Old Testament

Genesis 11-12

^11:1The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. ^11:2It happened, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they lived there. ^11:3They said one to another, "Come, let's make brick, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. ^11:4They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

^11:5Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. ^11:6Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. ^11:7Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." ^11:8So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city. ^11:9Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

^11:10This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood. ^11:11Shem lived after he became the father of Arpachshad five hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

^11:12Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah. ^11:13Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

^11:14Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber: ^11:15and Shelah lived after he became the father of Eber four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

^11:16Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg. ^11:17Eber lived after he became the father of Peleg four hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

^11:18Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu. ^11:19Peleg lived after he became the father of Reu two hundred nine years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

^11:20Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug. ^11:21Reu lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

^11:22Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor. ^11:23Serug lived after he became the father of Nahor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

^11:24Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah. ^11:25Nahor lived after he became the father of Terah one hundred nineteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

^11:26Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

^11:27Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot. ^11:28Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees. ^11:29Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah. ^11:30Sarai was barren. She had no child. ^11:31Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran, and lived there. ^11:32The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.

^12:1Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you. ^12:2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you, and make your name great. You will be a blessing. ^12:3I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the earth be blessed."

^12:4So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran. ^12:5Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls who they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came. ^12:6Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.

^12:7Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "To your descendants I will give this land."

He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him. ^12:8He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh. ^12:9Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

^12:10There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was sore in the land. ^12:11It happened, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look on. ^12:12It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive. ^12:13Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."

^12:14It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. ^12:15The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. ^12:16He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels. ^12:17Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. ^12:18Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife? ^12:19Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."

^12:20Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.

^13:1Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South. ^13:2Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. ^13:3He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, ^13:4to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh. ^13:5Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. ^13:6The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together. ^13:7There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived then in the land. ^13:8Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives. ^13:9Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

New Testament

Matthew 8

^8:3Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. ^8:4Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."

^8:5When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him, ^8:6and saying, "Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented."

^8:7Jesus said to him, "I will come and heal him."

^8:8The centurion answered, "Lord, I'm not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed. ^8:9For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."

^8:10When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, "Most assuredly I tell you, I haven't found so great a faith, not even in Israel. ^8:11I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, ^8:12but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth." ^8:13Jesus said to the centurion, "Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed." His servant was healed in that hour.

^8:14When Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying sick with a fever. ^8:15He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him. ^8:16When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick; ^8:17that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases." ^8:18Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.

^8:19A scribe came, and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."

^8:20Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."

^8:21Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father."

^8:22But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

^8:23When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him. ^8:24Behold, a great tempest arose in the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep. ^8:25They came to him, and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We are dying!"

^8:26He said to them, "Why are you fearful, oh you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

^8:27The men marveled, saying, "What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

^8:28When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass by that way. ^8:29Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?" ^8:30Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them. ^8:31The demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs."

^8:32He said to them, "Go!"

They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water. ^8:33Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons. ^8:34Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.