Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. "You are the children of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead. 2. "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 3. "You shall not eat any detestable thing. 4. "These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5. "the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the mountain goat, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. 6. "And you may eat every animal with cloven hooves, having the hoof split into two parts, and that chews the cud, among the animals. 7. "Nevertheless, of those that chew the cud or have cloven hooves, you shall not eat, such as these: the camel, the hare, and the rock hyrax; for they chew the cud but do not have cloven hooves; they are unclean for you. 8. "Also the swine is unclean for you, because it has cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud; you shall not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcasses. 9. "These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat all that have fins and scales. 10. "And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you. 11. "All clean birds you may eat. 12. "But these you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard, 13. "the red kite, the falcon, and the kite after their kinds; 14. "every raven after its kind; 15. "the ostrich, the short–eared owl, the seagull, and the hawk after their kinds; 16. "the little owl, the screech owl, the white owl, 17. "the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fisher owl, 18. "the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat. 19. "Also every creeping thing that flies is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten. 20. "You may eat all clean birds. 21. "You shall not eat anything that dies of itself ; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. 22. "You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year. 23. "And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always. 24. "But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, or if the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the LORD your God has blessed you, 25. "then you shall exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses. 26. "And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires; you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. 27. "You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you. 28. "At the end of every third year you shall bring out the tithe of your produce of that year and store it up within your gates. 29. "And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
1. Cast your bread upon the waters, For you will find it after many days. 2. Give a serving to seven, and also to eight, For you do not know what evil will be on the earth. 3. If the clouds are full of rain, They empty themselves upon the earth; And if a tree falls to the south or the north, In the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie. 4. He who observes the wind will not sow, And he who regards the clouds will not reap. 5. As you do not know what is the way of the wind, Or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, So you do not know the works of God who makes everything. 6. In the morning sow your seed, And in the evening do not withhold your hand; For you do not know which will prosper, Either this or that, Or whether both alike will be good. 7. Truly the light is sweet, And it is pleasant for the eyes to behold the sun; 8. But if a man lives many years And rejoices in them all, Yet let him remember the days of darkness, For they will be many. All that is coming is vanity. 9. Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; Walk in the ways of your heart, And in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these God will bring you into judgment. 10. Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, And put away evil from your flesh, For childhood and youth are vanity.
1. Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the difficult days come, And the years draw near when you say, "I have no pleasure in them": 2. While the sun and the light, The moon and the stars, Are not darkened, And the clouds do not return after the rain; 3. In the day when the keepers of the house tremble, And the strong men bow down; When the grinders cease because they are few, And those that look through the windows grow dim; 4. When the doors are shut in the streets, And the sound of grinding is low; When one rises up at the sound of a bird, And all the daughters of music are brought low; 5. Also they are afraid of height, And of terrors in the way; When the almond tree blossoms, The grasshopper is a burden, And desire fails. For man goes to his eternal home, And the mourners go about the streets. 6. Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed, Or the golden bowl is broken, Or the pitcher shattered at the fountain, Or the wheel broken at the well. 7. Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it. 8. "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher, "All is vanity." 9. And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yes, he pondered and sought out and set in order many proverbs. 10. The Preacher sought to find acceptable words; and what was written was upright––words of truth. 11. The words of the wise are like goads, and the words of scholars are like well–driven nails, given by one Shepherd. 12. And further, my son, be admonished by these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is wearisome to the flesh. 13. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all. 14. For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.
20. Then the multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 21. But when His own people heard about this , they went out to lay hold of Him, for they said, "He is out of His mind." 22. And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebub," and, "By the ruler of the demons He casts out demons." 23. So He called them to Himself and said to them in parables: "How can Satan cast out Satan? 24. "If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25. "And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26. "And if Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end. 27. "No one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. And then he will plunder his house. 28. "Assuredly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter; 29. "but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation" –– 30. because they said, "He has an unclean spirit." 31. Then His brothers and His mother came, and standing outside they sent to Him, calling Him. 32. And a multitude was sitting around Him; and they said to Him, "Look, Your mother and Your brothers are outside seeking You." 33. But He answered them, saying, "Who is My mother, or My brothers?" 34. And He looked around in a circle at those who sat about Him, and said, "Here are My mother and My brothers! 35. "For whoever does the will of God is My brother and My sister and mother."