Chapter One
GENESIS 32:7
33 So Laban went into Jacob's tent
and into Leah's tent and into the tent of
the two maids, but he did not find them.
Then he went out of Leah's tent and entered
Rachel's tent.
34 Now Rachel had taken the household
idols and put them in the camel's
saddle, and she sat on them. And Laban
felt through all the tent but did not findthem.
35 She said to her father, "Let not my
lord be angry that I cannot rise before
you, for the manner of women is upon
me." So he searched but did not find the
household idols.
36 Then Jacob became angry and
contended with Laban; and Jacob said to
Laban, "What is my transgression? What
is my sin that you have hotly pursued
me?
37 "Though you have felt through all
my goods, what have you found of all
your household goods? Set it here before
my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that
they may decide between us two.
38 "These twenty years I have been
with you; your ewes and your female
goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten
the rams of your flocks.
39 "That which was torn of beasts I did
not bring to you; I bore the loss of it
myself. You required it of my handwhether stolen by day or stolen by night.
40 "Thus I was: by day the heat consumed
me and the frost by night, and my
sleep fled from my eyes.
41 "These twenty years I have been in
your house; I served you fourteen years
for your two daughters and six years for
your flock, and you changed my wages
ten times.
42 "If the God of my father, the God
of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had not
been for me, surely now you would have
sent me away empty-handed. God has
seen my affliction and the toil of my
hands, so He rendered judgment last
night."
The Covenant of Mizpah
43 Then Laban replied to Jacob,
"The daughters are my daughters, and
the children are my children, and the
flocks are my flocks, and all that you see
is mine. But what can I do this day to
these my daughters or to their children
whom they have borne?
44 "So now come, let us make a covenant,
you and I, and let it be a witness
between you and me."
45 Then Jacob took a stone and set it
up as a pillar.
46 Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather
stones." So they took stones and made
a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
47 Now Laban called it Jegarsahadutha,
but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 Laban said, "This heap is a witness
between you and me this day."
Therefore it was named Galeed,
49 and Mizpah, for he said, "May
the Lord watch between you and me
when we are absent one from the other.
50 "If you mistreat my daughters, or if
you take wives besides my daughters, although
no man is with us, see, God is
witness between you and me."
51 Laban said to Jacob, "Behold this
heap and behold the pillar which I have
set between you and me.
52 "This heap is a witness, and the pillar
is a witness, that I will not pass by this
heap to you for harm, and you will not
pass by this heap and this pillar to me, for
harm.
53 "The God of Abraham and the God
of Nahor, the God of their father, judge
between us." So Jacob swore by the fear
of his father Isaac.
54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on
the mountain, and called his kinsmen to
the meal; and they ate the meal and
spent the night on the mountain.
55 Early in the morning Laban arose,
and kissed his sons and his daughters
and blessed them. Then Laban departed
and returned to his place.
Jacob's Fear of Esau
32 Now as Jacob went on his way,
the angels of God met him.
2 Jacob said when he saw them,
"This is God's camp." So he named that
place Mahanaim.
3 Then Jacob sent messengers before
him to his brother Esau in the land
of Seir, the country of Edom.
4 He also commanded them saying,
"Thus you shall say to my lord Esau:
`Thus says your servant Jacob, "I have
sojourned with Laban, and stayed until
now;
5 I have oxen and donkeys and
flocks and male and female servants; and
I have sent to tell my lord, that I may
find favor in your sight."'"
6 The messengers returned to Jacob,
saying, "We came to your brother
Esau, and furthermore he is coming to
meet you, and four hundred men are
with him."
DEUTERONOMY 24:8
5 "Nevertheless, the Lord your God
was not willing to listen to Balaam, but
the Lord your God turned the curse
into a blessing for you because the Lord
your God loves you.
6 "You shall never seek their peace
or their prosperity all your days.
7 "You shall not detest an Edomite,
for he is your brother; you shall not detest
an Egyptian, because you were an
alien in his land.
8 "The sons of the third generation
who are born to them may enter the assembly
of the Lord.
9 "When you go out as an army
against your enemies, you shall keep
yourself from every evil thing.
10 "If there is among you any man
who is unclean because of a nocturnal
emission, then he must go outside the
camp; he may not reenter the camp.
11 "But it shall be when evening approaches,
he shall bathe himself with water,
and at sundown he may I reenter the
camp.
12 "You shall also have a place outside
the camp and go out there,
13 and you shall have a spade among
your tools, and it shall be when you sit
down outside, you shall dig with it and
shall turn to cover up your excrement.
14 "Since the Lord your God walks in
the midst of your camp to deliver you and
to defeat your enemies before you,
therefore your camp must be holy; and
He must not see anything indecent
among you or He will turn away from
you.
15 "You shall not hand over to his
master a slave who has escaped from
his master to you.
16 "He shall live with you in your
midst, in the place which he shall choose
in one of your towns where it pleases
him; you shall not mistreat him.
17 "None of the daughters of Israel
shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any
of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.
18 "You shall not bring the hire of a
harlot or the wages of a dog into the
house of the Lord your God for any votive
offering, for both of these are an abomination
to the Lord your God.
19 "You shall not charge interest to
your countrymen: interest on money,
food, or anything that may be loaned at
interest.
20 "You may charge interest to a foreigner,
but to your countrymen you
shall not charge interest, so that the
Lord your God may bless you in all that
you undertake in the land which you are
about to enter to possess.
21 "When you make a vow to the
Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay
it, for it would be sin in you, and the
Lord your God will surely require it of
you.
22 "However, if you refrain from vowing,
it would not be sin in you.
23 "You shall be careful to perform
what goes out from your lips, just as you
have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your
God, what you have promised.
24 "When you enter your neighbor's
vineyard, then you may eat grapes until
you are fully satisfied, but you shall not
put any in your basket.
25 "When you enter your neighbor's
standing grain, then you may pluck
the heads with your hand, but you shall
not wield a sickle in your neighbor's
standing grain.
Law of Divorce
24 "When a man takes a wife and
marries her, and it happens that
she finds no favor in his eyes because he
has found some indecency in her, and
he writes her a certificate of divorce
and puts it in her hand and sends her out
from his house,
2 and she leaves his house and goes
and becomes another man's wife,
3 and if the latter husband turns
against her and writes her a certificate of
divorce and puts it in her hand and sends
her out of his house, or if the latter husband
dies who took her to be his wife,
4 then her former husband who
sent her away is not allowed to take her
again to be his wife, since she has been
defiled; for that is an abomination before
the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on
the land which the Lord your God gives
you as an inheritance.
5 "When a man takes a new wife,
he shall not go out with the army nor be
charged with any duty; he shall be free at
home one year and shall give happiness
to his wife whom he has taken.
Sundry Laws
6 "No one shall take a handmill or
an upper millstone in pledge, for he
would be taking a life in pledge.
7 "If a man is caught kidnapping
any of his countrymen of the sons of
Israel, and he deals with him violently or
sells him, then that thief shall die; so you
shall purge the evil from among you.
LUKE 24:14
36 The soldiers also mocked Him,
coming up to Him, offering Him sour
wine,
37 and saying, "If You are the King of
the Jews, save Yourself!"
38 Now there was also an inscription
above Him, "THIS IS THE KING OF
THE JEWS."
39 One of the criminals who were
hanged there was I hurling abuse at Him,
saying, "Are You not the Christ? Save
Yourself and us!"
40 But the other answered, and rebuking
him said, "Do you not even fear God,
since you are under the same sentence of
condemnation?
41 "And we indeed are suffering justly,
for we are receiving what we deserve
for our deeds; but this man has done
nothing wrong."
42 And he was saying, "Jesus, remember
me when You come 'in Your kingdom!"
43 And He said to him, "Truly I say to
you, today you shall be with Me in a Paradise."
44 It was now about the sixth
hour, and darkness fell over the whole
land until the ninth hour,
45 because the sun was obscured;
and the veil of the temple was torn in
two.
46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud
voice, said, "Father, into Your hands I
commit My spirit." Having said this, He
breathed His last.
47 Now when the centurion saw
what had happened, he began praising
God, saying, "Certainly this man was
innocent."
48 And all the crowds who came together
for this spectacle, when they observed
what had happened, began to return,
beating their breasts.
49 And all His acquaintances and
the women who accompanied Him
from Galilee were standing at a distance,
seeing these things.
Jesus Is Buried
50 And a man named Joseph, who
was a member of the Council, a good
and righteous man
51 (he had not consented to their plan
and action), a man from Arimathea, a city
of the Jews, who was awaiting for the
kingdom of God;
52 this man went to Pilate and asked
for the body of Jesus.
53 And he took it down and wrapped
it in a linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb
cut into the rock, where no one had ever
lain.
54 It was the preparation day, and
the Sabbath was about to begin.
55 Now the women who had come
with Him out of Galilee followed, and
saw the tomb and how His body was
laid.
56 Then they returned and prepared
spices and perfumes.
And on the Sabbath they rested according
to the commandment.
The Resurrection
24 But on the first day of the week,
at early dawn, they came to the
tomb bringing the spices which they had
prepared.
2 And they found the stone rolled
away from the tomb,
3 but when they entered, they did
not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
4 While they were perplexed about
this, behold, two men suddenly stood
near them in dazzling clothing;
5 and as the women were terrified
and bowed their faces to the ground, the
men said to them, "Why do you seek the
living One among the dead?
6 "He is not here, but He has risen.
Remember how He spoke to you while
He was still in Galilee,
7 saying that the Son of Man must
be delivered into the hands of sinful men,
and be crucified, and the third day rise
again."
8 And a they remembered His words,
9 and returned from the tomb and re-
ported all these things to the eleven and
to all the rest.
10 Now they were Mary Magdalene
and Joanna and Mary the mother of
James; also the other women with them
were telling these things to the apostles.
11 But these words appeared to
them as nonsense, and they would not
believe them.
12 But Peter got up and ran to the
tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw
the linen wrappings 'only; and he went
away to his home, marveling at what
had happened.
The Road to Emmaus
13 And behold, two of them were
going that very day to a village named
Emmaus, which was about seven miles
from Jerusalem.
14 And they were talking with each
other about all these things which had
taken place.
Continues.
Chapter One
GENESIS 32:7
33 So Laban went into Jacob's tent
and into Leah's tent and into the tent of
the two maids, but he did not find them.
Then he went out of Leah's tent and entered
Rachel's tent.
34 Now Rachel had taken the household
idols and put them in the camel's
saddle, and she sat on them. And Laban
felt through all the tent but did not findthem.
35 She said to her father, "Let not my
lord be angry that I cannot rise before
you, for the manner of women is upon
me." So he searched but did not find the
household idols.
36 Then Jacob became angry and
contended with Laban; and Jacob said to
Laban, "What is my transgression? What
is my sin that you have hotly pursued
me?
37 "Though you have felt through all
my goods, what have you found of all
your household goods? Set it here before
my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that
they may decide between us two.
38 "These twenty years I have been
with you; your ewes and your female
goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten
the rams of your flocks.
39 "That which was torn of beasts I did
not bring to you; I bore the loss of it
myself. You required it of my handwhether stolen by day or stolen by night.
40 "Thus I was: by day the heat consumed
me and the frost by night, and my
sleep fled from my eyes.
41 "These twenty years I have been in
your house; I served you fourteen years
for your two daughters and six years for
your flock, and you changed my wages
ten times.
42 "If the God of my father, the God
of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had not
been for me, surely now you would have
sent me away empty-handed. God has
seen my affliction and the toil of my
hands, so He rendered judgment last
night."
The Covenant of Mizpah
43 Then Laban replied to Jacob,
"The daughters are my daughters, and
the children are my children, and the
flocks are my flocks, and all that you see
is mine. But what can I do this day to
these my daughters or to their children
whom they have borne?
44 "So now come, let us make a covenant,
you and I, and let it be a witness
between you and me."
45 Then Jacob took a stone and set it
up as a pillar.
46 Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather
stones." So they took stones and made
a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
47 Now Laban called it Jegarsahadutha,
but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 Laban said, "This heap is a witness
between you and me this day."
Therefore it was named Galeed,
49 and Mizpah, for he said, "May
the Lord watch between you and me
when we are absent one from the other.
50 "If you mistreat my daughters, or if
you take wives besides my daughters, although
no man is with us, see, God is
witness between you and me."
51 Laban said to Jacob, "Behold this
heap and behold the pillar which I have
set between you and me.
52 "This heap is a witness, and the pillar
is a witness, that I will not pass by this
heap to you for harm, and you will not
pass by this heap and this pillar to me, for
harm.
53 "The God of Abraham and the God
of Nahor, the God of their father, judge
between us." So Jacob swore by the fear
of his father Isaac.
54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on
the mountain, and called his kinsmen to
the meal; and they ate the meal and
spent the night on the mountain.
55 Early in the morning Laban arose,
and kissed his sons and his daughters
and blessed them. Then Laban departed
and returned to his place.
Jacob's Fear of Esau
32 Now as Jacob went on his way,
the angels of God met him.
2 Jacob said when he saw them,
"This is God's camp." So he named that
place Mahanaim.
3 Then Jacob sent messengers before
him to his brother Esau in the land
of Seir, the country of Edom.
4 He also commanded them saying,
"Thus you shall say to my lord Esau:
`Thus says your servant Jacob, "I have
sojourned with Laban, and stayed until
now;
5 I have oxen and donkeys and
flocks and male and female servants; and
I have sent to tell my lord, that I may
find favor in your sight."'"
6 The messengers returned to Jacob,
saying, "We came to your brother
Esau, and furthermore he is coming to
meet you, and four hundred men are
with him."
DEUTERONOMY 24:8
5 "Nevertheless, the Lord your God
was not willing to listen to Balaam, but
the Lord your God turned the curse
into a blessing for you because the Lord
your God loves you.
6 "You shall never seek their peace
or their prosperity all your days.
7 "You shall not detest an Edomite,
for he is your brother; you shall not detest
an Egyptian, because you were an
alien in his land.
8 "The sons of the third generation
who are born to them may enter the assembly
of the Lord.
9 "When you go out as an army
against your enemies, you shall keep
yourself from every evil thing.
10 "If there is among you any man
who is unclean because of a nocturnal
emission, then he must go outside the
camp; he may not reenter the camp.
11 "But it shall be when evening approaches,
he shall bathe himself with water,
and at sundown he may I reenter the
camp.
12 "You shall also have a place outside
the camp and go out there,
13 and you shall have a spade among
your tools, and it shall be when you sit
down outside, you shall dig with it and
shall turn to cover up your excrement.
14 "Since the Lord your God walks in
the midst of your camp to deliver you and
to defeat your enemies before you,
therefore your camp must be holy; and
He must not see anything indecent
among you or He will turn away from
you.
15 "You shall not hand over to his
master a slave who has escaped from
his master to you.
16 "He shall live with you in your
midst, in the place which he shall choose
in one of your towns where it pleases
him; you shall not mistreat him.
17 "None of the daughters of Israel
shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any
of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.
18 "You shall not bring the hire of a
harlot or the wages of a dog into the
house of the Lord your God for any votive
offering, for both of these are an abomination
to the Lord your God.
19 "You shall not charge interest to
your countrymen: interest on money,
food, or anything that may be loaned at
interest.
20 "You may charge interest to a foreigner,
but to your countrymen you
shall not charge interest, so that the
Lord your God may bless you in all that
you undertake in the land which you are
about to enter to possess.
21 "When you make a vow to the
Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay
it, for it would be sin in you, and the
Lord your God will surely require it of
you.
22 "However, if you refrain from vowing,
it would not be sin in you.
23 "You shall be careful to perform
what goes out from your lips, just as you
have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your
God, what you have promised.
24 "When you enter your neighbor's
vineyard, then you may eat grapes until
you are fully satisfied, but you shall not
put any in your basket.
25 "When you enter your neighbor's
standing grain, then you may pluck
the heads with your hand, but you shall
not wield a sickle in your neighbor's
standing grain.
Law of Divorce
24 "When a man takes a wife and
marries her, and it happens that
she finds no favor in his eyes because he
has found some indecency in her, and
he writes her a certificate of divorce
and puts it in her hand and sends her out
from his house,
2 and she leaves his house and goes
and becomes another man's wife,
3 and if the latter husband turns
against her and writes her a certificate of
divorce and puts it in her hand and sends
her out of his house, or if the latter husband
dies who took her to be his wife,
4 then her former husband who
sent her away is not allowed to take her
again to be his wife, since she has been
defiled; for that is an abomination before
the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on
the land which the Lord your God gives
you as an inheritance.
5 "When a man takes a new wife,
he shall not go out with the army nor be
charged with any duty; he shall be free at
home one year and shall give happiness
to his wife whom he has taken.
Sundry Laws
6 "No one shall take a handmill or
an upper millstone in pledge, for he
would be taking a life in pledge.
7 "If a man is caught kidnapping
any of his countrymen of the sons of
Israel, and he deals with him violently or
sells him, then that thief shall die; so you
shall purge the evil from among you.
LUKE 24:14
36 The soldiers also mocked Him,
coming up to Him, offering Him sour
wine,
37 and saying, "If You are the King of
the Jews, save Yourself!"
38 Now there was also an inscription
above Him, "THIS IS THE KING OF
THE JEWS."
39 One of the criminals who were
hanged there was I hurling abuse at Him,
saying, "Are You not the Christ? Save
Yourself and us!"
40 But the other answered, and rebuking
him said, "Do you not even fear God,
since you are under the same sentence of
condemnation?
41 "And we indeed are suffering justly,
for we are receiving what we deserve
for our deeds; but this man has done
nothing wrong."
42 And he was saying, "Jesus, remember
me when You come 'in Your kingdom!"
43 And He said to him, "Truly I say to
you, today you shall be with Me in a Paradise."
44 It was now about the sixth
hour, and darkness fell over the whole
land until the ninth hour,
45 because the sun was obscured;
and the veil of the temple was torn in
two.
46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud
voice, said, "Father, into Your hands I
commit My spirit." Having said this, He
breathed His last.
47 Now when the centurion saw
what had happened, he began praising
God, saying, "Certainly this man was
innocent."
48 And all the crowds who came together
for this spectacle, when they observed
what had happened, began to return,
beating their breasts.
49 And all His acquaintances and
the women who accompanied Him
from Galilee were standing at a distance,
seeing these things.
Jesus Is Buried
50 And a man named Joseph, who
was a member of the Council, a good
and righteous man
51 (he had not consented to their plan
and action), a man from Arimathea, a city
of the Jews, who was awaiting for the
kingdom of God;
52 this man went to Pilate and asked
for the body of Jesus.
53 And he took it down and wrapped
it in a linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb
cut into the rock, where no one had ever
lain.
54 It was the preparation day, and
the Sabbath was about to begin.
55 Now the women who had come
with Him out of Galilee followed, and
saw the tomb and how His body was
laid.
56 Then they returned and prepared
spices and perfumes.
And on the Sabbath they rested according
to the commandment.
The Resurrection
24 But on the first day of the week,
at early dawn, they came to the
tomb bringing the spices which they had
prepared.
2 And they found the stone rolled
away from the tomb,
3 but when they entered, they did
not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
4 While they were perplexed about
this, behold, two men suddenly stood
near them in dazzling clothing;
5 and as the women were terrified
and bowed their faces to the ground, the
men said to them, "Why do you seek the
living One among the dead?
6 "He is not here, but He has risen.
Remember how He spoke to you while
He was still in Galilee,
7 saying that the Son of Man must
be delivered into the hands of sinful men,
and be crucified, and the third day rise
again."
8 And a they remembered His words,
9 and returned from the tomb and re-
ported all these things to the eleven and
to all the rest.
10 Now they were Mary Magdalene
and Joanna and Mary the mother of
James; also the other women with them
were telling these things to the apostles.
11 But these words appeared to
them as nonsense, and they would not
believe them.
12 But Peter got up and ran to the
tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw
the linen wrappings 'only; and he went
away to his home, marveling at what
had happened.
The Road to Emmaus
13 And behold, two of them were
going that very day to a village named
Emmaus, which was about seven miles
from Jerusalem.
14 And they were talking with each
other about all these things which had
taken place.
Continues.
