These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Jonah 1
Tanakh 17 verses
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Now the of came unto the son of Amittai, saying:
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- 2 Arise, go to , that great city, and proclaim against it; for their wickedness is come up before Me.’
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But rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of ; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish, from the presence of .
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Joshua 19:46 Genesis 4:16 Acts 9:36 Isaiah 23:1 Jonah 4:2 Isaiah 23:10 Isaiah 23:6 Ezekiel 27:12 Job 1:12 Luke 9:62 Acts 9:43 1 Kings 19:9 Genesis 3:8 Isaiah 2:16 1 Corinthians 9:16 Isaiah 60:9 Psalm 139:7-12 Jeremiah 20:7-9 1 Kings 19:3 Acts 15:38 2 Chronicles 2:16 2 Thessalonians 1:9 Acts 26:19 Ezekiel 3:14 Exodus 4:13-14 Job 2:7 -
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But hurled a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
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- 5 And the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his ; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them. But was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
- 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him: ‘What meanest thou that thou sleepest? arise, call upon thy , if so be that will think upon us, that we perish not.’
- 7 And they said every one to his fellow: ‘Come, and let us cast lots, that we may for whose cause this evil is upon us.’ So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon .
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Then said they unto him: ‘Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us: what is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?’
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And he said unto them: ‘I am an Hebrew; and I , the of , who hath made the sea and the dry land.’
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Nehemiah 9:6 2 Kings 17:25 2 Kings 17:28 Revelation 11:13 Ezra 1:2 Psalm 136:26 Genesis 14:13 Nehemiah 1:4 Hosea 3:5 Ezra 5:11 Revelation 16:11 Ezra 7:12-13 Acts 27:23 Psalm 95:5-6 Job 1:9 2 Kings 17:32-35 Revelation 15:4 Psalm 146:5-6 Genesis 39:14 Nehemiah 2:4 Acts 17:23-25 Philippians 3:5 Daniel 2:18-19 Daniel 2:44 Acts 14:15 -
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Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him: ‘What is this that thou hast done?’ For the men knew that he fled from the presence of , because he had told them.
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Then said they unto him: ‘What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us?’ for the sea grew more and more tempestuous.
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And he said unto them: ‘Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you; for I that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.’
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Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not; for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.
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- 14 Wherefore they cried unto , and said: ‘We beseech Thee, O , we beseech Thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent ; for Thou, O , hast done as it pleased Thee.’
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So they took up , and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.
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- 16 Then the men feared exceedingly; and they offered a unto , and made vows.
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And prepared a great fish to swallow up ; and was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
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