Grace, Not Works: Freedom Through Faith Alone

1. “‘If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity. 2. “‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty. 3. “‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty. 4. “‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these. 5. It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned: 6. and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin. 7. “‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. 8. He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely. 9. He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering. 10. He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven. 11. “‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. 12. He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. It is a sin offering. 13. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest’s, as the meal offering.’” 14. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 15. “If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly, in the holy things of Yahweh; then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering. 16. He shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven. 17. “If anyone sins, and does any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done; though he didn’t know it, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. 18. He shall bring a ram without defect from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn’t know it, and he will be forgiven. 19. It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before Yahweh.” 1. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2. “If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor, 3. or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of these things that a man does, sinning therein; 4. then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found, 5. or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. He shall return it to him to whom it belongs in the day of his being found guilty. 6. He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest. 7. The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty.” 8. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 9. “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. 10. The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen breeches upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. 11. He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. 12. The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning: and he shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. 13. Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out. 14. “‘This is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before Yahweh, before the altar. 15. He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial, to Yahweh. 16. That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting. 17. It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as the sin offering, and as the trespass offering. 18. Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.’” 19. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 20. “This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to Yahweh in the day when he is anointed: one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening. 21. It shall be made with oil in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. 22. The anointed priest that will be in his place from among his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly burned to Yahweh. 23. Every meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.” 24. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 25. “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Yahweh. It is most holy. 26. The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting. 27. Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place. 28. But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water. 29. Every male among the priests shall eat of it: it is most holy. 30. No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten: it shall be burned with fire. 1. “‘This is the law of the trespass offering. It is most holy. 2. In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar. 3. He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards, 4. and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away; 5. and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to Yahweh: it is a trespass offering. 6. Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. 7. “‘As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it. 8. The priest who offers any man’s burnt offering, even the priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered. 9. Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest’s who offers it. 10. Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another. 11. “‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh. 12. If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil. 13. With cakes of leavened bread he shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving. 14. Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to Yahweh. It shall be the priest’s who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings. 15. The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning. 16. “‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten: 17. but what remains of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. 18. If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity. 19. “‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it; 20. but the soul who eats of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people. 21. When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’” 22. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 23. “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat. 24. The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it. 25. For whoever eats the fat of the animal, of which men offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people. 26. You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings. 27. Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’” 28. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 29. “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Yahweh shall bring his offering to Yahweh out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. 30. With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before Yahweh. 31. The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. 32. The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. 33. He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion. 34. For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.’” 35. This is the anointing portion of Aaron, and the anointing portion of his sons, out of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to Yahweh in the priest’s office; 36. which Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations. 37. This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meal offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace offerings; 38. which Yahweh commanded Moses in Mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai. 1. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2. “Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread; 3. and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting.” 4. Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 5. Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be done.” 6. Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. 7. He put the coat on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him, and fastened it to him with it. 8. He placed the breastplate on him; and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim. 9. He set the turban on his head; and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as Yahweh commanded Moses. 10. Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them. 11. He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them. 12. He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. 13. Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with coats, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them; as Yahweh commanded Moses. 14. He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering. 15. He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it. 16. He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burned it on the altar. 17. But the bull, and its skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp; as Yahweh commanded Moses. 18. He presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. 19. He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar. 20. He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat. 21. He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses. 22. He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. 23. He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot. 24. He brought Aaron’s sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar. 25. He took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right thigh; 26. and out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and on the right thigh. 27. He put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before Yahweh. 28. Moses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh. 29. Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of consecration, as Yahweh commanded Moses. 30. Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him. 31. Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the meat at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’ 32. What remains of the meat and of the bread you shall burn with fire. 33. You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days. 34. What has been done today, so Yahweh has commanded to do, to make atonement for you. 35. You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.” 36. Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh commanded by Moses.

1. Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead), 2. and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia: 3. Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, 4. who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father— 5. to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. 6. I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”; 7. and there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ. 8. But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed. 9. As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed. 10. For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ. 11. But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man. 12. For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ. 13. For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it. 14. I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. 15. But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace, 16. to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood, 17. nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus. 18. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days. 19. But of the other apostles I saw no one, except James, the Lord’s brother. 20. Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying. 21. Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. 22. I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ, 23. but they only heard: “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.” 24. And they glorified God in me. 1. Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. 2. I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain. 3. But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. 4. This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage; 5. to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you. 6. But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man)—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me, 7. but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised 8. (for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles); 9. and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision. 10. They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do. 11. But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12. For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13. And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. 14. But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do? 15. “We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners, 16. yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law. 17. But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not! 18. For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker. 19. For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God. 20. I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. 21. I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!” 1. Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? 2. I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? 3. Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh? 4. Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain? 5. He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? 6. Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.” 7. Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham. 8. The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.” 9. So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham. 10. For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.” 11. Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.” 12. The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.” 13. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,” 14. that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 15. Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it. 16. Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ. 17. Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect. 18. For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise. 19. Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator. 20. Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one. 21. Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law. 22. But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 23. But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24. So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 26. For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. 27. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29. If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

1. Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. 2. I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old, 3. Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4. We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done. 5. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; 6. that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children, 7. that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments, 8. and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God. 9. The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 10. They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law. 11. They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them. 12. He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13. He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap. 14. In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire. 15. He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths. 16. He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. 17. Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert. 18. They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire. 19. Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? 20. Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?” 21. Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel, 22. because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation. 23. Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven. 24. He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky. 25. Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full. 26. He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind. 27. He rained also meat on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas. 28. He let them fall in the middle of their camp, around their habitations. 29. So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire. 30. They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths, 31. when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel. 32. For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works. 33. Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror. 34. When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly. 35. They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer. 36. But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue. 37. For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant. 38. But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath. 39. He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again. 40. How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert! 41. They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel. 42. They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary; 43. how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan, 44. he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink. 45. He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. 46. He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust. 47. He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost. 48. He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. 49. He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil. 50. He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence, 51. and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham. 52. But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 53. He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 54. He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken. 55. He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 56. Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies; 57. but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow. 58. For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images. 59. When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel; 60. So that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; 61. and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand. 62. He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance. 63. Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song. 64. Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep. 65. Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine. 66. He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach. 67. Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim, 68. But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved. 69. He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever. 70. He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; 71. from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance. 72. So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.