Old Testament

Exodus 15-16

^15:1Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said,

 "I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously:
      The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.

 ^15:2Yah is my strength and song,
      He has become my salvation:

 This is my God, and I will praise him;
      My father's God, and I will exalt him.

 ^15:3Yahweh is a man of war.
      Yahweh is his name.

 ^15:4Pharaoh's chariots and his host has he cast into the sea;
      His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

 ^15:5The deeps cover them.
      They went down into the depths like a stone.

 ^15:6Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power,
      Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.

 ^15:7In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you:
      You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.

 ^15:8With the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up.
      The floods stood upright as a heap.
      The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

 ^15:9The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil.
      My desire shall be satisfied on them.
      I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'

 ^15:10You blew with your wind.
      The sea covered them.
      They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

 ^15:11Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods?
      Who is like you, glorious in holiness,
      Fearful in praises, doing wonders?

 ^15:12You stretched out your right hand.
      The earth swallowed them.

 ^15:13"You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed.
      You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.

 ^15:14The peoples have heard.
      They tremble.
      Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

 ^15:15Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed.
      Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab.
      All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.

 ^15:16Terror and dread falls on them.
      By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone;
      Until your people pass over, Yahweh,
      Until the people pass over who you have purchased.
      ^15:17You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance,
      The place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in;
      The sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.

 ^15:18Yahweh shall reign forever and ever."

^15:19For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea. ^15:20Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. ^15:21Miriam answered them,

 "Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously:

 The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."

^15:22Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. ^15:23When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah. ^15:24The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" ^15:25Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh shown him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them; ^15:26and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you."

^15:27They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

^16:1They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. ^16:2The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness; ^16:3and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

^16:4Then said Yahweh to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not. ^16:5It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."

^16:6Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening, then you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt; ^16:7and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?" ^16:8Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh." ^16:9Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.'" ^16:10It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud. ^16:11Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ^16:12"I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"

^16:13It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp. ^16:14When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground. ^16:15When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat." ^16:16This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall you take it, every man for those who are in his tent." ^16:17The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less. ^16:18When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating. ^16:19Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning." ^16:20Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them. ^16:21They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted. ^16:22It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. ^16:23He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning." ^16:24They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it. ^16:25Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field. ^16:26Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none." ^16:27It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none. ^16:28Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? ^16:29Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day." ^16:30So the people rested on the seventh day.

^16:31The house of Israel called the name of it Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey. ^16:32Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt." ^16:33Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations." ^16:34As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. ^16:35The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. ^16:36Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

New Testament

Mark 12

^12:1He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country. ^12:2When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard. ^12:3They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty. ^12:4Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated. ^12:5Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some. ^12:6Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' ^12:7But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' ^12:8They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. ^12:9What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. ^12:10Haven't you even read this Scripture:

 'The stone which the builders rejected,
      The same was made the head of the corner.

 ^12:11This was from the Lord,
      It is marvelous in our eyes'?"

^12:12They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away. ^12:13They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words. ^12:14When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don't defer to anyone; for you aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? ^12:15Shall we give, or shall we not give?"

But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it."

^12:16They brought it.

He said to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?"

They said to him, "Caesar's."

^12:17Jesus answered them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

They marveled greatly at him.

^12:18There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying, ^12:19"Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.' ^12:20There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring. ^12:21The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise; ^12:22and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died. ^12:23In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife."

^12:24Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God? ^12:25For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. ^12:26But about the dead, that they are raised; haven't you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?' ^12:27He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken."

^12:28One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the greatest of all?"

^12:29Jesus answered, "The greatest is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: ^12:30you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment. ^12:31The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

^12:32The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he, ^12:33and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

^12:34When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God."

No one dared ask him any question after that. ^12:35Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? ^12:36For David himself said in the Holy Spirit,

 'The Lord said to my Lord,
      Sit at my right hand,
      Until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.'

^12:37Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?"

The common people heard him gladly. ^12:38In his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces, ^12:39and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts: ^12:40those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."

^12:41Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. ^12:42A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which make a quadrans. ^12:43He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury, ^12:44for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on."