Deuteronomy 25

¹  " If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked, ²  then it shall be if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his guilt. ³  " He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes. ⁴  " You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing. ⁵  "When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. ⁶  "It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel. ⁷  " But if the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.' ⁸  "Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, 'I do not desire to take her,' ⁹  then his brother's wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, 'Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.' ¹⁰  "In Israel his name shall be called, 'The house of him whose sandal is removed.' ¹¹  "If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, ¹²  then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity. ¹³  " You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small. ¹⁴  "You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. ¹⁵  "You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you. ¹⁶  "For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the LORD your God. ¹⁷  " Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt, ¹⁸  how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God. ¹⁹  "Therefore it shall come about when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.

Deuteronomy 26

¹  "Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and you possess it and live in it, ²  that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground which you bring in from your land that the LORD your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His name. ³  "You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, 'I declare this day to the LORD my God that I have entered the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.' ⁴  "Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God. ⁵  "You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, ' My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation. ⁶  'And the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us. ⁷  'Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression; ⁸  and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and wonders; ⁹  and He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰  'Now behold, I have brought the first of the produce of the ground which You, O LORD have given me.' And you shall set it down before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God; ¹¹  and you and the Levite and the alien who is among you shall rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given you and your household. ¹²  " When you have finished paying all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the orphan and to the widow, that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied. ¹³  "You shall say before the LORD your God, 'I have removed the sacred portion from my house, and also have given it to the Levite and the alien, the orphan and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed or forgotten any of Your commandments. ¹⁴  'I have not eaten of it while mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God; I have done according to all that You have commanded me. ¹⁵  ' Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel, and the ground which You have given us, a land flowing with milk and honey, as You swore to our fathers.' ¹⁶  "This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul. ¹⁷  " You have today declared the LORD to be your God, and that you would walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments and His ordinances, and listen to His voice. ¹⁸  "The LORD has today declared you to be His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments; ¹⁹  and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, for praise, fame, and honor; and that you shall be a consecrated people to the LORD your God, as He has spoken."

Deuteronomy 27

¹  Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying, "Keep all the commandments which I command you today. ²  " So it shall be on the day when you cross the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set up for yourself large stones and coat them with lime ³  and write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over, so that you may enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you. ⁴  "So it shall be when you cross the Jordan, you shall set up on Mount Ebal, these stones, as I am commanding you today, and you shall coat them with lime. ⁵  "Moreover, you shall build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones; you shall not wield an iron tool on them. ⁶  "You shall build the altar of the LORD your God of uncut stones, and you shall offer on it burnt offerings to the LORD your God; ⁷  and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and eat there, and rejoice before the LORD your God. ⁸  "You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very distinctly." ⁹  Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying, "Be silent and listen, O Israel! This day you have become a people for the LORD your God. ¹⁰  "You shall therefore obey the LORD your God, and do His commandments and His statutes which I command you today." ¹¹  Moses also charged the people on that day, saying, ¹²  "When you cross the Jordan, these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. ¹³  "For the curse, these shall stand on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. ¹⁴  "The Levites shall then answer and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice, ¹⁵  'Cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.' ¹⁶  ' Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ¹⁷  ' Cursed is he who moves his neighbor's boundary mark.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ¹⁸  ' Cursed is he who misleads a blind person on the road.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ¹⁹  ' Cursed is he who distorts the justice due an alien, orphan, and widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²⁰  ' Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²¹  ' Cursed is he who lies with any animal.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²²  ' Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²³  ' Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²⁴  ' Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²⁵  ' Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to strike down an innocent person.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²⁶  ' Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Mark 14

¹  Now the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him; ²  for they were saying, "Not during the festival, otherwise there might be a riot of the people." ³  While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head. ⁴  But some were indignantly remarking to one another, "Why has this perfume been wasted? ⁵  "For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor." And they were scolding her. ⁶  But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do you bother her? She has done a good deed to Me. ⁷  "For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me. ⁸  "She has done what she could; she has anointed My body beforehand for the burial. ⁹  "Truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her." ¹⁰  Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went off to the chief priests in order to betray Him to them. ¹¹  They were glad when they heard this, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how to betray Him at an opportune time. ¹²  On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples said to Him, "Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?" ¹³  And He sent two of His disciples and said to them, "Go into the city, and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him; ¹⁴  and wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is My guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?"' ¹⁵  "And he himself will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; prepare for us there." ¹⁶  The disciples went out and came to the city, and found it just as He had told them; and they prepared the Passover. ¹⁷  When it was evening He came with the twelve. ¹⁸  As they were reclining at the table and eating, Jesus said, "Truly I say to you that one of you will betray Me--one who is eating with Me." ¹⁹  They began to be grieved and to say to Him one by one, "Surely not I?" ²⁰  And He said to them, "It is one of the twelve, one who dips with Me in the bowl. ²¹  "For the Son of Man is to go just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born." ²²  While they were eating, He took some bread, and after a blessing He broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take it; this is My body." ²³  And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it. ²⁴  And He said to them, "This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. ²⁵  "Truly I say to you, I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God." ²⁶  After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. ²⁷  And Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away, because it is written, ' I WILL STRIKE DOWN THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP SHALL BE SCATTERED.' ²⁸  "But after I have been raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee." ²⁹  But Peter said to Him, "Even though all may fall away, yet I will not." ³⁰  And Jesus said to him, "Truly I say to you, that this very night, before a rooster crows twice, you yourself will deny Me three times." ³¹  But Peter kept saying insistently, "Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!" And they all were saying the same thing also. ³²  They came to a place named Gethsemane; and He said to His disciples, "Sit here until I have prayed." ³³  And He took with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be very distressed and troubled. ³⁴  And He said to them, " My soul is deeply grieved to the point of death; remain here and keep watch." ³⁵  And He went a little beyond them, and fell to the ground and began to pray that if it were possible, the hour might pass Him by. ³⁶  And He was saying, " Abba! Father! All things are possible for You; remove this cup from Me; yet not what I will, but what You will." ³⁷  And He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour? ³⁸  " Keep watching and praying that you may not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." ³⁹  Again He went away and prayed, saying the same words. ⁴⁰  And again He came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they did not know what to answer Him. ⁴¹  And He came the third time, and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? It is enough; the hour has come; behold, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. ⁴²  "Get up, let us be going; behold, the one who betrays Me is at hand!" ⁴³  Immediately while He was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, came up accompanied by a crowd with swords and clubs, who were from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. ⁴⁴  Now he who was betraying Him had given them a signal, saying, "Whomever I kiss, He is the one; seize Him and lead Him away under guard." ⁴⁵  After coming, Judas immediately went to Him, saying, " Rabbi!" and kissed Him. ⁴⁶  They laid hands on Him and seized Him. ⁴⁷  But one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear. ⁴⁸  And Jesus said to them, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me, as you would against a robber? ⁴⁹  "Every day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize Me; but this has taken place to fulfill the Scriptures." ⁵⁰  And they all left Him and fled. ⁵¹  A young man was following Him, wearing nothing but a linen sheet over his naked body; and they seized him. ⁵²  But he pulled free of the linen sheet and escaped naked. ⁵³  They led Jesus away to the high priest; and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes gathered together. ⁵⁴  Peter had followed Him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest; and he was sitting with the officers and warming himself at the fire. ⁵⁵  Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, and they were not finding any. ⁵⁶  For many were giving false testimony against Him, but their testimony was not consistent. ⁵⁷  Some stood up and began to give false testimony against Him, saying, ⁵⁸  "We heard Him say, ' I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'" ⁵⁹  Not even in this respect was their testimony consistent. ⁶⁰  The high priest stood up and came forward and questioned Jesus, saying, "Do You not answer? What is it that these men are testifying against You?" ⁶¹  But He kept silent and did not answer. Again the high priest was questioning Him, and saying to Him, "Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?" ⁶²  And Jesus said, "I am; and you shall see THE SON OF MAN SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, and COMING WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN." ⁶³  Tearing his clothes, the high priest said, "What further need do we have of witnesses? ⁶⁴  "You have heard the blasphemy; how does it seem to you?" And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death. ⁶⁵  Some began to spit at Him, and to blindfold Him, and to beat Him with their fists, and to say to Him, " Prophesy!" And the officers received Him with slaps in the face. ⁶⁶  As Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant-girls of the high priest came, ⁶⁷  and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, "You also were with Jesus the Nazarene." ⁶⁸  But he denied it, saying, "I neither know nor understand what you are talking about." And he went out onto the porch. ⁶⁹  The servant-girl saw him, and began once more to say to the bystanders, "This is one of them!" ⁷⁰  But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders were again saying to Peter, "Surely you are one of them, for you are a Galilean too." ⁷¹  But he began to curse and swear, "I do not know this man you are talking about!" ⁷²  Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had made the remark to him, "Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times." And he began to weep.