This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?
For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”
He said, “Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.”
Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
“This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bull and two rams without defect,
“‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.
“‘If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep, or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without defect.
“‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings; if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before Yahweh.
“‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh is from the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without defect.
if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without defect to Yahweh for a sin offering.
“‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.
He shall bring a ram without defect from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn’t know it, and he will be forgiven.
You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without defect, for a burnt offering;
“On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, and one ewe lamb a year old without defect, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
“Say to Aaron, ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.
For whatever man he is that has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,
or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles.
No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’”
that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.
Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect.
Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
You shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh.
and he shall offer his offering to Yahweh, one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without defect for a sin offering, and one ram without defect for peace offerings,
You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old without defect, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
“‘On the Sabbath day, you shall offer two male lambs a year old without defect, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:
Besides the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offerings. See that they are without defect.
You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;
but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; all without defect;
You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; all without defect;
“‘On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
“‘On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
“‘On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
“‘On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
“‘On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before Yahweh.
If it has any defect, is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.
The men said to her, “We will be guiltless of this your oath which you’ve made us to swear.
Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines, when I harm them.”
Now, behold, the king walks before you. I am old and gray-headed. Behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth to this day.
Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a ransom to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”
They said, “You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from anyone’s hand.”
He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”
Then Achish called David, and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you.
David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
Achish answered David, “I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’
Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.
Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.
For I have kept Yahweh’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.
As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:
I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?
Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.
‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,
He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;
In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;
For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh;
Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever.
Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,
When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.
I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.