Old Testament

Genesis 34-35

^34:1Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. ^34:2Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her. ^34:3His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady. ^34:4Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."

^34:5Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came. ^34:6Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him. ^34:7The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. ^34:8Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. ^34:9Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. ^34:10You shall dwell with us: and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."

^34:11Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give. ^34:12Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."

^34:13The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, ^34:14and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us. ^34:15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised; ^34:16then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. ^34:17But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.

^34:18Their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem, Hamor's son. ^34:19The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father. ^34:20Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying, ^34:21"These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For, behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. ^34:22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised. ^34:23Won't their cattle and their substance and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."

^34:24All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. ^34:25It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males. ^34:26They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away. ^34:27Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. ^34:28They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field; ^34:29and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house. ^34:30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."

^34:31They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"

^35:1God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."

^35:2Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments. ^35:3Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."

^35:4They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. ^35:5They journeyed: and a terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob. ^35:6So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Bethel), he and all the people who were with him. ^35:7He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother. ^35:8Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon Bacuth.

^35:9God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him. ^35:10God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel. ^35:11God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your loins. ^35:12The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."

^35:13God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him. ^35:14Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink-offering on it, and poured oil on it. ^35:15Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."

^35:16They journeyed from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor. ^35:17It happened that, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."

^35:18It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni, but his father named him Benjamin. ^35:19Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem). ^35:20Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day. ^35:21Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. ^35:22It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it.

Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. ^35:23The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. ^35:24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. ^35:25The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali. ^35:26The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram. ^35:27Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

^35:28The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years. ^35:29Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

New Testament

Matthew 22

^22:1Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying, ^22:2"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son, ^22:3and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come. ^22:4Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have made ready my dinner. My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!"' ^22:5But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise, ^22:6and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them. ^22:7But the king was angry, and he sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

^22:8"Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren't worthy. ^22:9Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.' ^22:10Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests. ^22:11But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn't have on wedding clothing, ^22:12and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?' He was speechless. ^22:13Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.' ^22:14For many are called, but few chosen."

^22:15Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk. ^22:16They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter who you teach, for you aren't partial to anyone. ^22:17Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

^22:18But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you test me, you hypocrites? ^22:19Show me the tax money."

They brought to him a denarius.

^22:20He asked them, "Whose is this image and inscription?"

^22:21They said to him, "Caesar's."

Then he said to them, "Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

^22:22When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.

^22:23On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him, ^22:24saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.' ^22:25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother. ^22:26In like manner the second also, and the third, to the seventh. ^22:27After them all, the woman died. ^22:28In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her."

^22:29But Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. ^22:30For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God's angels in heaven. ^22:31But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven't you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, ^22:32'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?' God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."

^22:33When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching. ^22:34But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together. ^22:35One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him. ^22:36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"

^22:37Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' ^22:38This is the first and great commandment. ^22:39A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' ^22:40The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

^22:41Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, ^22:42saying, "What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?"

They said to him, "Of David."

^22:43He said to them, "How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

 ^22:44'The Lord said to my Lord,
      Sit on my right hand,
      Until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?'

^22:45"If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?"

^22:46No one was able to answer him a word, neither dared any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.