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That the land, which thou esteemedst above all other, might receive a worthy colony of God’s children.

But miserable are they, and in dead things is their hope, who call them gods, which are the works of men’s hands, gold and silver, to shew art in, and resemblances of beasts, or a stone good for nothing, the work of an ancient hand.

Now a carpenter that felleth timber, after he hath sawn down a tree meet for the purpose, and taken off all the bark skilfully round about, and hath wrought it handsomely, and made a vessel thereof fit for the service of man’s life;

For neither did the mischievous invention of men deceive us, nor an image spotted with divers colours, the painter’s fruitless labour;

Instead whereof thou feddest thine own people with angels’ food, and didst send them from heaven bread prepared without their labour, able to content every man’s delight, and agreeing to every taste.

For thy sustenance declared thy sweetness unto thy children, and serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man’s liking.

For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter’s hoar frost, and shall run away as unprofitable water.

Glory not in the dishonour of thy father; for thy father’s dishonour is no glory unto thee.

Turn away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and look not upon another’s beauty; for many have been deceived by the beauty of a woman; for herewith love is kindled as a fire.

Sit not at all with another man’s wife, nor sit down with her in thine arms, and spend not thy money with her at the wine; lest thine heart incline unto her, and so through thy desire thou fall into destruction.

Many mighty men have been greatly disgraced; and the honourable delivered into other men’s hands.

As the wild ass is the lion’s prey in the wilderness: so the rich eat up the poor.

A covetous man’s eye is not satisfied with his portion; and the iniquity of the wicked drieth up his soul.

For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lord’s portion:

The number of a man’s days at the most are an hundred years.

Whether it be to friend or foe, talk not of other men’s lives; and if thou canst without offence, reveal them not.

As an arrow that sticketh in a man’s thigh, so is a word within a fool’s belly.

As an arrow that sticketh in a man’s thigh, so is a word within a fool’s belly.

A man’s attire, and excessive laughter, and gait, shew what he is.

A wise sentence shall be rejected when it cometh out of a fool’s mouth; for he will not speak it in due season.

A prayer out of a poor man’s mouth reacheth to the ears of God, and his judgment cometh speedily.

He that buildeth his house with other men’s money is like one that gathereth himself stones for the tomb of his burial.

A foolish man’s foot is soon in his [neighbour’s] house: but a man of experience is ashamed of him.

A foolish man’s foot is soon in his [neighbour’s] house: but a man of experience is ashamed of him.

A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband: but she that liveth dishonestly is her father’s heaviness.

And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion of the Lord’s inheritance.

The furnace proveth the potter’s vessels; so the trial of man is in his reasoning.

As the matter of the fire is, so it burneth: and as a man’s strength is, so is his wrath; and according to his riches his anger riseth; and the stronger they are which contend, the more they will be inflamed.

Till he hath received, he will kiss a man’s hand; and for his neighbour’s money he will speak submissly: but when he should repay, he will prolong the time, and return words of grief, and complain of the time.

Till he hath received, he will kiss a man’s hand; and for his neighbour’s money he will speak submissly: but when he should repay, he will prolong the time, and return words of grief, and complain of the time.

Many therefore have refused to lend for other men’s ill dealing, fearing to be defrauded.

Help the poor for the commandment’s sake, and turn him not away because of his poverty.

A wicked man transgressing the commandments of the Lord shall fall into suretiship: and he that undertaketh and followeth other men’s business for gain shall fall into suits.

Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, than delicate fare in another man’s house.

As the clay is in the potter’s hand, to fashion it at his pleasure: so man is in the hand of him that made him, to render to them as liketh him best.

Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain: and the heart fancieth, as a woman’s heart in travail.

Whoso bringeth an offering of the goods of the poor doeth as one that killeth the son before his father’s eyes.

He that taketh away his neighbour’s living slayeth him; and he that defraudeth the labourer of his hire is a bloodshedder.

Do not the tears run down the widow’s cheeks? and is not her cry against him that causeth them to fall?

For a man’s mind is sometime wont to tell him more than seven watchmen, that sit above in an high tower.

The principal things for the whole use of man’s life are water, fire, iron, and salt, flour of wheat, honey, milk, and the blood of the grape, and oil, and clothing.

Great travail is created for every man, and an heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam, from the day that they go out of their mother’s womb, till the day that they return to the mother of all things.

Children and the building of a city continue a man’s name: but a blameless wife is counted above them both.

My son, lead not a beggar’s life; for better it is to die than to beg.

The life of him that dependeth on another man’s table is not to be counted for a life; for he polluteth himself with other men’s meat: but a wise man well nurtured will beware thereof.

The life of him that dependeth on another man’s table is not to be counted for a life; for he polluteth himself with other men’s meat: but a wise man well nurtured will beware thereof.

And to turn away thy face from thy kinsman; or to take away a portion or a gift; or to gaze upon another man’s wife.

In her virginity, lest she should be defiled and gotten with child in her father’s house; and having an husband, lest she should misbehave herself; and when she is married, lest she should be barren.

Behold not every body’s beauty, and sit not in the midst of women.

With Isaac did he establish likewise [for Abraham his father’s sake] the blessing of all men, and the covenant, And made it rest upon the head of Jacob. He acknowledged him in his blessing, and gave him an heritage, and divided his portions; among the twelve tribes did he part them.

Before him there were none such, neither did ever any stranger put them on, but only his children and his children’s children perpetually.

Strangers conspired together against him, and maligned him in the wilderness, even the men that were of Dathan’s and Abiron’s side, and the congregation of Core, with fury and wrath.

Strangers conspired together against him, and maligned him in the wilderness, even the men that were of Dathan’s and Abiron’s side, and the congregation of Core, with fury and wrath.

And before his long sleep he made protestations in the sight of the Lord and his anointed, I have not taken any man’s goods, so much as a shoe: and no man did accuse him.

Who wast ordained for reproofs in their times, to pacify the wrath of the Lord’s judgment, before it brake forth into fury, and to turn the heart of the father unto the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.

In his time the sun went backward, and he lengthened the king’s life.

For they entreated him evil, who nevertheless was a prophet, sanctified in his mother’s womb, that he might root out, and afflict, and destroy; and that he might build up also, and plant.

And in the hearing of the nobles, and of the king’s sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and of all the people, from the lowest unto the highest, even of all them that dwelt at Babylon by the river Sud.

They made also a collection of money according to every man’s power:

For thy name shall be called of God for ever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of God’s worship.

And it shall manifestly appear to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in them.

Yet deliver us not up wholly, for thy name’s sake, neither disannul thou thy covenant:

And cause not thy mercy to depart from us, for thy beloved Abraham’s sake, for thy servant Isaac’s sake, and for thy holy Israel’s sake;

And cause not thy mercy to depart from us, for thy beloved Abraham’s sake, for thy servant Isaac’s sake, and for thy holy Israel’s sake;

And cause not thy mercy to depart from us, for thy beloved Abraham’s sake, for thy servant Isaac’s sake, and for thy holy Israel’s sake;

And the king’s servants, that put them in, ceased not to make the oven hot with rosin, pitch, tow, and small wood;

These kept much at Joacim’s house: and all that had any suits in law came unto them.

Now when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went into her husband’s garden to walk.

And said before the people, Send for Susanna, the daughter of Chelcias, Joacim’s wife. And so they sent.

So Bel’s priests said, Lo, we go out: but thou, O king, set on the meat, and make ready the wine, and shut the door fast and seal it with thine own signet;

So when they were gone forth, the king set meats before Bel. Now Daniel had commanded his servants to bring ashes, and those they strewed throughout all the temple in the presence of the king alone: then went they out, and shut the door, and sealed it with the king’s signet, and so departed.

Therefore the king slew them, and delivered Bel into Daniel’s power, who destroyed him and his temple.

Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and did seethe them together, and made lumps thereof: this he put in the dragon’s mouth, and so the dragon burst in sunder: and Daniel said, Lo, these are the gods ye worship.

Set up altars, and groves, and chapels of idols, and sacrifice swine’s flesh, and unclean beasts:

And whosoever was found with any the book of the testament, or if any consented to the law, the king’s commandment was, that they should put him to death.

In the mean while the king’s officers, such as compelled the people to revolt, came into the city Modin, to make them sacrifice.

Then answered the king’s officers, and said to Mattathias on this wise, Thou art a ruler, and an honourable and great man in this city, and strengthened with sons and brethren:

Now therefore come thou first, and fulfil the king’s commandment, like as all the heathen have done, yea, and the men of Juda also, and such as remain at Jerusalem: so shalt thou and thy house be in the number of the king’s friends, and thou and thy children shall be honoured with silver and gold, and many rewards.

Now therefore come thou first, and fulfil the king’s commandment, like as all the heathen have done, yea, and the men of Juda also, and such as remain at Jerusalem: so shalt thou and thy house be in the number of the king’s friends, and thou and thy children shall be honoured with silver and gold, and many rewards.

Then Mattathias answered and spake with a loud voice, Though all the nations that are under the king’s dominion obey him, and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to his commandments:

We will not hearken to the king’s words, to go from our religion, either on the right hand, or the left.

Now when he had left speaking these words, there came one of the Jews in the sight of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin, according to the king’s commandment.

Also the king’s commissioner, who compelled men to sacrifice, he killed at that time, and the altar he pulled down.

Now when it was told the king’s servants, and the host that was at Jerusalem, in the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king’s commandment, were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness,

Now when it was told the king’s servants, and the host that was at Jerusalem, in the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king’s commandment, were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness,

But they said, We will not come forth, neither will we do the king’s commandment, to profane the sabbath day.

In his acts he was like a lion, and like a lion’s whelp roaring for his prey.

He said, I will get me a name and honour in the kingdom; for I will go fight with Judas and them that are with him, who despise the king’s commandment.

Then Lysias chose Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes, Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king’s friends:

Now when Judas heard thereof he himself removed, and the valiant men with him, that he might smite the king’s army which was at Emmaus,

Upon this Judas removed from the tower, and pitched in Bathzacharias, over against the king’s camp.

So part of the king’s army being spread upon the high mountains, and part on the valleys below, they marched on safely and in order.

Then Judas and his host drew near, and entered into battle, and there were slain of the king’s army six hundred men.

Then the king’s army went up to Jerusalem to meet them, and the king pitched his tents against Judea, and against mount Sion.

Was returned out of Persia and Media, and the king’s host also that went with him, and that he sought to take unto him the ruling of the affairs.

Now therefore send some man whom thou trustest, and let him go and see what havock he hath made among us, and in the king’s land, and let him punish them with all them that aid them.

Where there were slain of Nicanor’s side about five thousand men, and the rest fled into the city of David.

So the thirteenth day of the month Adar the hosts joined battle: but Nicanor’s host was discomfited, and he himself was first slain in the battle.

Now when Nicanor’s host saw that he was slain, they cast away their weapons, and fled.

Then they pursued after them a day’s journey, from Adasa unto Gazera, sounding an alarm after them with their trumpets.