So now let us make a covenant with our God to send away all these women and their offspring, in accordance with the counsel of my lord and of those who fear the commands of our God. Let it be done according to the Torah.
Isaiah 8:20 - Tree of Life Version To Torah and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no light. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [Direct such people] to the teaching and to the testimony! If their teachings are not in accord with this word, it is surely because there is no dawn and no morning for them. American Standard Version (1901) To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. Common English Bible for instruction and for testimony”—they will surely say such things, but they will never see the dawn. Catholic Public Domain Version And this is, moreover, for the sake of the law and the testimony. But if they do not speak according to this Word, then he will not have the morning light. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light. |
So now let us make a covenant with our God to send away all these women and their offspring, in accordance with the counsel of my lord and of those who fear the commands of our God. Let it be done according to the Torah.
The unfolding of Your words gives light, giving understanding to the simple.
For He established a testimony in Jacob and ordained Torah in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach their children,
The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until the full day.
Hear the word of Adonai, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the Torah of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
or look to the earth, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and they will be driven into darkness.
Thus says Adonai: “Stand in the roads and look. Ask for the ancient paths— where the good way is— and walk in it. Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We won’t walk in it.’
The wise men will be put to shame— shattered, trapped. Look! They have rejected Adonai’s word, so what wisdom do they have?
So let us know, let us strive to know Adonai. Like dawn His going forth is certain. He will come to us like the rain, like the latter rain watering the earth.
“Therefore you will have night without vision, and darkness without divination. The sun shall set on the prophets, the day shall become dark upon them.”
But answering, Yeshua said to them, “You’ve gone astray, because you don’t understand the Scriptures or the power of God.
But if your eye is bad, your body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Then Yeshua said to him, “What has been written in the Torah? How do you read it?”
You search the Scriptures because you suppose that in them you have eternal life. It is these that testify about Me.
Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, because they received the message with goodwill, searching the Scriptures each day to see whether these things were true.
Furthermore, we have the reliable prophetic word. You do well by paying attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
But anyone who lacks these qualities is blind—nearsighted because he has forgotten his cleansing from past sins.