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Deuteronomy 16

    ²And thou shalt sacrifice the phase to the Lord thy God, of sheep, and of oxen, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there.

    ³Thou shalt not eat with it leavened bread: seven days shalt thou eat without leaven, the bread of affliction, because thou camest out of Egypt in fear: that thou mayst remember the day of thy coming out of Egypt, all the days of thy life.

    ⁴No leaven shall be seen in all thy coasts for seven days, neither shall any of the flesh of that which was sacrificed the first day in the evening remain until morning.

    ⁵Thou mayst not immolate the phase in any one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God will give thee:

    ⁶But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there: thou shalt immolate the phase in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at which time thou camest out of Egypt.

    ⁷And thou shalt dress, and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and in the morning rising up thou shalt go into thy dwellings.

    ⁸Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day, because it is the assembly of the Lord thy God, thou shalt do no work.

    ⁹Thou shalt number unto thee seven weeks from that day, wherein thou didst put the sickle to the corn.

    ¹⁰And thou shalt celebrate the festival of weeks to the Lord thy God, a voluntary oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt offer according to the blessing of the Lord thy God.

    ¹¹And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless, and the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there:

    ¹²And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in Egypt: and thou shalt keep and do the things that are commanded.

    ¹³Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity also of tabernacles seven days, when thou hast gathered in thy fruit of the barnfloor and of the winepress.

    ¹⁴And thou shalt make merry in thy festival time, thou, thy son, and thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy maidservant, the Levite also and the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow that are within thy gates.

    ¹⁵Seven days shalt thou celebrate feasts to the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: and the Lord thy God will bless thee in all thy fruits, and in every work of thy hands, and thou shalt be in joy.

    ¹⁶Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. No one shall appear with his hands empty before the Lord:

    ¹⁷But every one shall offer according to what he hath, according to the blessing of the Lord his God, which he shall give him.

    ¹⁸Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes: that they may judge the people with just judgment,

    ¹⁹And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just.

    ²⁰Thou shalt follow justly after that which is just: that thou mayst live and possess the land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee.

    ²¹Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God:

    ²²Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue: which things the Lord thy God hateth.

Deuteronomy 17

    ²When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant,

    ³So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the sun and the moon. and all the host of heaven, which I have not commanded:

    ⁴And this is told thee, and hearing it thou hast inquired diligently, and found it to be true, and that the abomination is committed in Israel:

    ⁵Thou shalt bring forth the man or the woman, who have committed that most wicked thing, to the gates of thy city, and they shall be stoned.

    ⁶By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he die that is to be slain. Let no man be put to death, when only one beareth witness against him.

    ⁷The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the rest of the people: that thou mayst take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

    ⁸If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose.

    ⁹And thou shalt come to the priests of the Levitical race, and to the judge, that shall be at that time: and thou shalt ask of them, and they shall shew thee the truth of the judgment.

    ¹⁰And thou shalt do whatsoever they shall say, that preside in the place, which the Lord shall choose, and what they shall teach thee,

    ¹¹According to his law; and thou shalt follow their sentence: neither shalt thou decline to the right hand nor to the left hand.

    ¹²But he that will be proud, and refuse to obey the commandment of the priest, who ministereth at that time to the Lord thy God, and the decree of the judge, that man shall die, and thou shalt take away the evil from Israel:

    ¹³And all the people hearing it shall fear, that no one afterwards swell with pride.

    ¹⁴When thou art come into the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee, and possessest it, and shalt say: I will set a king over me, as all nations have that are round about:

    ¹⁵Thou shalt set him whom the Lord thy God shall choose out of the number of thy brethren. Thou mayst not make a man of another nation king, that is not thy brother.

    ¹⁶And when he is made king, he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor lead back the people into Egypt, being lifted up with the number of his horsemen, especially since the Lord hath commanded you to return no more the same way.

    ¹⁷He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor immense sums of silver and gold.

    ¹⁸But after he is raised to the throne of his kingdom, he shall copy out to himself the Deuteronomy of this law in a volume, taking the copy of the priests of the Levitical tribe,

    ¹⁹And he shall have it with him, and shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, and keep his words and ceremonies, that are commanded in the law;

    ²⁰And that his heart be not lifted up with pride over his brethren, nor decline to the right or to the left, that he and his sons may reign a long time over Israel.

Deuteronomy 18

    ²And they shall receive nothing else. of the possession of their brethren: for the Lord himself is their inheritance, as he hath said to them.

    ³This shall be the priest's due from the people, and from them that offer victims: whether they sacrifice an ox, or a sheep, they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the breast:

    ⁴The firstfruits also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and a part of the wool from the shearing of their sheep.

    ⁵For the Lord thy God hath chosen him of all thy tribes, to stand and to minister to the name of the Lord, him and his sons for ever.

    ⁶If a Levite go out of any one of the cities throughout all Israel, in which he dwelleth, and have a longing mind to come to the place which the Lord shall choose,

    ⁷He shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, that shall stand at that time before the Lord.

    ⁸He shall receive the same portion of food that the rest do: besides that which is due to him in his own city, by succession from his fathers.

    ⁹When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate the abominations of those nations.

    ¹⁰Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire: or that consulteth soothsayers, or observeth dreams and omens, neither let there be any wizard,

    ¹¹Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits, or fortune tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead.

    ¹²For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these abominations he will destroy them at thy coming.

    ¹³Thou shalt be perfect, and without spot before the Lord thy God.

    ¹⁴These nations, whose land thou shalt possess, hearken to soothsayers and diviners: but thou art otherwise instructed by the Lord thy God.

    ¹⁵The Lord thy God will raise up to thee a PROPHET of thy nation and of thy brethren like unto me: him thou shalt hear:

    ¹⁶As thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the assembly was gathered together, and saidst: Let me not hear any more the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see any more this exceeding great fire, lest I die.

    ¹⁷And the Lord said to me: They have spoken all things well.

    ¹⁸m I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

    ¹⁹And he that will not hear his words, which he shall speak in my name, I will be the revenger.

    ²⁰But the prophet, who being corrupted with pride, shall speak in my name things that I did not command him to say, or in the name of strange gods, shall be slain.

    ²¹And if in silent thought thou answer: How shall I know the word that the Lord hath not spoken?

    ²²Thou shalt have this sign: Whatsoever that same prophet foretelleth in the name of the Lord, and it cometh not to pass: that thing the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath forged it by the pride of his mind: and therefore thou shalt not fear him.

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Mark 13

    ²And Jesus answering, said to him: Seest thou all these great buildings? There shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.

    ³And as he sat on the mount of Olivet over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him apart:

    ⁴Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall begin to be fulfilled?

    ⁵And Jesus answering, began to say to them, Take heed lest any man deceive you.

    ⁶For many shall come in my name, saying, I am he; and they shall deceive many.

    ⁷And when you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, fear ye not. For such things must needs be, but the end is not yet.

    ⁸For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and famines. These things are the beginning of sorrows.

    ⁹But look to yourselves. For they shall deliver you up to councils, and in the synagogues you shall be beaten, and you shall stand before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony unto them.

    ¹⁰And unto all nations the gospel must first be preached.

    ¹¹And when they shall lead you and deliver you up, be not thoughtful beforehand what you shall speak; but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye. For it is not you that speak, but the Holy Ghost.

    ¹²And the brother shall betray his brother unto death, and the father his son; and children shall rise up against the parents, and shall work their death.

    ¹³And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake. But he that shall endure unto the end, he shall be saved.

    ¹⁴And when you shall see the abomination of desolation, standing where it ought not: he that readeth let him understand: then let them that are in Judea, flee unto the mountains:

    ¹⁵And let him that is on the housetop, not go down into the house, nor enter therein to take any thing out of the house:

    ¹⁶And let him that shall be in the field, not turn back to take up his garment.

    ¹⁷And woe to them that are with child, and that give suck in those days.

    ¹⁸But pray ye, that these things happen not in winter.

    ¹⁹For in those days shall be such tribulations, as were not from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, neither shall be.

    ²⁰And unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect which he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.