Old Testament

Exodus 33-34

^33:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.' ^33:2I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: ^33:3to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."

^33:4When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.

^33:5Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you."

^33:6The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

^33:7Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The tent of meeting." It happened that everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp. ^33:8It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent. ^33:9It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses. ^33:10All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door. ^33:11Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent.

^33:12Moses said to Yahweh, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up this people:' and you haven't let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.' ^33:13Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."

^33:14He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."

^33:15He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me, don't carry us up from here. ^33:16For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"

^33:17Yahweh said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."

^33:18He said, "Please show me your glory."

^33:19He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy." ^33:20He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live." ^33:21Yahweh also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock. ^33:22It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by; ^33:23then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen."

^34:1Yahweh said to Moses, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. ^34:2Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. ^34:3No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."

^34:4He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets. ^34:5Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yahweh. ^34:6Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, ^34:7keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."

^34:8Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped. ^34:9He said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us; although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."

^34:10He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you. ^34:11Observe that which I command you this day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ^34:12Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you: ^34:13but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim; ^34:14for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. ^34:15Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice; ^34:16and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods. ^34:17You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

^34:18"You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. ^34:19All that opens the womb is mine; and all your cattle that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep. ^34:20The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. No one shall appear before me empty.

^34:21Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. ^34:22You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end. ^34:23Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel. ^34:24For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.

^34:25"You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left to the morning. ^34:26You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

^34:27Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

^34:28He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

^34:29It happened, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mountain, that Moses didn't know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him. ^34:30When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him. ^34:31Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them. ^34:32Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all of the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. ^34:33When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. ^34:34But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded. ^34:35The children of Israel saw Moses' face, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

New Testament

Luke 5

^5:1Now it happened, while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. ^5:2He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets. ^5:3He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. ^5:4When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch."

^5:5Simon answered him, "Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net." ^5:6When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking. ^5:7They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink. ^5:8But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord." ^5:9For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught; ^5:10and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.

Jesus said to Simon, "Don't be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive."

^5:11When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him. ^5:12It happened, while he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."

^5:13He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean."

Immediately the leprosy left him. ^5:14He charged him to "Tell no one, but go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them." ^5:15But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. ^5:16But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

^5:17It happened on one of those days, that he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them. ^5:18Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus. ^5:19Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst before Jesus. ^5:20Seeing their faith, he said to him, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."

^5:21The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"

^5:22But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, "Why are you reasoning so in your hearts? ^5:23Which is easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you;' or to say, 'Arise and walk?' ^5:24But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" (he said to the paralyzed man), "I tell you, arise, and take up your cot, and go to your house."

^5:25Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God. ^5:26Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen strange things today."

^5:27After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me!"

^5:28He left everything, and rose up and followed him. ^5:29Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them. ^5:30Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?" ^5:31Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. ^5:32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

^5:33They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"

^5:34He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them? ^5:35But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days." ^5:36He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old. ^5:37No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. ^5:38But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved. ^5:39No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"