Study the Basic English Bible in 1 year

98 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 25,26,27; Psalms 95,96 1. If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer. 2. And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation...

97 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 23,24; Psalms 94 1. No man whose private parts have been wounded or cut off may come into the meeting of the Lord's people. 2. One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation. 3. No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting...

96 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 21,22; Psalms 92,93 1. If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death: 2. Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured; 3. And whichever town is...

95 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 19,20; Psalms 90,91 1. When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses; 2. You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage. 3. You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the...

94 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 17,18; Psalms 89 1. No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God. 2. If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement, 3. By becoming a servant...

93 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 15,16; Psalms 88 1. At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt. 2. This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord. 3. A man of another nation may...

92 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 13,14; Psalms 86,87 1. If ever you have among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder, 2. And the sign or the wonder takes place, and he says to you, Let us go after other gods, which are strange to you, and give them worship; 3. Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God is...

91 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 11,12; Psalms 84,85 1. So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times. 2. And be certain in your minds this day; for these words are not said to your children, who have had no experience of the training of the Lord your God, and who have not seen his great power or his strong hand and his st...

90 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 9,10; Psalms 83 1. Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven; 2. A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, of whom you have knowledge and of whom it has been said, All are forced to give way before the sons of Anak. 3. Be cert...

89 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 7,8; Psalms 81,82 1. When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you; 2. And when the Lord has given them up...

88 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 5,6; Psalms 79,80 1. And Moses sent for all Israel, and said to them, Give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I give you today, and give attention to them so that you may keep and do them. 2. The Lord our God made an agreement with us in Horeb. 3. The Lord did not make this agreement with our fathers but with us, who are all living and present here...

87 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 4; Psalms 78 1. And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 2. Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God...

86 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 2,3; Psalms 77 1. Then we went back, journeying into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lord had said to me: and we were a long time going round Mount Seir. 2. And the Lord said to me, 3. You have been journeying round this mountain long enough: now go to the north; 4. And give the people orders, saying, You are about to go through the land of your br...

85 : Basic English : Numbers 36; Deuteronomy 1; Psalms 75,76 1. Now the heads of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came to Moses, the chiefs and the heads of families of the children of Israel being present, 2. And said, The Lord gave orders to my lord to make distribution of the land as their heritage to the chil...

84 : Basic English : Numbers 34,35; Psalms 74 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land which is to be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits,) 3. Then your south quarter will be from the waste land of Zin by the side of Edom, and your limit on the south will be from the east end...

83 : Basic English : Numbers 33; Psalms 73 1. These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt in their armies, under the direction of Moses and Aaron. 2. And the stages of their journey on their way out were put down in writing by Moses at the order of the Lord: these are the stages of their journey and the way they went. 3. On the fifteenth day of the fir...

82 : Basic English : Numbers 32; Psalms 72 1. Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle; 2. The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the meeting, 3. Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, a...

81 : Basic English : Numbers 31; Psalms 70,71 1. Then the Lord said to Moses, 2. Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people. 3. So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them. 4. From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to...

80 : Basic English : Numbers 29,30; Psalms 69 1. In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a holy meeting; on it you may do no field-work; let the day be marked by the blowing of horns; 2. And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them: 3. And their meal offering, the best meal mix...

79 : Basic English : Numbers 27,28; Psalms 67,68 1. Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, came forward: their names are Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. 2. They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent o...

78 : Basic English : Numbers 25,26; Psalms 66 1. Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab: 2. For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods. 3. So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: a...

77 : Basic English : Numbers 23,24; Psalms 64,65 1. And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep. 2. And Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam made an offering on every altar of an ox and a male sheep. 3. Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I will giv...

76 : Basic English : Numbers 21,22; Psalms 62,63 1. And it came to the ears of the Canaanite, the king of Arad, living in the South, that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, and he came out against them and took some of them prisoners. 2. Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns. 3....

75 : Basic English : Numbers 19,20; Psalms 60,61 1. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2. This is the rule of the law which the Lord has made, saying, Give orders to the children of Israel to give you a red cow without any mark on her, and on which the yoke has never been put: 3. Give her to Eleazar the priest and let him take her outside the tent-circle and have her put to death before him. 4....

74 : Basic English : Numbers 17,18; Psalms 58,59 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Say to the children of Israel that they are to give you rods, one for every family, for every chief, the head of his father's house, making twelve rods; let every man's name be placed on his rod. 3. And let Aaron's name be placed on the rod of Levi: for there is to be one rod for the head of every family. 4. And let...