The Reading Ruth 1 And it happened in the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem of Judah went to reside in the countryside of Moab—he and his wife and his two sons. And the name of the man was Elimelech, an

The Reading Judges 19 In those days there was no king in Israel; there was a man, a Levite, who dwelled as a foreigner in the remote areas of the hill country of Ephraim. And he took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. But his concubine felt

The Reading Judges 17 There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim; his name was Micah. And he said to his mother, "The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, and about which you also pronounced a curse in my hearing, are with me; I

The Reading Judges 12 The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed over to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross over and make war against the Ammonites, and why did you not call us to go with you? We will burn down your house over y

The Reading Judges 9 And Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem, to the relatives of his mother, and he said to them and to the house of his mother's father, "Speak to the lords of Shechem, 'What is better for you, that seventy men all from the sons

The Reading Judges 7 Then Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) rose early, and all the army that was with him. They were camped beside the spring of Harod; the camp of Midian was north of the hill of Moreh, in the valley. And Yahweh said to Gideon, "The troo...

The Reading Judges 4 And again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and Ehud died. So Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, and he was living in Harosheth Haggoyim. An

The Reading Judges 1 After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Who will go up first for us against the Canaanites to fight against them?" And Yahweh said, "Judah will go up. I hereby give the land into his hand." And Judah sai

The Reading Numbers 22 The Israelites set out, and they encamped on the desert-plateau of Moab, across from Jericho beyond the Jordan. Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel did to the Amorites, and Moab was very terrified in the presence of the people b

The Reading Numbers 19 And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, "This is the decree of the law that Yahweh has commanded, saying, 'Speak to the Israelites and let them take to you a red heifer without a physical defect, on which a yoke has not been pl