Old Testament

Exodus 2-3

^2:1A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. ^2:2The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. ^2:3When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank. ^2:4His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him. ^2:5Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it. ^2:6She opened it, and saw the child, and, behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

^2:7Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?"

^2:8Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go."

The maiden went and called the child's mother. ^2:9Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages."

The woman took the child, and nursed it. ^2:10The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."

^2:11It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. ^2:12He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

^2:13He went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"

^2:14He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?"

Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known." ^2:15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

^2:16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. ^2:17The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. ^2:18When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?"

^2:19They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."

^2:20He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."

^2:21Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter. ^2:22She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."

^2:23It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. ^2:24God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. ^2:25God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.

^3:1Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb. ^3:2The angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. ^3:3Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. ^3:4When Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!"

He said, "Here I am."

^3:5He said, "Don't come close. Take off your sandals from off your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground." ^3:6Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."

Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.

^3:7Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. ^3:8I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ^3:9Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. ^3:10Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."

^3:11Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?"

^3:12He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."

^3:13Moses said to God, "Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you;' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' What should I tell them?"

^3:14God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM," and he said, "You shall tell the children of Israel this: "I AM has sent me to you." ^3:15God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of Israel this, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations. ^3:16Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt; ^3:17and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey."' ^3:18They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.' ^3:19I know that the king of Egypt won't give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand. ^3:20I will put forth my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst of it, and after that he will let you go. ^3:21I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed. ^3:22But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall despoil the Egyptians.

New Testament

Mark 5

^5:1They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. ^5:2When he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, ^5:3who had his dwelling in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains, ^5:4because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him. ^5:5Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones. ^5:6When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him, ^5:7and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don't torment me." ^5:8For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"

^5:9He asked him, "What is your name?"

He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many." ^5:10He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country. ^5:11Now there was on the mountainside a great herd of pigs feeding. ^5:12All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them."

^5:13At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea. ^5:14Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country.

The people came to see what it was that had happened. ^5:15They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid. ^5:16Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs. ^5:17They began to beg him to depart from their region.

^5:18As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. ^5:19He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."

^5:20He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.

^5:21When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea. ^5:22Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet, ^5:23and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live."

^5:24He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides. ^5:25A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years, ^5:26and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse, ^5:27having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes. ^5:28For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well." ^5:29Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

^5:30Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

^5:31His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"

^5:32He looked around to see her who had done this thing. ^5:33But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

^5:34He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease."

^5:35While he was still speaking, they came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?"

^5:36But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid, only believe." ^5:37He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James. ^5:38He came to the synagogue ruler's house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing. ^5:39When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."

^5:40They laughed him to scorn. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying. ^5:41Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi;" which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get up." ^5:42Immediately the girl rose up, and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement. ^5:43He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.