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132 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 7,8,9; Psalms 112,113 1. So the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took the ark of the Lord to the house of Abinadab in Gibeah, and they made his son Eleazar holy and put the ark in his care. 2. And the ark was in Kiriath-jearim for a long time, as much as twenty years: and all Israel was searching after the Lord with weeping. 3. Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines. 4. So the children of Israel gave up the worship of Baal and Astarte, and became worshippers of the Lord only. 5. Then Samuel said, Let all Israel come to Mizpah and I will make prayer to the Lord for you. ; AB church Lausanne

131 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 4,5,6; Psalms 110,111 1. Now at that time the Philistines came together to make war against Israel, and the men of Israel went out to war against the Philistines and took up their position at the side of Eben-ezer: and the Philistines put their forces in position in Aphek. 2. And the Philistines put their forces in order against Israel, and the fighting was hard, and Israel was overcome by the Philistines, who put to the sword about four thousand of their army in the field. 3. And when the people came back to their tents, the responsible men of Israel said, Why has the Lord let the Philistines overcome us today? Let us get the ark of the Lord's agreement here from Shiloh, so that it may be with us and give us salvation from the hands of those who are against us. 4. So the people sent to Shiloh and got the ark of the agreement of the Lord of armies whose resting-place is between the winged ones; and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were there with the ark of God's agreement. 5. And when the ark of the Lord's agreement came into the tent-circle, all Israel gave a great cry, so that the earth was sounding with it. ; AB church Lausanne

130 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 2,3; Psalms 108,109 1. And Hannah, in prayer before the Lord, said, My heart is glad in the Lord, my horn is lifted up in the Lord: my mouth is open wide over my haters; because my joy is in your salvation. 2. No other is holy as the Lord, for there is no other God but you: there is no Rock like our God. 3. Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged. 4. The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength. 5. Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow. ; AB church Lausanne

129 : Basic English : Ruth 4; 1 Samuel 1; Psalms 107 1. And Boaz went up to the public place of the town, and took his seat there: and the near relation of whom he had been talking came by; and Boaz, crying out to him by name, said, Come and be seated here. And he came and was seated. 2. Then he got ten of the responsible men of the town, and said, Be seated here. And they took their seats. 3. Then he said to the near relation, Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is offering for a price that bit of land which was our brother Elimelech's: 4. And it was in my mind to give you the chance of taking it, with the approval of those seated here and of the responsible men of my people. If you are ready to do what it is right for a relation to do, then do it: but if you will not do it, say so to me now; for there is no one who has the right to do it but you, and after you myself. And he said, I will do it. 5. Then Boaz said, On the day when you take this field, you will have to take with it Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, so that you may keep the name of the dead living in his heritage. ; AB church Lausanne

128 : Basic English : Ruth 2,3; Psalms 106 1. And Naomi had a relation of her husband, a man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz. 2. And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter. 3. And she went, and came and took up the heads of grain in the field after the cutters; and by chance she went into that part of the field which was the property of Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. 4. And Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said to the grain-cutters, The Lord be with you. And they made answer, The Lord give you his blessing. 5. Then Boaz said to his servant who was in authority over the cutters, Whose girl is this? ; AB church Lausanne

127 : Basic English : Judges 21; Ruth 1; Psalms 105 1. Now the men of Israel had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, Not one of us will give his daughter as a wife to Benjamin. 2. And the people came to Beth-el, waiting there till evening before God, and gave themselves up to bitter weeping. 3. And they said, O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this fate come on Israel, that today one tribe has been cut off from Israel? 4. Then on the day after, the people got up early and made an altar there, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings. 5. And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel, who did not come up to the Lord at the meeting of all Israel? For they had taken a great oath that whoever did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord was to be put to death. ; AB church Lausanne

126 : Basic English : Judges 20; Psalms 104 1. Then all the children of Israel took up arms, and the people came together like one man, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and the land of Gilead, before the Lord at Mizpah. 2. And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen armed with swords. 3. (Now the children of Benjamin had word that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the children of Israel said, Make clear how this evil thing took place. 4. Then the Levite, the husband of the dead woman, said in answer, I came to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin, I and my servant-wife, for the purpose of stopping there for the night. 5. And the townsmen of Gibeah came together against me, going round the house on all sides by night; it was their purpose to put me to death, and my servant-wife was violently used by them and is dead. ; AB church Lausanne

125 : Basic English : Judges 18,19; Psalms 103 1. In those days there was no king in Israel, and in those days the Danites were looking for a heritage for themselves, to be their living-place; for up to that time no distribution of land had been made to them among the tribes of Israel. 2. So the children of Dan sent five men from among their number, strong men, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to take a look at the land and make a search through it; and they said to them, Go and make a search through the land; and they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, where they made a stop for the night. 3. When they were near the house of Micah, hearing a voice which was not strange to them, that of the young Levite, they went out of their road to his place, and said to him, How did you come here? and what are you doing in this place? and why are you here? 4. And he said to them, This is what Micah did for me, and he gave me payment and I became his priest. 5. Then they said, Do get directions from God for us, to see if the journey on which we are going will have a good outcome. ; AB church Lausanne

124 : Basic English : Judges 16,17; Psalms 101,102 1. Now Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a loose woman and went in to her. 2. And it was said to the Gazites, Samson is here. So they went round, watching for him all day at the doorway of the town, but at night they kept quiet, saying, When daylight comes we will put him to death. 3. And Samson was there till the middle of the night; then he got up, and took a grip on the doors of the town, pulling them up, together with their two supports and their locks, and put them on his back and took them up to the top of the hill in front of Hebron. 4. Now after this, he was in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek, named Delilah. 5. And the chiefs of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Make use of your power over him and see what is the secret of his great strength, and how we may get the better of him, and put bands on him, so that we may make him feeble; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver. ; AB church Lausanne

123 : Basic English : Judges 14,15; Gospel of Luke 24 1. Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines; 2. And when he came back he said to his father and mother, I have seen a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines: get her now for me for my wife. 3. Then his father and mother said to him, Is there no woman among the daughters of your relations or among all my people, that you have to go for your wife to the Philistines, who are without circumcision? But Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she is pleasing to me. 4. Now his father and mother had no knowledge that this was the purpose of the Lord, who had the destruction of the Philistines in mind. Now the Philistines at that time were ruling over Israel. 5. Then Samson went down to Timnah (and his father and his mother,) and came to the vine-gardens of Timnah; and a young lion came rushing out at him. ; AB church Lausanne

122 : Basic English : Judges 12,13; Gospel of Luke 23 1. Now the men of Ephraim came together and took up arms and went over to Zaphon; and they said to Jephthah, Why did you go over to make war against the children of Ammon without sending for us to go with you? Now we will put your house on fire over you. 2. And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were in danger, and the children of Ammon were very cruel to us, and when I sent for you, you gave me no help against them. 3. So when I saw that there was no help to be had from you, I put my life in my hand and went over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord gave them into my hands: why then have you come up to me this day to make war on me? 4. Then Jephthah got together all the men of Gilead and made war on Ephraim; and the men of Gilead overcame Ephraim. 5. And the Gileadites took the crossing-places of Jordan against the Ephraimites; and when any of the men of Ephraim who had gone in flight said, let me go over; the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? And if he said, No; ; AB church Lausanne

121 : Basic English : Judges 10,11; Gospel of Luke 22 1. Now after Abimelech, Tola, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, became the saviour of Israel; he was living in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim. 2. He was judge over Israel for twenty-three years; and at his death his body was put to rest in the earth in Shamir. 3. And after him came Jair the Gileadite, who was judge over Israel for twenty-two years. 4. And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses; and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are named Havvoth-Jair to this day. 5. And at the death of Jair his body was put to rest in the earth in Kamon. ; AB church Lausanne

120 : Basic English : Judges 9; Gospel of Luke 21 1. Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father, 2. Say now in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem, Is it better for you to be ruled by all the seventy sons of Jerubbaal or by one man only? And keep in mind that I am your bone and your flesh. 3. So his mother's family said all this about him in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem: and their hearts were turned to Abimelech, for they said, He is our brother. 4. And they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the house of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech got the support of a number of uncontrolled and good-for-nothing persons. 5. Then he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and put his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, to death on the same stone; however, Jotham, the youngest, kept himself safe by going away to a secret place. ; AB church Lausanne

119 : Basic English : Judges 7,8; Gospel of Luke 20 1. Then Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, and all the people with him, got up early and put up their tents by the side of the water-spring of Harod; the tents of Midian were on the north side of him, under the hill of Moreh in the valley. 2. And the Lord said to Gideon, So great is the number of your people, that if I give the Midianites into their hands they will be uplifted in pride over me and will say, I myself have been my saviour. 3. So now, let it be given out to the people that anyone who is shaking with fear is to go back from Mount Galud. So twenty-two thousand of the people went back, but there were still ten thousand. 4. Then the Lord said to Gideon, There are still more people than is necessary; take them down to the water so that I may put them to the test for you there; then whoever I say is to go with you will go, and whoever I say is not to go will not go. 5. So he took the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gideon, Put on one side by themselves all those drinking up the water with their tongues like a dog; and in the same way, all those who go down on their knees to the water while drinking. ; AB church Lausanne

118 : Basic English : Judges 6; Gospel of Luke 19 1. And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them up into the hand of Midian for seven years. 2. And Midian was stronger than Israel; and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made holes for themselves in the mountains, and hollows in the rocks, and strong places. 3. And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them; 4. And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses. 5. For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction. ; AB church Lausanne

117 : Basic English : Judges 4,5; Gospel of Luke 18 1. And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord when Ehud was dead. 2. And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Jabin, king of Canaan, who was ruling in Hazor; the captain of his army was Sisera, who was living in Harosheth of the Gentiles. 3. Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel. 4. Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time. 5. (And she had her seat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her to be judged.) ; AB church Lausanne

116 : Basic English : Judges 2,3; Gospel of Luke 17 1. Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, *** I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me: 2. And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done? 3. And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you. 4. Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping. 5. And they gave that place the name of Bochim, and made offerings there to the Lord. ; AB church Lausanne

115 : Basic English : Joshua 24; Judges 1; Gospel of Luke 16 1. Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God. 2. And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods. 3. And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac. 4. And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt. 5. And I sent Moses and Aaron, troubling Egypt by all the signs I did among them: and after that I took you out. ; AB church Lausanne

114 : Basic English : Joshua 22,23; Gospel of Luke 15 1. Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 2. And said to them, You have kept all the orders of Moses, the Lord's servant, and have done everything I gave you orders to do: 3. You have now been with your brothers for a long time; till this day you have been doing the orders of the Lord your God. 4. And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest, as he said: so now you may go back to your tents, to the land of your heritage, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you on the other side of Jordan. 5. Only take great care to do the orders and the law which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you; to have love for the Lord your God and to go in all his ways; and to keep his laws and to be true to him and to be his servants with all your heart and with all your soul. ; AB church Lausanne

113 : Basic English : Joshua 20,21; Gospel of Luke 14 1. And the Lord said to Joshua, 2. Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses, 3. So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood. 4. And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe. 5. And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate. ; AB church Lausanne

112 : Basic English : Joshua 19; Gospel of Luke 13 1. And the second heritage came out for the tribe of Simeon by their families; and their heritage was in the middle of the heritage of the children of Judah. 2. And they had for their heritage Beer-sheba and Shema and Moladah 3. And Hazar-shual and Balah and Ezem 4. And Eltolad and Bethul and Hormah 5. And Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth and Hazar-susah ; AB church Lausanne

111 : Basic English : Joshua 16,17,18; Gospel of Luke 12 1. And the limit of the land marked out for the children of Joseph went out from Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, in the waste land, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Beth-el; 2. And it goes out from Beth-el to Luz, and on as far as the limit of the Archites to Ataroth; 3. And it goes down to the west to the limit of the Japhletites, to the limit of Beth-horon the lower, as far as Gezer; ending at the sea. 4. And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their heritage. 5. And the limit of the land of the children of Ephraim by their families was marked out in this way: the limit of their heritage to the east was Ataroth-addar, to Beth-horon the higher; ; AB church Lausanne

110 : Basic English : Joshua 15; Gospel of Luke 11 1. Now the part of the land marked out for the children of Judah by families, went up to the edge of Edom, as far as the waste land of Zin to the south, to the farthest point of it on the south. 2. Their south limit was from the farthest part of the Salt Sea, from the inlet looking to the south: 3. From there it goes south of the slope up to Akrabbim, and on to Zin, then south past Kadesh-barnea, and on by Hezron and up to Addar, turning in the direction of Karka: 4. Then on to Azmon, ending at the stream of Egypt: and the end of the limit is at the sea; this will be your limit on the south. 5. And the east limit is the Salt Sea as far as the end of Jordan. And the limit of the north part of the land is from the inlet of the sea at the end of Jordan: ; AB church Lausanne

109 : Basic English : Joshua 13,14; Gospel of Luke 10 1. Now Joshua was old and full of years; and the Lord said to him, You are old and full of years, and there is still very much land to be taken. 2. This is the land which is still to be taken: all the country of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites; 3. From the Shihor, which is before Egypt, to the edge of Ekron to the north, which is taken to be Canaanite property: the five chiefs of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, as well as the Avvim; 4. On the south: all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah which is the property of the Zidonians, to Aphek, as far as the limit of the Amorites: 5. And the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, looking east, from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon as far as Hamath: ; AB church Lausanne

108 : Basic English : Joshua 11,12; Gospel of Luke 9 1. Now Jabin, king of Hazor, hearing of these things, sent to Jobab, king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, 2. And to the kings on the north in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the highlands of Dor on the west, 3. And to the Canaanites on the east and on the west, and to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill-country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah. 4. And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number. 5. And all these kings came together, and put their forces in position at the waters of Merom, to make war on Israel. ; AB church Lausanne

107 : Basic English : Joshua 9,10; Gospel of Luke 8 1. Now on hearing the news of these things, all the kings on the west side of Jordan, in the hill-country and the lowlands and by the Great Sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, 2. Came together with one purpose, to make war against Joshua and Israel. 3. And the men of Gibeon, hearing what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, 4. Acting with deceit, got food together as if for a long journey; and took old food-bags for their asses, and old and cracked wine-skins kept together with cord; 5. And put old stitched-up shoes on their feet, and old clothing on their backs; and all the food they had with them was dry and broken up. ; AB church Lausanne

106 : Basic English : Joshua 7,8; Gospel of Luke 7 1. But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel. 2. Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the side of Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and said to them, Go up and make a search through the land. And the men went up and saw how Ai was placed. 3. Then they came back to Joshua and said to him, Do not send all the people up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and make an attack on Ai; there is no need for all the people to be tired with the journey there, for it is only a small town. 4. So about three thousand of the people went up, and were sent in flight by the men of Ai. 5. The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water. ; AB church Lausanne

105 : Basic English : Joshua 5,6; Gospel of Luke 6 1. Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel. 2. At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time. 3. So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth. 4. And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt. 5. All the people who came out had undergone circumcision; but all the people whose birth had taken place in the waste land on their journey from Egypt had not. ; AB church Lausanne

104 : Basic English : Joshua 3,4; Gospel of Luke 5 1. Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and, moving on from Shittim, he and all the children of Israel came to Jordan and were there for the night before going over. 2. And at the end of three days, the men in authority over the people went through the tents, 3. Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see the ark of the agreement of the Lord your God lifted up by the priests, the Levites, then get up from your places and go after it; 4. But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before. 5. And Joshua said to the people, Make yourselves holy, for tomorrow the Lord will do works of wonder among you. ; AB church Lausanne

103 : Basic English : Joshua 1,2; Gospel of Luke 4 1. Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the word of the Lord came to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' helper, saying, 2. Moses my servant is dead; so now get up! Go over Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, to the children of Israel. 3. Every place on which you put your foot I have given to you, as I said to Moses. 4. From the waste land and this mountain Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, and all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea, in the west, will be your country. 5. While you are living, all will give way before you: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not take away my help from you or give you up. ; AB church Lausanne

102 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 33,34; Gospel of Luke 3 1. Now this is the blessing which Moses, the man of God, gave to the children of Israel before his death. 2. He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples. 3. All his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet; they are lifted up on his wings. 4. Moses gave us a law, a heritage for the people of Jacob. 5. And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came together. ; AB church Lausanne

101 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 31,32; Gospel of Luke 2 1. So Moses said all these things to Israel. 2. Then he said to them, I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to go out and come in: and the Lord has said to me, You are not to go over Jordan. 3. The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all those nations, and you will take their land as your heritage: and Joshua will go over at your head as the Lord has said. 4. The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to destruction. 5. The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have given you orders. ; AB church Lausanne

100 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 29,30; Psalms 99,100; Gospel of Luke 1 1. These are the words of the agreement which Moses was ordered by the Lord to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the agreement which he made with them in Horeb. 2. And Moses said in the hearing of all Israel, You have seen all the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land; 3. The great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders: 4. But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears. 5. For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet. ; AB church Lausanne

99 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 28; Psalms 97,98 1. Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth: 2. And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the Lord your God. 3. A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field. 4. A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock. 5. A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin. ; AB church Lausanne

98 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 25,26,27; Psalms 95,96 1. If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer. 2. And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime. 3. He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you. 4. Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. 5. If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do. ; AB church Lausanne

97 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 23,24; Psalms 94 1. No man whose private parts have been wounded or cut off may come into the meeting of the Lord's people. 2. One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation. 3. No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people: 4. Because they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and they got Balaam, the son of Peor, from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to put curses on you. 5. But the Lord your God would not give ear to Balaam, but let the curse be changed into a blessing to you, because of his love for you. ; AB church Lausanne

96 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 21,22; Psalms 92,93 1. If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death: 2. Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured; 3. And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke; 4. And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken: 5. Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged: ; AB church Lausanne

95 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 19,20; Psalms 90,91 1. When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses; 2. You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage. 3. You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight. 4. This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate; 5. For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe: ; AB church Lausanne

94 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 17,18; Psalms 89 1. No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God. 2. If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement, 3. By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders; 4. If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel; 5. Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead. ; AB church Lausanne

93 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 15,16; Psalms 88 1. At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt. 2. This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord. 3. A man of another nation may be forced to make payment of his debt, but if your brother has anything of yours, let it go; 4. But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will certainly give you his blessing in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage; 5. If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today. ; AB church Lausanne

92 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 13,14; Psalms 86,87 1. If ever you have among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder, 2. And the sign or the wonder takes place, and he says to you, Let us go after other gods, which are strange to you, and give them worship; 3. Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God is testing you, to see if all the love of your heart and soul is given to him. 4. But keep on in the ways of the Lord your God, fearing him and keeping his orders and hearing his voice, worshipping him and being true to him. 5. And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you. ; AB church Lausanne

91 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 11,12; Psalms 84,85 1. So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times. 2. And be certain in your minds this day; for these words are not said to your children, who have had no experience of the training of the Lord your God, and who have not seen his great power or his strong hand and his stretched-out arm, 3. Or his signs and wonders which he did in Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and all his land; 4. And what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their war-carriages; how he made the waters of the Red Sea come up over them when they went after you, and how the Lord put an end to them even to this day; 5. And what he did for you in the waste land, till you came to this place; ; AB church Lausanne

90 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 9,10; Psalms 83 1. Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven; 2. A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, of whom you have knowledge and of whom it has been said, All are forced to give way before the sons of Anak. 3. Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the Lord has said. 4. And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you. 5. Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ; AB church Lausanne

89 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 7,8; Psalms 81,82 1. When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you; 2. And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them: 3. Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons. 4. For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly. 5. But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire. ; AB church Lausanne

88 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 5,6; Psalms 79,80 1. And Moses sent for all Israel, and said to them, Give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I give you today, and give attention to them so that you may keep and do them. 2. The Lord our God made an agreement with us in Horeb. 3. The Lord did not make this agreement with our fathers but with us, who are all living and present here today. 4. The word of the Lord came to you face to face on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, 5. (I was between the Lord and you at that time, to make clear to you the word of the Lord: because, through fear of the fire, you did not go up the mountain;) saying, ; AB church Lausanne

87 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 4; Psalms 78 1. And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 2. Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you. 3. Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for destruction came from the Lord on all those among you who went after Baal-peor. 4. But you who kept faith with the Lord are living, every one of you, today. 5. I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God, so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to take it for your heritage. ; AB church Lausanne

86 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 2,3; Psalms 77 1. Then we went back, journeying into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lord had said to me: and we were a long time going round Mount Seir. 2. And the Lord said to me, 3. You have been journeying round this mountain long enough: now go to the north; 4. And give the people orders, saying, You are about to go through the land of your brothers, the children of Esau, who are living in Seir; and they will have fear of you; so take care what you do: 5. Make no attack on them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even space enough for a man's foot: because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for his heritage. ; AB church Lausanne

85 : Basic English : Numbers 36; Deuteronomy 1; Psalms 75,76 1. Now the heads of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came to Moses, the chiefs and the heads of families of the children of Israel being present, 2. And said, The Lord gave orders to my lord to make distribution of the land as their heritage to the children of Israel: and my lord was ordered by the Lord to give the heritage of Zelophehad, our brother, to his daughters. 3. Now if they get married to any of the sons of other tribes of the children of Israel, then their property will be taken away from the heritage of our fathers, and become part of the heritage of the tribe into which they get married: and their heritage will be taken away from the heritage of our tribe. 4. And at the time of the Jubilee of the children of Israel, their property will be joined to the heritage of the tribe of which they are part and will be taken away from the heritage of the tribe of our fathers. 5. So by the direction of the Lord, Moses gave orders to the children of Israel, saying, What the tribe of the sons of Joseph have said is right. ; AB church Lausanne

84 : Basic English : Numbers 34,35; Psalms 74 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land which is to be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits,) 3. Then your south quarter will be from the waste land of Zin by the side of Edom, and your limit on the south will be from the east end of the Salt Sea, 4. And round to the south of the slope of Akrabbim, and on to Zin: and its direction will be south of Kadesh-barnea, and it will go as far as Hazar-addar and on to Azmon: 5. And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt as far as the sea. ; AB church Lausanne

83 : Basic English : Numbers 33; Psalms 73 1. These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt in their armies, under the direction of Moses and Aaron. 2. And the stages of their journey on their way out were put down in writing by Moses at the order of the Lord: these are the stages of their journey and the way they went. 3. On the fifteenth day of the first month they went out from Rameses; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out by the power of the Lord before the eyes of all the Egyptians, 4. While the Egyptians were placing in the earth the bodies of their sons on whom the Lord had sent destruction: and their gods had been judged by him. 5. So the children of Israel went from Rameses and put up their tents in Succoth. ; AB church Lausanne