2Return, OH Israel, to the Lord your God: for you have fallen down by your sin.

3Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all sin, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips.

4Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods, for you will have mercy on the fatherless that is in you.

5I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.

6I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.

7His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus.

8They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall live upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall be as the wine of Libanus.

9Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir tree: from me is your fruit found.

10Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the righteous shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

28And there came one of the teachers of the law that had heard them reasoning together, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him which was the first command of all.

29And Jesus answered him: The first command of all is, Hear, OH Israel: the Lord your God is one God.

30And you shall love the Lord your God, with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole mind, and with your whole strength. This is the first command.

31And the second is like to it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself. There is no other command greater than these.

32And the teacher of the law said to him: Well, Master, you have said in truth, that there is one God, and there is no other besides him.

33And that he should be loved with the whole heart, and with the whole understanding, and with the whole soul, and with the whole strength; and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is a greater thing than all holocausts and sacrifices.

34And Jesus seeing that he had answered wisely, said to him: You art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.