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
1 Samuel 11
Tanakh 15 verses
- 1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash: ‘Make a with us, and we will thee.’
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And Nahash the Ammonite said unto them: ‘On this condition will I make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach upon all .’
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- 3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him: ‘Give us seven days’ respite, that we may send messengers unto all the borders of ; and then, if there be none to deliver us, we will come out to thee.’
- 4 Then came the messengers to Gibeath-shaul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people; and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
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And, behold, came following the oxen out of the field; and said: ‘What aileth the people that they weep?’ And they told him the words of the men of Jabesh.
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- 6 And the of came mightily upon when he heard those words, and his anger was kindled greatly.
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And he took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of by the hand of messengers, saying: ‘Whosoever cometh not forth after and after , so shall it be done unto his oxen.’ And the dread of fell on the people, and they came out as one man.
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And he numbered them in Bezek; and the children of were three hundred thousand, and the men of thirty thousand.
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And they said unto the messengers that came: ‘Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabesh-gilead: To-morrow, by the time the sun is hot, ye shall have deliverance.’ And the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
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And the men of Jabesh said: ‘To-morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.’
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- 11 And it was so on the morrow, that put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and smote the Ammonites until the heat of the day; and it came to pass, that they that remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
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And the people said unto : ‘Who is he that said: Shall reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.’
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And said: ‘There shall not a man be put to death this day; for to-day hath wrought deliverance in .’
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Then said to the people: ‘Come and let us go to , and renew the there.’
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- 15 And all the people went to ; and there they made before in ; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of -offerings before ; and there and all the men of rejoiced greatly.