Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. "These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth. 2. "You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 3. "And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place. 4. "You shall not worship the LORD your God with such things . 5. "But you shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go. 6. "There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. 7. "And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you. 8. "You shall not at all do as we are doing here today––every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes–– 9. "for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you. 10. "But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety, 11. "then there will be the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the LORD. 12. "And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you. 13. "Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; 14. "but in the place which the LORD chooses, in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you. 15. "However, you may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike. 16. "Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water. 17. "You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or your new wine or your oil, of the firstborn of your herd or your flock, of any of your offerings which you vow, of your freewill offerings, or of the heave offering of your hand. 18. "But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God chooses, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all to which you put your hands. 19. "Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land. 20. "When the LORD your God enlarges your border as He has promised you, and you say, ‘Let me eat meat,’ because you long to eat meat, you may eat as much meat as your heart desires. 21. "If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter from your herd and from your flock which the LORD has given you, just as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your gates as much as your heart desires. 22. "Just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat them; the unclean and the clean alike may eat them. 23. "Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; you may not eat the life with the meat. 24. "You shall not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth like water. 25. "You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD. 26. "Only the holy things which you have, and your vowed offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses. 27. "And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the meat. 28. "Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God. 29. "When the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land, 30. "take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.’ 31. "You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods. 32. "Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.
1. A good name is better than precious ointment, And the day of death than the day of one’s birth; 2. Better to go to the house of mourning Than to go to the house of feasting, For that is the end of all men; And the living will take it to heart. 3. Sorrow is better than laughter, For by a sad countenance the heart is made better. 4. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, But the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. 5. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise Than for a man to hear the song of fools. 6. For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, So is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity. 7. Surely oppression destroys a wise man’s reason, And a bribe debases the heart. 8. The end of a thing is better than its beginning; The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. 9. Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry, For anger rests in the bosom of fools. 10. Do not say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For you do not inquire wisely concerning this. 11. Wisdom is good with an inheritance, And profitable to those who see the sun. 12. For wisdom is a defense as money is a defense, But the excellence of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to those who have it. 13. Consider the work of God; For who can make straight what He has made crooked? 14. In the day of prosperity be joyful, But in the day of adversity consider: Surely God has appointed the one as well as the other, So that man can find out nothing that will come after him. 15. I have seen everything in my days of vanity: There is a just man who perishes in his righteousness, And there is a wicked man who prolongs life in his wickedness. 16. Do not be overly righteous, Nor be overly wise: Why should you destroy yourself? 17. Do not be overly wicked, Nor be foolish: Why should you die before your time? 18. It is good that you grasp this, And also not remove your hand from the other; For he who fears God will escape them all. 19. Wisdom strengthens the wise More than ten rulers of the city. 20. For there is not a just man on earth who does good And does not sin. 21. Also do not take to heart everything people say, Lest you hear your servant cursing you. 22. For many times, also, your own heart has known That even you have cursed others. 23. All this I have proved by wisdom. I said, "I will be wise"; But it was far from me. 24. As for that which is far off and exceedingly deep, Who can find it out? 25. I applied my heart to know, To search and seek out wisdom and the reason of things , To know the wickedness of folly, Even of foolishness and madness. 26. And I find more bitter than death The woman whose heart is snares and nets, Whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God shall escape from her, But the sinner shall be trapped by her. 27. "Here is what I have found," says the Preacher, " Adding one thing to the other to find out the reason, 28. Which my soul still seeks but I cannot find: One man among a thousand I have found, But a woman among all these I have not found. 29. Truly, this only I have found: That God made man upright, But they have sought out many schemes."
1. Who is like a wise man ? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, And the sternness of his face is changed. 2. I say , "Keep the king’s commandment for the sake of your oath to God. 3. "Do not be hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand for an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him." 4. Where the word of a king is, there is power; And who may say to him, "What are you doing?" 5. He who keeps his command will experience nothing harmful; And a wise man’s heart discerns both time and judgment, 6. Because for every matter there is a time and judgment, Though the misery of man increases greatly. 7. For he does not know what will happen; So who can tell him when it will occur? 8. No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, And no one has power in the day of death. There is no release from that war, And wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it. 9. All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt. 10. Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity. 11. Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 12. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times , and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. 13. But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God. 14. There is a vanity which occurs on earth, that there are just men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity. 15. So I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun. 16. When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, even though one sees no sleep day or night, 17. then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. For though a man labors to discover it , yet he will not find it ; moreover, though a wise man attempts to know it , he will not be able to find it .
1. And again He entered Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that He was in the house. 2. Immediately many gathered together, so that there was no longer room to receive them , not even near the door. And He preached the word to them. 3. Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men . 4. And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. 5. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you." 6. And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, 7. "Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?" 8. But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, "Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? 9. "Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘ Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’? 10. "But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins" ––He said to the paralytic, 11. "I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house." 12. Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!" 13. Then He went out again by the sea; and all the multitude came to Him, and He taught them. 14. As He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, "Follow Me." So he arose and followed Him. 15. Now it happened, as He was dining in Levi’s house, that many tax collectors and sinners also sat together with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many, and they followed Him. 16. And when the scribes and Pharisees saw Him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, they said to His disciples, "How is it that He eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?" 17. When Jesus heard it , He said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance." 18. The disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasting. Then they came and said to Him, "Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?" 19. And Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast. 20. "But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days. 21. "No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; or else the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse. 22. "And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins." 23. Now it happened that He went through the grainfields on the Sabbath; and as they went His disciples began to pluck the heads of grain. 24. And the Pharisees said to Him, "Look, why do they do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?" 25. But He said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and those with him: 26. "how he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the showbread, which is not lawful to eat, except for the priests, and also gave some to those who were with him?" 27. And He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. 28. "Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath."