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And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.
Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
