The Covenant Renewed

¹⁰ And he said, “Behold, ^(A)I am making a covenant. Before all your people ^(B)I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an ^(C)awesome thing that I will do with you.

¹¹ “Observe what I command you this day. Behold, ^(D)I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. ^12 (E)Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a ^(F)snare in your midst. ¹³ You shall ^(G)tear down their altars and ^(H)break their pillars and cut down their ^(I)Asherim ¹⁴ (for ^(J)you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), ^15 (K)lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they ^(L)whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and ^(M)you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and you take of ^(N)their daughters for your sons, and their daughters ^(O)whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.

^17 (P)“You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.

^18 (Q)“You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in ^(R)the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. ^19 (S)All that open the womb are mine, all your male^[a] livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep. ²⁰ The ^(T)firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And ^(U)none shall appear before me empty-handed.

^21 (V)“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. ^22 (W)You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end. ^23 (X)Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. ²⁴ For I will ^(Y)cast out nations before you and ^(Z)enlarge your borders; ^(AA)no one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

^25 (AB)“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, ^(AC)or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning. ^26 (AD)The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. ^(AE)You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.”

²⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words ^(AF)I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” ^28 (AG)So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he ^(AH)wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.^[b]

The Shining Face of Moses

²⁹ When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with ^(AI)the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face ^(AJ)shone because he had been talking with God.^{[c] 30} Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face ^(AK)shone, and they were afraid to come near him. ³¹ But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them. ³² Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he ^(AL)commanded them all that the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. ³³ And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a ^(AM)veil over his face.

³⁴ Whenever Moses ^(AN)went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded, ³⁵ the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face was ^(AO)shining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

Solomon's Wealth and Wisdom

²⁰ Judah and Israel were as many ^(A)as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy. ^{21 [a] (B)}Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the ^(C)Euphrates^[b] to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. ^(D)They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

²² Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors^[c] of fine flour and sixty cors of meal, ²³ ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl. ²⁴ For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates^[d] from Tiphsah to ^(E)Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates. ^(F)And he had peace on all sides around him. ²⁵ And Judah and Israel ^(G)lived in safety, ^(H)from Dan even to Beersheba, ^(I)every man under his vine and under his fig tree, all the days of Solomon. ^26 (J)Solomon also had 40,000^[e] stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen. ²⁷ And those officers supplied provisions for King Solomon, and for all who came to King Solomon's table, each one in his month. They let nothing be lacking. ²⁸ Barley also and straw for the horses and ^(K)swift steeds they brought to the place where it was required, each according to his duty.

^29 (L)And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind ^(M)like the sand on the seashore, ³⁰ so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all ^(N)the people of the east ^(O)and all the wisdom of Egypt. ³¹ For he was ^(P)wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations. ^32 (Q)He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, ^(R)and his songs were 1,005. ³³ He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish. ³⁴ And people of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from ^(S)all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

Judgment for Idolatry

44 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who lived in the land of Egypt, at ^(A)Migdol, at ^(B)Tahpanhes, at Memphis, and in the land of ^(C)Pathros, ² “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the disaster that I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Behold, this day ^(D)they are a desolation, and no one dwells in them, ³ because of the evil that they committed, ^(E)provoking me to anger, ^(F)in that they went to make offerings ^(G)and serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. ^4 (H)Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!’ ^5 (I)But they did not listen ^(J)or incline their ear, to turn from their evil and make no offerings to other gods. ^6 (K)Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, ^(L)and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day. ⁷ And now thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil ^(M)against yourselves, to cut off from you ^(N)man and woman, ^(O)infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant? ^8 (P)Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, ^(Q)making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become ^(R)a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth? ⁹ Have you forgotten the evil of your fathers, ^(S)the evil of the kings of Judah, ^(T)the evil of their^[a] wives, your own evil, ^(U)and the evil of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? ¹⁰ They have not humbled themselves even to this day, ^(V)nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers.

¹¹ “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^(W)Behold, I will set my face against you for harm, to cut off all Judah. ¹² I will take the remnant of Judah who have ^(X)set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live, and they shall all be consumed. ^(Y)In the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine ^(Z)they shall be consumed. ^(AA)From the least to the greatest, they shall die by the sword and by famine, ^(AB)and they shall become an oath, a horror, ^(AC)a curse, and a taunt. ^13 (AD)I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence,

God Shall Scatter His Enemies

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song.

Institution of the Lord's Supper

^22 (A)And as they were eating, he took bread, and after ^(B)blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, “Take; ^(C)this is my body.” ²³ And he took a cup, and when he had ^(D)given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. ²⁴ And he said to them, ^(E)“This is my ^(F)blood of the^[a] covenant, which is poured out for ^(G)many. ²⁵ Truly, I say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

Jesus Foretells Peter's Denial

^26 (H)And when they had sung a hymn, ^(I)they went out to ^(J)the Mount of Olives. ²⁷ And Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written, ‘I will ^(K)strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’ ²⁸ But after I am raised up, ^(L)I will go before you to Galilee.” ^29 (M)Peter said to him, “Even though they all fall away, I will not.” ³⁰ And ^(N)Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before ^(O)the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” ³¹ But ^(P)he said emphatically, “If I must die with you, I will not deny you.” And they all said the same.

Do Not Cause Another to Stumble

^13 (A)Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide ^(B)never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. ¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus ^(C)that nothing is unclean in itself, ^(D)but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean. ¹⁵ For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, ^(E)you are no longer walking in love. ^(F)By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died. ^16 (G)So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil. ^17 (H)For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but ^(I)of righteousness and ^(J)peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ Whoever thus serves Christ is ^(K)acceptable to God and approved by men. ¹⁹ So then let us ^(L)pursue what makes for peace and for ^(M)mutual upbuilding.

^20 (N)Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. ^(O)Everything is indeed clean, but ^(P)it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats. ^21 (Q)It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.^{[a] 22} The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. ^(R)Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves. ²³ But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.^[b]