And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

In whose hand {is} the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. {soul: or, life} {all...: Heb. all flesh of man}

The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

O Lord, by these {things men} live, and in all these {things is} the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls {which} I have made.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I {am} the LORD your God.

The eye {that} mocketh at {his} father, and despiseth to obey {his} mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. {the valley: or, the brook}

Cursed {be} he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Whose {are} the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ {came}, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and {that}, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. {oppression: or, deceit}

A son honoureth {his} father, and a servant his master: if then I {be} a father, where {is} mine honour? and if I {be} a master, where {is} my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: {accursed: or, separated}

Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

And call no {man} your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

And the LORD God formed man {of} the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. {of the dust...: Heb. dust of the ground}

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I {am} the LORD your God.

Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls {which} I have made.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall {your} heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

This {is} the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

And he said unto me, These sayings {are} faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and {that}, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife {see} that she reverence {her} husband.

Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. {willingly: Heb. from his heart}

Then Bathsheba bowed with {her} face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.

Woe unto him that saith unto {his} father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

{Ye} fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?

So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, {As} the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.

For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though {it were} but for a season.

And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in {again}.

By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this {is} all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. {images: or, sun images}

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

O LORD, {are} not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, {but} they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?