And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.

Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, nor the pollutions of the Gentiles to wit, of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pheresites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.

Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;

The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.

Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.

Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

And it happened, after that Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian, who came out of the land of Chettiim, had smitten Darius king of the Persians and Medes, that he reigned in his stead, the first over Greece,

And after his death they all put crowns upon themselves; so did their sons after them many years: and evils were multiplied in the earth.

Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever.

And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,

Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again.

And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.

Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.

I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.

And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.

They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.

For all the gods of the people are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.

Yea, many also of the Israelites consented to his religion, and sacrificed unto idols, and profaned the sabbath.

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.

For they counted all the idols of the heathen to be gods: which neither have the use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor ears to hear, nor fingers of hands to handle; and as for their feet, they are slow to go.

Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiff-necked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God.

For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee; The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.

Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown from the Lord's hand: for with his right hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them.

Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

And they that have loathed my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open unto them, understood not, but despised it;

Therefore if so be that ye will subdue your own understanding, and reform your hearts, ye shall be kept alive and after death ye shall obtain mercy.

Behold, God himself is the judge, fear him: leave off from your sins, and forget your iniquities, to meddle no more with them for ever: so shall God lead you forth, and deliver you from all trouble.

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.

Return unto the Lord, and forsake thy sins, make thy prayer before his face, and offend less.

He that hateth to be reproved is in the way of sinners: but he that feareth the Lord will repent from his heart.

So is it with a man that fasteth for his sins, and goeth again, and doeth the same: who will hear his prayer? or what doth his humbling profit him?

To depart from wickedness is a thing pleasing to the Lord; and to forsake unrighteousness is a propitiation.

Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

A good life hath but few days: but a good name endureth for ever.

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

Accept no person against thy soul, and let not the reverence of any man cause thee to fall.

Go not to law with a judge; for they will judge for him according to his honour.

It is not meet to despise the poor man that hath understanding; neither is it convenient to magnify a sinful man.

Some of them hath he blessed and exalted and some of them he sanctified, and set near himself: but some of them hath he cursed and brought low, and turned out of their places.