How to Read the Bible

16 I am exalted like a beautiful olive tree in the valley, and like a sycamore tree.

17 Like cinnamon and aspalaf, I gave out a fragrant smell, and like excellent myrrh, I spread a fragrance,

18 As halvani, and onyx, and stakti, and as the fragrance of frankincense in the tabernacle.

19 I have spread out my branches like terebinth, and my branches are branches of glory and grace.

20 I am like a vine that brings forth grace, and my flowers are the fruit of glory and riches.

21 Come unto me, ye that desire me, and be satisfied with my fruits;

22 For the remembrance of me is sweeter than honey, and the possession of me is sweeter than a honeycomb.

23 Those who eat me will still hunger, and those who drink me will still thirst.

24 He who hears me will not be ashamed, and those who labor with me will not sin.

25 All this is the covenant book of the Most High God,

26 the law which Moses commanded as an inheritance to the hosts of Jacob.

27 He feasts with wisdom, like Pishon, and like the Tiger in the days of novelty;

28 he filleth with understanding, as the Euphrates, and as the Jordan in the days of the harvest;

29 he pours out the doctrine as light, and as Gion in the grape gathering.

30 The first man did not attain to the full knowledge of it; neither does the latter investigate it;

31 For her thoughts are fuller than the sea, and her intentions are deeper than the great deep.

E-32 And I, like a canal out of the river, and like a water pipe, went out into paradise.

33 I said, 'I will water my garden and water my beds.'

34 And behold, my canal became a river, and my river became a sea.

35 And I will shine with doctrine as with the morning light, and I will manifest it far off;

36 And I will pour out the doctrine as prophecy, and I will leave it for everlasting generations."