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 4
Tanakh 11 verses
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But it displeased exceedingly, and he was angry.
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- 2 And he prayed unto , and said: ‘I pray Thee, O , was not this my saying, when I was yet in mine own country? Therefore I fled beforehand unto Tarshish; for I knew that Thou art a gracious , and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in , and repentest Thee of the evil.
- 3 Therefore now, O , take, I beseech Thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.’
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And said: ‘Art thou greatly angry?’
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Then went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
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And prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over , that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his evil. So was exceeding glad because of the gourd.
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But prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
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- 8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of , that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said: ‘It is better for me to die than to live.’
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And said to : ‘Art thou greatly angry for the gourd?’ And he said: ‘I am greatly angry, even unto death.’
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- 10 And said: ‘Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow, which came up in a night, and perished in a night;
- 11 and should not I have pity on , that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?’