Numbers 36

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Inheritance by Marriage

36 ^(A)Now the heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came forward and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the heads of the fathers’ households of the sons of Israel, ²and they said, “The Lord commanded my lord to give the land by lot to the sons of Israel as an inheritance, and my lord ^(B)was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters. ³But if they ^[a]marry one of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so it will be withdrawn from our allotted inheritance. ⁴And when the ^(C)jubilee of the sons of Israel takes place, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”

⁵Then Moses commanded the sons of Israel in accordance with the ^[b]word of the Lord, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph is right in its statements. ⁶^(D)This is ^[c]what the Lord has commanded regarding the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them marry ^[d]whomever they wish; only they must marry within the family of the tribe of their father.’ ⁷So ^(E)no inheritance of the sons of Israel will ^[e]be transferred from tribe to tribe, for the sons of Israel shall each ^[f]retain possession of the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. ⁸^(F)And every daughter who comes into possession of an inheritance of any tribe of the sons of Israel shall marry one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that the sons of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers. ⁹So no inheritance will ^[g]be transferred from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall each ^[h]retain possession of its own inheritance.”

¹⁰Just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did: ¹¹^(G)Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad married their uncles’ sons. ¹²They married those from the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance ^[i]remained with the tribe of the family of their father.

¹³^(H)These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded to the sons of Israel through Moses in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

Footnotes

Numbers 36:3 Lit become wives to, and so throughout the ch
Numbers 36:5 Lit mouth
Numbers 36:6 Lit the word which
Numbers 36:6 Lit the good one in their eyes
Numbers 36:7 Lit turn about
Numbers 36:7 Lit cling to
Numbers 36:9 Lit turn about
Numbers 36:9 Lit cling to
Numbers 36:12 Lit was to the

Psalm 80

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God Implored to Rescue His People from Their Calamities.

For the music director; set to ^[a]El Shoshannim; ^[b]Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph.

80 Listen, ^(A)Shepherd of Israel,
Who leads ^(B)Joseph like a flock;
You who ^(C)are enthroned above the cherubim, shine forth!
²Before ^(D)Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, ^(E)awaken Your power,
And come to save us!
³God, ^(F)restore us
And ^(G)make Your face shine upon us, ^[c]and we will be saved.

⁴^(H)Lord God of armies,
^(I)How long will You ^[d]be angry with the prayer of Your people?
⁵You have fed them with the ^(J)bread of tears,
And You have made them drink tears in ^[e]large measure.
⁶You make us ^[f]an object of contention ^(K)to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh among themselves.
⁷God of armies, restore us
And make Your face shine upon us, ^[g]and we will be saved.

⁸You removed a ^(L)vine from Egypt;
You ^(M)drove out the ^[h]nations and ^(N)planted it.
⁹You ^(O)cleared the ground before it,
And it ^(P)took deep root and filled the land.
¹⁰The mountains were covered with its shadow,
And ^[i]the cedars of God with its ^(Q)branches.
¹¹It was sending out its branches ^(R)to the sea
And its shoots to the Euphrates River.
¹²Why have You ^(S)broken down its ^[j]hedges,
So that all who pass that way pick its fruit?
¹³A boar from the forest ^(T)eats it away,
And whatever moves in the field feeds on it.

¹⁴God of armies, do ^(U)turn back;
^(V)Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,
¹⁵The ^[k]^(W)shoot which Your right hand has planted,
And of the ^[l]son whom You have ^[m]strengthened for Yourself.
¹⁶It is ^(X)burned with fire, it is cut down;
They perish from the ^(Y)rebuke of Your face.
¹⁷Let ^(Z)Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand,
Upon the son of man whom You ^(AA)made strong for Yourself.
¹⁸Then we will not ^(AB)turn back from You;
^(AC)Revive us, and we will call upon Your name.
¹⁹Lord God of armies, ^(AD)restore us;
Make Your face shine upon us, ^[n]and we will be saved.

Footnotes

Psalm 80 Title Possibly, to the Lilies
Psalm 80 Title Lit A testimony
Psalm 80:3 Or that we may
Psalm 80:4 Lit smoke against
Psalm 80:5 Lit a third part of a
Psalm 80:6 Lit strife to
Psalm 80:7 Or that we may
Psalm 80:8 Or Gentiles
Psalm 80:10 Or its boughs are like the cedars of God
Psalm 80:12 Or walls, fences
Psalm 80:15 Or root
Psalm 80:15 Or figuratively: branch
Psalm 80:15 Or secured
Psalm 80:19 Or that we may

Isaiah 28

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Ephraim’s Captivity Predicted

28 Woe to the proud crown of the ^(A)habitually drunk of ^(B)Ephraim,
And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the ^[a]fertile valley
Of those who are ^[b]overcome with wine!
²Behold, the Lord has a strong and ^(C)mighty agent;
As a storm of ^(D)hail, a tempest of destruction,
Like a storm of ^(E)mighty overflowing waters,
He has thrown it down to the earth with His hand.
³The splendid crown of the habitually drunk of Ephraim is ^(F)trampled underfoot.
⁴And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the ^[c]fertile valley,
Will be like the ^(G)first-ripe fig prior to the summer,
Which ^[d]one sees,
And ^[e]as soon as it is in his ^[f]hand,
He swallows it.
⁵On that day the ^(H)Lord of armies will become a beautiful ^(I)crown
And a glorious wreath to the remnant of His people;
⁶A ^(J)spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment,
A ^(K)strength to those who repel the ^[g]onslaught at the gate.
⁷And these also ^(L)reel with wine and stagger from intoxicating drink:
^(M)The priest and ^(N)the prophet reel with intoxicating drink,
They are confused by wine, they stagger from ^(O)intoxicating drink;
They reel while ^[h]having ^(P)visions,
They stagger when rendering a verdict.
⁸For all the tables are full of filthy ^(Q)vomit, without a single clean place.

⁹“To ^(R)whom would He teach knowledge,
And to whom would He interpret the message?
Those just ^(S)weaned from milk?
Those just taken from the breast?
¹⁰For He says,
‘^[i]^(T)Order on order, order on order,
Line on line, line on line,
A little here, a little there.’”
¹¹Indeed, He will speak to this people
Through ^(U)stammering lips and a foreign tongue,
¹²He who said to them, “This is the ^(V)place of quiet, give rest to the weary,”
And, “This is the resting place,” but they would not listen.
¹³So the word of the Lord to them will be,
“^[j]Order on order, order on order,
Line on line, line on line,
A little here, a little there,”
That they may go and ^(W)stumble backward, be broken, snared, and taken captive.

Judah Is Warned

¹⁴Therefore, ^(X)hear the word of the Lord, you ^(Y)scoffers,
Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
¹⁵Because you have said, “We have made a ^(Z)covenant with death,
And with ^[k]Sheol we have made a ^[l]pact.
^(AA)The ^[m]gushing flood will not reach us when it passes by,
Because we have made ^(AB)falsehood our refuge and we have ^(AC)concealed ourselves with deception.”

¹⁶Therefore this is what the Lord ^[n]God says:

“^(AD)Behold, I am laying a stone in Zion, a tested ^(AE)stone,
A precious cornerstone for the foundation, ^[o]firmly placed.
The one who believes in it will not be ^[p]disturbed.
¹⁷I will make ^(AF)justice the measuring line
And righteousness the level;
Then ^(AG)hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
And the waters will overflow the secret place.
¹⁸Your ^(AH)covenant with death will be ^[q]^(AI)canceled,
And your pact with Sheol will not stand;
When the ^(AJ)^[r]gushing flood passes through,
Then you will become its ^(AK)trampling ground.
¹⁹As ^(AL)often as it passes through, it will ^[s]seize you;
For ^(AM)morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night,
And it will be ^[t]sheer ^(AN)terror to understand ^[u]what it means.”
²⁰The bed is too short on which to stretch out,
And the ^(AO)blanket is too ^[v]small to wrap oneself in.
²¹For the Lord will rise up as at Mount ^(AP)Perazim,
He will be stirred up as in the Valley of ^(AQ)Gibeon,
To do His ^(AR)task, His ^[w]^(AS)unusual task,
And to work His work, His ^[x]extraordinary work.
²²And now do not carry on as ^(AT)scoffers,
Or your shackles will be made stronger;
For I have heard from the Lord ^[y]God of armies
Of decisive ^(AU)destruction on all the earth.

²³Listen and hear my voice,
Pay attention and hear my words.
²⁴Does the ^[z]farmer plow ^[aa]continually to plant seed?
Does he continually ^[ab]turn and break up his ground?
²⁵Does he not level its surface
And sow dill and scatter ^(AV)cumin
And ^[ac]plant ^(AW)wheat in rows,
Barley in its place and rye within its ^[ad]area?
²⁶For his God instructs and teaches him properly.
²⁷For dill is not threshed with a ^(AX)threshing sledge,
Nor is the cartwheel ^[ae]driven over cumin;
But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a club.
²⁸Grain for bread is crushed,
Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever.
Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually ^[af]damage it,
He does not thresh it longer.
²⁹This also comes from the Lord of armies,
Who has made His counsel ^(AY)wonderful and His wisdom ^(AZ)great.

Footnotes

Isaiah 28:1 Lit valley of fatness
Isaiah 28:1 Lit stricken
Isaiah 28:4 Lit valley of fatness
Isaiah 28:4 Lit the one seeing sees
Isaiah 28:4 Lit while it is yet
Isaiah 28:4 Lit palm
Isaiah 28:6 Lit battle
Isaiah 28:7 Lit seeing
Isaiah 28:10 Heb Sav lasav, sav lasav, Kav lakav, kav lakav, Zeer sham, zeer sham. These Hebrew fragments, imitating the babbling of a child, mock the prophet’s preaching.
Isaiah 28:13 See note v 10. The Lord responds to their scoffing by imitating their mockery, to represent the unintelligible language of a conqueror.
Isaiah 28:15 I.e., the netherworld
Isaiah 28:15 As in some ancient versions; MT seer
Isaiah 28:15 Or overwhelming scourge
Isaiah 28:16 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
Isaiah 28:16 Lit well-laid
Isaiah 28:16 Lit in a hurry
Isaiah 28:18 Lit covered over
Isaiah 28:18 Or overwhelming scourge
Isaiah 28:19 Lit take
Isaiah 28:19 Lit only
Isaiah 28:19 Lit the report; or the message
Isaiah 28:20 Lit narrow
Isaiah 28:21 Lit task is strange
Isaiah 28:21 Lit work is foreign
Isaiah 28:22 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
Isaiah 28:24 Lit plowman
Isaiah 28:24 Lit all day
Isaiah 28:24 Lit open
Isaiah 28:25 Lit put
Isaiah 28:25 Lit region
Isaiah 28:27 Lit rolled
Isaiah 28:28 Lit discomfit

2 John

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Walk According to His Commandments

¹^(A)The elder to the ^(B)chosen ^(C)lady and her children, whom I ^(D)love in truth; and not only I, but also all who ^(E)know the truth, ²^(F)because of the truth which remains ^(G)in us and will be ^(H)with us forever: ³^(I)Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

⁴^(J)I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received a commandment to do from the Father. ⁵Now I ask you, lady, ^(K)not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had ^(L)from the beginning, that we ^(M)love one another. ⁶And ^(N)this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, ^(O)just as you have heard ^(P)from the beginning, that you are to walk in it.

⁷For ^(Q)many deceivers have ^(R)gone out into the world, those who ^(S)do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is ^(T)the deceiver and the ^(U)antichrist. ⁸^(V)Watch yourselves, ^(W)that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. ⁹^[a]Anyone who ^[b]goes too far and ^(X)does not remain in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, ^(Y)do not receive him into your house, and do not ^[c]give him a greeting; ¹¹for the one who ^[d]gives him a greeting ^[e]^(Z)participates in his evil deeds.

¹²^(AA)Though I have many things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak ^[f]face to face, so that ^[g]your ^(AB)joy may be made complete.

¹³The children of your ^(AC)chosen sister greet you.