And measures and matters of The Truth of the "time" we are in ...how "man" ..."thought to change time and times ... Dearly beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, how that one day is with the Lord, as a thousand year, and a thousand year as one day.
The Lord is not slack to fulfil his promise, as some men count slackness: but is patient to us ward, and would have no man lost, but would receive all men to repentance.
creteis@yahoo.com Behold in a wonder full dream during the whoreable nightmare of the dark season ...of the times and time ..of the season of man ...see son of man ...
and i was taken and shown Godly Men ...
and they were gathered together of and for the love of God and Jesus in spirit and truth.
and for and OF the love of God and Jesus did they go forth to help the homeless ...
and they repaired "abandoned" "houses" ...and also ...places broken down ...
and they "offered" increase and works and transportation according to what ever they were able ..."IN" abled to offer or do.
and the Jubilee of the Seventh Year came back to remembrance ...
even within ...even within the dream ...
and scripture came back to remembrance ...
THE GOSPELL OF ST. LUKE Chpt 17
When he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come he answered them and said:
The kingdom of God cometh not with waiting for.Neither shall men say: Lo here, lo there.
For behold the kingdom of God is with in you.
The 5th Chapter
When he saw the people he went up into a mountain, and when he was set, his disciples came to him, and he opened his mouth, and taught them saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which hunger and thirst for righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when men revile you, and persecute you, and shall falsely say all manner of evil sayings against you for my sake. Rejoice, and be glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For so persecuted they the Prophets which were before your days.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but and if the salt have lost her saltiness, what can be salted therewith? It is from that time good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. you are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill, cannot be hid, neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it lights all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in heaven.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the Prophets: no I am not come to destroy them, but to fulfil them. For truly I say unto you, till heaven and earth perish, one jot or one tittle of the law shall not scape, till all be fulfilled.
Whosoever breaks one of these least commandments, and teaches men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But whosoever observes and teaches, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
For I say unto you, except your righteousness exceed, the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, you cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Ye have heard how it was said unto them of the old time: You shall not kill. For whosoever kills, shall be in danger of judgement. But I say unto you, whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of judgement. Whosoever says unto his brother Raca, shall be in danger of a council. But whosoever says you fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Raca: worthless: from the Hebrew
Therefore when thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother hath *ought against you: leave there thine offering before the altar, and go thy way first and be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him, least that adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the minister, and then thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee: thou shall not come out from that place, till you have paid the utmost *farthing.
You have heard how it was said to them of old time: You shall not commit *advoutry. But I say unto you, that whosoever looks on a wife, lusting after her, has committed advoutry with her already in his heart.
Wherefore if thy right eye offend thee, pluck him out, and cast him from thee. Better it is for thee that one of your members perish, than that thy whole body should be cast into hell. Also if your right hand offend you, cut him off and cast him from you. Better it is that one of your members perish, than that all your body should be cast into hell.
It is said, whosoever put away his wife, let him give her a testimonial also of the divorcement. But I say unto you: whosoever put away his wife, (except it be for fornication) causeth her to break matrimony. And whosoever marries her that is divorced, breaks wedlock.
Again ye have heard how it was said to them of old time, you shall not forswear thyself, but shall perform thine oath to God. But I say unto you, swear not at all: neither by heaven, for it is Gods seat: nor yet by the earth, for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of that great king: neither shall you swear by your head, because you can not make one white hair, or black: But your communication shall be, ye, ye: nay, nay. For whatsoever is more than that, comes of evil.
Ye have heard how it is said, an eye for an eye: a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, that you resist not wrong. But whosoever give you a blow on your right cheek, turn to him the other. And if any man will sue you at the law, and take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. And whosoever will compel you to go a mile, go with him *twain. Give to him that asks, and from him that would borrow turn not away.
Ye have heard how it is said: you shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy. But I say unto you, love your enemies. Bless them that curse you. Do good to them that hate you. Pray for them which do you wrong and persecute you, that you may be the children of your father that is in heaven: for he makes his sun to arise on the evil, and on the good, and sends his rain on the just and unjust. For if you love them, which love you: what reward shall you have? Do not the *Publicans even so? And if you be friendly to your brethren only: what singular thing do ye? Do not the Publicans likewise? you shall therefore be perfect, even as your father which is in heaven, is perfect.
*ought (anything) *advoutry: prefix "a" meaning not or without, devout: devotion; plain hearted to God, being devoted to something or some one else. see James 2 for adultery. *Raca: worthless: greatest contempt from the Hebrew *farthing 1/4 penny from the English. *twain (two). *Publicans: ones who worked for the Romans; collector of taxes or tribute from the public
The 25th Chapter
And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai saying, speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them. When ye be come in to the land which I give you, let the land rest a Sabbath unto the Lord. Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt cut thy vines and gather in thy fruits. But the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land. The Lords Sabbath it shall be, and thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor cut thy vines.
The corn that groweth by itself thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes that grow without thy dressing: but it shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land. Nevertheless the Sabbath of the land shall be meat for you: even for thee and thy servant and for thy maid and for thy hired servant and for the stranger that dwelleth with thee: and for thy cattle and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. Then number seven weeks of years, that is, seven times seven years: and the space of the seven weeks of years will be unto thee forty nine years. And then thou shalt make an horn blow: even in the tenth day of the seventh month, which is the day of atonement. And then shall ye make the horn blow, even throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabiters thereof. It shall be a year of jubilee unto you and ye shall return: every man unto his possession and every man unto his kindred again. A year of jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you. Ye shall not sow neither reap the corn that groweth by itself, nor gather the grapes that grow without thy labor. For it is a year of jubilee and shall be holy unto you: how be it, yet ye shall eat of the increase of the field. And in this year of jubilee ye shall return, every man unto his possession again.
When thou sellest ought unto thy neighbor or buyest of thy neighbors hand, ye shall not oppress one another: but according to the number of years after the jubilee year, thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, and according unto the number of fruit years, he shall sell unto thee. According unto the multitude of years, thou shalt increase the price thereof and according to the fewness of years, thou shalt minish the price: for the number of fruit he shall sell unto thee. And see that no man oppress his neighbor, but fear thy God. For I am the Lord your God. Wherefore do after mine ordinances and keep my laws and do them, that ye may dwell in the land in safety. And the land shall give her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill and dwell therein in safety.
If ye shall say, what shall we eat the seventh year inasmuch as we shall not sow nor gather in our increase. I will send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years: and ye shall sow the eighth year and eat of old fruit until the ninth year, and even until her fruits come, ye shall eat of old store. Wherefore the land shall not be sold for ever, because that the land is mine, and ye but strangers and sojourners with me: and ye shall throughout all the land of your possession, let the land go home free again.
When thy brother is waxed poor and hath sold away of his possession: if any of his kin come to redeem it, he shall buy out that which his brother sold. And though he have no man to redeem it for him, yet if his hand can get sufficient to buy it out again, then let him count how long it hath been sold, and deliver the rest unto him to whom he sold it, and so he shall return unto his possession again. But and if his hand cannot get sufficient to restore it to him again, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it, until the jubilee: and in the year of Jubilee it shall come out, and he shall return unto his possession again.
If a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, he may buy it out again any time within a whole year after it is sold: and that shall be the space in which he may redeem it again. But and if it be not bought out again within the space of a full year, then the house in the walled city shall be stablished for ever unto him that bought it and to his successors after him and shall not go out in the year of jubilee. But the houses in villages which have no walls round about them, shall be counted like unto the fields of the country, and may be bought out again at any season, and shall go out free in the year of jubilee.
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites and the houses in the cities of their possessions the Levites may redeem at all seasons. And if a man purchase ought of the Levites: whether it be house or city that they possess, the bargain shall go out in the year of jubilee for the houses of the cities of the Levites, are their possessions among the children of Israel. But the fields that lie round about their cities, shall not be bought: for they are their possessions for ever. If thy brother be waxed poor and fallen in decay with thee, receive him as a stranger or a sojourner, and let him live by thee. And thou shalt take none *usury of him, nor yet vantage. But shalt fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee. Thou shalt not lend him thy money upon *usury, nor lend him of thy food to have advantage by it: for I am the Lord your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
If thy brother that dwelleth by thee wax poor and sell himself unto thee, thou shalt not let him labor as a bondservant doth: but as an hired servant and as a sojourner he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee, and then shall he depart from thee: both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own kindred again and unto the possessions of his fathers: for they are my servants which I brought out of the land of Egypt, and shall not be sold as bondmen. See therefore that thou reign not over him cruelly, but fear thy God. If thou wilt have bondservants and maidens, thou shalt buy them of the heathen that are round about you, and of the children of the strangers that are sojourners among you, and of their generations that are with you, which they begat in your land. And ye shall possess them and give them unto your children after you, to possess them for ever: and they shall be your bond men. But over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not reign one over another cruelly.
When a stranger and a sojourner waxeth rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him waxeth poor and sell himself unto the stranger that dwelleth by thee or to any of the strangers kin: after that he is sold he may be redeemed again: one of his brethren may buy him out: whether it be his uncle or his uncles son, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his kindred: either if his hand can get so much he may be loosed. And he shall reckon with him that bought him, from the year that he was sold in unto the year, of jubilee and the price of his buying shall be according unto the number of years, and he shall be with him as a hired servant. If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again for his deliverance, of the money that he was sold for. If there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, he shall so count with him, and according unto his years give him again for his redemption, and shall be with him year by year as an hired servant and the other shall not reign cruelly over him in thy sight. If he be not bought free in the meantime, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee and his children with him: for the children of Israel are my servants which I brought out of the land of Egypt.
*usury: to use a person; have influence over him by lending money goods, favors or bribes …and also interest taking against loans.
The 26th Chapter
I am the Lord your God. Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up any pillar, neither ye shall set up any image of stone in your land to bow yourselves thereto: for I am the Lord your God: keep my Sabbaths and fear my sanctuary. For I am the Lord.
If ye shall walk in mine ordinances and keep my commandments and do them, then I will send you rain in the right season and your land shall yield her increase and the trees of the field shall give their fruit. And the threshing shall reach unto wine harvest, and the wine harvest shall reach unto sowing time, and ye shall eat your bread in plenteousness, and shall dwell in your land peaceably. And I will send peace in your land, that ye shall sleep, and no man shall make you afraid.
And I will rid evil beasts out of your land, and there shall no sword go throughout your land. And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you upon the sword. And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight, and your enemies shall fall before you upon the sword. And I will turn unto you and increase you and multiply you, and set up my testament with you. And ye shall eat old store, and cast out the old for plenteousness of the new. I will make my dwelling place among you, and my soul shall not loathe you. And I will walk among you and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. For I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, that ye should not be their bondmen, and I brake the bows of your yokes, and made you go up right.
But and if ye will not hearken unto me, nor will do all these my commandments, or if ye shall despise mine ordinances either if your souls refuse my laws, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but shall break mine appointment: then I will do this again unto you: I will visit you with vexations, swelling and fevers, that shall make your eyes dazzle, and with sorrows of heart. And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will set my face against you and ye shall fall before your enemies, and they that hate you shall reign over you, and ye shall flee when no man followeth you.
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then will I punish you seven times more for your sins, and will break the pride of your strength. For I will make the heaven over you as hard as iron, and your land as hard as brass. And so your labor shall be spent in vain. For your land shall not give her increase, neither the trees of the land shall give their fruits.
And if ye walk contrary unto me and will not hearken unto me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. I will send in wild beasts upon you, which shall rob you of your children and destroy your cattle, and make you so few in number that your high ways shall grow unto a wilderness.
And if ye will not be learned yet for all this but shall walk contrary unto me, then will I also walk contrary unto you and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. I will send a sword upon you, that shall avenge my testament with you. And when ye are fled unto your cities, I will send the pestilence among you, ye shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies. And when I have broken the staff of your bread: that ten wives shall bake your bread in one oven and men shall deliver you your bread again by weight, then shall ye eat and shall not be satisfied.
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, but shall walk contrary unto me, then I will walk contrary unto you also wrathfully and will also chastise you seven times for your sins: so that ye shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. And I will destroy your altars built upon high hills, and overthrow your images, and cast your carcasses upon the bodies of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. And I will make your cities desolate, and bring your sanctuaries unto nought, and will not smell the savours of your sweet odors.
And I will bring the land unto a wilderness: so that your enemies which dwell therein shall wonder at it. And I will strew you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you, and your land shall be waste, and your cities desolate. Then the land shall rejoice in her Sabbaths, as long as it lieth void and ye in your enemies land: even then shall the land keep holy day and rejoice in her Sabbaths. And as long as it lieth void it shall rest, for that it could not rest in your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt therein.
And upon them that are left alive of you, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the land of their enemies: so that the sound of a leaf that falleth, shall chase them and they shall flee as though they fled a sword, and shall fall no man following them. And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword even no man following them, and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies: And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
And they that are left of you, shall pine away in their unrighteousness, even in their enemies land, and also in the misdeeds of their fathers shall they consume. And they shall confess their misdeeds and the misdeeds of their fathers in their trespasses which they have trespassed against me, and for that also that they have walked contrary unto me. Therefore I also will walk contrary unto them, and will bring them into the land of their enemies. And then at the least way their uncircumcised hearts shall be tamed, and then they shall make an atonement for their misdeeds.
And I will remember my bond with Jacob and my testament with Isaac, and my testament with Abraham, and will think on the land. For the land shall be left of them and shall have pleasure in her Sabbaths, while she lieth waste without them, and they shall make an atonement for their misdeeds, because they despised my laws and their souls refused mine ordinances. And yet for all that when they be in the land of their enemy, I will not so cast them away nor my soul shall not so abhor them, that I will utterly destroy them and break mine appointment with them: for I am the Lord their God. I will therefore remember unto them the first covenant made when I brought them out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen to be their God: for I am the Lord.
These are the ordinances, judgements, and laws which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
The 27th Chapter
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the Children of Israel and say unto them: If any man will give a singular vow unto the Lord according to the value of his soul, then shall the male from twenty years unto forty be set at fifty sickles of silver, after the sickle of the sanctuary, and the female at thirty sickles. And from five years to twenty the male shall be set at twenty sickles, and the female at ten sickles. And from a month unto five years, the male shall be set at five sickles of silver, and the female at three. And the man that is forty and above, shall be valued at fifteen sickles, and the woman at ten. If he be too poor so to be set, then let him come before the priest: and let the priest value him, according as the hand of him that vowed is able to get.
If it be of the beasts of which men bring an offering unto the Lord: all that any man giveth of such unto the Lord, shall be holy. He may not alter it nor change it: a good for a bad or a bad for good. If he change beast for beast, then both the same beast and it also wherewith it was changed shall be holy. If it be any manner of unclean beast of which men may not offer unto the Lord, let him bring the beast before the priest and let the priest value it. And whether it be good or bad as the priest setteth it, so shall it be. And if he will buy it again, let him give the fifth part more to that it was set at.
If any man dedicate his house, it shall be holy unto the Lord. And the priest shall set it, whether it be good or bad, and as the priest hath set it, so it shall be. If he that sanctified it will redeem his house, let him give the fifth part of the money that it was judged at thereto, and it shall be his.
If a man hallow a piece of his inherited land unto the Lord, it shall be set according to that it beareth. If it bear an homer of barley, it shall be set at fifty sickles of silver. If he hallow his field immediately from the year of jubilee, it shall be worth according as it is esteemed. But and if he hallow his field after the trumpet year, the priest shall reckon the price with him according to the years that remain unto the trumpet year, and thereafter it shall be lower set.
If he that sanctified the field will redeem it again, let him put the fifth part of the price that it was set at, thereunto, and it shall be his: if he will not it shall be redeemed no more. But when the field goeth out in the year of jubilee, it shall be holy unto the Lord: even as a thing dedicated, and it shall be the priests possession.
If a man sanctify unto the Lord a field, which he hath bought and is not of his inheritance, then the priest shall reckon with him what it is worth unto the year of jubilee, and he shall give the price that it is set at the same day, and it shall be holy unto the Lord. But in the year of jubilee, the field shall return unto him of whom he bought it, whose inheritance of land it was.
And all setting shall be according to the holy sickle. One sickle maketh twenty geras.
But the first born of the beasts that pertain unto the Lord, may no man sanctify: whether it be ox or sheep, for they are the Lords already. If it be an unclean beast, then let him redeem it as it is set at, and give the fifth part more thereto. If it be not redeemed, then let it be sold as it is rated.
Notwithstanding no dedicated thing that a man dedicateth unto the Lord, of all his goods, whether it be man or beast or land of his inheritance, shall be sold or redeemed: for all dedicate things are most holy unto the Lord. No dedicate thing therefore that is dedicate of man, may be redeemed, but must needs die.
All these tithes of the land, whether it be of the corn of the field or fruit of the trees, shall be holy unto the Lord. If any man will redeem ought of his tithes, let him add the fifth part more thereto. And the tithes of oxen and sheep and of all that goeth under the herdsmans keeping, shall be holy tithes unto the Lord. Men shall not look if it be good or bad nor shall change it. If any man change it then both it and that it was changed withall, shall be holy and may not be redeemed.
These are the commandments which the Lord gave Moses in charge to give unto the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
The end of the third book of Moses
The 30th Chapter
And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel saying: this is the thing which the Lord commandeth. If a man vow a vow unto the Lord or swear an oath and bind his soul, he shall not go back with his word: but shall fulfil all that proceedeth out of this mouth.
If a damsel vow a vow unto the Lord and bind herself being in her fathers house and unmarried: If her father hear her vow and bond which she hath made upon her soul, and hold his peace thereto: then all her vows and bonds which she hath made upon her soul shall stand in effect. But and if her father forbid her the same day that he heareth it, none of her vows nor bonds which she hath made upon her soul shall be of value, and the Lord shall forgive her, because her father forbade her.
If she had an husband when she vowed or pronounced ought out of her lips wherewith she bound her soul, and her husband heard it and held his peace thereat the same day he heard it: Then her vows and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul, shall stand in effect. But and if her husband forbade her the same day that he heard it, then hath he made her vow which she had upon her of none effect, and that also which she pronounced with her lips wherewith she bound her soul, and the Lord shall forgive her.
The vow of a widow and of her that is divorced, and all that they have bound their souls withal, shall stand in effect with them.
If she vowed in her husbands house or bound her soul with an oath, and her husband heard it and held his peace and forbade her not: then all her vows and bonds wherewith she bound her soul, shall stand. But if her husband disannulled them the same day that he heard them, then nothing that proceeded out of her lips in vows and bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand in effect: for her husband hath loosed them, and the Lord shall forgive her.
All vows and oaths that bind to humble the soul, may her husband stablish or break. But if her husband hold his peace from one day unto another, then he stablisheth all her vows and bonds which she had upon her, because he held his peace the same day that he heard them. And if he afterward break them, he shall bear her sin himself.
These are the ordinances which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between the father and his daughter, being a damsel in her fathers house.The 31st Chapter
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying: avenge the children of Israel of the Madianites, and afterward be gathered unto thy people. And Moses spake unto the folk saying: Harness some of you unto war, and let them go upon the Madianites and avenge the Lord of the Madianites. Ye shall send unto the war a thousand of every tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel. And there were taken out of the thousands of Israel twelve thousand prepared unto war, of every tribe a thousand. And Moses sent them a thousand of every tribe, with Phineas the son of Eleazer the priest to war, and the holy vessels and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
And they warred against the Madianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and slew all the males. And they slew the kings of Madian among other that were slain: Eui, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba: five kings of Madian. And they slew Balam the son of Beor with the sword. And the children of Israel took all the women of Madian prisoners and their children, and spoiled all their cattle, their substance and their goods. And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their castles with fire. And they took all the spoil and all they could catch, both of men and beasts. And they brought the captives and that which they had taken and all the spoil unto Moses and Eleazer the priest and unto the company of the children of Israel, even unto the host, in the fields of Moab by Jordan nigh to Jericho.
And Moses and Eleazer the priest and all the lords of the congregation went out of the host against them. And Moses was angry with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands and over hundreds, which came from war and battle, and said unto them: Have ye saved the women alive? behold, these caused the children of Israel through Balam, to commit trespass against the Lord, by the reason of Peor, and there followed a plague among the congregation of the Lord. Now therefore slay all the men children and the women that have lien with men fleshly: But all the women children that have not lien with men, keep alive for yourselves. And lodge without the host seven days all that have killed any person and all that have touched any dead body, and purify both yourselves and your prisoners the third day and the seventh. And sprinkle all your raiments and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats hair, and all things made of wood.
And Eleazer the priest said unto all the men of war which went out to battle: this is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses: Gold, silver, brass, iron, tin and lead, and all that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and then it is clean. Neverthelater, it shall be sprinkled with sprinkling water. And all that suffereth not the fire, ye shall make go through the water. And wash your clothes the seventh day, and then ye are clean. And afterward come into the host.
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying: take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of the women and of cattle, thou and Eleazer the priest and the ancient heads of the congregation. And divide it into two parts, between them that took the war upon them and went out to battle and all the congregation. And take a portion unto the Lord of the men of war which went out to battle one of five hundred, of the women and of the oxen and of the asses and of the sheep and ye shall take it of their half and give it unto Eleazer the priest, an heave offering unto the Lord. And of the half of the children of Israel, take one of fifty, of the women, of the oxen, of the asses
and of the sheep, and of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites which wait upon the habitation of the Lord.
And Moses and Eleazer the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses. And the booty and the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy five thousand sheep: and seventy two thousand oxen: and sixty one thousand asses: and thirty two thousand women that had lien by no man.
And the half which was the part of them that went out to war, was three hundred thousand and thirty seven thousand and five hundred sheep: And the Lords part of the sheep was six hundred and seventy five. And the oxen were thirty six thousand, of which the Lords part was seventy two. And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred, of which the Lords part was sixty one. And the women were sixteen thousand, of which the Lords part was thirty two souls. And Moses gave that sum which was the Lords heave offering unto Eleazer the priest: as the Lord commanded Moses. And the other half of the children of Israel which Moses separated from the men of war (that is to know, the half that pertained unto the congregation) was three hundred thousand and thirty seven thousand and five hundred sheep and thirty six thousand oxen: and thirty thousand asses and five hundred: and sixteen thousand women. And Moses took of this half that pertained unto the children of Israel: one of every fifty, both of the women and of the cattle, and gave them unto the Levites which waited upon the habitation of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses. And the officers of thousands of the host, the captains over the thousands and the captains over the hundreds came forth and said unto Moses: Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war, which were under our hand, and there lacked, not one man of them. We have therefore brought a present unto the Lord what every man found of Jewels of gold, chains, bracelets, rings, earrings and spangles, to make an atonement for our souls before the Lord.
And Moses and Eleazer took the gold of them: Jewels of all manner fashions. And all the gold of the heave offering of the Lord, of the captains over thousands and hundreds was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty sickles, for the men of war had spoiled, every man for himself. And Moses and Eleazer the priest took the gold of the captains over the thousands and over the hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of witness: to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, before the Lord.The 32nd Chapter
The children of Ruben and the children of Gad, had an exceeding great multitude of cattle. And when they saw the land of Jaeser and the land of Galaad that it was an apt place for cattle, they came and spake unto Moses and Eleazer the priest and unto the lords of the congregation saying. The land of Ataroth, Dibo and Jazer, Nemrah and Hesbon Elealeh and Sabam and Nebo and Beon, which country the Lord smote before the congregation of Israel: is a land for cattle and we thy servants have cattle wherefore (said they) if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants to possess, and bring us not over Jordan.
And Moses said unto the children of Gad and of Ruben: shall your brethren go to war and ye tarry here? Wherefore discourage ye the hearts of the children of Israel for to go over into the land which the Lord hath given them. This did your fathers, when I sent them from Cades barne to see the land. And they went up even unto the river of Escol and saw the land, and discouraged the hearts of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the Lord had given them.
And the Lord was wroth the same time and sware saying: None of the men that came out of Egypt from twenty years old and above, shall see the land which I swore unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, because they have not continually followed me: save Caleb the son of Jephune the Kenesite, and Josua the son of Nun, for they have followed me continually. And the Lord was angry with Israel, and made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord were consumed.
And behold, ye are risen up in your fathers stead, the increase of sinful men, and to augment the fierce wrath of the Lord to Israelward. For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave the people in the wilderness, so shall ye destroy all this folk. And they went near him and said: we will build sheepfolds here for our sheep and for our cattle, and cities for our children: But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place. And our children shall dwell in the fenced cities, because of the inhabiters of the land. And we will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited: every man his inheritance. For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan forward, because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
And Moses said unto them: If ye will do this thing, that ye will go all harnessed before the Lord to war, and will go all of you in harness over Jordan before the Lord, until he have cast out his enemies before him, and until the land be subdued before the Lord, then ye shall return and be without sin against the Lord and against Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the Lord. But and if ye will not do so, behold, ye sin against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out. Build your cities for your children and folds for your sheep, and see ye do that ye have spoken. And the Children of Gad and of Ruben spake unto Moses saying: thy servants will do as my lord commandeth. Our children, our wives substance and all our cattle shall remain here in the cities of Galaad. But we thy servants will go all harnessed for the war unto battle before the Lord, as my lord hath said.
And Moses commanded Eleazer the priest: and Josua the son of Nun and the ancient heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, and said unto them: If the children of Gad and Ruben will go with you over Jordan, all prepared to fight before the Lord: then when the land is subdued unto you, give them the land of Galaad to possess, but and if they will not go over with you in harness, then they shall have their possessions among you in the land of Canaan. And the children of Gad and Ruben answered saying: that which the Lord hath said unto thy servants we will do. We will go harnessed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall be on this side the Jordan.
And Moses gave unto the children of Gad and of Ruben and unto half the tribe of Manasse the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sehon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, the land that longed unto the cities thereof in the coasts of the country round about. And the children of Gad built Dibo, ataroth, Aroer, Atroth, Sophan, Jaeser, Jegabea, Bethnimra and Betharan fenced cities, and they built folds for their sheep. And the children of Ruben built Hesebon, Eleale, Kiriathaim, Nebo, Baal, Meon and turned their names, and Sibama also: and gave names unto the cities which they built.
And the children of Machir the son of Manasse went to Galaad and took it, and put out the Amorites that were therein. And Moses gave Galaad unto Machir the son of Manasse and he dwelt therein. And Jahir the son of Manasse went and took the small towns thereof, and called them the towns of Jair. And Nobah went and took kenath with the towns longing thereto, and called it Nobah after his own name.
The 33rd Chapter
These are the journeys of the children of Israel which went out of the land of Egypt with their armies under Moses and Aaron. And Moses wrote their going out by their journeys at the commandment of the Lord: even these are the journeys of their going out. The children of Israel departed from Rameses the fifteenth day of the first month, on the morrow after Passover and went out with an high hand in the sight of all Egypt, while the Egyptians buried all their first born which the Lord had smitten among them. And upon their gods also the Lord did execution. And the children of Israel removed from Rameses and pitched in Sucoth. And they departed from Sucoth and pitched their tents in Ethan, which is in the edge of the wilderness. And they removed from Ethan and turned unto the entering of Hiroth which is before Baal Zephon, and pitched before Migdol. And they departed from before Hiroth and went through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days journey in the wilderness of Ethan, and pitched in Marah. And they removed from Marah and went unto Elim where were twelve fountains and seventy palm trees and they pitched there.
And they removed from Elim and lay fast by the red sea. And they removed from the red sea and lay in the wilderness of Sin. And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and set up their tents in Daphka. And they departed from Daphka, and lay in Alus. And they removed from Alus, and lay at Raphedim, where was no water for the people to drink. And they departed from Raphedim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and lodged at the graves of lust. And they departed from the sepulchres of lust, and lay at Hazeroth. And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithma. And departed from Rithma and pitched at Rimon Parez. And they departed from Rimon Parez, and pitched in Libna. And they removed from Libna, and pitched at Rissa. And they journeyed from Rissa and pitched at Kehelatha. And they went from Kehelatha, and pitched in mount Sapher. And they removed from mount Sapher, and lay in Harada. And they removed from Harada, and pitched in Makeheloth.
And they removed from Makeheloth, and lay at Tahath, and they departed from Tahath and pitched at Tharath. And they removed from Tharath, and pitched in Mithca. And they went from Mithca, and lodged in Hasmona. And they departed from Hasmona, and lay at Moseroth. And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bane Jaken. And they removed from Bane Jaken, and lay at Horgadgad. And they went from Horgadgad, and pitched in Jathbatha. And they removed from Jathbatha, and lay at Abrona. And they departed from Abrona, and lay at Ezeon gaber. And they removed from Ezeon gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Sin, which is Cades. And they removed from Cades, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom. And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the Lord and died there, even in the fortieth year, after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, and in the first day of the fifth month. And Aaron was an hundred and thirty three years old when he died in mount Hor. And king Erad the Cananite which dwelt in the south of the land of Canaan, heard that the children of Israel were come.
And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmona. And they departed from Zalmona, and pitched in Phimon, and they departed from Phimon, and pitched in Oboth. And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Jehabarim in the borders of Moab. And they departed from Jehabarim, and pitched in Dibon Gad. And they removed from Dibon Gad, and lay in Almon Diblathama. And they removed from Almon Diblathama, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim before Nabo. And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the fields of Moab fast by Jordan nigh to Jericho. And they pitched upon Jordan, from Beth Haiesmoth unto the plain of Abelsatim in the fields of Moab.
And the Lord spake unto Moses in the fields of Moab by Jordan nigh unto Jericho, saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them: when ye are come over Jordan into the land of Canaan, see that ye drive out all the inhabiters of the land before you, and destroy their chapels and all their Images of Metal, and pluck down all their altars built on hills: And possess the land and dwell therein, for I have given you the land to enjoy it. And ye shall divide the inheritance of the land by lot among your kindreds, and give to the more the more inheritance, and to the fewer the less inheritance. And your inheritance shall be in the tribes of your fathers, in the place where every mans lot falleth.
But and if ye will not drive out the inhabiters of the land before you, then those which ye let remain of them, shall be thorns in your eyes and darts in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. Moreover it will come to pass, that I shall do unto you as I thought to do unto them.
The 34th Chapter
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying: command the children of Israel and say unto them: when ye come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall unto your inheritance, the land of Canaan with all her coasts. And your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Sin along by the coast of Edom, so that your south quarter shall be from the side of the salt sea eastward, and shall fetch a compass from the south up to Acrabim, and reach to Zinna. And it shall go out on the south side of Cades Barne, and go out also at Hazar Adar, and go along to Azmon. And shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and shall go out at the sea.
And your west quarter shall be the great sea, which coast shall be your west coast.
And this shall be your north quarter: ye shall compass from the great sea unto mount Hor. And from mount Hor, ye shall compass and go unto Hemath, and the end of the coast shall be at Zedada, and the coast shall reach out to Ziphron and go out at Hazer enan. And this shall be your north quarter.
And ye shall compass your east quarter from Hazar enan to Sepham. And the coast shall go down from Sepham to Ribla on the east side of Ain. And then descend and go out at the side of the sea of Cenereth eastward. And then go down along by Jordan, and leave at the salt sea. And this shall be your land with all the coasts thereof round about.
And Moses commanded the children of Israel saying: this is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, and which the Lord commanded to give unto nine tribes and an half: for the tribe of the children of Ruben, have received, in the households of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad in their fathers households, and half the tribe of Manasse, have received their inheritance, that is to know two tribes and a half have received their inheritance on the other side of Jordan by Jericho eastward, toward the * son rising.
And the Lord spake to Moses saying: These are the names of the men, which shall divide you the land to inherit. Eleazer the priest, and Josua the son of Nun. And ye shall take also a lord of every tribe to divide the land, whose names are these: in the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephune. And in the tribe of the children of Simeon, Semuel the son of Amiud, and in the tribe of BenJamin, Elidad the son of Cislon. And in the tribe of the children of Dan, the lord Bucki the son of Jagli. And among the children of Joseph: in the tribe of the children of Manasse, the lord Haniel the son of Ephod. And in the tribe of the children of Ephraim, the lord Camuel the son of Siphtan. And in the tribe of the sons of Zabulon, the lord Elizaphan the son of Pharnach. And in the tribe of the children of Isachar, the lord Palthiel the son of Asan. And in the tribe of the sons of Aser, the lord Ahihud the son of Salomi. And in the tribe of the children of Naphthali, the lord Peda El the son of Ammihud. These are they which the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel, in the land of Canaan.
* son: exactly as it appears in the text; note: in other places did the recorders write sunne for sun, and sonne as son.
The 35th Chapter
And the Lord spake unto Moses in the fields of Moab by Jordan Jericho saying: command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession: cities to dwell in. And ye shall give also unto the cities of the Levites, suburbs round about them. The cities shall be for them to dwell in, and the suburbs for their cattle, possession and all manner beasts of theirs. And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city outward, a thousand cubits round about. And ye shall measure without the city, and make the utmost border of the east side: two thousand cubits. And the utmost border of the south side: two thousand cubits. And the utmost border of the west side: two thousand cubits. And the utmost border of the north side: two thousand cubits also: and the city shall be in the midst. And these shall be the suburbs of their cities.
And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, there shall be six cities of franchise which ye shall give to that intent that he which killeth, may fly thither. And to them ye shall add forty two cities more: so that all the cities which ye shall give the Levites shall be forty eight with their suburbs. And of the cities which ye shall give out of the possessions of the children of Israel, ye shall give many out of their possessions that have much and few out of their possessions that have little: so that every tribe shall give of his cities unto the Levites, according to the inheritance which he inheriteth.
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them: when ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan, ye shall build cities which shall be privileged towns for you: that he which slayeth a man unawares, may fly thither. And the cities shall be to flee from the executer of blood, that he which killed die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgement. And of these six free cities which ye shall give three ye shall give on this side Jordan and three in the land of Canaan. And these six free cities shall be for the children of Israel and for the stranger and for him that dwelleth among you, that all they which kill any person unawares, may flee thither.
If any man smite another with a weapon of iron that he die, then he is a murderer, and shall die for it. If he smite him with a throwing stone that he die therewith, then he shall die: For he is a murderer and shall be slain therefore. If he smite him with a hand weapon of wood that he die therewith, then he shall die: for he is a murderer and shall be slain therefore.
The justice of blood shall slay the murderer, as soon as he findeth him: If he thrust him of hate, or hurl at him with laying of wait that he die or smite him with his hand of envy that he die, he that smote him shall die, for he is a murderer. The justice of blood shall slay him as soon as he findeth him.
But and if he pushed him by chance and not of hate or cast at him with any manner of thing and not of laying of wait: or cast any manner of stone at him that he die therewith, and saw him not: And he cast it upon him and he died, but was not his enemy, neither sought him any harm: Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the executer of blood in such cases. And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the judge of blood, and shall restore him again unto the franchised city, whither he was fled. And he shall bide there unto the death of the high priest which was anointed with holy oil.
But and if he came without the borders of his privileged city whither he was fled, if the avenger of blood find him without the borders of his free town, he shall slay the murderer and be guiltless, because he should have bidden in his free town until the death of the high priest, and after the death of the high priest, he shall return again unto the land of his possession. And this shall be an ordinance and a law unto you, among your children after you in all your habitations.
Whosoever slayeth, shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses. For one witness shall not answer against one person to put him to death. Moreover ye shall take none amends for the life of the murderer which is worthy to die: But he shall be put to death. Also ye shall take none atonement for him that is fled to a free city, that he should come again and dwell in the land before the death of the high priest. And see that ye pollute not the land which ye are in, for blood defileth the land. And the land can none otherwise be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of it that shed it. Defile not therefore the land which ye inhabit, and in the midst of which I also dwell among the children of Israel.
a thousand cubits ( that is 1500' ; if measure id based on "modern" lengths. Yet it is very possible that lengths were used of giants; ie ...from finger tip to elbow.)
The 36th Chapter
And the ancient heads of the children of Galaad the son of Machir the son of Manasse of the kindred of the children of Joseph, came forth and spake before Moses and the princes which were ancient heads among the children of Israel and said: The Lord commanded my lord to give the land to inherit by lot to the children of Israel. And then my lord commanded in the name of the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelaphead our brother unto his daughters. Now when any of the sons of the tribes of Israel take them to wives, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put unto the inheritance of the tribe in which they are and shall be taken from the lot of our inheritance. And when the year of jubilee cometh unto the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe where in they are, and so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
And Moses commanded the children of Israel at the mouth of the Lord saying: the tribe of the children of Joseph have said well. This therefore doth the Lord command the daughters of Zelaphead saying: let them be wives to whom they themself think best, but in the kindred of the tribe of their fathers shall they marry, that the inheritance of the children of Israel roll not from tribe to tribe. But that the children of Israel may abide, every man in the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. And every daughter that possesseth any inheritance among the tribes of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the kindred of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his father, and that the inheritance go not from one tribe to another: but that the tribes of the children of Israel, may abide every man in his own inheritance.
And as the Lord commanded Moses even so did the daughters of Zelaphead: Mahela, Thirza, Hagla, Milcha and Noa, and were married unto their fathers brothers sons, of the kindred of the children of Manasse the son of Joseph: and so they had their inheritance in the tribe of the kindred of their father.
These are the commandments and laws which the Lord commanded through Moses, unto the children of Israel in the fields of Moab upon Jordan nigh unto Jericho.
The end of the fourth book of Moses
The 16th Chapter
And he said also unto his disciples. There was a certain rich man, which had a steward, that was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods. And he called him: and said unto him: How is it, that I hear this of you? Give accounts of your stewardship: for you may be no longer steward. The steward said with in him self: what shall I do? for my master will take away from me the stewardship. I cannot dig, and to beg, I am ashamed. I *wot what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
Then called he all his masters debtors, and said unto the first: how much owest you unto my master? And he said: an hundred tuns of oil. And he said to him: take your bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. Then said he to another: what owe you? And he said: an hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take your bill, and write fourscore. And the Lord commended the unjust steward because he had done wisely. For the children of this world are in their kind, wiser then the children of light. And I say also unto you: make you friends of the wicked mammon, that when you shall depart, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
He that is faithful in that which is least the same is faithful in much. And he that is unfaithful in the least: is unfaithful also in much. So then if you have not been faithful in the wicked mammon, who will believe you in that which is true? And if you have not been faithful in another mans business: who shall give you your own? No servant can serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall lean to the one and despise the other. you cannot serve God and mammon.
All these things heard the Pharisees also which were covetous, and they mocked him. And he said unto them: you are they which justify yourselves before men: but God knows your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed among men, is abominable in the sight of God.
The law and the Prophets reigned until the time of John: and since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man strives to go in. Sooner shall heaven and earth perish than one tittle of the law shall perish. Whosoever forsakes his wife and marries another, breaks matrimony. And every man which marries her that is divorced from her husband, commits *advoutry also.
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine byss, and fared deliciously every day. And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which lay at his gate full of sores desiring to be refreshed with the crumbs which fell from the rich mans board. Nevertheless, the dogs came and licked his sores. And it fortuned that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abrahams bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
And being in hell in torments, he lift up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom, and he cried and said: father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said unto him: Son, remember that you in your lifetime, received your pleasure, and contrary wise Lazarus pain. Now therefore is he comforted, and you are punished. Beyond all this, between you and us there is a great space set, so that they which would go from here, now to you cannot: neither may come from that place to us.
Then he said I pray you therefore father, send him to my fathers house. For I have five brethren: for to warn them least they also come into this place of torment. Abraham said unto him: they have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them. And he said: no father Abraham, but if one came unto them from the dead, they would repent. He said unto him: If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they believe, though one rose from death again.
*wot (know). *advoutry: prefix "a" meaning not or without, devout: devotion; plain hearted to God, being devoted to something or some one else. see James 2 for adultery
So I turned me, lifting up mine eyes, and looked, and behold, a flying book. And he said unto me: what seest thou? I answered: I see a flying book of twenty cubits long, and ten cubits broad. Then said he unto me: This is the curse, that goeth forth over the whole earth: for all thieves shall be judged after this book, and all swearers shall be judged according to the same, I will bring it forth ( saith the Lord of hosts ) so that it shall come to the house of the thief, and to the house of him, that falsely sweareth by my name: and shall remain in his house, and shall consume it, with the timber and stones thereof. Then the angel that talked with me, went forth, and said unto me: lift up thine eyes and see what this is that goeth forth. And I said: what is it? He answered: this is a measure going out. He said moreover: Even thus are they ( that dwell upon the whole earth ) to look upon. And behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and lo, a woman sat in the midst of the measure. And he said: This is ungodliness. So he cast her into the midst of the measure, and threw the lump of lead up in to an whole.
Then lift up I mine eyes, and looked: and behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings ( for they had wings like the wings of a stork ) and they lifted up the measure between the earth and the heaven. Then spake I to the angel that talked with me: whither will these bare the measure? And he said unto me: in to the land of Sinear, to build them an house: which when it is prepared, the measure shall be set there in his place
and during the recording of this dream came a WARNING TO GET AWAY ...A WAY ...WAY AWAY FROM ...the UNGodlie people LEFT OF THE WORLD...
FOR OF THEM THE WOMAN'S WOMB HAS BECOME THE GRAVE OF THEIR CHILDREN.
THEY WILL NEVER SEE
"THE JUBILEE"
THE GOSPELL OF ST. MATTHEW Chpt 7
Not all they that say unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter in to the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth my fathers will which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not in thy name Prophesied? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name have done many miracles? And then will I knowledge unto them that I never knew them. Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity.
and others of a similitude ...
"The kingdom of God comes not with waiting for."
"be prepared ...the kingdom of Heaven is ... "
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