¹d“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a emalicious witness. ²You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, ³fnor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.

⁴g“If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him. ⁵If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.

⁶h“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit. ⁷dKeep far from a false charge, and ido not kill the innocent and righteous, for jI will not acquit the wicked. ⁸kAnd you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

⁹l“You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals

¹⁰m“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, ¹¹but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

¹²n“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.

¹³o“Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.

¹⁴p“Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. ¹⁵qYou shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of rAbib, for in it you came out of Egypt. sNone shall appear before me empty-handed. ¹⁶You shall keep tthe Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the uFeast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. ¹⁷pThree times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.

¹⁸v“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.

¹⁹“The best of the wfirstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.

x“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

Conquest of Canaan Promised

²⁰y“Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. ²¹Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; zdo not rebel against him, afor he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.

²²“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then bI will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

²³y“When my angel goes before you and brings you cto the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out, ²⁴you shall dnot bow down to their gods nor serve them, enor do as they do, but fyou shall utterly overthrow them and break their gpillars in pieces. ²⁵You hshall serve the Lord your God, and ihe1 will bless your bread and your water, and jI will take sickness away from among you. ²⁶kNone shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the lnumber of your days. ²⁷I will send mmy terror before you and will throw into nconfusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. ²⁸And oI will send hornets2 before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. ²⁹pI will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you. ³⁰Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. ³¹qAnd I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates,3 for rI will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. ³²sYou shall make no covenant with them and their gods. ³³They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, tit will surely be a snare to you.”

The Wedding at Cana

¹On hthe third day there was a wedding at iCana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. ²Jesus also was invited to the wedding with jhis disciples. ³When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” ⁴And Jesus said to her, k“Woman, lwhat does this have to do with me? mMy hour has not yet come.” ⁵His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

⁶Now there were six stone water jars there nfor the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty ogallons.1 ⁷Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. ⁸And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. ⁹When the master of the feast tasted pthe water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom ¹⁰and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” ¹¹This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested qhis glory. And rhis disciples believed in him.

¹²After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and shis brothers2 and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

¹³tThe Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus uwent up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴vIn the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. ¹⁵And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make wmy Father's house a house of trade.” ¹⁷His disciples remembered that it was written, x“Zeal for your house will consume me.”

¹⁸So the Jews said to him, y“What sign do you show us for doing these things?” ¹⁹Jesus answered them, z“Destroy this temple, and in three days aI will raise it up.” ²⁰The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple,3 and will you raise it up in three days?” ²¹But he was speaking about bthe temple of his body. ²²When therefore he was raised from the dead, chis disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed dthe Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

Jesus Knows What Is in Man

²³Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name ewhen they saw the signs that he was doing. ²⁴But Jesus fon his part did not entrust himself to them, because ghe knew all people ²⁵and needed no one to bear witness about man, for ghe himself knew what was in man.

¹1 “Can you draw out uLeviathan2 with a fishhook

or press down his tongue with a cord?

²Can you put va rope in his nose

or pierce his jaw with va hook?

³Will he make many pleas to you?

Will he speak to you soft words?

⁴Will he make a covenant with you

to take him for wyour servant forever?

⁵Will you play with him as with a bird,

or will you put him on a leash for your girls?

⁶Will traders bargain over him?

Will they divide him up among the merchants?

⁷Can you fill his skin with harpoons

or his head with fishing spears?

⁸Lay your hands on him;

remember the battle—you will not do it again!

⁹3 Behold, the hope of a man is false;

he is laid low even at the sight of him.

¹⁰No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up.

Who then is he who can stand before me?

¹¹xWho has first given to me, that I should repay him?

yWhatever is under the whole heaven is mine.

¹²“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,

or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.

¹³Who can strip off his outer garment?

Who would come near him with a bridle?

¹⁴Who can open the doors of his face?

Around his teeth is terror.

¹⁵His back is made of4 rows of shields,

shut up closely as with a seal.

¹⁶One is so near to another

that no air can come between them.

¹⁷They are zjoined one to another;

they clasp each other and cannot be separated.

¹⁸His sneezings flash forth light,

and his eyes are like athe eyelids of the dawn.

¹⁹Out of his mouth go flaming torches;

sparks of fire leap forth.

²⁰Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke,

as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

²¹His breath bkindles coals,

and a flame comes forth from his mouth.

²²In his neck abides strength,

and terror dances before him.

²³The folds of his flesh cstick together,

firmly cast on him and immovable.

²⁴His heart is hard as a stone,

hard as the lower millstone.

²⁵When he raises himself up, the mighty5 are afraid;

at the crashing they are beside themselves.

²⁶Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail,

nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

²⁷He counts iron as straw,

and bronze as rotten wood.

²⁸The arrow cannot make him flee;

for him, sling stones are turned to stubble.

²⁹Clubs are counted as stubble;

he laughs at the rattle of javelins.

³⁰His underparts are like sharp dpotsherds;

he spreads himself like ea threshing sledge on the mire.

³¹He makes the deep boil like a pot;

he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

³²Behind him he leaves a shining wake;

one would think the deep to be white-haired.

³³fOn earth there is not his like,

a creature without fear.

³⁴He sees everything that is high;

he is king over all the gsons of pride.”

Paul and the False Apostles

¹I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! ²For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since nI betrothed you to one husband, oto present you pas a pure virgin to Christ. ³But I am afraid that qas the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts rwill be led astray from a ssincere and tpure devotion to Christ. ⁴For if someone comes and uproclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept va different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough. ⁵Indeed, I consider that wI am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles. ⁶xEven if I am unskilled in speaking, yI am not so in knowledge; indeed, in every way zwe have made this plain to you in all things.

⁷Or adid I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because bI preached God's gospel to you free of charge? ⁸I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you. ⁹And when I was with you and was cin need, dI did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia esupplied my need. So I refrained and will refrain ffrom burdening you in any way. ¹⁰gAs the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine hwill not be silenced in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹And why? iBecause I do not love you? jGod knows I do!

¹²And what I am doing I will continue to do, kin order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do. ¹³For such men are lfalse apostles, mdeceitful workmen, ndisguising themselves as apostles of Christ. ¹⁴And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as oan angel of light. ¹⁵So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as pservants of righteousness. qTheir end will correspond to their deeds.

Paul's Sufferings as an Apostle

¹⁶I repeat, rlet no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. ¹⁷What I am saying swith this boastful confidence, tI say not as the Lord would1 but as a fool. ¹⁸Since umany boast according to the flesh, I too will boast. ¹⁹For you gladly bear with fools, vbeing wise yourselves! ²⁰For you bear it if someone wmakes slaves of you, or xdevours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or ystrikes you in the face. ²¹To my shame, I must say, zwe were too weak for that!

But whatever anyone else dares to boast of—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that. ²²Are they Hebrews? aSo am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I. ²³Are they bservants of Christ? cI am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, dfar more imprisonments, ewith countless beatings, and foften near death. ²⁴Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the gforty lashes less one. ²⁵Three times I was hbeaten with rods. iOnce I was stoned. Three times I jwas shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; ²⁶on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, kdanger from my own people, ldanger from Gentiles, mdanger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; ²⁷nin toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, oin hunger and thirst, often without food,2 in cold and exposure. ²⁸And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for pall the churches. ²⁹qWho is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?

³⁰rIf I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. ³¹sThe God and Father of the Lord Jesus, the who is blessed forever, uknows that I am not lying. ³²At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas vwas guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me, ³³wbut I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.