Study the Basic English Bible in 1 year

107 : Basic English : Joshua 9,10; Gospel of Luke 8 1. Now on hearing the news of these things, all the kings on the west side of Jordan, in the hill-country and the lowlands and by the Great Sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, 2. Came together with one purpose, to make war against Joshua and Israel. 3. And the men...

106 : Basic English : Joshua 7,8; Gospel of Luke 7 1. But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel. 2. Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the side of Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and sa...

105 : Basic English : Joshua 5,6; Gospel of Luke 6 1. Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israe...

104 : Basic English : Joshua 3,4; Gospel of Luke 5 1. Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and, moving on from Shittim, he and all the children of Israel came to Jordan and were there for the night before going over. 2. And at the end of three days, the men in authority over the people went through the tents, 3. Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see the ark of the agreement...

103 : Basic English : Joshua 1,2; Gospel of Luke 4 1. Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the word of the Lord came to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' helper, saying, 2. Moses my servant is dead; so now get up! Go over Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, to the children of Israel. 3. Every place on which you put your foot I have given to you,...

102 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 33,34; Gospel of Luke 3 1. Now this is the blessing which Moses, the man of God, gave to the children of Israel before his death. 2. He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples. 3. All his holy ones are at his hand;...

101 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 31,32; Gospel of Luke 2 1. So Moses said all these things to Israel. 2. Then he said to them, I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to go out and come in: and the Lord has said to me, You are not to go over Jordan. 3. The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all those nations, and you will take their land as...

100 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 29,30; Psalms 99,100; Gospel of Luke 1 1. These are the words of the agreement which Moses was ordered by the Lord to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the agreement which he made with them in Horeb. 2. And Moses said in the hearing of all Israel, You have seen all the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and...

99 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 28; Psalms 97,98 1. Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth: 2. And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the Lord your God. 3. A blessing will be on you in...

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...