1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. 4 I

2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. 15 I

3 For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. 2 I

4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. 9 I

5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. 15 I

6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. 36 I

7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. 21 I

8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. 30 I

9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. 10 I

10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. 15 I

11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. 16 I

12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. 16 I

13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life. 34 I

14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. 2 I

15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. 2 I

16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 9 I

19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. 4 I

20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 18 I

21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 18 I

22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 18 I

23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. 56 I

24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. 15 I

25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 18 I

26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. 18 I

27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. 12 I

6 Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people. 12 I

7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord. 10 I

8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you. 10 I

9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: 10 I

10 And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. 18 I

11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. 10 I

12 And the Lord said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. 10 I

13 Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: 10 I

14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. 10 I

15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 10 I

16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you. 10 I

17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. 10 I

18 And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. 10 I

19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also. 10 I

20 And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. 10 I

21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. 10 I

22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath. 10 I

23 Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. 10 I

24 Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you. 10 I

25 Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the Lord had said he would destroy you. 10 I

26 I prayed therefore unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 12 I

27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: 14 I

28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. 10 I

29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm. 10 I

1 At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. 10 I

2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. 10 I

3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. 10 I

4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me. 10 I

5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me. 10 I

6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his stead. 10 I

7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. 10 I

8 At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day. 10 I

9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God promised him. 10 I

10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy thee. 10 I

11 And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them. 10 I

1 Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 11 I

2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. 31 I

4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 17 I

7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.

2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this. 6 I

11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: 4 I

2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. 3 I

3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 3 I

4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 3 I

5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. 3 I

6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. 6 I

7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, 18 I

8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. 16 I

9 Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;

10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 10 I

12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; 10 I

13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 22 I

14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. 18 I

15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.