No one, after lighting a  ¹lamp, puts it in the cellar or under the  ²bushel, but on the  ³lampstand, in order that those who enter in may see the light.

The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is  ¹single, your whole body also is  ²full of light; but when it is  ³evil, your body also is dark.

Watch out therefore that the  ¹light which is in you is not darkness.

If therefore your whole body is full of light and does not have any dark part, the whole will be full of light as when the lamp with its rays illuminates you.

Now as He spoke, a Pharisee asked Him to have the  ¹morning meal with him; and He went in and reclined at table.

But the Pharisee, seeing it, marveled that He had not first  ¹washed before the meal.

But the Lord said to him, Again, you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inside is full of extortion and wickedness.

Foolish ones! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

But give the things which are  ¹within as alms, and behold, all things are clean to you.

But woe to you, Pharisees! For you give a tenth of the mint and the rue and every herb, and pass by  ¹justice and love for God. But these you should have done and  ²not passed by the others.

Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the chief seat in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.

Woe to you! For you are like the unseen tombs, and the men who walk over them do not know it.

And one of the lawyers answered and said to Him, Teacher, by saying these things, you  ¹insult us also.

And He said, Woe to you lawyers also! For you burden men with burdens hard to bear, yet you yourselves do not  ¹touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

Woe to you! For you build up the  ¹tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

You are witnesses then and fully approve of the works of your fathers, because they killed them, and you build up their tombs.

Therefore the  ¹wisdom of God also has said, I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,

In order that the blood of all the prophets which has been poured out from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the house. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of  ¹this generation.

Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and those who were entering, you  ¹hindered.

And when He went out from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile and to provoke Him to speak concerning many things,

Lying in wait for Him in order to  ¹catch something out of His mouth.

And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and they forgot Jehovah their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

Therefore the anger of Jehovah burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim the king of Mesopotamia. And the children of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

Then the children of Israel cried out to Jehovah, and Jehovah raised up a savior for the children of Israel, who saved them, that is, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

And the Spirit of Jehovah came upon him, and he judged Israel. And he went out to battle, and Jehovah delivered Cushan-rishathaim the king of Aram into his hand; and his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.

And the land had rest forty years.

And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

Then the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah. And Jehovah strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel because they did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah.

And he gathered the children of Ammon and Amalek to himself and went and struck Israel, and they took possession of the city of palms.

And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

Then the children of Israel cried out to Jehovah, and Jehovah raised up a savior for them, that is, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. Now the children of Israel sent tribute to Eglon the king of Moab by him.

And Ehud made himself a dagger that had two edges, a cubit long. And he strapped it to his right thigh under his clothes.

And he presented the tribute to Eglon the king of Moab. (Now Eglon was a very fat man.)

And when he finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.

But he himself returned from the sculptured idols at Gilgal and said, I have a secret message for you, O king. And he said, Hush. And all those who attended to him went out from him.

And when Ehud came to him, he was sitting alone in his cool upper room. And Ehud said, I have a message from God for you. And he rose up from his seat.

And Ehud reached with his left hand and took the dagger from his right thigh, and he drove it into his belly.

And the hilt also went in, after the blade; and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the dagger from his belly. And he went out into the courtyard.

Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and he closed the doors of the upper room on  ¹Eglon and locked them.

And when he had gone out,  ¹Eglon's servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, He must be relieving himself in the cool chamber.

And they waited until they were ashamed, but still he was not opening the doors of the upper room. Then they took the key and opened them. And there was their lord, fallen to the ground dead.

And Ehud escaped while they delayed, and he passed by the sculptured idols and escaped to Seirah.

And when he arrived, he blew the horn in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came down with him from the hill country, and he was before them.

And he said to them, Follow closely after me, for Jehovah has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites; and they let no man cross over.

And they struck about ten thousand Moabites at that time, all stout and all valiant men; and no man escaped.

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest eighty years.

And after him there was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck six hundred Philistines with an ox goad; and he also saved Israel.

Then the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah after Ehud died.

And Jehovah sold them into the hand of Jabin the king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. And the captain of his army was Sisera, who dwelt at Harosheth-hagoyim.

And the children of Israel cried out to Jehovah, for he had nine hundred iron chariots, and he oppressed the children of Israel severely twenty years.

Now  ¹Deborah was a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth. She judged Israel at that time.

And she would sit under the palm of Deborah, between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim. And the children of Israel went up to her for judgment.

And she sent word and called to Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, Jehovah the God of Israel has indeed commanded: Go and deploy your forces on Mount Tabor; and take with you ten thousand men from the children of Naphtali and from the children of Zebulun.

And I will draw out Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his throng, toward you at the river Kishon; and I will deliver him into your hand.

And Barak said to her, If you will go with me, I will go; but if you do not go with me, I will not go.

And she said, I will surely go with you. However there will be no glory for you on the journey you are taking, for Jehovah will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah rose up and went with Barak to Kedesh.

And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh, and ten thousand men went up behind him; and Deborah went up with him.

Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, from the children of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses. And he pitched his tent at the terebinth in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.

And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam went up to Mount Tabor.

And Sisera called all his chariots — nine hundred iron chariots — and all the people who were with him from Harosheth-hagoyim to the river Kishon.

And Deborah said to Barak, Rise up, for this is the day when Jehovah will deliver Sisera into your hand. Jehovah has indeed gone out before you. So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men after him.

And Jehovah threw Sisera and all his chariots and all his army into confusion with the edge of the sword before Barak, and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot.

But Barak pursued after the chariots and the army as far as Harosheth-hagoyim. And all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not even one was left.

Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there had been peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

And Jael went out to meet Sisera; and she said to him, Turn here, my lord; turn here to me; do not be afraid. So he turned to her into her tent, and she covered him with a rug.

And he said to her, Give me please a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. And she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink; then she covered him.

And he said to her, Stand at the entrance of the tent; and if anyone comes and asks you, saying, Is there a man here? you shall say, No.

Then Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg and put a hammer in her hand and went quietly to him. And she drove the peg into his temple, and it pierced through to the ground; for he was sound asleep and exhausted. And he died.

And Barak was at that moment pursuing Sisera when Jael came out to meet him. And she said to him, Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking. And he went with her; and there was Sisera, fallen dead with the peg in his temple.

So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.

And the hand of the children of Israel became heavier and heavier upon Jabin the king of Canaan until they destroyed Jabin the king of Canaan.

Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying:

That the leaders took the lead in Israel,
That the people have willingly offered themselves,
Bless Jehovah.

Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes!
I will sing; I, to Jehovah.
I will sing praise to Jehovah
The God of Israel.

O Jehovah, when You went forth from Seir,
When You marched from the field of Edom,
The earth trembled, the heavens also dripped,
Indeed the clouds dripped water.

The mountains quaked at the presence of Jehovah,
Sinai there, at the presence of Jehovah the God of Israel.

In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath,
In the days of Jael, the highways were not used;
And travelers went
On the roundabout paths.

The villages ceased to act;
They ceased in Israel;
Until  ¹I, Deborah, rose up;
Until I rose up as a mother in Israel.

They chose new gods;
Then there was war in their gates.
Was a shield or a spear seen
Among forty thousand in Israel?

My heart is with the commanders of Israel,
Those who offered themselves willingly among the people.
Bless Jehovah!

Tell of it, you who ride on white donkeys,
You who sit on rich carpets,
And you who go upon the way.

Louder than the voice of those who distribute water among the watering
places,
There they recount the righteous deeds of Jehovah,
His righteous acts toward His villages in Israel.
Then the people of Jehovah went down to the gates.

Awake! Awake, Deborah!
Awake! Awake, speak forth a song!
Arise, Barak;
And lead captive your captives, son of Abinoam.

Then a remnant of the nobles went down;
The people of Jehovah went down with me against the mighty:

From Ephraim, those who took root in Amalek;
Following you, Benjamin, with your peoples;
From Machir commanders came down,
And from Zebulun those who wielded the staff of him who marshals.

And the princes in Issachar were with Deborah;
And Issachar was true to Barak;
Into the valley they were sent behind him.
Among the divisions of Reuben
There were great resolutions in heart.

Why did you sit among the sheepfolds
Listening to the pipings for the flocks?
In the divisions of Reuben
There were great searchings of heart.

Gilead stayed across the Jordan.
And as for Dan, why did he remain with the ships?
Asher sat at the shore of the sea
And stayed at his landings.

Zebulun was a people that despised their own lives even unto death;
And Naphtali, on the heights of the field.

The kings came; they fought.
At that time the kings of Canaan fought
In Taanach by the waters of Megiddo;
They took no gain of silver.

From heaven the stars fought;
From their courses they fought with Sisera.

The river Kishon swept them away,
The ancient river, the river Kishon.
March on, O my soul, with strength!

At that time the horse hooves stamped
With the prancing, the prancing of their mighty steeds.

Curse Meroz, says the Angel of Jehovah;
Bitterly curse its inhabitants.
For they did not come to the aid of Jehovah,
To the aid of Jehovah against the mighty.

Blessed among women shall Jael be,
The wife of Heber the Kenite;
Blessed among the women in the tent shall she be.

He asked for water; she gave him milk.
In a bowl for nobles she presented him with cream.

She put her hand to the tent peg,
And her right hand to the workman's hammer;
Then she struck Sisera; she smashed his head;
Indeed she shattered and pierced his temples.

At her feet he bowed; he fell; he lay down.
At her feet he bowed; he fell.
Where he bowed, there he fell, destroyed.

Through the window one looks forth and cries shrilly;
The mother of Sisera, through the lattice:
Why is his chariot so long in coming?
Why do the tracks of his chariots delay?

The wisest of her ladies answer her,
And she herself returns an answer to herself:

Have they not found and divided the spoil?
A girl, two girls, to  ¹each mighty man.
The spoil of dyed garments to Sisera,
The spoil of embroidered, dyed garments;
A dyed embroidery, two embroideries,
For the neck of the spoiler.

May all Your enemies so perish, O Jehovah.
But may those who love Him be like the sun
When it rises in its might.
And the land had rest forty years.