Proverbs 23

English Standard Version

23 When you sit down to eat with a ruler,
    observe carefully what^[a] is before you,
²and put a knife to your throat
    if you are given to appetite.
³^(A)Do not desire his delicacies,
    for they are deceptive food.
⁴^(B)Do not toil to acquire wealth;
    ^(C)be discerning enough to desist.
⁵When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
    ^(D)for suddenly it sprouts wings,
    flying like an eagle toward heaven.
⁶^(E)Do not eat the bread of a man who is ^(F)stingy;^[b]
    ^(G)do not desire his delicacies,
⁷for he is like one who is inwardly calculating.^[c]
    “Eat and drink!” he says to you,
    but his ^(H)heart is not with you.
⁸You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten,
    and waste your pleasant words.
⁹Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
    for he will despise the good sense of your words.
¹⁰^(I)Do not move an ancient landmark
    or enter the fields of the fatherless,
¹¹for their ^(J)Redeemer is strong;
    he will ^(K)plead their cause against you.
¹²Apply your heart to instruction
    and your ear to words of knowledge.
¹³Do not withhold ^(L)discipline from a child;
    ^(M)if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
¹⁴If you strike him with the rod,
    you will ^(N)save his soul from Sheol.
¹⁵^(O)My son, if your heart is wise,
    my heart too will be glad.
¹⁶My ^(P)inmost being^[d] will exult
    when your lips speak ^(Q)what is right.
¹⁷Let not your heart ^(R)envy sinners,
    but continue in ^(S)the fear of the Lord all the day.
¹⁸Surely ^(T)there is a future,
    and your ^(U)hope will not be cut off.

¹⁹Hear, my son, and ^(V)be wise,
    and ^(W)direct your heart in the way.
²⁰Be not among ^(X)drunkards^[e]
    or among ^(Y)gluttonous eaters of meat,
²¹for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
    and ^(Z)slumber will clothe them with rags.

²²^(AA)Listen to your father who gave you life,
    ^(AB)and do not despise your mother when she is old.
²³^(AC)Buy truth, and do not sell it;
    buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
²⁴^(AD)The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
    he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
²⁵^(AE)Let your father and mother be glad;
    let ^(AF)her who bore you rejoice.

²⁶My son, give me your heart,
    and let your eyes observe^[f] my ways.
²⁷For a prostitute is ^(AG)a deep pit;
    ^(AH)an adulteress^[g] is a narrow ^(AI)well.
²⁸^(AJ)She lies in wait like a robber
    and increases the traitors among mankind.

²⁹^(AK)Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
    Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has ^(AL)wounds without cause?
    Who has ^(AM)redness of eyes?
³⁰Those who ^(AN)tarry long over wine;
    those who go to try ^(AO)mixed wine.
³¹Do not look at wine when it is red,
    when it sparkles in the cup
    and goes down smoothly.
³²In the end it ^(AP)bites like a serpent
    and stings like an adder.
³³Your eyes will see strange things,
    and your heart utter ^(AQ)perverse things.
³⁴You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea,
    like one who lies on the top of a mast.^[h]
³⁵“They ^(AR)struck me,” you will say,^[i] “but I was not hurt;
    they beat me, but I did not feel it.
When shall I awake?
    I ^(AS)must have another drink.”

Footnotes

Proverbs 23:1 Or who
Proverbs 23:6 Hebrew whose eye is evil
Proverbs 23:7 Or for as he calculates in his soul, so is he
Proverbs 23:16 Hebrew My kidneys
Proverbs 23:20 Hebrew those who drink too much wine
Proverbs 23:26 Or delight in
Proverbs 23:27 Hebrew a foreign woman
Proverbs 23:34 Or of the rigging
Proverbs 23:35 Hebrew lacks you will say

Numbers 27-28

English Standard Version

The Daughters of Zelophehad

27 Then drew near the daughters of ^(A)Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of Manasseh the son of Joseph. The names of his daughters were: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ²And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the chiefs and all the congregation, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, saying, ³“Our father ^(B)died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord ^(C)in the company of Korah, but ^(D)died for his own sin. And he had no sons. ⁴Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan because he had no son? ^(E)Give to us a possession among our father's brothers.”

⁵Moses ^(F)brought their case before the Lord. ⁶And the Lord said to Moses, ⁷“The daughters of Zelophehad ^(G)are right. ^(H)You shall give them possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers and transfer the inheritance of their father to them. ⁸And you shall speak to the people of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies and has no son, then you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter. ⁹And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers. ¹⁰And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers. ¹¹And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to the nearest ^(I)kinsman of his clan, and he shall possess it. And it shall be for the people of Israel ^(J)a statute and rule, as the Lord commanded Moses.’”

Joshua to Succeed Moses

¹²The Lord said to Moses, “Go up into ^(K)this mountain of Abarim and see the land that I have given to the people of Israel. ¹³When you have seen it, you also ^(L)shall be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was, ¹⁴^(M)because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin when the congregation quarreled, failing ^(N)to uphold me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are ^(O)the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.) ¹⁵Moses spoke to the Lord, saying, ¹⁶“Let the Lord, ^(P)the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation ¹⁷who ^(Q)shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be ^(R)as sheep that have no shepherd.” ¹⁸So the Lord said to Moses, “Take ^(S)Joshua the son of Nun, a man ^(T)in whom is the Spirit, and ^(U)lay your hand on him. ¹⁹Make him stand before Eleazar the priest and all the congregation, and you shall ^(V)commission him in their sight. ²⁰You shall invest him with some of your authority, ^(W)that all the congregation of the people of Israel may obey. ²¹And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him ^(X)by the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation.” ²²And Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He took Joshua and made him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation, ²³and he laid his hands on him and ^(Y)commissioned him as the Lord directed through Moses.

Daily Offerings

28 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Command the people of Israel and say to them, ‘My offering, ^(Z)my food for my food offerings, my ^(AA)pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to offer to me at its appointed time.’ ³^(AB)And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall offer to the Lord: two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a regular offering. ⁴The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight; ⁵also ^(AC)a tenth of an ephah^[a] of fine flour for ^(AD)a grain offering, mixed ^(AE)with a quarter of a hin^[b] of beaten oil. ⁶It is a ^(AF)regular burnt offering, which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord. ⁷Its drink offering shall be a quarter of a hin for each lamb. In the Holy Place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the Lord. ⁸The other lamb you shall offer at twilight. Like the grain offering of the morning, and like its drink offering, you shall offer it as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

Sabbath Offerings

⁹“On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering: ¹⁰this is ^(AG)the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.

Monthly Offerings

¹¹^(AH)“At the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; ¹²also ^(AI)three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull, and two tenths of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram; ¹³and a tenth of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for every lamb; for a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord. ¹⁴Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year. ¹⁵Also ^(AJ)one male goat for a sin offering to the Lord; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.

Passover Offerings

¹⁶^(AK)“On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Lord's Passover, ¹⁷^(AL)and on the fifteenth day of this month is a feast. Seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. ¹⁸^(AM)On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work, ¹⁹but offer a food offering, a burnt offering to the Lord: two bulls from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; ^(AN)see that they are without blemish; ²⁰also their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil; three tenths of an ephah shall you offer for a bull, and two tenths for a ram; ²¹a tenth shall you offer for each of the seven lambs; ²²also ^(AO)one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you. ²³You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a regular burnt offering. ²⁴In the same way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. It shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. ²⁵And ^(AP)on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.

Offerings for the Feast of Weeks

²⁶“On ^(AQ)the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the Lord at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work, ²⁷but offer a burnt offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord: ^(AR)two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; ²⁸also their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths for one ram, ²⁹a tenth for each of the seven lambs; ³⁰with ^(AS)one male goat, to make atonement for you. ³¹Besides the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, you shall offer them and their drink offering. ^(AT)See that they are without blemish.

Footnotes

Numbers 28:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
Numbers 28:5 A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters

Romans 14

English Standard Version

Do Not Pass Judgment on One Another

14 As for ^(A)the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. ²^(B)One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. ³Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and ^(C)let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. ⁴^(D)Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master^[a] that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

⁵^(E)One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. ^(F)Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ⁶The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since ^(G)he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. ⁷For ^(H)none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. ⁸For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, ^(I)whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. ⁹For to this end Christ ^(J)died and lived again, that he might be Lord both ^(K)of the dead and of the living.

¹⁰Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For ^(L)we will all stand before ^(M)the judgment seat of God; ¹¹for it is written,

^(N)“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,
and every tongue shall confess^[b] to God.”

¹²So then ^(O)each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Do Not Cause Another to Stumble

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

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