, and took up their position between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim.2. And Saul and the men of Israel came together and took up their position in the valley of Elah, and put their forces in order against the Philistines.3. The Philistines were stationed on the mountain on one side and Israel on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.4. And a fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath; he was more than six cubits tall.5. And he had a head-dress of brass on his head, and he was dressed in a coat of metal, the weight of which was five thousand shekels of brass. ; AB church Lausanne
136 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 15,16; Psalms 119 1. And Samuel said to Saul, The Lord sent me to put the holy oil on you and to make you king over his people, over Israel: so give ear now to the words of the Lord.2. The Lord of armies says, I will give punishment to Amalek for what he did to Israel, fighting against him on the way when Israel came out of Egypt.3. Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.4. And Saul sent for the people and had them numbered in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.5. And Saul came to the town of Amalek, and took up his position in the valley secretly. ; AB church Lausanne
135 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 14; Psalms 117,118 1. Now one day Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man who was with him, looking after his arms, Come, let us go over to the Philistine force over there. But he said nothing to his father.2. And Saul was still waiting in the farthest part of Geba, under the fruit-tree in Migron: there were about six hundred men with him;3. And Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, brother of Ichabod, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh, who had the ephod. And the people had no idea that Jonathan had gone.4. Now between the narrow roads over the mountains by which Jonathan was making his way to the Philistines' forces, there was a sharp overhanging rock on one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: one was named Bozez and the other Seneh.5. The one rock went up on the north in front of Michmash and the other on the south in front of Geba. ; AB church Lausanne
134 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 12,13; Psalms 116 1. And Samuel said to all Israel, You see that I have given ear to everything you said to me, and have made a king over you.2. And now, see, the king is before you: and I am old and grey-headed, and my sons are with you: I have been living before your eyes from my early days till now.3. Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.4. And they said, You have never been untrue to us or cruel to us; you have taken nothing from any man.5. Then he said, The Lord is witness against you, and the man on whom he has put the holy oil is witness this day that you have seen no wrong in me. And they said, He is witness. ; AB church Lausanne
133 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 10,11; Psalms 114,115 1. Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on his head and gave him a kiss and said, Is not the Lord with the holy oil making you ruler over Israel, his people? and you will have authority over the people of the Lord, and you will make them safe from the hands of their attackers round about them, and this will be the sign for you:2. When you have gone away from me today, you will see two men by the resting-place of Rachel's body, in the land of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, The asses which you went in search of have come back, and now your father, caring no longer for the asses, is troubled about you, saying, What am I to do about my son?3. Then you are to go on from there, and when you come to the oak-tree of Tabor, you will see three men going up to God to Beth-el, one having with him three young goats and another three cakes of bread and another a skin full of wine:4. They will say, Peace be with you, and will give you two cakes of bread, which you are to take from them.5. After that you will come to Gibeah, the hill of God, where an armed force of the Philistines is stationed: and when you come to the town, you will see a band of prophets coming down from the high place with instruments of music before them; and they will be acting like prophets: ; AB church Lausanne
132 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 7,8,9; Psalms 112,113 1. So the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took the ark of the Lord to the house of Abinadab in Gibeah, and they made his son Eleazar holy and put the ark in his care.2. And the ark was in Kiriath-jearim for a long time, as much as twenty years: and all Israel was searching after the Lord with weeping.3. Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.4. So the children of Israel gave up the worship of Baal and Astarte, and became worshippers of the Lord only.5. Then Samuel said, Let all Israel come to Mizpah and I will make prayer to the Lord for you. ; AB church Lausanne
131 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 4,5,6; Psalms 110,111 1. Now at that time the Philistines came together to make war against Israel, and the men of Israel went out to war against the Philistines and took up their position at the side of Eben-ezer: and the Philistines put their forces in position in Aphek.2. And the Philistines put their forces in order against Israel, and the fighting was hard, and Israel was overcome by the Philistines, who put to the sword about four thousand of their army in the field.3. And when the people came back to their tents, the responsible men of Israel said, Why has the Lord let the Philistines overcome us today? Let us get the ark of the Lord's agreement here from Shiloh, so that it may be with us and give us salvation from the hands of those who are against us.4. So the people sent to Shiloh and got the ark of the agreement of the Lord of armies whose resting-place is between the winged ones; and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were there with the ark of God's agreement.5. And when the ark of the Lord's agreement came into the tent-circle, all Israel gave a great cry, so that the earth was sounding with it. ; AB church Lausanne
130 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 2,3; Psalms 108,109 1. And Hannah, in prayer before the Lord, said, My heart is glad in the Lord, my horn is lifted up in the Lord: my mouth is open wide over my haters; because my joy is in your salvation.2. No other is holy as the Lord, for there is no other God but you: there is no Rock like our God.3. Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.4. The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.5. Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow. ; AB church Lausanne
129 : Basic English : Ruth 4; 1 Samuel 1; Psalms 107 1. And Boaz went up to the public place of the town, and took his seat there: and the near relation of whom he had been talking came by; and Boaz, crying out to him by name, said, Come and be seated here. And he came and was seated.2. Then he got ten of the responsible men of the town, and said, Be seated here. And they took their seats.3. Then he said to the near relation, Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is offering for a price that bit of land which was our brother Elimelech's:4. And it was in my mind to give you the chance of taking it, with the approval of those seated here and of the responsible men of my people. If you are ready to do what it is right for a relation to do, then do it: but if you will not do it, say so to me now; for there is no one who has the right to do it but you, and after you myself. And he said, I will do it.5. Then Boaz said, On the day when you take this field, you will have to take with it Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, so that you may keep the name of the dead living in his heritage. ; AB church Lausanne
128 : Basic English : Ruth 2,3; Psalms 106 1. And Naomi had a relation of her husband, a man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.2. And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.3. And she went, and came and took up the heads of grain in the field after the cutters; and by chance she went into that part of the field which was the property of Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.4. And Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said to the grain-cutters, The Lord be with you. And they made answer, The Lord give you his blessing.5. Then Boaz said to his servant who was in authority over the cutters, Whose girl is this? ; AB church Lausanne
127 : Basic English : Judges 21; Ruth 1; Psalms 105 1. Now the men of Israel had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, Not one of us will give his daughter as a wife to Benjamin.2. And the people came to Beth-el, waiting there till evening before God, and gave themselves up to bitter weeping.3. And they said, O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this fate come on Israel, that today one tribe has been cut off from Israel?4. Then on the day after, the people got up early and made an altar there, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings.5. And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel, who did not come up to the Lord at the meeting of all Israel? For they had taken a great oath that whoever did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord was to be put to death. ; AB church Lausanne
126 : Basic English : Judges 20; Psalms 104 1. Then all the children of Israel took up arms, and the people came together like one man, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and the land of Gilead, before the Lord at Mizpah.2. And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen armed with swords.3. (Now the children of Benjamin had word that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the children of Israel said, Make clear how this evil thing took place.4. Then the Levite, the husband of the dead woman, said in answer, I came to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin, I and my servant-wife, for the purpose of stopping there for the night.5. And the townsmen of Gibeah came together against me, going round the house on all sides by night; it was their purpose to put me to death, and my servant-wife was violently used by them and is dead. ; AB church Lausanne
118 : Basic English : Judges 6; Gospel of Luke 19 1. And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them up into the hand of Midian for seven years.2. And Midian was stronger than Israel; and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made holes for themselves in the mountains, and hollows in the rocks, and strong places.3. And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;4. And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses.5. For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction. ; AB church Lausanne
117 : Basic English : Judges 4,5; Gospel of Luke 18 1. And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord when Ehud was dead.2. And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Jabin, king of Canaan, who was ruling in Hazor; the captain of his army was Sisera, who was living in Harosheth of the Gentiles.3. Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel.4. Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time.5. (And she had her seat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her to be judged.) ; AB church Lausanne
116 : Basic English : Judges 2,3; Gospel of Luke 17 1. Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, *** I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me:2. And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?3. And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.4. Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.5. And they gave that place the name of Bochim, and made offerings there to the Lord. ; AB church Lausanne
115 : Basic English : Joshua 24; Judges 1; Gospel of Luke 16 1. Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God.2. And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.3. And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.4. And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.5. And I sent Moses and Aaron, troubling Egypt by all the signs I did among them: and after that I took you out. ; AB church Lausanne
114 : Basic English : Joshua 22,23; Gospel of Luke 15 1. Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,2. And said to them, You have kept all the orders of Moses, the Lord's servant, and have done everything I gave you orders to do:3. You have now been with your brothers for a long time; till this day you have been doing the orders of the Lord your God.4. And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest, as he said: so now you may go back to your tents, to the land of your heritage, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you on the other side of Jordan.5. Only take great care to do the orders and the law which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you; to have love for the Lord your God and to go in all his ways; and to keep his laws and to be true to him and to be his servants with all your heart and with all your soul. ; AB church Lausanne
113 : Basic English : Joshua 20,21; Gospel of Luke 14 1. And the Lord said to Joshua,2. Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses,3. So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.4. And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe.5. And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate. ; AB church Lausanne
112 : Basic English : Joshua 19; Gospel of Luke 13 1. And the second heritage came out for the tribe of Simeon by their families; and their heritage was in the middle of the heritage of the children of Judah.2. And they had for their heritage Beer-sheba and Shema and Moladah3. And Hazar-shual and Balah and Ezem4. And Eltolad and Bethul and Hormah5. And Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth and Hazar-susah ; AB church Lausanne
111 : Basic English : Joshua 16,17,18; Gospel of Luke 12 1. And the limit of the land marked out for the children of Joseph went out from Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, in the waste land, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Beth-el;2. And it goes out from Beth-el to Luz, and on as far as the limit of the Archites to Ataroth;3. And it goes down to the west to the limit of the Japhletites, to the limit of Beth-horon the lower, as far as Gezer; ending at the sea.4. And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their heritage.5. And the limit of the land of the children of Ephraim by their families was marked out in this way: the limit of their heritage to the east was Ataroth-addar, to Beth-horon the higher; ; AB church Lausanne
110 : Basic English : Joshua 15; Gospel of Luke 11 1. Now the part of the land marked out for the children of Judah by families, went up to the edge of Edom, as far as the waste land of Zin to the south, to the farthest point of it on the south.2. Their south limit was from the farthest part of the Salt Sea, from the inlet looking to the south:3. From there it goes south of the slope up to Akrabbim, and on to Zin, then south past Kadesh-barnea, and on by Hezron and up to Addar, turning in the direction of Karka:4. Then on to Azmon, ending at the stream of Egypt: and the end of the limit is at the sea; this will be your limit on the south.5. And the east limit is the Salt Sea as far as the end of Jordan. And the limit of the north part of the land is from the inlet of the sea at the end of Jordan: ; AB church Lausanne
109 : Basic English : Joshua 13,14; Gospel of Luke 10 1. Now Joshua was old and full of years; and the Lord said to him, You are old and full of years, and there is still very much land to be taken.2. This is the land which is still to be taken: all the country of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;3. From the Shihor, which is before Egypt, to the edge of Ekron to the north, which is taken to be Canaanite property: the five chiefs of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, as well as the Avvim;4. On the south: all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah which is the property of the Zidonians, to Aphek, as far as the limit of the Amorites:5. And the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, looking east, from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon as far as Hamath: ; AB church Lausanne
108 : Basic English : Joshua 11,12; Gospel of Luke 9 1. Now Jabin, king of Hazor, hearing of these things, sent to Jobab, king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,2. And to the kings on the north in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the highlands of Dor on the west,3. And to the Canaanites on the east and on the west, and to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill-country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.4. And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number.5. And all these kings came together, and put their forces in position at the waters of Merom, to make war on Israel. ; AB church Lausanne
107 : Basic English : Joshua 9,10; Gospel of Luke 8 1. Now on hearing the news of these things, all the kings on the west side of Jordan, in the hill-country and the lowlands and by the Great Sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites,2. Came together with one purpose, to make war against Joshua and Israel.3. And the men of Gibeon, hearing what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,4. Acting with deceit, got food together as if for a long journey; and took old food-bags for their asses, and old and cracked wine-skins kept together with cord;5. And put old stitched-up shoes on their feet, and old clothing on their backs; and all the food they had with them was dry and broken up. ; AB church Lausanne
106 : Basic English : Joshua 7,8; Gospel of Luke 7 1. But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel.2. Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the side of Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and said to them, Go up and make a search through the land. And the men went up and saw how Ai was placed.3. Then they came back to Joshua and said to him, Do not send all the people up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and make an attack on Ai; there is no need for all the people to be tired with the journey there, for it is only a small town.4. So about three thousand of the people went up, and were sent in flight by the men of Ai.5. The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water. ; AB church Lausanne
105 : Basic English : Joshua 5,6; Gospel of Luke 6 1. Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.2. At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time.3. So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth.4. And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt.5. All the people who came out had undergone circumcision; but all the people whose birth had taken place in the waste land on their journey from Egypt had not. ; AB church Lausanne
104 : Basic English : Joshua 3,4; Gospel of Luke 5 1. Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and, moving on from Shittim, he and all the children of Israel came to Jordan and were there for the night before going over.2. And at the end of three days, the men in authority over the people went through the tents,3. Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see the ark of the agreement of the Lord your God lifted up by the priests, the Levites, then get up from your places and go after it;4. But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before.5. And Joshua said to the people, Make yourselves holy, for tomorrow the Lord will do works of wonder among you. ; AB church Lausanne
103 : Basic English : Joshua 1,2; Gospel of Luke 4 1. Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the word of the Lord came to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' helper, saying,2. Moses my servant is dead; so now get up! Go over Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, to the children of Israel.3. Every place on which you put your foot I have given to you, as I said to Moses.4. From the waste land and this mountain Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, and all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea, in the west, will be your country.5. While you are living, all will give way before you: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not take away my help from you or give you up. ; AB church Lausanne
102 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 33,34; Gospel of Luke 3 1. Now this is the blessing which Moses, the man of God, gave to the children of Israel before his death.2. He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples.3. All his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet; they are lifted up on his wings.4. Moses gave us a law, a heritage for the people of Jacob.5. And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came together. ; AB church Lausanne
101 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 31,32; Gospel of Luke 2 1. So Moses said all these things to Israel.2. Then he said to them, I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to go out and come in: and the Lord has said to me, You are not to go over Jordan.3. The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all those nations, and you will take their land as your heritage: and Joshua will go over at your head as the Lord has said.4. The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to destruction.5. The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have given you orders. ; AB church Lausanne
100 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 29,30; Psalms 99,100; Gospel of Luke 1 1. These are the words of the agreement which Moses was ordered by the Lord to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the agreement which he made with them in Horeb.2. And Moses said in the hearing of all Israel, You have seen all the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land;3. The great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders:4. But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.5. For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet. ; AB church Lausanne
99 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 28; Psalms 97,98 1. Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth:2. And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the Lord your God.3. A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field.4. A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.5. A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin. ; AB church Lausanne
98 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 25,26,27; Psalms 95,96 1. If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.2. And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime.3. He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.4. Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.5. If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do. ; AB church Lausanne
97 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 23,24; Psalms 94 1. No man whose private parts have been wounded or cut off may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.2. One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.3. No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people:4. Because they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and they got Balaam, the son of Peor, from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to put curses on you.5. But the Lord your God would not give ear to Balaam, but let the curse be changed into a blessing to you, because of his love for you. ; AB church Lausanne
96 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 21,22; Psalms 92,93 1. If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death:2. Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured;3. And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke;4. And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken:5. Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged: ; AB church Lausanne
95 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 19,20; Psalms 90,91 1. When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;2. You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.3. You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight.4. This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate;5. For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe: ; AB church Lausanne
94 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 17,18; Psalms 89 1. No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.2. If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,3. By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;4. If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;5. Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead. ; AB church Lausanne
93 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 15,16; Psalms 88 1. At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.2. This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord.3. A man of another nation may be forced to make payment of his debt, but if your brother has anything of yours, let it go;4. But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will certainly give you his blessing in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage;5. If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today. ; AB church Lausanne
92 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 13,14; Psalms 86,87 1. If ever you have among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder,2. And the sign or the wonder takes place, and he says to you, Let us go after other gods, which are strange to you, and give them worship;3. Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God is testing you, to see if all the love of your heart and soul is given to him.4. But keep on in the ways of the Lord your God, fearing him and keeping his orders and hearing his voice, worshipping him and being true to him.5. And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you. ; AB church Lausanne
91 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 11,12; Psalms 84,85 1. So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.2. And be certain in your minds this day; for these words are not said to your children, who have had no experience of the training of the Lord your God, and who have not seen his great power or his strong hand and his stretched-out arm,3. Or his signs and wonders which he did in Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and all his land;4. And what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their war-carriages; how he made the waters of the Red Sea come up over them when they went after you, and how the Lord put an end to them even to this day;5. And what he did for you in the waste land, till you came to this place; ; AB church Lausanne
90 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 9,10; Psalms 83 1. Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven;2. A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, of whom you have knowledge and of whom it has been said, All are forced to give way before the sons of Anak.3. Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the Lord has said.4. And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.5. Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ; AB church Lausanne
89 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 7,8; Psalms 81,82 1. When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;2. And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:3. Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.4. For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.5. But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire. ; AB church Lausanne
88 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 5,6; Psalms 79,80 1. And Moses sent for all Israel, and said to them, Give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I give you today, and give attention to them so that you may keep and do them.2. The Lord our God made an agreement with us in Horeb.3. The Lord did not make this agreement with our fathers but with us, who are all living and present here today.4. The word of the Lord came to you face to face on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire,5. (I was between the Lord and you at that time, to make clear to you the word of the Lord: because, through fear of the fire, you did not go up the mountain;) saying, ; AB church Lausanne
87 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 4; Psalms 78 1. And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.2. Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you.3. Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for destruction came from the Lord on all those among you who went after Baal-peor.4. But you who kept faith with the Lord are living, every one of you, today.5. I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God, so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to take it for your heritage. ; AB church Lausanne
86 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 2,3; Psalms 77 1. Then we went back, journeying into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lord had said to me: and we were a long time going round Mount Seir.2. And the Lord said to me,3. You have been journeying round this mountain long enough: now go to the north;4. And give the people orders, saying, You are about to go through the land of your brothers, the children of Esau, who are living in Seir; and they will have fear of you; so take care what you do:5. Make no attack on them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even space enough for a man's foot: because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for his heritage. ; AB church Lausanne
85 : Basic English : Numbers 36; Deuteronomy 1; Psalms 75,76 1. Now the heads of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came to Moses, the chiefs and the heads of families of the children of Israel being present,2. And said, The Lord gave orders to my lord to make distribution of the land as their heritage to the children of Israel: and my lord was ordered by the Lord to give the heritage of Zelophehad, our brother, to his daughters.3. Now if they get married to any of the sons of other tribes of the children of Israel, then their property will be taken away from the heritage of our fathers, and become part of the heritage of the tribe into which they get married: and their heritage will be taken away from the heritage of our tribe.4. And at the time of the Jubilee of the children of Israel, their property will be joined to the heritage of the tribe of which they are part and will be taken away from the heritage of the tribe of our fathers.5. So by the direction of the Lord, Moses gave orders to the children of Israel, saying, What the tribe of the sons of Joseph have said is right. ; AB church Lausanne
84 : Basic English : Numbers 34,35; Psalms 74 1. And the Lord said to Moses,2. Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land which is to be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits,)3. Then your south quarter will be from the waste land of Zin by the side of Edom, and your limit on the south will be from the east end of the Salt Sea,4. And round to the south of the slope of Akrabbim, and on to Zin: and its direction will be south of Kadesh-barnea, and it will go as far as Hazar-addar and on to Azmon:5. And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt as far as the sea. ; AB church Lausanne
83 : Basic English : Numbers 33; Psalms 73 1. These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt in their armies, under the direction of Moses and Aaron.2. And the stages of their journey on their way out were put down in writing by Moses at the order of the Lord: these are the stages of their journey and the way they went.3. On the fifteenth day of the first month they went out from Rameses; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out by the power of the Lord before the eyes of all the Egyptians,4. While the Egyptians were placing in the earth the bodies of their sons on whom the Lord had sent destruction: and their gods had been judged by him.5. So the children of Israel went from Rameses and put up their tents in Succoth. ; AB church Lausanne
82 : Basic English : Numbers 32; Psalms 72 1. Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle;2. The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the meeting,3. Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,4. The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.5. And they said, With your approval, let this land be given to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan. ; AB church Lausanne
81 : Basic English : Numbers 31; Psalms 70,71 1. Then the Lord said to Moses,2. Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.3. So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.4. From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.5. So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from every tribe, twelve thousand men armed for war. ; AB church Lausanne
80 : Basic English : Numbers 29,30; Psalms 69 1. In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a holy meeting; on it you may do no field-work; let the day be marked by the blowing of horns;2. And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them:3. And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,4. And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;5. And one he-goat for a sin-offering, to take away your sin: ; AB church Lausanne
79 : Basic English : Numbers 27,28; Psalms 67,68 1. Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, came forward: their names are Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.2. They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent of meeting, and said,3. Death overtook our father in the waste land; he was not among those who were banded together with Korah against the Lord; but death came to him in his sin; and he had no sons.4. Why is the name of our father to be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give us a heritage among our father's brothers.5. So Moses put their cause before the Lord. ; AB church Lausanne
78 : Basic English : Numbers 25,26; Psalms 66 1. Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:2. For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods.3. So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel.4. Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel.5. So Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put to death those of his men who have had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor. ; AB church Lausanne
77 : Basic English : Numbers 23,24; Psalms 64,65 1. And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep.2. And Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam made an offering on every altar of an ox and a male sheep.3. Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I will give you word of whatever he says to me. And he went to an open place on a hill.4. And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have made ready seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.5. And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say. ; AB church Lausanne
76 : Basic English : Numbers 21,22; Psalms 62,63 1. And it came to the ears of the Canaanite, the king of Arad, living in the South, that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, and he came out against them and took some of them prisoners.2. Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns.3. And the Lord, in answer to the voice of Israel, gave the Canaanites up to them; and they put them and their towns completely to destruction: and that place was named Hormah.4. Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, going round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people was overcome with weariness on the way.5. And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us. ; AB church Lausanne
75 : Basic English : Numbers 19,20; Psalms 60,61 1. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,2. This is the rule of the law which the Lord has made, saying, Give orders to the children of Israel to give you a red cow without any mark on her, and on which the yoke has never been put:3. Give her to Eleazar the priest and let him take her outside the tent-circle and have her put to death before him.4. Then let Eleazar the priest take some of her blood on his finger, shaking the blood seven times in the direction of the front of the Tent of meeting:5. And the cow is to be burned before him, her skin and her flesh and her blood and her waste are to be burned: ; AB church Lausanne
74 : Basic English : Numbers 17,18; Psalms 58,59 1. And the Lord said to Moses,2. Say to the children of Israel that they are to give you rods, one for every family, for every chief, the head of his father's house, making twelve rods; let every man's name be placed on his rod.3. And let Aaron's name be placed on the rod of Levi: for there is to be one rod for the head of every family.4. And let them be stored up in the Tent of meeting, in front of the ark of witness where I come to you.5. And the rod of that man who is marked out by me for myself will have buds on it; so I will put a stop to the outcries which the children of Israel make to me against you. ; AB church Lausanne
73 : Basic English : Numbers 16; Psalms 56,57 1. Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Pallu, the son of Reuben, made themselves ready,2. And came before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty chiefs of the people, men of good name who had a place in the meeting of the people.3. They came together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take overmuch on yourselves, seeing that all the people are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them; why then have you put yourselves in authority over the people of the Lord?4. And Moses, hearing this, went down on his face;5. And he said to Korah and his band, In the morning the Lord will make clear who are his, and who is holy, and who may come near him: the man of his selection will be caused to come near him. ; AB church Lausanne
72 : Basic English : Numbers 15; Psalms 55 1. And the Lord said to Moses,2. Say to the children of Israel, When you have come into the land which I am giving to you for your resting-place,3. And are going to make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burned offering or an offering in connection with an oath, or an offering freely given, or at your regular feasts, an offering for a sweet smell to the Lord, from the herd or the flock:4. Then let him who is making his offering, give to the Lord a meal offering of a tenth part of a measure of the best meal mixed with a fourth part of a hin of oil:5. And for the drink offering, you are to give with the burned offering or other offering, the fourth part of a hin of wine for every lamb. ; AB church Lausanne
71 : Basic English : Numbers 14; Psalms 52,53,54 1. Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.2. And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!3. Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?4. And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.5. Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people. ; AB church Lausanne
70 : Basic English : Numbers 12,13; Psalms 51 1. Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife.2. And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it.3. Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.4. And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam, Come out, you three, to the Tent of meeting. And the three of them went out.5. And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, taking his place at the door of the Tent, and made Aaron and Miriam come before him. ; AB church Lausanne
69 : Basic English : Numbers 10,11; Gospel of Mark 16 1. And the Lord said to Moses,2. Make two silver horns of hammered work, to be used for getting the people together and to give the sign for the moving of the tents.3. When they are sounded, all the people are to come together to you at the door of the Tent of meeting.4. If only one of them is sounded, then the chiefs, the heads of the thousands of Israel, are to come to you.5. When a loud note is sounded, the tents placed on the east side are to go forward. ; AB church Lausanne
68 : Basic English : Numbers 8,9; Gospel of Mark 15 1. And the Lord said to Moses,2. Say to Aaron, When you put the lights in their places, the seven lights will give light in front of the support.3. And Aaron did so; he put the lights in their places so that they gave light in front of the support, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.4. The support for the lights was of hammered gold work, from its base to its flowers it was of hammered work; from the design which the Lord had given to Moses, he made the support for the lights.5. And the Lord said to Moses, ; AB church Lausanne
67 : Basic English : Numbers 7; Gospel of Mark 14 1. And when Moses had put up the House completely, and had put oil on it and made it holy, with all the things in it, and had made the altar and all its vessels holy with oil;2. Then the chiefs of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, made offerings; these were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were numbered.3. And they came with their offerings before the Lord, six covered carts and twelve oxen; a cart for every two of the chiefs, and for every one an ox.4. And the Lord said to Moses,5. Take the things from them, to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting; and give them to the Levites, to every man what is needed for his work. ; AB church Lausanne
66 : Basic English : Numbers 5,6; Gospel of Mark 13 1. And the Lord said to Moses,2. Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead;3. Male or female they are to be put outside the tent-circle, so that they may not make unclean my resting-place among them.4. So the children of Israel did as the Lord had said to Moses, and put them outside the tent-circle.5. And the Lord said to Moses, ; AB church Lausanne
65 : Basic English : Numbers 4; Gospel of Mark 12 1. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,2. Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be numbered by their families, in the order of their fathers' houses;3. All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.4. And this is to be the work of the sons of Kohath in connection with the most holy things.5. When all the people go forward, Aaron is to go in with his sons, and take down the veil of the curtain, covering the ark of witness with it; ; AB church Lausanne
64 : Basic English : Numbers 2,3; Gospel of Mark 11 1. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,2. The children of Israel are to put up their tents in the order of their families, by the flags of their fathers' houses, facing the Tent of meeting on every side.3. Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief.4. The number of his army was seventy-four thousand, six hundred.5. And nearest to him will be the tribe of Issachar, with Nethanel, the son of Zuar, as their chief. ; AB church Lausanne
63 : Basic English : Leviticus 27; Numbers 1; Gospel of Mark 10 1. And the Lord said to Moses,2. Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord.3. And you will put the value of a male from twenty years to sixty years old at fifty shekels of silver, by the scale of the holy place.4. And if it is a female, the value will be thirty shekels.5. And if the person is from five to twenty years old, the value will be twenty shekels for a male, and ten for a female. ; AB church Lausanne
62 : Basic English : Leviticus 26; Gospel of Mark 9 1. Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.2. Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.3. If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them,4. Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;5. And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely. ; AB church Lausanne
61 : Basic English : Leviticus 24,25; Gospel of Mark 8 1. And the Lord said to Moses,2. Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clean olive oil for the light, so that a light may be burning at all times,3. Outside the veil of the ark in the Tent of meeting; let Aaron see that it is burning from evening till morning at all times before the Lord: it is a rule for ever through all your generations.4. Let Aaron put the lights in order on the support before the Lord at all times.5. And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake. ; AB church Lausanne
60 : Basic English : Leviticus 23; Gospel of Mark 7 1. And the Lord said to Moses,2. Say to the children of Israel, These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, which you will keep for holy meetings: these are my feasts.3. On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living.4. These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, the holy days of worship which you will keep at their regular times.5. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at nightfall, is the Lord's Passover; ; AB church Lausanne
59 : Basic English : Leviticus 21,22; Gospel of Mark 6 1. And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron, Let no man make himself unclean for the dead among his people;2. But only for his near relations, for his mother or his father, his son or his daughter, and his brother;3. And for his sister, a virgin, for she is his near relation and has had no husband, he may make himself unclean.4. But let him, being a chief among his people, not make himself unclean in such a way as to put shame on himself.5. They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh. ; AB church Lausanne
58 : Basic English : Leviticus 19,20; Gospel of Mark 5 1. And the Lord said to Moses,2. Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.3. Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.4. Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.5. And when you give a peace offering to the Lord, do it in the way which is pleasing to the Lord. ; AB church Lausanne
57 : Basic English : Leviticus 17,18; Gospel of Mark 4 1. And the Lord said to Moses,2. Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel: This is the order which the Lord has given.3. If any man of Israel puts to death an ox or a lamb or a goat, in or outside the tent-circle;4. And has not taken it to the door of the Tent of meeting, to make an offering to the Lord, before the Lord's House, its blood will be on him, for he has taken life, and he will be cut off from among his people:5. So that the children of Israel may take to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting and to the priest, the offerings which they have put to death in the open country, and that they may make their peace-offerings to the Lord. ; AB church Lausanne
56 : Basic English : Leviticus 15,16; Gospel of Mark 3 1. And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron,2. Say to the children of Israel: If a man has an unclean flow from his flesh, it will make him unclean.3. If the flow goes on or if the part is stopped up, to keep back the flow, he is still unclean.4. Every bed on which he has been resting will be unclean, and everything on which he has been seated will be unclean.5. And anyone touching his bed is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. ; AB church Lausanne
55 : Basic English : Leviticus 14; Gospel of Mark 2 1. And the Lord said to Moses,2. This is the law of the leper on the day when he is made clean: he is to be taken to the priest;3. And the priest is to go outside the tent-circle; and if, after looking, the priest sees that the mark of the disease has gone from him,4. Then the priest is to give orders to take, for him who is to be made clean, two living clean birds and some cedar wood and red thread and hyssop.5. And the priest will give orders for one of the birds to be put to death in a vessel made of earth, over flowing water. ; AB church Lausanne
54 : Basic English : Leviticus 12,13; Gospel of Mark 1 1. And the Lord said to Moses,2. Say to the children of Israel, If a woman is with child and gives birth to a male child, she will be unclean for seven days, as when she is unwell.3. And on the eighth day let him be given circumcision.4. And she will be unclean for thirty-three days till the flow of her blood is stopped; no holy thing may be touched by her, and she may not come into the holy place, till the days for making her clean are ended.5. But if she gives birth to a female child, then she will be unclean for two weeks, as when she is unwell; and she will not be completely clean for sixty-six days. ; AB church Lausanne
53 : Basic English : Leviticus 11; Psalms 50 1. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,2. Say to the children of Israel: These are the living things which you may have for food among all the beasts on the earth.3. You may have as food any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot, and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again.4. But, at the same time, of those beasts, you may not take for food the camel, because its food comes back but the horn of its foot is not parted in two; it is unclean to you.5. And the rock-badger, for the same reason, is unclean to you. ; AB church Lausanne
52 : Basic English : Leviticus 9,10; Psalms 49 1. And on the eighth day Moses sent for Aaron and his sons and the responsible men of Israel;2. And he said to Aaron, Take a young ox for a sin-offering and a male sheep for a burned offering, without a mark, and make an offering of them before the Lord.3. And say to the children of Israel: Take a he-goat for a sin-offering, and a young ox and a lamb, in their first year, without any mark on them, for a burned offering;4. And an ox and a male sheep for peace-offerings, to be put to death before the Lord; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for this day you are to see the Lord.5. And they took the things ordered by Moses, before the Tent of meeting, and all the people came near, waiting before the Lord. ; AB church Lausanne
51 : Basic English : Leviticus 7,8; Psalms 47,48 1. And this is the law of the offering for wrongdoing: it is most holy.2. They are to put to death the offering for wrongdoing in the same place as the burned offering; and the priest is to put the blood on and round the altar.3. And all the fat of it, the fat tail and the fat covering the inside parts, is to be given as an offering.4. And the two kidneys, and the fat on them, which is by the top of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away:5. They are to be burned by the priest on the altar for an offering made by fire to the Lord: it is an offering for wrongdoing. ; AB church Lausanne
50 : Basic English : Leviticus 5,6; Psalms 45,46 1. And if anyone does wrong by saying nothing when he is put under oath as a witness of something he has seen or had knowledge of, then he will be responsible:2. If anyone becomes unclean through touching unconsciously some unclean thing, such as the dead body of an unclean beast or of unclean cattle or of any unclean animal which goes flat on the earth, he will be responsible:3. Or if he becomes unclean through touching unconsciously any unclean thing of man, whatever it may be, when it is made clear to him he will be responsible:4. Or if anyone, without thought, takes an oath to do evil or to do good, whatever he says without thought, with an oath, having no knowledge of what he is doing; when it becomes clear to him, he will be responsible for any of these things.5. And whoever is responsible for any such sin, let him make a statement openly of his wrongdoing; ; AB church Lausanne
49 : Basic English : Leviticus 2,3,4; Psalms 43,44 1. And when anyone makes a meal offering to the Lord, let his offering be of the best meal, with oil on it and perfume:2. And let him take it to Aaron's sons, the priests; and having taken in his hand some of the meal and of the oil, with all the perfume, let him give it to the priest to be burned on the altar, as a sign, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord.3. And the rest of the meal offering will be for Aaron and his sons; it is most holy among the Lord's fire offerings.4. And when you give a meal offering cooked in the oven, let it be of unleavened cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, or thin unleavened cakes covered with oil.5. And if you give a meal offering cooked on a flat plate, let it be of the best meal, unleavened and mixed with oil. ; AB church Lausanne
48 : Basic English : Exodus 40; Leviticus 1; Psalms 41,42 1. And the Lord said to Moses,2. On the first day of the first month you are to put up the House of the Tent of meeting.3. And inside it put the ark of the law, hanging the veil before it.4. And put the table inside, placing all the things on it in order; and put in the support for the lights, and let its lights be burning.5. And put the gold altar for burning perfumes in front of the ark of the law, hanging the curtain over the doorway of the House. ; AB church Lausanne
47 : Basic English : Exodus 38,39; Psalms 39,40 1. The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high,2. And he put horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with brass;3. And brass was used for all the vessels of the altar, the baskets and the spades, the basins and the meat-hooks and the fire-trays; all the vessels he made of brass4. And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the frame round it, stretching half-way up;5. And four rings for the four angles of this network, to take the rods. ; AB church Lausanne
46 : Basic English : Exodus 36,37; Psalms 38 1. So let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every wise-hearted man to whom the Lord has given wisdom and knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the ordering of the holy place, as the Lord has given orders.2. Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved by the impulse of his heart to come and take part in the work:3. And they took from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had given for the building of the holy place. And still they went on giving him more free offerings every morning.4. Then the wise men, who were doing all the work of the holy place, came from their work;5. And said to Moses, The people are giving much more than is needed for the work which the Lord has given us orders to do. ; AB church Lausanne
45 : Basic English : Exodus 34,35; Psalms 36,37 1. And the Lord said to Moses, Make two other stones like the first two; and I will put on them the words which were on the first stones, which were broken by you.2. And be ready by the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai, and come before me there in the morning, on the top of the mountain.3. No one is to come up with you, and let no man be seen anywhere on the mountain; let no flocks or herds come near to get their food at its foot.4. So Moses got two stones cut like the first; and early in the morning he went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had said, with the two stones in his hand.5. And the Lord came down in the cloud and took his place by the side of Moses, and Moses gave worship to the name of the Lord. ; AB church Lausanne
44 : Basic English : Exodus 32,33; Psalms 35 1. And when the people saw that Moses was a long time coming down from the mountain, they all came to Aaron and said to him, Come, make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.2. Then Aaron said to them, Take off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives and your sons and your daughters, and give them to me.3. And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to Aaron.4. And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.5. And when Aaron saw this, he made an altar before it, and made a public statement, saying, Tomorrow there will be a feast to the Lord. ; AB church Lausanne
43 : Basic English : Exodus 30,31; Psalms 34 1. And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made.2. The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high, and its horns are to be made of the same.3. It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it.4. Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make two gold rings, to take the rods for lifting it.5. And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold. ; AB church Lausanne
42 : Basic English : Exodus 29; Psalms 32,33 1. This is what you are to do to make them holy, to do the work of priests to me: Take one young ox and two male sheep, without any mark on them,2. And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal;3. Put these in a basket and take them, with the ox and the two sheep.4. And let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting, and there let them be washed with water.5. Take the robes, and put the coat and the dress and the ephod and the priest's bag on Aaron; put the band of needlework round him, ; AB church Lausanne
41 : Basic English : Exodus 27,28; Psalms 30,31 1. And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.2. Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass.3. And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass.4. And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles.5. And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar. ; AB church Lausanne
40 : Basic English : Exodus 25,26; Psalms 28,29 1. And the Lord said to Moses,2. Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me an offering; from every man who has the impulse in his heart take an offering for me.3. And this is the offering you are to take from them: gold and silver and brass;4. And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats' hair;5. And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood; ; AB church Lausanne
39 : Basic English : Exodus 23,24; Psalms 26,27 1. Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.2. Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:3. But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.4. If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him.5. If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire. ; AB church Lausanne
38 : Basic English : Exodus 21,22; Psalms 23,24,25 1. Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.2. If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.3. If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.4. If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.5. But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free: ; AB church Lausanne
37 : Basic English : Exodus 19,20; Psalms 21,22 1. In the third month after the children of Israel went out from Egypt, on the same day, they came into the waste land of Sinai.2. And when they had gone away from Rephidim and had come into the waste land of Sinai, they put up their tents in the waste land before the mountain: there Israel put up its tents.3. And Moses went up to God, and the voice of the Lord came to him from the mountain, saying, Say to the family of Jacob, and give word to the children of Israel:4. You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself.5. If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine: ; AB church Lausanne
36 : Basic English : Exodus 17,18; Psalms 19,20 1. And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people.2. So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?3. And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?4. And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by stoning.5. And the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take some of the chiefs of Israel with you, and take in your hand the rod which was stretched out over the Nile, and go. ; AB church Lausanne
35 : Basic English : Exodus 15,16; Psalms 17,18 1. Then Moses and the children of Israel made this song to the Lord, and said, I will make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory: the horse and the horseman he has sent down into the sea.2. The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him glory.3. The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.4. Pharaoh's war-carriages and his army he has sent down into the sea: the best of his captains have gone down into the Red Sea.5. They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves. ; AB church Lausanne
34 : Basic English : Exodus 13,14; Psalms 14,15,16 1. And the Lord said to Moses,2. Let the first male child of every mother among the children of Israel be kept holy for me, even the first male birth among man or beast; for it is mine.3. And Moses said to the people, Let this day, on which you came out of Egypt, out of your prison-house, be kept for ever in memory; for by the strength of his hand the Lord has taken you out from this place; let no leavened bread be used.4. On this day, in the month Abib, you are going out.5. And it will be that, when the Lord takes you into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, the land which he made an oath to your fathers that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will do this act of worship in this month. ; AB church Lausanne
33 : Basic English : Exodus 10,11,12; Psalms 11,12,13 1. And the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh: for I have made his heart and the hearts of his servants hard, so that I may let my signs be seen among them:2. And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which I have done among them; so that you may see that I am the Lord.3. Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.4. For if you will not let my people go, tomorrow I will send locusts into your land:5. And the face of the earth will be covered with them, so that you will not be able to see the earth: and they will be the destruction of everything which up to now has not been damaged, everything which was not crushed by the ice-storm, and every tree still living in your fields. ; AB church Lausanne
32 : Basic English : Exodus 8,9; Psalms 10 1. And this is what the Lord said to Moses: Go to Pharaoh and say to him, The Lord says, Let my people go so that they may give me worship.2. And if you will not let them go, see, I will send frogs into every part of your land:3. The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into your house and into your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and into your bread-basins.4. The frogs will come up over you and your people and all your servants.5. And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the streams and the waterways and the pools, causing frogs to come up on the land of Egypt. ; AB church Lausanne
31 : Basic English : Exodus 6,7; Psalms 8,9 1. And the Lord said to Moses, Now you will see what I am about to do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand he will be forced to let them go, driving them out of his land because of my outstretched arm.2. And God said to Moses, I am Yahweh:3. I let myself be seen by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God, the Ruler of all; but they had no knowledge of my name Yahweh.4. And I made an agreement with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their wanderings.5. And truly my ears are open to the cry of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep under their yoke; and I have kept in mind my agreement. ; AB church Lausanne
30 : Basic English : Exodus 4,5; Psalms 6,7 1. And Moses, answering, said, It is certain that they will not have faith in me or give ear to my voice; for they will say, You have not seen the Lord.2. And the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod.3. And he said, Put it down on the earth. And he put it down on the earth and it became a snake; and Moses went running from it.4. And the Lord said to Moses, Put out your hand and take it by the tail: (and he put out his hand and took a grip of it and it became a rod in his hand:)5. So that they may be certain that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by you. ; AB church Lausanne
29 : Basic English : Exodus 2,3; Psalms 3,4,5 1. Now a man of the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter of Levi.2. And she became with child and gave birth to a Son; and when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she kept him secretly for three months.3. And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.4. And his sister took her place at a distance to see what would become of him.5. Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath, while her women were walking by the riverside; and she saw the basket among the river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get it. ; AB church Lausanne
28 : Basic English : Genesis 50; Exodus 1; Psalms 1,2 1. And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him.2. And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.3. And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.4. And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh:5. My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again. ; AB church Lausanne
27 : Basic English : Genesis 48,49; Gospel of Matthew 28 1. Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim.2. And when they said to Jacob, Your son Joseph is coming to see you: then Israel, getting all his strength together, had himself lifted up in his bed.3. And Jacob said to Joseph, God, the Ruler of all, came to me in a vision at Luz in the land of Canaan, and gave me his blessing,4. And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.5. And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are. ; AB church Lausanne
26 : Basic English : Genesis 46,47; Gospel of Matthew 27 1. And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac.2. And God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.3. And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:4. I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes.5. Then Jacob went on from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Jacob took their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts which Pharaoh had sent for them. ; AB church Lausanne
25 : Basic English : Genesis 44,45; Gospel of Matthew 26 1. Then he gave orders to the servant who was over his house, saying, Put as much food into the men's bags as will go into them, and put every man's money in the mouth of his bag;2. And put my cup, my silver cup, in the youngest one's bag, with his money. So he did as Joseph said.3. And at dawn the men, with their asses, were sent away.4. And when they had gone only a little way out of the town, Joseph said to the servant who was over his house, Go after them; and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have you done evil in reward for good?5. Is not this the cup from which my lord takes wine and by which he gets knowledge of the future? Truly, you have done evil. ; AB church Lausanne
24 : Basic English : Genesis 42,43; Gospel of Matthew 25 1. Now Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are you looking at one another?2. And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.3. So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt.4. But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with them, for fear, as he said, that some evil might come to him.5. And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan. ; AB church Lausanne
23 : Basic English : Genesis 41; Gospel of Matthew 24 1. Now after two years had gone by, Pharaoh had a dream; and in his dream he was by the side of the Nile;2. And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the river-grass.3. And after them seven other cows came out of the Nile, poor-looking and thin; and they were by the side of the other cows.4. And the seven thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows. Then Pharaoh came out of his sleep.5. But he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which he saw seven heads of grain, full and good, all on one stem. ; AB church Lausanne
22 : Basic English : Genesis 39,40; Gospel of Matthew 23 1. Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar the Egyptian, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house, got him for a price from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.2. And the Lord was with Joseph, and he did well; and he was living in the house of his master the Egyptian.3. And his master saw that the Lord was with him, making everything he did go well.4. And having a high opinion of Joseph as his servant, he made him the overseer of his house and gave him control over all he had.5. And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field. ; AB church Lausanne
21 : Basic English : Genesis 37,38; Gospel of Matthew 22 1. Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.2. These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.3. Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.4. And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.5. Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever. ; AB church Lausanne
20 : Basic English : Genesis 36; Gospel of Matthew 21 1. Now these are the generations of Esau, that is to say, Edom.2. Esau's wives were women of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,3. And Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.4. Adah had a son Eliphaz; and Basemath was the mother of Reuel;5. Oholibamah was the mother of Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the sons of Esau, whose birth took place in the land of Canaan. ; AB church Lausanne
19 : Basic English : Genesis 34,35; Gospel of Matthew 20 1. Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to see the women of that country.2. And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her.3. Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.4. And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.5. Now Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his daughter; but his sons were in the fields with the cattle, and Jacob said nothing till they came. ; AB church Lausanne
18 : Basic English : Genesis 32,33; Gospel of Matthew 19 1. And on his way Jacob came face to face with the angels of God.2. And when he saw them he said, This is the army of God: so he gave that place the name of Mahanaim.3. Now Jacob sent servants before him to Esau, his brother, in the land of Seir, the country of Edom;4. And he gave them orders to say these words to Esau: Your servant Jacob says, Till now I have been living with Laban:5. And I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and women-servants: and I have sent to give my lord news of these things so that I may have grace in his eyes. ; AB church Lausanne
17 : Basic English : Genesis 31; Gospel of Matthew 18 1. Now it came to the ears of Jacob that Laban's sons were saying, Jacob has taken away all our father's property, and in this way he has got all this wealth.2. And Jacob saw that Laban's feeling for him was no longer what it had been before.3. Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.4. And Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to him in the field among his flock.5. And he said to them, It is clear to me that your father's feeling is no longer what it was to me; but the God of my father has been with me ; AB church Lausanne
16 : Basic English : Genesis 30; Gospel of Matthew 17 1. Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living.2. But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?3. Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her.4. So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.5. And Bilhah became with child, and gave birth to a son. ; AB church Lausanne
15 : Basic English : Genesis 28,29; Gospel of Matthew 16 1. Then Isaac sent for Jacob, and blessing him, said, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;2. But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.3. And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.4. And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.5. So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. ; AB church Lausanne
14 : Basic English : Genesis 27; Gospel of Matthew 15 1. Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so that he was not able to see, he sent for Esau, his first son, and said to him, My son: and he said, Here am I.2. And he said, See now, I am old, and my death may take place at any time:3. So take your arrows and your bow and go out to the field and get meat for me;4. And make me food, good to the taste, such as is pleasing to me, and put it before me, so that I may have a meal and give you my blessing before death comes to me.5. Now Isaac's words to his son were said in Rebekah's hearing. Then Esau went out to get the meat. ; AB church Lausanne
13 : Basic English : Genesis 25,26; Gospel of Matthew 14 1. And Abraham took another wife named Keturah.2. She became the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah.3. And Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And from Dedan came the Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim.4. And from Midian came Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the offspring of Keturah.5. Now Abraham gave all his property to Isaac; ; AB church Lausanne
12 : Basic English : Genesis 24; Gospel of Matthew 13 1. Now Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had given him everything in full measure.2. And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:3. And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;4. But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.5. And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came? ; AB church Lausanne
11 : Basic English : Genesis 22,23; Gospel of Matthew 12 1. Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.2. And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.3. And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.4. And on the third day, Abraham, lifting up his eyes, saw the place a long way off.5. Then he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and I and the boy will go on and give worship and come back again to you. ; AB church Lausanne
10 : Basic English : Genesis 20,21; Gospel of Matthew 11 1. And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.2. And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.3. But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him, Truly you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.4. Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, will you put to death an upright nation?5. Did he not say to me himself, She is my sister? and she herself said, He is my brother: with an upright heart and clean hands have I done this. ; AB church Lausanne
9 : Basic English : Genesis 18,19; Gospel of Matthew 10 1. Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;2. And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;3. And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant:4. Let me get water for washing your feet, and take your rest under the tree:5. And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so. ; AB church Lausanne
8 : Basic English : Genesis 15,16,17; Gospel of Matthew 9 1. After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.2. And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.3. And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.4. Then said the Lord, This man will not get the heritage, but a son of your body will have your property after you.5. And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be. ; AB church Lausanne
7 : Basic English : Genesis 13,14; Gospel of Matthew 8 1. And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.2. Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.3. And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;4. To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.5. And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents; ; AB church Lausanne
6 : Basic English : Genesis 11,12; Gospel of Matthew 7 1. And all the earth had one language and one tongue.2. And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.3. And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.4. And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.5. And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building. ; AB church Lausanne
5 : Basic English : Genesis 9,10; Gospel of Matthew 6 1. And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.2. And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands.3. Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.4. But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.5. And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man. ; AB church Lausanne
4 : Basic English : Genesis 7,8; Gospel of Matthew 5 1. And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.2. Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;3. And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.4. For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.5. And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do. ; AB church Lausanne
3 : Basic English : Genesis 5,6; Gospel of Matthew 3,4 1. This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;2. Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made.3. Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth:4. And after the birth of Seth, Adam went on living for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters:5. And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end. ; AB church Lausanne
2 : Basic English : Genesis 3,4; Gospel of Matthew 2 1. Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?2. And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:3. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.4. And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you:5. For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil. ; AB church Lausanne
1 : Basic English : Genesis 1,2; Gospel of Matthew 1 1. At the first God made the heaven and the earth.2. And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.4. And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,5. Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ; AB church Lausanne
AB church Renens-Lausanne ; 2022-11-06 reading for the day 6 => Basic English : Genesis: 11,12 ; Matthew: 7 ; 1. And all the earth had one language and one tongue. 2. And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place. 3. And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth. 4. And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth. 5. And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.
AB church Renens-Lausanne ; 2022-11-05 reading for the day 5 => Basic English : Genesis: 9,10 ; Matthew: 6 ; 1. And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full. 2. And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands. 3. Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things. 4. But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food. 5. And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.
AB church Renens-Lausanne ; 2022-11-04 reading for the day 4 => Basic English : Genesis: 7,8 ; Matthew: 5 ; 1. And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright. 2. Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female; 3. And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth. 4. For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth. 5. And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.
AB church Renens-Lausanne ; 2022-11-03 reading for the day 3 => Basic English : Genesis: 5,6 ; Matthew: 3,4 ; 1. This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God; 2. Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made. 3. Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth: 4. And after the birth of Seth, Adam went on living for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters: 5. And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.
AB church Renens-Lausanne ; 2022-11-02 reading for the day 2 => Basic English : Genesis: 3,4 ; Matthew: 2 ; 1. Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden? 2. And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden: 3. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you. 4. And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you: 5. For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.
AB church Renens-Lausanne ; 2022-11-01 reading for the day 1 => Basic English : Genesis: 1,2 ; Matthew: 1 ; 1. At the first God made the heaven and the earth. 2. And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters. 3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4. And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark, 5. Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.