Psalm 119:1-24

English Standard Version

Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Aleph

119 ^[a] Blessed are those whose ^(A)way is blameless,
    who ^(B)walk in the law of the Lord!
²Blessed are those who ^(C)keep his ^(D)testimonies,
    who ^(E)seek him with their whole heart,
³who also ^(F)do no wrong,
    but walk in his ways!
⁴You have commanded your ^(G)precepts
    to be kept diligently.
⁵Oh that my ways may ^(H)be steadfast
    in keeping your statutes!
⁶^(I)Then I shall not be put to shame,
    having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.
⁷I will praise you with an upright heart,
    when I learn ^(J)your righteous rules.^[b]
⁸I will keep your statutes;
    ^(K)do not utterly forsake me!

Beth

⁹How can ^(L)a young man keep his way pure?
    By guarding it according to your word.
¹⁰^(M)With my whole heart I seek you;
    let me not ^(N)wander from your commandments!
¹¹I have ^(O)stored up your word in my heart,
    that I might not sin against you.
¹²Blessed are you, O Lord;
    ^(P)teach me your statutes!
¹³With my lips I ^(Q)declare
    all the rules^[c] of your mouth.
¹⁴In the way of your testimonies I ^(R)delight
    as much as in all ^(S)riches.
¹⁵I will ^(T)meditate on your precepts
    and fix my eyes on your ^(U)ways.
¹⁶I will ^(V)delight in your statutes;
    I will not forget your word.

Gimel

¹⁷^(W)Deal bountifully with your servant,
    ^(X)that I may live and keep your word.
¹⁸Open my eyes, that I may behold
    wondrous things out of your law.
¹⁹I am ^(Y)a sojourner on the earth;
    ^(Z)hide not your commandments from me!
²⁰My soul is consumed with ^(AA)longing
    for your rules^[d] at all times.
²¹You rebuke ^(AB)the insolent, ^(AC)accursed ones,
    who ^(AD)wander from your commandments.
²²Take away from me ^(AE)scorn and contempt,
    ^(AF)for I have kept your testimonies.
²³Even though ^(AG)princes sit plotting against me,
    your servant will ^(AH)meditate on your statutes.
²⁴Your testimonies are my ^(AI)delight;
    they are my ^(AJ)counselors.

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Footnotes

Psalm 119:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem of twenty-two stanzas, following the letters of the Hebrew alphabet; within a stanza, each verse begins with the same Hebrew letter
Psalm 119:7 Or your just and righteous decrees; also verses 62, 106, 160, 164
Psalm 119:13 Or all the just decrees
Psalm 119:20 Or your just decrees; also verses 30, 39, 43, 52, 75, 102, 108, 137, 156, 175

Numbers 15

English Standard Version

Laws About Sacrifices

15 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ^(A)When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you, ³and ^(B)you offer to the Lord from the herd or from the flock a food offering^[a] or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, ^(C)to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or ^(D)at your appointed feasts, to make a ^(E)pleasing aroma to the Lord, ⁴then ^(F)he who brings his offering shall offer to the Lord ^(G)a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah^[b] of fine flour, ^(H)mixed with a quarter of a hin^[c] of oil; ⁵and you shall offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, a quarter of a hin of ^(I)wine for the drink offering for each lamb. ⁶^(J)Or for a ram, you shall offer for a grain offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil. ⁷And for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a ^(K)pleasing aroma to the Lord. ⁸And when you offer a bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to ^(L)fulfill a vow or for ^(M)peace offerings to the Lord, ⁹then one shall offer ^(N)with the bull a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil. ¹⁰And you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

¹¹^(O)“Thus it shall be done for each bull or ram, or for each lamb or young goat. ¹²As many as you offer, so shall you do with each one, as many as there are. ¹³Every native Israelite shall do these things in this way, in offering a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. ¹⁴And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or anyone is living permanently among you, and he wishes to offer a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he shall do as you do. ¹⁵For the assembly, ^(P)there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the Lord. ¹⁶One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you.”

¹⁷The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁸^(Q)“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you ¹⁹and when you eat of ^(R)the bread of the land, you shall present a contribution to the Lord. ²⁰^(S)Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a ^(T)contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it. ²¹^(U)Some of the first of your dough you shall give to the Lord as a contribution throughout your generations.

Laws About Unintentional Sins

²²^(V)“But if you sin unintentionally,^[d] and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses, ²³all that the Lord has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the Lord gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations, ²⁴then if it was done unintentionally ^(W)without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord, ^(X)with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and ^(Y)one male goat for a sin offering. ²⁵^(Z)And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have brought their offering, a food offering to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord for their mistake. ²⁶And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the mistake.

²⁷^(AA)“If one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. ²⁸^(AB)And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven. ²⁹^(AC)You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the people of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them. ³⁰^(AD)But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people. ³¹Because he has ^(AE)despised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.”

A Sabbathbreaker Executed

³²While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man ^(AF)gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. ³³And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation. ³⁴^(AG)They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. ³⁵And the Lord said to Moses, ^(AH)“The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall ^(AI)stone him with stones outside the camp.” ³⁶And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Tassels on Garments

³⁷The Lord said to Moses, ³⁸“Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to ^(AJ)make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. ³⁹And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, ^(AK)not to follow^[e] after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined ^(AL)to whore after. ⁴⁰So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be ^(AM)holy to your God. ⁴¹^(AN)I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the Lord your God.”

Footnotes

Numbers 15:3 Or an offering by fire; so throughout Numbers
Numbers 15:4 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
Numbers 15:4 A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters
Numbers 15:22 Or by mistake; also verses 24, 27, 28, 29
Numbers 15:39 Hebrew to spy out

Mark 12:13-34

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Paying Taxes to Caesar

¹³^(A)And they sent to him some of ^(B)the Pharisees and some of ^(C)the Herodians, to ^(D)trap him in his talk. ¹⁴And they came and said to him, “Teacher, ^(E)we know that you are true and do not care about anyone's opinion. For ^(F)you are not swayed by appearances,^[a] but truly teach ^(G)the way of God. Is it lawful to pay ^(H)taxes to ^(I)Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?” ¹⁵But, knowing ^(J)their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why ^(K)put me to the test? Bring me ^(L)a denarius^[b] and let me look at it.” ¹⁶And they brought one. And he said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said to him, “Caesar's.” ¹⁷Jesus said to them, ^(M)“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” And they marveled at him.

The Sadducees Ask About the Resurrection

¹⁸And ^(N)Sadducees came to him, ^(O)who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying, ¹⁹“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that ^(P)if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man^[c] must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. ²⁰There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring. ²¹And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise. ²²And the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died. ²³In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”

²⁴Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because ^(Q)you know neither the Scriptures nor ^(R)the power of God? ²⁵For when they rise from the dead, they neither ^(S)marry nor ^(T)are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. ²⁶And as for the dead being raised, ^(U)have you not read in ^(V)the book of Moses, in ^(W)the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ^(X)‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? ²⁷He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.”

The Great Commandment

²⁸^(Y)And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” ²⁹Jesus answered, “The most important is, ^(Z)‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, ^(AA)the Lord is one. ³⁰And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ ³¹^(AB)The second is this: ^(AC)‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment ^(AD)greater than these.” ³²And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that ^(AE)he is one, and ^(AF)there is no other besides him. ³³And to love him with all the heart and with all ^(AG)the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, ^(AH)is much more than all ^(AI)whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” ³⁴And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” ^(AJ)And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions.