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
Proverbs 8
Tanakh 36 verses
- 1 Doth not wisdom call, And understanding put forth her voice?
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In the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth;
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Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:
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- 4 Unto you, O men, I call, And my voice is to the sons of men.
- 5 O ye thoughtless, understand prudence, And, ye fools, be ye of an understanding .
- 6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things, And the opening of my lips shall be right things.
- 7 For my mouth shall utter , And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
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All the words of my mouth are in , There is nothing perverse or crooked in them.
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- 9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge.
- 10 Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold.
- 11 For wisdom is better than rubies, And all things desirable are not to be compared unto her.
- 12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, And find out knowledge of devices.
- 13 The of is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the froward mouth, do I hate.
- 14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine.
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By me kings reign, And princes decree justice.
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Daniel 2:21 Romans 13:1 Matthew 28:18 Revelation 19:16 Jeremiah 27:5-7 Psalm 99:4 Daniel 7:13-14 Psalm 72:1-4 1 Kings 3:28 1 Samuel 9:17 1 Chronicles 28:5 1 Samuel 16:1 Jeremiah 33:15 1 Kings 10:9 1 Kings 3:9 Revelation 19:11 Isaiah 1:26 Daniel 4:32 Daniel 5:18-31 Isaiah 32:1-2 1 Kings 5:7 Daniel 4:25 - 16 By me princes rule, And nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
- 17 I them that me, And those that seek me earnestly shall find me.
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Riches and are with me; Yea, enduring riches and .
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My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And my produce than choice silver.
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- 20 I walk in the way of , In the midst of the paths of justice;
- 21 That I may cause those that me to inherit substance, And that I may fill their treasuries.
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The made me as the beginning of His way, The first of His works of old.
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I was set up from , from the beginning, Or ever the earth was.
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When there were no depths, I was brought forth; When there were no fountains abounding with water.
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Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;
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While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
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When He established the , I was there; When He set a circle upon the of the deep,
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- 28 When He made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep showed their might,
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When He gave to the sea His decree, That the waters should not transgress His , When He appointed the foundations of the earth;
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Then I was by Him, as a nursling; And I was daily all delight, Playing always before Him,
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Playing in His habitable earth, And my delights are with the sons of men.
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Now therefore, ye children, hearken unto me; For happy are they that keep my ways.
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- 33 Hear instruction, and be wise, And refuse it not.
- 34 Happy is the man that hearkeneth to me, Watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
- 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, And obtaineth favour of .
- 36 But he that misseth me wrongeth his own ; All they that hate me death.’