Old/New Testament
22 “You shall not watch the ox of your neighbor or his sheep or goat straying and ignore them; certainly you shall return them to your neighbor. 2 And if your countryman[a] is not near you or you do not know who he is,[b] then you shall bring it to your household,[c] and it shall be[d] with you until your countryman seeks after it,[e] and you shall return it to him. 3 And thus also you shall do regarding[f] his donkey, and thus you shall do concerning[g] his garment, and so you shall do with respect to[h] all of the lost property of your countryman[i] that is lost from him and you find it; you are not allowed to withhold help.
4 “You shall not see the donkey of your neighbor or his ox fallen on the road and you ignore them; certainly you must help them get up along with him.
5 “The apparel of a man shall not be put on[j] a woman, and a man shall not wear the clothing of a woman, because everyone who does these things is detestable to Yahweh your God.
6 “If a bird’s nest is found before you[k] on the road in any tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs, and the mother is lying down on the chicks or the eggs, you shall not take the mother along with the young; 7 you shall certainly let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourselves;[l] do this so that it may go well[m] for you and you may live long in the land.[n]
8 “When you build a new house then[o] you shall make a parapet wall[p] for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone should fall from it.[q]
9 “You shall not sow your vineyard with differing kinds of seed, so that you shall not forfeit the whole harvest,[r] both the seed that you sowed and the yield of the vineyard.
10 “You shall not plow with an ox and with a donkey yoked together.
11 “You shall not wear woven material made of wool and linen mixed together.
12 “You shall make tassels for yourselves[s] on the four corners of your clothing with which you cover yourself.
13 “If a man takes a woman and he has sex with her,[t] but he then dislikes her,[u] 14 and he accuses her falsely,[v] and he defames her,[w] and he says ‘This woman I took and I lay with her and I discovered that she was not a virgin,’[x] 15 then in defense the father of the young woman shall take, along with her mother, and together they must bring out the evidence of the virginity of the young woman to display it to the elders of the city at the city gate.[y] 16 And then the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as wife, but he now dislikes[z] her, 17 and now look he has accused her falsely,[aa] saying, “I did not find your daughter a virgin,”[ab] but here is evidence of the virginity of my daughter’; and they shall spread the cloth out before[ac] the elders of the city. 18 Then the elders of that city shall take the man, and they shall discipline him. 19 Then they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and they shall give them to the father of the young woman, for he defamed an Israelite young woman,[ad] and she shall become his wife;[ae] he will not be allowed to divorce her[af] all his days.
20 “But if this charge[ag] was true, and the signs of virginity were not found[ah] for the young woman, 21 and then they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel by playing the harlot[ai] in the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.
22 “If a man is found lying with a married woman,[aj] then they shall both die; both of them,[ak] the man who lay with the woman and the woman also, so you shall purge the evil from Israel.
23 “If it happens that a young woman, a virgin, is engaged to a man, and a man finds her in the town and lies with her, 24 then you shall bring out both of them[al] to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they shall die, the young woman because she did not cry out in the town, and the man because[am] he violated his neighbor’s wife; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.
25 “But if the man finds the young engaged woman in the field and the man overpowers her and he has sex with her,[an] then the man only[ao] must die who lay[ap] with her. 26 But you shall not do anything[aq] to the young woman, for there is not reckoned against[ar] the young woman a sin deserving death;[as] it is similar to when[at] a man rises up against his neighbor and murders him, a fellow human being,[au] just so is this case,[av] 27 for he found her in the field, the engaged young woman cried out, but there was no[aw] rescuer to help her.[ax]
28 “If a man finds a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, and he seizes her and he has sex with her[ay] and they are caught, 29 then the man who lay with her[az] shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife[ba] because[bb] he violated her, and he is not allowed to divorce her during his lifetime.[bc] 30 [bd] A man may not take the wife of his father, and so he may not dishonor his father.[be]
23 “No man with crushed testicles[bf] or whose male organ is cut off[bg] may come into the assembly of Yahweh.
2 An illegitimate child may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants[bh] may come into the assembly of Yahweh.
3 An Ammonite or a Moabite may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants[bi] may come into the assembly of Yahweh forever,[bj] 4 because[bk] they did not come to meet you with food and with water when you came out of Egypt,[bl] and also because[bm] they[bn] hired Balaam, son of Beor, from Pethor, in Aram Naharaim[bo] to act against you to curse you. 5 But Yahweh your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because Yahweh your God loved you. 6 You shall not promote their welfare or their prosperity all your days forever.[bp]
7 “You shall not abhor an Edomite, because he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian because you were an alien in his land. 8 The children[bq] that are born to them in the third generation may come representing them[br] in the assembly of Yahweh.
9 “If[bs] you go out to encamp against your enemies, then you shall guard against doing anything evil.
10 “If there is among you a man that is not clean because of a seminal emission during the night,[bt] he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come within the camp. 11 And then[bu] toward the coming[bv] of the evening, he shall bathe with[bw] water, and at the going down[bx] of the sun, he may come to the midst of the camp.
12 “And there shall be for you a designated place outside the camp; and you shall go there to relieve yourself,[by] 13 and a digging tool[bz] shall be included in addition to your other utensils[ca] for yourself; and then[cb] when you relieve yourself[cc] outside the camp you shall dig with it, and then you shall turn, and you shall cover your excrement. 14 For Yahweh your God is walking about in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to hand your enemies over to you before you,[cd] and so let your camp be holy, so that he shall not see in it anything indecent,[ce] and he shall turn away from going with you.[cf]
15 “And you shall not hand over a slave to his master who has escaped and fled to you from his master. 16 He shall reside with you in your midst in the place that he chooses in one of your towns wherever he pleases;[cg] you shall not oppress him.
17 “No woman of Israel[ch] shall be a temple prostitute, and no man of Israel[ci] shall be a male shrine prostitute. 18 You may not bring the hire[cj] of a prostitute or the earnings of a male prostitute[ck] into the house of Yahweh your God, for any vow offerings, because both[cl] are a detestable thing to Yahweh your God.
19 “You shall not charge your brother interest on money,[cm] interest on[cn] food, or interest on[co] anything that one could lend[cp] on interest. 20 You may lend on interest to the foreigner, but to your countryman[cq] you may not lend on interest, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all your undertakings[cr] in the land where you are going,[cs] in order to take possession of it.[ct]
21 “When you make a vow[cu] to Yahweh your God, you shall not postpone fulfillment of it,[cv] for certainly Yahweh your God shall require it from you and if postponed you will incur guilt.[cw] 22 And if you refrain from vowing,[cx] you shall not incur guilt.[cy] 23 The utterance of your lips you must perform diligently[cz] just as you have vowed freely to Yahweh your God whatever it was that you promised[da] with your mouth.
24 “When[db] you come into the vineyard of your neighbor, then you may eat grapes as you please[dc] and until you are full,[dd] but you shall not put any into your container.
25 “When[de] you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, then you may pluck ears with your hand, but you may not swing[df] a sickle among the standing grain of your neighbor.”
24 “When[dg] a man takes a wife and he marries her and then[dh] she does not please him,[di] because he found something objectionable[dj] and writes her a letter of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her away from his house, 2 and she goes from his house, and she goes out and becomes a wife for another man,[dk] 3 and then the second man dislikes her and he writes her a letter of divorce and places it into her hand and sends her from his house, or if the second man dies who took her to himself[dl] as a wife, 4 her first husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again[dm] to become a wife to him after she has been defiled,[dn] for that is a detestable thing before[do] Yahweh, and so you shall not mislead into sin the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance.
5 “When[dp] a man takes a new wife he shall not go out with the army, and he shall not be obligated with anything;[dq] he shall be free from obligation, to stay at home[dr] for one year, and he shall bring joy to his wife that he took.
6 “A person[ds] shall not take[dt] a pair of millstones or an upper millstone, for he is taking necessities of life as a pledge.[du]
7 “If a man is caught[dv] kidnapping somebody from among his countrymen,[dw] the Israelites,[dx] and he treats him as a slave or he sells him, then that kidnapper shall die, and so you shall purge the evil from among you.[dy]
8 Be watchful[dz] with respect to[ea] an outbreak of any infectious skin disease, by being very careful and by acting[eb] according to all that the priests and the Levites have instructed you, just as I have commanded them, so you shall diligently observe.[ec] 9 So remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam on the journey when you went out from Egypt.[ed]
10 “When you make a loan to your neighbor, a loan of any kind, you shall not go into his house to take his pledge.[ee] 11 You shall wait outside, and the man to whom you are lending, he shall bring the pledge outside to you. 12 And if he is a needy man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.[ef] 13 You shall certainly return the pledge to him as the sun sets,[eg] so that he may sleep in his cloak and may bless you, and it shall be considered righteousness on your behalf[eh] before[ei] Yahweh your God.
14 “You shall not exploit a hired worker, who is needy and poor, from among your fellow men or from among your aliens[ej] who are in your land and in your towns.[ek] 15 On his day you shall give his wage, and the sun shall not go down,[el] because he is poor and his life depends on it;[em] do this so that he does not cry out against you to Yahweh, and you incur guilt.[en]
16 “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, and children shall not be put to death because of their fathers; each one shall be put to death for his own sin. 17 You shall not subvert the rights of an alien or an orphan, and you shall not take as pledge the garment of a widow. 18 And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and that Yahweh your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this commandment.
19 “When[eo] you reap your harvest in your field and you forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not return to get it, for it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beat off the fruit of your olive trees you shall not search through the branches afterward, for it[ep] shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.
21 When you harvest grapes, you shall not glean your vineyards again;[eq] it[er] shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. 22 And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.”
The Chief Priests and Scribes Plot to Kill Jesus
14 Now after two days it was the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, after[a] arresting him by stealth, they could kill him.[b] 2 For they said, “Not at the feast, lest there be an uproar by the people.”
Jesus’ Anointing at Bethany
3 And while[c] he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as[d] he was reclining for a meal, a woman came holding an alabaster flask of very costly perfumed oil of genuine nard. After[e] breaking the alabaster flask, she poured it[f] out on his head. 4 But some were expressing indignation to one another:[g] “Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil? 5 For this perfumed oil could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor!” And they began to scold[h] her. 6 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you cause trouble for her? She has done a good deed to me. 7 For the poor you always have with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me. 8 She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand[i] for burial. 9 And truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.
Judas Arranges to Betray Jesus
10 And Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. 11 And when[j] they heard this,[k] they were delighted, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking[l] how he could betray him conveniently.
Jesus’ Final Passover with the Disciples
12 And on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to go and[m] prepare, so that you can eat the Passover?” 13 And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him, 14 and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’ 15 And he will show you a large upstairs room furnished[n] and[o] ready, and prepare for us there.” 16 And the disciples went out and came into the city and found everything[p] just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.
17 And when it[q] was evening, he arrived with the twelve. 18 And while[r] they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, that one of you who is eating with me will betray me.” 19 They began to be distressed and to say to him one by one, “Surely not I?”[s] 20 But he said to them, “It is one of the twelve—the one who is dipping bread[t] into the bowl with me. 21 For the Son of Man is going just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if that man had not been born.”
The Lord’s Supper
22 And while[u] they were eating, he took bread and,[v] after[w] giving thanks, he broke it[x] and gave it[y] to them and said, “Take it,[z] this is my body.” 23 And after[aa] taking the cup and[ab] giving thanks, he gave it[ac] to them, and they all drank from it. 24 And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many. 25 Truly I say to you that I will never drink of the fruit of the vine any longer until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.” 26 And after they[ad] had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
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