Nations Descended from Noah

10 These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

^2 (A)The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. ³ The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. ⁴ The sons of Javan: Elishah, ^(B)Tarshish, ^(C)Kittim, and Dodanim. ⁵ From these ^(D)the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.

^6 (E)The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. ⁷ The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. ⁸ Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.^{[a] 9} He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.” ¹⁰ The beginning of his kingdom was ^(F)Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in ^(G)the land of Shinar. ¹¹ From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and ¹² Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. ^13 (H)Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, ¹⁴ Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom^[b] the Philistines came), and ^(I)Caphtorim.

¹⁶ So Joshua took all that land, ^(A)the hill country and all the Negeb and ^(B)all the land of Goshen ^(C)and the lowland ^(D)and the Arabah ^(E)and the hill country of Israel and its lowland ^17 (F)from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as ^(G)Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon below ^(H)Mount Hermon. And he captured ^(I)all their kings and struck them and put them to death. ¹⁸ Joshua made war ^(J)a long time with all those kings. ¹⁹ There was not a city that made peace with the people of Israel except ^(K)the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took them all in battle. ²⁰ For it was the Lord's doing ^(L)to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, ^(M)just as the Lord commanded Moses.

²¹ And Joshua came at that time and cut off ^(N)the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction with their cities. ²² There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, ^(O)in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain. ²³ So Joshua took the whole land, ^(P)according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. ^(Q)And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel ^(R)according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.

Kings Defeated by Moses

12 Now these are the kings of the land whom the people of Israel defeated and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from ^(S)the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all ^(T)the Arabah eastward: ^2 (U)Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and ^(V)from the middle of the valley as far as the ^(W)river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead, ³ and ^(X)the Arabah ^(Y)to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of ^(Z)the slopes of Pisgah; ⁴ and ^(AA)Og^[a] king of Bashan, one of the remnant of ^(AB)the Rephaim, ^(AC)who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei ⁵ and ruled over ^(AD)Mount Hermon and ^(AE)Salecah and all Bashan ^(AF)to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon. ^6 (AG)Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the people of Israel defeated them. And Moses the servant of the Lord ^(AH)gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

The Remnant of Israel Will Return

^20 (A)In that day ^(B)the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more ^(C)lean on him who struck them, but ^(D)will lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. ²¹ A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, ^(E)to the mighty God. ^22 (F)For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, ^(G)only a remnant of them will return. ^(H)Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness. ²³ For the Lord God of hosts will make a full end, as decreed, in the midst of all the earth.

²⁴ Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O my people, ^(I)who dwell in Zion, ^(J)be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as ^(K)the Egyptians did. ²⁵ For ^(L)in a very little while my fury will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction. ²⁶ And ^(M)the Lord of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck ^(N)Midian ^(O)at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it ^(P)as he did in Egypt. ²⁷ And in that day ^(Q)his burden will depart from your shoulder, and ^(R)his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.”^[a]

Job Replies: There Is No Arbiter

9 Then Job answered and said:

The Lord's Prayer

⁵ “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love ^(A)to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. ^(B)Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ⁶ But when you pray, ^(C)go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. ^(D)And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

⁷ “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as ^(E)the Gentiles do, for ^(F)they think that they will be heard ^(G)for their many words. ⁸ Do not be like them, ^(H)for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. ^9 (I)Pray then like this:

^14 (U)For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, ^15 (V)but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

The Apostles Arrested and Freed

¹⁷ But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of ^(A)the Sadducees), and filled with ^(B)jealousy ¹⁸ they arrested the apostles and ^(C)put them in the public prison. ¹⁹ But during the night ^(D)an angel of the Lord ^(E)opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, ²⁰ “Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all ^(F)the words of ^(G)this ^(H)Life.” ²¹ And when they heard this, ^(I)they entered the temple ^(J)at daybreak and began to teach.

Now when the high priest came, and those who were with him, they called together the council, all the senate of the people of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought. ²² But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported, ²³ “We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them we found no one inside.” ²⁴ Now when ^(K)the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to. ²⁵ And someone came and told them, “Look! The men whom you put in prison ^(L)are standing in the temple and teaching the people.” ²⁶ Then ^(M)the captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for ^(N)they were afraid of being stoned by the people.

²⁷ And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them, ²⁸ saying, ^(O)“We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you ^(P)intend to bring this man's blood upon us.”