Old Testament

Exodus 31-32

^31:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ^31:2"Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: ^31:3and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, ^31:4to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, ^31:5and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship. ^31:6I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you: ^31:7the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent, ^31:8the table and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all its vessels, the altar of incense, ^31:9the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base, ^31:10the finely worked garments--the holy garments for Aaron the priest--the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office, ^31:11the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do."

^31:12Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ^31:13"Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Most assuredly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you. ^31:14You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. ^31:15Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death. ^31:16Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. ^31:17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"

^31:18He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with God's finger.

^32:1When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."

^32:2Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me."

^32:3All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. ^32:4He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

^32:5When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh."

^32:6They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

^32:7Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves! ^32:8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

^32:9Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and, behold, they are a stiff-necked people. ^32:10Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."

^32:11Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? ^32:12Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people. ^32:13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

^32:14Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

^32:15Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written. ^32:16The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tables.

^32:17When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."

^32:18He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear." ^32:19It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain. ^32:20He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

^32:21Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"

^32:22Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil. ^32:23For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.' ^32:24I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:' so they gave it me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."

^32:25When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies), ^32:26then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me!"

All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. ^32:27He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor." ^32:28The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. ^32:29Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day."

^32:30It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."

^32:31Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold. ^32:32Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin-- and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."

^32:33Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. ^32:34Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin." ^32:35Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

New Testament

Luke 4

^4:1Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness ^4:2for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry. ^4:3The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."

^4:4Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.'"

^4:5The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. ^4:6The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want. ^4:7If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours."

^4:8Jesus answered him, "Get behind me Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.'"

^4:9He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here, ^4:10for it is written,

 'He will give his angels charge concerning you, to guard you;'

^4:11and,

 'On their hands they will bear you up,
      Lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.'"

^4:12Jesus answering, said to him, "It has been said, 'You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'"

^4:13When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.

^4:14Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area. ^4:15He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

^4:16He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. ^4:17The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,

 ^4:18"The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
      Because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.

 He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
      To proclaim release to the captives,
      Recovering of sight to the blind,
      To deliver those who are crushed,
      ^4:19And to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."

^4:20He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him. ^4:21He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

^4:22All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, "Isn't this Joseph's son?"

^4:23He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable, 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.'" ^4:24He said, "Most assuredly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. ^4:25But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land. ^4:26Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. ^4:27There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."

^4:28They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things. ^4:29They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff. ^4:30But he, passing through the midst of them, went his way.

^4:31He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day, ^4:32and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority. ^4:33In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, ^4:34saying, "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!"

^4:35Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" When the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.

^4:36Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, "What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!" ^4:37News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.

^4:38He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. Simon's mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her. ^4:39He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them. ^4:40When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. ^4:41Demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn't allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

^4:42When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn't go away from them. ^4:43But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent." ^4:44He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.