And the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and they shall rest on their land; and the stranger shall be added to them; yes, they shall be added to the house of Jacob.

who, arriving and seeing the grace of God, was glad, and encouraged them all with purpose of heart to continue with the Lord,

However, some men were joined to him and believed, among whom were also Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

[Let] love [be] without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

And they said, We will restore, and we will not exact of them; we will do thus as you say. Then I called the priests, and bound them by oath to do according to this word.

And I shook out my garment, and said, So may God shake out every man who shall not keep to this word, from his house, and from his labors, he shall be even thus shaken out, as an outcast and empty. And all the congregation said, Amen, and they praised the Lord; and the people did this thing.

And I strove with them and cursed them; and I struck some of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying,] You shall not give your daughters to their sons, and you shall not take of their daughters to your sons.

Cursed [is] the man whosoever shall make a graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of craftsmen, and shall put it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, So be it.

Cursed is the man that removes his neighbor's landmarks. And all the people shall say, So be it.

Cursed is everyone that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow. And all the people shall say, So be it.

Cursed is he that lies with any beast. And all the people shall say, So be it.

Cursed is he that lies with his daughter-in-law. And all the people shall say, So be it. Cursed is he that lies with his wife's sister. And all the people shall say, So be it.

Cursed is he whosoever shall have taken a bribe to slay an innocent man. And all the people shall say, So be it.

that you should enter into the covenant of the Lord your God and into His oaths, as many as the Lord your God appoints you this day;

And I do not appoint to you alone this covenant and this oath;

And that whoever should not seek the Lord God of Israel should die, whether young or old, whether man or woman.

And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

I have sworn and determined to keep the judgments of Your righteousness.

Now when it was day, some of the Jews joined in a conspiracy and bound themselves by a curse, saying neither would they eat nor drink until they would kill Paul.

who came to the chief priests and to the elders and said, "We have bound ourselves by oath with a curse to taste nothing until we kill Paul.

But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: he departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin.

And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His ordinances with all [his] heart and with all [his] soul, to confirm the words of this covenant; [even] [all] the things written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

And now, Lord God of Israel, keep with Your servant David my father the things which You have spoken to him, saying, There shall not fail you a man before Me sitting on the throne of Israel, if only your sons will take heed to their way to walk in My law, as you have walked before Me.

And the king stood at a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk before the Lord, to keep His commandments and testimonies, and His ordinances, with all [his] heart and with all [his] soul, so as to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

And you shall say, Thus said the Lord: If you will not hearken to Me, to walk in My statutes which I set before you,

the law which Moses commanded us, an inheritance to the assemblies of Jacob.

Remember the law of My servant Moses, accordingly as I charged him [with it] in Horeb for all Israel, even the commandments and ordinances.

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ.

Has not Moses given you the law, yet none of you keeps the law? Why are you seeking to kill Me?"

And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the ordinances and statutes, all that I speak in your ears this day, and you shall learn them, and observe to do them.

And you shall take heed to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left,

that they might keep His ordinances, and diligently seek His law.

And I will put My Spirit in you, and will cause you to walk in My ordinances, and to keep My judgments, and do [them].

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

For the saving grace of God has appeared to all men,

looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

For the end, concerning the winepresses, A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is Your name in all the earth! For Your magnificence is exalted above the heavens.

O Lord our Lord, how wonderful is Your name in all the earth!