Genesis 2

• 1. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
• 2. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
• 3. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
• 4. This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens-
• 5. and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground,
• 6. but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground-
• 7. the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
• 8. Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
• 9. And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground-trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
• 10. A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.
• 11. The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
• 12. (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.)
• 13. The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.
• 14. The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
• 15. The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
• 16. And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;
• 17. but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
• 18. The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."
• 19. Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
• 20. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
• 21. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh.
• 22. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
• 23. The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman, 'for she was taken out of man."
• 24. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
• 25. The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

Matthew 2

• 1. After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem
• 2. and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."
• 3. When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
• 4. When he had called together all the people's chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.
• 5. "In Bethlehem in Judea," they replied, "for this is what the prophet has written:
• 6. "'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.'"
• 7. Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared.
• 8. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him."
• 9. After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.
• 10. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.
• 11. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.
• 12. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
• 13. When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him."
• 14. So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt,
• 15. where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my son."
• 16. When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.
• 17. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
• 18. "A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."
• 19. After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt
• 20. and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child's life are dead."
• 21. So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel.
• 22. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee,
• 23. and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: "He will be called a Nazarene."

Ezra 2

• 1. Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive to Babylon (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,
• 2. in company with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum and Baanah): The list of the men of the people of Israel:
• 3. the descendants of Parosh 2,172
• 4. of Shephatiah 372
• 5. of Arah 775
• 6. of Pahath-Moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab) 2,812
• 7. of Elam 1,254
• 8. of Zattu 945
• 9. of Zaccai 760
• 10. of Bani 642
• 11. of Bebai 623
• 12. of Azgad 1,222
• 13. of Adonikam 666
• 14. of Bigvai 2,056
• 15. of Adin 454
• 16. of Ater (through Hezekiah) 98
• 17. of Bezai 323
• 18. of Jorah 112
• 19. of Hashum 223
• 20. of Gibbar 95
• 21. the men of Bethlehem 123
• 22. of Netophah 56
• 23. of Anathoth 128
• 24. of Azmaveth 42
• 25. of Kiriath Jearim, Kephirah and Beeroth 743
• 26. of Ramah and Geba 621
• 27. of Micmash 122
• 28. of Bethel and Ai 223
• 29. of Nebo 52
• 30. of Magbish 156
• 31. of the other Elam 1,254
• 32. of Harim 320
• 33. of Lod, Hadid and Ono 725
• 34. of Jericho 345
• 35. of Senaah 3,630
• 36. The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah (through the family of Jeshua) 973
• 37. of Immer 1,052
• 38. of Pashhur 1,247
• 39. of Harim 1,017
• 40. The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel (through the line of Hodaviah) 74
• 41. The singers: the descendants of Asaph 128
• 42. The gatekeepers of the temple: the descendants of Shallum, Ater, Talmon, Akkub, Hatita and Shobai 139
• 43. The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, Hasupha, Tabbaoth,
• 44. Keros, Siaha, Padon,
• 45. Lebanah, Hagabah, Akkub,
• 46. Hagab, Shalmai, Hanan,
• 47. Giddel, Gahar, Reaiah,
• 48. Rezin, Nekoda, Gazzam,
• 49. Uzza, Paseah, Besai,
• 50. Asnah, Meunim, Nephussim,
• 51. Bakbuk, Hakupha, Harhur,
• 52. Bazluth, Mehida, Harsha,
• 53. Barkos, Sisera, Temah,
• 54. Neziah and Hatipha
• 55. The descendants of the servants of Solomon: the descendants of Sotai, Hassophereth, Peruda,
• 56. Jaala, Darkon, Giddel,
• 57. Shephatiah, Hattil, Pokereth-Hazzebaim and Ami
• 58. The temple servants and the descendants of the servants of Solomon 392
• 59. The following came up from the towns of Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon and Immer, but they could not show that their families were descended from Israel:
• 60. The descendants of Delaiah, Tobiah and Nekoda 652
• 61. And from among the priests: The descendants of Hobaiah, Hakkoz and Barzillai (a man who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by that name).
• 62. These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
• 63. The governor ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred food until there was a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim.
• 64. The whole company numbered 42,360,
• 65. besides their 7,337 menservants and maidservants; and they also had 200 men and women singers.
• 66. They had 736 horses, 245 mules,
• 67. 435 camels and 6,720 donkeys.
• 68. When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings toward the rebuilding of the house of God on its site.
• 69. According to their ability they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 drachmas of gold, 5,000 minas of silver and 100 priestly garments.
• 70. The priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers and the temple servants settled in their own towns, along with some of the other people, and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.

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