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Deuteronomy 16

    ²You shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God from the flock or the herd in the place where the Lord will choose to make His Name [and His Presence] dwell.

    ³You shall eat no leavened bread with it; for seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction--for you fled from the land of Egypt in haste--that all the days of your life you may [earnestly] remember the day when you came out of Egypt.

    ⁴No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days; nor shall any of the flesh which you sacrificed the first day at evening be left all night until the morning.

    ⁵You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns which the Lord your God gives you,

    ⁶But at the place which the Lord your God will choose in which to make His Name [and His Presence] dwell, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice in the evening at sunset, at the season that you came out of Egypt.

    ⁷And you shall roast or boil and eat it in the place which the Lord your God will choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.

    ⁸For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God; you shall do no work on it.

    ⁹You shall count seven weeks; begin to number the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.

    ¹⁰Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with a tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give to the Lord your God, as the Lord your God blesses you.

    ¹¹And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and daughter, your manservant and maidservant, and the Levite who is within your towns, the stranger or temporary resident, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place in which the Lord your God chooses to make His Name [and His Presence] dwell.

    ¹²And you shall [earnestly] remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be watchful and obey these statutes.

    ¹³You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths for seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and wine vat.

    ¹⁴You shall rejoice in your Feast, you, your son and daughter, your manservant and maidservant, the Levite, the transient and the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.

    ¹⁵For seven days you shall keep a solemn Feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses; because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the works of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.

    ¹⁶Three times a year shall all your males appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed:

    ¹⁷Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you.

    ¹⁸You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

    ¹⁹You shall not misinterpret or misapply judgment; you shall not be partial, or take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

    ²⁰Follow what is altogether just (uncompromisingly righteous), that you may live and inherit the land which your God gives you.

    ²¹You shall not plant for yourselves any kind of tree dedicated to [the goddess] Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God which you shall make.

    ²²Neither shall you set up an idolatrous stone or image, which the Lord your God hates.

Deuteronomy 17

    ²If there is found among you within any of your towns which the Lord your God gives you a man or woman who does what is wicked in the sight of the Lord your God by transgressing His covenant,

    ³Who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or moon or any of the host of the heavens, which I have forbidden,

    ⁴And it is told and you hear of it, then inquire diligently. And if it is certainly true that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,

    ⁵Then you shall bring forth to your town's gates that man or woman who has done that wicked thing and you shall stone that man or woman to death.

    ⁶On the evidence of two or three witnesses he who is worthy of death shall be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.

    ⁷The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from among you.

    ⁸If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment--between one kind of bloodshed and another, between one legality and another, between one kind of assault and another, matters of controversy within your towns--then arise and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses.

    ⁹And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them and they shall make clear to you the decision.

    ¹⁰And you shall do according to the decision which they declare to you from that place which the Lord chooses; and you shall be watchful to do according to all that they tell you;

    ¹¹According to the decision of the law which they shall teach you and the judgment which they shall announce to you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the verdict they give you, ^[a]either to the right hand or the left.

    ¹²The man who does presumptuously and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God or to the judge, that man shall die; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.

    ¹³And all the people shall hear and [reverently] fear, and not act presumptuously again.

    ¹⁴When you come to the land which the Lord your God gives you and you possess it and live there, and then say, We will set a king over us like all the nations that are about us,

    ¹⁵You shall surely set as king over you him whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner, who is not your brother, over you.

    ¹⁶But he shall not multiply horses to himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to multiply horses, since the Lord said to you, You shall never return that way.

    ¹⁷And he shall not multiply wives to himself, that his [mind and] heart turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

    ¹⁸And when he sits on his royal throne, he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, out of what is before the Levitical priests.

    ¹⁹And he shall keep it with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn [reverently] to fear the Lord his God, by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes and doing them,

    ²⁰That his [mind and] heart may not be lifted up above his brethren and that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left; so that he may continue long, he and his sons, in his kingdom in Israel.

Deuteronomy 18

    ²They shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord is their inheritance, as He promised them.

    ³And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.

    ⁴The firstfruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first or best of the fleece of your sheep you shall give the priest.

    ⁵For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name [and presence] of the Lord, him and his sons forever.

    ⁶And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel where he is a temporary resident, he may come whenever he desires to [the sanctuary] the place the Lord will choose;

    ⁷Then he may minister in the name [and presence of] the Lord his God like all his brethren the Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord.

    ⁸They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what may come of the sale of his patrimony.^(A)

    ⁹When you come into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of these nations.

    ¹⁰There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, or who uses divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer,

    ¹¹Or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

    ¹²For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and it is because of these abominable practices that the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

    ¹³You shall be blameless [and absolutely true] to the Lord your God.

    ¹⁴For these nations whom you shall dispossess listen to soothsayers and diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.

    ¹⁵The Lord your God will raise up for you ^[b]a prophet (Prophet) from the midst of your brethren like me [Moses]; to him you shall listen.^(B)

    ¹⁶This is what you desired [and asked] of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.

    ¹⁷And the Lord said to me, They have well said all that they have spoken.

    ¹⁸I will raise up for them a prophet (Prophet) from among their brethren like you, and will put My words in his mouth; and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

    ¹⁹And whoever will not hearken to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him.

    ²⁰But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.

    ²¹And if you say in your [minds and] hearts, How shall we know which words the Lord has not spoken?

    ²²When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or prove true, that is a word which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

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Mark 13

    ²And Jesus replied to him, You see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be loosened and torn down.

    ³And as He sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple [^[b]enclosure], Peter and James and John and Andrew asked Him privately,

    ⁴Tell us when is this to take place and what will be the sign when these things, all [of them], are about to be accomplished?

    ⁵And Jesus began to tell them, Be careful and watchful that no one misleads you [about it].

    ⁶Many will come in [^[c]appropriating to themselves] the name [of Messiah] which belongs to Me [^[d]basing their claims on the use of My name], saying, I am [He]! And they will mislead many.

    ⁷And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not get alarmed (troubled and frightened); it is necessary [that these things] take place, but the end is not yet.

    ⁸For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines and calamities. This is but the beginning of the ^[e]intolerable anguish and suffering [only the first of the ^[f]birth pangs].

    ⁹But look to yourselves; for they will turn you over to councils, and you will be beaten in the synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for My sake as a testimony to them.

    ¹⁰And the good news (the Gospel) must first be preached to all nations.

    ¹¹Now when they take you [to court] and put you under arrest, do not be anxious beforehand about what you are to say ^[g]nor [even ] meditate about it; but say whatever is given you in that hour and at ^[h]the moment, for it is not you who will be speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

    ¹²And brother will hand over brother to death, and the father his child; and children will take a stand against their parents and [have] them put to death.

    ¹³And you will be hated and detested by everybody for My name's sake, but he who patiently perseveres and endures to the end will be saved (^[i]made a partaker of the salvation by Christ, and delivered ^[j]from spiritual death).

    ¹⁴But when you see the abomination of desolation mentioned by Daniel the prophet standing where it ought not to be--[and] let the one who reads take notice and consider and understand and heed [this]--then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.^(A)

    ¹⁵Let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house nor go inside to take anything out of his house;

    ¹⁶And let him who is in the field not turn back again to get his mantle (cloak).

    ¹⁷And alas for those who are pregnant and for those who have nursing babies in those days!

    ¹⁸Pray that it may not occur in winter,

    ¹⁹For at that time there will be such affliction (oppression and tribulation) as has not been from the beginning of the creation which God created until this particular time--and ^[k]positively never will be [again].

    ²⁰And unless the Lord had shortened the days, no human being would be saved (rescued); but for the sake of the elect, His chosen ones (those whom He ^[l]picked out for Himself), He has shortened the days.^(B)