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# Introduction to the UDB
The Unlocked Dynamic Bible (UDB) is intended to be used as a supplemental resource for Bible translation alongside the Unlocked Literal Bible (ULB). Its purpose is to unpack the meaning of figures of speech, idioms, abstract nouns, and difficult grammatical forms that occur in the ULB as a reflection of those things in the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek texts.
By using the UDB as a supplemental resource to the ULB, translators will be able to 1) see many of the figures of speech, idioms, and other forms of the original Bible in the ULB, and 2) then see what their meaning is in the UDB. Translators can use the forms from the ULB that are clear and natural in their language. When those forms are not clear or natural in their language, they can use the UDB and the translationNotes to help them choose other forms in their language that have the same meaning as the ULB.
The UDB is not meant to be a refined, polished English version. Because it avoids figures of speech and idioms, it does not have elegant or sophisticated language of an end-user Bible.
## Viewing
To read or print the ULB, see the ULB project on Bible in Every Language (https://door43.org/u/Door43/en_udb/).
To read or print the UDB, see the UDB project on Bible in Every Language (https://door43.org/u/Door43/en_ulb/).

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# Decisions Concerning the UDB
The following are decisions that have been made concerning the UDB. This is not a comprehensive list, but it is here to remind current editors and to inform future editors of some important ones.
## UDB Style
The following are details concerning the use of punctuation, capitalization, and vocabulary in the UDB.
* Quotation marks are used at the beginning and ending of direct speech. They are not used at the beginning of each verse, even though the speech may span several verses.
* Contractions are not used in the ULB.
* Punctuation is normally (not always) inside the quotation marks.
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* All pronouns are lower case (except when beginning sentences and except for the first singular "I").
* Spelling of names, in most cases, follows that used in the 2011 NIV.
* Where possible, the UDB editors have used common vocabulary that is easy to translate into another language.
## Translation Glossaries
A list of decisions as to how to translate some senses of the source language words and phrases into another language is called a translation glossary. Such a device is especially useful when more than one person works on the same project, because it helps keep everyone using the same English terms.
However, the sources often use some words to signal more than one sense, depending on context. A translation glossary is therefore a glossary of word senses, not a glossary of words. Check back often to this page, because these glossaries are likely to develop for the entire life of WA’s translation resources project.
Note that occasionally, the translation glossary’s specified translation will not be suitable. As always, the text editors must remain in control of the decision-making process. The glossaries are to guide you as much as is possible. If you must depart from the glossary guidelines, do so and insert a note to that effect.
### Limited Translation Glossary for the UDB
The term listed first is the rendering in the ULB or the original language term, then the term preferred for the UDB will appear in bold type.
* In speech introductions that use two verbs in the Hebrew or Greek, only one verb is used in the UDB.
* *brothers*: "**brothers**" when it refers to only men
* "**brothers and sisters**" when it refers to men and women together
* Expressions of the type, "he knew his wife" or "he went into his wife": **slept with his wife.**
### Limited Translation Glossary for the Old Testament UDB
Preferred English renderings appear in bold type.
* *adam*: "**human beings,**" "**humanity**," "**humankind**" when it refers to humanity in general
* *YHWH*: "**Yahweh**"
### Limited Translation Glossary for the New Testament UDB
* *anthropos*: "**human beings,**" "**humanity**," "**humankind**" when it refers to humanity in general
* *Messias*: "**Messiah**"
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* "**scribe**" "**city ruler,**" or "**scholar**" depending on the context.
* *hagioi*: When it refers to people, it is translated according to the context, with the ideas of belonging to God, being believers (or believing), honoring God or **???**.
* When it refers to heavenly beings, **holy angels** or **???**.
## Avoiding Translation Difficulties
The primary goal of the UDB is to express the meaning of the Bible as clearly as possible. In order to do this, it follows these guidelines.
The UDB avoids as much as reasonably possible:
1. Idioms
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b. Passive voice
c. Abstract or verbal nouns
d. People speaking of themselves in third person
The UDB explicitly includes:
1. Participants where these are unclear
2. Implied information that is necessary for understanding
### Examples
The following are examples of ways that the text of the Bible can be unclear for some languages and what the UDB does to overcome those problems.
#### Passive Voice
Passive voice is a grammatical construction that is common in Greek and English but it is not used in many other languages, so it can be very confusing. For that reason, it is not used in the UDB. In passive voice, the receiver of the action changes places with the actor. In English, the actor normally comes first in the sentence. But in passive voice, the receiver of the action comes first. Often, the actor is left unstated. In that case, the UDB will fill in the actor. See "Missing Participants" below.
For example, the ULB of Romans 2:24 says:
"the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."
The action is "blaspheme," the actors are "the Gentiles" (non-Jews), and the receiver of the action is "the name of God." The reason for the action is "because of you." The UDB rearranges the verse to put the actor and the receiver of the action in a more normal order.
The UDB of Romans 2:24 says:
"Because of the evil things that you Jews do, the non-Jews say insulting things about God."
#### Abstract Nouns
The UDB uses verbs and adjectives instead of abstract nouns when it does not make the phrase overly complex.
The ULB of Romans 2:10 says:
"But praise, honor, and peace will come to everyone who practices good..."
In this verse, the words "praise," "honor," "peace," and "good" are abstract nouns. That is, they are words that refer to things that we cannot see or touch. They are ideas. The ideas that these nouns express are closer to actions or descriptions than they are to things. In many languages, therefore, these ideas must be expressed by verbs or description words, not by nouns. For this reason, the UDB expresses these nouns as actions or descriptions.
The UDB of Romans 2:10 says:
"But God will praise, honor, and give a peaceful spirit to every person who habitually does good deeds."
#### Long, Complex Sentences
The UDB avoids using long or complex sentences. In many languages, long or complex sentences are unnatural and unclear.
The ULB translates the first three verses of Romans as one complex sentence. It says:
"1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God, 2 which he promised beforehand by his prophets in the holy scriptures, 3 concerning his Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh."
The UDB breaks that into five sentences that are more simple in form. It says:
"1 I, Paul, who serve Christ Jesus, am writing this letter to all of you believers in the city of Rome. God chose me to be an apostle, and he appointed me in order that I should proclaim the good news that comes from him. 2 Long before Jesus came to earth, God promised that he would reveal this good news by means of what his prophets wrote in the sacred scriptures. 3 This good news is about his Son. As to his Son's physical nature, he was born a descendant of King David."
#### Missing Participants
The UDB often fills in the participants when these are lacking in the original Bible and the ULB. In the original biblical languages, these participants could be left out and still understood by the reader. But in many languages these must be included for the translation to be clear and natural.
In the ULB, Romans 1:1 says:
"Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God..."
In this verse, there is a participant that is left unstated, but still understood. This participant is God. It is God who called Paul to be an apostle and who set him apart for the Gospel. In some languages, this participant must be stated.
Therefore the UDB of Romans 1:1 says:
"God chose me to be an apostle, and he appointed me in order that I should proclaim the good news that comes from him."
#### Events out of Order
The UDB often tells about events in the order they happened.
The ULB of Luke 2:6-7 says:
"6 Now it came about that while they were there, the time came for her to deliver her baby. 7 She gave birth to a son, her firstborn child, and she wrapped him in long strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn."
In some languages, events need to be told in the order in which they happened, or else the story will be confusing and hard to understand. People might understand from these verses that Mary delivered her baby outside in the street, and then looked for somewhere to stay and, after a long search, ended up putting him in an animal feeding trough. The UDB tells these events in the order in which they happened, so that it is clear that Mary was already in the shelter for animals when she gave birth.
The UDB says:
"6-7 When they arrived in Bethlehem, there was no place for them to stay in a place where visitors usually stayed. So they had to stay in a place where animals slept overnight. While they were there the time came for Mary to give birth and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in wide strips of cloth and laid him down where the food was kept for the animals inside the barn."
#### Figures of Speech
The UDB expresses the meanings of the scripture without using figures of speech.
The ULB of Romans 2:21 says:
"You who preach against stealing, do you steal?"
This is a figure of speech called a rhetorical question. It is not a real question that is used to seek an answer. It is used to make a point. In this case, Paul is using it to scold his audience and to condemn their hypocrisy. Many languages do not use rhetorical questions, or they do not use them in this way.
To show how to translate this meaning without a rhetorical question, the UDB says:
"You who preach that people should not steal things, it is disgusting that you yourself steal things!"
#### Idioms
The UDB expressing the meanings of the scripture without using idioms.
The ULB of Deuteronomy 32:10 says:
"he guarded him as the apple of his eye."
The word "apple" here does not refer to a kind of fruit, but instead refers to the pupil, the dark center of a person's eye. The phrase "the apple of his eye" is an idiom that refers to anything that is extremely precious to a person, or the one thing that is the most precious to a person. In many languages this idiom makes no sense.
To show the meaning of this verse, the UDB expresses this in plain language, without an idiom.
The UDB says:
"He protected them and took care of them, as every person takes good care of his own eyes."
The translationNotes add another way to translate this that makes the meaning clear. It says, "He protected the people of Israel as something most valuable and precious."
#### People Speaking of Themselves in Third Person
THe UDB uses first person pronouns when people speak about themselves.
The ULB of Genesis 18:3 says:
He said, "My Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass by your servant."
Here Abraham refers to himself in the third person as "your servant." To make it clear that Abraham is referring to himself, the UDB adds the first person pronoun "me."
The UDB of Genesis 18:3 says:
He said to one of them, "Lord, if you are pleased with me, stay here with me, your servant, for a little while."
#### Implied Information
The UDB make explicit any information that is needed for a clear understanding of the text.
The ULB of Mark 1:44 says:
He said to him, "Be sure to say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."
This was all that Jesus needed to say to the man whom he had just healed of leprosy, because the man was Jewish and knew all about the laws concerning being clean and unclean. But most modern readers of our Bible translations do not know that information. For that reason, the UDB makes this information explicit that was left implied in the text. This information is indicated in italics below.
The UDB of Mark 1:44 says:
UDB: He said, "Do not tell anyone *what just happened*. Instead, go to a priest and show yourself to him *in order that he may examine you and see that you no longer have leprosy*. Then make the offering that Moses commanded *for people whom God has healed from leprosy*. This will be the testimony to *the community that you are healed*."

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\v 30 I have given all the green plants to be food for all the wild animals, for the birds, and for all the creatures that move across the surface of the ground; that is, for everything that has life-giving breath in it." And that is what happened.
\v 31 God was pleased with everything that he had made. Truly, it was all very good. This was an evening and morning, the sixth day.
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\p
\v 25 Although the man and his wife were naked, they were not ashamed about being naked.
\s5
\c 3
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\v 23 So Yahweh God drove out the man and his wife from the park of Eden. Yahweh God had created Adam from the ground, and he forced him to plow the ground.
\v 24 After Yahweh God drove them out, on the east side of the park he placed cherubim and a flaming sword that flashed back and forth, in order to block the entrance, so that people could not go back to the tree that enables anyone who eats its fruit to live forever.
\s5
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\p
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\v 25 Adam continued to sleep with his wife, and she again became pregnant and gave birth to another son, whom she named Seth. She said, "I name him Seth because God has given me another child to take the place of Abel, since Cain killed him."
\v 26 When Seth grew up, he became the father of a son whom he named Enosh. About that time people began to worship Yahweh.
\s5
\c 5
\p
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\s5
\v 32 When Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of sons whom he named Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
\s5
\c 6
\p
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\v 21 You must also take some of every kind of food that you and all these creatures will need, and store it in the boat."
\v 22 So Noah did everything that God told him to do.
\s5
\c 7
\p
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\v 23 In this way every living thing on the earth perished—the people, the larger animals, the creatures that crawl, and the birds. The only ones that remained alive were Noah and those who were in the boat with him.
\v 24 The waters remained at full flood like that on the earth for 150 days.
\s5
\c 8
\p
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\v 21 When Yahweh smelled the pleasant odor, he was pleased with the sacrifice. Then he said to himself, "I will never again devastate everything on the earth because of the sinful things people do. Even though all that people think in their minds is evil from the time they are young, I will not destroy all the living beings again, as I did this time.
\v 22 As long as the earth exists, the seasons for planting seeds and seasons for harvesting crops, the times when it is cold and times when it is hot, the summer and winter, the daytime and nighttime will continue."
\s5
\c 9
\p
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\v 28 Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
\v 29 He died when he was 950 years old.
\s5
\c 10
\p
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\p
\v 32 All these clans descended from the sons of Noah. Each clan had its own genealogy and each became a separate people . Those peoples formed after the flood and spread all around the earth.
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\c 11
\p
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\v 31 Terah decided to leave Ur and go to live in the land of Canaan. So he took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran and Abram's wife Sarai with him. But instead of going to Canaan, they stopped at the town of Haran and lived there.
\v 32 When Terah was 205 years old, he died in Haran.
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\c 12
\p
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\v 19 Why did you say that she is your sister, so that I took her to be my wife? You should not have done that! So now take your wife, leave here and go!"
\v 20 Then the king ordered his officials to take Abram and his wife and all his possessions out of Egypt.
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\p
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\v 5 Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks of sheep and goats and herds of cattle and tents.
\v 6 The two of them had so many animals that they could not all stay in the same area. There was not enough land to provide water and food for all their animals.
\v 7 Furthermore, the men who took care of Abram's livestock started quarreling with the men who took care of Lot's livestock. The descendants of Canaan and Perez were also living in that area.
\s5
\v 8 Then Abram said to Lot, "Since we are close relatives, it is not good for us to quarrel, or for the men who take care of your animals to quarrel with the men who take care of my animals.
\v 9 There is plenty of land for both of us. So we should separate. You can choose whatever part you want. If you want the area over there, I will stay here. If you want the area here, I will go over there."
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\v 17 Walk through the land in every direction, because I am going to give it all to you."
\v 18 So Abram took down his tents and moved to Hebron and settled by the big trees of Mamre. He built a stone altar there to make sacrifices to Yahweh.
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\p
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\v 23 that I will not take even one thread or a thong of a sandal from anything that belongs to you. As a result, you will never be able to say, 'I caused Abram to become rich.'
\v 24 The only thing I will accept is the food that my men have eaten. But Aner, Eshkol, and Mamre went with me and fought alongside me, so let them have a share of the goods we brought back."
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\c 15
\p
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\v 20 the Heth, the Perez, the Repha,
\v 21 the Amor, the Canaan, the Girgash, and the Jebus peoples live."
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\p
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\v 15 So Hagar later gave birth to a son for Abram, and she named him Ishmael.
\v 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Abram's son Ishmael.
\s5
\c 17
\p
\v 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram again and said to him, "I am God Almighty. I want you to live your life in the way that I want. I want you to not do anything wrong.
\v 2 I will confirm my covenant between us, and I will cause you to have a very great number of descendants."
\s5
\v 3 Abram bowed down with his face on the ground. Then God said to him,
\v 4 "Listen to this! This is the covenant I am making with you: You will be the father of many groups of people.
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\v 26 It was on that very same day that Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.
\v 27 All the males in his household, the ones who had been born there and those Abraham had bought from foreigners, were also circumcised.
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\s5
\v 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was far past the time of childbearing.
\v 12 So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, "My body is worn out, and my husband is old. So how can I have the pleasure of having a baby?"
\s5
\v 13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh? Why was she thinking, 'I am too old, so how can I bear a child'?
\v 14 Is there anything too difficult for me? I will return about this time next year in the springtime, the time I have fixed, and Sarah will have an infant son."
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\v 32 Finally, Abraham said, "My Lord, do not be angry now. Just let me speak one time more. What will you do if you find that there are only ten good people there?" Yahweh answered, "I will not destroy the city for the sake of those ten."
\v 33 Abraham said no more. As soon as Yahweh finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham went home.
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\s5
\v 4 After they finished eating, before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, all of them, from the young ones to the old ones, surrounded the house.
\v 5 They called out to Lot, saying, "Where are the men who came to your house this evening? Bring them out, so that we can sleep with them!"
\s5
\v 6 Lot went outside the house and shut the door behind him, so that they could not go inside.
\v 7 He said to them, "My friends, do not do such an evil thing!
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\v 37 The older one later gave birth to a son, whom she named Moab. He became the ancestor of the Moab people .
\v 38 The younger one also gave birth to a son, whom she named Ben-Ammi. He became the ancestor of the people that are now called the Ammon people .
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\v 17 Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech's wife and his slave girls so that they could have children.
\v 18 This was because Yahweh had caused it to be impossible for any of the women in Abimelech's household to bear children, because Abimelech had taken Abraham's wife Sarah.
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\v 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree there, and there he worshiped Yahweh, the eternal God.
\v 34 Abraham stayed as an outsider in the land of the Philistine people for a long time.
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\v 23 Bethuel was the father of Rebekah. Those were the eight sons of Milkah, wife of Abraham's brother Nahor.
\v 24 Nahor also had a concubine, whose name was Beumah. She gave birth to four sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
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\v 19 After that, Abraham buried his wife Sarah's body in the cave in the field in the Machpelah area near Mamre, which is now called Hebron, in the land of Canaan.
\v 20 So the field and the cave in it were officially sold to Abraham by the descendants of Heth, for him to use as a burial ground.
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\p
\v 1 Abraham was now a very old man. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in many ways.
\v 2 One day Abraham said to the chief servant of his household, the man who was in charge of all Abraham owned, "Put your hand between my thighs to solemnly promise you will do what I tell you.
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\v 8 But if the woman you find will not come back with you, you are free to disregard the promise you are making. The only thing that you must not do is to take my son to live there."
\v 9 So the servant put his hand between Abraham's thighs and made a solemn promise about the matter.
\s5
\p
\v 10 Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and loaded them with all kinds of goods that his master gave him to take along. Then he left to go to Aram Naharaim, which is in northern Mesopotamia. He arrived in the city of Nahor.
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\v 66 The servant told Isaac all that had happened.
\v 67 Then Isaac took Rebekah into the tent that had belonged to his mother, Sarah, and she became his wife. He loved her. In this way Isaac was comforted about his mother's death.
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\v 1 Some time after Sarah died, Abraham married another woman, whose name was Keturah.
\v 2 She later gave birth to six sons: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
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\v 10 It was there that Isaac and Ishmael buried his body, where Abraham previously buried the body of his wife Sarah.
\v 11 After Abraham died, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac continued living near Beer Lahai Roi.
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\v 12 These are those who descended from Abraham's son, Ishmael, whom Sarah's female slave, Hagar from Egypt, gave birth to.
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\v 17 Ishmael lived until he was 137 years old. Then he died and joined his ancestors who had previously died.
\v 18 His descendants settled in the area between Shur and Havilah, near the border of Egypt as a person travels toward Asshur. But they did not live in peace together.
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\v 19 This is what happened concerning Abraham's son, Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
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\v 25 The first one born was red, and his body had hair all over it, like a garment made of hair. So they named him Esau.
\v 26 Then his brother was born, grasping Esau's heel. So they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.
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\v 27 When the boys grew up, Esau became a very good hunter of wild animals. He spent a lot of time out in the fields. However, Jacob was a quiet man who stayed close to the campsite.
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\v 33 Jacob said, "Swear to me that you are giving me your rights as firstborn!" So that is what Esau did. He sold his firstborn rights to Jacob.
\v 34 Then Jacob gave to Esau some bread and some stew made of lentils. Esau ate and drank, and then he got up and left. By doing that, Esau showed that he was not interested in his rights as firstborn.
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\v 1 Some time later there was a severe famine in the land. That was different from the famine that occurred when Abraham was alive. So Isaac went southeast to the city of Gerar to talk to Abimelech, the king of the Philistine people.
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\v 2 But Yahweh appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt! Live in the land that I tell you!
\v 3 Stay in this land, and I will help you and bless you, because it is to you and your descendants that I will give all these lands, and I will do what I solemnly promised to your father.
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\v 4 I will cause your descendants to be as numerous as the stars in the sky. I will give to your descendants all these lands, and I will cause your descendants to be a blessing to all the peoples on the earth.
\v 5 I will do that because Abraham obeyed me. He obeyed all that I told him to do, all that I commanded him to do, all that I declared and all the laws that I gave him."
\p
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\v 6 So Isaac stayed in Gerar along with his wife and sons.
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\v 24 The first night that he was there, Yahweh appeared to him and said, "I am the God whom your father Abraham worshiped. Do not be afraid of anything. I will help you and bless you, and because of what I promised my servant Abraham, I will greatly increase the number of your descendants."
\v 25 So Isaac built an altar there and offered a sacrifice to worship Yahweh. He set up their tents there, and his servants started to dig a well.
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\v 26 While they were digging the well, King Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, along with Ahuzzath, his advisor, and Phicol, the commander of his army.
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\v 32 That day Isaac's servants came to him and told him about the well that they had finished digging. They said, "We found water in the well!"
\v 33 Isaac named the well Shibah, which sounds like the Hebrew word that means "oath." To the present time the town there has the name Beersheba which means "peace treaty well."
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\v 34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith, the daughter of Beeri, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon. Both of those women were descendants of Heth, not from Isaac's clan.
\v 35 Esau's two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
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\v 1 When Isaac was old, he became almost blind. One day he summoned Esau, his firstborn son,
and said to him, "My son?" He replied, "Here I am!"
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\v 27 So Jacob went to him, and his father kissed him on the cheek. Isaac smelled the smell of the clothes Jacob was wearing. They smelled like Esau's clothes. So he said,
"Truly, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that Yahweh has blessed.
\s5
\v 28 I ask that God will send down to you dew from heaven to water your fields,
and cause you to have abundant crops from the soil,
and good harvests of grain, and grapes for wine.
\s5
\v 29 I ask that people of many peoples serve you and bow down to you.
I ask that you rule over your brothers, and that your mother's descendants also bow down to you.
@ -1608,12 +1576,10 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\s5
\v 39 His father Isaac answered and said to him,
"The place where you will live will be far from the fertile soil and from the dew that God sends from heaven to water the fields.
\v 40 You will rob and kill people in order to get what you need to live,
\q and you will be as though you are your brother's slave.
\q But when you decide to rebel against him, you will free yourself from his control."
\s5
\p
\v 41 Because of the blessing that his father had given to Jacob, Esau hated his brother. Esau said to himself, "After my father dies and we finish mourning for him, I will kill Jacob!"
@ -1623,14 +1589,13 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 43 So now, my son, listen carefully to what I am telling you. Escape quickly and go and stay with my brother Laban, in Haran.
\v 44 Stay with him a while, until your older brother is no longer angry.
\v 45 When he forgets what you did to him, I will send a message to you to tell you to return from there. If Esau killed you, then others would kill him, and then both my sons would die at the same time!"
\s5
\p
\v 46 Rebekah then said to Isaac, "These foreign women whom Esau has married, who are descendants of Heth, are making my life miserable. If Jacob also marries a woman from the descendants of Heth in this area, my life will be worthless!"
\s5
\c 28
\p
\v 1 Then Isaac summoned Jacob and gave him a blessing. He told him this: "Do not marry a woman from the women of the Canaanite people.
\v 2 Instead, go right away to Paddan Aram, to the house of your mother's father Bethuel. Ask one of the daughters of your mother's brother Laban to marry you.
@ -1643,7 +1608,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 5 So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan Aram to live with Rebekah's brother Laban son of Bethuel, who belonged to the people of the Arameans. (It was this Rebekah who would later give birth to Jacob and Esau.)
\s5
\p
\v 6 Esau found out that his father Isaac had blessed Jacob and then sent him to Paddan Aram. He also found out that when his father blessed Jacob, he told him, "Do not marry a woman from the Canaanite people,"
\v 7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother, and had gone to Paddan Aram.
@ -1652,7 +1616,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 8 Esau also realized that his father Isaac did not approve of women from the Canaanite people.
\v 9 Because of that, Esau went to see his relative Ishmael and married Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael. Mahalath was the sister of Nabaioth and the granddaughter of Abraham.
\s5
\p
\v 10 Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and started to go toward Haran.
@ -1664,7 +1627,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\s5
\v 14 Your descendants will be as numerous as the particles of dust that are on the earth, and their territory will be very large. It will extend in all directions, to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south. I will bless all the clans and peoples on earth through you and your descendants.
\v 15 I will help you and protect you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you; I will do for you all that I have promised to do."
\s5
@ -1682,10 +1644,8 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 21 in order that I can later return safely to my father's house, then you, Yahweh, will be the God that I will worship.
\v 22 This stone that I have set up will mark the place where you appeared to me. And I will give back to you a tenth of everything that you give to me."
\s5
\c 29
\p
\v 1 Jacob continued on the road, and he reached the land that was east of the land of Canaan.
\v 2 There he saw a well in a field, and three flocks of sheep were lying near the well. It was the well from which shepherds normally got water for their sheep. There was a large stone covering the top of the well.
@ -1747,7 +1707,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 29 Laban gave his slave girl Bilhah to Rachel to be her servant.
\v 30 Jacob married Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than he loved Leah. He worked for Laban for another seven years.
\s5
\p
\v 31 When Yahweh saw that Jacob did not love Leah very much, he enabled her to become pregnant. But Rachel was not able to become pregnant.
@ -1760,10 +1719,8 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\s5
\v 35 Later she became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said, "This time I will praise Yahweh," so she called his name Judah. After that, she did not give birth to any more children.
\s5
\c 30
\p
\v 1 Rachel realized that she was not becoming pregnant at all. So she became jealous of her older sister Leah, because Leah had given birth to four sons. She said to Jacob, "Make me pregnant so I can have children. If you do not do that, I will die!"
\v 2 Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, "I am not God! He is the one who has prevented you from becoming pregnant!"
@ -1814,7 +1771,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 23 She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She said, "God has caused me to be ashamed no longer for not having children."
\v 24 She named him Joseph, which sounds like the Hebrew words that mean, "Yahweh gave me another son."
\s5
\p
\v 25 After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Now allow me to stop working for you and let me return to my own land.
@ -1857,10 +1813,8 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\s5
\v 43 As a result, Jacob became very rich. He owned many large flocks. He also owned many male and female slaves, camels, and donkeys.
\s5
\c 31
\p
\v 1 One day, someone told Jacob that Laban's sons were complaining and saying, "Jacob has become very rich by taking everything that belonged to our father."
\v 2 Jacob noticed that Laban was not acting friendly toward him as he had done before.
@ -1903,7 +1857,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 20 Furthermore, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that they were planning to leave.
\v 21 So Jacob and his family fled with all their possessions. They crossed the Euphrates River and then started traveling south toward the hill country of the region of Gilead.
\s5
\p
\v 22 On the third day after they left, someone told Laban that Jacob and his family were gone.
@ -1951,7 +1904,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 41 I lived in your household for twenty years. I worked for you for fourteen years to marry your two daughters, and for six more years to buy some of your sheep and goats. During that time, you changed and reduced my wages ten times.
\v 42 If God, the one whom my grandfather Abraham worshiped and before whom my father Isaac trembled in fear, had not been with me and helped me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands! But God saw how much I was suffering and how hard I was working, so last night he told you that what you have done to me was wrong."
\s5
\p
\v 43 Laban replied, "These two women are my daughters, and their children are my grandchildren, and the animals are my animals. Everything you see here is mine!
@ -1975,15 +1927,12 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 53 May the God whom Abraham worshiped, and the god that Nahor worshiped, and the gods their ancestor Terah worshiped punish either one of us, if one of us harms the other." Jacob solemnly promised by the God whom his father Isaac feared to do what they said in their peace agreement.
\p
\s5
\v 54 He offered a sacrifice to God there in the hill country, and he invited his relatives to eat with him. After they had eaten, they slept there that night.
\v 55 The next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters, and he asked God to bless them. Then Laban and his men left and returned home.
\s5
\c 32
\p
\v 1 As Jacob and his family continued traveling, some angels came from God and met him.
\v 2 When Jacob saw them, he said, "This is God's army camp!" So he named that place Mahanaim.
@ -1992,7 +1941,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\p
\v 3 Jacob told some men to go ahead of him to his older brother Esau, who was living in Seir, that is, the land of Edom.
\v 4 He told them, "This is what I want you to say to Esau: 'I, Jacob, am your servant and you are my master. I have been living with our uncle Laban, and I have stayed there until now.
\v 5 I now own many cattle, donkeys, sheep, goats, and male and female slaves. Now I am sending this message to you, sir, hoping that you will be friendly toward me when I arrive.'"
\s5
@ -2027,7 +1975,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 20 Also be sure to say 'Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.'" Jacob told them to say that because he was thinking, "Perhaps these gifts that I am sending ahead of me will cause him to act peacefully toward me. Later, when I see him, perhaps he will act kindly toward me."
\v 21 So the men taking the gifts went ahead, but Jacob himself stayed in the camp that night.
\s5
\p
\v 22 Some time during that night, Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his eleven sons, and he sent them across the ford at the Jabbok River.
@ -2051,10 +1998,8 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 31 The sun was rising as Jacob left Peniel, and he was limping because of what had happened to his hip.
\v 32 The muscle on his hip joint had been injured. So to this present time, because of what happened to Jacob, the Israelite people do not eat the muscle that is attached to the socket of the hips of animals.
\s5
\c 33
\p
\v 1 Then Jacob joined the rest of his family. Later that day Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and there were four hundred men with him. Jacob was worried because of that, so he separated the children. He put Leah's children with Leah, Rachel's children with Rachel, and the two female slaves' children with their mothers.
\v 2 He put the two female slaves and their children in front. He put Leah and her children next. He put Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
@ -2092,13 +2037,13 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 19 One of the leaders of the people in that area was named Hamor. Hamor had several sons. Jacob paid the sons of Hamor one hundred pieces of silver for the piece of ground on which they set up their tents.
\v 20 He built a stone altar there and named it El Elohe Israel, which means "God, the God of Israel."
\s5
\c 34
\p
\v 1 One day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the women in that area.
\v 2 Shechem was one of the sons of Hamor, and he was descended from the people of the Hivites. When he saw her, he took her and forced her to have sex with him.
\v 3 He was very much attracted to her, and he became attached to her. He loved her and he spoke very tenderly to the girl.
\s5
\v 4 So Shechem said to his father Hamor, "Please get this girl for me. I want her to become my wife!"
\p
@ -2119,9 +2064,9 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\p
\v 11 Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "If you feel good toward me and do what I am asking for, I will give you whatever you ask for.
\v 12 Tell me what gifts you want and what bride price you want, and I will give you what you ask for. I just want you to give the girl to me to be my wife."
\p
\v 13 But because Shechem had done a shameful thing to their sister Dinah, the sons of Jacob deceived Shechem and his father Hamor.
\s5
\v 14 They said to them, "No, we cannot do that. We cannot give our sister to be the wife of a man who is not circumcised, because that would be a shameful thing for us to do.
\v 15 We will do that only if you do one thing: You must become like us by circumcising all the males that are among you.
@ -2157,10 +2102,8 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought me big trouble! Now the Canaanite people, the Perez people , and everyone else who lives in this land will hate me! I do not have many men to fight for us, so if they all gather together and come to me and attack us, they will destroy us and all our household!"
\v 31 But they replied, "Should we have allowed Shechem to treat our sister like a prostitute?"
\s5
\c 35
\p
\v 1 Some time later, God said to Jacob, "Go up to the city of Bethel and live there. Build an altar to worship me, God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your older brother Esau."
\v 2 So Jacob said to his household and to all the others who were with him, "Get rid of the idols you brought from the land of Mesopotamia. Also, bathe yourselves and put on clean clothes.
@ -2192,7 +2135,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 14 Jacob set up a large stone at the place where God had talked with him. He poured some wine and some olive oil on it to dedicate it to God.
\v 15 Jacob named that place Bethel, which means "house of God," because God had spoken to him there.
\s5
\p
\v 16 Jacob and his family left Bethel and traveled south toward Ephrath town. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to have severe childbirth pains.
@ -2215,7 +2157,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\s5
\v 26 The sons of Leah's female slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. All those sons of Jacob, except Benjamin, were born while he was living in Paddan Aram.
\p
\v 27 Jacob went back home to see his father Isaac at Mamre, which is also named Kiriath Arba, and which is now named Hebron. Isaac's father Abraham had also lived there.
@ -2223,10 +2164,8 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 28 Isaac lived until he was 180 years old.
\v 29 He was very old when he died and went to join his ancestors who had died previously. His sons Esau and Jacob buried his body.
\s5
\c 36
\p
\v 1 These are those who descended from Esau, whose other name was Edom, and what happened concerning them.
\v 2 Esau married three women from Canaan land: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite; Oholibamah, who was the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hittite;
@ -2321,10 +2260,8 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\p
\v 40-43 Here is a list of all the peoples that were descendants of Esau: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, Magdiel, and Iram. They all lived in the land of Edom. The land where each people lived got the same name as the name of the people .
\s5
\c 37
\p
\v 1 Jacob continued to live in Canaan land, where his father had lived previously.
\v 2 This is what happened to Jacob's family.
@ -2392,6 +2329,7 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\p
\v 29 When Reuben returned to the pit, he saw that his younger brother was not there. He was so grieved that he tore his clothes.
\v 30 He went back to his younger brothers and said, "The boy is not in the pit! What can I do now?"
\s5
\p
\v 31 They did not dare to tell their father what they had done. So they decided to invent a story about what had happened. They got Joseph's piece of long-sleeved clothing. Then they killed a goat and dipped the clothing into the goat's blood.
@ -2405,10 +2343,8 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\p
\v 36 In the meantime, the men from Midian took Joseph to Egypt and sold him to Potiphar, who was one of the king's officials. He was the captain of the soldiers who protected the king.
\s5
\c 38
\p
\v 1 At that time, Judah left his older and younger brothers and went down from the hill country and stayed with a man who lived in Adullam. His name was Hiram.
\v 2 There he met a woman who was the daughter of a man from Canaan land named Shua. He married her and slept with her.
@ -2441,6 +2377,7 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\s5
\v 15 When Judah came along and saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, because she had covered her head and sat where prostitutes often sat.
\v 16 Judah did not realize that she was his daughter-in-law. So he said to her, "Let me sleep with you." She replied, "What will you give me in exchange?"
\s5
\v 17 He replied, "I will send you a young goat from my flock of goats." She asked, "Will you give me something now for me to keep until you send the goat?"
\v 18 He replied, "What do you want me to give to you?" She replied, "Give me the ring that has your name on it that is tied by a cord around your neck, and give me the walking stick that you are holding in your hand." So he gave them to her. Then he slept with her, and she became pregnant.
@ -2471,10 +2408,8 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 29 But he pulled his hand back inside the womb, and his brother came out first. So she said, "So this is how you break your way out first!" So she named him Perez, which sounds like the Hebrew word that means "breaking out."
\v 30 Then his younger brother, the one who had the scarlet thread around his wrist, came out. And he was named Zerah, which sounds like the Hebrew word that means "redness of dawn."
\s5
\c 39
\p
\v 1 Meanwhile, the descendants of Ishmael took Joseph down to Egypt. There Potiphar bought Joseph from them. Potiphar was an Egyptian who was one of the king's officials and the captain of the king's palace guards.
\v 2 Because Yahweh helped Joseph, he was able to do his work very well. He worked in the house of his Egyptian master.
@ -2495,7 +2430,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\s5
\v 10 She kept on asking Joseph day after day to sleep with her, but he refused. He would not even go near her.
\p
\v 11 One day Joseph went into the house to do his work, and none of the other household servants were in the house.
\v 12 Potiphar's wife grabbed his clothing and said, "Sleep with me!" Joseph ran out of the house, but his clothing was still in her hand!
@ -2520,10 +2454,8 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 22 So the prison warden put Joseph in charge of all those who were in the prison, and in charge of all the work that was done there.
\v 23 The warden was not concerned with anything that Joseph was taking care of, because Yahweh helped Joseph to do all his work well.
\s5
\c 40
\p
\v 1 Some time later, two of the king of Egypt's officials did things that displeased him. One was his chief drink server and the other was his chief baker.
\v 2 The king became angry with both of them.
@ -2570,7 +2502,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\p
\v 23 But the chief drink server did not think about Joseph. Instead, he forgot to do what Joseph asked him to do.
\s5
\c 41
\p
@ -2645,7 +2576,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 35 They should collect this amount of grain during those seven years that are coming, when there will be plenty of food. Each of the cities should supervise and protect the food that is stored up.
\v 36 This grain should be kept so that it can be eaten during the seven years when there will be a famine here in Egypt, so that the people in this country will not die from hunger."
\s5
\p
\v 37 The king and his officials thought that this would be a good plan.
@ -2693,10 +2623,8 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 56 When the famine was very bad over the whole country, Joseph ordered his helpers to open the storehouses. Then they sold the grain in the storehouses to the people of Egypt, because the famine was very severe all over Egypt.
\v 57 People from many nearby countries came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was very severe everywhere.
\s5
\c 42
\p
\v 1 When someone told Jacob that there was grain in Egypt that people could buy, he said to his sons, "Why do you just sit there looking at each other? We need some grain!"
\v 2 He said to them, "Someone told me that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, in order that we can stay alive!"
@ -2751,7 +2679,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\s5
\v 26 His older brothers loaded the sacks of grain on their donkeys and left.
\p
\v 27 At the place where they stopped to sleep that night, one of them opened his sack to get some grain for his donkey. He was amazed to see his money in the top of the sack.
\v 28 He exclaimed to his brothers, "Someone has returned my money! Here it is in my sack!" They started shaking with fear, and said to each other, "What is this that God has done to us?"
@ -2777,10 +2704,8 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 37 Reuben said to his father, "I will bring Benjamin back to you. Let me take care of him. If I do not bring Benjamin back to you, you may kill both of my sons."
\v 38 But Jacob said, "No, I will not let my son go down there with you. His older brother is dead, and he is the only one of my wife Rachel's sons who is left! If something harms him while you are traveling, you would cause me, a gray-haired old man, to die because of sorrow."
\s5
\c 43
\p
\v 1 The famine in Canaan got worse.
\v 2 Finally, when Jacob and his family had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, Jacob said to them, "Go back to Egypt and buy some more grain for us!"
@ -2818,7 +2743,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\s5
\v 18 But they were afraid because he was taking them to Joseph's house. They were thinking, "He is taking us here because of the silver that was put in our sacks the first time that we came here. While we are eating, he will have his servants attack us and seize us and cause us to become his slaves, and also take our donkeys."
\p
\v 19 They went with the man who was in charge of things in Joseph's house. When they arrived at the entrance of the house,
\v 20 one of them said to him, "Please, sir, listen to me. We came down here previously and bought some grain.
@ -2854,10 +2778,8 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 33 His brothers were astonished to see that their seats were arranged according to their ages, from the youngest to the oldest!
\v 34 When their portions of food were served to them from Joseph's table, Benjamin's portion was five times as much as anyone else's portion! So they ate food and drank wine with Joseph until they became very cheerful.
\s5
\c 44
\p
\v 1 When his brothers were ready to return home, Joseph said to the man who was in charge of things in his house, "Fill the sacks of those men with as much grain as they can carry on their donkeys. And put in the top of each man's sack the silver that he paid for the grain.
\v 2 Then put my silver cup in the top of the youngest brother's sack, along with the silver that he paid for the grain." So the servant did what Joseph told him to do.
@ -2885,17 +2807,16 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 12 Then the servant started to search for the cup in each sack. He started with the oldest brother's sack and ended with the youngest one's sack. He found the cup in Benjamin's sack and showed it to them.
\v 13 The brothers tore their clothes because they were so dismayed. They loaded the sacks on the donkeys again and returned to the city.
\s5
\p
\v 14 When Judah and his older and younger brothers entered Joseph's house, Joseph was still there. The servant told Joseph what had happened. Then the brothers threw themselves down on the ground in front of Joseph.
\v 15 He said to them, "Why did you do this? Do you not know that a man like me can find out things that nobody knows?"
\s5
\p
\v 16 Judah replied, "Sir, what can we say? How can we prove that we are innocent? God has paid us back for the sins we committed many years ago. So now we will become your slaves—both we and the one in whose sack the cup was found."
\v 17 But Joseph replied, "No, I could never do anything like that. Only the man in whose sack the cup was found will become my slave. The rest of you can return to your father peacefully."
\s5
\p
\v 18 Then Judah came near to Joseph and said, "Sir, please let me say something to you. You are equal to the king himself, so you could command that I be executed; but do not be angry with me for speaking to you.
@ -2928,10 +2849,8 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 33 So, please let me remain here as your slave instead of my youngest brother, and let the boy return home with his other older brothers.
\v 34 I cannot return to my father if the boy is not with me! I do not want to see how miserable my father would become!"
\s5
\c 45
\p
\v 1 Joseph was not able to control his feelings any longer. He did not want to cry in front of his servants, so he said to them loudly, "All of you go outside!" After they went outside, there were no Egyptians there with Joseph when he told his brothers who he was.
\v 2 He cried so loudly that even the people outside heard it, and even the people in the king's palace heard it.
@ -2961,7 +2880,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 14 Then he threw his arms around his younger brother Benjamin's neck and cried. And Benjamin hugged him and cried.
\v 15 Then he kissed his older brothers on their cheeks, and he cried. After that, his brothers started to talk with him.
\s5
\p
\v 16 Someone went to the palace and told the news that Joseph's brothers had come. The king and all his officials were pleased.
@ -2988,7 +2906,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 27 But they told him everything that Joseph had said to them, and Jacob saw the carts that Joseph had sent to carry him and his family and possessions to Egypt. Then Jacob's shock ended.
\v 28 He said, "What you have said is enough to convince me! My son Joseph is still alive, and I will go and see him before I die!"
\s5
\c 46
\p
@ -3098,7 +3015,6 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
\v 11 That is how Joseph enabled his father and brothers to start living in Egypt. As the king had commanded, he gave them property in the best part of the land, in Goshen, which is now called Rameses.
\v 12 Joseph also provided food for all his father's family. The amounts that he gave them were according to how many children each of them had.
\s5
\p
\v 13 There was no food growing in the whole country because the famine was very severe. The people of Egypt and Canaan became weak because they did not have enough food to eat.
@ -3332,7 +3248,6 @@ and in the evening they will divide among their warriors the spoils that they se
\s5
\p
\v 28 Those twelve sons are the ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel. That is what their father said to them as he blessed them, telling to each one words that were right for him.
\p
\v 29 Then Jacob said to his sons, "I will soon die and join my ancestors who have already died. Bury my body where some of my ancestors are buried, in the cave that is in the field that was bought from Ephron, who belonged to the Heth people .
\v 30 The field of Machpelah, was east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan. Abraham bought it from Ephron to use as a burial place.
@ -3343,7 +3258,6 @@ and in the evening they will divide among their warriors the spoils that they se
\p
\v 33 When Jacob finished giving those instructions to his sons, he lay down on his bed again. Then he stopped breathing and died.
\s5
\c 50
\p
@ -3374,7 +3288,6 @@ and in the evening they will divide among their warriors the spoils that they se
\p
\v 14 After he had buried his father, Joseph and his brothers and all the others who had gone up to Canaan with him for the funeral returned to Egypt.
\s5
\p
\v 15 After Jacob died, Joseph's brothers became worried. They realized what might happen. They said, "What will happen if Joseph is carrying hatred for us and wants to take revenge on us, because of all the evil things we did to him many years ago?"
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\v 25 Then Joseph said, "When God enables you to do that, you must take my body up from here to Canaan." He made his older brothers solemnly promise to do that.
\p
\v 26 So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.

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\toc2 Exodus
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\mt The Escape from Egypt (Exodus)
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\v 1 These were the sons of Jacob (they all went to the land of Egypt with Jacob, their father, and with their own households). The sons' names were:
\v 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah,
\v 3 Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin,
\v 4 Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
\v 5 In all, there were seventy people who went with Jacob. His son Joseph was already in Egypt.
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\p
\v 6 After some time, Joseph and his brothers and everyone else in their family who lived in that generation died.
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\p
\v 22 Then the king commanded all the Egyptian people, saying, "You must throw into the Nile River every Hebrew baby boy that is born! However, you can allow the baby girls to live."
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\p
\v 1 Now there was a man who was a descendant of Jacob's son Levi. He married a woman who was also a descendant of Levi.
\v 2 She became pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy. When she saw that he was a healthy baby, she hid him for three months because she was not willing to do what the king commanded.
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\v 9 The king's daughter said to the mother, "Please take this baby and nurse him for me. I will pay you for doing that." So the baby's mother took him and nursed him.
\v 10 Several years later, his mother brought the boy to the king's daughter. She adopted him as though he were her own son. She named him Moses, which sounds like the Hebrew words 'pull out' because she said, "I pulled him out of the water."
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\v 11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out of the palace area to see his people, the Hebrews. He saw how they had to work very hard. He also saw an Egyptian man beating a Hebrew person.
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\v 24 When he heard them crying out, he thought about his promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
\v 25 God saw how the Israelite people were being badly treated, and he wanted to help them.
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\v 21 When this happens, I will cause the people of Egypt to honor the Hebrew people so that when you leave Egypt, they will give you what you need for the journey.
\v 22 At that time, each Hebrew woman will ask for what belongs to the Egyptian women living nearby. The Egyptians will give you all they have—silver and gold jewelry and clothing. You will put these things on your children. In this way, you will take everything from the Egyptians."
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@ -221,10 +217,8 @@ Now the man who was the priest for the Midian people, whose name was Jethro, had
\v 30 Aaron told them everything that Yahweh had told Moses, and Moses performed all the miracles as the people watched.
\v 31 The Israelites believed Aaron and Moses. When they heard that Yahweh had seen how the Israelite people were being badly treated and that he was going to help them, they bowed down and worshiped him.
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\v 1 Then Moses and Aaron went to the king. They said to him, "Yahweh God, whom we Israelite people worship, says this to you: 'Let my people go to the desert in order that they may have a festival to honor me!'"
\v 2 But the king said, "Yahweh is no one important. I do not need to pay attention to what he says, or let the Israelite people go. I do not know this Yahweh! Furthermore, I will not let the Israelite people go!"
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\v 4 But the king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why are you preventing the Israelite people from working? Tell those slaves to return to work!"
\v 5 The king also said, "Listen to me! You people who now live in this land are more numerous than we Egyptians. Why are you stopping them from working?"
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\v 6 That same day the king commanded the Egyptian slave bosses and the Israelite assistants who directed the slaves,
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\p
\v 10 So the slave bosses and Israelite assistants went to where the Israelite people were and said to them, "The king has said that he will no longer give you any straw.
\v 11 So you must go and get straw where you can find it. But you must keep working to make the same number of bricks."
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\v 12 So the Israelite people went all over Egypt to find straw.
\v 13 The slave bosses kept telling them, "Do all the work you are assigned each day. Make the same number of bricks as you did before when we gave you straw!"
\v 14 When they were not able to make enough bricks, the slave bosses working for Pharaoh beat the Israelite assistants with sticks. They asked them, "Why have all the men you are in charge of not been able to make the same number of bricks today as they did before?"
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\v 15 Then the Israelite assistants went to the king and cried out, "Your Majesty, why are you treating us this way?
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\v 22 Moses left them and prayed to Yahweh again, saying, "O Yahweh, why have you caused all these evil things to happen to your people? And why did you send me here?
\v 23 Ever since I went to the king and told him what you told me to say, he has treated your people very badly, and you have not done anything to help them!"
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\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to the king and his people. I will make him let my people go. In fact, by my power I will force him to chase them from his land!"
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\v 9 Moses told that to the Israelite people, but they did not believe what he said. They were very sad because of the hard work they were made to do as slaves.
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\v 10 Then Yahweh said to Moses,
\v 11 "Go and tell the king of Egypt again that he must allow the Israelite people to leave his land!"
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\v 13 But Yahweh spoke to Aaron and Moses, "Tell the Israelite people and the king of Egypt that I have called you two to lead the Israelite people out of Egypt."
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\v 14 Now here is a list of the ancestors of Moses and Aaron.
\p The sons of Reuben, who was Jacob's oldest son, were: Hanok, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. They were ancestors of the clans that have those same names.
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\v 29 he said, "I am Yahweh. You must tell the king everything that I say to you."
\v 30 But Moses said to Yahweh, "Please listen to me. I am not a good speaker. So why should the king listen to what I tell him?"
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\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Listen to me. I will cause the king to see you as a god, and Aaron will be like a prophet because he will speak for you.
\v 2 You must tell everything I command you to your older brother Aaron, and he will tell it all to the king. He must tell the king to let the Israelite people leave his land.
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\v 12 They all threw down their staffs, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron's staff, which had become a snake, swallowed up all their snakes!
\v 13 But the king continued to be stubborn, just as Yahweh had said he would, and he would not believe what Aaron and Moses said.
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\v 14 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "The king is very stubborn. He refuses to allow my people to go.
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\v 23 Then the king turned and went back to his palace, and he did not think any more about it.
\v 24 All the Egyptians dug into the ground near the Nile River to get water to drink because they could not drink the water from the river.
\p
\v 25 Then one week passed after Yahweh turned the water in the Nile River into blood.
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\v 14 The people gathered together all the dead frogs into big piles, and the land smelled very bad.
\v 15 But when the king saw that the problem was ended, he became stubborn again. Just as Yahweh had said would happen, the king did not do what Aaron and Moses told him.
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\v 16 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron to strike the ground with his staff. When he does that, all the fine particles of earth will become gnats all over the land of Egypt."
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\v 18 The men who worked magic tried to cause gnats to appear, but they could not do it. So the gnats stayed on the people and on their animals.
\v 19 The men who worked magic said to the king, "It is God who has done this with his power!" But the king continued to be stubborn, and he would not pay attention to what Aaron and Moses said, just as Yahweh had said.
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\v 20 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Get up early tomorrow morning. Go down to the river and wait for the king. When he comes to bathe, say to him, 'This is what Yahweh says to you: "Let my people go, in order that they may worship me in the desert.
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\v 31 Yahweh did what Moses asked. He got rid of the swarms of flies from around the king, his officials, and the rest of his people. No flies remained.
\v 32 But the king was stubborn this time also, and he did not allow the Israelite people to go.
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\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the king and say to him, 'This is what Yahweh, the one we Hebrews worship, says: "Allow my people to go, in order that they may worship me.
\v 2 If you still refuse to let them go,
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\v 6 The next day Yahweh did what he said that he would do. A terrible disease came upon all of the Egyptians' livestock, and all of the livestock died. But none of the Israelite livestock died.
\v 7 The king sent men to look at what happened, and they were surprised to see that none of the Israelite animals had died. But after they told that to the king, he continued to be stubborn, and he did not let the Israelite people go.
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\v 8 Then Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses, "Take a few handfuls of ashes from a furnace. Moses will throw them up into the air in front of the king.
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\v 11 Even the men who worked magic had boils. Because of this, they were not able to face Moses because the men who worked magic had boils just like all the rest of the Egyptian people.
\v 12 But Yahweh caused the king to continue to be stubborn. He did not pay any attention to what Moses and Aaron said, just as Yahweh had told Moses would happen.
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\v 13 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Get up early tomorrow morning. Go and stand in front of the king and tell him that Yahweh God, the one whom the Hebrew people worship, says this: 'Let my people go in order that they may worship me in the wilderness.
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\v 34 But when the king saw that the rain, the ice storm, and the thunder had stopped, he sinned again. He and his officials continued to be stubborn.
\v 35 So, just as Yahweh had predicted by what he told Moses, the king did not allow the Israelite people to leave.
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\v 28 The king said to Moses and Aaron, "Get out of here! Make sure that you never come to see me again! The day you see me again, I will have you killed!"
\v 29 Moses replied, "You are correct! You will never see me again!"
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\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "I will bring one more disaster on the king of Egypt and on all his people. After that, he will let you leave. In fact, he will chase you out of Egypt.
\v 2 So now, speak to all the Israelite people. Tell them to ask all their Egyptian neighbors, both men and women, to give them their silver and gold jewelry."
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\p
\v 10 Aaron and Moses did all these miracles in front of the king, but Yahweh made the king stubborn. The king did not let the Israelite people leave his land.
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\v 1 Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses in Egypt,
\v 2 "From now on, this month will be the first month of the year for you Israelites.
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\p
\v 17 Every year you must keep celebrating this Festival of Unleavened Bread because it will remind you that it was on this day that I brought your tribes out of the land of Egypt. So every year, in all the generations to come, you must celebrate this day as a festival. It must continue forever.
\v 18 In the first month of the year, on the fourteenth day of that month, the only bread you may eat is bread that has no yeast in it. You must keep doing that each day until the twenty-first day of that month.
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\v 19 For those seven days you must not have any yeast in your house. During that time, if anyone, either an Israelite or a foreigner, eats bread made with yeast, that person will no longer be an Israelite.
\v 20 In your houses, do not eat anything that has yeast in it during those seven days."
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\v 27 you must tell them, 'This ritual is to remember how your ancestors sacrificed lambs on the night that Yahweh's angel passed over the houses of the Israelite people when they were in Egypt. He killed the oldest males in all the Egyptian houses, but he did not kill the sons in our houses." After Moses told them this, the people all bowed their heads and worshiped Yahweh.
\v 28 Then the Israelite people did exactly what Yahweh told Aaron and Moses to tell them to do.
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\v 29 At midnight Yahweh killed all the oldest sons of the Egyptian people, all over Egypt. This included the king's oldest son, the oldest sons of the prisoners in the dungeons, and the oldest sons of everyone else. He also killed the oldest males of all the Egyptians' livestock.
\v 30 That night the king, all his officials, and all the rest of the Egyptian people awoke and discovered what had happened. They wailed loudly all over Egypt because in every house someone's son had died.
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\v 31 That night the king called Aaron and Moses and said, "Get up, you and all the other Israelite people, and leave my country now! Go and worship Yahweh, as you requested!
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\p
\v 33 The Egyptians asked the Israelite people to leave their country quickly. They said, "If you do not do that, we will all die!"
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\v 34 So the Israelite people prepared to leave at once. They took the bowls in which they mixed the dough to make bread and the dough that was in the bowls without any yeast in it, and they wrapped the bowls in their cloaks. They put the bowls on their shoulders and left.
\v 35 Then the Israelite people did as Moses told them. They went to their Egyptian neighbors and asked them for silver and gold jewelry and clothing.
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\v 41 On the day that those 430 years ended, on that very day, all the tribes of Yahweh's people left Egypt.
\v 42 It was a night when the Israelites stayed awake as Yahweh brought them out of Egypt. So this same night every year is a night that is dedicated to Yahweh, a night when the Israelite people in every generation remember how Yahweh kept their ancestors safe.
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\v 43 Then Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "These are my instructions about the Passover ritual: Do not let foreigners eat the Passover meal.
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\v 50 All the Israelite people obeyed Moses and Aaron and did what Yahweh had commanded.
\v 51 On that very day, Yahweh brought all the tribes of the Israelite people out of Egypt.
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\v 21 When they walked during the daytime, Yahweh went in front of them in a tall white cloud to show them the way. During the night, he went in front of them in a tall cloud that looked like a fire. By doing this, he enabled them to travel in the daytime and also at nighttime.
\v 22 The tall cloud did not leave them. It was always in front of them, as a bright white cloud in the daytime and like a tall column of fire in the night.
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\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses,
\v 2 "Tell the Israelite people to turn around and go back and set up their tents in front of Pi Hahiroth. That town is between Migdol and the sea, near Baal Zephon. Set up your tents there close to the sea.
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\v 4 But I will make the king stubborn again, and he will take his army and come after you. Then my people will praise me for winning a victory over the king and his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh." So Moses told the Israelites that, and they did what he told them to do.
\p
\v 5 When someone told the king that the Israelite people had left during the night, he and his leaders changed their minds and said, "What have we done? The Israelite people will no longer be our slaves!"
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\v 13 Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid! Stand strong and see how Yahweh will rescue you. He will save you today, and the result will be that the Egyptians that you are looking at today—you will never see them again.
\v 14 Yahweh will fight for you! Just stay calm. There is nothing else that you will have to do."
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\v 15 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "You must not call out to me for help any longer in this situation. Instead, tell the people to go forward.
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\v 30 That is the way Yahweh saved the Israelite people from the Egyptian army on that day. The Israelite people saw the Egyptians lying dead. Their bodies washed up on the shore.
\v 31 The Israelites saw what Yahweh did to the Egyptians by his great power, and they were in awe of Yahweh. They trusted in Yahweh, and they also trusted in Moses.
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\v 27 After they left Marah, they came to a place named Elim. There were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees there. So they camped there.
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\v 1 They left Elim, and all the Israelite people came to the wilderness of Sin between Elim and Sinai Mountain. That was on the fifteenth day of the second month after they left Egypt.
\v 2 There in the wilderness, the Israelite people complained against Aaron and Moses.
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\v 35 The Israelite people ate manna every day for forty years until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
\v 36 Now two liters is a tenth of an ephah.
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\v 1 Obeying what Yahweh commanded, all the Israelite people moved from the wilderness of Sin. They traveled from one place to another. They camped at a place called Rephidim, but there was no water there for the people to drink.
\v 2 So the people complained to Moses again, saying, "Give us water to drink!" Moses replied to them, "Why are you speaking against me? And why are you trying to test whether Yahweh has the power to give you what you need?"
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\v 6 Listen to me! I will stand in front of you on top of a large rock at the foot of Mount Sinai. Strike the rock with your stick. When you do that, water for the people to drink will flow out of the rock." Moses did what God had said, and the elders were there with him when the water flowed out of the rock.
\v 7 Moses gave that place two names in the Hebrew language—Masseh, which means 'testing,' and Meribah, which means 'complaining.' He gave it the name Massah because the Israelite people were testing Yahweh, saying "Is Yahweh really among us and able to help us, or not?" and Moses gave it the name Meribah because they were complaining all the time to him.
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\v 8 Then the people of Amalek came and fought against the Israelite people at Rephidim.
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\v 15 Then Moses built a stone altar there and named it "Yahweh is my flag."
\v 16 He said, "A promise was made in front of the throne of Yahweh: Yahweh will fight against the people of Amalek forever!"
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\v 1 Jethro, who was the priest for the people of Midian, and who was also Moses' father-in-law, heard about all that God had done for the Israelite people. He heard about how Yahweh had brought them out of Egypt.
\v 2 Moses had sent his wife Zipporah and his two sons back home when he was returning to Egypt. But now Jethro came to him,
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\v 12 Then Jethro brought an animal to sacrifice by burning it on the altar as an offering, and he also offered other sacrifices to God. Aaron and the Israelite elders went with them to eat a meal with Jethro to honor God.
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\v 13 The next day, Moses sat down at the place where he settled disputes among the people. The people were bringing their disputes to Moses from the morning until the evening.
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\v 26 Moses chose them to decide about the people's disputes. They brought the difficult cases to Moses, but they decided the matters that were not difficult by themselves.
\v 27 Then Moses said goodbye to his father-in-law, and Jethro returned home.
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\v 24 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down the mountain and bring Aaron back up with you. But do not allow the priests or other people to cross the boundary to come up to me. If they cross it, I will punish them."
\v 25 So Moses went down the mountain again and told the people what Yahweh had said.
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\v 1 Then God spoke these words to the Israelite people.
\v 2 "I am Yahweh your God, the one you worship. I am the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt. I am the one who freed you from being slaves there.
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\v 4 You must not carve a figure to worship that represents anything in the sky or that is on the ground or that is in the water under the ground.
\v 5 You must not bow down to any idol and worship it because I am Yahweh your God, and I will not allow you to worship any other gods. I will punish those who sin and hate me. I will punish not only them, but also I will punish their descendants down to the third and fourth generation.
\v 6 However, I will never stop loving thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my commandments.
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\v 7 Do not use my name carelessly because I am Yahweh your God, the one whom you should worship, and I will certainly punish those who use my name for wrong purposes.
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\v 25 If you make for me an altar from stones, do not make it from stones that you have cut to make them look nice because you will make the altar unsuitable for worshiping me if you use tools to cut the stones.
\v 26 Do not make an altar that has steps in front of it because if you do that, God could see your naked body as you go up the steps.'"
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\v 1 "Here are some other instructions to give to the Israelite people.
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\v 35 If someone's bull hurts another person's bull so that it dies, the owners of both bulls must sell the bull that is living, and they must divide between them the money that they get for it. They must also divide between them the meat of the animal that died.
\v 36 However, if people know that the bull often attacked other animals before, and its owner did not keep it inside a fence, then the owner of that bull must give the owner of the bull that died one of his own bulls, but he can take away the animal that died and do whatever he wants to with it."
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\v 1 "If someone steals a bull or a sheep and then kills it or sells it, he must pay five bulls for the bull that he stole, and he must pay four sheep for the sheep that he stole.
\p
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\v 14 If someone borrows an animal, and if that animal is hurt or dies when its owner is not there, the one who borrowed it must pay the owner for the animal.
\v 15 But if that happens when the owner of the animal is there, the one who borrowed it will not have to pay back anything. If the man who borrowed it only rented it, the money that he paid to rent it will be enough to pay for the animal dying or being injured."
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\v 16 "If a man forces a girl to sleep with him, a girl who is a virgin and who is not engaged to be married, he must pay the bride price for her and marry her.
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\v 31 You are people who are set apart to me. I detest the meat of any animal that has been killed by wild animals. Therefore do not eat such meat. Instead, throw it where the dogs can eat it."
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\v 32 You must not make any agreement with those people or with their gods.
\v 33 Do not allow those people to live in your land in order that they do not cause you to sin against me. If you worship their gods, you will not be able to escape from worshiping them and sinning against me just as someone caught in a trap is unable to escape."
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\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses. "Come up to me on top of this mountain, you and Aaron and his sons Nadab and Abihu. Also take along seventy of the Israelite elders. While you are still some distance from the top of the mountain, there you may worship me.
\v 2 Moses, I will allow you alone to come near to me. The others must not come near, and the rest of the people must not come up the mountain."
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\v 17 When the Israelite people looked at the top of the mountain, the glory of Yahweh was like a big fire burning there.
\v 18 Moses went into the cloud on top of the mountain and was there for forty days and nights.
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\v 20 Command the Israelite people that they must bring to you the best kind of pure olive oil to burn in the lamp. They must bring this oil to you so that the lamp is always burning.
\v 21 Outside the curtain of the tabernacle, where the sacred chest of Yahweh is kept, Aaron and his sons must take care to keep the lamps burning every day from evening to morning. The Israelite people must obey this regulation throughout all future generations."
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\v 1 "Call your older brother Aaron and his sons—Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. Set them apart from the rest of the Israelite people in order that they can serve me as priests.
\v 2 Tell the people to make beautiful clothes for Aaron, clothes that are suitable for one who has this dignified and sacred work.
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\v 4 The clothes that they are to make are a sacred pouch for Aaron to wear over his breast, a sacred apron, a robe, an embroidered tunic, a turban, and a sash. These are the clothes that your older brother Aaron and his sons must wear as they serve me by doing the work that priests do.
\v 5 The skilled workmen must use fine linen and blue, purple, and red yarn to make these clothes.
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\v 6 The skilled workmen must make the sacred apron from fine linen, and they must skillfully embroider it with blue, purple, and red yarn, and with fine gold wire.
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\v 13 The settings for the stones must be made from gold.
\v 14 Tell them to make two chains of gold that are braided like cords and to fasten the chains to the settings."
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\v 15 Tell the skilled workman to make a sacred pouch for Aaron to wear over his chest. He will use this to find out what I want the people to do. They must make it of the same materials as the sacred apron, and they must embroider it in the same way with gold, blue, purple, and red fine linen.
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\v 29 In that way, Aaron will have the names of the twelve tribes of Israel in the sacred pouch close to his chest for making decisions when he enters the holy place.
\v 30 Put into the sacred pouch the two things—named Urim and Thummim—that the priest will use to determine my answers to the questions he asks. In that way, they will be close to his chest when he enters the holy place to talk to me. He will use them to determine what my will is for the Israelite people."
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\v 31 "Tell the workmen to weave only purple cloth for the robe that is to be worn underneath the priest's sacred apron.
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\v 42 Also tell them to make linen undershorts for them. The undershorts should extend from their waists to their thighs in order that no one can see their private parts.
\v 43 Aaron and his sons must always wear those undershorts when they enter the sacred tent or when they come near to the altar to offer sacrifices in the holy place. If they do not obey this ritual, I will cause them to die. Aaron and all his male descendants must obey this rule forever."
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\v 1 "Do the following things to dedicate Aaron and his sons to serve me by being priests. Select one young bull and two rams that do not have any defects.
\v 2 Bake three kinds of bread using finely ground wheat flour without yeast. Bake some buns that do not have any olive oil in them, bake some buns that have olive oil in the dough, and bake some thin wafers that will be smeared with olive oil after they are baked.
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\v 45 I will live among the Israelite people, and I will be their God.
\v 46 They will know that I am Yahweh God, the one who brought them out of Egypt in order that I might live among them. I am Yahweh, the God whom they worship."
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\v 37 The people must not mix the same spices to make incense for themselves. This incense must be dedicated to me, Yahweh.
\v 38 I will view anyone who makes incense like this to use it for perfume as no longer belonging to my people."
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\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses,
\v 2 "I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri and grandson of Hur, from the tribe of Judah.
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\v 10 Also included in these things were all the beautiful, special clothes for Aaron and his sons to wear when they work as priests;
\v 11 the oil for anointing, and the sweet-smelling incense for the holy place. The craftsmen must make all these things exactly as I have told you that they should do."
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\v 12 Yahweh said to Moses,
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\v 18 When Yahweh finished talking with Moses on the top of Mount Sinai, he gave him the two stone slabs on which he had engraved his commandments with his own fingers.
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\v 1 Moses stayed on top of the mountain a long time. When the people saw that he was not returning, they went to Aaron and said to him, "Make us gods who will lead us on our journey. We do not know what happened to that man Moses, who brought us here out of Egypt."
\v 2 Aaron said to them, "All right, I will do that. Tell your wives and your children to take off all their gold earrings and bring them to me."
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\v 5 When Aaron saw how the people reacted, he built an altar in front of the bull. Then he announced, "Tomorrow we will have a festival to honor Yahweh!"
\v 6 So the people got up early the next morning and brought animals to kill and burn as sacrifices on the altar. They also brought sacrifices to restore fellowship with others. Then they sat down to eat and to drink wine. After a while, they got up and had a wild party.
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\v 7 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down from the mountain because your people, the ones that you brought up here from Egypt, have become bad.
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\v 35 Later Yahweh caused the people to become sick because they had told Aaron to make the statue of a young bull.
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\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Leave this place and go with the people whom you led out of Egypt. Go to the land that I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that I would give to their descendants.
\v 2 I will send my angel ahead of you, and I will remove from that land the people of Canaan, Amor, Heth, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus.
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\v 7 As the Israelite people were traveling, whenever they stopped and set up their tents, Moses set up the sacred tent outside the camp, far from the camp. He called it "the tent of meeting." Everyone who wanted Yahweh to decide something for them would go out of the camp to the tent of meeting.
\v 8 Whenever Moses went out to the tent of meeting, all the people would stand at their own tent entrances and watch him until he had walked into the tent of meeting.
\v 9 Whenever Moses went into the tent of meeting, the tall cloud would come down and stay at the tent entrance, and then Yahweh would talk with Moses.
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\v 10 When the people saw the tall cloud at the entrance of the tent of meeting, they would all worship Yahweh at their own tent entrances.
\v 11 Yahweh would speak to Moses face to face like someone speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp. But his young helper, Joshua son of Nun, would stay in the tent of meeting.
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\v 12 Moses said to Yahweh, "It is true that you have told me, 'Lead the people to the land that I will show you,' but you have not told me whom you will send with me! Nevertheless, you have said that you know me well and that you are pleased with me.
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\v 22 When I come past you in all my power, I will put you in a large hole in the rock, and I will cover your face with my hand until I have passed by.
\v 23 Then I will take my hand away, and you will see my back, but you will not see my face."
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\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Cut two slabs of stone that will be like the first slabs, the ones that you broke. Then I will write on them the words that were on the first slabs.
\v 2 Get ready tomorrow morning, and come up to the top of Mount Sinai again to talk with me there.
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\v 10 Yahweh replied, "I am about to make a covenant with your people, the Israelite people. As they are watching, I will perform great miracles. They will see miracles that no one has ever done on the earth in any people . Everyone among your people will see the great things that I, Yahweh, will do. I will do things for you all that will make you fear me.
\v 11 Do what I tell you to do today. I am about to make the Amor, Canaan, Heth, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus peoples leave the land.
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\v 12 But be careful that you do not make a covenant to live peacefully with any of the people who live in the land into which you are going because if you do that, you will begin to do the evil things that they do. It will be like falling into a trap.
\v 13 You must tear down their altars, destroy their idols, and cut down the poles that they use to worship Asherah.
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\v 28 Moses was there on the top of the mountain with Yahweh for forty days and nights. During that time he did not eat or drink anything. He engraved on the stone slabs the words of the Ten Commandments which belonged to Yahweh's covenant.
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\v 29 When Moses came back down the mountain carrying in his hand the two stone slabs on which were written the Ten Commandments, he did not know that his face was shining.
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\v 34 Whenever Moses entered the tent of meeting to talk with Yahweh, he would remove the cloth. When he came back out, he would always tell the Israelite people everything that Yahweh had commanded him to tell them.
\v 35 The Israelite people would see that Moses' face was still shining. Then he would put the cloth back on his face again until the next time that he went to talk with Yahweh.
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\v 1 Moses gathered all the Israelite people together and said to them, "This is what Yahweh has commanded you to do.
\v 2 Each week you may work for six days, but on the seventh day, you must rest. It is a sacred day, dedicated to Yahweh. Anyone who does any work on the seventh day must be killed.
\v 3 Do not light a fire in your homes on the rest days."
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\v 4 Moses also said to all the Israelite people, "This is what Yahweh has commanded.
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\v 28 They also brought spices to put into the sweet-smelling incense, and they brought olive oil for the lamps and for the oil for anointing and for putting in the sweet-smelling incense.
\v 29 All the Israelite men and women who wanted to brought these things to offer them to Yahweh for doing the work that he had commanded Moses to do.
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\v 30 Moses said to the Israelite people, "Listen carefully. Yahweh has chosen Bezalel son of Uri and grandson of Hur, from the tribe of Judah.
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\v 34 Yahweh has also given to him and to Oholiab son of Ahisamak, from the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach their skills to others.
\v 35 He has given to them the ability to do all kinds of work that is done by craftsmen—those who create artistic things, those who make fine white linen, those who embroider designs using blue, purple, or red woolen yarn, and those who make linen cloth. They are able to plan many kinds of artistic work.
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\v 6 So Moses gave them a message that others proclaimed throughout the camp, saying "No one should bring anything more as an offering to make the sacred tent!" When the people heard that, they did not bring anything more.
\v 7 What they had already brought was enough to do all the work. In fact, it was more than was needed!
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\v 8 All the most skilled men among the workmen made the sacred tent. They made it from ten strips of fine linen, and they carefully embroidered it using blue, purple, and red woolen yarn to make figures that resembled the winged creatures. Bezalel designed all this.
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\v 37 Bezalel and his men made a curtain to cover the entrance of the sacred tent. They made it from fine linen, and a skilled weaver embroidered it with blue, purple, and red woolen yarn.
\v 38 To support this curtain, they also made five posts from acacia wood and fastened gold clasps to them. They covered the posts and their rods with gold and made a bronze base for each of those posts.
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\v 1 Then Bezalel and his men made the sacred chest from acacia wood. It was one meter long, three-quarters of a meter wide, and three-quarters of a meter high.
\v 2 They covered it with pure gold inside and outside the chest, and they made a gold border around the top of it.
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\v 8 They put one creature at each end of the chest, and they joined the gold of the creatures to the gold of the lid so that the creatures were one piece with the lid.
\v 9 They placed the winged creatures so that their wings touched each other and spread out over the lid. The creatures faced each other, looking toward the lid's center.
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\v 10 Bezalel and his men made a table from acacia wood. It was one meter long, one-half meter wide, and three-quarters of a meter high.
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\v 23 Bezalel and his men also made seven small cups for holding oil. They made from pure gold the tongs for removing the burned wicks and the trays in which to put the burned wicks.
\v 24 They used thirty-three kilograms of pure gold to make the lampstand and all the things that the priests would use to take care of it.
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\v 25 Bezalel and his men made the altar for burning incense from acacia wood. It was square, one-half meter on each side and one meter high. They made a projection that looked like a horn on each of the top corners. The projections were carved from the same block of wood as the altar.
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\v 28 They made those two poles from acacia wood and covered them with gold.
\v 29 They also made the sacred oil for anointing and the pure sweet-smelling incense. A skilled perfumer mixed the incense together.
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\v 1 Bezalel and his men made the altar for burning sacrifices out of acacia wood. It was square, two and one-third meters on each side, and it was one and two-fifths meters high.
\v 2 They made a projection that looked like a horn on each of the top corners. The projections were carved from the same block of wood from which the altar was made. They covered the whole altar with bronze.
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\v 8 Bezalel and his men made the washbasin and its base from bronze. The bronze was from the mirrors that belonged to the women who worked at the entrance of the sacred tent.
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\v 9 Around the sacred tent Bezalel and his helpers made a courtyard. To form the courtyard, they made curtains of fine white linen. On the south side, the curtain was forty-five and three-quarters meters long.
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\v 19 All the curtains were made of fine linen. They were supported by four posts, and under each post was a base made of bronze. All the posts around the courtyard were connected with metal rods covered with silver. The clasps were made of silver, and the tops of the posts were covered with silver.
\v 20 All the tent pegs to support the sacred tent and the curtains around the courtyard were made of bronze.
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\v 21 Here is a list of the amounts of metal used to make the sacred tent. Moses told some men from the tribe of Levi to count all the materials used and write down the amounts. Ithamar son of Aaron the priest, supervised those men.
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\v 30 With the bronze Bezalel and his helpers made the bases to support the posts at the entrance of the sacred tent. They also made the altar for burning sacrifices with its grate and the tools to be used with it,
\v 31 the bases for the posts that supported the curtains that surrounded the courtyard, the bases for the entrance to the courtyard, and the pegs for the sacred tent and for the curtains around the courtyard.
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\v 1 Bezalel, Oholiab, and the other skilled workmen made the beautiful clothes for Aaron to wear while he did his work as a priest in the holy place. They made them from blue, purple, and red woolen cloth, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
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\v 21 They tied the rings on the sacred pouch to the rings on the sacred apron with a blue cord, so that the sacred pouch was above the sash and would not come loose from the sacred apron. They did these things just as Yahweh had instructed Moses to do.
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\v 22 They made the robe that was to be worn underneath the priest's sacred apron; they used only blue cloth.
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\v 43 Then Moses saw all the work that they had done.
Truly, they had done everything exactly as Yahweh had commanded that it should be done. Then Moses blessed the workmen.
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\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses,
\v 2 "Next year, on the first day of the first month, tell the people to set up the sacred tent.
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\v 31-32 Every time Moses, Aaron, or Aaron's sons went into the sacred tent or went up to the altar, they washed their hands and feet, exactly as Yahweh had commanded them through Moses to do.
\v 33 Moses's workmen hung up the curtains that surrounded the courtyard and the altar, and they hung the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard. In this way Moses caused the people to complete all that work.
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\v 34 Then the tall cloud covered the sacred tent, and Yahweh's power and brilliant light filled the sacred tent.
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\v 36 From that day, whenever the people of Israel wanted to move to another place, they went only when the cloud rose from above the sacred tent and moved on.
\v 37 If the cloud did not rise, they stayed where they were and waited for the cloud to rise and move.
\v 38 Wherever they traveled, the cloud that showed Yahweh's presence was above the sacred tent during the day, and a bright fire was over it at night. All the people of Israel could see it at any time, for as long as they were traveling to the land that God had promised to give them.

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\toc2 Leviticus
\toc3 Lev
\mt1 Leviticus
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\v 1 While Moses was standing near the entrance to the sacred tent, Yahweh called to him from inside the tent. He said to Moses
\v 2 to say this to the Israelite people: "When any of you brings an offering to Yahweh, bring one of your sheep or goats or cattle.
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\v 16 Then he will remove the bird's craw and what is inside it, and throw it on the east side of the altar, where they also throw the ashes.
\v 17 Then he will grasp the bird's wings and tear the bird open partially, but never all the way. Then he will burn it completely in the fire on the altar. And the good odor will be pleasing to Yahweh.
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\v 1 If you bring to Yahweh an offering of flour, it must consist of finely ground flour. You must pour olive oil on it, as well as some incense,
\v 2 and take it to one of the priests. The priest will take a handful of it and burn it on the altar. That part will symbolize how our prayers go up to Yahweh as we give him thanks for his goodness.
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\v 15 Put olive oil and incense on it, and that will be your offering made from flour.
\v 16 The priest will take a part of it that will symbolize that all the offering truly belongs to Yahweh. He will burn that part on the altar, to be an offering given to Yahweh by burning it in a fire.
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\v 1 When you offer to Yahweh an animal to promise friendship with him, you may bring a bull or a cow from your herd of cattle, but what you present to Yahweh must be an animal that has no defects.
\v 2 You must bring the animal to the entrance to the sacred tent. You must lay your hands on its head. Then you must slaughter it and catch some of its blood in a bowl. Then one of Aaron's sons, one of the priests, will sprinkle the blood against all sides of the altar.
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\v 17 This is a command that must be obeyed by you and your descendants forever, wherever you live. You must not eat the fat or the blood of any animal."
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\v 1 Then Yahweh told Moses
\v 2 to say this to the Israelite people, "This is what anyone must do if he sins without intending to sin, that is, if he does something that breaks any of Yahweh's commands.
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\v 34 Then the priest must dip one of his fingers in it and put some of the blood on the projections at the corners of the altar. Then he must pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
\v 35 Then he must remove all the lamb's fat, and burn all the fat on the altar, like was done with the fat of the offering to promise friendship with Yahweh. He must burn it on top of the other offerings to Yahweh that are being burned. As a result, the priest will request God to forgive that person for his sin, and he will be forgiven.
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\v 12 You must take it to the priest. He will take a handful of it to symbolize that the whole offering truly belongs to Yahweh, and burn it on the altar, on top of the other offerings.
\v 13 When he does that, the priest will enable you to no longer be guilty for any of the sins that you have committed, and God will forgive you. The part of the offering that is not burned will belong to the priest, just as in the case of the offerings made from flour."
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\v 14 Yahweh also said to Moses to tell the people:
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\v 18 When you realize what you have done, you must bring a ram to the priest as an offering in order that you will no longer be guilty. You must bring one that has no defects. The priest will offer the ram to be a sacrifice to me, and as a result you will no longer be guilty for the sin that you have committed, and I will forgive you.
\v 19 It is an offering to cause you to no longer be guilty for sinning against me."
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\v 2 "If you sin against me by deceiving someone—if you refuse to return what someone has lent you, or if you steal something of his,
\v 3 or if you find something and swear that you do not have it, you are guilty.
\v 4 You must return to its owner what you have stolen or what someone has lent to you and you have not returned, or what you found that someone else had lost, or whatever you lied about.
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\v 5 You must not only return anything like that to its owner, but you must also pay to the owner an additional one-fifth of its value.
\v 6 You must also bring to the priest a ram to be an offering to me, in order that you will no longer be guilty. The ram that you bring must be one that has no defects, one that has the value that has been officially determined.
\v 7 Then the priest will offer that ram to be a sacrifice that will cause you to no longer be guilty, and I will forgive you for the wrong things that you did."
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\v 8 Yahweh also said to Moses,
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\v 12 The fire on the altar must always be kept burning. The priest must not allow it to go out. Each morning the priest must put more firewood on the fire. Then he must arrange more offerings on the fire, and burn on the altar the fat of the offerings to be burned to promise friendship with Yahweh.
\v 13 The fire on the altar must be kept burning continually. The priest must not allow it to go out."
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\v 14 "These are the regulations concerning the offerings made from flour. Aaron's sons must bring them to Yahweh in front of the altar.
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\v 22 I have commanded that the descendants of Aaron who are appointed to become the high priests after Aaron dies are the ones who must prepare those things. They must be completely burned on the altar to be sacrifices to me.
\v 23 Every offering that a priest gives that is made from flour must be completely burned. No one is to eat any of it."
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\v 24 Yahweh also told Moses to
\v 25 tell Aaron and his sons, "These are the regulations concerning the offerings for the sins of the people. The priest will kill the sacrifice at the place where the offerings are burned; it is killed before Yahweh and the offering is dedicated to Yahweh.
\v 26 The priest who makes the offering for sin, may eat the offering given to Yahweh. The priest can only eat it in the place in the courtyard that has been set apart for eating sacrifices.
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\v 27 Any other person who touches any of its meat will belong to me. And if its blood is splattered on your clothes, you must wash the clothes in a holy place.
\v 28 If the meat is cooked in a clay pot, the pot must be broken afterwards. But if it is cooked in a bronze pot, the pot must be scoured afterwards and rinsed with water.
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\v 29 Any male in a priest's family may eat some of the cooked meat. That meat is very special.
\v 30 But if the blood of those offerings is brought into the sacred tent to enable the people to be forgiven for having sinned, the meat of those animals must not be eaten. The priest must burn that meat completely."
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\v 1 "These are the regulations concerning the offerings for when people are guilty of not giving to Yahweh the things that are required to be given to him. Those are very sacred offerings.
\v 2 A priest must slaughter each animal that people offer for this purpose in the same place where they slaughter the animals that they will completely burn. The priest must sprinkle the animal's blood on all sides of the altar.
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\v 9 Offerings of things made from flour that are baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or in a shallow pan belong to the priest who sacrifices those things for another person.
\v 10 And offerings of things made from flour, whether they were mixed with olive oil or not, also belong to the Aaron's descendants.
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\v 11 These are the regulations concerning the offerings that people make to promise friendship with Yahweh.
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\v 21 If anyone touches something that God considers to be impure and very displeasing to him, whether it is from a human or from an animal, and then he eats any of the meat of the offering to promise friendship with Yahweh, meat that belongs to Yahweh, he must no longer be allowed to associate with God's people."
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\v 22 Yahweh also said to Moses:
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\v 26 And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.
\v 27 If anyone eats blood, he must no longer be allowed to associate with God's people."
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\v 28 Yahweh also said to Moses,
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\v 37 So those are the regulations for the offerings that are to be completely burned on the altar, the offerings made from flour, the offerings to cause people to become acceptable to God again, the offerings for when people are guilty of not giving to Yahweh the things that are required to be given to him, the offerings given when the priests are appointed, and the offerings to promise friendship with Yahweh.
\v 38 They are regulations that Yahweh gave to Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that he commanded the Israelite people to start bringing their offerings to him, in the wilderness around Sinai.
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\p
\v 1 Yahweh also said to Moses,
\v 2 "Bring Aaron and his sons, and bring their special clothes, the oil for anointing them, the bull to be offered to cause them to become acceptable to God, the two rams to be slaughtered, and the basket containing bread made without yeast.
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\p
\v 36 So Aaron and his sons did everything that Yahweh told Moses to tell them.
\s5
\c 9
\p
\v 1 Eight days later Moses summoned the elders of Israel.
\v 2 Then he said to Aaron, "Take a young bull so you can offer it for your sins, and a ram so that you can burn it whole on the altar, both of them without any defects, and offer them to Yahweh.
@ -526,10 +507,8 @@
\v 23 Then Aaron and Moses entered the sacred tent. When they came out later, they asked Yahweh to bless the people. And suddenly the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the people.
\v 24 A fire from Yahweh appeared and burned up the entire offering, together with the fat that was on the altar. When all the people saw this happen, they shouted joyfully and prostrated themselves on the ground to worship Yahweh.
\s5
\c 10
\p
\v 1 Two of Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, took the pans in which they burned incense. They put some burning coals in them and put incense on top of the coals, but this fire was not acceptable to Yahweh because it was not the kind that he had commanded them to burn.
\v 2 So suddenly a fire from Yahweh appeared and burned them up in his own presence.
@ -577,10 +556,8 @@
\v 19 Aaron replied to Moses, "Today the people brought to Yahweh their offering for him to forgive their sins, and also the offering we burned completely to please Yahweh. But think about the terrible thing that happened to my other two sons! Would Yahweh have been pleased if I had eaten some of the people's sin offering today?"
\v 20 When Moses heard that, he was satisfied and said nothing more.
\s5
\c 11
\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses,
\v 2 "Tell the people that this is what I say: 'Of all the animals that live on the land, these are the ones that you are permitted to eat.
@ -673,10 +650,8 @@
\v 46 Those are the regulations concerning animals and birds, all the living creatures that live in water or creep along on the ground.
\v 47 You must learn what things I say are acceptable to me and what things are not, and learn what things you are permitted to eat and what things you are not permitted to eat.'"
\s5
\c 12
\p
\v 1 Yahweh also said to Moses,
\v 2 "Tell this to the Israelite people. If a woman gives birth to a boy, she must be avoided for seven days, as she must be avoided when she is menstruating each month.
@ -695,10 +670,8 @@
\p Those are the regulations for women who give birth to a baby boy or girl.
\v 8 If a woman who gives birth to a child cannot afford a lamb, she must bring two doves or two pigeons. One will be burned completely on the altar, and one will be an offering to enable her to become acceptable to God again. By doing that, the priest will cause her to be forgiven for any sins she has committed, and she no longer will need to be avoided."
\s5
\c 13
\p
\v 1 Yahweh said this to Aaron and Moses:
\v 2 "When someone has on his skin a swelling, a scab, or a shiny spot that seems to be infected, then someone must bring him to Aaron or to one of his sons who are also priests.
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\v 45 Anyone who has a contagious skin disease must wear torn clothes and not comb his hair. When he is near other people, he must cover the lower part of his face and call out, 'Do not come near me! I have a contagious skin disease!'
\v 46 He is not allowed to be with other people as long as he has the disease. He must live alone, outside the camp."
\s5
\p
\v 47-48 "Sometimes a person's clothing gets mildew on it. It may be clothing that is woven from wool or made from linen or from leather, or it may be another item that has leather in it.
@ -819,10 +791,8 @@
\p
\v 59 These are the regulations concerning mildew on things made of wool or linen or leather, for deciding whether the owner may continue to use those things or not."
\s5
\c 14
\p
\v 1 Yahweh also said to Moses,
\v 2 "These are the regulations for anyone who has been healed of a contagious skin disease.
@ -940,10 +910,8 @@
\v 56 and for swellings, rashes, or bright spots on sores;
\v 57 these regulations will determine whether people will still be permitted to touch those things or not."
\s5
\c 15
\p
\v 1 Yahweh also said to Moses and Aaron,
\v 2 "Tell this to the Israelites: When an unusual, infected fluid comes out of a man's private parts, no one should touch that man.
@ -1017,10 +985,8 @@
\v 32 Those are the regulations for a man who has a discharge from his body, or who has an emission of semen, when that happens he is unclean;
\v 33 and for any woman during her menstrual period, and for any man who sleeps with a woman during her menstrual period.'"
\s5
\c 16
\p
\v 1 After the two sons of Aaron died because they burned incense to Yahweh in a manner that was contrary to what he had commanded, Yahweh spoke to Moses.
\v 2 He said to him, "Tell your brother Aaron not to go into the very holy place, which is inside the inmost curtain, where the sacred chest and its lid are, and where I am present in the cloud that is over it. If Aaron goes in that room when it is not the proper time, he will die!
@ -1097,10 +1063,8 @@
\v 34 This will be a permanent command for you to obey once every year, to enable me to forgive you Israelite people for the sins that you have committed."
\p Moses obeyed all the instructions that Yahweh had given to him.
\s5
\c 17
\p
\v 1 Yahweh also said to Moses,
\v 2 "Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the other Israelites. Tell them that I am giving them the following commands:
@ -1137,10 +1101,8 @@
\v 15 If any of you Israelites or any foreigner who is living among you eats any meat from an animal that died or that was killed by wild animals, you must wash your clothes and bathe. Then you must not touch anyone else until that evening.
\v 16 If you do not obey this rule, I will certainly punish you.'"
\s5
\c 18
\p
\v 1 Yahweh also said to Moses,
\v 2 "Speak to the Israelite people and tell them that I, Yahweh, say this, 'I am Yahweh, your God.
@ -1217,10 +1179,8 @@
\v 29 You must not allow people who do any of those detestable things to associate with you, who are my people.
\v 30 Obey all that I command you to do, and do not defile yourselves by following any of the disgusting habits of the people who were there before you came. I, Yahweh your God, am the one who is commanding these things.'"
\s5
\c 19
\p
\v 1 Yahweh also said to Moses,
\v 2 "Speak to all the people of Israel and tell them this: 'You must be holy, because Yahweh your God is holy, and he wants you to be like him.
@ -1323,10 +1283,8 @@
\p
\v 37 Obey carefully all my laws and decrees. It is I, Yahweh, who am commanding you these things.'"
\s5
\c 20
\p
\v 1 Yahweh also said this to Moses:
\v 2 "Tell the Israelite people, 'Any Israelite or any foreigner who is living in Israel who sacrifices any of his children as an offering to the idol Molech must die. The people of the town must kill him by throwing stones at him.
@ -1398,7 +1356,6 @@
\p
\v 27 You must execute any man or woman among you who consults the spirits of dead people or other spirits. Kill them by throwing stones at them; they will be responsible for their own deaths.'"
\s5
\c 21
\p
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\p
\v 16 Yahweh also said to Moses,
\v 17 "Say this to Aaron: 'For all future time, none of your descendants who has any defects on his body will be allowed to come near the altar to offer sacrifices to me which will be like my food.
\s5
\v 18 No one who is blind or lame or deformed, or whose face is disfigured,
\v 19 no man with a crippled foot or a crippled hand,
@ -1446,7 +1404,6 @@
\p
\v 24 So Moses told this to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelite people.
\s5
\c 22
\p
@ -1482,7 +1439,6 @@
\v 15 When the priests bring offerings to me, the sacred offerings that the Israelite people bring to them, they must not treat those offerings as though they were not special to me;
\v 16 the people must not allow anyone who is not a priest to eat any of those offerings. If they did that, they would become guilty. I am Yahweh, the one who sets the Israelite people apart from other people and makes them holy for my honor."
\s5
\p
\v 17 Yahweh also said to Moses,
@ -1518,10 +1474,8 @@
\v 32 Do not dishonor me by disobeying them. You Israelite people must acknowledge that I, Yahweh, am holy, and I am the one who causes you to be holy.
\v 33 And I am the one who brought you out of Egypt in order that I, Yahweh, will be your God."
\s5
\c 23
\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses,
\v 2 "Tell the Israelites about the festivals for Yahweh, the days when you all must gather together in holy assemblies on set times each year, as festivals in which you worship me.
@ -1548,9 +1502,7 @@
\s5
\v 12 On that same day you must sacrifice to me a one year old male lamb that has no defects. You must burn it on the altar.
\v 13 You must also burn a flour offering. That offering must consist of four and one-half liters of good flour, ground grain, mixed with olive oil. The smell of those things burning will be very pleasing to me. Along with that, you must also offer one liter of wine, which will be a liquid offering.
\v 14 Do not eat any bread or any roasted or unroasted grain on that day until after you have brought those offerings to me, your God. You and all your descendants must always obey these commands, wherever you live.
\s5
@ -1619,10 +1571,8 @@
\p
\v 44 So Moses gave to the Israelite people all these instructions concerning the festivals that Yahweh wanted them to celebrate each year.
\s5
\c 24
\p
\v 1 Yahweh also said to Moses,
\v 2 "Command the Israelite people to constantly bring you clear oil made from pressed olives to burn in the lamps in the sacred tent, in order that those lamps will burn all the time.
@ -1641,7 +1591,6 @@
\v 8 The priests must put new loaves of bread on the table each Sabbath day, to signify the covenant that will never end, which I have made with you Israelites.
\v 9 When the loaves are removed from the table, they will belong to Aaron and his sons. They must eat them in a place set aside for this purpose, because they are part of the offerings—the offerings that belong only to me—that are given to me by being burned."
\s5
\p
\v 10-11 There was a man whose mother's name was Shelomith. She was an Israelite whose father was Dibri from the tribe of Dan. Her son's father was from Egypt. One day this man and another Israelite man started to fight inside the camp. And while they were fighting, that man cursed Yahweh.
@ -1671,10 +1620,8 @@
\p
\v 23 Then Moses told the Israelites what they must do to the man who cursed Yahweh, so they took the man outside the camp and killed him by throwing stones at him. They did what Yahweh commanded Moses to tell them to do.
\s5
\c 25
\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
\v 2 "Tell the Israelites that Yahweh is giving these commands to them: When you enter the land that he is about to give you, every seventh year you must honor him by not planting any crops. You must allow the ground to rest.
@ -1688,13 +1635,13 @@
\v 6 But you are permitted to eat whatever crops have grown by themselves during that year. You and your male and female servants, and workers whom you have hired, and any foreigners who are living among you—you may all eat those things.
\v 7 And your livestock and the wild animals in your land are permitted to eat them during that year as well.
\s5
\p
\v 8-9 After every forty-nine years has ended, you must do this for the celebration of Jubilee. On the tenth day of the seventh month of the next year, blow trumpets throughout the country, to announce the Day of Atonement.
\s5
\v 10 Set apart that year in order to honor Yahweh. You must proclaim everywhere, to all the people, that this year will be the time for giving the land back to the families that first owned it when Yahweh brought you into your land. It will also be the time for setting free any of Yahweh's people who are slaves.
\s5
\v 11 This year of Jubilee, the fiftieth year, will be a year in which you must rejoice and obey Yahweh's special instructions. During that year do not plant anything, and do not harvest in your usual manner the crops or grapes that have grown by themselves.
\v 12 It will be a year for you to rejoice in, the year of Jubilee. You will treat it as special, and eat only what has grown by itself.
@ -1788,10 +1735,8 @@
\v 54 And even if a fellow Israelite who has sold himself to a rich man is not able to pay for himself to be freed by any of these ways, he and his children must be freed in the year of the celebration of Jubilee,
\v 55 because it is as though you Israelites are my slaves, whom I, Yahweh your God, freed from being slaves in Egypt.'"
\s5
\c 26
\p
\v 1 Yahweh also said this to Moses on Mount Sinai, "Do not make idols or set up carved figures or sacred stones to worship as if they were God. And do not put on your property a stone that you have carved so you can bow down to it. You must worship only me, Yahweh, your God.
\p
@ -1821,7 +1766,6 @@
\v 12 I will live among you and continue to be your God, and you will continue to be my people.
\v 13 I am Yahweh your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt in order that you would no longer be slaves of the people of Egypt. When you were there, it was as though you were animals that were pulling plows for the people of Egypt, but I broke the bars of the yokes that they had put around your necks; I made you able to walk with your heads up.
\s5
\p
\v 14 But suppose you pay no attention to me; suppose you refuse to obey what I have told you to do.
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\v 35 During all the time that no one is in your land, it will be able to rest. This will be unlike you, who never allowed it to rest while you were there.
\p
\v 36 As for you people who will remain alive in the countries to which your enemies will have taken you, I will make you very afraid, so when you hear the wind blowing leaves, you will run away.
\s5
\v 37 You will run as if a man with a sword were chasing you, and you will fall down, even though no one is coming behind you. You will stumble over each other trying to flee. You will not be able to stand and fight your enemies.
\v 38 Many of you will die in your enemies' countries.
@ -1891,7 +1836,6 @@
\p
\v 46 Those are the commandments, the decrees, and the laws that Yahweh established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelite people by giving them to Moses to tell to them.
\s5
\c 27
\p
@ -1918,6 +1862,7 @@
\q2 ten pieces of silver for women who are more than sixty years old.
\p
\v 8 If anyone who has made such a solemn promise is very poor and unable to pay to set free the person whom he has given to Yahweh, he must take that person to the priest. The priest will set the price for freeing him to an amount that the person can pay.
\s5
\p
\v 9 If someone solemnly promises Yahweh to give him an animal that is acceptable to him, that animal becomes very special to Yahweh; it belongs to him alone.
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\s5
\p
\v 34 Those are the commands that Yahweh gave to Moses on Mount Sinai to tell to the people.

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\p
\v 1 In the second month of the year after the Israelite people had left Egypt, Yahweh spoke to Moses while he was in the sacred tent, in the wilderness of Sinai. Yahweh said to him,
\v 2 "Count how many Israelite men, from each family in Israel, and count them by name.
@ -201,8 +201,6 @@
\p
\v 34 The Israelites did everything that Yahweh had told Moses. They set up their tents close to their tribal flags, and when they traveled to a new location, they walked with their own clans and family groups.
\s5
\c 3
\p
@ -314,10 +312,8 @@
\v 50 The total was 1,365 pieces of silver. Each silver piece weighed the same as each of the silver pieces stored in the sacred tent.
\v 51 Moses gave these silver pieces to Aaron and his sons, as Yahweh had commanded.
\s5
\c 4
\p
\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses,
\v 2 "Write down the names of the men who belong to the clans descended from Kohath.
@ -359,7 +355,6 @@
\v 17 Then Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses,
\v 18-20 "When the descendants of Kohath approach the sacred items in the sacred tent to take them to another location, Aaron and his sons must always go in with them and show each of them what work to do and what things to carry. But the descendants of Kohath must not enter the sacred tent at any other time and look at the things that are in it. If they do that, I will get rid of all the descendants of Kohath."
\s5
\p
\v 21 Yahweh also said to Moses,
@ -376,7 +371,6 @@
\v 27 Aaron and his sons will supervise the work of all the descendants of Gershom. That work includes carrying those things and doing other work that is necessary for moving them. They must tell each of the descendants of Gershom what things they must carry.
\v 28 Those are the tasks that you must give to the men who belong to the clans descended from Gershom. Aaron's son Ithamar is the one who will supervise their work.
\s5
\p
\v 29 Count also the men who belong to the clans descended from Merari.
@ -389,7 +383,6 @@
\s5
\v 33 Those are the tasks that the descendants of Merari must do at the sacred tent. Aaron's son Ithamar is the one who will supervise them."
\s5
\p
\v 34 So Aaron and Moses and the Israelite leaders counted the descendants of Kohath, writing also the names of their clans and family groups.
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\s5
\v 49 They completed the counting of all the descendants of Levi, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. And they told each man what work he was to do and what things he must carry when they moved to a new location.
\s5
\c 5
\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses,
\v 2 "Tell this to the Israelite people: 'You must send away from your camp where you have your tents any man or woman who has leprosy and anyone who has a discharge of some fluid from his body, and anyone who has become unacceptable to God because of having touched a corpse.
@ -492,10 +483,8 @@
\s5
\v 31 Even if the woman has not done what the husband suspected, he will not be punished for doing something wrong by bringing his wife to the priest. But if his wife is guilty, she will suffer as a result.'"
\s5
\c 6
\p
\v 1 Yahweh also said this to Moses:
\v 2 "Tell this to the Israelite people: If any of you wants to make a solemn promise to dedicate himself to belong to me in a special way, after you obey these instructions, you will be called a Nazir, which means 'a dedicated person.'
@ -547,7 +536,6 @@
\p
\v 21 Those are the regulations about the offerings that Nazir solemnly promise to bring to me to end their time of being dedicated to me. They must bring these offerings, but if they want to, they may bring additional offerings. And they must do everything that they solemnly promised to do when they dedicated themselves to me."
\s5
\p
\v 22 Yahweh also said to Moses,
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\p
\v 27 Then Yahweh said, "If Aaron and his sons ask me to bless the Israelite people, truly I will bless them."
\s5
\c 7
\p
\v 1 When Moses had finished setting up the sacred tent, he poured oil on it, and set it apart for the honor of Yahweh. He also dedicated the things that are inside the sacred tent, and the altar for burning sacrifices, and all the things that would be used at the altar.
\v 2 Then the leaders of the twelve Israelite tribes, the same men who had helped Aaron and Moses to count the men who could fight in battles,
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\p
\v 89 Whenever Moses entered the sacred tent to talk with Yahweh, he heard Yahweh's voice speaking between the two images of creatures with wings that were above the lid of the sacred chest.
\s5
\c 8
\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses,
\v 2 "Tell Aaron to put the seven lamps on the lampstand and place them in such a way that they shine toward the front of the lampstand."
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\v 3 So Moses told him what Yahweh said, and he did that.
\v 4 The lampstand had been made from gold that had been hammered from one large lump of gold, from its base to the decorations at the top that resembled flowers. The lampstand was made exactly as Yahweh had told Moses that it should be made.
\s5
\p
\v 5 Yahweh also said to Moses,
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\s5
\v 16 They will belong to me. They will work for me as substitutes for the firstborn males of all the Israelites, who also belong to me.
\v 17 All the firstborn males in Israel, both the people and the animals, are mine. When I caused all the firstborn sons of the people of Egypt to die, I set them apart for myself. But I spared the firstborn of all males of the Israelites, of people and animals, because they are mine.
\s5
\v 18 But now I have chosen the descendants of Levi to take the places of the firsborn male sons of the other Israelites.
\v 19 I have appointed the descendants of Levi to help Aaron and his sons at the sacred tent, as Aaron and his sons offer the sacrifices to take away the guilt of the Israelite people's sins, and to prevent the Israelites from coming close to the tent with the result that a plague would cause many of them to become sick and die."
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\v 25 But after they become fifty years old, they must retire.
\v 26 They may help their fellow descendants of Levi do their work at the sacred tent, but they must not do the work themselves. That is what you must tell them about the work they will do."
\s5
\c 9
\p
\v 1 One year after the Israelites left Egypt, on the first month of the second year, while they were in the wilderness of Sinai, Yahweh said to Moses,
\v 2 "Tell the Israelite people that they must celebrate the Passover festival again.
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\p
\v 14 Settled foreigners who live among you must also celebrate the Passover festival and obey all my commands concerning it.'"
\s5
\p
\v 15-16 On the day that the sacred tent was set up, a cloud covered it. But from the time that the sun set until the time that the sun rose the next day, the cloud resembled a huge fire. And that is what happened every day that the Israelites were in the wilderness.
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\v 22 If the cloud stayed over the sacred tent for two days, or for a month, or for a year, during that time the people stayed where they were. But when the cloud rose up into the sky, they started to move.
\v 23 When Yahweh commanded them to stop and set up their tents, they did that. When he told them to move, they moved. They did whatever Yahweh told Moses they should do.
\s5
\c 10
\p
\v 1 Yahweh also told Moses,
\v 2 "Tell someone to make two trumpets by hammering each one from one lump of silver. Blow the trumpets to summon the people to come together and also to signal that they must move their tents to a new location.
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\s5
\v 10 Also tell the priests to blow the trumpets when the people are happy, and at the festivals each year, and at the times when they celebrate the new moon each month. Tell them to blow the trumpets when the people bring offerings that will be completely burned, and when they bring offerings to restore fellowship with me. If they do that, it will help you to think about me. You must do that, because I am Yahweh your God."
\s5
\p
\v 11 In the second year after the Israelites left Egypt, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud rose up from above the sacred tent.
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\v 36 And each time the men stopped to set down the sacred chest, Moses said,
\q1 "Yahweh, stay close to the multiplied thousands of us Israelites!"
\s5
\c 11
\p
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\v 2 Then the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to Yahweh. Then the fire stopped burning.
\v 3 So they called that place Taberah, which means 'Burning,' because the fire from Yahweh had burned among them.
\s5
\p
\v 4 Then some troublemakers from other peoples who were traveling with the Israelites began to want better food. And when they started complaining the Israelite people also started to complain. They said, "We wish we had some meat to eat!
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\p
\v 35 From there, the Israelites continued walking east until they arrived at Hazeroth, where they stopped and stayed for a long time.
\s5
\c 12
\p
\v 1-2 Moses' older sister Miriam and his older brother Aaron were jealous of Moses and said, "Is Moses the only one to whom Yahweh has spoken messages to tell to us? Does Yahweh not speak messages through us two also?" They also criticized Moses because he had married a woman who was a descendant of the Cush people . And Yahweh heard Miriam and Aaron complaining about Moses.
\p
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\p
\v 16 But after she returned, they left Hazeroth and moved north in the Paran Desert and set up their tents there.
\s5
\c 13
\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses,
\v 2 "Send some men to Canaan to explore it. That is the land that I will give to you Israelites. Send men who are leaders in their tribes."
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\s5
\v 25 After they explored the land for forty days, they returned to their camp.
\p
\v 26 They came to Aaron and Moses and the rest of the Israelite people in the wilderness at Paran. They reported to everyone what they had seen. They also showed them the fruit that they had brought back.
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\v 32 So those men gave to the Israelite people a bad report about the land that they had explored. They said, "The land that we explored destroys the life those who try to attack it. And all the people living there are very tall.
\v 33 We also saw giants there. They are the descendants of Anak (who come from the Nephilim, those giant people). When we saw these giants we felt as small as grasshoppers and they thought that we looked like grasshoppers too."
\s5
\c 14
\p
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\v 44 But even though Moses did not leave the camp, and the sacred chest that contained the Ten Commandments was not taken from the camp, the people began to go toward the hill country in Canaan.
\v 45 Then the descendants of Amalek and Canaan who lived in those hills came down and attacked them; they chased them as far south as Hormah.
\s5
\c 15
\p
\v 1 Then Yahweh told Moses,
\v 2 "Tell this to the Israelite people, 'When you arrive in the land that I am giving to you,
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\v 20 Each year set aside some of the first grain that you gather after you have threshed it. Bake a loaf of bread from the first flour that you grind and present it before me as a sacred offering.
\v 21 Every year, you and your descendants must continue to make and present to me a loaf of bread baked with flour from the first part of the grain that you harvest.
\s5
\p
\v 22 There may be times when you Israelites do not obey all these instructions that I have given to Moses to tell you, but not because you intended to disobey them.
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\v 30 But those who disobey my commands deliberately, both Israelites and the foreigners who live among you, have sinned against me by doing that. So they must be expelled from your camp.
\v 31 They have despised my commands and deliberately disobeyed them, so they must be punished for their sin by never being allowed to live among you again.'"
\s5
\p
\v 32 One day, while the Israelites were in the wilderness, some of them saw a man who was gathering firewood on the Sabbath day.
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\v 35 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "The man must be executed. All of you must kill him by throwing stones at him outside the camp."
\v 36 So they all took the man outside the camp and killed him by throwing stones at him, as Yahweh had commanded Moses that they should do.
\s5
\p
\v 37 Yahweh also said to Moses,
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\v 40 Seeing those tassels will help you to remember that you must obey all my commands and that you must be my holy people.
\v 41 Do not forget that I am Yahweh, your God. I am the one who brought you out of Egypt in order that you might belong to me. I am Yahweh, your God.'"
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\c 16
\p
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\v 49 But 14,700 people had already died from that plague, in addition to the people who died with Korah.
\v 50 Then after the plague had ended, Aaron and Moses returned to the entrance of the sacred tent.
\s5
\c 17
\p
\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses,
\v 2 "Tell the Israelite people to bring to you twelve walking sticks. They should bring one from each of the leaders of the twelve tribes. You should carve each leader's name on his stick.
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\v 12 Then the Israelite people said to Moses, "We are going to die! All of us are surely going to die!
\v 13 Everyone who comes close to Yahweh's sacred tent dies. Are the rest of us going to die, also?"
\s5
\c 18
\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You and your sons and the other members of your father's family are the ones who will be punished if anything bad happens to the things inside the sacred tent. And you and your sons will be punished if any priest does something bad.
\v 2 Require that those who belong to your tribe, the tribe of Levi, must assist you and your sons while you perform your work at the sacred tent.
@ -1505,7 +1465,6 @@
\v 6 I myself have chosen the descendants of Levi from the other Israelites in order that they may be your special helpers. They are like a gift that I have given you to work at the sacred tent.
\v 7 But it is you and your sons, who are the priests, who must perform all the details I have commanded concerning the altar and with what happens inside the Very Holy Place. I am giving to you this work of serving as priests. So anyone else who tries to do that work must be executed."
\s5
\p
\v 8 Yahweh also said to Aaron, "I myself have appointed you to take care of all the sacred offerings that the Israelite people bring to me. I have given all these sacred offerings to you and to your sons. You and your descendants will get a share of these offerings permanently.
@ -1562,10 +1521,8 @@
\v 31 You descendants of Levi and your families are permitted to eat the rest of that food, and you may eat it wherever you want to, because it is your payment for the work that you do at the sacred tent.
\v 32 If you give to the priests the best portions of what you receive, you will not be punished by me for accepting one tenth of the gifts that the people bring to me. But you must consider those gifts to be sacred. If you sin by eating those things in ways that are contrary to these regulations that I have given to you, you will be executed.'"
\s5
\c 19
\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses,
\v 2 "I am now giving to you another regulation. Tell the Israelite people to bring to you one reddish brown cow that has no defects. It must be an animal that has never been used for plowing ground.
@ -1611,10 +1568,8 @@
\p
\v 22 Anything and any person that someone who has become unacceptable to me has touched will remain unacceptable to me until that evening."
\s5
\c 20
\p
\v 1 In the first month of the next year, the Israelite people traveled to the wilderness of Zin and camped near Kadesh. While they were there, Moses' sister Miriam died and was buried there.
@ -1647,7 +1602,6 @@
\p
\v 13 Later this place was called the Meribah, which means 'arguing', because there the Israelite people argued against Yahweh, and there he showed his honor and holiness to them by giving them water.
\s5
\p
\v 14 While the people were at Kadesh, Moses sent messengers to the king of Edom to tell him this,
@ -1671,7 +1625,6 @@
\p
\v 21 So, because the king of Edom refused to allow the Israelites to travel through his country, the Israelites turned and traveled a different way.
\s5
\p
\v 22 The Israelite people left Kadesh. They went to Mount Hor,
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\v 28 At the top of the mountain, Moses took off the clothes that Aaron wore while he did the work of a priest and put them on Eleazar. Then Aaron died there on the top of the mountain, and Eleazar and Moses went back down.
\v 29 When the Israelite people realized that Aaron had died, they all mourned for him for thirty days.
\s5
\c 21
\p
@ -1793,7 +1745,6 @@
\p
\v 35 And that is what happened. The Israelites defeated Og's army, and killed King Og and his sons and all his people. Not a person survived! And then the Israelites began to live in their land.
\s5
\c 22
\p
@ -1847,7 +1798,6 @@
\p
\v 20 That night God appeared to Balaam again and said to him, "These men have come to request that you go back with them, so you may go with them, but do only what I tell you to do!"
\s5
\p
\v 21 So the next morning, Balaam put a saddle on his donkey and he departed with two of his servants along with the men from Moab.
@ -1901,10 +1851,8 @@
\s5
\v 41 They slept there, and the next morning Balak took Balaam part way up the mountain to Bamoth Baal village. From there, they could see some of the Israelite people who were down below.
\s5
\c 23
\p
\v 1 Balaam said to King Balak, "Build here seven altars for me. Then kill seven young bulls and seven rams for a sacrifice."
\v 2 So Balak did that. And then he and Balaam each burned a young bull and a ram as a sacrifice on each altar.
@ -1949,7 +1897,6 @@
\p
\v 12 But Balaam replied, "I can say only what Yahweh tells me to say. I cannot say anything else."
\s5
\p
\v 13 Then King Balak told Balaam, "Come with me to another place. There you will see only part of the Israelite people, and you will be able to curse those people for me."
@ -2007,7 +1954,6 @@
\v 25 Then Balak said to Balaam, "If you will not curse them, then I certainly do not want you to bless them!"
\p
\v 26 But Balaam replied, "I told you that I must do only what Yahweh tells me to do!"
\p
\v 27 Then King Balak said to Balaam, "Come with me; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to allow you to curse them from that place."
@ -2017,7 +1963,6 @@
\v 29 Balaam again told Balak, "Build me seven altars again and kill seven young bulls and seven rams for a sacrifice."
\v 30 So Balak did what Balaam told him to do. He burned a young bull and a ram on each altar as sacrifices.
\s5
\c 24
\p
@ -2079,7 +2024,6 @@
\v 13 'Even if Balak would give me a palace filled with silver and gold, I would not disobey Yahweh. I cannot do anything bad or anything that is good that he does not approve of.' And I told you that I could say only what Yahweh says to me.
\v 14 So yes, I will return to my people, but first, allow me to tell you what will happen to you Moab people in the future."
\s5
\p
\v 15 Then Balaam said this to Balak:
@ -2109,7 +2053,6 @@
\v 19 A ruler will come who is a descendant of Jacob.
\q2 He will get rid of the people who still live in the city where Balaam first met Balak."
\s5
\p
\v 20 Then Balaam looked out over where the Amalek people lived, and he prophesied this,
@ -2138,10 +2081,8 @@
\p
\v 25 Then Balaam and Balak returned to their homes.
\s5
\c 25
\p
\v 1 While the Israelites were camped at a place called Acacia Grove, some of the men became unfaithful to God by sleeping with some of the women of the Moab people who lived in that area.
\v 2 Then those women invited the men to come when the sacrifices were being offered to their gods. The Israelite men accepted. They went to the feasts with the women and worshiped the gods of the Moab people .
@ -2182,10 +2123,8 @@
\v 17 "Take your men and attack the Midian people and kill them.
\v 18 They have become your enemies, because they tricked you Israelite people and induced many of you to worship Baal, and because one of your men slept with Kozbi, who was the daughter of a leader of the Midian people . She was killed at the time the plague started because of the people who sinned at Mount Peor."
\s5
\c 26
\p
\v 1 After the plague ended, Yahweh said to Eleazar and Moses,
\v 2 "Count all the people of Israel again. Write down the names of all the men who are at least 20 years old who are able to fight in battles, along with their family names."
@ -2203,6 +2142,7 @@
\li the Hezronites descended from his son Hezron,
\li the Carmites descended from his son Carmi.
\pi The Israelite leaders counted 43,730 men from the tribe of Reuben.
\s5
\v 8 Pallu's son was Eliab
\v 9 and his grandsons were Nemuel, Dathan and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram were the leaders who joined with Korah to conspire against Aaron and Moses and rebelled against Yahweh.
@ -2233,6 +2173,7 @@
\li the Arodites descended from his son Arod,
\li the Arelites descended from his son Areli.
\pi The Israelite leaders counted 40,500 men from the tribe of Gad.
\s5
\pi
\v 19-22 Judah's sons, Er and Onan, died in Canaan before they had any children. These are the descendants of Judah:
@ -2311,6 +2252,7 @@
\v 42-43 These are the descendants of Dan:
\li the Shuhamites descended from his son Shuhman,
\pi The Israelite leaders counted 64,400 men from the tribe of Dan.
\s5
\pi
\v 44-47 These are the descendants of Asher:
@ -2365,16 +2307,15 @@
\s5
\v 65 They were told what Yahweh had said. He said, "They will all die in this desert," and that is what happened. The only ones who were still alive were Jephunneh's son Caleb and Nun's son Joshua.
\s5
\c 27
\p
\v 1 One day the five daughters of Zelophehad came to Moses. They were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah, and Tirzah.
\s5
\v 2 They came to the entrance of the sacred tent and stood in front of Eleazar, Moses, the tribal leaders, and many other Israelite people.
\v 3 They said, "Our father died during the time that we were in the desert, and he did not have any sons. But he was not among those who supported Korah, who rebelled against Yahweh, and he died because of his own sin. He did not have any sons.
\s5
\v 4 Why should the name of his clan disappear because our father had no sons? So give us some land like our father's relatives will be getting!"
\p
@ -2391,7 +2332,6 @@
\v 10 If the man had no brothers, give to his father's brothers the things that his sons or daughters or brothers would have inherited.
\v 11 If the man's father has no brothers, give to his closest relative the things that the others would have inherited.' That will be a rule for the Israelite people, because I am giving this as a command to you, Moses, to tell them."
\s5
\p
\v 12 One day, Yahweh said to Moses, "Climb to the top of the Abarim mountains east of the Jordan River. Then look out over the land that I am giving to the Israelite people.
@ -2403,6 +2343,7 @@
\v 15 Then Moses said this to Yahweh,
\v 16 "Yahweh, you are the God who directs the spirits of all people. So please appoint a new leader for the Israelite people.
\v 17 Appoint someone who will lead your people when they go to fight a battle, so that they will not just wander around like sheep that do not have a shepherd."
\s5
\p
\v 18 Yahweh replied, "Get Joshua son of Nun, who has my Spirit within him. Lay your hands on him to appoint him.
@ -2417,10 +2358,8 @@
\v 22 So Moses did what Yahweh commanded. He presented Joshua to Eleazar and to all the Israelite people.
\v 23 Moses laid his hands on him and commissioned him to do the work that Yahweh told Moses to tell him to do.
\s5
\c 28
\p
\v 1 Yahweh said this to Moses,
\v 2 "Tell this to the Israelite people, 'Bring to me the offerings that will be burned on the altar. When they are burned, the smell will be very pleasing to me. And tell them that they must bring them at the proper time.
@ -2435,13 +2374,11 @@
\v 7 When they burn each lamb, they must also pour on the sacred altar in the holy place one liter of wine.
\v 8 In the evening, when they offer the second lamb, they must also bring the same offerings of flour and wine as they burned in the morning. When they are burned, the smell will also be very pleasing to me.
\s5
\p
\v 9 On each Sabbath, you must bring two male lambs that have no defects. Also bring a flour offering of four and one-half liters of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil and a wine offering of four and one-half liters of wine.
\v 10 Those are the offerings that are to be burned on the altar each Sabbath. Those are in addition to the offerings of two lambs and wine that you must bring each day.
\s5
\p
\v 11 On the first day of each month you must bring to me an offering of two young bulls, one male sheep, and seven male lambs that are one year old. All of these must be without defects. They must all be burned completely on the altar.
@ -2452,7 +2389,6 @@
\v 14 With each bull also bring two liters of wine. With each male sheep, bring one and one-fifth liters of wine. With each lamb bring one liter of wine. These offerings must be brought on the first day of each month and burned completely on the altar.
\v 15 In addition to these offerings that you burn, you must bring to me one goat for an offering to remove the guilt of your sins.
\s5
\p
\v 16 The Passover festival must be celebrated to honor me each year on the fourteenth day of your first month.
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\v 24 The smell of the grain that is burned on the altar each day for seven days will be very pleasing to me. Bring the grain in addition to the animals and the wine that you burn on the altar.
\v 25 On the seventh day of that festival, you must again gather together to worship me, and you must not do any regular work that you would normally do.
\s5
\p
\v 26 On the day of the Harvest festival, when you bring to me the first grain that you have harvested, you must gather together to worship me. Do not do any regular work that you would normally do on that day.
\v 27 Bring to me two young bulls, one male sheep, and seven male lambs that are one year old. When they are completely burned on the altar, the smell will be very pleasing to me.
\v 28 Also bring a flour offering of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil. For each bull bring five and three-quarters of a liter, and with each male sheep bring three and four-fifths liters.
\s5
\v 29 For each of the lambs bring two liters.
\v 30 Also sacrifice one male goat to make atonement for your sins.
\v 31 Bring these offerings and the offering of wine in addition to the animals and flour that you burn on the altar each day. And remember that the animals that you sacrifice must have no defects.'"
\s5
\c 29
\p
\v 1 "Each year, gather together to worship me on the first day of your seventh month, and do not do any regular work that you would normally do on that day. On that day the priests must blow their trumpets.
@ -2500,7 +2434,6 @@
\s5
\v 6 All of those animals will be in addition to the animals that are completely burned on the altar each morning and on the first day of each month. The offerings of flour and wine must be made exactly as I have decreed that you are to do. When these offerings are burned, the smell will be very pleasing to me.
\s5
\p
\v 7 "Each year, on the tenth day of your seventh month, you must gather together to worship me. Do not eat any food or do any work on that day.
@ -2572,10 +2505,8 @@
\p
\v 40 Then Moses told to the Israelite people all the things that Yahweh had commanded him.
\s5
\c 30
\p
\v 1 Moses spoke with the leaders of the Israelite tribes. He told them these commands that Yahweh had given to him:
\p
@ -2588,10 +2519,10 @@
\s5
\v 5 And if her father hears about all she promised to do, but he says nothing to her, then she must keep all the promises she made.
\s5
\s5
\p
\v 6 If her father overrules her on the day he hears all the vows she made and her solemn promises with which she has bound herself, then they will stand. Yahweh will forgive her because her father had overruled her.
\v 7 If she marries a husband while under the vows, or she makes rash utterances by which she obligates herself, they will stand.
\s5
@ -2616,10 +2547,8 @@
\p
\v 16 Those are the rules that Yahweh gave to Moses for husbands and wives, and for young women who are still living with their parents.
\s5
\c 31
\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
\v 2 "Tell the Israelite people that they should pay back the Midian people for what they did to you. After that happens, you will die."
@ -2667,7 +2596,6 @@
\v 23 Put everything that will not burn into the fire, and then they will be acceptable for you to use. But also sprinkle those things with the water that causes things and people to become acceptable to God. The things that would burn if you put them in a fire, sprinkle them with that water.
\v 24 On the seventh day, wash your clothes, and then you will become acceptable to God again. After you do that, you may return to the camp."
\s5
\p
\v 25 Yahweh also said to Moses,
@ -2720,10 +2648,8 @@
\v 53 Each soldier had taken these things for himself.
\v 54 Eleazar and Moses accepted these gold items from these commanders and put them in the sacred tent to remind the Israelite people about how Yahweh had helped them defeat the Midian people .
\s5
\c 32
\p
\v 1 The people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad had a lot of livestock. They saw that the land near the city of Jazer and the region of Gilead east of the Jordan River had good grass for the animals to graze on.
\v 2 So their leaders came to Eleazar and the leaders of the people and Moses. They said,
@ -2810,7 +2736,6 @@
\v 41 Jair, who was also a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured the small towns in that region, and he named them the Towns of Jair.
\v 42 A man named Nobah went and captured the city of Kenath and the nearby towns, and then he used his own name to be the new name of that area.
\s5
\c 33
\p
@ -2952,10 +2877,8 @@
\v 55 If you do not force the people who live there to leave, they will cause you to have much trouble. They will be like sharp hooks in your eyes, and like thorns in your sides. And they will bring trouble to you, in that land where you will be living.
\v 56 And then I will punish you, as I had planned to punish them.'"
\s5
\c 34
\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses,
\v 2 "Tell this to the Israelite people, 'You will soon enter Canaan land, and it will become yours. The following will be the borders of the land.
@ -3026,7 +2949,6 @@
\p
\v 29 Yahweh commanded that all those were the men who should divide the region of Canaan among the Israelite people.
\s5
\c 35
\p
@ -3041,7 +2963,6 @@
\s5
\v 5 Also measure 920 meters in each direction out from the walls of each city. That additional land will be land for their animals outside the walls of the cities.
\s5
\p
\v 6 Six of the cities that you give to the descendants of Levi will be cities to which people can run to be safe. If someone accidentally kills someone else, the one who killed that person may run to one of those cities to be safe.
@ -3105,10 +3026,8 @@
\v 33 You must execute people who truly murder others. If you did not do that, you would be causing the people who live in the land to become unacceptable to me. Anyone who deliberately kills an innocent person must be executed.
\v 34 I am Yahweh, and I live among you Israelites, so do not spoil the land by allowing people to murder others without being punished.'"
\s5
\c 36
\p
\v 1 The family leaders of the clan of Gilead of the tribe of Manasseh went to Moses and the other family leaders of the Israelite people.
\v 2 They said to Moses, "Yahweh commanded you, our leader, to apportion the land to the Israelite tribes by casting lots to decide which group would get which area. Yahweh also commanded you to give the land that belonged to our fellow Israelite Zelophehad to his daughters.
@ -3138,4 +3057,3 @@
\s5
\p
\v 13 Those were the commands and decrees that Yahweh gave to Moses to tell to the Israelites, while they were on the plains of Moab, close to the Jordan River, across from Jericho.

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\v 45 So your ancestors went back to Kadesh Barnea and cried out to request Yahweh to help them, but he did not listen to them. He did not pay any attention to them.
\v 46 So we stayed there at Kadesh Barnea for a long time."
\s5
\c 2
\p
@ -129,6 +128,7 @@
\v 6 When you travel near their land, buy food and water from them.'
\p
\v 7 Do not forget that Yahweh our God has blessed you in everything that you have done. He knows what has happened to you while you have wandered in this huge desert. But he has been with you during those forty years, and as a result you have had everything that you needed.
\s5
\p
\v 8 So we continued to travel. We avoided going through the hill country where the descendants of Esau live. We turned from the road that goes along the plain of the Jordan valley, and comes up from Ezion Geber and Elath, and we traveled along the desert road of Moab.
@ -199,7 +199,6 @@
\v 36 Yahweh our God enabled us to capture all their towns from Aroer in the south, which is at the edge of the Arnon River Valley, to the region of Gilead in the north. Some of their cities had walls around them, but we were still able to capture them.
\v 37 But we did not go near the area where the Ammon people live, or the banks of the Jabbok River, or the towns of the hill country, or any other place where Yahweh our God told us not to go."
\s5
\c 3
\p
@ -254,7 +253,6 @@
\v 21 And I told Joshua, 'You have seen everything that Yahweh our God did to those two kings, Sihon and Og. He will do the same thing to the people who are now in the land that you will be entering.
\v 22 Do not be afraid of those people, because Yahweh our God is the one who will fight for you all.'"
\s5
\p
\v 23 "At that time, I earnestly prayed, saying
@ -271,7 +269,6 @@
\p
\v 29 So we remained in the Jordan River valley close to the town of Beth Peor."
\s5
\c 4
\p
@ -305,7 +302,6 @@
\v 13 And he declared to them his covenant that he wants you also to obey. He gave them the Ten Commandments. He wrote those on two stone tablets.
\v 14 Yahweh commanded me to teach all the rules and regulations to you, in order that you would obey them in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.
\s5
\p
\v 15 On the day that Yahweh spoke to your ancestors at Mount Sinai, they did not see him. So be careful!
@ -342,7 +338,6 @@
\v 30 In the future, when you are being mistreated there and all those bad things happen to you, you will again worship only Yahweh and obey him.
\v 31 Yahweh is a God who acts mercifully. If you continue to obey him, he will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the agreement that he solemnly made with your ancestors."
\s5
\p
\v 32 "Now think about the past, about the time before you were born, about all the time since God first created people here on the earth. You could search everywhere, in heaven and on the earth. Has anything like this ever happened that is as great as what Yahweh did for us Israelite people?
@ -365,14 +360,12 @@
\v 39 So today you should think about the fact that Yahweh is God, that he rules in heaven and also on the earth, and that there is no other god.
\v 40 Obey all the rules and regulations that I am giving to you today, in order that things will go well for you and for your descendants, and that you will live a long time in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, for it to belong to you forever."
\s5
\p
\v 41 Then Moses chose three cities that are on the east side of the Jordan River.
\v 42 If someone accidentally killed another person, a person who had not been his enemy previously, he could escape to one of those cities. He would be safe in one of those cities because the people there would protect him.
\v 43 For the tribe of Reuben, Moses chose the city of Bezer in the wilderness; for the tribe of Gad, he chose the city of Ramoth in the region of Gilead. For the tribe of Manasseh, Moses chose the city of Golan in the region of Bashan.
\s5
\p
\v 44 Moses gave God's laws to the Israelite people.
@ -384,10 +377,8 @@
\v 48 Their land extended from the city of Aroer in the south along the Arnon River, as far north as Mount Sirion, which most people call Mount Hermon.
\v 49 It also included all the area in the plain east of the Jordan River valley, extending to the Sea of Arabah (known as the Dead Sea) and east to the slopes of Mount Pisgah.
\s5
\c 5
\p
\v 1 Moses summoned all the people of Israel and said to them,
\p "You Israelite people, listen to all the rules and decrees that I am giving to you today. Learn them and be sure to obey them.
@ -410,6 +401,7 @@
\q
\v 9 You must not bow down to any idol and worship it, because I am Yahweh God, and I will not tolerate you doing that. I will punish anyone who does that, and their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.
\v 10 But I will steadfastly love thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my commandments.
\s5
\q
\v 11 Do not speak my name carelessly or for wrong purposes, because I am Yahweh God, the one whom you should worship, and I will certainly punish those who do that.
@ -471,10 +463,8 @@
\v 32 So I went back down to the people and said to them, 'Be sure that you do everything that Yahweh our God has commanded us to do. Do not disobey any of his laws.
\v 33 Conduct your lives as Yahweh our God has commanded us to do, in order that you may live a long time, and in order that things will go well for you when you are living in the land that you will occupy.'"
\s5
\c 6
\p
\v 1 "These are the commandments and rules and decrees that Yahweh our God commanded me to teach to you. He wants you to obey them in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.
\v 2 He wants you to honor him, and he wants you and your descendants to always obey all these rules and regulations that I am giving to you, in order that you may live for a long time.
@ -526,10 +516,8 @@
\v 24 And he commanded us to obey all these laws and to honor him, so that things would go well with us, and so that he would protect our nation and enable us to prosper, as he is doing now.
\v 25 Yahweh our God will approve of us if we carefully obey everything that he has commanded us to do.'"
\s5
\c 7
\p
\v 1 "Yahweh our God will bring you to the land that you will soon enter and occupy. As you advance, he will drive out from that land seven peoples that are more powerful and more numerous than you are. These are the Heth, the Girgash, the Amor, the Canaan, the Periz, the Hiv, and the Jebus peoples.
@ -585,16 +573,15 @@
\v 25 You must burn the carved figures that represent their gods. Do not desire to take the silver or gold decorations that are on those idols, because if you take them for yourselves, they will be like a trap to catch you. Yahweh hates every part of those idols.
\v 26 You must not bring any of those disgusting idols into your houses, because if you do that, God will curse you like he curses them. You must hate and despise those idols, because they are things that Yahweh has cursed and he promises to destroy them."
\s5
\c 8
\p
\v 1 "You must faithfully obey all the commandments that I am giving you today. If you do that, you will live a long time, you will become very numerous, and your people will occupy the land that Yahweh solemnly promised your ancestors that he would give to you.
\v 2 And do not forget how Yahweh our God led us as we traveled through the desert during these past forty years. He caused you to have many problems, because he wanted to cause you to realize that you needed to trust him and not yourselves. And he wanted to test you, to find out what you intended to do, whether you would obey his commandments or not.
\s5
\v 3 So he caused you to have difficulties. He allowed you to become hungry. Then he gave you manna, food from heaven, food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before. He did that to teach you that people need food for their bodies, but they also need food for their spirits, which comes from paying attention to everything that Yahweh says.
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\v 4 During those forty years, our clothes did not wear out, and our feet did not swell from walking through the desert.
\v 5 Do not forget that Yahweh our God corrects us and punishes us, like parents correct their children.
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\v 19 I solemnly warn you, that if you forget Yahweh our God and turn to other gods and start to bow down to them and worship them, he will certainly destroy you.
\v 20 If you do not obey Yahweh our God, he will certainly destroy you just like he will destroy the peoples that you will fight against.
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\c 9
\p
\v 1 You people of Israel, listen to me! You will soon cross the Jordan River. In the land that you will enter, there are large cities that have very high walls around them that seem to extend up to the sky. There are peoples in that land that are more numerous and more powerful than you are.
\v 2 Those people are very tall and strong. Some of them are giants who are descendants of Anak. You know about them, and you have heard people say that no one can defeat the descendants of Anak.
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\v 3 I want you to know that Yahweh our God will go ahead of you. He will be like a raging fire. While you advance, he will defeat and destroy them. As a result, you will quickly be able to drive out some of them and kill the others, which is what Yahweh promised that you would do.
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\v 6 I want you to know that it is not because you are righteous that Yahweh our God is giving you this good land. I say that because you are not righteous; you are a very stubborn people."
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\p
\v 7 "Never forget what your ancestors did in the desert that caused Yahweh our God to become angry. From the day that we left Egypt until the day that we arrived here, you also have continually rebelled against him.
\v 8 Even at Mount Sinai your ancestors caused Yahweh to become angry. Because he was very angry, he was ready to get rid of all of them.
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\p
\v 25 So, as I said, I lay on the ground in Yahweh's presence for forty days and nights, because Yahweh had said that he would destroy your ancestors.
\v 26 And I prayed to Yahweh, saying, 'Lord Yahweh, these people belong to you; do not destroy them. They are people whom you rescued and brought out of Egypt by your very great power.
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\v 27 Do not forget what you promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Ignore how stubborn and wicked these people have been, and the sin that they have committed.
\v 28 If you do not do that, and if you destroy them, the people of Egypt will hear about it and say that you were not able to bring them into the land that you promised to give to them. They will say that you took them into the desert only to kill them there because you hated them.
\v 29 Do not forget that they are your people. You chose them to belong to you. You brought them out from Egypt by your very great power.'"
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\c 10
\p
\v 1 "Then Yahweh said to me, 'Cut two stone tablets like the first ones. And make a wooden chest to put them in. Then bring the tablets up to me on this mountain.
\v 2 I will write on those tablets the same words that I wrote on the first tablets, the ones that you broke. Then you can put them in the chest.'
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\v 10 Moses continued to speak: "I stayed on the mountain forty days and nights, just like I did the first time. I prayed to Yahweh, and he answered my prayers again and said that he would not destroy your ancestors.
\v 11 Then Yahweh said to me, 'Continue your journey, going in front of the people, to occupy the land that I solemnly promised your ancestors that I would give to you.'"
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\p
\v 12 "Now, you Israelite people, I will tell you what Yahweh our God says that you do. He requires you to honor him, to conduct your lives as he wants you to, to love him, and to serve him with all that you desire and all that you feel,
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\v 22 When our ancestors, Jacob and his family, went down to Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now Yahweh our God has caused us to be as numerous as the stars in the sky."
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\c 11
\p
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\v 31 "You will soon cross the Jordan River to occupy the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you. When you enter that land and start to live there,
\v 32 be sure to obey all the rules and decrees that I am giving to you today."
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\c 12
\p
\v 1 "I will now tell you the rules and decrees that you must faithfully obey in the land that Yahweh, the God whom our ancestors worshiped, is giving to you to occupy. You must obey these laws all the time that you are alive.
\v 2 When you drive out those peoples whose land you will take, you must destroy all the places where they worshiped their gods, places on the tops of mountains and hills and beside large trees.
@ -908,10 +888,8 @@
\p
\v 32 Be sure to do everything that I have commanded you to do. Do not add anything to these commands, and do not take anything away from them.
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\c 13
\p
\v 1 Possibly there will be people among you who say that they are prophets. They may say that they are able to interpret the meaning of dreams or perform various kinds of miracles.
\v 2 They will say those things in order to induce you to worship gods that you have never known about before. But even if what they predict happens,
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\v 17 You must not take for yourselves anything that Yahweh has said must be destroyed, because if you do what I say, Yahweh will stop being angry with you, and he will act mercifully toward you. And he will cause you to have many children, which is what he promised our ancestors that he would do.
\v 18 Yahweh our God will do all those things if you do what he is telling you to do, and if you obey all the commandments that I am giving to you today and do what Yahweh says is right for you to do.
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\c 14
\p
\v 1 We are people who belong to Yahweh our God. So when people die, do not show that you are grieving by gashing yourselves or by shaving the hair on your foreheads like the other peoples do.
\v 2 We belong to Yahweh alone. Yahweh chose us from all the other peoples on the earth to be his special people.
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\v 21 Do not eat any animal that has died naturally. You may allow foreigners who live among you to eat those things, or you may sell them to other foreigners. But you belong to Yahweh our God; those who belong to him are not permitted to eat the flesh of animals whose blood has not been drained out.
\p You must not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk."
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\p
\v 22 "Once each year you must set apart a tenth of all the crops that are produced in your fields.
@ -1015,10 +990,8 @@
\v 28 At the end of every three years, bring a tithe of all your crops that have been produced in that year and store it in your towns.
\v 29 That food will be for the descendants of Levi, because they will not have their own land, and for the foreigners who live among you, and for orphans and widows who live in your towns. They are permitted to come to where the food is stored and take what they need. Do that in order that Yahweh our God will bless you in everything that you do.
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\c 15
\p
\v 1 At the end of every seven years, you must cancel all debts.
\v 2 Do it like this: Each of you who has lent money to a fellow Israelite must cancel that debt. You must not insist that he pay it back. You must do that because Yahweh has declared that the debts must be canceled every seven years.
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\v 9 Be sure that you do not say to yourself, 'The year when debts will be canceled is near, so I do not want to lend anyone any money now, because he will not need to pay it back when that year comes.' It would be evil to even think that. If you act in an unfriendly way toward a needy fellow Israelite, and give him nothing, he will cry out to Yahweh against you, and Yahweh will say that you have sinned by not helping that person.
\v 10 Give freely to poor people and give generously. If you do that, Yahweh will bless you in everything that you do.
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\v 11 There will always be some poor people in your land, so I command you to give generously to poor people, to your fellow Israelites.
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\p
\v 12 If any of your fellow Israelite men or women sell themselves to one of you to become your slave, you must free them after they have worked for you for six years. When the seventh year comes, you must free them.
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\p
\v 18 Do not complain when you are required to free your slaves. Keep in mind that they served you for six years, and that you paid them only half as much as you pay the servants that you hire. If you free them, Yahweh our God will bless you in everything that you do.
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\p
\v 19 Set aside for the honor of Yahweh our God the firstborn male animals from your cattle and sheep. Do not force them to do any work for you, and do not shear the wool of the firstborn animals.
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\v 22 You may kill and eat the meat of those animals in your towns. Those who have done things that cause them to become unacceptable to God and those who have not done such things are permitted to eat that meat, just like anyone is permitted to eat the meat of a gazelle or a deer.
\v 23 But you must not eat any of the blood; you must drain all the blood on the ground when you kill those animals.
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\c 16
\p
\v 1 Each year honor Yahweh our God by celebrating the Passover Festival in the month of Aviv in early spring. It was on a night in that month that Yahweh rescued your ancestors from Egypt.
\v 2 In order to celebrate that festival, go to the place that Yahweh will choose for you to worship him, and offer there one young animal from your cattle or your sheep to be the Passover sacrifice.
@ -1087,7 +1057,6 @@
\v 7 Boil the meat and eat it at the place of worship that Yahweh our God chooses. The next morning, you may return to your tents.
\v 8 Each day for six days the bread that you eat must have no yeast in it. On the seventh day, you must all gather to worship Yahweh our God. It will be a day of rest, you must not do any work on that day.
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\p
\v 9 Each year, from the day that you start to harvest your grain, count seven weeks.
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\p
\v 12 When you celebrate these festivals by obeying these commands, remember that your ancestors were slaves in Egypt.
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\p
\v 13 Each year, after you have threshed all your grain and pressed the juice from all your grapes, you must celebrate the Festival of Shelters for seven days.
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\v 16 So, each year all of you Israelite men must gather to worship Yahweh our God at the place that he will choose, to celebrate three festivals: The Festival of Bread with no Yeast, the Festival of Pentecost, and the Festival of Shelters. No one should come before Yahweh without an offering. Each of you men must bring an offering for Yahweh to these festivals.
\v 17 The offerings should be in proportion to the blessings that Yahweh has given you during that year.
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\p
\v 18 Appoint judges and other officials throughout your tribes, in all the towns in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you. They must judge people fairly.
\v 19 They must not judge unjustly. They must not favor one person more than another. The judges must not accept bribes, because if a judge accepts a bribe, even if he is wise and honest, it will be very difficult for him to judge fairly; he will do what the person who gave him the bribe wants him to do and declare that the innocent people must be punished.
\v 20 You must be completely fair and just, in order that you may live long enough to occupy the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you.
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\p
\v 21 When you make an altar to worship Yahweh our God, do not put next to it any wooden pole that represents the goddess Asherah.
\v 22 And do not set up any stone pillar to worship any idol, because Yahweh hates them.
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\c 17
\p
\v 1 Do not sacrifice to Yahweh our God any cattle or sheep or goats that have any defects, because Yahweh detests that kind of gift.
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\p
\v 2 When you are living in any of the towns in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, suppose some man or woman sins by disobeying the covenant that Yahweh has made with you.
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\v 6 But you are allowed to execute such people only if at least two witnesses testify that they saw them doing that. They must not be executed if there is only one witness.
\v 7 The witnesses should throw stones at the guilty person. Then the other people should throw stones until person dies. By doing that, you will get rid of this evil practice from among you.
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\p
\v 8 Sometimes it will be very difficult for a judge to decide what really happened. He might be trying to decide whether, when someone injured or killed another person, that person did it accidentally or deliberately. Or he might be trying to decide if some person is taking another person to court unfairly. If in any town it is very difficult to know what really happened, and if the judge cannot decide it, you should go to the place that Yahweh our God has chosen for you to worship him.
@ -1158,7 +1120,6 @@
\v 12 You must execute anyone who proudly disobeys the judge or the priest who stands there in the presence of Yahweh and decides what should be done. By doing that, you will get rid of this evil practice from among you.
\v 13 Then after that person is executed, all the people will hear about it, and they will be afraid, and none of them will act that way anymore.
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\p
\v 14 I know that after you have occupied the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, and you are living there, you will say, 'We should have a king to rule over us, like the kings that other nations around us have.'
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\v 18 When he becomes your king, he must appoint someone to copy these laws. He must copy them from the scroll that is kept by the priests descended from Levi.
\v 19 He must keep this new scroll near him and read from it every day of his life, in order that he may learn to have an awesome respect for Yahweh, and to faithfully obey all the rules and regulations that are written in these laws.
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\v 20 If he does that, he will not think that he is more important than his fellow Israelites, and he will completely obey Yahweh's commands. As a result, he and his descendants will rule as kings in Israel for many years."
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\c 18
\p
\v 1 "The priests, who are all from the tribe of Levi, will not receive any land in Israel. Instead, they will receive some of the food that other people offer to be burned on the altar to be sacrificed to Yahweh and some of the other sacrifices that will be offered to Yahweh.
\v 2 They will not be allotted any land like the other tribes will be. What they will receive is the honor of being Yahweh's priests, which is what he said that they should have.
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\v 7 he is permitted to serve Yahweh there as a priest, just like the other men from the tribe of Levi who have been serving there.
\v 8 He must be given the same amount of food that the other priests receive. He is permitted to keep the money that his relatives receive for selling some of their possessions and send to him.
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\p
\v 9 When you enter the land that Yahweh our God is giving you, you must not imitate the disgusting things that the peoples who are there now do.
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\v 12 Yahweh hates people who do any of those disgusting things. And as you advance through that land, he is going to drive out the people who live there because they do those disgusting things.
\v 13 But you must always be faithful to Yahweh and avoid doing any of those disgusting things.
\p
\v 14 The people that you are about to expel from the land that you will occupy, they consult soothsayers and those who practice divination. But as for you, Yahweh our God does not allow you to do that.
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\v 22 The answer is that when someone speaks a message about what will happen in the future, a message that he says was revealed by Yahweh, if what he says does not happen, you will know that the message did not come from Yahweh. That person has wrongly claimed that it was revealed to him by Yahweh. So you do not need to be afraid of anything that he says.
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\c 19
\p
\v 1 After Yahweh our God has destroyed the peoples from the land that he is giving to you, and after you have driven them out from their cities and you start to live in their houses,
\v 2-3 you must divide into three parts the land that he is giving to you. Then select a city in each part. You must make good roads in order that people can get to those cities easily. Someone who kills another person can escape to one of those cities to be safe.
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\v 6 Because he accidentally killed someone, and because the man was not his enemy, he can try to run to one of those cities. If there were only one city, it may be a long distance to that city. Then if the relative of the man who was killed to get revenge, is very angry, he may be able to catch the other person before he arrives at that city.
\v 7 Therefore, I give you this command, that you select three cities for this purpose.
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\p
\v 8-9 If you do everything that I am today commanding you to do, and if you love Yahweh our God, and if you conduct your lives as he wants you to do, Yahweh our God will give you much more land than you will have when you first occupy it, which is what he promised to do. He will give you all the land which he promised your ancestors that he would give to you. When he gives you that land, you must select three more cities to which people may escape.
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\v 12 the elders of the city where the murdered man lived must not protect the attacker. They must send someone to the city to which the other man escaped, and bring him to to get revenge, so that he may execute that man.
\v 13 You must not pity those who murder other people! Instead, you must execute them, in order that the people in the land of Israel will not be punished for murdering innocent people, and in order that things will go well for you.
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\p
\v 14 When you are living in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, do not move the markers of your neighbors' property boundaries that were placed there long ago.
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\p
\v 15 If someone is accused of committing a crime, one person who says, 'I saw him do it' is not enough to find him guilty. There must be at least two people who say, 'We saw him do it.' If there is only one witness, the judge must not believe that what he says is true.
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\v 20 And when that person is punished, everyone will hear what has happened, and they will be afraid, and no one will dare to act that way anymore.
\v 21 You must not pity people who are punished like that. The rule should be that a person who has murdered someone else must be executed; one of a person's eyes must be gouged out if he has gouged out someone else's eye, one tooth of a person who has knocked out the tooth of another person must be knocked out; one hand of a person who has cut off the hand of another person must likewise be cut off; one foot of a person who has cut off the foot of another person must also be cut off.
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\c 20
\p
\v 1 When your soldiers go to fight your enemies, and you see that they have many horses and chariots and that their army is much bigger than yours, do not be afraid of them, because Yahweh our God, who brought your ancestors safely out of Egypt, will be with you.
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\v 19 When you surround a city for a long time, trying to capture it, do not cut down the fruit trees outside the city. You are allowed to eat the fruit from the trees, but do not destroy the trees, because they certainly are not your enemies.
\v 20 You are permitted to cut down the other trees and use the wood to make ladders and towers to enable you to go over the walls and capture the city."
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\c 21
\p
\v 1 "Suppose someone has been murdered in a field in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, and you do not know who killed that person.
\v 2 If that happens, your elders and judges must go out to where that person's corpse was found and measure the distance from there to each of the nearby towns.
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\v 8 Yahweh, forgive us, your Israelite people whom you rescued from Egypt. Do not consider us to be guilty. Instead, forgive us.'
\v 9 By doing that, you will be doing what Yahweh considers to be right, and you will not be considered to be guilty for murdering that person.
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\p
\v 10 When you who are soldiers go to fight against your enemies, and Yahweh our God enables you to defeat them, and they become your prisoners,
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\v 13 She must take off the clothes that she was wearing when she was captured, and put on Israelite clothes. She must stay in that man's house and mourn for a month because of leaving her parents. After that, he will be allowed to marry her.
\v 14 Later, if he no longer is pleased with her, he will be permitted to allow her to leave him. But because she was shamed and was forced to sleep with him, he will not be allowed to treat her like a slave and sell her to anyone else.
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\p
\v 15 Suppose that a man has two wives, but he likes one of them and dislikes the other one. And suppose that they both give birth to sons, and that the oldest son is the child of the woman that he does not like.
\v 16 On the day when that man decides which of his possessions each son will obtain after he dies, he must not favor the son of the wife that he loves by giving him the larger share that should go to the firstborn son.
\v 17 He must give two-thirds of his possessions to the older son, the son of the wife whom he does not like. That son is his firstborn son, and he must be given the largest share.
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\p
\v 18 Suppose there is a boy who is very stubborn and is always rebelling against his parents, and who will not heed what they say to him. And suppose that they punish him but he still does not pay attention to what they tell him.
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\v 20 Then the parents must say to the elders of that city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and always rebelling against us. He will not pay attention to what we tell him. He eats too much, and he gets drunk.'
\v 21 Then all the elders of that city must execute him by throwing stones at him. By doing that, you will get rid of this evil practice from among you. And everyone in Israel will hear about what happened and they will be afraid to do what he did.
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\p
\v 22 If someone is executed for having committed a crime for which he deserves to die, and you hang his corpse on a post,
\v 23 you must not allow his corpse to remain there all night. You must bury it on the day that he died, because if you keep the corpse on a post, God will curse the land. You must bury the corpse that day, in order that you do not defile the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you.
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\c 22
\p
\v 1 If you see an Israelite's ox or sheep that has strayed away, do not act as though you did not see it. Take it back to its owner.
\v 2 But if the owner does not live near you, or if you do not know who he is, take the animal to your house. It can stay with you until the owner comes, searching for it. Then you must give the animal to him.
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\p
\v 12 Twist threads together to make tassels and sew them on the four bottom corners of your cloak.
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\p
\v 13 Suppose a man marries a young woman and sleeps with her and later decides that he does not want her anymore,
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\p
\v 30 A man must not take what belongs to his father by sleeping with any of his father's wives.
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\c 23
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\v 1 Any male person whose reproductive organs have been destroyed may not be included as one of Yahweh's people.
\p
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\v 7 But do not despise anyone from the Edom people , because they are descendants of your ancestor Isaac, just like you are. And do not despise people from Egypt, because they treated your ancestors well when they first lived in Egypt.
\v 8 The grandchildren of people from Edom and Egypt who live among you now may be included among Yahweh's people.
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\p
\v 9 When your soldiers are living in camp in time of war, they must avoid doing things that would make them unacceptable to God.
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\v 13 When you go to fight against your enemies, carry a stick along along with your weapons, in order that when you need to defecate, you can dig a hole with the stick, and then cover up the hole when you have finished defecating.
\v 14 You must keep the camp acceptable to Yahweh our God, because he is with you in your camp to protect you and to enable you to defeat your enemies. Do not do anything disgraceful that would cause Yahweh to stop you from being his people.
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\p
\v 15 If slaves who escape from their masters come to you and request you to protect them, do not send them back to their masters.
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\v 24 When you walk through someone else's vineyard, you are allowed to pick and eat as many grapes as you want, but you must not put any in a container and take them away.
\v 25 When you walk along a path in someone else's field of grain, you are allowed to pluck some of the grain and eat it, but you must not cut any grain with a sickle and take it with you.
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\c 24
\p
\v 1 Suppose a man marries a woman and later decides that he does not want her because there is something offensive, and he sends her away from his house. And suppose he writes a paper in which he says that he is divorcing her, and he gives the paper to her and sends her away from his house
\v 2 Then suppose that she goes away. She is allowed to marry another man.
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\v 3 Suppose that that man later also decides that he does not like her, and that he also writes a paper in which he says that he is divorcing her, and he sends her away from his house. Or, suppose that the second husband dies.
\v 4 If either of those things happen, her first husband must not marry her again. He must consider that she has become unacceptable to Yahweh. Yahweh would consider it to be disgusting if he married her again. You must not sin by doing that in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you.
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\p
\v 5 When a man has just become married, he must not be required to become a soldier in the army or be required to do any other work for the government. He must be exempt from such work for one year after being married. He should stay at home and make his wife happy for that year.
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\v 21 Similarly, when you pick the grapes in your vineyard, do not go back a second time to try to find more. Leave them for the foreigners, orphans, and widows among you.
\v 22 Do not forget that Yahweh acted kindly toward you when you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I am commanding you to be kind to those who are needy."
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\c 25
\p
\v 1 "If two Israelites have a dispute and they go to a court, the judge will probably decide that one is innocent and that the other one is guilty.
\v 2 If the judge says that the guilty person must be punished, he shall command him to lie with his face on the ground and be whipped. The number of times he is struck with a whip will depend on what kind of crime he committed.
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\v 3 It is permitted that he be struck as many as forty times, but no more than that. If he is struck more than forty times, he would be humiliated publicly.
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\p
\v 4 When your ox is walking on the grain to separate it from the chaff, do not prevent it from eating some of grain.
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\p
\v 5 If two brothers live on the same property, and one of them who has no son dies, the man's widow should not marry someone who is not a member of his family. The dead man's brother must marry her and sleep with her. It is his duty to do that.
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\v 15 Always use correct weights and correct measuring baskets, in order that Yahweh our God will allow you to live a long time in the land that he is giving to you.
\v 16 Yahweh hates all those who act dishonestly, and he will punish them.
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\p
\v 17 Continue to remember what the Amalek people did to your ancestors when they were coming out of Egypt.
\v 18 They attacked your ancestors as they were traveling, when they were weak and exhausted. Those people were not afraid of God at all, so they attacked your ancestors from the rear and killed all those who were unable to walk as fast as the others.
\v 19 Therefore, when Yahweh our God has given you the land that he promised to give you, and when he has enabled you to rest from fighting all your enemies around you, kill all the Amalek people , with the result that no one will remember them anymore. Do not forget to do this!
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\c 26
\p
\v 1 After you occupy the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, and you have settled there,
\v 2 each of you must take some of the first crops that you harvest, put it in a basket, and take it to the place that Yahweh will have chosen for you to worship there.
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\v 10 So now, Yahweh, I have brought to you the first part of the harvest from the land that I received.' Then you must set the basket down in Yahweh's presence and worship him there.
\v 11 And you must celebrate by eating a meal together to thank Yahweh our God for all the good things that he has given to you and to your family. And you must invite the descendants of Levi and the foreigners who are living among you to also rejoice and eat with you.
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\v 12 Every third year, you must bring to the descendants of Levi and to the foreigners who are living among you and the orphans and the widows a tithe of your crops, in order that in every town they will have plenty to eat.
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\v 14 I declare that I have not eaten any food from the tenth portion while I was mourning for someone who died. And I have not taken any of it out of my house while I was in any condition unacceptable to you; I have not offered any of it to spirits of dead people. Yahweh, I have obeyed you and done everything that you have commanded us concerning the tenth portion.
\v 15 So please look down from your holy place in heaven, and bless us, your Israelite people. Also bless this very fertile land which you have given to us, which is what you promised our ancestors that you would do.'
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\v 16 Today Yahweh our God is commanding you to obey all these rules and decrees. So obey them faithfully, with all your inner being.
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\v 18 And today Yahweh has declared that you are his people, which is what he promised that you would be, and he commands you to obey all his commands.
\v 19 If you do that, he will cause you to become greater than any other nation that he has established, and he will enable you to praise him and honor him. You are a special people to Yahweh, set apart and holy to him, just as he promised."
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\c 27
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\v 1 Moses, along with the other Israelite leaders, said this to the people: "Obey all the commandments that I am giving to you today.
\v 2 Soon you will cross the Jordan River and enter the land that Yahweh, your God, promised to give to you. There, set up some large stones and cover them with plaster.
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\v 9 Then Moses, along with the priests, said to all the Israelite people, "You Israelite people, be quiet and listen to what I am saying. Today you have become the people who belong to Yahweh, our God.
\v 10 So you must do what he tells you, and obey all the rules and regulations that I am giving to you today."
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\v 11 On that same day Moses said to the Israelite people,
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\v 26 'Yahweh will curse anyone who by disobeying these laws refuses to declare that those laws are good.'
\q2 And all the people must reply, 'Amen.'"
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\c 28
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\v 1 "If you do what Yahweh our God tells you to do and faithfully obey everything that I am today commanding you to do, he will cause you to become greater than any other nation on the earth.
\v 2 If you obey Yahweh, all these blessings will come to you.
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\p
\v 14 Yahweh will do all these things for you if you do not stop obeying what I am commanding you today, and if you never worship other gods.
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\v 15 But if you do not do what Yahweh our God is telling you to do, and if you do not faithfully obey all his rules and regulations that I am giving to you today, he will bring these curses upon you and he will let them have their full force against you.
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\v 67 Because you will be very fearful and because you will very distressed because of the terrible things that you see, each morning you will say 'I wish it were evening already!' and each evening you will say 'I wish it were morning already!'
\v 68 Yahweh will send some of you back to Egypt in ships, even though he promised that you would never be forced to go there again. There in Egypt you will try to sell yourselves to become slaves of your enemies in order to have food to eat, but no one will buy you."
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\v 1 These are the covenantal commands of Yahweh that the Israelites were required to obey. When they were in the region of Moab on the east side of the Jordan River, Moses commanded them to keep these regulations. These regulations became part of the covenant that Yahweh had made with them at Mount Sinai.
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\v 18 So be sure that no man or woman or family or tribe that is here today turns away from Yahweh our God, to worship any of the gods of those peoples. If you do that, you will bring disaster on yourselves.
\p
\v 19 Be sure that no one here today who hears the words of this covenant says to himself, 'Everything will go well with me, even if I stubbornly do what I want to.' If you do that, the result will be that Yahweh will eventually destroy all of you, both good people and evil people.
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\v 20 Yahweh will not forgive anyone who is stubborn like that. Instead, he will be extremely angry with that person, and all the curses that I have told you about will happen to that person, until Yahweh destroys that person and his family forever.
\v 21 From all the tribes of Israel, Yahweh will choose that individual to suffer all the disasters that I have listed in the covenant—all the bad things that will happen to anyone whom Yahweh curses for disobeying the laws that I have written in this scroll.
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\v 9 Yahweh our God will cause you to be very prosperous in all that you do. You will have many children and many cattle, and you will produce abundant crops. He will again be happy to enable you to prosper, just like he was happy to enable your ancestors to prosper.
\v 10 But he will do those things only if you do what he has told you to do, and only if you obey all his rules and regulations that I have written about in this book, and only if you turn to Yahweh with all that you desire and with all that you feel.
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\v 11 The commands that I am giving to you today are not very difficult for you to obey, and they are not difficult to know.
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\v 19 I am requesting everyone in heaven and on the earth to testify to you, that today I am allowing you to choose whether you want to live for a long time or to soon die, whether you want Yahweh to bless you or to curse you. So choose to live.
\v 20 Decide to love Yahweh our God and to obey him. If you do that, you and your descendants will live for a long time in the land that Yahweh solemnly promised to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give to them."
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\v 1 When Moses finished saying all that to the Israelite people,
\v 2 "I am 120 years old. I am no longer able to go everywhere that you need to go, so I cannot be your leader any longer. Furthermore, Yahweh has told me that I will not cross the Jordan River.
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\v 7 Then Moses called Joshua to his side and said to him, "Be brave and confident. You are the one who will lead these people into the land that Yahweh promised to our ancestors that he would give to them, and you will enable them to occupy it.
\v 8 It is Yahweh who will go ahead of you. He will be with you. He will always help you. He will never abandon you. So do not be afraid or dismayed."
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\v 9 Moses wrote down all these laws and gave the scroll to the priests, who carried the sacred chest. He also gave the scroll to all the Israelite elders.
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\v 12 Gather together everyone—men, women, children, even the foreigners who are living in your towns—in order that they may hear these laws and learn to have an awesome respect for Yahweh our God, and to faithfully obey everything that is written in these laws.
\v 13 If they do that, your descendants, who have never known these laws, will hear them and will also learn to have an awesome respect for Yahweh our God, during all the years that they live in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan River to occupy."
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\v 14 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Listen carefully. You will soon die. Summon Joshua, and you will go to the sacred tent with him, in order that I may appoint him to be the new leader." So Joshua and Moses went to the sacred tent.
\p
\v 15 There Yahweh appeared to them in a pillar of cloud, and that cloud was over the entrance to the tent.
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\v 28 So gather all the elders of the tribes and your officials, in order that I can teach them the words of this song, and so that I can request all those who are in heaven and on the earth to be witnesses to testify against these people.
\v 29 I say this, because I know that after I die, the people will become very wicked. They will stop doing everything that I have commanded them to do. And in the future, because of all the evil things that they will do, they will cause Yahweh to become angry with them. Then he will cause them to experience disasters."
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\v 30 Then, while all the Israelite people listened, Moses sang this entire song to them:
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\v 46 Moses said, "Never forget all these commands that I have been giving you today. Teach these laws to your children, in order that they will faithfully obey all of them.
\v 47 These instructions are very important. If you obey them, you will live a long time in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan River to occupy."
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\v 48 On that same day, Yahweh said to Moses,
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\v 51 You will die because both of you disobeyed me in the presence of the Israelite people, when you all were at the springs of Meribah near Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin. You did not honor and respect me in the presence of the Israelite people in the way that I deserve because I am God.
\v 52 When you are on that mountain where I told you to go, you will see in the distance in front of you the land that I am about to give to the Israelite people, but you will not enter it."
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\p
\v 1 Before God's prophet Moses died, he asked God to bless the Israelite people.
\v 2 This is what he said:
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\q Your enemies will come to you begging for you to act mercifully toward them,
\q but you will trample on their backs."
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\p
\v 1 Then Moses climbed up from the plains in the region of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the highest point on Mount Pisgah, which is across the Jordan River from Jericho. There Yahweh showed him all the land that the Israelites would occupy. He showed him the region of Gilead as far north as the city of Dan;
\v 2 all the land that the tribe of Naphtali would occupy; all the land that the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh had occupied; all the land that the tribe of Judah would occupy as far west as the Mediterranean Sea;
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\v 10 Since the time that Moses lived, there has never been a prophet in Israel like him, for Yahweh spoke with him face to face.
\v 11 No other prophet has performed all the kinds of powerful miracles that Yahweh caused him to do against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, against all his servants, and against the people of Egypt.
\v 12 No other prophet has been able to perform all the great and terrifying deeds that Moses performed while all the Israelites watched.

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\v 17 We will obey you just as we obeyed Moses. We pray that Yahweh will be with you as he was with Moses.
\v 18 We will put to death anyone who rebels and refuses to follow your orders. Just remember, Joshua, to be strong and brave!"
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\v 4 Now the woman had taken the men and hidden them in her house. So she said to the king's men, "Yes, it is true that those men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from.
\v 5 They left when it was dark, about the time that the guards close the city gates. I do not know where they were going. If you hurry, you might catch up with them."
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\v 6 But in reality, the woman had taken the two men up on to the flat roof of her house and hidden them under bundles of flax that were drying on her roof.
\v 7 The king's men went out of the city to search for them on the road that leads to the fords across the Jordan River. The guards shut the city gates as the king's men went out.
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\v 8 Before the Israelite men lay down to sleep that night, Rahab went up to the roof
\v 9 and said to them, "We know that Yahweh has given you this land. All our people are terrified of you—we are so afraid of you that we will not resist you at all.
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\v 10 We have heard about how Yahweh dried up the water of the Sea of Reeds for you to cross when you left Egypt. We heard what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites who lived on the other side of the Jordan River, and how you totally destroyed everyone and everything in their kingdom.
\v 11 When we heard about those things, we were terrified. We no longer have courage to fight against you, for Yahweh is God, and he rules everything up in heaven and down here on earth.
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\v 23 Then the two men started back toward their camp. They went down to the river, crossed it and returned so they could report to Joshua. They told him everything that had happened to them.
\v 24 They said to Joshua, "Yahweh has indeed given this land to us. The people there will not be able to resist us because they are too afraid."
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\v 1 Joshua and all the other Israelites got up early the next morning. They left their camp at the Acacias and went down to the Jordan River. They camped there before they crossed over the river.
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\v 2 After three days, the officers went through the middle of the camp.
\v 3 They instructed the people, "As soon as you see the priests, some of the descendants of Levi, carrying the sacred chest of Yahweh your God, then you will know it is time to leave this place and follow the sacred chest.
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\v 17 The priests who were carrying the sacred chest of Yahweh stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan River; they continued to stand there until all the people of Israel crossed the river on dry ground.
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\v 10 The priests who carried the chest stood in the middle of the Jordan River until the people had finished crossing the river, as Yahweh had commanded Joshua to tell them to do. This also was as Moses had commanded Joshua to do. The people crossed the river quickly.
\v 11 As soon as all the people had crossed over, then the sacred chest of Yahweh and the priests who carried it, crossed over. All the people were there watching.
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\v 12 The soldiers of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and of half of the soldiers of the tribe of Manasseh, crossed over ahead of the rest of the Israelite people. As Moses had ordered them to do, they marched in the formation of an army.
\v 13 About forty thousand men were marching before Yahweh. These men were armed and prepared for war, and they were heading for the plains of Jericho where they would fight a battle.
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\v 23 Yahweh, your God, dried up the river for you, until you had all crossed over. Yahweh, the God you worship, did to the Jordan River just as he did to the Sea of Reeds, when he caused it to become dry until we had all crossed over it, just as he did here.
\v 24 Yahweh did that in order that all the peoples of the earth may know that he is powerful, and so you may forever give him the honor he deserves."
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\v 1 All the kings of the Amorites on the west of the Jordan River and all the kings of Canaanites, who lived close to the Mediterranean coast, heard about how Yahweh had dried up the water of the Jordan River until all the people of Israel had crossed over. They were so afraid that they became too afraid to fight the Israelites, because they had heard all about them.
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\v 2 At that timeYahweh said to Joshua, "Now make knives from flint stones and circumcise all the Israelite males who have not been circumcised."
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\v 6 The people of Israel walked through the desert for forty years, until all the people, including all the men who were old enough to be soldiers, they all had died. They had not obeyed Yahweh, so Yahweh said that they would not see the land that he had promised to them—a land that was very fertile—the land was so fertile that they said it had milk and honey flowing through it, just as rivers flow with water.
\v 7 It was the children of those who had died that Yahweh raised up in their place. He circumcised them because they had not been circumcised when they were walking through the wilderness.
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\v 8 After all the Israelite males had been circumcised, they remained in the camp and rested until they healed.
\v 9 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the disgrace of Egypt from you." So, the name of the place is Gilgal, even now.
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\v 12 The next day God stopped sending manna for them to eat. They ate food that had grown in the land of Canaan beginning that year.
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\v 13 While Joshua was standing near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man in front of him. The man had drawn his sword and was holding it in his hand. Joshua approached him and asked him, "Are you on our side, or are you on the side of our enemies?"
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\v 14 The man replied, "Neither side. I am the commander of Yahweh's army, and now I have come." Then Joshua fell to the ground with his face on the earth to show him respect. Joshua said to him, "What do you, my master, command me to do? I am your servant."
\v 15 The commander of Yahweh's army replied, "Take your sandals off of your feet, for the ground on which you are standing is holy." So Joshua took off his sandals.
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\v 3 You will march around the city, one time all the way around it. All the brave soldiers will go around it one time each day for six days.
\v 4 Tell seven priests to march around with them. They will each carry a trumpet as they march before the sacred chest of Yahweh. On the seventh day, the army must march around the city seven times, and the priests must play the trumpets with a loud blast of sound while they march.
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\v 5 After they have all marched around the city seven times, the priests must make a very long blast with their ram's horn trumpets. When the people of Israel hear that, they must shout very loudly, and the city wall will collapse. Then every soldier must advance straight into the city."
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\v 15 On the seventh day, they got up at dawn; they all marched around the city the same way that they had done before, but this time they marched around the city seven times.
\v 16 As they were marching around the seventh time, when the priests were about to sound the long blast on their trumpets, Joshua commanded the people, "Shout! Because Yahweh is giving this city to you!
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\v 17 Yahweh has declared that you must destroy the city and everything in it to show that it belongs to him. Only Rahab the prostitute will live—and all who are in her house with her—because she hid the spies we sent.
\v 18 And because Yahweh has declared that everything must be destroyed, you must not take any of the things in the city. If you take anything, you will cause Yahweh to destroy the camp of Israel and bring trouble to it.
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\v 27 Yahweh was with Joshua, and everyone in the land knew who Joshua was.
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\v 4 So about three thousand Israelite men went to attack Ai. But they did not defeat them. Instead, they had to run for their lives.
\v 5 The enemy killed about thirty-six Israelites and chased the rest from the city gate to the bottom of the hill, and then to a place where people had cut stone out from a hill. When the people of Israel saw this, they were very afraid and lost all their courage.
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\v 6 Joshua tore his clothes to show that he was sad. He and the leaders of Israel threw themselves on the ground because they were so sad and angry. They lay there until dark in front of Yahweh's sacred chest.
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\p
\v 26 They piled rocks over the ashes of their corpses, and those rocks are still there. That is why that valley is called the Valley of Trouble to this day.
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\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take with you all the soldiers you have and go there again. Go up to Ai. See! I am giving you victory over the king of Ai, and you will capture his people, and his city, and his land.
\v 2 Your army will do to the people of Ai and their king like what you did to the people of Jericho and their king. But this time I will permit you to take all their possessions and keep them for yourselves. But first, tell some of your soldiers to hide behind the city and prepare to attack it."
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\v 8 After you capture the city, burn it. Do what Yahweh has commanded us to do. Those are the orders I am giving to you."
\p
\v 9 Then Joshua prepared to send some of them to hide and wait between Ai and Bethel, which was west of Ai. But Joshua slept that night among the main force of soldiers.
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\v 10 Early the next morning, Joshua gathered his soldiers together. He led the soldiers and the other Israelite leaders; they all went to attack the people of Ai.
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\v 33 The Israelite leaders, the officials, the judges, and other Israelites were there, standing nearby. Many people who were not Israelites were also there. Half of the people stood on one side of the valley below Mount Ebal, and the other half of the people stood on the other side of the valley below Mount Gerizim. The sacred chest was in the valley between the two groups. And they blessed the people of Israel just as Moses the servant of Yahweh had told them to do, at the very first.
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\v 34 Then Joshua read to the people all that Moses had written previously. That included what Yahweh had taught them and the ways that he promised to bless them if they obeyed his commands, or to curse them if they disobeyed them.
\v 35 Joshua carefully read all the commands that Moses had given; he read every word in front of the entire assembly of Israel. All the women and the little children were there as well, and also the foreigners who were living among the people of Israel.
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\v 14 The Israelite leaders accepted some of their old food and ate a meal with them in order to make a peace treaty. They did not think to ask Yahweh what they should do.
\v 15 In this way, Joshua agreed to make peace. The Israelites made a treaty with the men from Gibeon, in which they agreed not to kill these strangers. All the Israelite leaders made a solemn vow to this effect.
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\v 16 However, three days later the Israelites found out that the men had only come from Gibeon and that they really lived close by.
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\p
\v 22 Then Joshua summoned the men from Gibeon and asked them, "Why did you lie to us? Your homes are near to us; you live close to us, but you told us that you were from a far land!
\v 23 Now you are going to live under a curse. You will become our slaves. You will always be our slaves, and you will be forced to cut wood and carry water for the house of our God."
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\v 24 The men from Gibeon replied, "We lied to you because we were afraid that you would kill us. We heard that Yahweh, your God, had declared to his servant Moses that he would enable your people to kill all of us in Canaan, and that he would give you our lands.
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\v 26 So Joshua saved the lives of the people of Gibeon; he did not permit the army of Israel to harm them.
\v 27 Instead, he forced them to become the Israelites' slaves. They cut wood and carried water for Israel. They also brought the wood and water that was needed for the sacred altar of Yahweh. And the people of Gibeon are still doing that to this present time.
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\v 26 Then Joshua killed each of the five kings with his sword and hung their bodies from five trees. He left their bodies to hang on the trees until sunset.
\v 27 At sunset, Joshua told them to take the bodies down from the trees and throw them into the cave where they were hiding. So the soldiers did that, and then they put those large rocks at the entrance of the cave again. And the bones of the kings are in that cave even to this day.
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\v 28 That is how Joshua's army attacked and captured Makkedah. They killed the king and everyone else in the city. They did not leave even any living creature alive. They did to the king of Makkedah the same thing that they had done to the king of Jericho.
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\p
\v 31 Then Joshua and his army went south from Libnah to Lachish. He surrounded the city and waged war against it.
\v 32 On the second day of the battle, Yahweh gave the city to the Israelites, and they conquered it. They killed everything that lived in it, including all the people. He did at Lachish the same thing that he had done at Libnah.
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\v 33 King Horam from Gezer and his army came to help the soldiers of Lachish, but Joshua's army defeated Horam and his army, and did not allow even one of them to remain alive.
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\v 43 Then Joshua and his army returned to their camp at Gilgal.
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\v 1 When King Jabin of Hazor heard about all these things that had happened, he sent messages to Jobab, king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Akshaph, requesting them to send their armies to come and help him fight against the Israelites.
\v 2 He also sent messages to the kings in the northern hills and to the kings in the plain along the Jordan, south of the Sea of Galilee, in the low country. He also sent a message to the king of the high country of Dor in the west,
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\v 4 So the armies of all those kings gathered together. Their men were as many as the grains of sand on the seashore. They also came with horses and chariots in great numbers.
\v 5 All of those kings met at the fixed time and set up their armies in a camp at the brook of Merom, in order to wage war against Israel.
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\v 6 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, because at this time tomorrow I will give them to you. You will defeat them and kill all of them. Then you must cripple all their horses and burn all their chariots."
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\v 23 Joshua's army took control of all the land, just as Yahweh long ago had told Moses to do. Yahweh gave the land to the Israelites, because he had promised to give it to them. Then Joshua divided the land among the Israelite tribes. And after that, there was peace in the land.
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\v 7 Joshua and the Israelite army also defeated kings who ruled over the land on the west side of the Jordan River. That land was between Baal Gad in the valley near Lebanon to Mount Halak, which goes up to Edom. Joshua gave land to the tribes of Israel for them to possess,
\v 8 as well as the hill country, the lowlands, the plain along the Jordan, the mountainsides, in the desert, and in the southern Judean wilderness, the land of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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\v 9 The kings that the Israelites conquered were those of the following cities: Jericho, Ai (which was near Bethel),
\v 10 Jerusalem, Hebron,
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\v 24 and Tirzah.
\m There was a total of thirty-one kings that the Israelite army defeated.
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\v 13 But the Israelites did not force out of Canaan the people of Geshur and the Maacathites. Instead, these people live with the Israelites even at the present time.
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\v 14 The Levites received no assignment of lands; they were the only tribe that received no land. Moses gave them no possessions. Yahweh, the God of Israel, told them that the offerings given to himself would be their possession.
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\v 15 Moses had allotted land to each clan in the tribe of Reuben.
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\v 20 The territory also includes Beth Peor, the slopes of Mount Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,
\v 21 all the cities situated along the plateau, and all the kingdom of Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who reigned there in Heshbon, the ones that Moses defeated along with the leaders of Midian, who were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon who ruled there.
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\v 22 The people of Israel killed with the sword Balaam son of Beor, the one who practiced divination. The people of Israel also killed with the sword many others at that same time.
\v 23 The border of the people of the tribe of Reuben is the Jordan River. This was the inheritance given to the people of Reuben and assigned to all their clans. They lived there in their cities and villages.
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\v 26 Their land extended from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim, all the way to Mahanaim and to the region of Debir.
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\v 27 Their land was also in the valley: Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon, who had been king of Heshbon; his kingdom had bordered on the Jordan River and extended to the lower end of the Sea of Galilee, eastward beyond the Jordan River.
\v 28 This is the inheritance of the people of Gad that was allotted to them according to the needs of their clans, along with the cities and villages where they lived.
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\v 32 These were the lands that Moses distributed to the people of Israel on the plains of Moab, when they were beyond the Jordan just east of Jericho.
\v 33 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance. Yahweh, who is the God of Israel, promised them that he would be their inheritance.
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@ -798,6 +800,7 @@ But Joshua answered, "Who are you? Where do you actually come from?"
\v 2 The assignments were made by casting lots for each one of the nine and one-half tribes. This was just as Yahweh had commanded Moses to do, so that the land could be assigned to each of the tribes and their clans.
\v 3-4 Now Moses had given land as a permanent possession to two and one-half tribes before Israel crossed over the Jordan River. But to the Levites he gave no inheritance; they were treated differently because of their priestly duties. No portion of the land was given to the Levites. They were, however, given cities in which to live, including pastureland for their livestock so they could sustain their families. And the people of Joseph were divided into two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim.
\v 5 The people of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses: They gave out portions of the land as permanent possessions.
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\v 6 Some men from the tribe of Judah went to Joshua while he and all the Israelites were at Gilgal. Among those men was Jephunneh's son Caleb. He said to Joshua, "I am sure that you remember what Yahweh said to the prophet Moses concerning you and me when we were at Kadesh Barnea.
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\p
\v 10 Now Yahweh has done for me as he promised he would. Forty-five years have passed since Moses said that to me during the time that we were still in the wilderness. And just as Yahweh promised, he has kept me alive and well all during that time. Look at me! I am eighty-five years old.
\v 11 I am as strong today as I was on the day that Moses sent me to explore this land. My strength is now as my strength was when I was young. I can wage war or I can travel far away and still have the strength to come home.
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\v 12 So please give me the hill country that Yahweh promised to give to me on that day long ago. At that time, you heard me say that the Anakim lived there. You heard me say that their cities were large and that they had walls around them to protect them. But now, perhaps Yahweh will help me to drive them away with our army, just as Yahweh promised."
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\v 14 In this way, Hebron became the permanent possession and the home of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite. To this day his descendants live there because Caleb did everything that Yahweh, the God of Israel, told him to do.
\v 15 Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath Arba (Arba had been the greatest man among the Anakim). And there was peace in the land; they no longer waged war.
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\v 1 The land that was assigned to the tribe of Judah was divided among its clans. Their land extended south to the wilderness of Sin at the border of Edom.
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\v 3 It then went southward and up the hill of Akrabbim and continued along to Sin, and then it went up once more south of Kadesh Barnea, beside Hezron, up to Addar, and then it bent around to Karka.
\v 4 From there it continued past Azmon, and from there it ran beside the brook of Egypt; from there it turned west to the Mediterranean Sea. That will be your south border.
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\v 5 The eastern border of the land of the tribe of Judah was the Dead Sea. It extended north to the end of the Jordan River, where it empties into the Dead Sea.
\v 6 The northern border continued from that point, and extended north to Beth Hoglah. From there it went further north of Beth Arabah to the Stone of Bohan (a stone that had been set up by Bohan, son of Reuben).
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\p
\v 63 The army of the tribe of Judah was not able to drive out the Jebusites and so they stayed in Jerusalem. So today they are still living among the tribe of Judah.
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\v 1 The land that was assigned to the two tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh—the tribes that were descended from Joseph—started at the Jordan River, east of Jericho.
\v 2 It extended west from Jericho to Bethel, and then to Luz, and it passed on to Ataroth, which is the territory where the Archites live.
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\v 10 The people of the tribe of Ephraim could not force the Canaanites to leave Gezer. The Canaanites still live there. However, the people of Ephraim forced them to be their slaves.
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\v 13 When the people of Israel grew strong they forced those Canaanites to work for them as slaves but they were not able to take their land away from them.
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\v 14 The descendants of Joseph (that is, the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh) said to Joshua, "You have assigned to us only one area of land, but we have a great number of people in our tribes. In every way Yahweh has blessed us, so why did you give us only a small portion of land to live on?"
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\v 17 Joshua replied to the house of Joseph, that is, to Ephraim and Manasseh; he said, "Your people are indeed very numerous and very powerful. So I will make one more assignment of land for you:
\v 18 the hill country will belong to you, too. You will have to cut down the trees in order to make it your own, and to make a place for you to live. You will drive out the Canaanites, even though they are strong and have chariots with iron wheels."
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\v 1 The entire assembly of the people of Israel met together at Shiloh. There they set up the tent where they worshiped Yahweh. There was no more war in the land.
\v 2 However, there seven tribes of Israel had not yet been assigned any land.
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\v 3 Joshua said to the people of Israel, "Why are you waiting such a long time? How long are you going to delay going into the land that Yahweh, the God whom your ancestors worshiped, has promised to give to you?
\p
\v 4 Choose three men from each of your seven tribes. I will send them out to explore the parts of the land which you have not occupied yet. When they finish, they will write a report to tell you what the land is like. They will also make a map to show you where cities and important places are located and which tribe will live in which area.
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\v 5 They will divide the remaining land into seven parts. The tribe of Judah will keep its land in the south, and the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh will keep their land in the north.
\v 6 But in their report, the men from the seven tribes should describe the seven parts of the remaining land that they wish to receive, and bring the report to me. While Yahweh is watching, I will cast lots to decide which land should be assigned to each tribe.
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\v 27 Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,
\v 28 Zelah, Haeleph, Jebus (the city where the Jebusites lived, which is now called Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath. Altogether there were fourteen cities, not counting their villages. All that area was assigned to the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.
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\p
\v 51 Those were the areas that were assigned to the various tribes of Israel. Eleazar (the leader of all the priests), Joshua, and the leaders of each tribe divided up the land while they were all at Shiloh, by casting lots to decide which area each tribe would receive. They did that while Yahweh was watching at the entrance of the sacred tent. In that way they completed dividing up the land.
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\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Joshua,
\v 2 "Tell the Israelite people that they should choose some cities to which people can run in order to be safe, as I told Moses that you should do.
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\v 9 Any Israelite or any foreigner who lived among them, anyone who had killed someone accidentally, was allowed to run to one of those cities. There he would be safe from some relative of the person who died coming there and killing him to get revenge. He could stay in that city until he was put on trial to decide whether he was telling the truth when he said that he did not kill that person on purpose.
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\v 40 In all the clans descended from Merari received twelve cities because the Israelite leaders had cast lots for them.
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\v 41 So the Levites received all together forty-eight cities from the areas that the other tribes of Israel possessed, as well as the pasturelands belonging to those cities.
@ -1352,7 +1347,6 @@ But Joshua answered, "Who are you? Where do you actually come from?"
\v 44 Just as he had promised their ancestors, Yahweh allowed them to have peace with the enemies that surrounded them. None of their enemies defeated them. Yahweh helped Israel defeat all their enemies.
\v 45 Yahweh kept every promise he made to the Israelites. Every promise came true.
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\p
\v 30 When Phinehas the priest and the other ten leaders of the people of Israel heard what the people of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh said, they were pleased.
\v 31 So Phinehas said to them, "Now we know that Yahweh is with all of us Israelites, and that you were not rebelling against him when you built that altar. Because what you did did not break Yahweh's laws, we are sure that he will not punish us.
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\v 32 Then Phinehas and the Israelite leaders left the people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad in the region of Gilead, and returned to Canaan. There they told the other Israelites what had happened.
@ -1437,10 +1432,8 @@ But Joshua answered, "Who are you? Where do you actually come from?"
\p
\v 34 The people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad named their new altar "Reminder," and they said, "It is a reminder to us all that Yahweh is God."
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\v 1 A long time later, by the time Yahweh had allowed the Israelites to live in peace, without fearing any longer any enemies, Joshua had become very old.
\p
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\v 16 If you do not obey the covenant between Yahweh and you, and if you leave him and go and worship other gods and bow down to them, Yahweh will become very angry with you, just as a fire starts from a spark. Very quickly he will take away your lives, and he will take away this good land from you, the same land he has now given to you."
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@ -1491,6 +1483,7 @@ But Joshua answered, "Who are you? Where do you actually come from?"
\p
\v 5 I sent Moses and his brother Aaron to Egypt, and I caused the people of Egypt to suffer many terrible plagues. After that, I brought your people out of Egypt.
\v 6 When I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, they came to the sea. The Egyptian army pursued them with chariots and on horseback, as far as the Sea of Reeds."
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\v 7 Joshua continued to speak: "When you pleaded to Yahweh for help, he caused darkness to come between the nation of Israel and the Egyptian army, and he covered the Egyptian army with the waters of the sea so that your enemies were drowned. This is what Yahweh says: 'You saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the desert for many years.
@ -1506,6 +1499,7 @@ But Joshua answered, "Who are you? Where do you actually come from?"
\p
\v 11 Then you all crossed the Jordan River and came to Jericho. The leaders of Jericho fought against you, as did the armies of the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. I made all of you more powerful than they were, and you defeated them all.
\v 12 I am the one who caused them to panic. They acted as if they were being chased by hornets. And you drove out the two kings of the Amorites as your army moved ahead and pushed them away. But it was not because of your swords or your bows and arrows, but it was because that I, Yahweh, was fighting on your side.
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\v 13 So I gave you a land that you had not cleared or plowed, and I gave you cities that you did not build. Now you live in those cities, and you eat the grapes from grapevines that you did not plant, and you eat olives from trees that you did not plant.'
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\v 32 Joseph's bones, which the people of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob had bought long ago for the price of one hundred pieces of silver. He had bought it from Hamor, the father of Shechem. That piece of land became a permanent possession for Joseph's descendants.
\v 33 Eleazar son of Aaron, also died. They buried his body at Gibeah, the city that belonged to Phinehas, his son, in the hill country of Ephraim.

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\toc2 Judges
\toc3 Jdg
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\v 35 The Amorites were determined to stay at Mount Heres and in the cities of Aijalon and Shaalbim. But when the Israelites became stronger, they forced the Amorites to work as their slaves.
\v 36 The land where the Amorites lived extended from Scorpion Pass toward the west beyond Sela, up into the hill country.
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\v 9 They buried his body in the land that he had received from Moses, at Timnath Heres, in the area where the descendants of Ephraim lived, north of Mount Gaash.
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\v 10 After all the people who lived at the same time as Joshua died, more people grew up who did not know Yahweh and had not seen him do the great things he had done for the Israelite people.
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\v 22 I will use them to test the Israelite people to see whether they will do what I want them to do, as their ancestors did."
\v 23 Yahweh allowed these peoples to stay in that land for a long time after the people of Israel had come. He did not expel them by allowing Joshua and his men to defeat them.
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\v 29 At that time, the Israelites killed about ten thousand people from Moab. They were all strong and capable men, but not one of them escaped.
\v 30 On that day, the Israelites conquered the people of Moab. Then there was peace in their land for eighty years.
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\v 31 After Ehud died, Shamgar became their leader. He rescued the Israelites from the Philistines. In one battle he killed six hundred Philistines with an ox goad.
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\v 23 On that day God enabled the Israelites to defeat the army of Jabin, one of the kings of the Canaanites.
\v 24 The Israelites became stronger and stronger, and they destroyed Jabin and his army.
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\q2 And I desire that all those who love you, Yahweh, be as strong as the sun when it rises!"
\p There was peace again in the land for forty years.
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\v 39 Then Gideon said to God, "Do not be angry with me, but let me ask you to do one more thing. Tonight I will put the fleece out again. This time, let the fleece remain dry, while the ground is wet with the dew."
\v 40 So that night, God did what Gideon asked him to do. The next morning the fleece was dry, but the ground was covered with dew.
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\p So the men of Ephraim did what Gideon told them to do.
\v 25 They also captured Oreb and Zeeb, the two generals of the Midian army. They killed Oreb at the big rock which is now called the rock of Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at the place where they crush grapes that is now called the winepress of Zeeb. Afterwards, the Israelites cut off the heads of Oreb and Zeeb and brought them to Gideon, who was on the other side of the Jordan River.
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\v 21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon, "Do not ask a young boy to do the work that a man should do!" So Gideon killed both of them. Then he took the golden crescent-shaped ornaments from the necks of their camels.
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\v 22 Then a group of Israelite men came to Gideon and said to him, "You be our ruler! We want you and your son and your grandsons to be our rulers, because you rescued us from the Midian army."
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\v 27 Gideon made for the people a sacred garment that they worshiped instead of worshiping only God. Gideon and all his family sinned by worshiping it.
\p
\v 28 That is how the Israelites defeated the people from Midian. The people of Midian did not become strong enough to attack Israel again. So while Gideon was alive, there was peace in the land for forty years.
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\v 32 Gideon son of Joash died when he was very old. They buried his body in the grave where his father Joash was buried, at Ophrah, in the land of the Abietherites.
\p
\v 33 But as soon as Gideon died, the Israelites left God and gave themselves to worship the images of the god Baal, like adultresses leave their husbands and go to other men. They made Baal-Berith the god they worshiped.
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\v 34 They forgot about Yahweh, the one who had rescued them from all their enemies that surrounded them.
\v 35 And even though Gideon had done many good things for the Israelites, they did not act kindly toward Gideon's family.
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\v 44 Abimelech and the men who were with him ran to the city gate. The other two groups ran out to the people in the fields and attacked them.
\v 45 Abimelech and his men fought all day. They captured the city and killed all the people. They tore down all the buildings, and then they threw salt over the ruins to try to keep anything from growing there again.
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\v 46 When the leaders who lived in the tower outside of Shechem heard what had happened, they ran and hid inside the fortress, which was also a temple of their god El-Berith.
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\v 56 In that way God punished Abimelech for all the evil things that he had done to his father by murdering all seventy of his brothers.
\v 57 God also punished the men of Shechem for the evil things that they had done. And when these things happened, it made true the curse of Jotham son of Jerub Baal.
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\v 17 The Ammon people gathered to fight against the Israelites, and they set up their tents in Gilead. The Israelite soldiers gathered and set up their tents at Mizpah.
\v 18 The leaders of the people of Gilead said to each other, "Who will lead our attack against the Ammonite army? The one who will lead us will become the leader of all us who live in Gilead."
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\v 1 There was a man from the region of Gilead named Jephthah. He proved himself to be a great warrior. But his mother was a prostitute. His father was Gilead.
\v 2 Gilead's wife gave birth to several sons. When they grew up, they forced Jephthah to leave home, saying to him, "You are the son of another woman, not the son of our mother. So when our father dies, you will not receive any of his property."
\v 3 So Jephthah ran away from his brothers, and he lived in the land of Tob. While he was there, some lawless men joined together with Jepthah, and they came and went with each other.
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\v 4 Some time later, the soldiers of Ammon attacked the soldiers of Israel.
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\p Because of that, the Israelites now have a custom.
\v 40 Every year the young Israelite women go into the hills for four days to remember and cry about what happened to the daughter of Jephthah.
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\v 1 The men of the tribe of Ephraim called together their soldiers, and they crossed the Jordan River and went to the town of Zaphon to talk with Jephthah. They said to him, "Why did you not ask us to help your army fight the Ammonites. So we will burn down your house while you are in it."
\p
\v 2 Jephthah replied, "The Ammonites oppressed us. And I asked you to come and rescue us from them, you refused. When I called to you, you did not come to our rescue.
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\v 3 When I saw that you would not come to help us, I risked my own life by leading our people to pass through the people of Ammon. And Yahweh helped us to defeat them. So why do you come to fight against me today?"
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\v 14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons. They had seventy donkeys. Abdon was a leader and a judge over Israel for eight years.
\v 15 When Abdon died, he was buried in Pirathon, in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.
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\v 13 Yahweh's angel replied, "Your wife must obey all the instructions I gave her.
\v 14 Before the baby is born, she must not eat grapes, drink wine or any other alcoholic drink, or eat anything that the law says we should not eat."
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\v 15 Then Manoah said, "Please stay here until we can kill and cook a young goat for you."
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\v 24 When their son was born, they named him Samson. Yahweh blessed him as he grew up.
\v 25 While he was in Mahanehdan, which is between the towns of Zorah and Eshtaol, Yahweh's Spirit began to control him.
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\v 1 Samson went down to the town of Timnah, and there he saw a young Philistine woman.
\v 2 When he returned home, he told his mother and father, "I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines in Timnah, and I want you to get her for me so I can marry her."
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\v 19 Then Yahweh's Spirit powerfully came on Samson. He went down to the coast at the city of Ashkelon and killed thirty men. He took their clothes and went back to Timnah; then he gave them to the men at the feast. But he was very angry about what had happened, so he went back home to live with his mother and father.
\v 20 So his wife's father gave her instead to the man who had been Samson's special friend when he got married.
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\v 20 Samson was the leader and judge over Israel for twenty years, but during that time the Philistines were in control of the entire land.
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\v 31 Later his brothers and their relatives went down from Zorah to Gaza to get his body. They took it back home and buried it between Zorah and Eshtaol, at the place where Samson's father Manoah was buried. Now Samson had led Israel for twenty years.
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\v 12 Micah appointed him to be a priest, and he lived in Micah's house.
\v 13 Then Micah said, "Now I know that Yahweh will do good things for me, because I have a man from the tribe of Levi to be my priest."
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\v 13 From there, they went to the hill country where the tribe of Ephraim lived. And they arrived at Micah's house.
\p
\v 14 The five men who had explored the land near Laish said to their fellow Israelites, "Do you know that in one of these houses there is a sacred vest, several household idols, a carved figure and a cast metal figure? We think that you know what you should do."
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\v 15 So they went to the house where the man from the tribe of Levi lived, which was the house where Micah lived, and they greeted the young man from the tribe of Levi who was Micah's priest.
\v 16 The six hundred men of the tribe of Dan stood outside the gate of the house, carrying their weapons.
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\v 30 The people of the tribe of Dan set up in the city a carved figure that had been made for Micah. Jonathan son of Gershom, and the grandson of Moses, was appointed to be their priest. His descendants continued to be priests until the Israelites were captured and taken away.
\v 31 After the people of the tribe of Dan set up the carved figure that had been made for Micah, and it stayed there as long as the house of God was in Shiloh.
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\v 29 When he arrived at his home, he took a knife and he cut the body of the slave woman into twelve pieces. Then he sent one piece to each area of Israel, along with a message telling what had happened.
\v 30 Everyone who saw a piece of the body and the message said, "Nothing like this has ever happened before. Not since our ancestors left Egypt have we heard of such a terrible thing. We need to think carefully about it. Someone should decide what we should do."
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\v 36 So the soldiers of Benjamin saw they were defeated. The men of Israel had given ground to Benjamin, because they were counting on the men they had placed in hidden positions outside Gibeah to go out and shift the battle in their favor.
\v 37 Then the men who were hiding got up and hurried and they rushed into Gibeah, and with their swords they killed everyone who lived in the city.
\v 38 Now the arranged signal between the soldiers of Israel and the men hiding in secret would be that a great cloud of smoke would rise up out of the city.
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\v 39 By that time, Israelite men had turned away from attacking, so the men of the tribe of Benjamin said, "We are winning the battle, as we did before!"
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\v 47 But six hundred men of the tribe of Benjamin ran to the rock of Rimmon in the wilderness. They stayed there for four months.
\v 48 Then the Israelite men went back to the land belonging to the tribe of Benjamin, and killed the people in every city. They also killed all the animals, and destroyed everything else that they found there. And they burned all the cities that they came to.
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\v 25 At that time, the Israelite people did not have a king. Everyone did what was right according to his own opinion.

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\toc1 The Book of Ruth
\toc2 Ruth
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\v 1 During the time that judges ruled Israel, there was a famine in that country. There was a man who lived in Israel named Elimelek who left Israel and went to live for a while in the country of Moab. He went with his wife, Naomi, and his two sons, Mahlon and Kilion.
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\p
\v 22 So that is how Naomi returned home along with her daughter-in-law Ruth, the woman from Moab. And it happened that when they arrived in Bethlehem, the barley harvest was just beginning.
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\p
\v 1 There was a man named Boaz who lived in Bethlehem. He was a relative of Naomi's dead husband, Elimelek. He was also rich and influential.
\p
@ -116,10 +115,8 @@ Naomi replied, "Go ahead, my daughter."
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\v 23 So Ruth worked alongside of Boaz's servant girls. She gathered stalks of grain until the workers had finished harvesting both the barley and the wheat. During that time she continued to live with Naomi.
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\c 3
\p
\v 1 One day, Naomi said to Ruth, "My daughter, I think that I should try to arrange for you to have a home and a husband who will provide for you.
\v 2 Boaz is a close relative of ours, and he has been very kind by letting you gather grain with his servant girls. Listen carefully. Tonight he will be at the place where they thresh the barley. He will be separating the grain from the chaff.
@ -159,10 +156,8 @@ Naomi replied, "Go ahead, my daughter."
\v 17 She also said to Naomi, "He gave me all this barley, saying, 'I do not want you to return to your mother-in-law empty-handed.'"
\v 18 Then Naomi said, "My daughter, just wait here until we see what happens. I am sure that Boaz will surely take care of this matter today."
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\c 4
\p
\v 1 Meanwhile, Boaz went up to the meeting place at the gate leading into the town and sat down there. Before long, the close relative that Boaz had mentioned came along. Boaz said to him, "My cousin, come over here and sit down." So the man went and sat down.
\v 2 Boaz then gathered ten of the elders of the town and asked them to join them. So they sat down.
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\v 18-22 Here is a list of the descendants of Perez: Perez's son was Hezron. Hezron's son was Ram. Ram's son was Amminadab. Amminadab's son was Nahshon. Nahshon's son was Salmon. Salmon's son was Boaz. Boaz's son was Obed. Obed's son was Jesse. Jesse's son was David.

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\toc2 First Samuel
\toc3 1Sa
\mt1 1 Samuel
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\c 1
\p
\v 1 There was a man named Elkanah, a descendant of Zuph, who lived in the city of Ramah in the hill country, where the people of the tribe of Ephraim lived. His father was Jeroham, his grandfather was Elihu, and his great-grandfather was Tohu. He belonged to the clan of Zuph.
\v 2 He had two wives: Hannah and Peninnah. Now Peninnah had several children, but Hannah had no children.
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\v 19 Early the next morning, Elkanah and his family got up and worshiped Yahweh again, and then they returned to their home at Ramah. Then Elkanah slept with Hannah, and Yahweh answered her prayer.
\v 20 She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, which sounds like the words in the Hebrew language that mean "heard by God," because she said, "Yahweh heard me when I requested a son from him."
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\p
\v 21 The following year, Elkanah went up to Shiloh with his family to make the kind of sacrifice he made each year, and also to give a special offering to God that he had promised to give him previously.
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\v 27 I prayed that Yahweh would enable me to give birth to a child, and this is that child!
\v 28 So now I am presenting him to Yahweh. He will belong to Yahweh as long as he lives." Then Elkanah and his family worshiped Yahweh there.
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\p
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\p
\v 11 Then Elkanah and his family returned to Ramah, but Samuel, the little boy, stayed to help Eli the priest serve Yahweh.
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\p
\v 12 Eli's two sons, who were also priests, were very wicked. They were not faithful to Yahweh.
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\v 20 Then Eli would ask God to bless Elkanah and his wife, and he would say to Elkanah, "I hope that Yahweh will enable your wife to give birth to other children, to take the place of the one whom she dedicated to Yahweh." Then Elkanah and his family would return home.
\v 21 Yahweh was indeed very kind to Hannah, for he enabled her to give birth to three other sons and two daughters. Their son Samuel grew up while he was doing work for Yahweh in his temple.
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\p
\v 22 Now Eli became very old. He often heard about all the evil things that his sons were doing to the Israelite people. He heard that they sometimes slept with the women who worked at the entrance to the tent where God spoke to his people.
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\v 25 If one person sins against another person, God can intercede between them. But if someone sins against Yahweh, who will speak up for him?" But Eli's sons would not listen to what their father said. This was because Yahweh had decided that someone needed to kill them.
\p
\v 26 The boy Samuel continued to grow up, and the things that he did pleased Yahweh and the people.
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\v 36 All of your descendants who remain alive will have to go to that priest and ask him to give them money and food, and they will each have to say, "Please allow me to help the other priests, in order that I may earn some money to buy some food."'"
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\c 3
\p
\v 1 While he was still a boy, Samuel was serving Yahweh while Eli supervised him. At that time there were very few messages that anyone received from Yahweh, and very few people saw visions that Yahweh gave them.
\p
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\v 20 So all the people of Israel, from the northern end of the country to the southern end, realized that Samuel was truly a prophet of Yahweh.
\v 21 Yahweh continued to appear to Samuel in Shiloh and give messages to him.
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\c 4
\p
\v 1 Samuel told to all the people of Israel the messages that God gave him.
\p At that time the Israelite army went to fight against the army of the Philistine people. The Israelite army set up their tents at Ebenezer, and the Philistine army set up their tents at Aphek.
\v 2 The Philistine army attacked the Israelite army, and as the battle continued, the Philistines defeated the Israelites and killed about four thousand of their soldiers.
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\v 10 So the Philistine men fought very hard, and they defeated the Israelites. They killed thirty thousand Israelite soldiers, and the other Israelite soldiers fled and ran away to their tents.
\v 11 The Philistines captured the sacred chest, and they killed Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas.
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\p
\v 12 On that same day, one man of the tribe descended from Benjamin ran from the place where the armies were fighting. He tore his clothes and threw soil on his head to show that he was very sad. He arrived at Shiloh late that afternoon.
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\v 21 She named the boy Ichabod, which means "no glory," because she said, "God's glory has departed from Israel." She said that because God's sacred chest had been captured and because her husband and her father-in-law had died.
\v 22 She said, "God's glory has left Israel, because God's sacred chest has been captured!" And then she died.
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\p
\v 1 After the army of the Philistia people captured God's sacred chest in the town of Ebenezer, they took it to Ashdod, one of their largest cities.
\v 2 They carried it into the temple of their god Dagon and placed it alongside a statue of Dagon.
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\v 11 So the people of Ekron also summoned the Philistine kings. When they came, the people said to them, "Take this sacred chest of the god of the Israelites back to its own place! If you do not do that quickly, we will all die!" The people were terrified because they knew that God was starting to punish them severely.
\v 12 Some of the people in Ekron had already died, and the rest of the people were suffering because of tumors on their skins. So they all cried out to their gods to help them.
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\p
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\p
\v 21 They sent messengers to the people of the city of Kiriath Jearim to tell them, "The people of Philistia have returned Yahweh's sacred chest to us! Come here and take it to your city!"
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\p
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\p
\v 2 The sacred chest stayed in Kiriath Jearim for a long time. It stayed there for twenty years. During that time all the people of Israel mourned because it seemed that Yahweh had abandoned them, and they wanted to turn to him for help again.
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\v 3 Then Samuel said to all the Israelite people, "If you truly want to honor Yahweh again, you must get rid of your statues of the goddess Ashtoreth and the idols the Philistine people."
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\v 16 Every year he traveled among the cities of Bethel and Gilgal and Mizpah. In those cities he listened to disputes between people and made decisions about them.
\v 17 After he made decisions in each of those cities, he returned to his home at Ramah, and he would listen to people's disputes there, also, and make decisions about them. He built an altar at Ramah to offer sacrifices to Yahweh.
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\p
\v 1 When Samuel became old, he appointed his two sons, Joel and Abijah, to lead the people of Israel.
\v 2 They judged people's disputes in the town of Beersheba.
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\v 21 When Samuel told Yahweh what the people had said,
\v 22 Yahweh replied, "Do what they are telling you to do. Give them a king!" So Samuel agreed, and then he sent the people home.
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\v 1 Now there was a rich and influential man, whose name was Kish. He belonged to the tribe descended from Benjamin. Kish was son of Abiel and the grandson of Zeror. He was from the family of Bekorath and from the clan of Aphiah.
\v 2 Kish had a son whose name was Saul. He was more handsome than any of the other Israelite men, and he was a head taller than any of the other Israelite men.
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\p
\v 27 When they got to the edge of the town, Samuel told Saul to send his servant ahead. After the servant left, Samuel said to Saul, "Stay here for a few minutes, in order that I can give you a message I received from God."
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\c 10
\p
\v 1 Then Samuel took a small jar of olive oil and poured some of it on Saul's head. Then he kissed Saul on the cheek, and told him, "I am doing this because Yahweh has chosen you to be the leader of his Israelite people.
\v 2 When you leave me today, and when you arrive near Rachel's tomb at Zelzah, in the region of the tribe of Benjamin, you will meet two men. They will say to you, 'The donkeys have been found, but now your father is worrying about you, and he is asking people if they have seen you.'
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\p
\v 8 Then go ahead of me, down to the city of Gilgal, and wait for me for seven days. Then I will join you there to burn sacrifices and offer other sacrifices to enable you to continue to have fellowship with God. When I arrive there, I will tell you what other things you should do."
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\p
\v 9 As Saul started to leave there, God changed Saul's inner being. And all the things that Samuel had predicted happened on that day.
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\v 26 When Saul returned to his home in the town of Gibeah, a group of courageous men decided to continually accompany Saul. They did that because God motivated them to do that.
\v 27 But some worthless men said, "How can this man save us from our enemies?" They despised him and refused to give him any gifts to show that they would be loyal to him. But Saul did not say anything to rebuke them.
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\c 11
\p
\v 1 About a month later, King Nahash of Ammon led his army across the Jordan River, and they surrounded the city of Jabesh in the region of Gilead. But all the men of Jabesh appointed someone who said to Nahash, "Make an agreement with us not to kill us, and then we will let you rule us."
\p
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\p
\v 11 But before the sun rose the next morning, Saul and his army arrived. He divided them into three groups. They rushed into the camp of the soldiers from Ammon, and attacked them. By noontime they had killed most of them, and those who were not killed scattered. Each of them who ran away ran away alone.
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\p
\v 12 Then the people of Jabesh said to Samuel, "Where are those men who said that they did not want Saul to be our king? Bring them here, and we will kill them!"
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\v 14 Then Samuel said to the people, "Let us all go to Gilgal, and there we will again proclaim that Saul is our king."
\v 15 So they went to Gilgal. There, knowing that Yahweh was watching, they proclaimed that Saul was their king. Then they offered sacrifices to enable them to continue to have fellowship with Yahweh. And Saul and all the other Israelite people were very happy.
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\c 12
\p
\v 1 Then Samuel said this to all the Israelite people: "I have done everything that you told me to do, and I have given a king to rule you.
\v 2 My own sons are grown up and with you now, but I have appointed Saul instead of one of them, and he is now your leader. I am now old, and my hair is gray. I have been your leader ever since I was a boy.
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\v 24 But you must honor Yahweh and serve him with your whole inner being. Never forget all the great things that he has done for you.
\v 25 If you keep doing wicked things, he will get rid of you and your king!"
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\p
\v 1 Saul was thirty years old when he began to reign. He ruled for forty years.
\p
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\v 15 Then Samuel left Gilgal and went up to Gibeah. Saul stayed at Gilgal with his soldiers. There were only about six hundred of them left who did not run away.
\p
\v 16 Saul and his son Jonathan and the soldiers who were with them went to the city of Geba in the area of the tribe of Benjamin and set up their tents there. The Philistine army set up their tents at Micmash.
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\p
\v 23 Before the battle started, some Philistine men went to the mountain pass outside Micmash to guard it.
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\p
\v 15 Then all the other Philistine soldiers, the ones in the camp and the ones who had been attacking the Israelite towns, ones who were out in the field much closer, panicked. Then God caused the ground to shake, and they all became terrified afraid.
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\p
\v 16 Saul's lookouts were in the town of Gibeah in the region of the tribe of Benjamin. They saw that the soldiers of the Philistine army were running away in all directions.
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\v 22 Some of the Israelite soldiers had previously run away and hidden in the mountains where the tribe of Ephraim lived. But when they heard that the Philistine soldiers were running away, they came down and joined the other Israelite soldiers and pursued the Philistine soldiers.
\v 23 So Yahweh rescued the Israelites on that day. The Israelite soldiers continued to pursue their enemies beyond the town of Beth Aven.
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\p
\v 24 Before Saul's soldiers went to the battle, Saul declared to them solemnly, "I do not want any of you to eat any food before this evening, before we have defeated all our enemies. If anyone eats anything, Yahweh will curse because they were very hungry.
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\v 35 That was the first time that he built an altar for Yahweh.
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\p
\v 36 Then Saul said to the Israelite soldiers, "Let us chase the Philistine soldiers tonight. We can attack them all night. We will not allow any of them to escape alive."
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\p So by saying that the Israelite soldiers rescued Jonathan, and he was not executed.
\v 46 Then Saul ordered his soldiers to stop pursuing the Philistine army, so the Philistine soldiers returned to their homes.
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\p
\v 47 After Saul became the ruler, he fought against enemies on every side. He fought against Moab, the Ammonites, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever the Israelite army fought, they defeated their enemies.
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\p
\v 52 All the time that Saul was alive, his army fought against the Philistine army. And whenever Saul saw a young man who was brave and strong, he forced him to join his army.
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\c 15
\p
\v 1 One day Samuel said to Saul, "Yahweh sent me to appoint you to be the king of the Israelite people. So now listen to this message from Yahweh:
\v 2 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, has declared this: 'I am going to punish the descendants of Amalek for attacking the Israelite people after the Israelites left Egypt.
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\v 8 Saul's army captured Agag, the king of the Amalek people , but they killed everyone else.
\v 9 They not only spared Agag, but they also took the best sheep and goats and cattle. They took everything that was good. They destroyed only the animals that they considered to be worthless.
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\v 10 Then Yahweh said to Samuel,
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\q2 So, because you disobeyed what Yahweh told you to do,
\q1 he has declared that you will no longer be king."
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\p
\v 24 Then Saul said to Samuel, "Yes, I have sinned. I disobeyed what you told me to do, which is what Yahweh commanded. I did that because I was afraid of what my men would say if I did not do what they wanted. So I did what they demanded.
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\v 30 Then Saul pleaded again. He said, "I know that I have sinned. But please honor me in front of the leaders of the Israelite people and in front of all the other Israelite people by coming back to them with me in order that I may worship Yahweh your God."
\v 31 So Samuel finally agreed to do that, and they went together back to where the people were, and Saul worshiped Yahweh there.
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\p
\v 32 Then Samuel said, "Bring King Agag to me." So they brought Agag to him. Agag was brought before him, and he was locked in chains. He thought, "Surely the bitterness of death is past!"
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\v 34 Then Samuel left there and returned to his home in Ramah, and Saul went to his home in Gibeah.
\v 35 Samuel never saw Saul again, but he was very sad about what Saul had done. And Yahweh was very sorry that he had appointed Saul to be the king of Israel.
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\v 1 Finally, Yahweh said to Samuel, "I have decided that I will not allow Saul to continue to be the king. So you should not keep feeling sad about what he has done. Put some olive oil in a small container and go to Bethlehem to anoint someone with the oil, and appoint him to be king. I am sending you there to a man named Jesse, because I have chosen one of his sons to be the king of Israel."
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\p
\v 13 So as David stood there in front of his older brothers, Samuel took the container of oil that he had brought and poured some of it on David's head to set him apart to serve God. After they all ate, Samuel left there and returned to Ramah. But Yahweh's Spirit came on David powerfully, and stayed with David for the rest of his life.
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\p
\v 14 But Yahweh's Spirit left Saul. Instead of his Spirit staying with Saul, Yahweh sent an evil spirit to Saul to terrify him repeatedly.
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\p
\v 23 Jesse agreed, and after that, whenever the evil spirit whom God sent tormented Saul, David played the harp. Then Saul would become calm, and the evil spirit would leave him.
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\p
\v 1 The Philistines gathered their army to fight the Israelite army. They gathered together near Sokoh, in the area where the descendants of Judah lived. They set up their tents at Ephes Dammim, which is between Sokoh and Azekah.
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\v 10 None of you Israelite men can defeat me! Send me a man who will fight with me!"
\v 11 When Saul and all the Israelite soldiers heard that, they were very terrified.
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\v 12 Now David son of Jesse was from the clan of Ephrath. He lived in Bethlehem, in the region of the tribe of Judah. Jesse had eight sons. When Saul was king, Jesse had already become a very old man.
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\p
\v 40 Then he took his walking staff; then he chose five smooth stones out of a streambed. He put them in the pouch of his shoulder bag. Then he put his sling in his hand and started walking toward Goliath.
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\p
\v 41 Goliath walked toward David, with the soldier who was carrying his shield walking in front of him. When he got near David,
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\p
\v 58 Saul asked him, "Young man, whose son are you?" David replied, "Sir, I am the son of your servant Jesse, who lives in Bethlehem."
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\v 1 After David finished talking with Saul, he met Saul's son, Jonathan. Jonathan immediately liked David; in fact, he began to love him.
\v 2 From that day, Saul kept David with him to serve him; he did not let him return home.
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\v 15 When Saul heard that David and his soldiers were very successful, he became more afraid of David.
\v 16 But all the people of Israel and of Judah loved David, because he led the soldiers very successfully in the battles.
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\p
\v 17 One day Saul said to David, "I am ready to give you my oldest daughter, Merab, to be your wife. I will do that if you serve me bravely by fighting battles for Yahweh against the Philistines." He said that because he thought, "I will not try to get rid of David by myself. I will allow the Philistines to do that."
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\v 25 Saul replied, "Go and say to David, 'In order for the king to allow you to marry Michal, he wants you to kill one hundred Philistines and to cut off their foreskins and bring the foreskins to him to prove that you have killed them. In that way he will get revenge on his enemies.'" But what Saul really wanted was that the Philistines would kill David while he was trying to kill them.
\p
\v 26 When the servants told that to David, he was very pleased that he could become the king's son-in-law by doing that. The king had said how many days he would allow for David to do that.
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\v 27 But before that time ended, David and his men went and killed, not one hundred, but two hundred Philistines! He brought their foreskins to Saul, and counted them while Saul was watching, in order to prove that he had fulfilled what the king required so that he could become Saul's son-in-law. So then Saul was obligated to allow David to marry his daughter Michal.
\p
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\p
\v 30 The Philistine armies repeatedly came to fight the Israelites, but every time they fought, David and his soldiers were more successful than any of Saul's other army commanders. As a result, David became very famous.
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\v 1 Then Saul urged all his servants and his son Jonathan to kill David. But Jonathan liked David very much.
\v 2 So he warned David, "My father Saul is seeking for a way to kill you. So be careful. Tomorrow morning go and find a place to hide in the field.
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\v 10 Saul hurled his spear at David to try to fasten him to the wall. David dodged, and the spear did not hit him. The spear stuck in the wall, but David ran out into the darkness and escaped.
\p
\v 11 Then Saul sent messengers to David's house. He told them to watch the house and to kill David while he was leaving the house the following morning. But David's wife Michal saw them and warned him, saying, "To save your life, you must run away tonight, because if you do not do that, you will be killed tomorrow!"
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\v 23 While Saul was walking toward Naioth, the Spirit of God also came upon him. While he walked on, he shouted messages from Yahweh until he came to Naioth.
\v 24 There he took off his outer clothes, and he spoke messages from God in front of Samuel. He lay on the ground doing that all day and all night. That is the reason that when people see someone doing something that is very unexpected, they say, "Is Saul also a prophet?"
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\p
\v 1 David ran away from Naioth. He went to Jonathan and asked him, "What have I done to displease your father? What did I do that was wrong? Why is he trying to kill me?"
\p
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\v 35 The following morning Jonathan went out to the field to give a message to David, as he had agreed that he would do. He took a young boy with him.
\v 36 Jonathan said to the boy, "Run and find the arrows that I shoot." The boy started running, and Jonathan shot an arrow ahead of the boy.
\v 37 The boy ran to the place where the arrow hit the ground, but Jonathan called out, "The arrow is further away!"
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\v 38 Then he shouted to the boy, "Go quickly; do not wait! Do not stop!" The boy picked up the arrow and brought it back to Jonathan.
\v 39 But the boy did not understand the meaning of what Jonathan had said; only Jonathan and David knew.
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\p
\v 42 Jonathan said to David, "May things go well for you as you go. Yahweh has heard what we solemnly promised to always do for each other, and what we said that our descendants must do for each other." Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.
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\p
\v 1 David fled from there and went to the city of Nob to see Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech trembled when he saw David because he was afraid that something bad had happened. He said to David, "Why are you alone? Why have no men come with you?"
\p
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\v 14 Then King Achish said to his men, "Look at this man! He is acting like an insane man! Why have you brought him to me?
\v 15 Have you brought him because I do not already have enough insane men here in my house?"
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\p
\v 1 David and his men left Gath and went east to hide in a cave on a hill near the town of Adullam. Soon his older brothers and all his other relatives came and stayed with him there.
\v 2 Then other men came there. Some were men who had caused trouble, some were men who owed money, and some were men who were unhappy for any reason. They continued to come until there were four hundred men there, and David was their leader.
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\p
\v 5 One day the prophet Gad told David, "Leave your hideout here and return to Judah." So David and his men went to the Hereth Forest in Judah.
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\p
\v 6 One day, someone told Saul that David and his men had arrived in Judah. On that day, Saul was sitting underneath the tamarisk tree on a hill near the town of Gibeah. He was holding his spear and was surrounded by his army officers.
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\v 22 Then David said to him, "That man from the Edom people , Doeg, was there at Nob on the day that I was there. I knew that he would surely tell Saul what happened. So it is my fault that your father and all of his family have been killed.
\v 23 You stay with me, and do not be afraid. The man who wants to kill you wants to kill me also, but you will be safe if you stay with me."
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\p
\v 1 One day someone told David, "You need to know that the Philistine army is attacking the town of Keilah and that they are stealing grain from where men are threshing it."
\v 2 David asked Yahweh, "Should my men and I go to fight against those men from the Philistia people ?"
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\p
\v 6 Abiathar son of Ahimelech, fled to be with David at Keilah, and he brought a sacred apron with him to use to determine what God wanted him to do.
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\p
\v 7 Soon Saul found out that David was at Keilah. So he said, "That is good! God is enabling me to capture him! He has trapped himself in that town, because it has high walls with gates around it."
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\v 28 So Saul stopped pursuing David, and he and his soldiers went to fight against the Philistine army. That is the reason that people call that place the Rock of Escape.
\v 29 David and his men also left that place and went to places to hide safely at Engedi.
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\p
\v 1 After Saul and his soldiers returned home after fighting against the Philistine army, someone reported to Saul that David and his men had gone into the wilderness near EnGedi.
\v 2 When Saul heard that, he chose three thousand men from various areas in Israel, and they went to search for David and his men at the Rocks of Wild Goats.
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\p
\v 22 David solemnly promised Saul that he would not harm Saul's family. Then Saul went back home, and David and his men went back up into the place where they had been hiding.
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\c 25
\p
\v 1 Soon after that, Samuel died, and all the Israelite people gathered and mourned for him. They buried his body outside his home in Ramah.
\p Then David and his men moved to the wilderness of Paran.
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\p
\v 39 After David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "I praise Yahweh! Nabal insulted me, but Yahweh has shown that I have been right. He has prevented me from doing anything wrong. And he has punished Nabal for the wrong that he did."
\p Then David sent messengers to Abigail, to ask her if she would become his wife.
\v 40 His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, "David sent us to take you to become his wife."
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\v 43 David had previously married Ahinoam, a woman from Jezreel near Carmel. So both Abigail and Ahinoam were now David's wives.
\v 44 King Saul's daughter Michal was also David's wife, but Saul had given her to Laish's son Paltiel, who was in the town of Gallim.
\s5
\c 26
\p
\v 1 One day some of the people of Ziph town went to Saul while he was at Gibeah, and they said to him, "David is hiding in a cave on the hill of Hakilah, east of the town of Jeshimon."
\p
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\s5
\v 11 But I hope that Yahweh will prevent me from harming the king whom he has appointed. Let us take Saul's spear and water jug that are near his head. Then let us get out of here!"
\p
\v 12 So David took the spear and the jug, and he and Abishai left. No one saw them or knew what they were doing, and no one woke up, because Yahweh had caused them to be sound asleep.
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\v 25 Then Saul said to David, "My son David, I pray that Yahweh may bless you. May you do great things very successfully."
\p Then David returned to his men, and Saul went back home.
\s5
\c 27
\p
\v 1 But David thought, "Saul will try to capture me if I stay around here. So the best thing that I can do is to escape and go to the region of Philistia. If I do that, Saul will stop searching for me here in Israel, and I will be safe."
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\v 11 David's men never brought back to Gath any man or woman who was still alive. David thought, "If we do not kill everyone, some of them who are still alive they will go and tell Achish the truth about what we really did." David did that all the time that he and his men lived in the region of Philistia.
\v 12 So Achish believed what David told him; he thought, "Because of what David has done, his own people, the Israelites, must now hate him very much. So he will have to stay here and serve me forever."
\s5
\c 28
\p
\v 1 Some time later, the people of Philistia gathered their army to attack the Israelites again. King Achish told David, "I am expecting that you and your men will join with my men to attack the Israelites."
\p
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\v 24 The woman had a fat calf close to her house. She quickly slaughtered it and cooked it. She took some flour and mixed it with olive oil, and baked it without putting in any yeast.
\v 25 She placed the food in front of Saul and his servants, and they ate some of it. Then that same night they got up and left.
\s5
\c 29
\p
\v 1 The Philistine army gathered at the Valley of Aphek. The Israelites set up their tents at the city of Jezreel, which was in the same valley.
\v 2 The kings of Philistia divided their men into groups; some groups had one hundred soldiers and some groups had one thousand soldiers. David and his men were marching behind, with King Achish.
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\p
\v 11 So David and his men got up early the following morning and returned to the area where the Philistine people lived. But the Philistine army went up to the city of Jezreel.
\s5
\c 30
\p
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\v 30 Hormah, Bor Ashan, Athak,
\v 31 Hebron, and all the other places where David and his men had often gone.
\s5
\c 31
\p
\v 1 Later, the Philistines again fought against the Israelites. The Israelites ran away from them, and many Israelites were killed on Mount Gilboa.
\v 2 The Philistines caught up with Saul and his three sons, and they killed three of his sons, Jonathan and Abinadab and Malki-Shua.
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\v 11 When the people who lived in Jabesh in the region of Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul's corpse,
\v 12 all their bravest soldiers walked all night to Beth Shan. They took the corpses of Saul and his sons down from the city wall, and they took them back to Jabesh and burned the corpses there.
\v 13 They took the bones and buried them under a big tamarisk tree. Then they fasted for seven days.

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\toc2 Second Samuel
\toc3 2Sa
\mt1 2 Samuel
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\c 1
\p
\v 1 After Saul died, David and the men who were with him returned to the town of Ziklag after defeating the descendants of Amalek. They stayed in Ziklag for two days.
\v 2 On the third day, a man unexpectedly arrived there who had been in Saul's army. He had torn his clothes and put dust on his head to show that he was grieving. He came to David and prostrated himself on the ground in front of David to show respect for him.
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\v 14 David asked him, "Why were you not afraid that you would be punished if you killed Saul, whom Yahweh made king?
\v 15-16 You yourself said, 'I killed the man whom Yahweh appointed to be the king.' So you have made yourself guilty; you deserve to die!" Then David summoned one of his soldiers and said to him, "Kill him!" So the soldier killed him.
\s5
\p
\v 17 Then David composed this sad song about Saul and Jonathan,
@ -92,10 +91,8 @@
\v 27 It is very sad that these mighty men have died,
\q2 and that their weapons are now no more!
\s5
\c 2
\p
\v 1 Some time after that, David asked Yahweh, "Should I go up to one of the towns in Judah?" Yahweh replied, "Yes, go up there." Then David asked, "To which town should I go?" Yahweh replied, "To Hebron."
\p
@ -111,7 +108,6 @@
\v 6 Now I also desire that Yahweh will faithfully love you and be loyal to you. And I will do good things for you because of what you have done for Saul.
\v 7 Now, although Saul your king is dead, be strong and courageous, like the people of Judah, who have appointed me to be their king."
\s5
\p
\v 8 However, Ner's son Abner, the commander of Saul's army, took Saul's son Ishbosheth and went across the Jordan River to the city of Mahanaim.
@ -122,7 +118,6 @@
\v 10 Ishbosheth was forty years old when he started to rule over the Israelite people. He ruled them for two years. But the tribe of Judah was loyal to David.
\v 11 David ruled them for seven and a half years while he was living in Hebron.
\s5
\p
\v 12 One day Abner and the officials of Isbosheth went from Mahanaim across the Jordan River to the city of Gibeon.
@ -139,7 +134,6 @@
\p
\v 17 Then the others started to fight also. It was a very fierce battle. Abner and the men of Israel were defeated by David's soldiers.
\s5
\p
\v 18 Zeruiah's three sons were there on that day: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel was able to run very fast. He could run as fast as a wild gazelle.
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\v 31 But David's soldiers had killed 360 of Abner's men, all from the tribe of Benjamin.
\v 32 Some of Joab's soldiers took Asahel's body and buried it in the tomb where his father had been buried, in Bethlehem. Then they marched all during the night, and at dawn they arrived back home at Hebron.
\s5
\c 3
\p
\v 1 After that, a long war developed between those who wanted Saul's son to be their king and those who wanted David to be their king. But more and more people began to want David, while fewer and fewer wanted Saul's son.
\s5
\q
\v 2 David's wives gave birth to six sons at Hebron. The oldest was Amnon, whose mother was Ahinoam from the city of Jezreel.
\q2
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\q2 These sons of David were all born in Hebron.
\s5
\p
\v 6 During the conflict between those who wanted Saul's son to rule over them and those who wanted David to rule over them, Abner was becoming more influential among those who wanted Saul's son to be the king.
\v 7 Saul had as one of his wives a slave woman named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. But one day Abner slept with her. So Ishbosheth said to Abner, "Why have you slept with my father's slave wife?"
@ -210,6 +201,7 @@
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\p
\v 8 Abner became very angry about what Ishbosheth said to him. He said to Ishbosheth, "Do you think that I am a worthless dog from Judah? From the beginning I have been loyal to Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends. And I have kept David's army from defeating you. So now why are you criticizing me about what I have done with some woman?
\s5
\v 9-10 Yahweh solemnly promised that he would not allow Saul and his descendants to continue to rule. He promised that he would cause David to rule over all the tribes of Israel and Judah, from the city of Dan far in the north to the city of Beersheba far in the south. So I hope that God will kill me if I do not enable that to happen!"
\v 11 Ishbosheth was very afraid of Abner, so he did not say anything to reply to Abner.
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\v 21 Afterwards, Abner said to David, "Sir, I will now go and encourage all the people of Israel to accept you to be their king, as you have desired." Then Abner left, peacefully.
\s5
\p
\v 22 Soon after that, Joab and some of David's other soldiers returned to Hebron after raiding one of their enemy's villages, bringing with them a lot of things that they had captured. But Abner was not there at Hebron, because David had already sent him safely away.
\v 23 When Joab and the soldiers who were with him arrived, someone told him that Abner had come there and talked with the king, and that the king allowed Abner to go away safely.
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\v 38 The king said to his officials, "Do you not realize that a leader and a great man has died today in Israel?
\v 39 Even though Yahweh appointed me to be the king, today I feel weak. These two sons of Zeruiah, Joab and Abishai, are very violent. I cannot control them. So I hope that Yahweh will punish them severely in return for this wicked deed that they have done!"
\s5
\c 4
\p
\v 1 When Saul's son Ishbosheth heard that Abner had been killed at Hebron, he became very discouraged, and all the Israelite people with him.
\v 2 Ishbosheth had two officers who were leaders of groups of soldiers. They were brothers with the names of Baanah and Recab; they were sons of Rimmon from the town of Beeroth in the tribe of Benjamin. Now Beeroth is in the area that had been assigned to the tribe of Benjamin.
@ -316,10 +305,8 @@
\p
\v 12 Then David gave a command to his soldiers, and they killed the two men, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hung their bodies on a pole near the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it respectfully in the tomb of Abner, there at Hebron.
\s5
\c 5
\p
\v 1 Then the leaders of all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said to him, "Listen, we have the same ancestors that you do.
\v 2 In the past, when Saul was our king, it was you who led our soldiers into battle. You are the one to whom Yahweh promised, 'You will be the leader of my people. You will be their king.'"
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\v 4 David was thirty years old when he became their king. He ruled them for forty years.
\v 5 In Hebron he had ruled over the tribe of Judah for seven and a half years, and in Jerusalem he would rule over all the people of Judah and Israel for thirty-three years.
\s5
\p
\v 6 One day King David and his soldiers went to Jerusalem to fight against the Jebus people who lived there. The people there thought that David's army would not be able to capture the city, so they said to David, "Your army will never be able to get inside our city! Even the blind and crippled people can stop you!"
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\p
\v 11 One day Hiram, the king of the city of Tyre, sent ambassadors to David to talk about making an agreement between their countries. Hiram agreed to provide cedar trees to make lumber, and he also agreed that he would send carpenters and masons to build a palace for David.
\v 12 Because Hiram did these things, David realized that Yahweh had truly appointed him to be the king of Israel. He also realized that because Yahweh loved the Israelites and chosen them to belong to himself, he had increased David's own power as king.
\s5
\p
\v 13 After David moved from Hebron to Jerusalem, he took more slave women to be his wives, and he also married other women. All of those women gave birth to more sons and daughters.
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\v 15 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,
\v 16 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
\s5
\p
\v 17 When the Philistine people heard that David had been made king of Israel, their army went up toward Jerusalem to try to capture David. But David heard that they were coming, so he went down to another fortified place.
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\v 24 When you hear something in the tops of the balsam trees that sounds like an army marching, attack them. Then you will know that I will have gone ahead of you to enable your army to defeat their army."
\v 25 So David did what Yahweh told him to do, and his army defeated the Philistine army and chased it from the city of Geba all the way west to the city of Gezer.
\s5
\c 6
\p
\v 1 Then David chose thirty thousand Israelite men and gathered them together.
\v 2 He led them to the place in Judah formerly called Baalah, now called Kiriath Jearim. They went in order to bring the sacred chest to Jerusalem , the chest that had the name of Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, written on it, and that had the figures of the winged creatures on top of it. Between those statues was where Yahweh himself was present, though he remained unseen.
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\p
\v 23 As a result, Saul's daughter never gave birth to any children.
\s5
\c 7
\p
\v 1 The king began to live in his palace. By now Yahweh had caused the enemy peoples to stop attacking Israel.
\v 2 One day David said to the prophet Nathan, "It is not right that I am here, living in a beautiful house made of cedar wood, but the chest that contains God's Ten Commandments is kept in a tent!"
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\p
\v 17 So Nathan told David everything that Yahweh had told him.
\s5
\p
\v 18 When David heard Nathan's message, he went into the sacred tent and sat in Yahweh's presence, and prayed this:
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\v 28 So now, O Yahweh, because you are God, we can trust that you will do what you promise. You have promised these good things to me.
\v 29 So now I ask you that if it pleases you, you will bless my descendants, in order that they may continue to rule forever. Yahweh God, you have promised these things, so I know that if you do these things, you will keep blessing my descendants forever."
\s5
\c 8
\p
\v 1 Some time later, David's army attacked the Philistine army and defeated them. They took control over the Philistine city of Gath and its surrounding villages.
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\v 17 Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were the priests. Seraiah was the official secretary;
\v 18 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the commander of David's bodyguards, and David's sons were his advisors.
\s5
\c 9
\p
\v 1 One day David asked some of his servants, "Is there anyone who is a descendant of Saul to whom I can act kindly?" He asked this because he had loved Jonathan.
\p
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\v 12 Mephibosheth had a young son named Mika. All of Ziba's family became servants of Mephibosheth.
\v 13 So Mephibosheth, who was still crippled in both of his feet, started to live in Jerusalem, and he always ate at the king's table.
\s5
\c 10
\p
\v 1 Some time later, Nahash, the king of the Ammon people , died; then his son Hanun became their king.
\v 2 David thought to himself, "Nahash was kind to me, so I will be kind to his son." So David sent some officials there, to tell Hanun that David was sorry that Hanun's father had died.
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\v 18 But the Aramites ran away from the Israelite soldiers. David and his army killed seven hundred of their chariot soldiers and forty thousand other soldiers. They also wounded Shobak, their commander, and he died there.
\v 19 When all the kings whom Hadadezer ruled realized that Israel had defeated them, they made peace with the Israelites and agreed to accept David as their king. So the Arameans were unwilling to help the Ammonites any longer, because they were afraid of Israel.
\s5
\c 11
\p
\v 1 In that region, kings usually went with their armies to fight their enemies in the springtime. But the following year, in the springtime, David did not do that. Instead, he stayed in Jerusalem, and he sent his commander Joab to lead the army. So Joab went with the other officers and the rest of the Israelite army. They crossed the Jordan River and defeated the army of the Ammon people . Then they surrounded their capital city, Rabbah.
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\v 18 Then Joab sent a messenger to David to tell him about the fighting.
\v 19 He said to the messenger, "Tell David the news about the battle. After you finish telling that to him,
\v 20 if David is angry because so many officers were killed, he may ask you, 'Why did your soldiers go so close to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot arrows at you from the top of the city wall?
\s5
\v 21 Do you not remember how Abimelech son of Gideon was killed? A woman who lived in Thebez threw a huge millstone on him from the top of a tower, and he died. So why did our troops go near to the city wall?' If the king asks this, then tell him, 'Your officer Uriah also was killed.'"
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\v 26 When Uriah's wife Bathsheba heard that her husband had died, she mourned for him.
\v 27 When her time of mourning was over, David sent messengers to bring her to the palace. In this way she became David's wife. She later gave birth to a son. But Yahweh was very displeased with what David had done.
\s5
\c 12
\p
\v 1 Yahweh told the prophet Nathan what David had done, and he sent Nathan to tell this story to David, "Once there were two men in a certain city. One man was rich and the other was poor.
\v 2 The rich man owned a lot of cattle and sheep.
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\v 24 Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba. Then he slept with her, and she became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. David named that boy Solomon. Yahweh loved this little boy.
\v 25 He told the prophet Nathan to tell David to name the baby boy Jedidiah, because Yahweh loved him.
\s5
\p
\v 26 Meanwhile, Joab's soldiers attacked Rabbah, the capital city of the Ammon people . They captured the king's fortress, which protected the water supply.
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\s5
\v 31 Then they brought the people out of the city and forced them to work for them, using saws, iron picks, and axes. David's troops also forced them to make bricks. David's soldiers did this in all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all of his army returned to Jerusalem.
\s5
\c 13
\p
\v 1 David's son Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar. Another of David's sons, Amnon, was attracted to Tamar, with whom he was a half-brother.
\v 2 He wanted to sleep with Tamar very much, so much that he felt sick with desire. But it seemed impossible for Amnon to get her, because she was a virgin, so they kept men away from her.
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\p But King David mourned for his son Amnon for a long time,
\v 39 but after that, he desired very much to see Absalom, because he was no longer grieving about Amnon being dead.
\s5
\c 14
\p
\v 1 Joab realized that the king was longing to see Absalom.
\v 2 So Joab sent someone to the city of Tekoa to bring to him a woman who was very clever. When she arrived, Joab said to her, "Pretend that you are grieving because someone has died. Put on clothes that show that you are mourning. Do not put any lotion on your body. Act as if you were a woman who has been mourning for a long time.
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\v 32 Absalom replied, "Because you did not come to me when I sent messengers to you requesting that you come. I wanted to request that you go to the king to say to him, 'Absalom wants to know what good it did for him to leave Geshur and come here. He thinks that it would have been better for him to stay there. He wants you to allow him to talk to you. And if you think that he has done something that is wrong, you can command that he be executed.'"
\v 33 So Joab went to the king and told him what Absalom had said. Then the king summoned Absalom, and he came to the king and knelt down in front of him with his face touching the ground. Then the king kissed Absalom to show that he was pleased to see him.
\s5
\c 15
\p
\v 1 Some time later, Absalom acquired a chariot and horses to pull it. He hired fifty men to run in front of him to honor him while he was riding around Jerusalem in the chariot.
\v 2 Furthermore, he always rose early each morning and stood by the city gate. Whenever someone came there with a dispute with someone that he wanted the king to decide, Absalom would call out to him, asking, "What city are you from?" The person would tell him what city and tribe he was from.
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\v 11 Absalom had taken with him to Hebron two hundred men from Jerusalem, but they did not know what Absalom was planning to do.
\v 12 While Absalom was offering sacrifices at Hebron, he sent a message to Ahithophel from the town of Giloh, requesting him to come. Ahithophel was one of the king's advisors. So the number of people who joined Absalom and who were ready to rebel against David became larger.
\s5
\p
\v 13 Soon a messenger came to David and said to him, "All the Israelite people are joining Absalom to rebel against you!"
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\p
\v 37 So David's friend Hushai returned to the city, at the same time that Absalom was entering Jerusalem.
\s5
\c 16
\p
\v 1 When David and the others had gone a little way past the top of the hill, Mephibosheth's servant Ziba met him. He had with him two donkeys that were carrying two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred bunches of raisins, one hundred bunches of fresh figs, and a leather bag full of wine.
\p
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\p
\v 4 The king said to Ziba, "Very well, everything that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours." Ziba replied, "Your Majesty, I will humbly serve you, and I desire that you will always be pleased with me."
\s5
\p
\v 5 When King David and those with him arrived at the city of Bahurim, a man named Shimei met him. Shimei, whose father was Gera, was a member of the same clan that Saul's family belong to. Shimei was cursing David as he approached.
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\v 9 Then Abishai said to the king, "Your Majesty, this man is as worthless as a dead dog! Why should he be allowed to curse you? Allow me to go over there and cut off his head!"
\p
\v 10 But the king replied, "You two sons of Zeruiah, I want nothing to do with you. If he is cursing me because Yahweh told him to do so, then no one should ask him, 'Why are you cursing the king?'"
\s5
\p
\v 11 Then David said to Abishai and to all his officials, "You know that my own son is trying to kill me. So it is not surprising that this man from the tribe of Benjamin is also trying to kill me. Just ignore him, and allow him to curse me. Yahweh has told him to do that.
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\v 13 Then David and those who were with him walked along the road, and Shimei continued walking along the hillside near him. While he walked along, he cursed David and threw stones and dirt at him.
\v 14 When David and those stopped traveling that evening, they were very tired. So they rested.
\s5
\p
\v 15 While that was happening, Absalom and all the Israelites who were with him had arrived in Jerusalem. Ahithophel had also arrived there.
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\p
\v 23 In those days, people accepted what Ahithophel recommended as though he was speaking the words of God. So just as David had always accepted what Ahithophel said, now Absalom did also.
\s5
\c 17
\p
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\p
\v 14 Absalom and all the other Israelite men who were with him said, "What Hushai suggests is better than what Ahithophel suggested." The reason that happened was that Yahweh had determined that if they would accept the good advice that Ahithophel had given them, they would have been able to defeat David. But as a result of their doing what Hushai suggested, Yahweh would cause a disaster to happen to Absalom.
\s5
\p
\v 15 Then Hushai told the two priests, Zadok and Abiathar, what both he and Ahithophel had suggested to Absalom and the Israelite leaders.
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\v 28 They brought sleeping mats, bowls, clay pots, barley, wheat flour, parched grain, beans, and lentils.
\v 29 They brought honey and curds, sheep, and some cream for David and his soldiers to eat. They knew that David and his soldiers would be hungry and tired and thirsty from marching in the wilderness.
\s5
\c 18
\p
\v 1 David arranged his soldiers for the battle. He divided them into groups, and he appointed a commander for each one hundred soldiers and a commander for each one thousand soldiers.
\v 2 He sent them out in three groups. Joab commanded one group, Joab's brother Abishai commanded a second group, and Ittai from Gath commanded the third group. David said to them, "I myself will go with you to battle."
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\p
\v 5 While they were leaving, the king commanded Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, "For my sake, do not harm my son Absalom!" And all the troops heard about this, that David had given this order to the three commanders.
\s5
\p
\v 6 So the army went out to fight against the Israelite soldiers who were with Absalom. They fought the battle in the forest where people from the tribe of Ephraim lived.
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\p
\v 18 Absalom had no sons to preserve his family name because his sons had died while they were still young. So while Absalom was alive, he had built a monument to himself in the Valley of Kings near Jerusalem, in order that people would remember him. He put his name on the monument, and people still call it Absalom's Monument.
\s5
\p
\v 19 After Absalom had been killed, Zadok's son Ahimaaz said to Joab, "Allow me to run to the king to tell him the good news that Yahweh has rescued him from the power of his enemies!"
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\p
\v 33 The king realized that he meant that Absalom was dead, so he became extremely distressed, and he went up to the room above the gateway and cried. While he was going up, he kept crying out, "O, my son Absalom! My son! O, my son Absalom, I desire that I had died instead of you!"
\s5
\c 19
\p
\v 1 Someone told Joab that the king was crying and mourning because Absalom had died.
\v 2 All of David's soldiers heard that the king was mourning because Absalom was dead. So they became sad that they had defeated Absalom's men.
\s5
\v 3 The soldiers returned to the city quietly and ashamed, as if they had lost the battle instead of winning it.
\v 4 The king covered his face with his hands and kept crying loudly, "O, my son Absalom! O, Absalom, my son! My son!"
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\s5
\p
\v 40 After they crossed the river, Kimham went with the king, and all the army of Judah and half the army of the other Israelite tribes escorted the king to Gilgal.
\p
\v 41 Then all the Israelite soldiers from the other Israelite tribes came to the king and said, "Why is it that our relatives, the men from Judah, took you away from us and wanted to be the only ones to escort you and your family across the river, along with all your men? Why did you not request us to do that?"
\s5
\p
\v 42 The soldiers from Judah replied, "We did it because the king is from Judah. Why are you angry about this? The king has never paid for our food, and he has never given us any gifts."
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\v 43 The men of the other Israelite tribes replied, "There are ten tribes in Israel, and only one in Judah. So it is ten times more right for us to say that David is our king than it is for you to say that. So why are you despising us? We were certainly the first ones to talk about bringing David back to Jerusalem to be our king again."
\p But the men of Judah spoke more harshly than the men from the other tribes of Israel did.
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\p
\v 1 There was also a man there at Gilgal named Sheba. He was a man who always caused trouble. He was from the tribe of Benjamin son of Bikri. He blew a trumpet and called out, "We have nothing to do with David, that son of Jesse! So, men of Israel, let us go to our homes!"
\p
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\v 25 Sheva was the official secretary. Zadok and Abiathar were the priests,
\v 26 and Ira from Jair town was also one of David's priests.
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\p
\v 1 There was a famine in Israel for three years that occurred in the time that David ruled. David prayed to Yahweh about it. And Yahweh said, "In order for the famine to end, Saul's family need to be punished because Saul killed many people from the city of Gibeon."
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\p
\v 14 David's servants went to the tomb of Saul's father Kish, in the city of Zela in the land of the tribe of Benjamin. There they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan also. In this way, they did all that the king had commanded them to do. After that, because God saw that Saul's family had been punished to pay for Saul's murder of many people from Gibeon, he answered the Israelites' prayers for their land, and caused the famine to end.
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\p
\v 15 The army of Philistia again started to fight against the army of Israel. And David and his soldiers went to fight them. During the battle, David became tired.
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\p
\v 22 Those four men were some of the descendants of the Rapha giants who had lived in Gath, who were killed by David and his soldiers.
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\c 22
\p
\v 1 After Yahweh had rescued David from Saul and his other enemies, David sang a song to Yahweh.
\v 2 This is what he sang:
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\q1
\v 6 I thought that I would die. It was as though death had wrapped ropes around me,
\q2 and it was as though I were in a trap where I would surely die.
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\q1
\v 7 But when I was very distressed, I called out to you, Yahweh.
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\v 51 You enable me, whom you appointed to be king, to conquer my enemies.
\q2 You faithfully love me, David, and you will love my descendants forever."
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\c 23
\p
\v 1 David son of Jesse, was a man whom God caused to become great.
\q1 The God whom Jacob worshiped made him king of Israel.
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\q2 but he uses an iron shovel or a spear to dig them out
\q2 and then he burns them completely."
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\p
\v 8 These are the names of David's greatest soldiers.
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\v 11 The third of the greatest warriors was Shammah son of Agee from the clan of Harar. One time the Philistine soldiers gathered at the city of Lehi, where there was a field full of lentils that they wanted to steal. The other Israelite soldiers ran away from the Philistine troops,
\v 12 but Shammah stood there in the field and did not let the Philistine soldiers steal the peas, and killed them. Yahweh won a great victory on that day.
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\p
\v 13 At one time, when it was almost time to harvest the crops, three of those thirty men went down to the Cave of Adullam, where David was staying. A group of men from the Philistine army had set up their tents in the Valley of Rephaim near Jerusalem.
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\v 17 He said, "Yahweh, it would certainly not be right for me to drink this water! That would be like drinking the blood of these men who were willing to die for me!" So he refused to drink it.
\p That was one of the things that those three great warriors did.
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\p
\v 18 Abishai, Joab's younger brother, was the leader of David's greatest soldiers. One day he fought against three hundred men and killed them all with his spear. As a result, he also became famous.
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\v 39 Uriah, Bathsheba's husband, from the Heth people .
\q2 Altogether, there were thirty-seven famous soldiers.
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\c 24
\p
\v 1 Yahweh was angry with the Israelite people again, so he incited David to cause trouble for them. He said to David, "Send some men to count the people of Israel and Judah."
\p
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\v 24 But the king said to Araunah, "No, I will not take these things as a gift. I will pay you for it. I will not offer sacrifices that have cost me nothing, and offer them to Yahweh to be completely burned on the altar." So he paid fifty pieces of silver to Araunah for the oxen and the ground.
\p
\v 25 Then David built an altar to Yahweh, and he offered the oxen to be completely burned on the altar, and he also offered sacrifices to restore fellowship with Yahweh. Then, Yahweh answered David's prayers, and he caused the plague in Israel to end.

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\toc2 First Kings
\toc3 1 Ki
\mt1 FIRST KINGS
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\c 1
\p
\v 1 When King David was very old, even though his servants put many blankets on top of him at night, he was unable to keep warm.
\v 2 So they said to him, "Your Majesty, allow us to search for a young virgin who can stay with you and take care of you. She can sleep close to you and make you warm."
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\v 3 The king gave them permission, so they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful young woman. They found a woman named Abishag, from the town of Shunem, and brought her to the king.
\v 4 She was truly very beautiful. She took care of the king, but the king did not have sexual relations with her.
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\p
\v 5-6 After Absalom died, David's oldest son was Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith. He was a very handsome man. But David had never rebuked him about anything he did. After Absalom died, he thought that he would become king. So he started to boast, saying, "I will become king now." Then he provided for himself some chariots, and men to drive them, and horses to pull them, and fifty men to run as his bodyguards in front of those chariots wherever he went.
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\v 26 But he did not invite me or Zadok the priest or Benaiah or Solomon.
\v 27 Did you say that they should do this without telling your other officials who you want to become king after you are no longer the king?"
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\v 28 Then King David said, "Tell Bathsheba to come in here again." So someone went and told her, and she came in and stood in front of the king.
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\v 39 There Zadok took the container of olive oil from the sacred tent and anointed Solomon. Then two of them blew trumpets, and all the people shouted, "We hope that King Solomon will live for many years!"
\v 40 Then all the people followed him back up to the city, shouting joyfully and playing flutes. They shouted very loudly, so that the ground shook.
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\p
\v 41 When Adonijah and all his guests were finishing eating at their celebration, they heard the noise. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpets, he asked, "What is the meaning of all that noise in the city?"
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\v 52 Solomon replied, "If he proves that he is loyal to me, I will not harm him at all. But if he does anything that is wrong, he will be executed."
\v 53 So King Solomon sent some men to Adonijah, and they brought him back from the altar. He came to Solomon and bowed down in front of him. Then Solomon said to him, "Go home."
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\p
\v 1 When David knew that he was about to die, he gave these final instructions to his son Solomon:
\p
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\v 11 David had been king of Israel for forty years. He ruled for seven years in Hebron and for thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
\v 12 Solomon became the ruler to take the place of his father David and took control of all of the kingdom.
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\p
\v 13 One day Adonijah came to Solomon's mother Bathsheba. She said to him, "Have you come because you want things to go well?" He replied, "Yes."
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\v 46 Then the king gave a command to Benaiah son of Jehoiada. He went out and put Shimei to death.
\p So Solomon obtained complete control of the kingdom.
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\p
\v 1 Now Solomon made an agreement to marry the king's daughter. Then Solomon brought the king's daughter to live in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David. She lived there until Solomon's workers had finished building his house, the temple of Yahweh, and the wall around Jerusalem.
\v 2 At that time the temple of Yahweh had not yet been built, so the Israelite people were still offering sacrifices at many other places of worship.
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\p
\v 15 Then Solomon awoke, and he realized that God had spoken to him in a dream. Then he went to Jerusalem and stood in front of the sacred tent where the sacred chest was, and he offered many sacrifices that were completely burned on the altar and offerings to promise friendship with Yahweh. Then he made a feast for all his officials.
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\p
\v 16 One day two prostitutes came and stood in front of King Solomon.
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\p
\v 28 All the Israelite people heard about what the king had decided, and they had an awesome respect for him. They realized that God had truly enabled him to be very wise, to judge people's matters fairly.
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\p
\v 1 Now when Solomon was king over all Israel,
\v 2 these were his most important officials:
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\v 19 Uri's son Geber, for the region of Gilead, the land that Sihon the king of the Amor people formerly ruled, and Og who formerly ruled the region of Bashan.
\p In addition to all these, Solomon appointed one governor for the territory of the tribe of Judah.
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\p
\v 20 There were as many people in Judah and Israel as there are grains of sand on the seashore. They had plenty to eat and drink, and they were happy.
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\v 24 Solomon ruled over all the area west of the Euphrates River, from the city of Tiphsah in the northeast to the city of Gaza in the southwest. He ruled over all the kings in that area. There was peace between his government and the governments of nearby countries.
\v 25 All during the years that Solomon ruled, the people of Judah and Israel lived safely.
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\v 26 Solomon had forty thousand stalls for the horses that pulled his chariots and twelve thousand men who rode on horses.
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\v 27 His twelve district governors supplied the food that King Solomon needed for himself and for all those who ate in the palace. Each governor supplied food for one month each year. They provided everything that Solomon required.
\v 28 They also brought stalks of barley and wheat for the fast horses that pulled the chariots and for the other work horses. They brought this fodder to the places where the horses were kept.
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\v 29 God enabled Solomon to be extremely wise and to have great understanding. He enjoyed learning about a huge number of things.
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\v 33 He talked about various kinds of plants, from the huge cedar trees in Lebanon to the tiny hyssop plants that grow in cracks in walls. He also talked about wild animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
\v 34 People came from all over the world to hear the wise things that Solomon said. Many kings sent men to listen to him and then return and tell them what Solomon said.
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\p
\v 1 Hiram, the king of the city of Tyre, had always been a close friend of King David. When he heard that Solomon had been appointed to become the king after his father was no longer king, he sent messengers to Solomon.
\v 2 Solomon gave those messengers this message to take back to Hiram:
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\v 17 The king also commanded his workers to cut huge blocks of stones from the quarries and to smooth the sides of the stones. These huge stones were for the foundation of the temple.
\v 18 Solomon's workers and Hiram's workers and men from the city of Gebal shaped the stones and prepared the timber to build the temple.
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\p
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\v 37 They laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh in the month of Ziv, in the fourth year that Solomon ruled.
\v 38 In the eleventh year that he ruled, in the month of Bul, they finished building the temple and all of its parts, doing exactly what Solomon's told them to do. It required seven years to build it.
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\v 11 On top of the foundation stones were other expensive stones that had been cut according to the sizes they needed, as well as cedar beams.
\v 12 The palace courtyard, the inner courtyard in front of the temple, and the portico in front of the temple had walls made by putting down three layers of cut stones between each layer of cedar beams.
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\p
\v 13-14 There was a man who lived in the city of Tyre whose name was Huram. He was a craftsman. His father had also lived in Tyre and had also been very skilled at making things from bronze, but Huram's father was no longer living. His mother was from the tribe of Naphtali. Huram was very wise and intelligent and was very skilled at making things from bronze. Solomon invited him to come to Jerusalem and supervise all the work of making things from bronze, and Huram agreed.
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\p
\v 38 Huram also made ten bronze basins, one basin for each of the ten stands. Each basin was almost two meters across and held 880 liters of water.
\v 39 Huram placed five of the carts on the right side of the temple and five on the left side of the temple. He put the large tank known as "The Sea" on the corner that was toward the east and in the direction of the south.
\s5
\v 40 Huram also made pots, shovels for carrying ashes, and bowls for carrying the blood of the animals that would be sacrificed. He completed all the work that King Solomon requested him to do for the temple. This is a list of the bronze things he made:
\q
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\p
\v 51 So Solomon's workers finished all the work for the temple. Then they placed in the temple storerooms all the things that his father David had dedicated to Yahweh—all the silver and gold, and the other valuable items.
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\p
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\v 65 Then Solomon and all the Israelite people celebrated the Festival of Shelters for seven days and then for another seven days, for a total of fourteen days. There was a huge crowd of people there, some of whom had come from distant places like Hamath in the far north and the border of Egypt in the far south.
\v 66 On the final day, Solomon sent the people to their homes. They all praised him and went home happy because of all the things that Yahweh had done to bless David and his Israelite people.
\s5
\c 9
\p
\v 1 After Solomon's workers had finished building the temple and his palace and everything else that Solomon wanted them to build,
\v 2 Yahweh appeared to him in a dream a second time, like he had appeared to him at the city of Gibeon.
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\v 8 Despite the fact that this temple is very beautiful, there will come a time when everyone who passes by will be astonished when they see it, and they will hiss and say, 'Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this temple?'
\v 9 Other people will reply, 'It happened because the Israelite people abandoned Yahweh their God, the one who brought their ancestors out of Egypt. They started to accept and worship other gods. And that is why Yahweh has caused them to experience all these disasters.'"
\s5
\p
\v 10 Solomon's workers worked for twenty years to build the temple and the palace.
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\v 27 King Hiram sent some expert sailors to go on the ships with Solomon's workers.
\v 28 They sailed to the region of Ophir and brought back to Solomon about fourteen metric tons of gold.
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\p
\v 1 The queen who ruled the land of Sheba heard that Yahweh had caused Solomon to become famous, so she traveled to Jerusalem to ask him questions that were difficult to answer.
\v 2 She came with a large group of wealthy people, and she brought camels that were loaded with spices, precious gems, and much gold. When she met Solomon, she asked him questions about all the things in which she was interested.
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\v 13 King Solomon gave to the queen from Sheba everything that she wanted. He gave her those gifts in addition to the gifts that he always gave to other rulers who visited him. Then she and the people who came with her returned to her own land.
\p
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\v 28 Solomon's agents bought horses and supervised the bringing of them into Israel from the areas of Egypt and Kue that were famous for breeding horses.
\v 29 In Egypt they bought chariots and horses. They paid six and one-half kilograms of silver for each chariot and one and three-fifths kilograms of silver for each horse. They brought them to Israel. Then they sold many of them to the kings of the Hittite people and the kings of Aram.
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\c 11
\p
\v 1 King Solomon married many foreign women. First he married the daughter of the king of Egypt. He also married women from the Heth people and from the Moab, Ammon, and Edom peoples, and from the city of Sidon.
\v 2 He married them even though Yahweh had commanded the Israelite people saying, "Do not marry people from those areas, because if you do that, they will surely persuade you to worship the gods that they worship!"
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\v 12 But because of what I promised your father David, I will allow you to rule all your kingdom while you are still living. After you die, I will not allow your son to rule the whole kingdom.
\v 13 But I will not stop him from ruling some of the kingdom. I will allow him to rule one tribe, because of what I promised to David, who served me well, and because I want David's descendants to rule in Jerusalem, where my temple is located."
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\p
\v 14 Yahweh caused Hadad, from the family of the kings in the Edom people , to rebel against Solomon.
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\v 24 Rezon then became the leader of a group of outlaws. That happened after David's army had defeated Hadadezer and had also killed all his soldiers. Rezon and his men went to Damascus and started to live there, and the people there appointed him to be their king.
\v 25 All during the time that Solomon was alive, while Rezon was ruling not only Damascus but all of Aram, he was an enemy of Israel and caused trouble for Israel like Hadad did.
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\p
\v 26 Another man who rebelled against Solomon was one of his officials named Jeroboam son of Nebat. He was from the city of Zeredah in the region where the tribe of Ephraim lives. His mother was a widow named Zeruah.
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\p
\v 40 Solomon found out what Ahijah told Jeroboam, so he tried to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam escaped and went to Egypt. He went to Shishak, the king of Egypt, and stayed with him until after Solomon died.
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\p
\v 41 A record of all the other things that Solomon did, and all the wise things that he said, was written in the book of the events of Solomon.
\v 42 He was king in Jerusalem and ruled over all of Israel for forty years.
\v 43 Then Solomon died and was buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David. Then his son Rehoboam became the king.
\s5
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\p
\v 1 All the people of northern Israel went to the city of Shechem in order to appoint Rehoboam to be their king. So Rehoboam also went there.
\v 2 When Jeroboam, who was still in Egypt, heard about that, he returned from Egypt to Israel.
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\v 23 "Go and tell this to Solomon's son Rehoboam, the king of Judah, and to all the people of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin and the people from the northern tribe who live in Judah:
\v 24 'Yahweh says that you must not go to fight against your own relatives, the people of Israel. All of you must go home. What has happened is what Yahweh wanted to happen.'" So Shemaiah went and told that to them, and they all listened what Yahweh had commanded them to do, and they went home.
\s5
\p
\v 25 Then Jeroboam's workers built walls around the city of Shechem in the hill country where the descendants of Ephraim lived, and he ruled from there for a while. He and his workers then left there and went to the city of Peniel, and they built walls around that city.
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\v 33 Jeroboam went up to that altar on that day in the eighth month that he himself had chosen. There on that altar he burned incense to be a sacrifice. And he declared that the people should celebrate that festival on that same day every year.
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\p
\v 1 One day a prophet, obeying what Yahweh commanded him to do, went from Judah north to Bethel. He arrived there right at the time that Jeroboam was standing at the altar, ready to burn incense.
\v 2 Saying what Yahweh told him to say, the prophet shouted, "This is what Yahweh says about this altar, 'I want you to know that a descendant of King David will be born. His name will be Josiah, and he will come here. He will slaughter at this altar the priests who are burning incense for sacrifices on the hills in this area, and he will burn the bones of dead people on this altar.'"
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\v 9 because Yahweh commanded me not to eat or drink anything here. He also commanded me not to return home on the road on which I came here."
\v 10 So he started to return home, but he did not go on the road on which he came to Bethel. He went on a different road.
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\p
\v 11 At that time there was an old man living in Bethel who was also a prophet. His sons came and told him what the prophet from Judah had done there on that day, and they also told him what the prophet had said to the king.
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\p
\v 31 After they had buried him, the old man said to his sons, "When I die, bury my corpse in the grave where we buried the prophet from Judah. Lay my corpse next to his corpse.
\v 32 And do not forget what he said, things that Yahweh told him to say about the altar in Bethel, and what Yahweh told him to say about the places where they worshiped idols on the hills around the towns in Samaria. Those things will surely happen."
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\v 33 But King Jeroboam still did not stop continuing to do the evil things that he was doing. Instead, he appointed more priests from men who were not descended from Levi. He appointed as priest anyone who agreed to become one, in order that he could offer sacrifices on the hilltops.
\v 34 Because he committed that sin, a few years later God got rid of most of Jeroboam's descendants and did not allow them to become kings of Israel.
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\p
\v 1 At that time, Jeroboam's son Abijah became very sick.
\v 2 Jeroboam said to his wife, "Disguise yourself in order that no one will recognize that you are my wife. Then go to the city of Shiloh, where the prophet Ahijah lives. He is the one who predicted that I would become the king of Israel.
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\v 19 Everything else that Jeroboam did, and the record of wars that his army fought, and how he ruled, is written in the book of the events of the Kings of Israel.
\v 20 Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years. Then he died, and his son Nadab became king.
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\v 21 Solomon's son Rehoboam ruled Judah. He was forty-one years old when he started to rule, and he ruled for seventeen years. He ruled in Jerusalem, which is the city that Yahweh chose out of all the tribes of Israel to be the place where he should be worshiped. Rehoboam's mother's name was Naamah. She was from the Ammon people .
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\v 30 There were wars continually between the armies of Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
\v 31 Then Rehoboam died, and he was buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David, where his ancestors were buried. Then his son Abijah became the king.
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\v 1 After Jeroboam had been the king of Israel for almost eighteen years, Abijah became the king of Judah.
\v 2 He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.
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\v 7 Everything else that Abijah did is written in the book of the events of the Kings of Judah.
\v 8 Abijah died and was buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David, and his son Asa became king.
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\v 9 After Jeroboam had been the king of Israel for almost twenty years, Asa started to rule Judah.
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\v 23 Everything else that Asa did, the armies that his soldiers defeated, and the names of the cities that he caused to be fortified, are all written in the book of the events of the Kings of Judah. But when Asa became old, he got a disease in his feet.
\v 24 He died and was buried where his ancestors were buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David. Then his son Jehoshaphat became king.
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\v 25 After Asa had been the king of Judah for almost two years, King Jeroboam's son Nadab started to rule Israel. He ruled for two years.
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\v 31 Everything else that Nadab did is written in Book of the Events of the Kings of Israel.
\v 32 There were wars between the armies of King Asa and King Baasha all the time that they ruled.
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\v 33 After Asa had been the king of Judah for almost three years, Baasha son of Ahijah, started to rule Israel at the city of Tirzah. He ruled for twenty-four years.
\v 34 Baasha did many things that Yahweh said were evil, and he lived a sinful life just like Jeroboam lived. Baasha's sinful life set an example for the people of Israel that encouraged them to commit sins that were like his sins.
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\v 1 During the time that Baasha was king of Israel, the prophet Jehu, Hanani's son, gave Baasha this message that he had received from Yahweh:
\v 2 "You were very insignificant when I caused you to become the ruler of my Israelite people. But you have caused me to become very angry by doing the kinds of evil things that King Jeroboam did. You have also caused me to become angry by causing my people to sin.
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\p
\v 7 Yahweh gave that message about Baasha and his family to the prophet Jehu. Baasha had done many deeds that Yahweh said were evil, which caused Yahweh to become angry. Baasha did the same kind of deeds that King Jeroboam and his family had done previously. Yahweh was also angry with Baasha because he had killed all of Jeroboam's family.
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\v 8 After Asa had been the king of Judah for almost twenty-six years, Elah became the king of Israel. Elah ruled in Tirzah for only two years.
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\v 9 A man named Zimri was one of Elah's army officers. He commanded the drivers of half of Elah's army's chariots. He made plans to kill Elah while Elah was in Tirzah, getting drunk at the house of a man named Arza. Arza was the man who took care of the things in the king's palace.
\v 10 Zimri went into Arza's house and killed Elah. Then he became the king of Israel. That was when Asa had been the king of Judah for twenty-seven years.
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\v 11 As soon as Zimri became king, he killed all of Baasha's family. He killed every male in Baasha's family and all of Baasha's male friends.
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\p
\v 14 Everything else that Elah did is written in Book of the Events of the Kings of Israel.
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\v 15 So Zimri became the king of Israel after Asa had been king of Judah for twenty-seven years. But Zimri ruled in Tirzah for only seven days. The Israelite army was beseiging Gibeah, a town that belonged to the Philistine people .
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\p
\v 20 All the other things that Zimri did, and the record of how he rebelled against King Elah, are written in Book of the Events of the Kings of Israel.
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\v 21 After Zimri died, the Israelite people were divided among themselves. One group wanted Tibni son of Ginath, to be their king. The other group wanted Omri to be the king.
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\v 27 Everything that Omri did, and the record of the victories that his army won, are written in Book of the Events of the Kings of Israel.
\v 28 After Omri died, he was buried in Samaria, and his son Ahab became king.
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\v 29 Ahab became king of Israel when Asa had ruled Judah for almost thirty-eight years. Ahab ruled in the city of Samaria for twenty-two years.
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\p
\v 34 During the years that Ahab ruled, Hiel, a man from the city of Bethel, rebuilt the city of Jericho. But when he started to rebuild the city, his oldest son Abiram died. And when the city was finished, while Hiel was building the city gates, his youngest son Segub died. They died just as Yahweh had told Joshua would happen to the sons of anyone who would rebuild Jericho.
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\v 1 Elijah was a prophet who lived in the city of Tishbe in the region of Gilead. One day he went to King Ahab and said to him, "Yahweh is the God whom we Israelites worship and the God whom I worship and serve. Just as certainly as Yahweh lives, there will be no dew or rain for the next few years, unless I command it to fall."
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\v 15 So the woman did exactly what Elijah told her to do. And she and her son and Elijah had enough food every day,
\v 16 because the flour in the jar was never finished, and the jug of oil was never empty. That happened just like Yahweh had told Elijah that it would happen.
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\v 17 Some time later, the woman's son became sick. He continued to get worse, and finally he died.
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\p
\v 24 The woman said to Elijah, "Now I know for certain that you are a prophet and that the words that you speak are truly from Yahweh!"
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\v 1 For almost three years there was no rain in Samaria. Then Yahweh said this to Elijah: "Go and meet with King Ahab and tell him that I will soon send rain."
\v 2 So Elijah went to talk to Ahab.
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\p
\v 15 But Elijah replied, "Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, the one whom I serve, knows that I am telling the truth as I solemnly declare that I will go to meet with Ahab today."
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\v 16 So Obadiah went to tell Ahab that Elijah had come. Ahab went to meet with him.
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\p
\v 40 Then Elijah commanded them, "Seize all the prophets of Baal! Do not allow any of them to escape!" So the people seized all the prophets of Baal, and took them down the mountain to the river Kishon, and Elijah killed them all there.
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\v 41 Then Elijah said to Ahab, "Go and get something to eat and drink. But do it quickly, because it is soon going to rain very hard!"
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\v 45 Very soon the sky was full of black clouds. There was a strong wind, and then it began to rain very hard. Ahab got into his chariot and started to return to the city of Jezreel.
\v 46 Yahweh gave extra strength to Elijah. He tucked his cloak into his belt in order to run fast, and he ran ahead of Ahab's chariot all the way to Jezreel.
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\p
\v 1 When Ahab got home, he told his wife Jezebel what Elijah had done. He told her that Elijah had killed all the prophets of Baal.
\v 2 So Jezebel sent this message to Elijah, "By this time tomorrow I will have killed you, just like you killed all those prophets of Baal. If I do not do that, I hope the gods will kill me."
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\v 9 He went into a cave there and slept there that night.
\p The next morning, Yahweh said to him, "Elijah, why are you here?"
\v 10 Elijah replied, "I have zealously served you, Yahweh, commander of angel armies. But the Israelite people have rejected the agreement that they made with you. They have torn down your altars, and they have killed all of your prophets. I am the only one whom they have not killed, and now they are trying to kill me, too. So I am running away from them."
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\v 17 Hazael's army will kill many people, and those who escape from being killed by his army will be killed by Jehu's army, and those who escape from being killed by Jehu's army will be killed by Elisha.
\v 18 But you need to know that there are still seven thousand people in Israel who have never bowed to worship Baal or kissed his idol."
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\v 19 So Elijah went to Aram and found Elisha as he was plowing a field with a team of oxen. There were eleven other men who were in front of him, plowing with teams of oxen in the same field. Elijah went to Elisha, and took off his own coat and put it on Elisha, to show Elisha that he wanted Elisha to take his place as a prophet. Then he started to walk away.
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\v 21 So Elisha went back home. He killed his oxen and cut them in pieces and used the wood from the plow to build a fire to roast the meat. He distributed the meat to the other people in his town, and they all ate some. Then he went with Elijah and became his helper.
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\v 1 Ben Hadad, the king of Aram, gathered all his army, and he brought thirty-two lesser kings to join him with their armies and horses and chariots. They marched to the city of Samaria, the capital of Israel, and surrounded it and prepared to attack it.
\v 2 Ben Hadad sent messengers into the city to King Ahab, and they said this to him: "This is what King Ben Hadad says:
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\p
\v 12 Ben Hadad heard that message while he and the other rulers were drinking wine in their temporary shelters. He told his men to prepare to attack the city. So his men did that.
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\v 13 At that moment, a prophet came to King Ahab and said to him, "This is what Yahweh says: 'Do not be at all afraid of the large enemy army that you see! I will enable your army to defeat them today, and you will know that it is I, Yahweh, who has done it.'"
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\v 42 The prophet said to him, "This is what Yahweh says: 'You have allowed that man Ben Hadad to escape after I commanded you to be sure to execute him! Since you did not do that, you will be killed instead. And your army will be destroyed because you allowed some of his army to escape!'"
\v 43 The king went back home to Samaria, very angry and depressed.
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\p
\v 1 King Ahab had a palace in the city of Jezreel. Near the palace was a vineyard owned by a man named Naboth.
\v 2 One day, Ahab went to Naboth and said to him, "Your vineyard is close to my palace. I would like to buy it, so that I can plant some vegetables there. I will give you in exchange a better vineyard somewhere else, or if you prefer, I will pay you for your vineyard."
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\v 28 Then Yahweh said this to Elijah,
\v 29 "I have seen that Ahab is now very sorry for all the evil things that he has done. So the things that I promised to do to his family will not happen while he is still alive. I will cause them to happen after his son becomes king. Then those things will happen to his family."
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\p
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\v 9 So the king of Israel told one of his officers to summon Micaiah immediately.
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\v 10 The king of Israel and the king of Judah were both wearing their royal robes and sitting on thrones at a gate in the city wall of Samaria. Many prophets were speaking messages to them.
\v 11 One of them, whose name was Zedekiah son of Kenaanah, had made from iron something that resembled horns of a bull. Then he proclaimed to Ahab, "This is what Yahweh says, 'With horns like these your army will keep attacking the Arameans as a bull attacks another animal, until you completely destroy them!'"
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\p
\v 25 Micaiah replied, "You will find out for yourself to which of us Yahweh's Spirit has truly spoken on the day when you go into a room of some house to hide from the Aramean troops!"
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\v 26 King Ahab commanded his soldiers, "Seize Micaiah and take him to Amon, the governor of this city, and to my son Joash.
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\p
\v 28 Micaiah replied, "If you return safely, it will be clear that it was not Yahweh who told me what to say to you!" Then he said to all those who were standing there, "Do not forget what I have said to King Ahab!"
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\v 29 So the king of Israel and the king of Judah led their armies to Ramoth in Gilead.
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\v 39 The account of the other things that happened while Ahab was ruling, and about the palace decorated with much ivory that they built for him, and the cities that were built for him, was written in Book of the Events of the Kings of Israel.
\v 40 When Ahab died, his body was buried where his ancestors were buried. Then his son Ahaziah became king.
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\v 41 Before King Ahab died, when he had been ruling in Israel for four years, Asa's son Jehoshaphat started to rule in Judah.
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\p
\v 50 When Jehoshaphat died, his body was buried where his ancestors were buried in Jerusalem, the city where King David had ruled. Then Jehoshaphat's son Jehoram became king.
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\v 51 Before King Jehoshaphat died, when he had been ruling in Judah for seventeen years, Ahab's son Ahaziah began to rule in Israel. Ahaziah ruled in Samaria for two years.
\v 52 He did many things that Yahweh said were evil, doing the evil things that his father and mother had done and the evil things that Jeroboam had done—the king who had induced all the Israelite people to sin by worshiping idols.
\v 53 Ahaziah bowed in front of Baal's idol and worshiped it. That caused Yahweh, the God who is the true God of the Israelite people as well as all the world, to become very angry, just as Ahaziah's father had caused Yahweh to become angry.

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\toc2 Second Kings
\toc3 2 Ki
\mt1 SECOND KINGS
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\p
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\p
\v 18 If you want to know about all the other things that Ahaziah did, they are written in Book of the Events of the Kings of Israel.
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\v 1 When Yahweh was about to take the prophet Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and his fellow prophet Elisha were traveling south from Gilgal.
\v 2 Elijah said to Elisha, "Stay here, because Yahweh has told only me to go to the city of Bethel."
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\v 21 Then Elisha went out to the spring from which the people in the town got water. He threw the salt into the spring. Then he said, "This is what Yahweh says: 'I have made this water good. No one will die anymore because of bad water, and the land will grow fruitful crops.'"
\v 22 And the water became pure, just as Elisha said it would. Since that time it has always remained pure.
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\v 23 Elisha left Jericho and went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, a group of young boys from Bethel saw him and started to make fun of him. They continued shouting, "Go away, you bald-headed man!"
\v 24 Elisha turned around and reprimanded them in the name of Yahweh. Immediately two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of them.
\v 25 Elisha left Bethel and went to Mount Carmel, and after that he returned to the city of Samaria.
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\p
\v 1 After Jehoshaphat had been ruling Judah for almost eighteen years, Ahab's son Joram became the king of Israel. He ruled in the city of Samaria for twelve years.
\v 2 He did things that Yahweh said were evil, but he did not do as much evil as his father and mother had done, and he got rid of the stone pillar for worshiping Baal that his father had made.
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\v 26 When the king of Moab realized that his army was being defeated, he took with him seven hundred men who fought with swords, and they tried to force a way through the Israelite lines of soldiers to escape to get help from the king of Edom, whom they hoped would join them, but they were unable to escape.
\v 27 Then the king of Moab took his oldest son, who would have become the next king, and killed him and offered him as a sacrifice to their god Chemosh, burning him on top of the city wall. Then God became very angry at the Israelite army, so the army left and went back to their own land.
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\v 1 One day the widow of one of Yahweh's prophets came to Elisha and cried out to him, "My husband, who worked with you, is dead. You know that he revered Yahweh very much. But now someone to whom he owed a lot of money has come to me. I cannot pay him back, so he is threatening to take away my two sons to be his slaves as payment!"
\p
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\p
\v 7 When she told Elisha what had happened, he said to her, "Now sell the oil. And with the money you get, pay what you owe, and there will be enough extra money to keep buying food for yourself and your sons." So she did that.
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\v 8 One day Elisha went to the city of Shunem. There was a wealthy woman who lived there with her husband. One day she invited Elisha to her house for a meal. Elisha went there, and from then on every time Elisha was in Shunem he went to their house to eat a meal.
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\v 36 Then Elisha summoned Gehazi. He said, "Call the boy's mother." So Gehazi went and called her, and when she came in, Elisha said, "Here, take your son."
\v 37 She gratefully prostrated herself at Elisha's feet. Then she picked up her son and carried him downstairs.
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\v 38 Then Elisha returned to Gilgal. But at that time there was a famine in that area. One day as the association of prophets was sitting in front of Elisha listening to what he was teaching, he said to his servant, "Put a large pot on the fire and make some stew for these men."
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\p So they would not eat it.
\v 41 Elisha said, "Bring me some flour." They brought him some, and he threw it in the pot and he said, "It is all right now. You can eat it." And they ate it, and it did not harm them.
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\v 42 One day a man from the city of Baal Shalishah brought to Elisha a sack of freshly cut grain and twenty loaves of barley bread, made from the first grain that they had harvested that year.
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\p But Elisha replied, "Give it to the prophets so that they can eat it, because Yahweh says that there will be plenty for all of them, and there will be some left over!"
\v 44 After his servant gave it to the prophets, they ate all that they wanted, and there was food left over, just as Yahweh had promised.
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\v 1 A man named Naaman was the commander of the army of Aram. Yahweh had enabled him to win many victories, and the king of Aram admired and honored him. Naaman was also a strong and brave soldier, but he had leprosy.
\p
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\p
\v 19 Elisha replied, "Go home, and do not worry about that." So Naaman and his servants started to travel home.
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\v 20 But then Elisha's servant Gehazi said to himself, "It is not good that my master has allowed this Aramean man to leave like this. He should have accepted his gifts. So just as certainly as Yahweh lives, I will go and catch up with Naaman and get something from him."
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\v 26 Elisha asked him, "Do you not realize that my spirit was there when Naaman got out of his chariot to talk with you? This is certainly not the time to accept gifts of money and clothes and olive groves and vineyards and sheep and oxen and servants!
\v 27 Because you have done this, you and your children and all your descendants, forever, will have leprosy just like Naaman had!" When Gehazi left the room, he was a leper. His skin was as white as snow.
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\v 1 One day the association of prophets said to Elisha, "Look, this place where we meet together with you is very small.
\v 2 Allow us to go to the Jordan River and cut down some trees to make logs to build a new meeting place." So Elisha said, "Very well, go."
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\v 6 Elisha replied, "Where did it fall into the water?" After the man showed him the place, Elisha cut off a stick, threw it into the water, and the axe head rose to the water surface.
\v 7 Elisha said, "Take it out of the water." So the man reached his hand down and picked up the axe head.
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\v 8 Whenever the king of Aram prepared to send his army to fight against Israel, he first consulted his officers, and then told them where they should set up their tents.
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\v 22 Elisha replied, "No, you must not kill them. If your army captured many of your enemies in a battle, you would certainly not kill them. Give these men something to eat and drink, and then allow them to return to their king."
\v 23 So the king of Israel did that. He told his servants to provide a big feast for them. And when they had eaten and drunk plenty, he sent them away. They returned to the king of Aram and told him what had happened. So for a while after that, soldiers from Aram stopped raiding towns in Israel.
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\v 24 But some time later, Ben Hadad the king of Aram , assembled his entire army, and they went to Samaria and surrounded the city for a long time.
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\p Before the officer arrived, Elisha was sitting in his house with some Israelite elders who were talking with him. Elisha said to them, "That murderer, the king of Israel, is sending someone here to kill me. Listen. When he arrives, shut the door and do not allow him to come in, because the king will be coming right behind that officer!"
\v 33 And while he was still speaking, the king and the officer arrived. The king said, "It is Yahweh who is allowing us to have all this trouble. I will no longer wait for him to help us."
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\p
\v 2 The officer accompanying the king said to Elijah, "That cannot happen! Even if Yahweh himself would open the windows of the sky and send grain down to us, that certainly could not happen!" Elisha replied, "Because you said that, you will see it happen, but you will not be able to eat any of the food!"
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\v 3 That day there were four men who had leprosy who were sitting outside the gate of the city of Samaria. They said to each other, "Why should we wait here until we die?
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\v 19 That officer had answered, "That certainly cannot happen! Even if Yahweh himself would open the sky and send down some grain, that could not happen." And Elisha had replied, "Because you said that, you will see it happen, but you will not be able to eat any of the food!"
\v 20 And that is what happened to him. The people who were rushing out of the city gate trampled on him, and he died.
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\p
\v 1 After Elisha had caused the son of the woman from the city of Shunem to become alive again, he had told her that she should leave with her family and live somewhere else for a while, because Yahweh was going to send a famine in the land. He said that the famine would last for seven years.
\v 2 So the woman had done what Elisha told her to do. She and her family had gone to live in the region of Philistia for seven years.
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\p
\v 6 When the king asked her about it, she told him that what Gehazi had said was true. The king summoned one of his officials and said to him, "Make sure that this woman gets back everything that she owned in the past, including the value of all the crops that have been harvested during these last seven years while she was away from her land." So the official did that.
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\v 7 Elisha went to Damascus, the capital of Aram, at the time when Ben Hadad, the king of Aram, was very sick. When someone told the king that Elisha was in Damascus,
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\p He replied, "He told me that you would certainly recover."
\v 15 But the next day, while the king was sleeping, Hazael took a blanket and soaked it in water. Then he spread it on the king's face in order that he could not breathe, and he died. Then Hazael became the king of Aram instead of Ben Hadad.
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\v 16 After King Joram son of Ahab, had been ruling in Israel for almost five years, Jehoshaphat's son Jehoram became the king of Judah.
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\v 23 If you want to read about the other things that Jehoram did, they are written in Book of the Events of the Kings of Judah.
\v 24 Jehoram died and was buried where the other kings of Judah had been buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David. Then Jehoram's son Ahaziah became the king.
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\v 25 After Ahab's son Joram has been ruling in Israel for almost twelve years, Jehoram's son Ahaziah became the king of Judah.
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\v 28 Ahaziah's army joined the army of King Joram of Israel to fight against the army of King Hazael of Aram. Their armies started fighting at the city of Ramoth in the region of Gilead, and the soldiers of Aram wounded Joram.
\v 29 King Joram returned to the city of Jezreel in order to recover from his wounds. King Ahaziah went to visit him there.
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\v 1 Meanwhile, the prophet Elisha summoned one of the other prophets. He said to him, "Get ready and go to the city of Ramoth in the region of Gilead. Take this jar of olive oil with you.
\v 2 When you arrive there, search for a man named Jehu son of Jehoshaphat and grandson of Nimshi. Go with him into a room away from his companions,
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\p
\v 13 Then they all spread their cloaks on the steps of the building for Jehu to walk out on, and they blew trumpets and shouted, "Jehu is now the king!"
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\v 14-15 King Joram and his army had been defending Ramoth against the attacks by the army of the king of Aram. King Joram had returned to the city of Jezreel, to recover from being wounded in the battle against the army of Hazael, the king of Aram. And Jehu made plans to kill Joram. He said to his other commanders, "If you really want to help me, then make sure that no one leaves this city to go to warn the people of Jezreel about what I am planning to do."
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\v 21 Joram said to his soldiers, "Get my chariot ready." So they did that. Then King Joram and King Ahaziah both rode toward Jehu, each one in his own chariot. And it happened that they met Jehu at the field that had previously belonged to Naboth!
\v 22 When Joram met Jehu, he said to him, "Are you coming to act peacefully toward me?"
\p Jehu replied, "How can there be peace while you and your people are bowing down to idols and practicing very much witchcraft like your mother Jezebel did?"
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\v 23 Joram cried out, "Ahaziah, they have deceived us! They want to kill us!" So Joram turned his chariot around and tried to flee.
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\v 25 Then Jehu said to his assistant Bidkar, "Take his corpse and throw it here into the field that belonged to Naboth. I am sure that you remember that when you and I were riding together in chariots behind King Joram's father Ahab that Yahweh said this about Ahab,
\v 26 'Yesterday I saw Ahab murder Naboth and his sons here. And I solemnly promise that I will punish him right here in this same field!' So take Joram's corpse and throw it into that field! That will fulfill what Yahweh said would happen."
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\v 27 When King Ahaziah saw what happened, he fled in his chariot toward the city of Beth Haggan. But Jehu pursued him and said to his other commanders, "Shoot him, also!" So they shot him with arrows while he was riding in his chariot on the road up to Gur, near the city of Ibleam. He continued going in his chariot until he reached the city of Megiddo, where he died.
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\v 29 Ahaziah had become the king of Judah when Joram had been ruling Israel for almost eleven years.
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\v 30 Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Ahab's widow Jezebel heard what had happened, she put paint on her eyelids, and combed her hair to make it beautiful, and looked out the window of the palace toward the street below.
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\v 36 When they reported this to Jehu, he said, "That is what Yahweh said would happen! He told his servant Elijah, 'In the city of Jezreel, dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel's corpse.
\v 37 Her bones will be scattered there in Jezreel like dung, with the result that no one will be able to recognize them and say, "These are Jezebel's bones."'"
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\v 1 There were seventy descendants of King Ahab who were living in Samaria. Jehu wrote a letter and made copies of it and sent them to the rulers of the city, to the elders, and to those who raised and tutored Ahab's children.
\v 2 This is what he wrote: "You are the ones who are taking care of the king's descendants. You have chariots, horses, and weapons, and you live in cities that have walls around them. So as soon as you receive this letter,
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\p
\v 17 When they arrived in Samaria, Jehu killed all of Ahab's relatives who were still alive. He did not spare any of them. That was what Yahweh told Elijah would happen.
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\v 18 Then Jehu summoned all the people of Samaria, and said to them, "King Ahab was devoted to your god Baal a little bit, but I will serve him much more.
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\v 30 Then Yahweh said to Jehu, "You have done what pleased me by getting rid of all of Ahab's descendants. So I promise you that your son and grandson and great-grandson and great-great-grandson will all be kings of Israel."
\v 31 But Jehu did not obey all the laws of Yahweh, the God of the Israelite people. He did not stop committing the sins that Jeroboam had committed, sins that induced the Israelite people to sin.
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\v 32 At that time, Yahweh began to cause the territory controlled by Israel to become smaller. The army of King Hazael of Aram conquered much of the Israelite territory.
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\v 35 Jehu died, and was buried in Samaria. His son Jehoahaz became the king in place of his father.
\v 36 Jehu had ruled in Samaria as the king of Israel for twenty-eight years.
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\v 1 When King Ahaziah's mother Athaliah saw that her son had been killed, she commanded that all the members of Ahaziah's family who might become king must be executed.
\v 2 So Ahaziah's sons were all about to be murdered. But Jehosheba, who was King Jehoram's daughter and Ahaziah's half-sister, took Ahaziah's very young son Joash and hid him and his nursemaid in a bedroom in the temple. So he was not killed.
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\p
\v 21 Joash was seven years old when he became the king of Judah.
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\v 1 When Jehu had been ruling Israel for almost seven years, Joash became the king of Judah. He ruled in Jerusalem for forty years. His mother was Zibiah, from the city of Beersheba.
\v 2 All during the time that Joash was alive, he did what pleased Yahweh, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
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\v 19 If you want to read more of what Joash did, it is all written in Book of the Events of the Kings of Judah.
\v 20-21 Joash's officials plotted against him, and two of them killed Joash on the road that goes down to the district of Silla. The two men who did that were Jozabad son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad son of Shomer. Joash was buried in the place where his ancestors were buried, in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David. Then Joash's son Amaziah became the king of Judah.
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\v 1 After Joash had been ruling Judah for almost twenty-three years, Jehu's son Jehoahaz became the king of Israel. He ruled in the city of Samaria for seventeen years.
\v 2 He did many things that Yahweh said were evil and committed the same kind of sins that Jeroboam had committed, sins that had induced the people of Israel to sin. He did not stop committing those sins.
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\v 8 If you want to read about everything else that Jehoahaz did, you can read about it in the book called The History of the Kings of Israel.
\v 9 Jehoahaz died and was buried in Samaria. Then his son Jehoash became the king.
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\v 10 Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, started to rule in Israel after King Joash had been ruling in Judah for thirty-seven years. Jehoash ruled in Samaria for sixteen years.
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\v 24 When Hazael the king of Aram died, his son Ben Hadad became the king.
\v 25 The army of King Jehoash of Israel defeated the army of King Ben Hadad three times; they also recaptured the cities that Ben Hadad's army had seized during the time that Jehoash's father Jehoahaz was ruling Israel.
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\c 14
\p
\v 1 After Jehoash had been ruling Israel for almost two years, Joash's son Amaziah became the king of Judah.
\v 2 He was twenty-five years old when he started to rule, and he ruled in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years. His mother was Jehoaddin. She was from Jerusalem.
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\v 21 Then all the people of Judah appointed Azariah, whose father was Amaziah, to be their king. He became king when he was sixteen years.
\v 22 After Amaziah's father Amaziah died, Azariah's army captured the city of Elath, and it came under the control of Judah again.
\s5
\p
\v 23 When Amaziah had been ruling Judah for almost fifteen years, Jeroboam became the king of Israel. He ruled in the city of Samaria for forty-one years.
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\v 28 If you want to know more about everything else that Jeroboam did, about how he courageously fought in battle, and about how he enabled the Israelites to capture again the cities of Damascus and Hamath, they are written in the book of the events of the Kings of Israel.
\v 29 Jeroboam died, and was buried where the other kings of Israel were buried, and his son Zechariah became the king.
\s5
\c 15
\p
\v 1 After Jeroboam had been ruling Israel for almost twenty-seven years, Azariah, son of Amaziah king of Judah, began to rule.
\v 2 He was sixteen years old when he started to rule, and he ruled in Jerusalem for fifty-two years. His mother was Jecoliah. She was from Jerusalem.
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\v 6 If you want to know about everything else that Azariah did, it is written in the book of the events of the Kings of Judah.
\v 7 Azariah died and they buried him in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David, where his ancestors had been buried. Then his son Jotham became the king.
\s5
\p
\v 8 After Azariah had been ruling Judah for almost thirty-eight years, Zechariah son of Jeroboam, became the king of Israel. He ruled in the city of Samaria for only six months.
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\v 11 Everything else that Zechariah did is written in the book of the events of the Kings of Israel.
\v 12 When Zechariah died, the dynasty of King Jehu was finished. This fulfilled what Yahweh said to King Jehu would happen, "Your son and grandson and great-grandson and great-great-grandson will all be kings of Israel."
\s5
\p
\v 13 Shallum son of Jabesh, became the king of Israel after King Amaziah had been ruling Judah for almost thirty-nine years. But Shallum ruled in Samaria for only one month.
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\p
\v 16 At that time Menahem completely destroyed the city of Tiphsah and killed all the people who lived there and in the surrounding territory from Tirzah on. He did that because the people in the city refused to surrender to him. With his sword he even ripped open the bellies of pregnant women who lived there.
\s5
\p
\v 17 When King Azariah had been ruling Judah for almost thirty-nine years, Menahem son of Gadi, became the king of Israel. He ruled in Samaria for ten years.
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\v 21 If you want to know more about everything that Menahem did, it is written in the book of the events of the Kings of Israel.
\v 22 Menahem died and was buried, and his son Pekahiah became the king of Israel.
\s5
\p
\v 23 When King Azariah had been ruling Judah for almost fifty years, Menahem's son Pekahiah became the king of Israel. He ruled in Samaria for only two years.
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\p
\v 26 Everything else that Pekahiah did is written in the book of the events of the Kings of Israel.
\s5
\p
\v 27 When King Azariah had been ruling Judah for almost fifty-two years, Pekah son of Remaliah, became the king of Israel. He ruled in Samaria for twenty years.
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\p
\v 31 Everything else that Pekah did is written in the book of the events of the Kings of Israel.
\s5
\p
\v 32 When Pekah had been ruling Israel for almost two years, Azariah's son Jotham began to rule Judah.
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\v 37 It was during the time that Jotham was the king that Yahweh sent King Rezin of Aram and King Pekah of Israel with their armies to attack Judah.
\v 38 Jotham died and was buried where his ancestors had been buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David. Then his son Ahaz became the king of Judah.
\s5
\c 16
\p
\v 1 When Pekah had been ruling Israel for almost seventeen years, Ahaz son of Jotham, became the king of Judah.
\v 2 He was twenty years old when he became the king of Judah. He ruled from Jerusalem for sixteen years. He did not do things that pleased Yahweh his God, good things like his ancestor King David had done.
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\v 10 When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet King Tiglath-Pileser, he saw the altar that was there. So he sent to Uriah, the high priest in Jerusalem, a drawing of the altar and a model that represented exactly the altar in Damascus.
\v 11 So Uriah built an altar in Jerusalem following the drawing that King Ahaz had sent. Uriah finished the altar before Ahaz returned to Jerusalem from Damascus.
\v 12 When the king returned from Damascus, he saw the altar.
\s5
\v 13 He went up to it and burned animal sacrifices and a flour offering on it. He also poured a wine offering on it and threw on it the blood of the offerings to promise friendship with God.
\v 14 The old bronze altar that had been dedicated long ago to Yahweh was between the new altar and the temple, so Ahaz moved it to the north side of his new altar.
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\v 19 If you want to know about the other things that Ahaz did, they are written in the book of the events of the Kings of Judah.
\v 20 Ahaz died, and he was buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David, where his ancestors had been buried. Then his son Hezekiah became the king.
\s5
\c 17
\p
\v 1 Elah's son Hoshea began to rule Israel after King Ahaz had ruled Judah for twelve years. Hoshea ruled in Samaria for nine years.
\v 2 He did many things that Yahweh said were evil, but he did not do as many evil things as the previous kings of Israel had done—the ones who had ruled Israel previously.
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\v 5 Then he brought the army of Assyria to Israel, and they attacked everywhere in that land. His army besieged the city of Samaria for three years.
\v 6 Finally, after King Hoshea had been ruling Israel for nine years, the army of Assyria forcefully entered the city and captured the people. They took the Israelite people to Assyria and forced some of them to live in the city of Halah. They forced others to live near the Habor River in the district of Gozan. They forced others to live in the towns where the Mede people lived.
\s5
\p
\v 7 Those things happened because the Israelite people had sinned against Yahweh their God. He had rescued their ancestors from the power of the king of Egypt and brought them safely out of Egypt, but later they began to worship other gods.
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\v 22 And the Israelite people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
\v 23 so finally Yahweh got rid of them. That was just what his prophets had warned would happen. The Israelite people were taken away to the land of Assyria, and they are still there.
\s5
\p
\v 24 The king of Assyria ordered his soldiers to take groups of people from the cities of Babylon, Kuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim to the region of Samaria, and to resettle them in the cities there, to take the place of the Israelites who lived there previously. Those people took control over Samaria and lived in the cities of Samaria.
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\v 40 But, the Israelites refused to pay attention to what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
\v 41 So, those people worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
\s5
\c 18
\p
\v 1 After King Hoshea had been ruling Israel for almost three years, Hezekiah son of Ahaz, began to rule Judah.
\v 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became the king of Judah and he ruled from Jerusalem for twenty-nine years. His mother was Abijah, the daughter of a man whose name was Zechariah.
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\v 11 The king of Assyria commanded that the people of Israel be taken to Assyria. Some of them were taken to the city of Halah, some were taken to a place near the Habor River in the region of Gozan, and some were taken to cities where the Mede people live.
\v 12 That happened because the Israelites did not obey Yahweh their God. They had disobeyed the covenant that Yahweh had made with their ancestors, and all the laws that Moses, the man who served Yahweh very well, had told them to obey. They would not obey those laws. They would not even listen to them.
\s5
\p
\v 13 After King Hezekiah had been ruling Judah for almost fourteen years, the army of King Sennacherib of Assyria attacked all the cities in Judah that had walls around them. They did not capture Jerusalem, but they captured all the other cities.
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\p
\v 15 So Hezekiah gave to him all the silver that was in the temple and that was stored in his palace.
\s5
\p
\v 16 Hezekiah's men also stripped the gold from the doors of the temple and the gold that he himself had put on the doorposts, and he sent all that gold to the king of Assyria.
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\v 33 The gods that people of other nations worship have never rescued them from the power of the king of Assyria!
\v 34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Did any of their gods delivered Samaria out of my hand?
\v 35 None of these gods kept their people from being destroyed by the king of Assyria. Do you think your God Yahweh, can do any better?
\s5
\p
\v 36 But the people who were listening were silent. No one said anything, because King Hezekiah had told them, "When the official from Assyria talks to you, do not answer him."
\p
\v 37 Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah went back to Hezekiah with their clothes torn because they were extremely distressed, and they told him what the official from Assyria had said.
\s5
\c 19
\p
\v 1 When King Hezekiah heard what they reported, he tore his clothes and put on clothes made of rough cloth because he was very distressed. Then he went to the temple to ask God what to do.
\v 2 Then he summoned Eliakim and Shebna and the older priests, who were also wearing clothes made of rough sackcloth, and told them to talk to Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz.
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\v 12 Did the gods of the nations that were about to be destroyed by the armies of the previous kings of Assyria rescue them? Did those gods rescue the people in the region of Gozan or in the cities of Haran and Rezeph in northern Aram? Did they rescue the people of Eden who had been deported to the city of Tel Assar? None of the gods of those cities was able to rescue them.
\v 13 What happened to the kings of the cities of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, and Ivvah? They are all dead."
\s5
\p
\v 14 Hezekiah received the letter that the messengers gave him, and he read it. Then he went up to the temple and spread out the letter in front of Yahweh.
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\s5
\v 19 So now, Yahweh our God, please rescue us from the power of the king of Assyria, in order that the people in all the kingdoms of the world may know that you, Yahweh, are the only one who is truly God."
\s5
\p
\v 20 Then Isaiah sent this message to Hezekiah to tell him what Yahweh, the God to whom the Israelites belonged, said in response: "I have heard what you prayed to me about Sennacherib, the king of Assyria.
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\p
\v 37 One day, when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his two sons, Adrammelek and Sharezer, killed him with their swords. Then they escaped and went to the region of Ararat, northwest of Nineveh. And another of Sennacherib's sons, Esarhaddon, became the king of Assyria.
\s5
\c 20
\p
\v 1 About that time, Hezekiah became very ill. He thought that he was about to die. Isaiah the prophet came to him and said, "This is what Yahweh says: 'You should tell the people in your palace what you want them to do after you die, because you are not going to recover from this illness. You are going to die.'"
\p
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\p
\v 11 So Isaiah prayed earnestly to Yahweh, and Yahweh caused the shadow to go backward ten steps.
\s5
\p
\v 12 At that time, King Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan, the previous king of Babylonia, heard a report that King Hezekiah had been very sick. So he wrote some letters and gave them to some messengers to take to Hezekiah, along with a gift.
\v 13 When the messengers arrived, Hezekiah welcomed them gladly. Then he showed them all the treasure that was in his palace and treasuries—the silver and gold, the spices, the nice-smelling olive oil, and all the weapons for his soldiers. There were no valuable things in his storerooms or anywhere else in his kingdom that he did not show them.
\s5
\p
\v 14 Then the prophet Isaiah went to Hezekiah and asked him, "Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?"
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\v 20 If you want to know more about all the other things that Hezekiah did, about his brave deeds in battle, about how he commanded his people to build a reservoir in the city and a tunnel to be dug to bring water into the reservoir, they are all written in the book of the events of the Kings of Judah.
\v 21 Later Hezekiah died, and his son Manasseh became the king.
\s5
\c 21
\p
\v 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to rule. He ruled Judah for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother was Hephzibah.
\v 2 He did many things that Yahweh said were evil. He imitated the disgusting things that were formerly done by the people of the nations that Yahweh had driven out from the land of Israel as his people advanced through the land.
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\v 25 If you want to read about the other things that Amon did, they are written in the book of the events of the Kings of Judah.
\v 26 Amon was also buried in the tomb in the garden that Uzza had made. Then his son Josiah became the king.
\s5
\c 22
\p
\v 1 Josiah was eight years old when he became the king of Judah. He ruled from Jerusalem for thirty-one years. His mother was Jedidah and his grandfather was Adaiah from the city of Bozkath.
\v 2 Josiah did things that were pleasing to Yahweh and conducted his life as his ancestor King David had done. He fully obeyed all the laws of God.
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\v 17 I will do that because they have abandoned me, and they burn incense to honor other gods. They have caused me to become very angry by all the idols that they have made, and my anger is like a fire that will not be put out.
\v 18 The king of Judah sent you to inquire what I, Yahweh, want him to do. This is what you should say to him, "You have paid attention to what was written in the scroll.
\v 19 Also, you have repented and humbled yourself when you heard what I threatened to do to punish this city and the people who live here, I have heard what you prayed. I said that I would cause this city to be abandoned. It will be a city whose name people will use when they curse someone. But because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you.
\s5
\v 20 So I will allow you to die and be buried peacefully. I will cause a great disaster to come to this place, but you will not be alive to see it."'"
\p After the men heard that, they returned to King Josiah and gave him that message.
\s5
\c 23
\p
\v 1 Then the king summoned all the elders of Jerusalem and of the other places in Judah.
\v 2 They went together to the temple, along with the priests and the prophets, and many other people, from the most important people to the least important people. And while they listened, the king read to them all of the laws that Moses had written. He read from the scroll that had been found in the temple.
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\v 19 In every city in Israel, at Josiah's command, they tore down the houses build on hills to worship idols. The ones that had been built by the previous kings of Israel, which had caused Yahweh to become very angry. He did to all those places of idols worship the same thing that he had done to the altars at Bethel.
\v 20 He ordered that all the priests who offered sacrifices on the places built on the hills where they worshiped idols, and they were to be killed on those altars. Then he burned human bones on every one of those altars to desecrate them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
\s5
\p
\v 21 Then the king commanded all the people to celebrate the Passover festival to honor Yahweh their God, which was written in the law of Moses that they should do every year.
\v 22 During all the years that leaders ruled Israel and during all the years that kings of Israel and the kings of Judah, they had not celebrated that festival.
\v 23 But now, after Josiah had been ruling for almost eighteen years, to honor Yahweh they celebrated the Passover festival in Jerusalem.
\s5
\p
\v 24 Furthermore, Josiah removed from Jerusalem and other places in Judah all the people who practiced sorcery and those who asked the spirits of dead people to tell them what they should do. He also removed from Jerusalem and from the other places in Judah all the household idols and all the other idols and abominable things. He did those things in order to obey what had been written in the scroll that Hilkiah had found in the temple.
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\v 26 But Yahweh had become extremely angry with the people of Judah because of all the things that King Manasseh had done to provoke him, and he continued to be very angry.
\v 27 He said, "I will do to Judah what I have done to Israel. I will drive away the people of Judah, with the result that they will never enter my presence again. And I will reject Jerusalem, the city that I chose to belong to me, and I will reject the temple, the place where I said that I should be worshiped."
\s5
\p
\v 28 If you want to know more about all the other things that Josiah did, they are written in the book of the events of the Kings of Judah.
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\v 30 His officials placed his corpse in a chariot and took it back to Jerusalem, where it was buried in his own tomb.
\p Then the people of Judah poured olive oil on Josiah's son Joahaz, to appoint him to be the new king.
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\p
\v 31 Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he became the king of Judah, but he ruled from Jerusalem for only three months. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from the city of Libnah.
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\s5
\v 34 King Necho appointed another son of Josiah, Eliakim, to be the new king, and he changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. Then he took Joahaz to Egypt, and later Joahaz died there in Egypt.
\p
\v 35 King Jehoiakim collected a tax from the people of Judah. He collected more from the rich people and less from the poor people. He collected silver and gold from them, in order to pay to the king of Egypt what he commanded them to give.
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\v 36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became the king of Judah, and he ruled from Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah from the city of Rumah.
\v 37 He did many things that Yahweh said were evil, as his ancestors had done.
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\p
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\p
\v 7 The army of the king of Babylon defeated the army of Egypt. The king of Babylon took control of all the area that the Egyptians formerly controlled, from the brook at the border of Egypt in the south to the Euphrates River in the north. So the army of the king of Egypt did not return to attack Judah again.
\s5
\p
\v 8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became the king of Judah. His mother's name was Nehushta. She was the daughter of a man from Jerusalem named Elnathan. Jehoiachin ruled in Jerusalem for only three months.
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\v 16 They also took to Babylon all seven thousand soldiers and one thousand men who knew how to make and repair things that are made from metal. All of these people whom they took were able to fight in battle.
\v 17 Then the king of Babylon appointed Jehoiachin's uncle, Mattaniah, to be the king of Judah, and he changed Mattaniah's name to Zedekiah.
\s5
\p
\v 18 When Zedekiah was twenty-one years old, he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother's name was Hamutal. She was the daughter of a man named Jeremiah from the city of Libnah.
\v 19 But Zedekiah did many things that Yahweh said were evil, just as Jehoiakim had done.
\v 20 Because Yahweh was very angry, he finally drove the people out of Jerusalem and the other places in Judah and sent them to Babylon.
\p This is what happened when Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
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\c 25
\p
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\v 21 There at the city of Riblah, in the province of Hamath, the king of Babylon commanded that they all be executed.
\p That is what happened when the people of Judah were taken forcefully from their land to Babylon.
\s5
\p
\v 22 Then King Nebuchadnezzar appointed a man named Gedaliah to be the governor of the people who he still allowed to live in Judah. Gedaliah was a son of Ahikam and a grandson of Shaphan.
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\v 25 But in the seventh month of that year, Ishmael, whose grandfather Elishama was in the family descended from King David, went to Mizpah along with ten other men. They assassinated Gedaliah and all the men with him. There were also men from Judah and men from Babylon whom they assassinated.
\v 26 Then many of the people from Judah, important people and unimportant ones, and the army commanders were very afraid of what the Babylonians would do to them, so they fled to Egypt.
\s5
\p
\v 27 Thirty-seven years after King Jehoiachin of Judah had been taken to Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar's son Awel-Marduk became the king of Babylon. He was kind to Jehoiachin, and on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of that same year, he released Jehoiachin from prison.
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\v 28 He always spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and honored him more than the other kings who had been taken to Babylon.
\v 29 He gave Jehoiachin new clothes to replace the clothes that he had been wearing in prison, and he allowed Jehoiachin to eat at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.
\v 30 The king of Babylon also gave him money every day, so that he could buy the things that he needed. The king continued to do that until Jehoiachin died.

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\toc2 First Chronicles
\toc3 1Ch
\mt1 FIRST CHRONICLES
\s5
\c 1
\s2 These are the descendants of Adam
\p
\v 1 The first person God created was Adam. Adam's son was Seth. Seth's son was Enosh. Enosh's son was Kenan.
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\v 53 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
\v 54 and Magdiel. These were the chiefs of Edom.
\s5
\c 2
\p
\v 1 The sons of Jacob were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
\v 2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
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\v 23 But the armies of Geshur and Aram captured those towns controlled by Jair. They also captured the city of Kenath and the nearby towns; altogether they captured sixty towns. The people who lived there were all descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead.
\q
\v 24 Shortly after Hezron died, Caleb slept with Ephrathah, his father's widow. She bore a son for Caleb, whose name was Ashhur. Asshur became the father of Tekoa.
\s2 Jerahmeel's descendants
\s5
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\v 54 Salma's descendants were the people of Bethlehem, the clan of Netophath, the clan of Atroth Beth Joab, and the half the clan of Manahath, who were also Zorites.
\v 55 Salma's descendants also included the families in the city of Jabez who wrote and copied important documents. These were the clan of Tirath, the clan of Shimeath, and the clan of Sucath. They were all from the Kenite people who descended from Hammath, the ancestor of the family of Rekab.
\s5
\c 3
\s2 The sons of King David
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\v 5 Many of David's children were born in Jerusalem.
\q Bathshua, daughter of Ammiel, gave birth to four of his sons: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon.
\s5
\q
\v 6 Nine other sons of David were also born there. They were Ibhar, Elishua, Elphelet,
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\q
\v 24 Elioenai's seven sons were Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani.
\s5
\c 4
\s2 Other clans descended from Judah
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\v 22 Jokim, and the men of the city of Kozeba, and Joash and Saraph, two men who married women from the region of Moab and ruled in Jashubi Lehem. All their names and a record of what they did are written in scrolls.
\v 23 Some of these descendants of Shelah made pottery for the king. Some of them lived in the city of Netaim, and some lived in the city of Gederah.
\s5
\q
\v 24 Simeon's sons were Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul.
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\v 42 Ishi's four sons Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel led five hundred other descendants of Simeon and attacked the people who were living in the hill country of Edom.
\v 43 They killed the few descendants of Amalek who were still alive. From that time until now, the descendants of Simeon have lived in the region of Edom.
\s5
\c 5
\s2 These are the descendants of Reuben.
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\q
\v 10 When Saul was king of Israel, the men in the tribe of Reuben fought against the descendants of Hagar and defeated them. After that, they lived in the tents that the descendants of Hagar had lived in previously, in all the area east of the region of Gilead.
\s5
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\v 11 The tribe of Gad lived near the tribe of Reuben; they lived in the region of Bashan, all the way east to the city of Salekah.
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\v 25 But they sinned against God, the one whom their ancestors had worshiped. They began to worship the gods that the people of that region had worshiped, the people whom God had enabled them to destroy.
\v 26 So the God whom the Israelites worshiped incited Pul, the king of Assyria, to want to conquer those tribes. Pul's other name was Tiglath-Pileser. His army captured the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the eastern half of the tribe of Manasseh, and took them to various places in Assyria: Halah, Habor, Hara and near the Gozan River. They have lived in those places from that time to the present time.
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\s2 These are the descendants of Levi.
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\q2
\v 80 From the tribe of Gad, they were allotted cities and towns and pastureland near Ramoth in the region of Gilead, Mahanaim,
\v 81 Heshbon, and Jazer.
Bev
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\p
\v 40 All those men were descendants of Asher, and they were all leaders of their clans. They were brave warriors and excellent leaders. In the record of the clans that are descended from Asher are the names of twenty-six thousand men who were able to be in the army.
\s5
\c 8
\s2 These are the descendants of Benjamin.
@ -1033,6 +1020,7 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 29 Another descendant of Benjamin was Jeiel. He lived in the city of Gibeon, and he was the leader of those who lived there. His wife was Maakah.
\v 30 His oldest son was Abdon. His other sons were Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
\v 31 Gedor, Ahio, Zeker, and Mikloth.
\s5
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\v 32 Mikloth was the father of Shimeah. All these sons of Jeiel also lived near their relatives in Jerusalem.
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\v 40 Ulam's sons were brave warriors and good archers. Altogether they had 150 sons and grandsons.
\m All these were the descendants of Benjamin.
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\c 9
\p
\v 1 The names of all the people of Israel were listed in the scroll named "The Record of the Kings of Israel."
\p Many of the people of Judah were captured and forced to go to Babylon. That happened because of the sins they had committed.
\v 2 The first people who returned to Judah many years later and lived in their own land and in their own cities and towns were some Israelite priests, other descendants of Levi, and men who worked in the temple.
\p
@ -1180,7 +1166,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\p
\v 34 Those are the names of the leaders of the clans descended from Levi. Their names were written in the records of the clans. They all lived in Jerusalem.
\s5
\q
\v 35 One of the descendants of Benjamin, Jeiel, lived in the city of Gibeon. He was the city leader. His wife's name was Maacah.
@ -1208,10 +1193,8 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\q2
\v 44 Azel had six sons: Azrikam, Bokeru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan.
\s5
\c 10
\p
\v 1 The army of Philistia again fought against the Israelites. The Israelite soldiers ran away from them, and many Israelites were killed on Mount Gilboa.
\v 2 The soldiers of Philistia caught up with Saul and his sons, and they killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua.
@ -1246,17 +1229,14 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 13 Saul died because he did not faithfully obey what Yahweh told him to do. He even went to a woman who talks to the spirits of dead people and asked her what he should do,
\v 14 instead of asking Yahweh what he should do. So Yahweh caused him to die, and he appointed David son of Jesse, to be the king of Israel.
\s5
\c 11
\p
\v 1 Then the people of Israel came to David at the city of Hebron and said to him, "Listen, we have the same ancestors that you have.
\v 2 In the past, when Saul was our king, it was you who led our Israelite soldiers in our battles. You are the one to whom Yahweh our God promised, 'You will be the leader of my people; you will be their king.'"
\p
\v 3 So all the Israelite elders came to David at Hebron. There David made a sacred agreement with them while Yahweh was listening. They anointed him with olive oil to set him apart to be the king of the Israelite people. That is what Yahweh had previously told the prophet Samuel would happen.
\s5
\p
\v 4 David and all the Israelite soldiers went to Jerusalem. At that time, Jerusalem was called Jebus, and the people who lived there were the Jebus people .
@ -1270,7 +1250,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 8 David's workers rebuilt the city, starting where the land was filled in and extending to the wall that was around the city. Joab's men repaired the other parts of the city.
\v 9 David became more and more powerful because Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, was with him.
\s5
\p
\v 10 Yahweh had promised that David would become the king. And all the Israelite people were happy that David was their king.
@ -1387,10 +1366,8 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 47 Eliel and Obed,
\q2 and Jaasiel from Zobah.
\s5
\c 12
\p
\v 1 David went to the city of Ziklag to escape from King Saul. While he was there, many warriors came and joined him, and they helped him when he fought battles.
\v 2 They carried bows and arrows. They were able to shoot arrows and to sling stones. They could use either their right arms or their left arms to do that. They were relatives of Saul from the tribe of Benjamin.
@ -1444,6 +1421,7 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\p
\v 16 Some other men from the tribe of Benjamin and from Judah also came to David in his fortress.
\v 17 David went out of the cave to meet them and said to them, "If you have come peacefully to help me, I am eager to have to join with me. But if you have come to enable my enemies to capture me, even though I have not done anything to harm you, I hope that the God whom our ancestors worshiped will see it and condemn you."
\s5
\p
\v 18 Then God's Spirit came on Amasai, who was the leader of the thirty greatest warriors, and he said,
@ -1461,7 +1439,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 21 They were all brave soldiers, and they helped David to fight against the groups of men who roamed throughout the country, robbing people. So those men became commanders in David's army.
\v 22 Every day more men joined David's men, and his army became large, like the army of God.
\s5
\p
\v 23 These are the numbers of soldiers who were ready for battle who joined David at the city of Hebron. They came to help him to become the king of Israel instead of Saul, as Yahweh had promised would happen.
@ -1510,10 +1487,8 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 39 The men spent three days there with David, eating and drinking, because their families had given them food to take with them.
\v 40 Also, their fellow Israelites came from as far away as the area where the tribes of Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali lived, bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen. They brought a lot of flour, fig cakes, raisins, wine, olive oil, cattle and sheep. And throughout Israel, the people were very joyful.
\s5
\c 13
\p
\v 1 One day David talked with all his army officers. Some of them were commanders of one hundred soldiers and some were commanders of one thousand soldiers.
\v 2 Then he summoned the other Israelite leaders and said to all of them, "If it seems to you to be a good thing for us to do, and if it is what Yahweh our God wants, let us send a message to our fellow Israelites in all the areas of our country, including the priests and descendants of Levi who are living among them in their towns and in the nearby pasturelands, to come and join us,
@ -1543,10 +1518,8 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 13 So the men with David did not take the sacred chest to Jerusalem. Instead, they took it to the house of Obed Edom, who was from the city of Gath.
\v 14 The sacred chest stayed with Obed Edom's family in his house for three months. During that time Yahweh blessed Obed Edom's family and everything that he owned.
\s5
\c 14
\p
\v 1 One day Hiram, the king of the city of Tyre, sent some messengers to David to talk about making an agreement between their countries. Then Hiram sent cedar logs, bricklayers, and carpenters to build a palace for David.
\v 2 When that happened, David knew that Yahweh had truly caused him to be the king of Israel, and that he had caused his kingdom to be greatly respected. Yahweh did this because he loved his Israelite people.
@ -1559,7 +1532,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 6 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
\v 7 Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
\s5
\p
\v 8 When the army of Philistia heard that David has been appointed to be king of all of Israel, they went to try to capture him. But David heard that they were coming, so he and his soldiers went out to fight against them.
@ -1583,10 +1555,8 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\p
\v 17 So David became famous in all the nearby countries, and Yahweh caused the leaders of all the nations to be afraid of him.
\s5
\c 15
\p
\v 1 David commanded his workers to build houses for himself in Jerusalem. He also told them to set up a tent in which to put the sacred chest.
\v 2 He said, "Only the descendants of Levi are permitted to carry God's sacred chest, because they are the ones whom Yahweh chose to carry it and to serve him forever."
@ -1653,7 +1623,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\p
\v 29 While they were bringing the sacred chest into Jerusalem, Saul's daughter Michal watched them, looking out of a window. When she saw King David dancing and celebrating, she despised him.
\s5
\c 16
\p
@ -1799,10 +1768,8 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\p
\v 43 Then all the people left. They all returned to their homes, and David returned home to ask Yahweh to bless his family.
\s5
\c 17
\p
\v 1 After David began to live in his palace, he said to the prophet Nathan, "It does not seem right that I am here living in a palace made of cedar wood, but Yahweh's sacred chest is kept inside a tent!"
\p
@ -1835,7 +1802,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\p
\v 15 So Nathan reported to David everything that Yahweh had revealed to him.
\s5
\p
\v 16 Then David went into the sacred tent and sat in the presence of Yahweh, and prayed this:
@ -1863,10 +1829,8 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 26 Yahweh, you are God! You have promised to do these good things for me.
\v 27 And now you, Yahweh, have promised to bless my descendants, in order that they will continue to rule forever. That will happen because you, Yahweh, are the one who has blessed them, and you will keep blessing them forever."
\s5
\c 18
\p
\v 1 Some time later, David's army attacked the army of Philistia and defeated them. They captured the city of Gath and the surrounding villages.
\p
@ -1899,7 +1863,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 12 The army of David's army commander Abishai, whose mother was Zeruiah, killed eighteen thousand soldiers from Edom in the Valley of Salt.
\v 13 Then David stationed groups of his soldiers there in Edom, and the people of Edom were forced to become the servants of David.
\s5
\p
\v 14 David ruled over all the Israelite people, and he always did for them what was just and fair.
@ -1907,7 +1870,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 16 Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests. Shavsha was the official secretary.
\v 17 Benaiah son of Jehoiada ruled over the Kereth and Peleth groups who were David's bodyguards. And David's sons were his most important officials.
\s5
\c 19
\p
@ -1958,10 +1920,8 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 19 When the kings who had been ruled by Hadadezer realized that they had been defeated by the Israelite army, they made peace with David, and agreed to allow him to rule them.
\p So the rulers of Aram did not want to help the rulers of the Ammon people anymore.
\s5
\c 20
\p
\v 1 In that region, kings usually went with their armies to fight their enemies in the springtime. But the following year, David did not do that. Instead, he stayed in Jerusalem, and he sent his commander Joab to lead the army. Joab took his troops. They crossed the Jordan River and ruined the land of the Ammon people . Then they went to Rabbah, the capital city, and surrounded it. David stayed in Jerusalem for a while. But later he took more troops and went to help Joab. Their armies attacked Rabbah and destroyed it.
@ -1969,7 +1929,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 2 Then David took the crown from the head of the king of Rabbah and put it on his own head. It was very heavy; it weighed thirty-three kilograms, and it had many very valuable stones. They also took many other valuable things from the city.
\v 3 Then they brought the people out of the city and forced them to work for their army, using saws and iron picks and axes. David's soldiers did this in all the cities of the Ammon people . Then David and all of his army returned to Jerusalem.
\s5
\p
\v 4 Later, David's army fought a battle with the army of Philistia, at the city of Gezer. During the battle Sibbekai, from Hushah clan, killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the of the Rapha giants. So the armies of Philistia were defeated.
@ -1983,10 +1942,8 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\p
\v 8 Those were some of the descendants of the Rapha giants who had lived in Gath, who were killed by David and his soldiers.
\s5
\c 21
\p
\v 1 Satan decided to cause the Israelite people to have trouble. So he incited David to find out how many men in Israel were able to be in the army.
\p
@ -2001,7 +1958,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\s5
\v 6 However, Joab did not count the men from the tribes of Levi and Benjamin, because he was disgusted with what the king had commanded.
\p
\v 7 David's command to count the people caused God to become angry, so he told David that he had decided to punish the people of Israel.
\v 8 Then David prayed to God. He said to him, "What I did was very foolish. I have sinned greatly by what I have done. So now I plead with you, please forgive me."
@ -2059,12 +2015,10 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 29 Yahweh's sacred tent, which Moses had commanded to be set up in the wilderness, and the altar for burning sacrifices completely, were at that time on a hill at the city of Gibeon.
\v 30 But David did not want to go there to request God to tell him what he wanted David to do, because he was afraid that the angel sent from Yahweh might strike him with his sword; he realized that this was the place that Yahweh now wanted sacrifices to be made.
\s5
\c 22
\p
\v 1 Then David said, "Here, at the edge of Jerusalem, is where we will build the temple for our God Yahweh, and where we will make the altar for burning the offerings that the Israelite people will bring."
\p
\v 2 So David commanded that the foreigners who lived in Israel must gather together. When they did that, he appointed some of those men to cut huge stones from the quarries and to smooth their surfaces, to be used to build the temple of God.
@ -2104,10 +2058,8 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 18 "Yahweh our God is certainly with you. He has allowed you to have peace with all the nearby nations. He has enabled my army to conquer them, so now Yahweh and my people control them.
\v 19 Now you must obey Yahweh with your entire inner beings. Help Solomon to arrange for building the temple for Yahweh God, in order that you can bring the sacred chest that contains the Ten Commandments and the other sacred items that belong to Yahweh into the temple that you will build to honor him."
\s5
\c 23
\p
\v 1 David was a very old man when he appointed his son Solomon to be the next king.
\p
@ -2196,7 +2148,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\p
\v 32 So the descendants of Levi did the work that was assigned to them by their fellow Israelites who were descendants of Aaron. They did that work at the sacred tent and in the holy place inside the tent, and later at the temple.
\s5
\c 24
\p
@ -2258,7 +2209,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\s5
\p
\v 19 Those were the men who were chosen to be the leaders of the groups that would serve in the temple, obeying the regulations that were set down by Aaron, regulations which Yahweh, the God to whom we Israelite people belong, had given to him.
\m
\s5
@ -2297,10 +2247,8 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\p Those were descendants of Levi who were listed according to the leaders of their families.
\v 31 The jobs they would do were decided by casting lots like their fellow Israelites the descendants of Aaron, did. They cast lots while King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the leaders of he families of the priests and the other descendants of Levi watched. The jobs that were given to the families of each oldest brother and each youngest brother were equal.
\s5
\c 25
\p
\v 1 David and some of the temple officials chose some of the descendants of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to be in charge of the preaching, and to play harps and lyres and cymbals. This is a list of the men whom they chose for that work:
\li
@ -2377,7 +2325,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\li
\v 31 Next, Romamti-Eze and 12 of his sons and relatives were selected.
\s5
\c 26
\p
@ -2455,10 +2402,8 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 31 It was written in the records of the descendants of Hebron that Jeriah was their leader. When David had been ruling for almost forty years, they searched in those records, and they found names of capable men descended from Hebron who were at the city of Jazer in the region of Gilead.
\v 32 Jeriah had 2,700 relatives who were able to do their work well, and who were leaders of their families. King David put them in charge of governing the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the western half of the tribe of Manasseh, to be sure that all the people did what God and the king told them to do.
\s5
\c 27
\p
\v 1 This is a list of the Israelite men who served the king in the army. Some were leaders of families, some were commanders of one hundred men, some were commanders of one thousand men, and some were other officers. There were twenty-four thousand men in each group. Each group served one month of each year.
\q
@ -2496,7 +2441,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\q
\v 15 The commander for the last month of each year was Heldai, a descendant of Othniel from the city of Netophath.
\s5
\p
\v 16 This is a list of the administrators of the twelve tribes of Israel:
@ -2527,7 +2471,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 23 David did not tell Joab to count the men who were less then twenty years old, because Yahweh had promised many years previously that there would be as many people in Israel as there are stars in the sky.
\v 24 Joab and his helpers started to count the men of Israel, but they did not finish counting them because Joab knew that Yahweh was angry about their being counted. Yahweh punished the people of Israel because of this counting, and as a result the total number of Israelite men able to serve in the army was not written on the scroll about King David's rule.
\s5
\q
\v 25 Azmaveth, son of Adiel, was in charge of the king's storehouses.
@ -2564,10 +2507,8 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\q Benaiah's son Jehoiada became the king's advisor after Ahithophel died, and later Abiathar became his advisor.
\li Joab was the chief commander of the army.
\s5
\c 28
\p
\v 1 David summoned all the leaders of Israel to come to Jerusalem. He summoned the leaders of the tribes, the leaders of the groups that worked for the king, the commanders of one hundred soldiers, the commanders of one thousand soldiers, those who were in charge of the king's property and his livestock, those who taught his sons, all the palace officials, and his mighty soldiers and bravest warriors.
@ -2618,10 +2559,8 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 20 David also said to his son Solomon, "Be strong and courageous, and do this work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, because Yahweh our God, whom I worship, will be with you. He will not fail to help you or abandon you until you finish all the work of making the temple of his.
\v 21 The groups of priests and other descendants of Levi are ready to begin their work at God's temple, and every man who has a special skill will help you in all the work. And my officials and the other people will obey you, whatever you command them to do."
\s5
\c 29
\p
\v 1 Then King David said to all the people who had gathered there, "My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen to be the next king, is young and does not have much experience. This work of building the temple is great, because this glorious building will not be to honor people, but to honor Yahweh our God.
\v 2 From all the things that I possess, I have provided what will be needed to build the temple of my God—gold for the things to be made of gold, silver for the things to be made of silver, bronze for the things to be made of bronze, iron for the things to be made of iron, wood for the things to be made of wood, and large amounts of onyx and turquoise and other valuable stones of various colors, and marble and all kinds of valuable stones.
@ -2640,7 +2579,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\v 8 Any people who owned valuable stones gave them to be put in the storeroom of the temple. Jehiel, a descendant of Gershon, was appointed to be in charge of them.
\v 9 The people were happy to see that their leaders wanted to give those things; they were happy and enthusiastic to give those things to Yahweh. And King David also was very happy.
\s5
\p
\v 10 Then, while all the people there were listening, David praised Yahweh. He said,
@ -2695,7 +2633,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\s5
\p
\v 20 Then David said to all the people who were gathered there, "Praise Yahweh our God!" So they all praised Yahweh the God whom their ancestors also worshiped. They prostrated themselves on the ground in front of Yahweh and in front of the king.
\p
\v 21 The next day the people offered sacrifices to Yahweh. They presented many animals to be completely burned on the altar: A thousand bulls, a thousand rams, a thousand male sheep, offerings of wine, and many other sacrifices for all the people of Israel to eat.
@ -2709,7 +2646,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\p
\v 25 Yahweh caused Solomon to be highly respected by all the Israelite people, and they honored him very much. No king of Israel had been honored as much as Solomon was.
\s5
\p
\v 26 Jesse's son David was the king who ruled all of Israel.
@ -2720,4 +2656,3 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
\p
\v 29 A record of all the things that King David did while he ruled, from the beginning to the end, was on scrolls written by the prophets Samuel, Nathan, and Gad.
\v 30 They told about his powerful rule, and all the things that happened to him and to the people of Israel and in the kingdoms of other countries while he was ruling Israel.

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\toc2 Second Chronicles
\toc3 2Ch
\mt1 2 Chronicles
\s5
\c 1
\p
\v 1 King Solomon, David's son, was able to gain complete control over his kingdom, because Yahweh his God was with him and enabled him to become a very strong king.
@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
\p
\v 2-5 When David had been king, he arranged for a new sacred tent to be made in Jerusalem. Then David and the Israelite leaders brought God's sacred chest from the city of Kiriath Jearim to the new sacred tent. But when Solomon became the king, the first sacred tent was still in the city of Gibeon. There was a bronze altar there that Bezalel son of Uri and grandson of Hur, had made was also still at Gibeon, in front of the first sacred tent.
\p Solomon called together the army commanders who directed thousands of soldiers, and the commanders who directed hundreds of soldiers, with the judges and all the other leaders in Israel. He told them to go with him to Gibeon. So they all went to the place on the hill where idols were worshiped at Gibeon. That was the same place where God had met with his people in the tent which Moses had made. There Solomon and all the others with him prayed to Yahweh.
\s5
\v 6 Then Solomon went up to the bronze altar in front of the sacred tent, and he offered one thousand animals to be killed and completely burned on the altar.
\p
@ -32,7 +33,6 @@
\v 12 So I will enable you to be wise and to know what you should do to rule my people well. But I will also enable you to have a huge amount of money and for people everywhere to honor you, more any king before you, and more than any king who will come after you."
\v 13 Then Solomon and the people who were with him all left the sacred tent at Gibeon, and they returned to Jerusalem. There he ruled the Israelite people.
\s5
\p
\v 14 Solomon acquired 1,400 chariots and twelve thousand men who rode on horses. He put some of the chariots and horses in Jerusalem, and put some of them in various other cities.
@ -42,10 +42,8 @@
\v 16 Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from the region of Kue.
\v 17 In Egypt his men paid seven kilograms of silver for each chariot and one and seven-tenths kilograms of silver for each horse. They also sold many of them to the kings of the Heth and Aram peoples.
\s5
\c 2
\p
\v 1 Solomon decided that a temple should be built where Yahweh would be worshiped, and also that he would build a palace for himself.
\v 2 He commanded seventy thousand men to carry the building supplies and eighty thousand men to cut stones from quarries in the hills. He also chose 3,600 men to supervise them.
@ -89,10 +87,8 @@
\v 17 Solomon told his workers to count all the people from other countries who were living in Israel, similar to what his father David had done. There were 153,600 of them.
\v 18 Solomon assigned seventy thousand of them to carry materials, and eighty thousand to cut stone from quarries in the hills, and 3,600 of them to supervise the others and be sure that they worked steadily.
\s5
\c 3
\p
\v 1 Then Solomon's workers started to build the temple for Yahweh in Jerusalem. They built it on Mount Moriah, where an angel from Yahweh had appeared to his father David. They built it on the ground that Ornan, a descendant of the Jebus people , had sold to David and where David said that it should be built.
\v 2 They began the work on the second day of the second month, when Solomon had been ruling almost four years.
@ -129,10 +125,8 @@
\v 16 The workers made carvings that resembled chains and put them on top of the pillars. They made carvings that resembled pomegranates and attached them to the chains. There were one hundred of them.
\v 17 They set up the pillars in front of the temple, one the south side of the entrance and the other on the north side. The one of the south side was named Jakin and the one on the north side was named Boaz.
\s5
\c 4
\p
\v 1 Solomon's workers made a square bronze altar, nine meters long on each side, and four and three-fifths meters high.
\v 2 They also made a very large round tank that was called "The Sea," and it had a circumference of fourteen meters.
@ -150,6 +144,7 @@
\v 7 The craftsmen also made ten gold lampstands according to how Solomon had instructed them. They put them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north side.
\p
\v 8 They made ten tables and put them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north side. They also made one hundred gold basins.
\s5
\p
\v 9 They constructed one courtyard for the priests, and a larger courtyard for the other people. They made doors for the courtyards and covered them with thin sheets of bronze.
@ -197,7 +192,6 @@
\li the gold inner doors leading to the very holy place,
\li the gold doors leading to the main hall.
\s5
\c 5
\p
@ -235,7 +229,6 @@
\p Then suddenly the temple was filled with a cloud.
\v 14 The glory of Yahweh filled the temple, with the result that the priests were not able to continue doing their work.
\s5
\c 6
\p
@ -262,7 +255,6 @@
\v 10 And Yahweh has done what he promised to do. I have become the king of Israel to rule after my father, and I am ruling the people, as Yahweh promised, and I have arranged for this temple to be built for us to worship Yahweh, the God to whom we Israelites belong.
\v 11 I have put the sacred chest in the temple, in which are the stone tablets showing the covenant that Yahweh made with us Israelite people."
\s5
\p
\v 12 Then Solomon stood in front of the altar that was in front of the people of Israel who had gathered there. He spread out his hands as he began to pray.
@ -277,7 +269,6 @@
\s5
\pi
\v 16 So now, Yahweh, the God we Israelites worship Israel, as you promised your servant David, my father, please make sure that he will always have a descendant who will be king of Israel. For you promise you would do this if his descendants were faithful to you.
\v 17 So now, God of us Israelite people, cause what you promised David, who served you well, to become true.
\s5
@ -340,7 +331,6 @@
\v 42 Yahweh God, do not reject me, the king whom you have appointed to be the king of Israel;
\q2 do not forget how faithfuly were to David, your servant, because of your covenant with him."
\s5
\c 7
\p
@ -365,7 +355,6 @@
\v 9 On the eighth day they gathered again to worship Yahweh. They had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the Festival of Shelters for seven days.
\v 10 Then on the next day Solomon sent them to their homes. They were very joyful because of all the good things that Yahweh had done for David and Solomon and for all his Israelite people.
\s5
\p
\v 11 In this way, Solomon's workers finished building the temple and Solomon's palace. And Solomon finished doing everything else that he had planned to do.
@ -392,10 +381,8 @@
\v 21 Although this temple is now so magnificent, when that happens, all the people who pass by will be appalled, and they will say, 'Why has Yahweh done terrible things like this to this country and to this temple?'
\v 22 And others will reply, 'It happened because they rejected Yahweh, the God to whom their ancestors belonged, the one who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and they have chosen to worship other gods and try to please them. And that is why Yahweh has caused them to experience all these disasters.'"
\s5
\c 8
\p
\v 1 Solomon's workers took twenty years to build the temple and his palace.
\v 2 Then his workers rebuilt the cities that King Hiram had given back to him, and Solomon sent Israelites to live in those cities.
@ -439,10 +426,8 @@
\v 17 Then some of Solomon's men went to the cities of Ezion Geber and Elath on the coast of the Sea of Reeds, next to a region that belonged to the Edom people .
\v 18 King Hiram sent him from the city of Tyre some ships that were commanded by his officers. They were men who were experienced sailors. These men went in the ships with Solomon's men to the region of Ophir and brought back about fifteen metric tons of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
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\v 1 The queen who ruled the Sheba area in Arabia heard that Solomon had become famous, so she traveled to Jerusalem to ask him questions that were difficult to answer. She came with a large group of servants, and she brought camels that were loaded with spices, and valuable gems. When she arrived, she shared her thoughts with him.
\v 2 Solomon answered all her questions. He explained everything that she asked about, even things that were very difficult.
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\v 27 During the years that Solomon was king, he caused silver to become as common in Jerusalem as stone; and he caused cedar trees in the foothills of Judah to become as plentiful as sycamore fig trees.
\v 28 Solomon's agents brought horses to the land of Judah from Egypt and from many other lands.
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\v 29 Lists of all the other things that Solomon did are written in the scrolls written by the prophet Nathan, and by the prophet Ahijah from the city of Shiloh, and in the scroll in which was written the visions of the prophet Iddo (a scroll in which Iddo's visions about Jeroboam son of Nebat were also written).
\v 30 Solomon ruled in Jerusalem over all of Israel for forty years.
\v 31 Then Solomon died; they buried him in the part of Jerusalem called 'the city of David.' And his son Rehoboam became the next king.
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\v 1 All the people of northern Israel went to the city Shechem in order to appoint Rehoboam to be their king. So Rehoboam also went there.
\v 2 Now Jeroboam son of Nebat had fled to Egypt to escape from King Solomon. While he was in Egypt he heard about the people wanting to appoint Rehoboam to be their king, and so he returned to Israel from Egypt.
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\v 18 Then King Rehoboam went with Adoniram to talk to the Israelite people. Adoniram was the man who supervised all the men who were forced to work for Rehoboam. But the Israelite people killed him by throwing stones at him. When that happened, King Rehoboam quickly got in his chariot and escaped to Jerusalem.
\v 19 Ever since that time, the people of the northern tribes of Israel have been rebelling against the descendants of King David.
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\v 3 "Go and tell this to Solomon's son Rehoboam, the king of Judah, and to all the Israelite people of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin:
\v 4 'Yahweh says that you must not go to fight against the people of Israel; it is as though they are your own relatives. All of you must go home. What has happened is what Yahweh wanted to happen.'" So Shemaiah went and told that to them, and they all paid attention to what Yahweh had commanded them to do; they did not attack Jeroboam and his soldiers.
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\v 5 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and his workers built walls around several of the cities and towns in Judah to protect them against enemy attacks.
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\v 16 And people from every tribe in Israel who wanted to worship Yahweh, the God to whom the Israelites belonged, went with the descendants of Levi to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices to Yahweh, the God whom their ancestors worshiped.
\v 17 They caused the kingdom of Judah to be strong, and for three years they were happy that Solomon's son Rehoboam was the king. During that time they conducted their lives righteously as David and Solomon had done previously.
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\v 18 Rehoboam married Mahalath. She was the daughter of David's son Jerimoth, and her mother was Abihail, the daughter of Eliab and granddaughter of Jesse.
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\v 22 Rehoboam appointed his son Abijah to be the leader of his older and younger brothers, because he wanted to appoint Abijah to be the next king.
\v 23 He very wisely sent some of his other sons to other cities in the areas of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and to other cities that had walls around them. He gave them plenty of supplies and many wives.
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\v 15 An account of all the things that Rehoboam did while he was the king, and lists of the members of his family, are in the scrolls written by the prophets Shemaiah and Iddo. The armies of Rehoboam and Jeroboam were constantly fighting each other.
\v 16 When Rehoboam died, he was buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David. Then his son Abijah became the king.
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\v 1 When Jeroboam had been ruling Israel for almost eighteen years, Abijah became the king of Judah.
\v 2 He ruled in Jerusalem for three years. His mother was Micaiah, the daughter of Uriel from the city of Gibeah.
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\v 22 An account of the other things that Abijah did while he was the was king, including what he said and what he did, is in the scroll written by the prophet Iddo.
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\v 1 When Abijah died, he was buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David. His son Asa became the king. While Asa was ruling, there was peace in Judah for ten years.
\p
\v 2 Asa did things that Yahweh his God considers to be right and good.
\v 3 His workers got rid of the altars to worship foreign gods that were at the hilltops where the idols were worshiped. They smashed the stone pillars and cut down the poles that were there for the goddess Asherah.
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\v 14 The men of Judah were able to destroy the villages near to the city of Gerar because Yahweh had caused the people there to become terrified and unable to fight. The army of Judah took away all the valuable things from those villages.
\v 15 They also attacked the places where the local people who took care of domestic animals had set up their tents, and they took away large flocks and herds of sheep and goats and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.
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\v 1 The Spirit of God came on Azariah son of Oded.
\v 2 Azariah went to talk with Asa and said to him, "Asa and all you men of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, listen to me. Yahweh is with you whenever you are with him. If you request him to help you, he will help you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.
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\v 19 There were no more wars in Judah until Asa had been ruling Judah almost thirty-five years.
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\v 1 When Asa had been ruling Judah for almost thirty-six years, King Baasha of Israel went with his army to attack Judah. They captured the town of Ramah north of Jerusalem and started to build a wall around it, in order to prevent any people from entering or leaving the area in Judah that King Asa ruled.
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\v 13 Asa had been ruling for about forty-one years when he died.
\v 14 People buried him in the tomb that his workers had made for him in the part of Jerusalem called "the city of David." They laid his corpse on a bed covered with spices and various perfumes that had been mixed together. They also lit a huge fire to honor him.
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\v 1 Then Asa's son Jehoshaphat became the king of Judah, and he enabled his army to become very strong, with the result that they could resist attacks from the army of Israel.
\v 2 He put soldiers in all the cities in Judah around which they had built walls, and he put soldiers in other places in Judah and in the towns in the tribe of Ephraim that soldiers of his father Asa had captured.
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\v 19 Those were the soldiers who served the king in Jerusalem, in addition to the men whom the king had placed in the other cities in Judah that had walls around them.
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\v 33 But one Aramean soldier shot an arrow at Ahab, without knowing who he was. The arrow struck Ahab between the places where the parts of his armor joined together. Ahab told the driver of his chariot, "Turn the chariot around and take me out of here! I have been severely wounded!"
\v 34 The battle continued all the day. Ahab was sitting propped up in his chariot, facing the Aramean soldiers. And late in the afternoon, when the sun was setting, he died.
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\v 2 the prophet Jehu son of the prophet Hanani, went out of the city to meet the king, and said to him, "It was not right for you to help a wicked man and to love those who hate Yahweh. Because of what you have done, Yahweh is angry with you.
\v 3 But you have done some good things; you got rid of the poles in this country for worshiping the goddess Asherah, and you have been determined to do what pleases God."
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\v 4 Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem. But one time, like he had done once previously, he went out among all the people in the country, from the city of Beersheba in the far south to the hill country of the tribe of Ephraim in the far north, and he convinced them to return to worshiping Yahweh, the God whom their ancestors worshiped.
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\v 11 Amariah, the high priest, will supervise you in any matter that Yahweh is concerned about, and Zebadiah son of Ishmael, the leader of the tribe of Judah, will supervise you in any matter that I am concerned about. And the descendants of Levi will assist you. Act courageously, and I pray that Yahweh will help those who do their work well."
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\v 1 Later armies from Moab and Ammon and some soldiers from region of Meun, near Edom, came to fight against Jehoshaphat's army.
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\v 29 People in the kingdoms of the nearby countries became very afraid when they heard how Yahweh had fought against the enemies of the Israelites.
\v 30 Then there was peace in the kingdom that Jehoshaphat ruled, because God had enabled him to have peace throughout the country.
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\v 31 Jehoshaphat continued to rule Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for twenty-five years. His mother's name was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.
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\v 36 They agreed that their workers would build a fleet of ships to use to buy and sell things with other countries. After those ships were built at Ezion Geber,
\v 37 Eliezer son of Dodavahu of the city of Mareshah, prophesied against Jehoshaphat. He said, "You have made an alliance with Ahaziah, who is a wicked king. Therefore, Yahweh will destroy the ships that your workers have made." And the ships were wrecked, and were never able to sail to other countries.
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\v 2 Jehoram's younger brothers were Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah.
\v 3 Before Jehoshaphat died, he had given them large gifts of silver and gold and other valuable things. He also appointed them to rule various cities in Judah that had walls around them. But he appointed Jehoram to be the king of Judah, because Jehoram was his oldest son.
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\v 4 After Jehoram was completely in control of his father's kingdom, he caused all of his younger brothers to be killed, along with some of the leaders of the nation.
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\v 20 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became the king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eight years. No one regretted it when he died. His corpse was buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David, but he was not buried where the other kings of Judah had been buried.
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\v 1 The people of Jerusalem appointed Jehoram's youngest son Ahaziah to be their king, because the men from Philistia who had invaded Judah with some Arabs had killed all of Jehoram's other sons. So Ahaziah started to rule Judah.
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\v 9 Then Jehu went to find Ahaziah, and his soldiers found Ahaziah while he was hiding in the city of Samaria. They brought him to Jehu and executed him. Then they buried his corpse, because they said, "He deserves to be buried, because he was a descendant of Jehoshaphat, who tried hard to please Yahweh." After that, there were no descendants of Ahaziah who were powerful enough to become the kings of Judah.
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\v 10 When Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son had been killed, she commanded that all the members of Ahaziah's family who might become king must be executed.
\v 11 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram, took Joash, Ahaziah's very young son, away from the other sons of the king who were about to be murdered, and she hid him and his nursemaid in a bedroom in the temple. Because Jehosheba, who was the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of the high priest Jehoiada, was Ahaziah's sister, she was able to hide the child, with the result that Athaliah could not kill him.
\v 12 He remained hidden there for six years while Athaliah ruled Judah.
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\v 1 The next year, Jehoiada decided that it was necessary to do something. So he made an agreement with the army commanders of groups of one hundred soldiers: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zicri.
\v 2 They went throughout Judah and gathered the descendants of Levi and the leaders of Israelite families from all the cities. When they came to Jerusalem,
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\v 20 Jehoiada took with him the army commanders, the important men, the leaders and many others, and brought the king down from the temple. They went into the palace through the Upper Gate, and put the king on his throne.
\v 21 Then all the people of Judah rejoiced. And there was quiet throughout the city, because Athaliah had been killed.
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\v 1 Joash was seven years old when he became the king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for forty years. His mother's name was Zibiah; she was from the city of Beersheba.
\v 2 Joash did what pleased Yahweh all during the years that Jehoiada was the high priest.
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\v 15 Jehoiada became very old. He died when he was 130 years old.
\v 16 He was buried where the kings had been buried, in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David. He was buried there because of the good things that he had done in Judah for God and for God's temple.
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\v 17 After Jehoiada died, the leaders of Judah went to Joash, bowed in front of him, and persuaded him to do what they wanted.
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\v 27 An account of the things that were done by the sons of Joash and the many prophecies about Joash and what he did to repair the temple are written in the commentary on the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. Then after Joash died, Amaziah his son became the king.
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\v 1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became the king of Judah, and he ruled from Jerusalem for twenty-nine years. His mother was Jehoaddan. She was from Jerusalem.
\v 2 Amaziah did many things that pleased Yahweh, but he did not want to do them very much.
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\v 27 From the time that Amaziah started to disobey Yahweh, some men in Jerusalem planned to kill him. He was able to escape to the city of Lachish, but those who wanted to kill him sent another group of people to Lachish and killed him there.
\v 28 They put his corpse on a horse and brought it back to Jerusalem and buried it where his ancestors had been buried in what is called the city of Judah.
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\v 1 All the people took Uzziah and made him their king, in the place of his father Amaziah. Uzziah was sixteen years old at that time.
\v 2 While he was the king, after his father King Amaziah had died, he had his workers rebuild the city of Elath and brought that city under the protection of Judah.
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\v 22 A record of all the other things that Uzziah did while he was the king of Judah was written by the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
\v 23 Because Uzziah was a leper, when he died they would not bury him in the royal tombs. Instead, they buried him in a nearby cemetery that the kings owned. Then his son Jotham became the king of Judah.
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\v 1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became the king of Judah. He ruled from Jerusalem for sixteen years. His mother was Jerushah, the daughter of the priest Zadok.
\v 2 Jotham obeyed Yahweh and did what Yahweh approved. He followed the example of his father Uzziah in everything he did. (He did not, however, go into the Temple of Yahweh to burn incense as his father had done.) Yet the people of Judah continued to do the things that showed how sinful they had become.
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\v 8 After he had ruled Judah for sixteen years, he died when he was forty-one years old.
\v 9 He was buried in Jerusalem, and his son Ahaz became the next king of Judah.
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\v 1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became the king of Judah. He ruled from Jerusalem for sixteen years. His ancestor King David had been a good king, but Ahaz was not like David. He constantly disobeyed Yahweh
\v 2 and was as sinful as the kings of Israel had been. He made idols of the god Baal by having craftsmen cast them in metal.
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\v 26 A record of the other things that Ahaz did while he was the king, from when he started to rule until he died, is written in the book of the kings ofJudah and Israel.
\v 27 Ahaz died and was buried in Jerusalem, but he was not buried in the tombs where the other kings of Israel had been buried. Then his son Hezekiah became the king.
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\v 1 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became the king of Judah. He ruled from Jerusalem for twenty-nine years. His mother was Abijah, the daughter of a man whose name was Zechariah.
\v 2 Hezekiah did things that Yahweh considered to be right, like his ancestor King David had done.
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\v 3 During the first month of the first year that Hezekiah was ruling Judah, he unlocked the doors of the temple, and his workers repaired them.
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\p In this way the worship at the temple began again.
\v 36 And Hezekiah and all the other people of Judah celebrated, because God had enabled them to do all the repair work very quickly.
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\v 1-3 King Hezekiah, his officials, and all the other people who had gathered in Jerusalem wanted to celebrate the Passover festival. But they were not able to celebrate it at the usual time, because many of the priests had still not been able to perform all the rites of purity for themselves, so they were not allowed to do the work of that festival. Also, not everyone had come to Jerusalem to celebrate it. So they decided to celebrate the festival the following month.
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\v 11 But some of the people of the tribes of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun acknowledged their sin and went to Jerusalem.
\v 12 Also in Judah God made the people want together to obey Yahweh, which is what the king and his officials had told them to do in the message that they sent.
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\v 13 So a huge crowd of people gathered in Jerusalem in the second month of the year, to celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread.
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\v 26 Everyone in Jerusalem was very joyful, because nothing like this had happened in Jerusalem since the time when David's son Solomon was the king of Israel.
\v 27 The priests and the other descendants of Levi stood up to bless the people, and God heard them, because their prayers reached up to heaven, the holy place where God lives.
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\v 20 That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God says are right and good.
\v 21 In everything that he did for the worship in the temple, and as he obeyed God's laws and commands, he tried to find out what his God wanted, and he worked energetically. So he was successful.
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\v 1 After King Hezekiah had obeyed Yahweh's instructions and had done all those things, King Sennacherib of Assyria came with his army and invaded Judah. He commanded his soldiers to surround the cities that had walls around them, thinking that they would break through those walls and conquer those cities.
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\v 22 That is how Yahweh guided and rescued Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from the power of Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, and from the power of all their other enemies. That is how he gave them peace with all the countries near them.
\v 23 Many people brought offerings for Yahweh to Jerusalem, and also brought valuable gifts for King Hezekiah. And from that time, Hezekiah was highly respected by the people of all the other nations.
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\v 24 About that time, Hezekiah became very ill. He thought that he was about to die. But he prayed to Yahweh, and Yahweh answered him. He performed a miracle and healed Hezekiah.
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\v 26 Then Hezekiah said that he was sorry about being proud, and the people of Jerusalem also said that they were sorry for their sins. So Yahweh did not punish
them during the remaining years that Hezekiah was their king.
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\v 27 Hezekiah became very rich and was greatly honored. His workers made storerooms for his silver and gold, for his very valuable stones, and for spices and shields and other valuable things.
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\v 32 A record of the other things that happened while Hezekiah was ruling, and the things that he did to please God, is written on the scroll of the vision of Isaiah the prophet. It is also written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
\v 33 When Hezekiah died, he was buried in the tombs where the most respected kings of Judah were buried. Everyone in Jerusalem and other places in Judah honored him. Then his son Manasseh became the king.
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\v 24 Then Amon's officials made plans to kill him. They assassinated him in his palace.
\v 25 But then the people of Judah killed all those who had assassinated Amon, and they appointed his son Josiah to be their king.
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\v 1 Josiah was eight years old when he became the king of Judah. He ruled from Jerusalem for thirty-one years.
\v 2 He did things that were pleasing to Yahweh, and conducted his life like his ancestor King David had done. He fully obeyed all the laws of God.
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\v 12 The workers did their work faithfully. Their supervisors were Jahath and Obadiah, who were descendants of Levi's son Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, who were descendants of Levi's son Kohath. All the descendants of Levi, who played musical instruments well,
\v 13 supervised all the workers as they did their various jobs. Some of the descendants of Levi were secretaries; some kept records, and some guarded the temple gates.
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\v 14 While they were giving to the supervisors the money that had been taken to the temple, Hilkiah the high priest found a scroll on which was written the laws that Yahweh had given to Moses to give to the people.
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\v 33 Josiah instructed his workers to remove all the disgusting idols from all the land of the Israelite people, and he commanded that all those from Israel who were there should worship only Yahweh their God. As long as Josiah was alive, the people did what was pleasing to Yahweh, the God whom their ancestors worshiped.
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\v 1 Josiah commanded that the people should celebrate the Passover Festival in Jerusalem. So they slaughtered the lambs for the Passover on the 14th day of the first month.
\v 2 Josiah assigned to the priests to the tasks that they should perform at the temple, and encouraged them do their work well.
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\v 18 The Passover Festival had not been celebrated like that in Israel since the time that the prophet Samuel lived. And none of the kings of Israel had ever celebrated the Passover like Josiah did, along with the priests, the other descendants of Levi, and all the other people of Judah and Israel who were there with the people who lived in Jerusalem.
\v 19 They celebrated this Passover Festival when Josiah had been ruling for almost eighteen years.
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\v 20 After Josiah had done all those things to restore the worship at the temple, King Necho of Egypt went with his army to attack the city of Carchemish alongside the Euphrates River, and Josiah marched with his army to fight against them.
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\v 26-27 A record of the other things that happened while Josiah ruled, from the time he started to rule until he died, including how he faithfully was devoted to honoring God by obeying all that was written in the laws of Yahweh, is written in the book of the kings ofIsrael and Judah.
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\v 1 Then the people of Judah chose Josiah's son Jehoahaz and appointed him to be the king in Jerusalem.
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\v 2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became the king, but he ruled from Jerusalem for only three months.
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\v 3 The king of Egypt captured him and prevented him from ruling any longer. He also forced the people of Judah to pay to him a tax of three and one-third metric tons of silver and thirty-three kilograms of gold.
\v 4 The king of Egypt appointed Jehoahaz's younger brother Eliakim to be the king of Judah. He changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. But Necho seized Jehoahaz and took him to Egypt.
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\v 5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became the king of Judah, and he ruled from Jerusalem for eleven years. He did many things that Yahweh said were evil.
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\v 8 A record of the other things that happened while Jehoiakim was ruling, the disgusting things that he did and the evil things that people said that he did, is written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. After he was taken to Babylon, his son Jehoiachin became the king of Judah.
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\v 9 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became the king of Judah, and he ruled from Jerusalem for only three months and ten days. He did many things that Yahweh said were evil.
\v 10 During the spring of the next year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent soldiers to bring him to Babylon. They also took to Babylon many valuable things from the temple of Yahweh. Then Nebuchadnezzar appointed Jehoiachin's uncle, Zedekiah, to be the king of Judah.
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\v 11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became the king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years.
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\v 14 Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and also the people of Judah became more wicked again, doing all the disgusting things that the people of the other nations did, and causing the temple in Jerusalem that Yahweh had caused to be holy to become an unacceptable place to worship him.
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\v 15 Yahweh, the God whom the ancestors of the people of Judah worshiped, gave messages to his prophets many times, and the prophets gave those messages to the people of Judah. Yahweh did that because he pitied his people and did not want his temple to be destroyed.
\v 16 But the people continually made fun of God's messengers. They despised God's messages. They ridiculed his prophets, until finally God became extremely angry with his people, with the result that nothing could stop him from destroying Judah.
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\v 22 During the first year that Cyrus was the king of Persia, in order that what Yahweh told Jeremiah would happen would occur, Yahweh motivated Cyrus to write this and proclaim it throughout his kingdom:
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\v 23 "I, Cyrus, the king of Persia, declare that Yahweh, the God who rules in heaven, has enabled me to become the ruler of all the kingdoms of this world. And he has appointed me to command that my workers build a temple for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. I am allowing any of his people among you to go to Jerusalem. And I will pray that Yahweh will be with them."

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\v 10 thirty gold bowls, 410 similar silver bowls, and one thousand other objects.
\v 11 All together, there were 5,400 silver and gold items given to Sheshbazzar to take with him when he and the others returned to Jerusalem.
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@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ and some returned to other places in Judah. They went to the towns where their a
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\v 19 223 descendants of Hashum
\v 20 Ninty-five descendants of Gibbar
\p People whose ancestors had lived in these towns in Judah:
\v 21 123 from Bethlehem
\v 22 Fifty-six from Netophah
@ -172,7 +171,6 @@ work that priests did.
\v 70 Then the priests, the other descendants of Levi, the musicians, the temple guards, and some of the other people started to live in the towns and villages near Jerusalem. The rest of the
people went to the other places in Israel there where their ancestors had lived.
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\c 3
\p
@ -215,7 +213,6 @@ Then all the people shouted loudly, praising him because they had finished layin
they knew that the new temple would not be as beautiful as the first temple. But the other people shouted joyfully.
\v 13 The shouting and the crying were like one very loud sound that even people far away could hear.
\s5
\c 4
\p
@ -281,7 +278,6 @@ who have rebelled and caused trouble.
rebuilding the city wall.
\v 24 The result was that the Jews stopped rebuilding the temple. They did not do any more work to rebuild the temple until the second year after Darius became the king of Persia.
\s5
\c 5
\p
@ -329,7 +325,6 @@ but it is not finished yet.'
\v 17 Therefore, your Majesty, please order someone to search in the place in Babylon where the important records are kept, to find out whether it is true that King Cyrus decreed that God's
temple should be rebuilt in Jerusalem. Then you can tell us what you want us to do about this matter."
\s5
\c 6
\p
@ -378,7 +373,6 @@ temple should be rebuilt in Jerusalem. Then you can tell us what you want us to
\v 21 Those who had returned from Babylon and who had separated themselves from the unclean people around them who had a different culture, language, and worship, and they were able now to worship Yahweh, the God of the Israelite people, and to eat the Passover meal.
\v 22 They celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days. The Israelite people throughout the land were joyful because Yahweh had changed the attitude of the king of Assyria toward them, and as a result, the king had helped them to rebuild the temple of God, the God of Israel.
\s5
\c 7
\p
@ -446,7 +440,6 @@ of the country or have all their property taken away from them."
\v 27 Ezra said, "Praise Yahweh, the God whom our ancestors worshiped! He has caused the king to want to honor his temple in Jerusalem.
\v 28 Because God acted kindly and faithfully toward me, the king and all his advisors and all his powerful officials have also acted kindly toward me. Because God has helped me, I have been encouraged, and I have been able to persuade some of the Israelite leaders to go up to Jerusalem with me."
\s5
\c 8
\p
@ -533,7 +526,6 @@ We also sacrificed twelve goats to atone for the sins that all the people had co
\v 36 Some of us who returned from Babylonia took to the governors and other officials of the province west of the Euphrates River the letter that the king had given to us. After they read the
letter, they did all that they were able to do for us Israelite people and for the temple of God."
\s5
\c 9
\p
@ -584,7 +576,6 @@ the result that none of us will remain alive.
\v 15 Yahweh, God of Israel, you always do the right thing! We are guilty. We are only a few people who have escaped from Babylonia, but we are praying to you, even though we do not deserve
to be in your presence."'"
\s5
\c 10
\p
@ -682,4 +673,3 @@ In the clan of Parosh there were Ramiah, Izziah, Malkijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Mal
\v 42 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
\v 43 In the clan of Nebo there were Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, Joel, and Benaiah.
\v 44 Each of those men had married a woman who was not an Israelite, and some of them had children by those women.

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\toc2 Nehemiah
\toc3 Neh
\mt1 NEHEMIAH
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\c 1
\p
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\v 11 Yahweh, please hear my prayer, I who am your servant. Please hear the prayers of all your people who have great joy when they honor you for who you are and what you do. Now I pray you would give me success when I go to the king; and protect me as I make a request of the king that could put my life in jeopardy. Give me mercy."
\p I was serving as one of the most trusted servants to the king.
\s5
\c 2
\p
@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
\v 5 Then I replied, "If you are willing to do it, and if I have pleased you, then you could send me to Jerusalem, where my ancestors are buried, so that I may rebuild the city."
\p
\v 6 The king (with queen sitting beside him) asked me, "If I allow you to go, how long will you be gone? And when will you return?" He gave me permisson to go as soon as I gave him the dates of my going there and coming back again.
\s5
\p
\v 7 I also said to the king, "As a reward for my faithful service to you, please give me letters addressed to the governors who oversee the area beyond the Euphrates River. Please give them orders to allow me to travel safely through their province on my way to and from Judah.
@ -70,6 +71,7 @@
\p
\v 11 So I came to Jerusalem and stayed there three days.
\v 12 I went out of the city in the evening, and I took a few men with me. We only had one animal, the one that I was riding on. I said nothing to anyone about what God had inspired me to do in Jerusalem.
\s5
\p
\v 13 I passed through the Valley Gate and went outside of the city wall. Then I went around the city and passed by the well called the Jackal's Well. Then I proceeded to the Dung Gate. I inspected all the walls around Jerusalem and found they were all broken open, and the wooden gates all around the wall were burned to ashes.
@ -91,7 +93,6 @@
\p
\v 20 But I replied, "The God who is in heaven will give us success. But you have no right to this city, you have no deed, you have no lawful claim to it, and you have no historic connection to the city of Jerusalem."
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\c 3
\p
@ -151,16 +152,17 @@
\v 25 Next to him, Palal son of Uzai repaired a section, from where the wall turns and from where the watchtower is taller than the upper palace. The watchtower is near the courtyard where the guards lived. Next to Palal, Pedaiah son of Parosh repaired the wall.
\v 26 Next to him the temple servants repaired a section facing the Water Gate on the east side of the tall tower.
\v 27 Next to him, the Tekoites repaired a second section that was in front of the tall tower as far as the wall of Ophel.
\s5
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\v 28 A group of priests repaired the wall north from the Horse Gate. Each one repaired the section in front of his own house.
\v 29 Next to them, Zadok son of Immer repaired the section in front of his house. Next to him, Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, who was the gatekeeper at the east gate, repaired the next section.
\v 30 Next to him, Hananiah son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired a section. That was the second section that they repaired. After him Meshullam son of Berechiah repaired the walls in the section that faced the rooms where he lived.
\s5
\v 31 Next to them, Malkijah, who also made things from gold, repaired a section as far as the building used by the temple servants and merchants, which was in front of the Appointment Gate and the upper apartments on the corner.
\v 32 Other men who worked with gold, making beautiful things, along with merchants, repaired the last section of the wall as far as the Sheep Gate.
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\c 4
\p
@ -175,11 +177,13 @@
\v 5 They are guilty. Do not take away their guilt and let them answer for the sin they committed before you. With their insults, they are making those who are rebuilding the walls become very angry!"
\p
\v 6 But after some time, the workers built the wall around the whole city to about half its total height. They were able to accomplish this because they wanted to do the best work they could do.
\s5
\p
\v 7 But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the work on the wall was continuing and that we were filling in the gaps in the wall, they became very angry.
\v 8 They all made a plan together to come and fight against the people of Jerusalem, and to cause confusion within it.
\v 9 But we prayed to our God to protect us, and we put men around the walls to guard the city day and night because of these who were so angry with us for rebuilding the wall.
\s5
\p
\v 10 Then the people of Judah started to say, "The men who are working on the wall have used up all their strength. There is too much heavy rubble that we must move away; we are not able to finish this work. It is too much for us.
@ -214,7 +218,6 @@
\v 22 At that time, I also said to the people, "Tell every worker and his helper that they must stay inside Jerusalem at night. By doing that, they can guard us at night, and they can work on the wall during the daytime."
\v 23 During that time, I did not put away my clothing, and I always carried my weapon The same was true of my brothers, my servants, and the men who followed me and served as guards. All of us did the same, even if we just went to get a drink of water.
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\c 5
\p
@ -262,7 +265,6 @@
\p
\v 19 My God, think of me, and reward me for all that I have done for this people.
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\p
@ -279,6 +281,7 @@
\v 5 Then Sanballat sent one of his servants to me, bringing a fifth message. This one was written, but it was not sealed and he held it in his hand.
\v 6 This is what was written in the message:
\pi "Some people in the nearby countries have heard a report that you and the other Jews are rebuilding the wall in order to be able start a rebellion against the king of Babylon, and that you are planning to become the king of the Israel. Geshem has told us that this is the truth.
\s5
\pi
\v 7 People are also saying that you have appointed some prophets to proclaim in Jerusalem that you, Nehemiah, are now the king in Judea. King Artaxerxes will certainly hear these reports, and then you will be in big trouble. So I suggest that we should meet together to talk about this matter."
@ -304,22 +307,24 @@
\p
\v 15 We finished rebuilding the wall in the month of Elul, on the twenty-fifth day of the month. We did all the work in fifty-two days.
\v 16 When our enemies in the nearby countries heard about that, they became very afraid and they were humiliated, because they knew it was God who helped us complete this work.
\s5
\p
\v 17 During this time, the Jewish leaders had been sending many messages to Tobiah, and Tobiah had been sending messages back to them.
\v 18 Many people in Judea had sworn their allegiance to Tobiah. He was the son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah, and Tobiah's son Jehohanan married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berekiah.
\v 19 People often talked in my presence about all the good deeds that Tobiah had done, and then they would tell him everything that I said. So Tobiah sent many letters to me to try to cause me to become afraid.
\s5
\c 7
\p
\v 1 After the wall had been finished and we had put the gates in their places, we assigned to the temple guards and to the members of the sacred choir and the other descendants of Levi the work that they were to do.
\v 2 I appointed my brother Hanani as governor of Jerusalem. He was a faithful man who respected God and honored him, more than many others. In addition, Hananiah was appointed commander of the fortress there in Jerusalem.
\s5
\v 3 I said to them, "Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot. And close the gates and put the bars across the doors only when gatekeepers are guarding the gates." I also told them to appoint some people who live in Jerusalem to be guards, and to assign some of them to guard stations around the city, and some would guard near their own houses."
\p
\v 4 The city of Jerusalem covered a large area, but at that time not many people lived in the city, and they had not rebuilt any of the houses.
\s5
\v 5 God gave me the idea to summon the leaders and officials and other people, and to enroll them by their families in the books of the records of the families. I also found the records of the people who had been the first ones to return to Jerusalem. This is what I found written in those records.
@ -497,13 +502,13 @@
\v 73 So the priests, the Levites who helped the priests, the temple guards, the musicians, the temple workers, and many ordinary people, who were all Israelites, started to live in the towns and cities of Judea where their ancestors had lived.
\p By the seventh month the people of Israel had gone to their cities and they were living in them.
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\c 8
\p
\v 1 All the people gathered together in the plaza that was close to the Water Gate. Men and women and children who were old enough to understand gathered together. They asked Ezra to bring out the scroll of the law that Moses had written down, and which Yahweh had given as the law for the people of Israel, for them to obey its rules and commands.
\v 2 Ezra, who served God through the sacrifices in the temple, brought out the law and presented it before all the people, to both men and women, and anyone else who could understand what he read. He did this on the first day of the seventh month of that year.
\v 3 So he brought it out and read it to the people. He read it from early in the morning until the middle of the day. All the people listened, men and women, anyone who was able to understand what he read. The people listened with great interest to what Ezra read from the book of the law.
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\p
\v 4 Ezra stood on top of a high wooden platform that had been built by the people for this purpose. At his right side stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah. At his left side stood Pedaiah, Mishael, Malkijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
@ -543,12 +548,12 @@
\p
\v 18 Every day during that week Ezra read to the people from the book of the law of God. Then on the eighth day, they followed the decree and called for all the people to come together, so they could bring the festival to an end.
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\c 9
\p
\v 1 On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the people gathered together. They did not eat food for a while, and they wore clothes they made from bags used to carry wheat and other grains, and they put the dust of the earth on their heads.
\v 2 The descendants of Israel separated themselvses away from all the foreigners. They stood there and confessed their own sins and the wicked things their ancestors had done.
\s5
\v 3 They stood and for three hours they read from the law of Yahweh, and for another three hours they spoke out loud about their sins before Yahweh, and they bowed down and worshiped him.
\v 4 There were Levites standing on the stairs. They were Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, another Bani, and Kenani.
@ -628,6 +633,7 @@
\s5
\v 35 Even when they had their own kings, and they enjoyed the good things that you did for them in this large and fertile land that you gave to them, they did not serve you and they would not stop doing what was evil.
\s5
\pi
\v 36 So now we are slaves here in this land that you gave to our ancestors, the land that you gave to them in order that they could enjoy all the good things that grow here. But we became slaves here!
@ -637,7 +643,6 @@
\p
\v 38 Because of all this, we, the people of Israel are making a solemn agreement on a scroll. We will write on it the names of our leaders, the names of the Levites, and the names of the priests, and then we will seal it."
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\p
@ -740,7 +745,6 @@
\v 39 The descendants of Levi and some of the people of Israel must take the offerings of grain, wine, and olive oil to the storerooms where the various utensils are kept that are used by those who serve in the temple. That is the place where the priests who are serving at that time, the gatekeepers, and where those who sing in the temple choir, live.
\pi We promise that we will not neglect taking care of the temple of our God."
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\p
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\p
These are from the relatives of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, a descendant of Perez.
\s5
\p
\v 5 And there was Maaseiah the son of Baruch, who was the son of Colhozeh, who was the son of Hazaiah, who was the son of Adaiah, who was the son of Joiarib, who was the son of Zechariah, who was a descendant of Judah's son Shelah.
@ -826,7 +829,6 @@ These are from the relatives of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechari
\p
\v 36 Some of the Levites who had lived in Judea were sent to live with the people of Benjamin.
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\p
@ -848,11 +850,13 @@ These are from the relatives of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechari
\v 7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah.
\m All those men were leaders of the priests and their associates during the time that Jeshua was the leader of all the priests.
\s5
\p
\v 8 Here is a list of the descendants of Levi who returned: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah. Mattaniah and his brothers led the people in singing songs to thank God.
\v 9 Bakbukiah and Unni, their associates, formed a choir that stood across from the other group when they sang.
\s5
\p
\v 10 Jeshua the high priest was the father of Joiakim, who was the father of Eliashib, who was the father of Joiada,
@ -870,6 +874,7 @@ These are from the relatives of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechari
\v 14 Jonathan, of the family of Malluk,
\q Joseph, of the family of Shecaniah.
\s5
\q
\v 15 More leaders were Adna, of the family of Harim,
@ -894,11 +899,13 @@ These are from the relatives of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechari
\v 21 Hashabiah, of the family of Hilkiah,
\q and Nethanel, of the family of Jedaiah.
\s5
\p
\v 22 During time when Eliashib led the Levites, this is a list of them all: Elisahib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua were the leaders of all the priests. They wrote the names of the families who were descendants of Levi. When Darius was king of Persia, the priests were responsible for recording the names of those who were the heads of families.
\v 23 They wrote the names of the leaders of the families who were descendants of Levi in the book of the annals until the time that Eliashib's grandson Johanan was the leader of all the priests.
\s5
\p
\v 24 These were the leaders of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their brothers who stood across from them to praise and give thanks to God. They did that just as King David, the man who served God, had instructed them.
@ -953,7 +960,6 @@ the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, a descendant of Asaph.
\v 46 Ever since the time of David and Asaph, there have been directors of the singers, and they sang songs to praise and thank God.
\v 47 During the years of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, all Israel contributed the food that the singers and temple gatekeepers needed every day. They set aside what the Levites needed to live on, and the Levites set aside for the descendants of Aaron, the first leader of all the priests, what they needed.
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\p
@ -962,14 +968,15 @@ the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, a descendant of Asaph.
\v 3 So when the people heard these laws being read to them, they sent away all the people whose ancestors had come from other countries.
\s5
\p
\v 4 Previously, Eliashib the priest had been appointed to be in charge of the storerooms in the temple. He was a relative of Tobiah.
\v 5 He allowed Eliashib to use a large room. There they had stored the grain offerings and the incense. They put there the equipment that is used in the temple. They put in there the offerings the people gave for the Levites. They brought in tithes of grain and wine and olive oil that God had commanded for the Levites, for the musicians, and the gatekeepers. And they brought in the gifts to support the other priests.
\s5
\p
\v 6 During that time I was not in Jerusalem. It was the thirty-second year that Artaxerxes was the king of Babylonia, and I had gone back to report to the king what I had been doing. After I had been there a while, I requested the king to allow me to return to Jerusalem.
\v 7 When I returned, I found out that Eliashib had done an evil thing. He let Tobiah take over a storeroom in the very house of God for his own use.
\s5
\v 8 I became very angry. I went to that room and I threw out everything that belonged to Tobiah.
\v 9 Then I commanded that they perform a ritual cleansing of that room to make it pure again. And I also ordered that all the equipment used in the temple and all the grain offerings and incense should be put back in that room, where they belonged.
@ -978,6 +985,7 @@ the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, a descendant of Asaph.
\p
\v 10 I also found out that the temple musicians and other Levites had left Jerusalem and returned to their fields, because the people of Israel had not been bringing into the storerooms the food they needed.
\v 11 So I rebuked the officials, saying to them, "Why have you not taken care of the services to be held in the temple? So I got them together and put them back at their stations.
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\v 12 Then all the people of Judah again started to bring to the temple storerooms their tithes of grain, wine, and olive oil.
@ -1003,6 +1011,7 @@ the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, a descendant of Asaph.
\v 21 I warned them, "It is useless for you to stay here outside the walls on Friday night! If you do this again, I will take you and remove you myself!" So after that, they did not come on Sabbath days.
\v 22 I also commanded the descendants of Levi to perform the ritual to purify themselves and to take up their stations to guard the City Gates, to make sure that the Sabbath was kept holy by not allowing merchants to enter it on that holy day.
\p My God, do not forget what I have done for you! And be kind to me, as kind as your love is for me.
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\p
\v 23 During that time, I also found out that many of the Jewish men had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
@ -1024,4 +1033,3 @@ the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, a descendant of Asaph.
\v 30 I took away everything from them that was from other nations and religions, I also established regulations for the priests and descendants of Levi, so they would know what work each of them should do.
\v 31 I made sure that there was wood to be burned on the altar at the set times and days. I also arranged for the people to bring into the storerooms the first portion of the harvest.
\p My God, do not forget that I have done all these things, and bless me for doing them.

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\toc2 Esther
\toc3 Est
\mt Esther
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\v 3 During the third year after he had become king, he invited all his administrators and other officials to a feast. He invited the armies of Persia and Media to come to the feast. He also invited the governors and other leaders of the provinces.
\v 4 The celebration lasted for 180 days. During that time the king showed to the guests all his wealth and other things that made his kingdom great.
\s5
\p
\v 5 At the end of the feast, the king invited people to another celebration. He invited to the feast all the men who worked in the palace, including both those who did important work and those who did less important work. This celebration lasted for seven days. It was in the courtyard that was part of the palace garden.
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\s5
\v 7 The guests drank wine from gold cups. Each cup had a different design on it. The king was generous with the wine, and they had much to drink.
\v 8 There was a lot of wine, because the king wanted the guests to drink as much as they wanted, but the rule was, "No one is forced to drink."
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\v 9 Queen Vashti invited the women to a feast in another place in the palace.
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\v 16 While the other officials were present, Memukan told the king, "Your majesty, Queen Vashti has insulted you, and she has insulted all the officials and all the people in all the provinces of your Majesty.
\v 17 All the women throughout the empire will hear what she has done, and they will say, 'The king commanded Queen Vashti to come to him, and she refused.' So they will not obey their husbands, and they will show them disrespect.
\v 18 Before this day ends, the wives of all the officials in Persia and Media will hear what the queen did, and they will say to all of your Majesty's officials what the queen has said. They will have contempt and anger for all men.
\s5
\v 19 So if it pleases your Majesty, you should write a law, like all the laws of Persia and Media, to be a law that no one can change. This law should say that Queen Vashti will never be allowed to see you again, and you will choose another woman to be queen, a woman who deserves to be queen more than she does.
\v 20 When everyone in your empire hears what you have commanded, all the wives, those who are important and those who are not important, will honor their husbands."
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\v 21 The king and the other officials liked what Memukan suggested, and the king put it into action.
\v 22 Then he sent letters to all the provinces, stating that all men should have complete authority over their wives and their children. He wrote the letters in every language and wrote it in every unique alphabet written in every province.
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\p
\v 12 Before these women were taken to the king, for twelve months they received beauty treatments, and for six months they were treated with olive oil mixed with myrrh.
\v 13 When one of these women was summoned to go to the king, she was allowed to have whatever she wished to take with her from the house of the women, when she went to the king's palace.
\s5
\v 14 In the evening, she would go to the king, and the next morning she would return to the second house of the women, and to the protection of Shaashgaz, the king's official in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king again, except when the king wanted her and called her by name.
@ -107,7 +111,6 @@
\v 22 But Mordecai heard about what they were planning, he told Queen Esther. Then she told the king, and she told the king that the information came from Mordecai, calling him by name.
\v 23 The king investigated it and confirmed. So the king ordered those two men be hanged from a gallows. When that was done, an official wrote a report about it in the book called The History of the King.
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\p
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\v 14 A copy of the letter was made law, by order of the king, in every province. In every province all the people learned that they should get ready for that day.
\v 15 Then, according to what the king commanded, men riding horses took these letter quickly to every province in the kingdom. And one of the letters was read aloud to the people who lived and worked within the palace in Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink together, but the people in the city of Susa were very perplexed.
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\p
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\v 16 "Go and gather together all the Jews here in Susa, and tell them to fast for for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My young girls and I will fast in the same way. Then I will go to the king, even though I know it is against the law. And if I die, I die."
\v 17 Mordecai went and did what Esther told him to do.
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\s5
\v 7 Esther answered, "My petition and my request is this,
\v 8 if you are pleased with me, if you are willing to do this for me: will you and Haman come to another feast I am preparing for you tomorrow. At that time, I will answer your question."
\s5
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\v 9 Haman was feeling very happy when he left the feast. But he saw Mordecai sitting at the gate of the palace, and once again, Mordecai did not stand up or shake with fear in front of him. So Haman was filled with anger toward Mordecai.
\v 10 However, he did nothing to show that he was angry. He went to his house and gathered his friends. He also called for his wife, Zeresh.
\v 11 Haman told them all about the great riches he had accumulated. He talked about his many sons, and how he had achieved more than all the other officials and the servants of the king.
\s5
\v 12 Then Haman added, "Even Queen Esther invited just two of us, me and the king, to a banquet she prepared for us today. And she is inviting just the two of us to another banquet that she is will give us tomorrow!"
\v 13 Then Haman said, "But these things mean nothing to me as long as I can see Mordecai the Jew sitting there at the king's gate!"
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\s5
\v 14 Then Zeresh his wife said to Haman and all his friends, "Why do you not quickly set up a gallows? Make it twenty-three meters high. Then in the morning speak to the king for them to hang Mordecai on it. After that, you can go to the banquet with the king and be happy." This idea pleased Haman, and he had the gallows set up.
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\c 6
\p
\v 1 That night the king was unable to sleep, so he summoned a servant and told him to bring the book of the history of all that happened during the time he had been king. So the servant brought the records and read aloud to the king.
\v 2 The servant read about Bigthana and Teresh, the two officials who had guarded the entrance to the king's rooms. He read the account of when Mordecai had found out that they planned to assassinate King Ahasuerus and that he had told the king about it.
@ -228,6 +229,7 @@
\v 7 So he replied to the king, "For the one you want to honor,
\v 8 you should tell your servants to bring out some robes that you yourself have worn, and to bring out one of the horses you have ridden and that bears a royal crest on his head.
\v 9 Give the robes and the horse to your very important officials so that they may put the royal clothes on that man, and let them lead that man who sits on the horse through the city streets. As he goes, other servants will shout, 'This is what happens when the king wants to honor someone!'"
\s5
\v 10 The king replied to Haman, "Hurry, take the robes and horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew who sits at the king's gate! Do not forget anything you have said!"
\v 11 So Haman took the robes and the horse. He put the royal clothes on Mordecai, and Haman led him on the horse through the city streets proclaiming "This is what is done for a man when the king wants to honor him!"
@ -237,10 +239,8 @@
\v 13 Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends about everything that had happened to him. Then his men known for their wisdom, and Zeresh his wife, said to him, "If Mordecai is Jewish, and if you have been humiliated before him, you will not defeat him. You are sure to be defeated by him."
\v 14 While they were still talking, some of the king's officials arrived to quickly take Haman to the feast that Esther had prepared.
\s5
\c 7
\p
\v 1 So the king and Haman arrived at the second feast with Queen Esther.
\v 2 On the second day of the feast, while servants were serving the wine, the king said to Esther, "What is your petition, Queen Esther? I will give you whatever you ask for. What do you want? I would give you up to half of my kingdom."
@ -261,7 +261,6 @@
\v 9 Then Harbona, one of the king's officials who served him said, "Outside, near Haman's house, there is a gallows. It is twenty-three meters high. Haman made it for Mordecai, the one who spoke to protect the king!" The king said, "Hang him on it."
\v 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king became less angry.
\s5
\c 8
\p
@ -298,7 +297,6 @@
\v 16 The Jews in Susa were now happy, instead of being afraid. They rejoiced instead of fearing, and other people honored them.
\v 17 When the new decree arrived in every city and province, the Jews there celebrated and prepared feasts and were very joyful. And many people throughout the empire became Jews, because they had become very afraid of the Jews.
\s5
\c 9
\p
@ -357,12 +355,11 @@
\v 31 to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established, just as the Jews had established for themselves and their descendants, matters that included their times of fasting and lamenting.
\v 32 The command of Esther confirmed these regulations that explained how they should celebrate the Purim festival. The instructions about the feast and the account of these events were written down in the book of history.
\s5
\c 10
\p
\v 1 King Ahasuerus made the people living on land and along the sea pay a tax.
\v 2 And all the great things that Ahasuerus did because of his power have been written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia. Also written there is a history of the great things done by Mordecai, and of the honor that the king gave him.
\s5
\v 3 Mordecai the Jew, was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and all the Jews also considered him to be a very great man. He was respected by his Jewish brothers and sisters, for he sought the welfare of his people, and he spoke to gain security for all of them.

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\toc2 Job
\toc3 Job
\mt1 JOB
\s5
\c 1
\p
\v 1 In the land named Uz, there was a man named Job. He obeyed God and always avoided doing evil things.
\v 2 He had seven sons and three daughters.
@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
\v 4 Job's sons often held feasts in their houses. Whenever each one made a feast, he would invite all his brothers and sisters to come and eat together.
\v 5 After each celebration, Job would summon them. He would ask Yahweh to purify them from any action they might have committed during their feasting that would make them unacceptable to him. He would get up early in the morning, kill animals, and burn them on the altar as sacrifices, one for each of his children. For Job always said, "Perhaps my children have sinned and said something evil about God in their hearts."
\s5
\p
\v 6 One day, the angels came and gathered together in front of Yahweh, and Satan came, too.
@ -64,10 +63,8 @@
\p
\v 22 So in spite of all the things that happened to Job, he did speak not like a foolish man—he did not sin by saying that what God had done was wrong.
\s5
\c 2
\p
\v 1 On another day, the angels came again and gathered together in front of Yahweh; Satan also came again.
\v 2 Yahweh asked Satan, "Where have you come from this time?" Satan replied, "I have come from the earth, where I have been traveling back and forth to see what is happening."
@ -95,7 +92,6 @@
\p
\v 10 But Job replied, "You talk like people talk who do not know God. We should not only accept the good things that God does for us. We should also accept the bad things." So in spite of all these things that happened to Job, he did not offend God by saying anything against him.
\s5
\p
\v 11 Among Job's friends were Eliphaz from the town of Teman, Bildad from the land of Shuah, and Zophar from the land of Naamah. When they heard about all the terrible things that had happened to Job, they left their homes and went together to Job to mourn with him and to comfort him.
@ -104,7 +100,6 @@
\v 12 But when they saw Job from a distance, they almost did not recognize him. They wailed loudly, they tore their robes, and they threw dust into the air that settled on their heads. They did this to show how sorry they were for him.
\v 13 Then they sat on the ground with Job for seven days. None of them said anything to him, because they saw that he was suffering greatly, and they did not think that anything that they could say would lessen his pain.
\s5
\c 3
\p
@ -120,7 +115,6 @@
\q2 I wish that God who is in heaven would forget about that day,
\q2 and that the sun would not have shone on it.
\q1
\v 5 I wish that thick darkness would have filled that day,
\q1 and that death would have come over it like a shadow
\q2 and blotted out all light,
@ -138,7 +132,6 @@
\s5
\q1
\v 8 The magicians who are able to awaken the great sea monster—I want them to curse the day I was born.
\q1
\v 9 I wish that the stars that shone early in the morning on that day after I was born may not shine again.
\q2 If only those stars had wished in vain for light to shine,
@ -210,7 +203,6 @@
\q1 I cannot rest;
\q2 instead, I have only troubles."
\s5
\c 4
\p
@ -252,7 +244,6 @@
\v 11 They will die like older lions that starve to death when there are no animals left to eat.
\q2 Their children will scatter from each other like young lions that separate from each other to find food.
\s5
\q1
\v 12 I heard a message that someone came
@ -293,10 +284,8 @@
\v 21 Their families and possessions are like tents that collapse suddenly when you pull up their stakes;
\q2 they perish suddenly without anyone ever knowing why.'"
\s5
\c 5
\q1
\v 1 "Job, no one will stop you from calling out for someone to help you,
\q2 but I am certain that no angel will come to you!
@ -399,10 +388,8 @@
\v 27 My friends and I have thought carefully about these things, and we know that they are true,
\q2 so pay attention to what I have said!"
\s5
\c 6
\p
\v 1 Then Job spoke again to Eliphaz:
\q1
@ -490,7 +477,6 @@
\v 23 I never asked any of you to rescue me from my enemies,
\q2 and I did not ask you to save me from those who oppressed me.
\s5
\q1
\v 24 Answer me now, and then I will be quiet;
@ -518,10 +504,8 @@ that I am suffering.
\v 30 Do you think that I am lying?
\q2 No, I am not lying, because I know what is right to say, and what is wrong."
\s5
\c 7
\q1
\v 1 "People need to work hard on this earth like soldiers do;
\q1 all during the time that we are alive, we need to work as hard as any hired worker.
@ -609,10 +593,8 @@ examine us every moment to see if we are doing what is right.
\q1 Soon I will lie in my grave;
\q2 you will search for me, but you will not find me because I will be dead and gone."
\s5
\c 8
\p
\v 1 Then Bildad, from the Shuah area, spoke to Job. He said,
\q1
@ -698,10 +680,8 @@ shout joyfully.
\v 22 But those who hate you will be very ashamed,
\q2 and the homes of wicked people will disappear."
\s5
\c 9
\p
\v 1 Then Job replied,
\q1
@ -743,6 +723,7 @@ shout joyfully.
\q1
\v 12 If he wants to snatch someone away, no one could stop him;
\q2 no one dares ask him, 'Why are you doing that?'
\s5
\q1
\v 13 God will not very easily stop being angry;
@ -836,10 +817,8 @@ shout joyfully.
\v 35 If he did that, I would declare that I am innocent without being afraid of him
\q2 because I know within myself that I really have not done what is wrong like God thinks that I have.
\s5
\c 10
\q1
\v 1 I detest living any longer.
\q1 I will not stop saying why I am complaining.
@ -925,10 +904,8 @@ shout joyfully.
\v 22 a place of darkness and dark shadows where everything is confused
\q2 [and] where even the small light there is like darkness.'"
\s5
\c 11
\p
\v 1 Then Zophar, the friend from the region of Naamah, said this to Job:
\q1
@ -1007,10 +984,8 @@ shout joyfully.
\q2 they will not have any way to escape from their troubles.
\q2 The only thing that they will want to do is to die. "
\s5
\c 12
\p
\v 1 Then Job said to his three friends,
\q1
@ -1111,10 +1086,8 @@ shout joyfully.
\v 25 It is as if they were feeling around in the darkness, without any light;
\q2 as if they were drunk, not knowing what they should do."
\s5
\c 13
\q1
\v 1 "I have seen everything that you have seen,
\q2 and I have heard and understood all that you have said.
@ -1177,7 +1150,6 @@ shout joyfully.
\v 16 No wicked person would dare to stand in the presence of God,
\q1 but because I say that I have not done things that are wrong,
\q2 perhaps, if I can prove that to God, he will declare me innocent."
\q1
\v 17 "God, listen very carefully to what I say; pay attention to me.
@ -1225,10 +1197,8 @@ shout joyfully.
\v 28 Because of this, my body is falling apart like rotten wood,
\q2 like a piece of cloth that the larvae of moths are eating.
\s5
\c 14
\q1
\v 1 We humans are very frail. We are born, and
\q2 we live only a short time; we experience much trouble.
@ -1250,7 +1220,6 @@ shout joyfully.
\v 6 So please stop examining us, and allow us to be alone
\q2 so that we might enjoy our life of hard labor, if a hired worker can possibly do so.
\s5
\q1
\v 7 If we cut a tree down,
@ -1285,6 +1254,7 @@ shout joyfully.
\v 14 When we humans die, we will certainly not live again.
\q2 If I knew that we would live again, I would wait patiently
\q2 for you to release me from my sufferings.
\s5
\q1
\v 15 You would call me, and I would answer.
@ -1315,10 +1285,8 @@ shout joyfully.
\v 22 We will feel our own pain; we will not feel anything else;
\q2 we will be sorry for ourselves, not for anyone else."
\s5
\c 15
\p
\v 1 Then Eliphaz replied to Job:
\q1
@ -1453,10 +1421,8 @@ shout joyfully.
\v 35 They plan to cause trouble and to do evil things,
\q2 and in their hearts they are always preparing to deceive people."
\s5
\c 16
\p
\v 1 Job replied to Eliphaz and the others,
\q1
@ -1550,17 +1516,14 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\v 22 I say this because within a few years I will die;
\q2 I will walk along the road to a place from which I will never return."
\s5
\c 17
\q1
\v 1 "My time to live is almost ended; I have no strength left;
\q2 those who have dug my grave are waiting for me.
\q1
\v 2 Those who are around me are making fun of me;
\q2 I must always see them mocking me."
\q1
\v 3 "God, it is as though I were in prison;
\q1 please pay the money in order that I may be released,
@ -1619,10 +1582,8 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\v 16 After I descend to the place where the dead are, I will not be able to expect anything good there.
\q2 I and the things I hope for will go down together into the soil."
\s5
\c 18
\p
\v 1 Then Bildad replied again:
\q1
@ -1704,10 +1665,8 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\v 21 This is what happens to unrighteous people like you,
\q2 people who do not know God."
\s5
\c 19
\p
\v 1 Then Job replied:
\q1
@ -1821,10 +1780,8 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q1 he punishes those like you with whom he is angry;
\q2 and when that happens, you will know that there is someone who judges people."
\s5
\c 20
\p
\v 1 Then Zophar replied again:
\q1
@ -1914,7 +1871,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\v 23 When the wicked people are filling their stomachs,
\q2 God will show that he is very angry with them, and he will punish them;
\q2 he will bring down suffering on them like the rain that falls on the ground.
\q1
\v 24 They will try to escape from people who will attack them with iron weapons,
\q2 but arrows with bronze points will pierce them.
@ -1940,10 +1896,8 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\v 29 That is what will happen to wicked people like you;
\q2 that is what God has decreed for them."
\s5
\c 21
\p
\v 1 Then Job replied in this way:
\q1
@ -2075,10 +2029,8 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\v 34 So how can you comfort me by talking nonsense?
\q2 Every reply that you give me is full of lies!"
\s5
\c 22
\p
\v 1 Then Eliphaz replied, saying this:
\q1
@ -2188,10 +2140,8 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\v 30 God rescues those who are not innocent;
\q2 they will be rescued because you do what is right."
\s5
\c 23
\p
\v 1 Then Job replied and said this:
\q1
@ -2253,10 +2203,8 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\v 17 The thick darkness in front of me has not make me silent,
\q2 even that terrible darkness that covers my face has not kept me from speaking."
\s5
\c 24
\q1
\v 1 "Why does Almighty God not set a time when he will judge evil people?
\q2 The people who obey God never seem to see him judge the evil people.
@ -2322,7 +2270,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\v 17 All of those people want to do their evil deeds at night, not in the morning when it is light,
\q2 because they are not afraid of the things that happen during the night that terrify others.
\s5
\q1
\v 18 However, those wicked people will disappear very quickly,
@ -2359,10 +2306,8 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\v 25 If this is not true, is there anyone who will show that I am a liar
\q2 and prove me wrong?"
\s5
\c 25
\p
\v 1 Then Bildad also replied:
\q1
@ -2384,10 +2329,8 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 They are as insignificant as maggots.
\q2 God does not think more highly of people than he thinks of worms."
\s5
\c 26
\p
\v 1 Job replied to Bildad:
\q1
@ -2395,12 +2338,10 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 you do not really think that you have helped me at all, do you?
\q1
\v 3 You certainly do not think that you have given me good advice, do you?—me, who am not wise at all.
\q1
\v 4 Who helped you to say all those great things?
\q2 Who inspired you to speak like you did?
\s5
\q1
\v 5 The spirits of dead people tremble with fear,
@ -2443,10 +2384,8 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 it is as though we were hearing only whispers of his powerful voice.
\q2 When we hear thunder, we say, 'Who can really understand how great his power is?'"
\s5
\c 27
\p
\v 1 Job continued speaking to his three friends:
\q1
@ -2534,10 +2473,8 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\v 23 That wind is like someone clapping his hands at them to mock them,
\q2 howling at them and forcing them to run away."
\s5
\c 28
\q1
\v 1 "It is true that there are places where men dig to find silver,
\q2 and there are places where people refine gold that they have dug.
@ -2646,10 +2583,8 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\v 28 And then he said to human beings, 'Listen! If you have much respect for me, you will be able to become wise;
\q2 to truly understand everything, you must first turn away from doing what is evil.'"
\s5
\c 29
\p
\v 1 Job spoke again and said this:
\q1
@ -2744,10 +2679,8 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 I was among them like a king who is among his troops;
\q2 I was like someone who comforts others who are mourning."
\s5
\c 30
\q1
\v 1 "But now, men who are younger than I am make fun of me—
\q2 men whose fathers I greatly despised—
@ -2780,7 +2713,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 whose names no one knows;
\q1 they were driven out from the land where they were born.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 Now their children sing songs to make fun of me.
@ -2809,7 +2741,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 my dignity has been blown away by the wind,
\q2 and my prosperity has disappeared as clouds disappear.
\s5
\q1
\v 16 Now I am about to die;
@ -2872,10 +2803,8 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\v 31 Previously, I played joyful music on my harp and with my flute,
\q2 but now I play only the sad music of those who mourn."
\s5
\c 31
\q1
\v 1 "I made to myself a solemn promise
\q2 that I would not look at a young woman and want to sleep with her.
@ -3030,10 +2959,8 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\q2 and that bad weeds would grow instead of barley!"
\q1 That is the end of what Job said to his three friends.
\s5
\c 32
\p
\v 1 Then those three men stopped replying to Job because they could not convince Job that he had done anything wrong.
\v 2 Then Elihu son of Barakel, a descendant of Buz, from the clan of Ram, became very angry at Job. He was angry because Job continued to claim that he was innocent, and that God had been wrong to punish him.
@ -3109,10 +3036,8 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\v 22 I really do not know how to flatter people;
\q2 if I did that, God would soon destroy me."
\s5
\c 33
\q1
\v 1 "Now, Job, listen carefully
\q2 to all that I am going to say.
@ -3242,10 +3167,8 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\v 33 However, if you have nothing more that you want to say, then just listen to me,
\q2 and I will teach you how to become wise."
\s5
\c 34
\p
\v 1 Then Elihu continued by saying this:
\q1
@ -3393,10 +3316,8 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\q2 he shows us that he does not honor God;
\q2 he makes long speeches saying that God has punished him unjustly."
\s5
\c 35
\p
\v 1 Then Elihu also said this:
\q1
@ -3405,6 +3326,7 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\q1
\v 3 and you also say, 'What good have I received for not sinning?
\q2 What benefit have I received that I would not have had, even if I had sinned?'
\s5
\q1
\v 4 Well, I will answer you,
@ -3458,10 +3380,8 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\v 16 My friends, you see that Job has said things that are completely useless,
\q2 that he says many things without knowing what in the world he is talking about."
\s5
\c 36
\p
\v 1 Elihu finished speaking by saying this:
\q1
@ -3594,7 +3514,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\v 33 When we hear his thunder, we know that there will be a storm,
\q2 and the cattle know it, too.
\s5
\c 37
\q1
@ -3692,10 +3611,8 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\v 24 That is the reason that we have an awesome respect for him;
\q2 he does not pay attention to those who proudly, but wrongly, think that they are wise."
\s5
\c 38
\p
\v 1 Then Yahweh spoke to Job from inside a powerful storm. He said to him,
\q1
@ -3851,7 +3768,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\q2 when its young are calling out to me for food,
\q2 when they are so weak because of their lack of food that they stagger around in their nests?
\s5
\c 39
\q1
@ -3973,17 +3889,14 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\q2 the baby eagles drink the blood of that animal;
\q2 they gather wherever there are dead people lying on the ground."
\s5
\c 40
\p
\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Job,
\q1
\v 2 "Do you still want to argue with me, the Almighty One?
\q2 Since you criticize me, you should be able to answer my questions!"
\s5
\p
\v 3 Then Job replied to Yahweh,
@ -4001,6 +3914,7 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\v 7 "I want to ask you some questions,
\q2 so act like a man and
\q2 get ready to answer my questions.
\s5
\q1
\v 8 Are you going to accuse me and say that I am unjust?
@ -4068,10 +3982,8 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\v 24 No one can catch them with hooks
\q2 or by piercing their noses with the teeth of a trap!
\s5
\c 41
\q1
\v 1 "Think also about crocodiles.
\q2 Can you catch them with a fishhook
@ -4197,10 +4109,8 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\v 34 They are the proudest of all the creatures;
\q2 they are like kings over all the other wild animals."
\s5
\c 42
\p
\v 1 Then Job replied to Yahweh. He said,
\q1
@ -4211,6 +4121,7 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\q2 It is true that I spoke about things that I did not understand,
\q2 things that are very amazing,
\q2 things about which I know nothing.
\s5
\q1
\v 4 You said to me, 'Listen while I talk to you.
@ -4223,7 +4134,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\v 6 Therefore I am ashamed of what I said,
\q2 and I sit in dust and ashes to show that I am sorry for what I said."
\s5
\p
\v 7 After Yahweh said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz, "I am angry with you and your two friends, Bildad and Zophar, because you did not say true things about me, as my servant Job did.
@ -4231,7 +4141,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\p
\v 9 So Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar did what Yahweh commanded them to do, and Yahweh did what Job requested him to do for the three of them.
\s5
\p
\v 10 After Job prayed for his three friends, Yahweh healed him and caused him to become rich again. Yahweh gave him twice as many things as he had before.
@ -4248,4 +4157,3 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\p
\v 16 After that, Job lived 140 more years. Before he died, he saw his great-great-grandchildren.
\v 17 He was very old when he died.

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\v 11 They may say, "Come with us! Join us!
\q2 We will hide in wait and we will take the life of one who passes by.
\q2 We will hide ourselves and we will rise up and attack a person who has done us no wrong—that will be our sport.
\s5
\q1
\v 12 Like the grave has power to take even a healthy person and drag them to the place of the dead, we will take their life from them.
@ -77,6 +78,7 @@
\q1
\v 19 These are the ways of all who gain their riches through theft and deceit;
\q2 the things they stole destroy the lives of the thieves who cling to them.
\s5
\q1
\v 20 Wisdom is like a woman who cries out in the streets.
@ -84,11 +86,11 @@
\q1
\v 21 At the intersection of busy streets she cries out
\q2 and at the entrance of city gates.
\q1
\v 22 She cries, "How long will you who have not been taught, will you love being enticed to do what will harm you?
\q2 How long will you who think you know more than the wise, have so much joy in the little you know?
\q2 How long will you fools refuse to learn?
\s5
\q1
\v 23 If you pay attention to me when I correct you,
@ -137,7 +139,6 @@
\v 33 But those who pay attention to me will live in peace and safety,
\q2 and they will rest and not be afraid of any disaster that may come."
\s5
\c 2
\q1
@ -208,7 +209,6 @@
\q1
\v 18 Those who enter her house are taken to their death,
\q2 because the way to her house takes them where dead people are buried.
\q1
\v 19 All who go to her to sleep with her have no way to get out of her house,
\q2 they will be so lost they will never find the way back to life.
@ -232,6 +232,7 @@
\q1
\v 2 because they will help you live a long life, measured in either days or years,
\q1 and they will bring you peace in addition to all the lessons they teach you.
\s5
\q1
\v 3 Treat others with tenderness and always speak the truth to them.
@ -257,6 +258,7 @@
\q1
\v 8 Giving Yahweh reverence will make your body healthy
\q2 and it will give your bones the food it needs.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 When you gain money, honor Yahweh by giving him the tithe;
@ -305,6 +307,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 20 The deepest part of the oceans broke open according to Yahweh's design,
\q2 and in the same way, he made the dew so it would fall from the clouds above.
\s5
\q1
\v 21 My son, hold on to good sense in the decisions you make,
@ -313,6 +316,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 22 They will bring life to you,
\q2 and a sign of Yahweh's blessings on your life
\q2 that people can see by your good judgment.
\s5
\q1
\v 23 Your good decisions will take you where you are going in safety,
@ -320,6 +324,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 24 When you lie down to sleep, you will not have any fear,
\q2 and your sleep will be refreshing.
\s5
\q1
\v 25 Do not let a disaster fill you with terror,
@ -327,6 +332,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 26 Yahweh takes your side to defend you,
\q2 he will not allow any trap to catch and hold you.
\s5
\q1
\v 27 Give good gifts to those who deserve it,
@ -365,16 +371,15 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 35 Those who are wise will be honored,
\q2 but foolish people will become well known for their dishonor.
\s5
\c 4
\q1
\v 1 Listen, children, listen to what I am teaching you.
\q2 If you pay attention, you will learn about what it means to understand.
\q1
\v 2 The lessons I give to you are good teaching, given in order.
\q2 So do not refuse to learn the lessons I teach you.
\s5
\q1
\v 3 When I was my father's boy,
@ -383,6 +388,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 4 my father told me, "Put my words deep within you,
\q1 obey my orders to you,
\q2 and you will have life.
\s5
\q1
\v 5 Hold on to what is wise and whatever helps you understand,
@ -397,8 +403,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 7 The most important thing you can do is to study the principles of wisdom
\q2 and spend all you own so you can grow more and more in your understanding.
\q1
\v 8 Wisdom is to be loved more than anything that is valuable, and she will raise you to a high position—
\q2 and wisdom will honor you when you show how much you love it.
\q1
@ -426,6 +430,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 15 Stay far from those ways;
\q2 turn another way and go on another road.
\s5
\q1
\v 16 Evil people cannot rest until they have done something that Yahweh said they must not do.
@ -449,6 +454,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 21 Keep reading them over and over,
\q1 and keep them deep within you.
\s5
\q2
\v 22 For my words bring a message of life to those who pay attention to them,
@ -456,6 +462,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 23 Protect your heart with all your strength and guard what you love;
\q2 guard it, for it becomes a fountain overflowing with life.
\s5
\q1
\v 24 Make it your aim to keep away from you any lying speech,
@ -472,7 +479,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 27 Do not leave the straight road by turning to the left or to the right,
\q1 and do not follow the way that leads to evil.
\s5
\c 5
\q1
@ -489,6 +495,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 4 but in the end, she is so bitter you can taste it,
\q2 and she cuts you like a sharp sword.
\s5
\q1
\v 5 She walks down to the place of death;
@ -504,6 +511,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 8 Stay far away from the immoral woman;
\q2 do not go near the door of her house.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 If you go to her you will lose the respect of others,
@ -511,6 +519,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 10 It may be that others will take all the wealth that you have earned,
\q2 and it goes into the houses of people you do not know.
\s5
\q1
\v 11 And when you are about to die,
@ -518,6 +527,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 12 Then you will say, "I hated it when I was punished for doing wrong;
\q2 I despised people when they told me how to live.
\s5
\q1
\v 13 I did not obey my teachers
@ -535,6 +545,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 17 Let both your water and your wife be for you alone to enjoy,
\q2 and not for others to share with you.
\s5
\q1
\v 18 May your fountain be blessed;
@ -560,7 +571,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 23 An evil man will die because he could not say, "No" to his desires;
\q2 he gets lost because his foolishness has no limits.
\s5
\c 6
\q1
@ -569,6 +579,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 2 you laid a trap for yourself by making the promise,
\q2 and you have been caught by agreeing to a contract for someone you did not know.
\s5
\q1
\v 3 Do this, my son, and deliver yourself from this difficulty:
@ -582,6 +593,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 5 Save yourself,
\q2 like a deer that escapes from the hunter;
\q2 or like a bird that flies away from the hand of one who hunts for birds.
\s5
\q1
\v 6 You lazy person, learn something from watching the ants.
@ -601,6 +613,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q2 a little more folding of the hands to take a nap."
\q1
\v 11 Suddenly poverty will take over your life like a thief who steals everything from you.
\s5
\q1
\v 12 A worthless person — a person who does bad to others—he lives by the lies he speaks to others.
@ -614,6 +627,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 15 His own disaster will overtake him in a second;
\q2 he will be crushed to the point that he cannot be healed.
\s5
\q1
\v 16 There are six, even seven, things that Yahweh hates.
@ -689,7 +703,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 35 And he will not accept any bribe to stop him.
\s5
\c 7
\q1
@ -701,6 +714,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 3 Write down my commands and tie them to your fingers to remind youreself of them;
\q2 let it be as if you had written them in your inner self.
\s5
\q1
\v 4 Think of wisdom as if it were a woman, one of your own sisters, whom you love;
@ -796,10 +810,8 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 27 The road to her house is the road to the grave;
\q2 it goes down to the place where the dead are kept.
\s5
\c 8
\q1
\v 1 Listen to Wisdom calling; her voice sounds like that of a woman who shouting in the public square.
\q1 Understanding raises her voice; she sounds like a woman who calls out to be heard.
@ -877,6 +889,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 21 I give wealth to those who love me,
\q2 and I fill up their treasuries.
\s5
\q1
\v 22 Yahweh created me, Wisdom; he made me when he began to create the world;
@ -935,10 +948,8 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 36 But those who do not find me, they hurt themselves.
\q2 All those who hate me love death."
\s5
\c 9
\q1
\v 1 Wisdom builds her own house, just like a woman who has built her home;
\q2 she made seven pillars to support the roof of her house.
@ -1006,10 +1017,8 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 18 Any man who accepts her invitation does not know that the dead are in her home,
\q2 that those who accepted her invitation and went into her house are now in the world of the dead.
\s5
\c 10
\p
\v 1 These are the proverbs of Solomon:
\q A child who lives according to wisdom makes his father happy;
@ -1028,6 +1037,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 5 He is wise who harvests the crops when they are ready to be gathered;
\q2 but it would be shameful for him to sleep while others are harvesting the crop.
\s5
\q1
\v 6 Those who do right will receive many good gifts from God;
@ -1035,6 +1045,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 7 When we remember those who do what is right, we get a blessing from Yahweh;
\q2 but we cannot remember the names of the wicked.
\s5
\q1
\v 8 Wise people follow good instructions,
@ -1042,6 +1053,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 9 An honest person lives his life and has nothing to hide;
\q2 but one who is dishonest—his lies will be discovered.
\s5
\q1
\v 10 The one who winks his eye signals others to help him do something that is wrong,
@ -1049,6 +1061,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 11 A person who does right is like a spring that gives life-saving water;
\q2 but the wicked person hides his brutality by his words.
\s5
\q1
\v 12 Hatred has the power to start many arguments;
@ -1097,6 +1110,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 23 Foolish people play games when they do what is wrong,
\q2 but people with understanding enjoy wisdom.
\s5
\q1
\v 24 What the wicked fear will happen to them;
@ -1131,7 +1145,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 32 Those who do right know the words Yahweh permits them to speak,
\q2 but wicked people say what Yahweh has forbidden.
\s5
\c 11
\q1
@ -1165,6 +1178,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 8 The one who does what is right, Yahweh delivers from trouble;
\q2 and Yahweh gives that trouble to the wicked.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 A person who has no kind of religious faith uses his words to destroy his neighbor;
@ -1175,6 +1189,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 11 When there are people in the city who please God and they give good gifts to others, the city becomes great;
\q2 but the words spoken by the wicked tear down the city.
\s5
\q1
\v 12 The one who treats his friend with contempt has no good judgment;
@ -1219,6 +1234,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 22 If you see a gold ring in a pig's nose,
\q2 that is very much like a beautiful woman who does not have good sense.
\s5
\q1
\v 23 Those who do what is right desire things that result in good,
@ -1258,7 +1274,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1 and the one who sins against Yahweh,
\q1 will surely receive what they deserve.
\s5
\c 12
\q1
@ -1267,6 +1282,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh approves of those who are good,
\q2 but he condemns those who make evil plans.
\s5
\q1
\v 3 Wickedness is a bad foundation for a person's life.
@ -1298,6 +1314,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 10 People who do what is right care about the feeding and health of their animals,
\q2 but even when the wicked try to do something for their animals, it becomes an act of cruelty.
\s5
\q1
\v 11 The farmer who works hard in the fields will have enough food to eat,
@ -1305,6 +1322,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 12 Wicked people desire the things that evil people have—things they stole from others.
\q2 But people who do what is right have what they have earned; it is their reward.
\s5
\q1
\v 13 An evil person is trapped by the wicked things he says,
@ -1369,7 +1387,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 28 Those who walk in the right way find life
\q2 and on that road there is no death.
\s5
\c 13
\q1
@ -1378,6 +1395,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 2 Good things come as the fruit of what one says,
\q2 but the desire of the deceitful is to consume more and more violence.
\s5
\q1
\v 3 The person who is very careful about what he says preserves his life;
@ -1443,6 +1461,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 18 The one who does not learn from the lessons of discipline will be poor, and he will know shame,
\q2 but the one who takes the lessons of discipline and learns from them,
\q2 honor will find him.
\s5
\q1
\v 19 When a longing comes true,
@ -1474,7 +1493,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 25 Those who do what is right eat enough food to satisfy their hunger,
\q2 but the wicked complain that they are always hungry.
\s5
\c 14
\q1
@ -1483,6 +1501,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 2 The one who honors Yahweh in the way he lives, gives to Yahweh the respect he deserves;
\q2 the dishonest person shows his disrespect, and he despises Yahweh.
\s5
\q1
\v 3 Pride grows out of the mouth of the fool, like an offshoot from a tree;
@ -1498,6 +1517,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 6 One who thinks he is better than others, he may seek wisdom, but he will not find it,
\q2 but the one who has grown in knowledge can easily learn much more.
\s5
\q1
\v 7 Do not stay close to a foolish person: Walk away from him.
@ -1505,6 +1525,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 8 The one who has learned much knowledge applies it to his own life; that is wisdom.
\q2 The foundation of all folly is the lie.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 Fools watch the guilt offering being sacrificed in the temple, and they make fun of it,
@ -1512,6 +1533,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 10 A person keeps close inside all his bitterness and disappointment;
\q2 and no stranger will ever know all the joy it contains.
\s5
\q1
\v 11 The family of the wicked will be destroyed,
@ -1519,6 +1541,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 12 A person sees a way, and it appears to be the right way for him to go,
\q2 but he does not know that it only leads to death.
\s5
\q1
\v 13 A person can be in great pain and still be able to laugh;
@ -1534,6 +1557,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 16 A wise person sees evil and is afraid of it, and he turns away from it;
\q2 the foolish person boldly throws aside every warning.
\s5
\q1
\v 17 Those who get angry quickly do foolish things;
@ -1541,6 +1565,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 18 Those who have not been instructed have foolishness handed to them;
\q2 those who have learned a little knowledge are surrounded by it.
\s5
\q1
\v 19 Evil people will bow down before those who are good,
@ -1548,6 +1573,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 20 The poor are hated even by their own companions,
\q2 but the rich have many friends.
\s5
\q1
\v 21 It is sinful to have contempt for your neighbors;
@ -1563,10 +1589,12 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 24 The reward of the wise is the wealth they have,
\q2 but the folly of fools only brings them more foolishness.
\s5
\q1
\v 25 A witness who tells the truth, saves the lives of the innocent;
\q2 a lying witness is filled with deceit.
\s5
\q1
\v 26 Those give Yahweh the honor he deserves
@ -1599,6 +1627,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 33 Wisdom finds a place to rest in someone who has discernment,
\q2 but wisdom lets herself be known even among fools.
\s5
\q1
\v 34 When a people do what is right, the nation does well,
@ -1607,7 +1636,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 35 A king is pleased with a servant who does his work with good judgment,
\q2 but the king is angry with any servant who brings shame to him.
\s5
\c 15
\q1
@ -1640,6 +1668,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh hates it when the wicked offer their sacrifices,
\q2 but when those who please him pray, he is delighted.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh hates the way the wicked live,
@ -1741,7 +1770,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 33 The honor that Yahweh deserves will be the lesson that will teach you wisdom,
\q2 and then humility comes before honor.
\s5
\c 16
\q1
@ -1758,6 +1786,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 4 When Yahweh made everything, he made them so they would all accomplish something for him.
\q2 He has even made the wicked for the day when there is great trouble.
\s5
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh hates those whose pride comes from deep within them.
@ -1834,6 +1863,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 22 When you understand, it is as if you have found a fountain of life within you;
\q2 but fools find their punishment when their foolishness comes back to them.
\s5
\q1
\v 23 From deep within him, the wise person speaks from the insight he has learned;
@ -1876,12 +1906,12 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 32 The one who is slow to get angry is stronger than a warrior;
\q2 the one who is self-controlled is mightier than one who conquers a city by force.
\s5
\q1
\v 33 The stones making up the "lot" are thrown into a person's lap,
\q2 but Yahweh decides on which side of the stones they will stop rolling.
\s5
\c 17
\q1
@ -1891,6 +1921,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 2 A slave who acts wisely will rule over the son of his master
\q2 if that son does shameful things.
\q2 That slave will receive a share of the inheritance and will be treated like one of his master's sons.
\s5
\q1
\v 3 Silver is put into the crucible to be refined, and gold is put into the furnace to be made pure,
@ -1980,6 +2011,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 24 The one who has begun to understand, he knows that he must also now go after wisdom.
\q2 However, the foolish person has bold plans and impossible dreams,
\q2 and he looks for them no matter how far away they may be.
\s5
\q1
\v 25 A foolish child brings a father great sadness,
@ -1996,7 +2028,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\v 28 When a fool keeps silent, some may think he is very wise;
\q2 when he keeps his mouth shut, even a fool looks intelligent.
\s5
\c 18
\q1
@ -2013,6 +2044,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 4 The words a man speaks are like the deep waters of an ocean
\q2 or a fountain that flows with wisdom.
\s5
\q1
\v 5 When the wicked are treated with special honor, it is not good,
@ -2028,6 +2060,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 8 When a person gossips, his words are as sweet to other people as candy is in their mouths,
\q2 and they love to listen to them.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 The person who does a poor job when he is working
@ -2035,6 +2068,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 10 The name of Yahweh is like a castle that can never be overrun;
\q2 those who do what is right run for safety into it, and in the fortress of his name, they are safe.
\s5
\q1
\v 11 The wealthy person depends on his wealth as a city depends on its fortifications;
@ -2076,6 +2110,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 20 The words a person speaks can bring satisfaction to himself,
\q2 like the food he eats satisfies his stomach.
\s5
\q1
\v 21 People are able to kill others or keep them alive by means of what they say.
@ -2083,6 +2118,7 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1
\v 22 The one who finds a wife, finds something so good it is a gift to bless his life,
\q2 and it is Yahweh who gives him this wonderful gift.
\s5
\q1
\v 23 A poor person desperately begs for mercy,
@ -2092,7 +2128,6 @@ but a rich person is rude when he answers.
\q2 but there is a friend who stands with us through everything,
\q2 and he is always close at our side, even closer than a brother.
\s5
\c 19
\q1
@ -2101,6 +2136,7 @@ but a rich person is rude when he answers.
\q1
\v 2 And consider, having desire without knowledge
\q2 is like running so fast that you miss the path you want to take.
\s5
\q1
\v 3 The folly of a fool destroys his life,
@ -2116,6 +2152,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 6 When a person is generous with their gifts, many people will ask for favors,
\q2 it seems that everyone is a friend of the one who gives many gifts.
\s5
\q1
\v 7 All the brothers of one who is poor hate him;
@ -2124,6 +2161,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 8 The one who makes every effort to learn about wisdom, loves himself;
\q2 having understanding helps you know what is good and what is not.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 The ones who lie when they give testimony will be punished,
@ -2131,6 +2169,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 10 When a fool lives in luxury—it is not right,
\q2 and it is even worse for a slave to rule over princes.
\s5
\q1
\v 11 A person with good sense is slow to get angry,
@ -2138,6 +2177,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 12 What is the wrath of the king like? It is like the roaring of a young lion,
\q2 but his kindness is like the dew on the grass.
\s5
\q1
\v 13 A foolish child will ruin a father.
@ -2145,6 +2185,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 14 We can inherit houses and money from our parents,
\q2 but a sensible wife is from Yahweh.
\s5
\q1
\v 15 The one who is lazy finds that sleep comes easily to him,
@ -2152,6 +2193,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 16 The one who follows the command he was taught puts a guard over his life,
\q2 but the one who does not think about how he lives his life will die.
\s5
\q1
\v 17 One who is kind to the poor, it is as if he were lending to Yahweh;
@ -2175,6 +2217,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 22 A person wants loyalty,
\q2 and a poor person is better than a liar.
\s5
\q1
\v 23 Anyone who has respect for Yahweh will live a long life;
@ -2183,6 +2226,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 24 The lazy person puts his hand in the dish;
\q2 he is not able to raise his hand up to his mouth to eat.
\s5
\q1
\v 25 If you punish someone who mocks others,
@ -2206,7 +2250,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 29 Yahweh is ready to punish those who make themselves out to be better than other people,
\q2 and he is ready to flog the backs of fools.
\s5
\c 20
\q1
@ -2216,7 +2259,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 2 The king's wrath makes people as afraid as if they were facing a young lion roaring at them;
\q2 the person who makes a king angry is giving up his own life.
\s5
\q1
\v 3 It is an honor to stay out of an argument,
@ -2247,6 +2289,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 10 Uneven weights, improperly marked, and unequal measures, that favor the one who is selling,
\q2 Yahweh hates both of them.
\s5
\q1
\v 11 Also, even a youth is known by how what he does,
@ -2254,6 +2297,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 12 Ears that hear and eyes that see—
\q2 Yahweh made them both.
\s5
\q1
\v 13 If you love to sleep all the time, you will become poor;
@ -2285,6 +2329,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 20 If a person curses his father or his mother,
\q2 his life will be put out as a light that is snuffed out.
\s5
\q1
\v 21 An inheritance that comes to a person quickly, may do some good at the beginning,
@ -2292,6 +2337,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 22 Do not say, "I will pay you back for the wrong you did to me."
\q2 Wait for Yahweh and he will take care of the matter.
\s5
\q1
\v 23 Yahweh detests those who use dishonest scales
@ -2307,6 +2353,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 26 A king who is wise will separate the wicked from among his people;
\q2 then he will severely punish those wicked people.
\s5
\q1
\v 27 The life-giving spirit within a man is the light shining from Yahweh within us,
@ -2314,6 +2361,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 28 Love and faithfulness preserve the life of the king;
\q2 his throne is made strong by steadfast love.
\s5
\q1
\v 29 The honor of young people is seen in how strong they are,
@ -2322,7 +2370,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 30 When we are beaten, the wound that results may cleanse away evil,
\q2 and beatings make our inmost self clean.
\s5
\c 21
\q1
@ -2391,6 +2438,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 16 A person who does not understand right and wrong, will get lost when he tries to make decisions,
\q2 he will only rest when he is dead.
\s5
\q1
\v 17 Love pleasure and it will make you poor;
@ -2398,6 +2446,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 18 A person who does right is honored much more than a wicked man,
\q2 and a good man is worth far more than one who never keeps his promise.
\s5
\q1
\v 19 It is better to live alone in a desert
@ -2413,6 +2462,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 22 When a wise leader goes up against a city of mighty warriors,
\q2 he knows how to bring down the defenses of the city and he conquers it.
\s5
\q1
\v 23 Be careful, if you could put a guard to watch over the words that come out of your mouth and tongue,
@ -2420,6 +2470,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 24 The mocker thinks he is better than other people,
\q2 and his actions come from his pride and his arrogance.
\s5
\q1
\v 25 The things that the lazy person chooses to do will kill him;
@ -2427,6 +2478,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 26 All day long he desires things—he could not desire for more things—
\q2 but whoever does right gives gifts to others, and he never holds back anything that is good.
\s5
\q1
\v 27 When the wicked decide to give an offering to Yahweh, Yahweh hates it,
@ -2439,6 +2491,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 29 The wicked man acts as if he were strong,
\q2 but an honest man has thought about what to do and is certain about it.
\s5
\q1
\v 30 Can there be any wisdom, any understanding, or any advice, that is wiser than Yahweh?
@ -2446,7 +2499,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 31 The groomsman prepares the horse for the day of battle,
\q2 but the outcome of the battle, the winner or the loser, is determined by Yahweh.
\s5
\c 22
\q1
@ -2480,6 +2532,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 8 If you plant the seeds of wickedness, you can expect a crop of trouble,
\q2 and when you use a rod to discipline your child,
\q2 but you use it when you are furious, it will do no good.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 The one who looks for people to help, Yahweh will give many good gifts,
@ -2496,6 +2549,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh gives protection to knowledge, to keep it safe,
\q2 just as surely as he makes the lying promises of the betrayer fail.
\s5
\q1
\v 13 A lazy person calls out, "There is a lion in the street! If I go out, I will be killed!"
@ -2503,6 +2557,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 14 The words spoken by an adulteress will draw you in, and it will be as if you have fallen into a deep and dangerous pit!
\q2 All those who fall into that pit will be in trouble,
\q2 but what is worse, they will experience Yahweh's anger for what they have done.
\s5
\q1
\v 15 Stupid and silly things are bound up within a child,
@ -2512,6 +2567,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 16 The one who makes his money by taking advantage of the poor,
\q2 or by giving more money to the wealthy,
\q2 Yahweh will bring him into poverty.
\s5
\q1
\v 17 Now listen to what those who are wise have said;
@ -2522,6 +2578,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 19 The most important thing is for you to trust in Yahweh,
\q2 and so I am teaching them to you, yes, even to you.
\s5
\q1
\v 20 I have written thirty of these sayings for you to learn;
@ -2537,6 +2594,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 23 for Yahweh stands to defend them,
\q2 and he will take the life of those who stole from the poor.
\s5
\q1
\v 24 Do not become a friend with one whose life is controlled by his anger,
@ -2544,6 +2602,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 25 or you will learn to be like him,
\q2 and your anger will become like a trap, a trap that will take charge of your life.
\s5
\q1
\v 26 Be careful that you do not shake hands and promise to pay for the debts of others,
@ -2559,10 +2618,8 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 29 One who learns a trade and is skillful at it will become a servant of kings.
\q2 Because of his achievements he will not serve mere ordinary people.
\s5
\c 23
\q1
\v 1 When you sit down to eat a meal with ruler of a country,
\q2 think carefully about what is in front of you.
@ -2593,6 +2650,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 8 When you realize what he is really thinking, you will want to vomit what you have eaten;
\q2 and you will have wasted all the compliments you gave about the fine meal he prepared.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 Do not waste time talking to a fool;
@ -2608,6 +2666,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 12 Pay attention to what you are learning,
\q2 and listen to the words of knowledge.
\s5
\q1
\v 13 Do not refuse to discipline your children;
@ -2623,6 +2682,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 16 and I will be sincerely glad
\q2 when you say what is right.
\s5
\q1
\v 17 Do not envy sinful people;
@ -2650,6 +2710,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 23 When you study wisdom, think of it as buying truth, but never selling it;
\q2 and the same for wisdom, and with discipline, and also with understanding;
\q2 let it be as though you were buying them so you can keep them for the rest of your life.
\s5
\q1
\v 24 The father of a child who does what is right will be very happy;
@ -2657,6 +2718,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 25 Make your father and mother proud,
\q2 and let your mother be glad.
\s5
\q1
\v 26 My son, take what I say and put it deep within you,
@ -2686,6 +2748,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 33 It makes you see strange things,
\q2 and within you, you say perverse things when you are drunk.
\s5
\q
\v 34 You will think you are on a ship that is tossing on the sea;
@ -2696,10 +2759,8 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1 When will I wake up
\q2 in order that I can drink some more wine?"
\s5
\c 24
\q1
\v 1 Do not want what evil people have;
\q2 do not desire them for friends,
@ -2727,6 +2788,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 7 Wisdom is something that a fool cannot understand;
\q2 at the gate where the elders gather, the fool has nothing to say.
\s5
\q1
\v 8 There is a man who does evil and makes plots—he is called the Master of Schemes.
@ -2738,6 +2800,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 10 When trouble comes, and you are terrified like a coward,
\q2 then your strength is small.
\s5
\q1
\v 11 Rescue the ones who are being carried away to the slaughter;
@ -2756,8 +2819,8 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 14 Wisdom is like the honeycomb, it feeds your life, if you can find it.
\q2 If you can find it, you will have a future,
\q2 and you will come to the future with hope that will not be cut short.
\s5
\s5
\q1
\v 15 Do not be like wicked people who hide and wait to attack the home of those who do what is right.
\q2 Do not commit a violent attack on the place where the good man rests!
@ -2774,6 +2837,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 18 for Yahweh will see how you treat your enemy, and if he disapproves how you treat him,
\q1 Yahweh may turn his wrath from your enemy and put it on you.
\s5
\q1
\v 19 Do not worry about those who do what is evil,
@ -2789,6 +2853,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 22 because disasters will suddenly come upon those rebels,
\q2 and no one knows how terrible the disasters will be that will come from both Yahweh and from the king.
\s5
\v 23 Here are more things that wise people have said:
\q1 It is wrong for judges to decide matters unfairly.
@ -2833,7 +2898,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 34 poverty will come to you like a thief who steals from you,
\q2 and poverty will come like an armed soldier who attacks you.
\s5
\c 25
\p
@ -2844,6 +2908,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 3 What kings think is above the way peasants think; they are like the heavens, they are above us all;
\q2 and all kings have the same deep burdens that others cannot understand.
\s5
\q1
\v 4 Silver cannot be used by the metal worker,
@ -2851,10 +2916,12 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 5 just as the dross is removed, even so, if wicked men are removed from the kings court,
\q2 his throne will be more secure, and he will be able to do what is right.
\s5
\q1
\v 6 When you stand in front of a king, do not bring attention to yourself
\q2 and do not stand in the place set aside for those the king is honoring.
\s5
\q1
\v 7 It is better if someone important invites you, saying, "Come up and sit closer to the king,"
@ -2864,6 +2931,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 8 you should not quickly bring the matter to trial,
\q2 unless you are very sure about it.
\q2 because your neighbor may have a good explanation for what you saw.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 If you and your neighbor are having a disagreement,
@ -2893,6 +2961,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 15 With patient persuasion even a ruler's mind can be changed,
\q2 like the proverb that says, 'a soft tongue can break a bone.'
\s5
\q1
\v 16 If you find some honey, eat just a little,
@ -2900,6 +2969,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 17 Do not go to your neighbor's house too often;
\q2 he may get tired of you, and if you do not stop, he could even grow to hate you.
\s5
\q1
\v 18 To falsely accuse others in court
@ -2907,6 +2977,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 19 Depending on an unreliable person during times of trouble
\q2 is like having a bad tooth or a foot that slips and makes you fall.
\s5
\q1
\v 20 Singing a song to someone who is feeling sad,
@ -2945,7 +3016,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 28 A person who cannot control himself
\q2 is like a city with no way to keep out enemies; its walls have fallen down.
\s5
\c 26
\q1
@ -2981,6 +3051,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q2 that is like one who gives honor to a fool,
\q2 for no matter how much you praise him,
\q2 it will never do him any good.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 When you see a drunk man picking up a bush full of thorns,
@ -2989,6 +3060,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 10 An archer who aims and shoots arrows at people standing around him,
\q2 is as dangerous as one who hires a fool
\q2 or he takes so little care that he hires the next person who comes along.
\s5
\q1
\v 11 When you see a dog return to his vomit,
@ -2997,6 +3069,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 12 Do you know someone who has this idea about himself—
\q2 he thinks he is a very wise person?
\q2 It is easier to teach a fool than him.
\s5
\q1
\v 13 The lazy person has many reasons for not working—
@ -3005,6 +3078,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 14 When you see a door swing back and forth on it hinges,
\q2 that is just like one who is lazy, when he is lying on his bed, turning back and forth.
\s5
\q1
\v 15 One who is lazy might reach down with his hand to get some food,
@ -3020,6 +3094,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q2 and he gets involved, and becomes angry
\q2 and then he takes sides and joins in—
\q2 even though he had nothing to do with it.
\s5
\q1
\v 18-19 Who is like an insane person who shoots burning arrows in every direction?
@ -3028,14 +3103,15 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q2 "I was only joking;"
\q2 but just like the madman's arrows,
\q2 what he said has set everything on fire.
\s5
\q1
\v 20 The fire goes out when there is no more wood to burn;
\q2 and so arguments stop when no one is gossipping.
\q1
\v 21 As charcoal can ignite into burning coal and a log of wood into a fire;
\q2 so the one who argues sets anger ablaze.
\s5
\q1
\v 22 The gossip tells stories that are like sweet treats to eat;
@ -3063,7 +3139,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 28 The one who lies hates the people he destroys;
\q2 just as much as the person who uses flattery causes terrible destruction.
\s5
\c 27
\q1
@ -3082,11 +3157,13 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 4 If you think about how cruel can be people who rage at others, and how angry people can attack others like a flood of water,
\q2 then think about how jealous people are even worse;
\q2 no one can resist being harmed by a jealous person.
\s5
\q1
\v 5 It is better to offer a rebuke out in the open, than to have a love that is hidden.
\q1
\v 6 A wound from a friend is better than kisses from an enemy.
\s5
\q1
\v 7 When a person is walking along and he has a full stomach, he may step on a honeycomb because he is not hungry;
@ -3113,6 +3190,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 12 One who has good sense takes cover when he sees trouble coming,
\q2 but those who have no experience or knowledge rush ahead into danger.
\s5
\q1
\v 13 Take a man's garment as security when he is guaranteeing a loan for a stranger.
@ -3143,6 +3221,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 20 You know that the Place of the Dead and The Destroyer are never satisfied;
\q2 and people, too, are never satisfied and always want more.
\s5
\q1
\v 21 Silver is refined in a crucible, and gold is put into a furnace to be made pure;
@ -3161,6 +3240,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 25 The grass dies out and then the new growth starts to grow;
\q2 and on the mountains food for the cattle is stacked up in the barns.
\s5
\q1
\v 26 The lambs will give you warm clothing and the goats will give you enough to pay for the cost of the field.
@ -3168,7 +3248,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 27 There will be milk from the goats that you can drink—that will be food for everyone who lives in your house—
\q2 and it is food to feed your servant girls, as well.
\s5
\c 28
\q1
@ -3177,6 +3256,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 2 The more sin there is in a country, the greater the number of rulers it will have;
\q2 but when there is a ruler who has understanding and knowledge, the country can last a long time.
\s5
\q1
\v 3 When a poor person oppresses other poor people,
@ -3184,6 +3264,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 4 Those who reject the law are the same people who speak well of those who are wicked;
\q2 but those who obey the law fight against the wicked.
\s5
\q1
\v 5 As difficult as it is for evil people to understand what is just,
@ -3199,6 +3280,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 8 The person who becomes rich by charging a high rate of interest ,
\q2 he does not know that he is gathering his money, and it will be given to someone who helps the poor and is kind to them.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 If you refuse to hear what the law says to you about how you should live;
@ -3215,6 +3297,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 12 When those who do what is right have a victory, it is a time to celebrate,
\q2 but when those who are wicked rise up in victory, people run and hide.
\s5
\q1
\v 13 The one who tries to cover up his sins will be found out,
@ -3255,6 +3338,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 22 A man who hates to spend his money will run to more,
\q2 but he does not know that poverty is coming to him.
\s5
\q1
\v 23 The one who rebukes a person will later be appreciated more
@ -3263,6 +3347,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 24 Anyone who steals things from his father or his mother
\q2 and says "That is not sinful,"
\q2 he is friend of the one who destroys.
\s5
\q1
\v 25 A greedy person stirs up arguments between people;
@ -3279,7 +3364,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 28 When wicked people get power, men and women hide;
\q2 but when the wicked die, there will be more and more of those who do what is right.
\s5
\c 29
\q1
@ -3288,6 +3372,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 2 When people live the right way, they become more numerous,
\q2 but when a wicked ruler starts to govern, the people groan.
\s5
\q1
\v 3 A son who desires to learn about wisdom makes his father very happy;
@ -3336,6 +3421,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 14 If a king judges the poor by listening to the truth,
\q2 he will build a kingdom that will continue forever.
\s5
\q1
\v 15 If a child is punished,
@ -3346,6 +3432,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 16 When wicked people have authority, lawbreaking is common;
\q2 but those who do what is right will see the day
\q2 when the wicked will lose their power.
\s5
\q1
\v 17 Discipline your child and he will help you and serve you;
@ -3353,6 +3440,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 18 When no prophet receives any vision from Yahweh, the people go out of control,
\q2 but those who obey the law are fortunate.
\s5
\q1
\v 19 Talk to a slave as much as you want,
@ -3371,6 +3459,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 22 A person who cannot control his anger stirs up many quarrels
\q2 and uses his rage to rule over others, and so he commits many sins.
\s5
\q1
\v 23 Any person who is proud will be humbled;
@ -3378,6 +3467,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 24 A person who helps a thief, hates himself;
\q2 he overhears the curse, but he does not say anything about it.
\s5
\q1
\v 25 When one is afraid of what people can do,
@ -3386,12 +3476,12 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 26 Many people want to come before a ruler to get help from him,
\q2 but Yahweh is the only one who gives him true justice.
\s5
\q1
\v 27 Those who do what is right detest a person who treats others in an unfair way;
\q2 just as the wicked hate those who live good lives.
\s5
\c 30
\p
@ -3455,6 +3545,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\v 14 These people use their mouths to speak the most hurtful words, like they are cutting and tearing people apart;
\q1 it is as if they are eating up the poor people from the earth,
\q2 and swallowing up the needy from humanity.
\s5
\q1
\v 15 There are leeches that suck blood, imagine they had two daughters;
@ -3497,6 +3588,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 23 the earth trembles when a woman who is hated by all, gets married,
\q1 and the earth trembles, when the maid becomes the wife of her master.
\s5
\q1
\v 24 There are four creatures on the earth that are small, but they are very wise.
@ -3524,6 +3616,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 31 Strutting roosters, and male goats,
\q1 and kings who stand with their soldiers beside them.
\s5
\q1
\v 32 If you have acted foolishly, exalting yourself,
@ -3534,10 +3627,8 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q2 even so, if you hit someone hard on his nose, the result is that his nose will bleed;
\q2 and, in the same way, when people are angry, they will argue and fight.
\s5
\c 31
\p
\v 1 These are sayings of King Lemuel—an oracle his mother taught him.
\q1
@ -3554,12 +3645,14 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 5 They could drink but then they might forget that they made a decree of the king,
\q2 and tear down the rights of those who have been taken advantage of.
\s5
\q1
\v 6 Give strong drink to those who are dying
\q2 and to those who are grieving their loss.
\v 7 One who drinks will forget he is poor,
\q2 and he will not remember his trouble.
\s5
\q1
\v 8 Speak for those who cannot speak for themselves,
@ -3567,6 +3660,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 9 Speak out and render judgment according to what is right;
\q2 and plead for justice to come in the cases of the poor and the needy.
\s5
\q1
\v 10 Who can find a wife who is good at many things?
@ -3588,6 +3682,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 15 She gets up before dawn to prepare food for her family,
\q2 and she gives each servant girl her duties for the day.
\s5
\q1
\v 16 She goes out and considers what field she will buy, and she buys it.
@ -3596,6 +3691,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 17 She prepares herself with her strength,
\q2 and her arms are strong, able to do hard work.
\s5
\q1
\v 18 She knows when she is getting a good profit from her business.
@ -3610,6 +3706,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 21 She is not worried about the snow,
\q2 for everyone in her house have the best winter coats.
\s5
\q1
\v 22 She makes covers for the beds.
@ -3617,6 +3714,7 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q1
\v 23 Her husband is well known at the city gates,
\q2 and there at the gates he sits with the other leaders of the town.
\s5
\q1
\v 24 She makes linen garments and she sells them.
@ -3649,4 +3747,3 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q2 But a woman who honors Yahweh will be praised for the person she is.
\v 31 Give her what she has earned,
\q2 and her works will praise her among the leaders of the town.

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\toc2 Ecclesiastes
\toc3 Ecc
\mt1 Ecclesiastes
\s5
\c 1
\p
\v 1 These are the words and sayings of the descendant of King David, who is king in Jerusalem. The people call me 'The Teacher.'
\q1
@ -58,7 +58,6 @@
\q2 and in the future, people will not remember what we are doing now.
\s5
\p
\v 12 I, the Teacher, have been the king of Israel for many years, ruling in Jerusalem.
\v 13 By using my wisdom, I concentrated on understanding everything that was being done on the earth. It is a task that wears me out, just like anyone else who tries it.
@ -73,10 +72,8 @@
\v 17 So I determined to learn more about being wise, and also to learn about doing things that are very stupid and foolish. But I found out that trying to understand those things was also useless, like trying to control the wind.
\v 18 Anyone who becomes very wise also becomes very frustrated. The more one knows, the sadder he becomes.
\s5
\c 2
\p
\v 1 Then I said to myself, "Well, I will try to do everything that I enjoy. I will find out whether doing what I enjoy can truly enable me to be happy." But I found out that doing that was also useless.
\v 2 So I said to myself, "It is foolish to laugh all the time, and continually doing what makes me happy does not bring any lasting benefit."
@ -105,7 +102,6 @@
\v 11 But then I thought about all the hard work that I had done to obtain all those things.
\q2 I saw that none of my work brought me any lasting benefit.
\q1 It was all like trying to control the wind.
\q1
\v 12 Then I started to think about being wise, and also about being foolish.
\q2 I said to myself, "I certainly do not think that anybody will be able to do anything better than I can."
@ -132,8 +128,6 @@
\s5
\p
\v 17 So I hated being alive, because all the work that we do here on the earth distressed me. It all seemed to be useless, like trying to control the wind.
\p
\v 18 I also began to hate all the hard work that I had done here on the earth, because when I die, everything that I have acquired will belong to the one who inherits it after me.
@ -154,10 +148,8 @@
\s5
\v 26 God enables those who please him to be wise, to know many things, and to enjoy many things. But if sinful people work hard and become rich, God can take their money away from them and give it to those who please him. However, the reason for that is also something that is difficult for me to understand. It seems useless that they worked so hard; it is like trying to control the wind.
\s5
\c 3
\q1
\v 1 There is a right time for everything,
\q2 a time for everything that we do in this world.
@ -207,7 +199,6 @@
\q2 God causes us to want to understand mysteries.
\s5
\p
\v 16 Furthermore, I saw that on this earth, even in the courts where we expect judges to make right decisions about what people had done, they did many wicked things.
\p
@ -226,10 +217,8 @@
\p
\v 22 So I think that the best thing for us people to do is to be happy about the work that we do, because that is what God has given to us. I say this because no one of us knows what happens to us after we die.
\s5
\c 4
\p
\v 1 I thought some more about all the suffering that people are made to experience on the earth.
\q1 I thought about the tears of people who were oppressed
@ -294,7 +283,6 @@
\q2 like a rope that is made from three cords is harder to break than a rope made from two cords.
\s5
\p
\v 13 A young man who is poor but wise is a better person than a foolish old king who refuses to pay attention when people try to give him good advice.
\v 14 It is possible for a young man like that to succeed and become a king, even if his parents were poor or even if he was in prison in the past.
@ -303,10 +291,8 @@
\v 15 But then some other young man becomes king, and everyone starts to support him.
\v 16 Large crowds of people crowd around him. But after a few years, they will be tired of him, too. So it is all senseless, like trying to control the wind.
\s5
\c 5
\p
\v 1 Be careful when you approach God in his house. Listen well to him. That is better than offering sacrifices to him and then not obeying him, which is foolish.
@ -333,13 +319,11 @@
\v 7 Promising to do something and not doing it is like having a useless dream. Instead, honor God by doing what you promised him that you would do.
\s5
\p
\v 8 Do not be surprised if you see poor people being oppressed. There are people able to stop others from oppressing them, but even these people are under the power of someone even higher.
\v 9 Even though people throughout the land own their fields, the king forces them to give him some of the crops that they harvest.
\s5
\q1
\v 10 Everyone who tries to get as much money as they can
\q2 will never think that they have enough.
@ -393,7 +377,6 @@
\v 19 If people are rich and have a lot of possessions, and are able to enjoy the things that they have and to enjoy their work, those things are also gifts from God.
\v 20 Those people do not think much about everything that has happened during their lifetime, because God makes sure that they keep working at what they enjoy.
\s5
\c 6
\p
@ -573,7 +556,6 @@
\s5
\v 29 I have learned only this: That when God created people, they were righteous, but they have found many ways to complicate their own lives.
\s5
\c 8
\q1
@ -583,7 +565,6 @@
\q2 and enables them to smile.
\s5
\p
\v 2 You solemnly promised God that you would obey what the king commands, so do that.
\v 3 Do not do anything rashly when it concerns the king. And do not join with those who want to rebel against him, because the king will do what he wants to do.
@ -629,10 +610,8 @@
\v 16 I thought about being wise and about people who work very hard on this earth, working day and night and not taking time to sleep.
\v 17 Then I thought about everything that God has done, and I realized that no one can understand everything that happens here on this earth. Truly, people are not able to fully understand everything that God does, even if they try hard to do that. Even if wise people claim that they understand it all, they cannot.
\s5
\c 9
\p
\v 1 I thought about all those things, and I decided that God controls what happens to everyone, even those who are wise and those who are righteous. No one knows whether others will love them or whether they will hate them.
@ -691,7 +670,6 @@
\q2 at times when they do not expect them to happen.
\s5
\p
\v 13 Once I saw here on this earth something that a wise man did that impressed me.
\v 14 There was a small town, where only a few people lived. The army of a great king came to that town and surrounded it. They built dirt ramps up against the walls in order to climb up and attack the town.
@ -710,7 +688,6 @@
\q1 however, if a person does just one foolish thing,
\q2 he might ruin many good things that others have done.
\s5
\c 10
\q1
@ -806,10 +783,8 @@
\q1 It is always possible that a little bird will hear what you are saying
\q2 and tell those people what you said about them.
\s5
\c 11
\q1
\v 1 Give generously to others some of the money that you have;
\q2 if you do that, later you will get back an equal amount.
@ -841,7 +816,6 @@
\q1 because you do not know which ones will grow better,
\q2 the ones you plant in the morning or the ones you plant later in the day,
\q2 or whether both will grow well.
\q1
\v 7 It is very delightful to be alive
\q2 and see the sun rise every morning.
@ -863,7 +837,6 @@
\q2 and do not pay attention to the pains that you have in your body,
\q1 because we will not remain young and strong forever.
\s5
\c 12
\q1
@ -912,8 +885,6 @@
\s5
\q1
\v 8 So I, the Teacher, say again that everything is temporary and useless.
\p
\v 9 I, the Teacher, was considered to be a very wise man, and I taught the people many things. I assembled and wrote down many proverbs, and I carefully thought about them and put them in order.
@ -935,4 +906,3 @@
\v 14 And do not forget that God will judge everything that we do,
\q2 good things and bad things,
\q2 even things that we do secretly.

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\toc2 Song of Songs
\toc3 Sng
\mt1 Song of Songs
\s5
\c 1
\p
@ -70,7 +71,6 @@
\v 11 I will make for you some gold earrings
\q2 that are decorated with silver.
\s5
\sp The woman speaking to herself
\q1
@ -98,7 +98,6 @@
\v 17 Branches of cedar trees will shade us;
\q2 the fir branches overhead are like a roof for us.
\s5
\c 2
\sp The woman speaking to her lover
@ -111,7 +110,6 @@
\q2 you, the one whom I love, are like a lily growing among thorns!
\s5
\sp The woman speaking to herself
\q1
\v 3 Among all the other men, this man is the one who loves me; he is like a tree that grows in the forest.
@ -197,7 +195,6 @@
\v 17 You whom I love, you must go away before dawn, when the darkness disappears.
\q2 Go away quickly, like a gazelle or like a young deer running on the high hills.
\s5
\c 3
\sp The woman speaking to herself
@ -270,10 +267,8 @@
\q2 on the day when he was married,
\q1 the happiest day of his life.
\s5
\c 4
\sp The woman's lover speaking to her
\q1
\v 1 My darling, you are beautiful,
@ -374,10 +369,8 @@
\q1 Similarly, I want the one who loves me to come and enjoy being close to me
\q2 like someone comes into a garden and enjoys eating the fruit that grows there.
\s5
\c 5
\sp The woman's lover speaking to her
\q1
\v 1 You who are most dear to me,
@ -385,13 +378,11 @@
\q1 It will be as though I am gathering myrrh with my other spices,
\q2 eating my honey and honeycomb,
\q2 and drinking my wine and my milk.
\sp The woman's lover speaking to her
\q1 Friends, enjoy making love;
\q2 fully enjoy all that you do with each other.
\s5
\sp The young woman speaking to herself
\q1
\v 2 I was asleep, and I had a dream.
@ -442,7 +433,6 @@
\q1 that if you see the man who loves me,
\q2 you will tell him that I want him so much that I feel sick.
\s5
\sp The women of the city speaking to the young woman
\q1
@ -452,7 +442,6 @@
\q2 Why do you want us to swear that we will tell him that?
\s5
\sp The young woman speaking to the women of the city
\q1
\v 10 It is because the man who loves me is handsome and healthy,
@ -497,10 +486,8 @@
\q1 You young women of Jerusalem,
\q2 this is why the man who loves me is better than all other men.
\s5
\c 6
\sp The women of Jerusalem speaking to the young woman
\q1
\v 1 You who are the most beautiful of the women,
@ -509,7 +496,6 @@
\q2 we will go with you to search for him.
\s5
\sp The young woman speaking to herself
\q1
\v 2 The one who loves me has come to me, I, who am like his garden,
@ -522,7 +508,6 @@
\q2 like sheep enjoy grazing.
\s5
\sp The woman's lover speaking to her
\q1
\v 4 My darling, you are beautiful,
@ -560,7 +545,6 @@
\q2 and the queens and concubines recognize that you are very beautiful.
\s5
\sp What the queens and the concubines said
\q1
\v 10 Who is this who looks like the dawn,
@ -568,7 +552,6 @@
\q2 who is an endless mystery?
\s5
\sp The woman's lover speaking to himself
\q1
\v 11 I went down to some walnut trees
@ -580,17 +563,14 @@
\q2 I were riding in a chariot belonging to a prince.
\s5
\sp The woman's lover speaking to her
\q1
\v 13 You who are the perfect one,
\q2 come back to us, in order that I may see you!
\sp The young woman speaking to her lover
\q1 Why do you want to look at me, the one who is perfect,
\q2 dancing between two rows of dancers?
\s5
\c 7
\sp The woman's lover speaking to her
@ -610,7 +590,6 @@
\s5
\q1
\v 3 Your breasts are as delicate as two young twin deer.
\q1
\v 4 Your neck is like a tower made of ivory.
\q1 Your eyes sparkle the pools in the city of Heshbon,
@ -667,10 +646,8 @@
\q1 new ones and old ones,
\q2 pleasures that I have been saving to give to you, the man who loves me.
\s5
\c 8
\sp The young woman speaking to her lover
\q1
\v 1 I wish that everyone knew that we love each other, just as they all know that I have a brother,
@ -697,12 +674,10 @@
\q2 until we are ready to stop."
\s5
\sp The women of Jerusalem speaking
\q1
\v 5 Who is that woman who is coming up from the wilderness,
\q2 the woman who is leaning on the man who loves her?
\sp The young woman speaking to her lover
\q1 I woke you up when you were under the apricot tree
\q2 at the place where your mother conceived you,
@ -726,7 +701,6 @@
\q2 she would refuse.
\s5
\sp The young woman's brothers speaking among themselves
\q1
\v 8 We have a younger sister,
@ -741,7 +715,6 @@
\q2 we will decorate her with bits of cedar wood.
\s5
\sp The young woman speaking to herself
\q1
\v 10 My chest was previously flat like a wall,
@ -761,7 +734,6 @@
\q2 but I will give two hundred pieces of silver to those who take care of me.
\s5
\sp The woman's lover speaking to her
\q1
\v 13 You are staying in the gardens,
@ -769,10 +741,8 @@
\q2 so allow me to hear it, too!
\s5
\sp The young woman speaking to her lover
\q1
\v 14 You who love me, come to me quickly;
\q2 run to me like a gazelle or young deer,
\q1 because I am as delightful as hills of spices.

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\toc2 Isaiah
\toc3 Isa
\mt1 ISAIAH
\s5
\c 1
\p
@ -119,7 +120,6 @@
\q2 your enemies will slaughter you."
\q1 That will happen because Yahweh said it.
\s5
\q1
\v 21 At one time you people of Jerusalem faithfully worshiped only Yahweh,
@ -181,10 +181,8 @@
\q1 Both they and the evil things that they do will burn up,
\q2 and no one will be able to put out the fire."
\s5
\c 2
\p
\v 1 This is a message that Yahweh gave to Isaiah son of Amoz, in a vision about Judah and Jerusalem.
\q1
@ -218,7 +216,6 @@
\q1
\v 5 You descendants of Jacob,
\q2 let us behave in the way that we should because Yahweh is with us!
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh, you have abandoned us, your people
\q2 who are descendants of Jacob,
@ -301,7 +298,6 @@
\q2 because they are as powerless as a person's breath.
\q1 People certainly cannot help you!
\s5
\c 3
\q1
@ -352,7 +348,6 @@
\q1 they do not try to hide their sins; they talk about them.
\q1 Because of their sins, terrible things will certainly happen to them.
\s5
\q1
\v 10 You people must tell the righteous people that good things will happen to them;
@ -380,7 +375,6 @@
\q2 It is as though you were pushing the faces of poor people into the ground."
\q1 That is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says.
\s5
\p
\v 16 Yahweh says this:
@ -393,8 +387,6 @@
\v 17 So the Lord will cause sores to be on their heads,
\q2 and he will cause those beautiful women in Jerusalem to become bald.
\s5
\p
\v 18 At the time that the Lord does that, he will also cause others to take away from the women of Jerusalem all of the beautiful things they like to wear—the ornaments on their ankles and their headbands, their crescent necklaces,
@ -428,7 +420,6 @@
\q1 "Allow us all to marry you!
\q2 We will provide our own food and clothing.
\q1 All that we want is to no longer be disgraced because of not being married."
\m
\v 2 In that time Israel will be very beautiful and great.
The people of Israel who will still be there will be very proud of the wonderful crops that will grow in their land.
@ -436,24 +427,19 @@ The people of Israel who will still be there will be very proud of the wonderful
\s5
\v 3 All the people who will remain in Jerusalem, who did not die when the enemy destroyed Jerusalem,
will belong to the Lord—all those whose names are listed among those who live there.
\v 4 That will happen when the Lord washes away the guilt of the women of Jerusalem,
and when he stops the violence on the streets of Jerusalem by punishing the people of Jerusalem.
When he does that, it will be like a fire that burns up all the impure things.
\s5
\v 5 Then Yahweh will send a cloud of smoke during the days and a flaming fire during the nights
to cover Jerusalem and all those who gather there;
it will be like a canopy over God's glorious presence in the city.
\v 6 It will shelter the people from the sun during the daytime
and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\s5
\c 5
\q1
\v 1 Now I will sing a song about Yahweh, my dear friend,
\q2 and about his vineyard.
@ -635,10 +621,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q2 he will see only people who are in darkness and distress;
\q2 it will be as though even the sunlight is hidden by dark clouds.
\s5
\c 6
\p
\v 1 During the year that King Uzziah died, Yahweh showed me a vision. In the vision, I saw Yahweh sitting on a throne, high above everyone else. He was wearing a very long robe that covered the floor of the temple.
\v 2 Above him were hovering several winged creatures. Each of them had six wings. They covered their faces with two of their wings, they covered their feet with two of their wings, and they flew using two of their wings.
@ -698,10 +682,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1 But just like when they cut down an oak tree and leave a stump, and new shoots grow from that,
\q2 the people who remain in this land will be a group that is set apart for me."
\s5
\c 7
\p
\v 1 Ahaz was the son of Jotham and grandson of Uzziah. During the time that Ahaz was the king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and King Pekah of Israel marched with their armies to attack Jerusalem. But they could not conquer it.
\p
@ -730,7 +712,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1 But you must trust me, because if you do not trust me firmly,
\q2 you will be defeated.'"
\s5
\p
\v 10 Later, Yahweh gave me another message to tell to King Ahaz.
@ -763,10 +744,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\v 24 There will be only briers and thorns in the entire land, and wild animals, with the result that men will take their bows and arrows and go there to hunt and kill animals.
\v 25 No one will go to where there previously were gardens on fertile hillsides, because briers and thorns will cover those hillsides. They will be areas where only a few cattle and sheep and goats wander around searching for something to eat.
\s5
\c 8
\p
\v 1 Then Yahweh said to me, "Make a large signboard. And write clearly on it, 'Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz' which means 'quickly plunder and steal everything'."
\v 2 So I requested Uriah the high priest and Jeberekiah's son Zechariah, men who were both honest witnesses, to watch me as I was doing that.
@ -808,7 +787,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1 You will not succeed,
\q2 because God is with us!
\s5
\p
\v 11 Yahweh strongly warned me not to act like the other people in Judah did. He said to me,
@ -858,7 +836,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\v 21 They will wander through the land, worried and hungry. And when they become very hungry, they will become very angry. They will look up toward heaven and curse God and will also curse their king.
\v 22 They will look around the land and see only trouble and darkness and things that cause them to despair. And then they will be thrown into very black darkness.
\s5
\c 9
\p
@ -900,7 +877,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1 like his ancestor King David did.
\q2 This will happen because Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, greatly desires that it happen.
\s5
\q1
\v 8 The Lord has warned the descendants of Jacob;
@ -975,10 +951,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1 But even after that happens, Yahweh will still be very angry with them;
\q2 He will be ready to strike them with his fist again.
\s5
\c 10
\q1
\v 1 Terrible things will happen to you judges who are unjust
\q2 and who make unfair laws.
@ -1001,7 +975,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q2 Yahweh will still be very angry with you.
\q1 He will still be ready to strike you again with his fist.
\s5
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh says, "Terrible things will happen to Assyria.
@ -1075,7 +1048,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\v 19 There will be very few trees left in those forests;
\q2 even a child will be able to count them."
\s5
\q1
\v 20 In the future there will be only a few people left in Israel;
@ -1114,7 +1086,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q2 he will end your suffering and your being slaves of the people of Assyria;
\q1 you will become too strong for them.
\s5
\q1
\v 28 One day in the future this will be the situation: The army of Assyria has entered northern Judah near Aiath;
@ -1148,10 +1119,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\v 34 He will destroy the soldiers of Assyria
\q2 as men use big axes to cut down the tall trees in the forests of Lebanon.
\s5
\c 11
\q1
\v 1 Like a new branch often grows from the stump of a tree,
\q2 there will be a descendant of King David who will be a new king.
@ -1243,10 +1212,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q2 so that they could go through the water
\q2 when they left Egypt.
\s5
\c 12
\p
\v 1 At that time, you people of Jerusalem will sing this song:
\q1 "Yahweh, we praise you!
@ -1279,7 +1246,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q2 because he is the great Holy One whom we Israelite people worship,
\q2 and he lives among us!"
\s5
\c 13
\p
@ -1332,6 +1298,7 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q2 When the sun rises, it will be dark,
\q1 and there will be no light from the moon at night.
\s5
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh says, "I will punish everyone in the world for the evil things that they do;
@ -1395,16 +1362,12 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1 The time when Babylon will be destroyed is very near;
\q2 Babylon will not exist much longer.
\s5
\c 14
\p
\v 1 But Yahweh will act mercifully toward the Israelite people; he will choose the people of Israel to be his people again, and he will allow them to return here and live in their own land again. Then people from many other countries will come here and unite with the Israelite people.
\v 2 People of other nations will help them to return to their own land, and those who come from other countries will work for the Israelite people. Those who captured people of Israel will be captured by Israelite soldiers, and the people of Israel will rule over the people who previously oppressed them.
\s5
\p
\v 3 Yahweh will free you Israelite people from suffering and trouble and from being afraid, and from being cruelly treated as slaves.
@ -1505,7 +1468,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q2 as though I were sweeping it with a broom.
\q1 That is what I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, say."
\s5
\p
\v 24 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, has also solemnly promised this:
@ -1527,7 +1489,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1 When Yahweh raises his fist to strike Assyria,
\q2 no one will be able to stop him."
\s5
\p
\v 28 I received this message from Yahweh during the year that King Ahaz died:
@ -1557,10 +1518,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1 "Yahweh has created Jerusalem, not Philistia,
\q2 and his people who are oppressed will be safe inside the walls of Jerusalem."
\s5
\c 15
\p
\v 1 Isaiah received this message from Yahweh about the Moab people :
\q1 In one night two important cities in Moab, Ar and Kir, will be destroyed.
@ -1607,7 +1566,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1 lions will attack those who are trying to escape from Moab
\q2 and will also attack the people who remain in that country.
\s5
\c 16
\p
@ -1692,10 +1650,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\v 13 Yahweh has already spoken those things about Moab.
\v 14 But now he says that exactly three years from now, he will destroy all the things that the people of Moab have been proud of. Even though they have a huge number of people in Moab now, only a few people will remain alive, and they will be weak.
\s5
\c 17
\p
\v 1 Isaiah received this message from Yahweh about Damascus, the capital of Aram:
\q1 "Listen carefully! Damascus will no longer be a city;
@ -1710,7 +1666,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q2 and the few people who will remain in Aram will be disgraced like the people in Israel were disgraced."
\q1 That is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says.
\s5
\q1
\v 4 "At that time, Israel will become insignificant.
@ -1767,10 +1722,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q2 in the morning your enemies will all be gone.
\q1 That is what will happen to those who invade our land and steal our possessions.
\s5
\c 18
\q1
\v 1 Terrible things will happen to you people of Ethiopia!
\q2 In your land there are many boats at the upper part of the Nile River.
@ -1810,10 +1763,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q2 because they conquer and destroy other nations,
\q1 will take gifts to Jerusalem, the city where Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, lives.
\s5
\c 19
\p
\v 1 Isaiah received this message from Yahweh about Egypt:
\q1 Listen to this! I, Yahweh, am coming toward Egypt,
@ -1911,10 +1862,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\v 24 And Israel will be their ally. All three nations will be friendly to each other, and the people of Israel will be a blessing to the people of the entire world.
\v 25 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, will bless them; he will say, "You people of Egypt are now my people. You people of Assyria, I have established your country. You people of Israel are the people whom I have chosen to belong to me."
\s5
\c 20
\p
\v 1 One year King Sargon of Assyria sent the chief commander of his army to take his soldiers to capture the city of Ashdod in Philistia. At that time,
\v 2 Yahweh told Isaiah, "Take off the rough sackcloth that you have been wearing and take off your sandals." So Isaiah did that, and then he walked around naked and barefoot for three years.
@ -1928,10 +1877,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\v 5 Then the people of other countries who trusted that the armies of Egypt and Ethiopia would be able to help them will be very dismayed and afraid.
\v 6 They will say, 'We thought that the armies of Egypt and Ethiopia would help us and defend us, but they have been destroyed, so there is no way that we can escape from being destroyed by the army of the king of Assyria!'"
\s5
\c 21
\p
\v 1 Yahweh gave this message about a land soon to become a desert:
\q1 An army will soon come from the southern Judean wilderness to invade that land;
@ -1990,7 +1937,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q2 as though you were grain that was threshed and winnowed.
\q1 But now I have told you what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, whom we Israelites worship, told me about Babylon.
\s5
\p
\v 11 Yahweh gave this message about Edom:
@ -2002,7 +1948,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1 If you want to ask your question, then ask it now,
\q2 and then come back again."
\s5
\p
\v 13 Yahweh gave this message about Arabia:
@ -2024,10 +1969,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\v 17 Only a few of their soldiers who know well how to shoot arrows will remain alive.
\q1 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\s5
\c 22
\p
\v 1 Yahweh gave this message about Jerusalem, about the valley where Yahweh showed me this vision.
\q1 Why is everyone foolishly running up to their flat rooftops?
@ -2092,7 +2035,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\p
\v 14 So Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, revealed this to me: "I will never forgive my people for sinning like this!"
\s5
\p
\v 15 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, said this to me: "Go to Shebna, the official who supervises the workers in the palace, and give this message to him:
@ -2129,10 +2071,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\p
\v 25 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, also says, "Shebna is like a peg that is firmly fastened to the wall. But there will be a time when I will remove him from his position; he will lose his power, and everything that he promoted will fail." That will surely happen because Yahweh has said it.
\s5
\c 23
\p
\v 1 I, Isaiah, received this message from Yahweh for you, the people in the city of Tyre:
\q1 You sailors on ships from Tarshish,
@ -2156,6 +2096,7 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1
\v 5 When the people of Egypt hear what has happened to Tyre,
\q2 they will grieve very much.
\s5
\q1
\v 6 Sail to Tarshish and tell them what happened;
@ -2221,10 +2162,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1 instead, they will give it to Yahweh's people, for they will live in his presence,
\q2 in order that they can buy food and nice clothes.
\s5
\c 24
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh is going to destroy the earth.
\q2 He will devastate it and cause it to become a desert,
@ -2341,10 +2280,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1 because he, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, will rule gloriously on Mount Zion,
\q2 in the presence of all the leaders of his people.
\s5
\c 25
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, you are my God;
\q2 I will honor you and praise you.
@ -2411,7 +2348,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\v 12 He will cause armies to tear down the high walls around the cities of Moab;
\q2 they will fall into pieces and lie in the dust.
\s5
\c 26
\p
@ -2505,7 +2441,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q2 and those in the world who were our enemies did not fall in battle.
\s5
\q1
\v 19 But Yahweh's people who have died will become alive again,
\q2 their corpses will become alive!
@ -2526,10 +2461,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1 People will be able to see the blood of those who have been murdered;
\q2 everyone will at last know all the crimes of murder that have been committed."
\s5
\c 27
\q1
\v 1 At that time, Yahweh will punish Leviathan,
\q2 the swift-moving monster,
@ -2599,10 +2532,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\v 12 However, there will be a time when Yahweh will gather them together again; he will separate them from the people who have conquered them, like people separate wheat from chaff. He will bring them back to Israel, one by one, from the land between the Euphrates River in the northeast and the brook at the border of Egypt in the southwest.
\v 13 At that time, a trumpet will be blown very loudly. And those who were exiled to Assyria and Egypt and who almost died there will return to Jerusalem, to worship Yahweh on Zion, his holy hill.
\s5
\c 28
\q1
\v 1 Terrible things will happen to the city of Samaria, the capital of Israel!
\q2 It is on a hill above a fertile valley;
@ -2678,7 +2609,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1 But because of their ignoring what God said, they will be attacked and defeated;
\q2 they will be wounded and snared and captured.
\s5
\q1
\v 14 Listen to the word that Yahweh says,
@ -2711,7 +2641,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q2 and I will bring to an end the covenant you made with the place where the dead dwell.
\q1 But when the vast flood comes, it will pour over you;
\q2 and day after day it will pass over you.
\q1
\v 19 When the flood comes, it will pass through and over you like the river when it overflows its banks and causes flooding everywhere.
\q1 When you finally understand the message of Yahweh, it will cause you to be terrified, not comforted.
@ -2719,7 +2648,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\s5
\q1
For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in.
\v 20 You have heard people say, "Your bed is very short; you will not be able to sleep in it;
\q2 your blankets are very narrow; they will not cover you!"
\q1
@ -2769,10 +2697,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 gives us wonderful advice about how to do things; he gives us great wisdom.
\q1 So what the farmers do is very smart, but what your leaders are doing is very stupid.
\s5
\c 29
\p
\v 1 This is a message from Yahweh:
\q1 Terrible things will happen to Jerusalem, the city where King David lived.
@ -2900,10 +2826,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\v 24 When that happens, those who are not able to think well will think clearly,
\q2 and those who complain about what I am doing will accept what I am teaching them."
\s5
\c 30
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh says, "Terrible things will happen to you, my people who rebel against me.
\q2 You make plans, but what you plan is not what I want.
@ -2943,7 +2867,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\v 7 The promises made by the king of Egypt are worthless;
\q1 therefore I call Egypt 'Useless Rahab, the sea monster that does nothing.'
\s5
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh told me to write on a scroll a message,
@ -3007,7 +2930,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 he is great because he desires to act mercifully.
\q1 Do not forget he is a God who acts justly;
\q2 Yahweh is pleased with those who patiently trust in him.
\p
\v 19 You people who live in Jerusalem, none of you will not cry anymore. Yahweh will be kind to you when you call out to him for help. He will answer you as soon as he hears you call.
@ -3073,10 +2995,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 and it will be as though Yahweh will light the fire with his breath,
\q2 which will come out like a stream of burning sulfur.
\s5
\c 31
\q1
\v 1 Terrible things will happen to those who rely on Egypt to help them,
\q2 trusting in their soldiers' horses and their many chariots and their many chariot drivers,
@ -3134,7 +3054,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 like a furnace that blazes in Jerusalem.
\q2 This is what Yahweh says about the Assyrian army!
\s5
\c 32
\q1
@ -3174,7 +3093,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\v 8 But honorable people plan to do honorable things,
\q2 and they do those honorable things, so they succeed.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 You women of Jerusalem who think that you are very secure
@ -3227,7 +3145,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 and there will be abundant crops.
\q2 Your donkeys and cattle will easily find grass to eat when you send them out into pasture.
\s5
\c 33
\q1
@ -3361,10 +3278,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\v 24 And the people in Jerusalem will no longer say, "We are sick,"
\q2 because Yahweh will forgive the sins that have been committed by the people who live there.
\s5
\c 34
\q1
\v 1 You people of all nations, come near and listen;
\q2 pay careful attention.
@ -3454,10 +3369,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 Their descendants will possess those areas forever,
\q2 throughout all generations.
\s5
\c 35
\q1
\v 1 A time will come when it will be as though the desert and other very dry areas will be glad;
\q2 the desert will rejoice and flowers will blossom.
@ -3514,10 +3427,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 No longer will they be sad or mourn;
\q2 they will be completely joyful and glad.
\s5
\c 36
\p
\v 1 When King Hezekiah had been ruling Judah for almost fourteen years, King Sennacherib of Assyria came with his army to attack the cities in Judah that had walls around them. They did not conquer Jerusalem, but they conquered all the other cities.
\v 2 Then the king of Assyria sent a large army with some of his important officials from the city of Lachish to persuade King Hezekiah to surrender. When they arrived at Jerusalem, they stood alongside the aqueduct in which water flows into the upper pool into Jerusalem, near the road to the field where the women wash clothes.
@ -3570,10 +3481,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\p
\v 22 Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah returned to Hezekiah with their clothes torn because they were extremely distressed. They told him what the official from Assyria had said.
\s5
\c 37
\p
\v 1 When King Hezekiah heard what they reported, he tore his clothes and put on clothes made of rough sackcloth because he was very distressed. Then he went into the temple of Yahweh and prayed.
\v 2 Then he sent Eliakim, Shebna, and the older priests, who were also wearing clothes made of rough sackcloth, to talk to Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz.
@ -3601,7 +3510,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\v 12 Did the gods of those nations rescue them? Did they rescue the region of Gozan, or the cities of Haran and Rezeph in northern Aram, or the people of the region of Eden in the city of Tel Assar?
\v 13 What happened to the king of Hamath and the king of Arpad? What happened to the kings of the cities of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Did their gods rescue them?"
\s5
\p
\v 14 Hezekiah received the letter that the messengers gave him, and he read it. Then he went up to the temple and spread out the letter in front of Yahweh.
@ -3617,7 +3525,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\v 19 And they have thrown all the idols of those nations into fires and burned them. But they were not really gods. They were only idols made of wood and stone, and that is why they were able to be destroyed.
\v 20 So now, Yahweh our God, please rescue us from the power of the king of Assyria, in order that the people in all the kingdoms of the world may know that you, Yahweh, are the only one who is truly God."
\s5
\p
\v 21 Then Isaiah sent a message to tell Hezekiah that Yahweh, whom the Israelites worshiped, said this to him: "Because you prayed about what King Sennacherib of Assyria said,
@ -3716,10 +3623,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\p
\v 38 One day, when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his two sons, Adrammelek and Sharezer, killed him with their swords. Then they escaped and went to the region of Ararat northwest of Nineveh. And another of Sennacherib's sons, Esarhaddon, became the king of Assyria.
\s5
\c 38
\p
\v 1 About that time, Hezekiah became very ill and was close to dying. So Isaiah went to see him and gave him this message: "This is what Yahweh says: 'You should tell the people in your palace what you want them to do after you die because you will not recover from this illness. You are going to die'"
\p
@ -3808,13 +3713,12 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\p
\v 22 And Hezekiah had previously asked, "What will Yahweh do to prove that I will recover and be able to go to his temple?"
\s5
\c 39
\p
\v 1 Soon after that, Baladan's son Marduk-Baladan, the king of Babylon, heard a report that Hezekiah had been very sick but that he had recovered. So he wrote some letters and gave them to some messengers to take to Hezekiah, along with a gift.
\v 2 When the messengers arrived, Hezekiah welcomed them gladly. Then he showed them everything that was in his treasure houses—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the nice-smelling olive oil. He also took them to see the place where they kept their soldiers' weapons, and he showed them the other valuable things that were in the storehouses. Hezekiah showed them everything that was in the palace or in other places.
\s5
\p
\v 3 Then Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked him, "Where did those men come from, and what did they want?"
@ -3833,10 +3737,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\p
\v 8 Then Hezekiah replied to Isaiah, "The message from Yahweh that you have given to me is good." He said that because he was thinking, "Even if that happens, there will be peace and safety here during the time that I am alive."
\s5
\c 40
\q1
\v 1 Our God says, "Encourage my people!
\q2 Encourage them!
@ -4000,10 +3902,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 They will run for a long time and not become weary;
\q2 they will walk long distances and not faint.
\s5
\c 41
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh says, "You people who live on islands in the ocean,
\q2 be silent in front of me while I ask you some questions!
@ -4026,7 +3926,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 It is I, Yahweh!
\q2 I was the first one to do things like that, and I will be the last one to do them.
\s5
\q1
\v 5 People who live on islands in the ocean are afraid while they watch.
@ -4040,7 +3939,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 They all say, 'The idol has been well made!'
\q2 Then they carefully nail down the idol in order that it will not topple over!"
\s5
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh continues to say, "You people of Israel are my servants;
@ -4120,7 +4018,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 that it is I, Yahweh, who has done it;
\q1 it is what I, the Holy One of Israel, have done.
\s5
\q1
\v 21 I, Yahweh, the king of Israel am speaking to you nations:
@ -4144,7 +4041,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 they can do nothing,
\q2 and I detest those who decide to worship idols."
\s5
\q1
\v 25 "But I have incited a ruler who will come with his army from the north.
@ -4168,10 +4064,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\v 29 Think about it: Those idols are all useless, worthless things.
\q2 They are as meaningless as the wind."
\s5
\c 42
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh says, "I want you people to know about my servant, whom I encourage.
\q2 I have chosen him, and I am pleased with him.
@ -4204,6 +4098,7 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 and I will present you to my Israelite people
\q2 to be the one who will put into effect my covenant with them.
\q1 You will be like a light to the other nations.
\s5
\q1
\v 7 For you will enable blind people to see,
@ -4220,7 +4115,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 and now I will tell about other things that will happen.
\q1 I will tell you things that will happen before they happen."
\s5
\q1
\v 10 Sing a new song to Yahweh!
@ -4271,7 +4165,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 and say to images, 'You are our gods,'
\q2 will be completely humiliated."
\s5
\q1
\v 18 You Israelite people who have acted toward God like deaf people, listen to what Yahweh says!
@ -4317,10 +4210,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 His anger with us was like a fire that would burn us up,
\q2 but we did not pay attention.
\s5
\c 43
\q1
\v 1 But now, you people of Israel, listen to Yahweh, the one who established your nation.
\q2 The one who caused you to become a nation says this:
@ -4335,7 +4226,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 I will be with you.
\q1 When you have very painful troubles, as painful as fire,
\q2 you will be able to endure them, and they will not hurt you,
\q1
\v 3 because I am Yahweh, your God,
\q2 the Holy One of Israel, the one who rescues you.
@ -4400,7 +4290,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 no one can snatch people from my hand,
\q2 and no one can change what I have done."
\s5
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, is the one who rescues you, and this is what he says:
@ -4441,7 +4330,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\v 21 I will do that for the people whom I have created and chosen to belong to me,
\q2 so that they will tell others about the wonderful things I have done for them.
\s5
\q1
\v 22 But now, you descendants of Jacob, you refuse to request my help.
@ -4476,10 +4364,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 I will allow others to destroy you people of Israel
\q2 and caused you to be despised."
\s5
\c 44
\q1
\v 1 But now, you people of Israel whom Yahweh has chosen to serve him, listen to me.
\q1
@ -4505,7 +4391,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 and others will write on their hands, 'We belong to Yahweh,'
\q2 and others will say, 'We are Israelites, and we belong to Yahweh.'"
\s5
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh, the King of Israel, the one who saves us, commander of the angel armies, says this:
@ -4615,7 +4500,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 They trust in something that cannot save them;
\q2 they do not admit, "In my hand I hold something that is not really a god! "
\s5
\q1
\v 21 Yahweh says, "You descendants of Jacob,
@ -4639,7 +4523,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 because Yahweh has rescued the descendants of Jacob,
\q2 and the people of Israel will praise him.
\s5
\q1
\v 24 Yahweh, who saved you and created you, says this:
@ -4672,10 +4555,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 'We must rebuild it!'
\q1 and he will also say, 'We must rebuild the temple!'"
\s5
\c 45
\q1
\v 1 Cyrus is the one whom Yahweh has appointed to be the emperor of Persia
\q2 and to whom he will give great power;
@ -4730,7 +4611,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 'Why are you making me like this?'
\q1 The clay pot cannot say 'What do you think you are doing, making me this way?" or "You have no skill and your clay pots are not worth anything!"
\s5
\q1
\v 10 And it would be terrible if an unborn baby would say to its father,
@ -4844,10 +4724,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\v 25 Yahweh is the only one who will enable us Israelite people in all future times to defeat our enemies,
\q2 and then we will boast about what he has done for us.
\s5
\c 46
\q1
\v 1 It is as though Bel and Nebo, the statues of the gods of Babylonia,
\q2 were bowing down as they are put on animals and carried away!
@ -4921,10 +4799,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 I will rescue Jerusalem
\q2 and show to you Israelite people that I am glorious."
\s5
\c 47
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh also says, "You people of Babylon,
\q2 you should go and sit in the dust,
@ -5012,10 +4888,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 and yet all of them keep doing their own foolish things;
\q2 and when you cry out for help, there is no one who can help you."
\s5
\c 48
\q1
\v 1 Descendants of Jacob,
\q2 who are also descendants of Judah and are now called the people of Israel,
@ -5075,7 +4949,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 in order that my reputation will not be damaged.
\q1 I will not allow any person or any idol to be honored as I deserve to be honored."
\s5
\q1
\v 12 "You descendants of Jacob, you people of Israel whom I have chosen,
@ -5145,10 +5018,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1
\v 22 But things will not go well like that for wicked people," says Yahweh.
\s5
\c 49
\q1
\v 1 All you people who live on islands in the ocean and in other distant areas,
\q2 pay attention to what I will say!
@ -5194,7 +5065,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 because you serve me, Yahweh, the one who faithfully does what I promise.
\q2 I am the Holy God to whom you Israelites belong, the one who has chosen you."
\s5
\p
\v 8 This is also what Yahweh says:
@ -5317,10 +5187,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 the one who rescues you from your enemies;
\q2 everyone will know that I am the mighty God to whom you descendants of Jacob belong."
\s5
\c 50
\p
\v 1 This is also what Yahweh says:
\q1 "You Israelite people, do not think that I forced your parents to be exiled to Babylonia
@ -5397,10 +5265,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 Yahweh tells you what will happen to you:
\q2 he will make you die in great torment!
\s5
\c 51
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh says, "You people who desire to act righteously,
\q2 who want to do what I want you to do,
@ -5431,7 +5297,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\v 4 My people of Judah, listen carefully to me,
\q2 because I command you to proclaim my laws;
\q1 the right things that I will do will be like a light for the people of all the nations.
\v 5 I will soon rescue you and them;
\q2 by my power I will rule over the people of the earth and bless them.
\q1 The people who live in the most distant lands on earth will wait for me to help them.
@ -5461,7 +5326,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 Everyone will know what I do and I will always do what is right;
\q2 and I will save you, and you will be saved forever."
\s5
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh, wake up and do something for us!
@ -5517,7 +5381,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 And I have done this in order to say to you Israelites,
\q2 'You are my people!'"
\s5
\q1
\v 17 You people of Jerusalem, wake up!
@ -5564,10 +5427,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 lie down on your stomachs
\q2 in order that your backs will be like streets that we can walk on.'"
\s5
\c 52
\q1
\v 1 You people who live in the holy city of Jerusalem, wake up!
\q2 Be strong again!
@ -5610,7 +5471,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 bring good news,
\q1 the news about God giving us peace and saving us,
\q1 the news that the God to whom we Israelite people belong is now showing everyone his power as king!
\q1
\v 8 The watchmen who are guarding the city will shout and sing joyfully,
\q2 because while they are watching,
@ -5640,7 +5500,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 because Yahweh will go in front of you;
\q2 and he will also protect you from being attacked at the rear while you travel.
\s5
\q1
\v 13 Listen carefully!
@ -5658,7 +5517,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 because they will see someone that no one had told them about before,
\q2 and they will understand things that they had not heard about before.
\s5
\c 53
\q1
@ -5713,7 +5571,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 And no one at that time will think anything more about him.
\q2 For he will die;
\q2 he will receive all the penalties brought on by the curses against us for the wrong things we have done.
\q1
\v 9 Although he will never have done any wrong or deceived anyone,
\q2 people will place his corpse where wicked people are buried, and in a rich man's grave.
@ -5740,10 +5597,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 he removed the guilt of many people,
\q2 and he interceded for those who have done things that are wrong.
\s5
\c 54
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh says, "You people of Jerusalem, start to sing!
\q2 You who are like women who have never given birth to children, sing loudly and shout joyfully,
@ -5845,10 +5700,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 I will defend them and show everyone else that they are right to trust me;
\q2 that is what I, Yahweh, promise."
\s5
\c 55
\q1
\v 1 "Come here! All you people who are in exile,
\q2 and listen to me!
@ -5899,7 +5752,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 they should turn to Yahweh, their God,
\q2 because he will fully pardon them for all the wicked things that they have done.
\s5
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh declares that what he thinks is not the same as what you think,
@ -5933,10 +5785,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 As a result of that, people will honor Yahweh much more;
\q2 and what Yahweh does will cause everyone to remember what he has promised, and they will honor him."
\s5
\c 56
\p
\v 1 Yahweh says to all the people of Judah,
\q1 "Do the things that are fair and right,
@ -5984,7 +5834,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\v 8 I, Yahweh, the Lord, the one who will bring back the people of Israel who have been forced to go to other countries, say this:
\q I will bring from other countries many more people to join those Israelites whom I have brought back."
\s5
\q1
\v 9 "You surrounding nations have armies that are like animals in the forest;
@ -6010,10 +5859,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 and let us become drunk!
\q1 And tomorrow we will enjoy drinking even more!'"
\s5
\c 57
\q1
\v 1 Righteous people die,
\q2 and no one is concerned about it.
@ -6093,7 +5940,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 But those who trust in me will live in the land of Israel,
\q1 and they will worship me on Zion, my sacred hill."
\s5
\p
\v 14 Yahweh will say, "Prepare yourselves to receive me,
@ -6134,10 +5980,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1
\v 21 and I, Yahweh, say that things will never go well for those who are evil."
\s5
\c 58
\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to me,
\q1 "Shout loudly!
@ -6179,7 +6023,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 Instead you should seek to free those who have been unjustly put in prison,
\q2 and encourage those who are treated cruelly;
\q2 and free those who have been oppressed in any way.
\q1
\v 7 Share your food with those who are hungry
\q2 and to allow those who have no houses to stay in your houses.
@ -6241,10 +6084,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 I will give to you the blessings that I gave to your ancestor Jacob.
\q1 Those things will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\s5
\c 59
\q1
\v 1 Listen to this! Yahweh's power is not too little to rescue you.
\q2 He has not become deaf; he can still hear you when you call to him for help.
@ -6358,10 +6199,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\p
\v 21 This is what Yahweh says to his people: "This is the covenant that I will make with you: My Spirit will not leave you, and you will always have my message. You will be able to declare it, and your children and grandchildren will be able to declare it forever."
\s5
\c 60
\q1
\v 1 You people of Jerusalem, stand up!
\q2 Yahweh has done glorious things for you,
@ -6486,10 +6325,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 and small clans will become great nations.
\q1 All those things will happen because, I, Yahweh, will cause them to happen at the right time."
\s5
\c 61
\q1
\v 1 The Spirit of Yahweh our Lord is on me;
\q2 he has appointed me to bring good news to those who are oppressed,
@ -6560,10 +6397,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 Yahweh our God will cause people of all nations to act righteously,
\q1 with the result that they will praise him for doing that.
\s5
\c 62
\q1
\v 1 Because I am very concerned about the people of Jerusalem,
\q2 I will do something to help them.
@ -6636,10 +6471,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 And Jerusalem will be known as: "The city that Yahweh loves,"
\q2 and "The city that is no longer abandoned."
\s5
\c 63
\q1
\v 1 I ask, "Who is this who is coming from the city of Bozrah in Edom,
\q2 whose clothes are stained red from blood?
@ -6724,7 +6557,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 Yahweh, you led your people,
\q2 and you caused yourself to be praised."
\s5
\q1
\v 15 "Yahweh, look down from heaven;
@ -6754,7 +6586,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\v 19 Now it seems as though we never were ruled by you,
\q2 as though we never belonged to you."
\s5
\c 64
\q1
@ -6817,10 +6648,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\v 12 Yahweh, you see all those things, but it seems that you refuse to do anything to help us.
\q2 It seems that you will cause us to suffer much more."
\s5
\c 65
\p
\v 1 This is what Yahweh said:
\q1 "I was ready to reply to my people,
@ -6919,7 +6748,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q1 Therefore those who request me to bless them and those who solemnly promise to do something
\q2 should never forget that I am God, who faithfully do what I promise to do.
\s5
\q1
\v 17 Note this: On that day I will create a new heaven and a new earth.
@ -6966,10 +6794,8 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 Snakes will not hurt anyone; they will lie on the ground and eat only dirt.
\q1 That is surely what it will be like because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\s5
\c 66
\p
\v 1 Yahweh also said this:
\q1 "All of heaven is like my throne,
@ -7008,7 +6834,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 and you chose to do things that I did not like.
\q1 So now I will punish you by causing you to experience the things that you yourselves have done, that you yourselves are afraid of."
\s5
\q1
\v 5 But you people who tremble when you hear what Yahweh says,
@ -7106,4 +6931,3 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\s5
\v 24 Then they will go out of Jerusalem and look at the corpses of those who rebelled against me. The maggots in those corpses will never die, the fire will never stop burning them, and everyone who sees their corpses will detest them."

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\v 17 So, get up and put on your clothes to get ready for action! Then go to the people of Judah and tell them everything that I tell you to say. Do not be afraid of them, because if you are afraid of them, I will punish you as an example right in front of them!
\v 18 But listen! I will cause you to be strong, like a city that has strong walls around it. You will be as strong as an iron pillar or a bronze wall. Even the royal officials, the priests, and the general populace will not be able to defeat you.
\v 19 They will oppose you, but they will not be able to defeat you, because I will be with you and will protect you. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!"
\s5
\c 2
\p
@ -255,6 +257,7 @@
\q2 very ashamed with your hands on your heads.
\q1 That will happen because Yahweh has rejected those nations that you are relying on,
\q2 and they will not be able to help you at all."
\s5
\c 3
\q1
@ -274,6 +277,7 @@
\q2 and your prostitution is just like your idol worship.
\q1 The whole land is made unacceptable to Yahweh,
\q2 and your worship of idols is your prostitution and your wickedness is what made you unclean.
\s5
\q1
\v 3 That is why I have not sent you any rain at the times of the year when you needed it.
@ -374,6 +378,7 @@
\v 25 So, now we should lie down feeling very ashamed,
\q2 because we and our ancestors have sinned against Yahweh our God,
\q1 and we have never obeyed him."
\s5
\c 4
\q1
@ -544,6 +549,7 @@
\q2 as a woman cries when she is giving birth to her first child;
\q1 she gasps for breath and pleads for someone to help her,
\q2 and she shouts, 'Something terrible is happening to me; they are about to murder me!'"
\s5
\c 5
\q1
@ -703,6 +709,7 @@
\q1 and priests rule by their own authority,
\q2 yet you people like that!
\q1 But when you start to experience disasters, what will you do?
\s5
\c 6
\q1
@ -869,7 +876,6 @@
\v 30 I, Yahweh, have rejected them;
\q2 I say that they are like worthless silver."
\s5
\c 7
\p
@ -892,7 +898,6 @@
\v 10 Then you think you can come here and stand in front of this temple, which is my temple, and say 'Nothing bad will happen to us!', while you continue to do all those disgusting things.
\v 11 Perhaps you do not know that you have made this temple, which is my temple, to become like a cave where thieves hide. But I, Yahweh, am telling you that I have seen all these things!
\s5
\p
\v 12 Long ago I put my sacred tent in the district of Shiloh, to be a place where people would worship me. Think about how I destroyed it because my people, the Israelite people, did many wicked things there.
@ -942,7 +947,6 @@ do not give them to me; eat them yourselves!
\v 33 The corpses of my people that are not buried and are left on the ground will be eaten by vultures and wild animals, and there will be no one to shoo them away.
\v 34 There will be no one singing and laughing anymore in the streets of Jerusalem; there will be no more joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides in Judah, because the land will be completely destroyed."
\s5
\c 8
\p
@ -968,7 +972,6 @@ do not give them to me; eat them yourselves!
\q and the dove, the swallow, and the crane understanding the time of their migration!
\q But my people do not know what I, Yahweh, require them to do.
\s5
\q
\v 8 Your men who teach you the laws that Moses wrote have been saying false things about those laws.
@ -980,6 +983,7 @@ do not give them to me; eat them yourselves!
\v 10 So, I will give their wives to other men; I will give their fields to the enemy soldiers who conquer them.
\q All the people, including those who are least important and those who are most important, they all are trying to get money by tricking others
\q Even my prophets and priests, they all lie to get what they want.
\s5
\q
\v 11 They act as though the sins of my people are like small wounds that they can easily treat.
@ -991,7 +995,6 @@ do not give them to me; eat them yourselves!
\v 13 I will allow their enemies to take away the figs and grapes that the people would have harvested from their fields. Their fruit trees will all wither.
\q They will not receive all the blessings that I prepared for them. This will certainly happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.'"
\s5
\q
\v 14 Then the people will say, "Why should we wait here in these small towns? We should go to the cities that have high walls around them, but even if we do that we will be killed there,
@ -1014,6 +1017,7 @@ do not give them to me; eat them yourselves!
\q
\v 19 Throughout our land, the people ask, "Has Yahweh abandoned Jerusalem?
\q Is he, our city's king, no longer there?" Yahweh replies, "If they want me to be in Jerusalem, why do the people worship idols and foreign gods?"
\s5
\q
\v 20 The people say, "The harvest season is finished, the summer has ended, but Yahweh still has not rescued us from our enemies."
@ -1023,7 +1027,6 @@ do not give them to me; eat them yourselves!
\v 22 I ask, "Surely there is medicinal balm in the region of Gilead! Surely there are doctors there!"
\q But my people have been badly wounded in their spirits, and nothing can heal them.
\s5
\c 9
\q
@ -1046,7 +1049,6 @@ do not give them to me; eat them yourselves!
\q
\v 6 Jeremiah, everyone living around you is a deceiver. Not one of them will admit that I am God.
\s5
\q
\v 7 Therefore I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, say this:
@ -1090,7 +1092,6 @@ What I will do will be like giving these people bitter things to eat and poison
\v 16 I will scatter them to many nations which neither they nor their ancestors have known anything about;
I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed them."
\s5
\q
\v 17 This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says:
@ -1136,12 +1137,10 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q that I faithfully love people,
\q and that I am delighted with people who act that way.
\s5
\p
\v 25-26 There will be a time when I will punish all those people who have changed their bodies by circumcising them but who have not changed their inner beings: The Egyptian, the Moab, of Edom, and of the Ammon peoples, all those who live close to desert areas far from Judah. I will even punish the people of Israel because they are only circumcised on the outside, and physically, and not on the inside, in their inner self."
\s5
\c 10
\p
@ -1272,7 +1271,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q1 because they are completely destroying us people of Israel
\q2 and they are causing our land to soon be only a desert.
\s5
\c 11
\p
@ -1316,7 +1314,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q1 but now I will send their enemies to attack them furiously;
\q2 it is as though I will break off their branches, and their city will be destroyed by fire.
\s5
\v 17 It is as though the people of Judah and Israel were a beautiful olive tree that I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, planted,
\q2 but now, by burning incense to their god Baal, they have caused me to become very angry.
@ -1338,7 +1335,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 22 So Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, said about them, "I will punish them. Their young men will be killed in wars, and their children will die because they have no food.
\v 23 I have set a time when I will bring disasters to the people of Anathoth, and when that happens, none of them will remain alive."
\s5
\c 12
\q1
@ -1427,7 +1423,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 16 And if the people of the other nations whose armies have invaded Israel learn the religious customs of my people, and if they learn that I am listening when they solemnly promise that they will do something, like they taught my people to believe that their god Baal was listening when they made solemn promises, I will cause them to become prosperous, and they also will be my people.
\v 17 But I will expel any nation whose people refuse to obey me, and I will destroy that nation and its people. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\s5
\c 13
\p
@ -1528,7 +1523,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q1 You people of Jerusalem, terrible things will happen to you because you will not be obedient and live a good life!
\q2 How long will it be until you are acceptable to me again?"
\s5
\c 14
\p
@ -1645,7 +1639,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q1 Yahweh our God, you are the only one who can do things like that.
\q2 So we will confidently expect you to help us."
\s5
\c 15
\p
@ -1772,7 +1765,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q2 I will rescue you when you are seized by cruel people.
\q1 That will happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\s5
\c 16
\p
@ -1828,7 +1820,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q2 I will show them that I am truly very powerful.
\q2 Then, finally, they will know that I, Yahweh, am the true God."
\s5
\c 17
\q1
@ -1941,7 +1932,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 26 And people will come to Jerusalem bringing offerings to be completely burned on the altar and other offerings. They will bring to the temple grain offerings and incense and offerings to thank me. People will bring these offerings from the towns in Judah and the villages near Jerusalem and from the land where the tribe of Benjamin lives and from the western foothills and from the southern Judean wilderness.
\v 27 But if you do not pay attention to what I say, and if you refuse to dedicate the Sabbath days to me, and if you continue to carry loads through these gates into the city on Sabbath days, I will burn these gates completely. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out that fire."'"
\s5
\c 18
\p
@ -2026,7 +2016,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q1 Cause them to be destroyed;
\q2 punish them because of your being angry with them!"
\s5
\c 19
\p
@ -2058,7 +2047,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 14 Then I returned from the garbage dump where Yahweh had sent me to tell them that message, and I stood in the courtyard of Yahweh's temple and said this to all the people who were there:
\v 15 "This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says: 'I will bring a disaster to this city and to the villages around it like I promised, because you people have stubbornly refused to pay attention to what I said to you.'"
\s5
\c 20
\p
@ -2144,7 +2132,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q2 and I am disgraced now when I am about to die;
\q1 why was it necessary for me to me born?
\s5
\c 21
\p
@ -2189,7 +2176,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q1 It will be as though I will light a fire in your forests
\q2 that will burn up everything around you.'"
\s5
\c 22
\p
@ -2320,7 +2306,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q1 because none of his children will ever become king
\q2 to rule over the people of Judah."
\s5
\c 23
\p
@ -2471,7 +2456,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q
\v 40 I will cause people to make fun of you forever. People will never forget that you were disgraced."
\s5
\c 24
\p
@ -2494,7 +2478,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 9 I will cause them to experience calamities, with the result that people in every nation on the earth will be horrified, and will hate them because they are evil people. Wherever I scatter them, people will make fun of them, and say that they are disgraced, and ridicule them, and curse them.
\v 10 And I will cause them to experience wars and famines and diseases, until they have disappeared from Israel, this land which I gave to them and to their ancestors."
\s5
\c 25
\p
@ -2604,7 +2587,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q2 and he will cause your land to become desolate.
\q1 He is very angry with you and will make your enemies angry at you.'"
\s5
\c 26
\p
@ -2658,7 +2640,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 23 They captured Uriah and took him back to Jerusalem to King Jehoiakim. The king then commanded a soldier to kill Uriah with a sword. Then they buried his corpse in a place where poor people are buried.
\v 24 However, Ahikam son of Shaphan defended me, and persuaded the officials not to allow the mob to murder Jeremiah.
\s5
\c 27
\p
@ -2704,7 +2685,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 21 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says this about all those valuable things that are still outside the temple and in the palace of the king of Judah:
\v 22 They will all be carried away to Babylon. And they will stay there until I say that they should be brought back to Jerusalem. Then they will be bought back here. That is what I, Yahweh, say.'"
\s5
\c 28
\p
@ -2743,7 +2723,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\p
\v 17 Hananiah died two months later.
\s5
\c 29
\p
@ -2811,7 +2790,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 31 "Send this message to all the people from Judah who are there in Babylon: Say that this is what Yahweh says about Shemaiah, the man from Nehelam: 'I did not appoint him, but he has deceived you and caused you to believe the lies that he prophesied.
\v 32 So, I will punish him and his family. He has incited you to rebel against me. Because of that, all of his descendants will soon die. I will do many good things for you, my people, but he and his descendants will not see those things, because they will be dead. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!'"
\s5
\c 30
\p
@ -2942,7 +2920,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q2 until he completely accomplishes all that he has planned.
\q2 In the future, you will understand all of this clearly.
\s5
\c 31
\p
@ -3129,7 +3106,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 39 Workers will stretch a measuring line over Gareb Hill all the way southwest to Goah.
\v 40 And the whole area, including the place where corpses and ashes are thrown in the Kidron Valley, and all the fields to the east as far as the Horse Gate, will become set apart for me. And the city of Jerusalem will never again be captured or destroyed."
\s5
\c 32
\p
@ -3285,7 +3261,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 25 But this is what I say: 'I will not reject my people any quicker than I will change my laws that control the day and the night, the sky and the earth.
\v 26 Similarly, I will never abandon the descendants of David or the other descendants of Jacob, and I will always allow descendants of David to rule the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will bring them back to their land, and I will act mercifully toward them.'"
\s5
\c 34
\p
@ -3333,7 +3308,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 21 I will enable the army of the king of Babylon to capture King Zedekiah and his officials. Although the king of Babylon and his army have left Jerusalem for a short time,
\v 22 I will summon them back again. This time, they will fight against this city and capture it and burn it down. I will make sure that all the towns in Judah are destroyed, with the result that no one will live there anymore.'"
\s5
\c 35
\p
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\v 18 Then Jeremiah turned to the Rekab clan and said, "This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, the God whom Israel worships, says: 'You have obeyed what your ancestor Jonadab told you. You have obeyed all his instructions.
\v 19 Therefore, this is what Yahweh says: "There will always be descendants of Jonadab who will do work for me."'"
\s5
\c 36
\p
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\p
\v 32 So Jeremiah took another scroll, and again he dictated the messages to Baruch. He wrote everything that had been written on the other scroll, the one that King Jehoiakim had burned in the fire. But this time, Jeremiah added more messages.
\s5
\c 37
\p
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\p
\v 21 So King Zedekiah commanded that Jeremiah not be sent back to the prison cell. Instead, he was allowed to be watched by the guards in the courtyard of the palace. The king also commanded that they should bring him a loaf of fresh bread every day, until there was no bread left in the city. So they put Jeremiah in that courtyard and he remained there.
\s5
\c 38
\p
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\p
\v 28 So Jeremiah remained being guarded in the courtyard of the palace, until the day that the army of Babylonia captured Jerusalem.
\s5
\c 39
\p
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\p
\v 15 But while Jeremiah was still being guarded in the palace courtyard, Yahweh gave him this message:
\v 16 "Say this to Ebed-Melek, the official from Ethiopia: 'This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, the God whom Israel worships, says: I will do to this city everything that I said that I would do. Everthing I told you would be done, and you will see it with your own eyes.
\s5
\v 17 But I promise to rescue you from the people you are afraid of. This is what I, Yahweh, have promised to you!
\v 18 You trusted me, so I will save you. You will not be killed by our enemies' swords. You will live. That will surely happen, because I, Yahweh, have said it.'"
\s5
\c 40
\p
@ -3657,7 +3627,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\p
\v 16 But Gedaliah said to Johanan, "No, I will not allow you to do that. I think that you are lying about Ishmael."
\s5
\c 41
\p
@ -3700,7 +3669,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 17 They took them all to Geruth Kimham village near Bethlehem. And they all prepared to go to Egypt.
\v 18 They were worried about what the soldiers of Babylonia would do to them when they found out that Ishmael had killed Gedaliah, who had been appointed by the king of Babylonia to be their governor.
\s5
\c 42
\p
@ -3747,7 +3715,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 21 So today I have told you exactly what he said, but I know that you will not obey Yahweh our God now, just as you have not obeyed him previously.
\v 22 You want to go to Egypt and live there. So now, you can be sure of this: All of you will die there. Some of you will be killed by the swords of your enemies and others will die from famines or from diseases."
\s5
\c 43
\p
@ -3773,7 +3740,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 12 Nebuchadnezzar's soldiers will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt and take away their idols as souvenirs. His troops will clean Egypt like a shepherd cleans lice from his cloak and leave without having been harmed.
\v 13 But before they leave, they will have torn down the pillars that are in the temple of their sun god and burned all of the temple of the false Egyptian gods."'"
\s5
\c 44
\p
@ -3840,7 +3806,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 29 And Yahweh also says, 'I will do something that will prove to you that everything that I have said will happen, and that I will punish you here in this place.
\v 30 I will cause Hophra, the king of Egypt, to be captured by his enemies who want to kill him, just like I caused King Zedekiah of Judah to be captured by the soldiers of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.'"
\s5
\c 45
\p
@ -3853,7 +3818,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 4 But Baruch, this is what Yahweh says: 'I will destroy this nation that I established. This nation is like a tree that I planted and that I will now pull up with its roots. I will do this everywhere in the world.
\v 5 So, should you desire that people do things to honor you in a special way? Do not desire that. It is true that I will cause all these people to experience a great disaster, but wherever you go, I will protect you, and you will not be killed.'"
\s5
\c 46
\p
@ -3932,6 +3896,7 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q1 'Get into your positions for the battle;
\q2 Prepare to defend yourselves,
\q2 because everyone around you will be killed.'
\s5
\q1
\v 15 Why do those whose strength you trust fall down?
@ -4010,7 +3975,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q1 I will punish you, but I will punish you only as severely as you deserve:
\q2 it would be wrong if I did not punish you at all.'"
\s5
\c 47
\p
@ -4052,7 +4016,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q2 because Yahweh has commanded their enemies to do something more;
\q1 Yahweh intends to tell them to attack all the people living in Ashkelon and in other cities along the coast.
\s5
\c 48
\p
@ -4190,6 +4153,7 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q1
\v 29 We have all heard that the people of Moab are very proud;
\q2 they are extremely proud and conceited.
\s5
\q1
\v 30 But Yahweh says, "I know about that,
@ -4285,7 +4249,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q2 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\p That is the end of what Jeremiah prophesied about Moab.
\s5
\c 49
\p
@ -4482,6 +4445,7 @@ That was the city that gave me joy.
\v 36 I will bring their enemies from every direction
\q2 and they will scatter the people of Elam in all of those directions.
\q1 The people of Elam will be exiled to every nation on the earth.
\s5
\q1
\v 37 Because I am very angry with the people of Elam,
@ -4496,7 +4460,6 @@ That was the city that gave me joy.
\v 39 But then I will enable the people of Elam to return to their land.
\q2 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\s5
\c 50
\p
@ -4769,7 +4732,6 @@ That was the city that gave me joy.
\q2 with the result that the earth will shake,
\q1 and the wailing of the people will be heard by the people of other nations.'"
\s5
\c 51
\p
@ -5111,7 +5073,6 @@ That was the city that gave me joy.
\v 64 Then say, 'In the same way, Babylon and its people will disappear and never exist again, because of the disasters that Yahweh will bring to it.'"
\p This is the end of Jeremiah's messages.
\s5
\c 52
\p
@ -5183,4 +5144,3 @@ That was the city that gave me joy.
\v 32 He always spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and gave him a position in which he was honored more than all the other kings who had been exiled to Babylon.
\v 33 He supplied new clothes for Jehoiachin, to replace the clothes that he had been wearing in prison. He also allowed Jehoiachin to eat with him every day, all during the rest of his life.
\v 34 Every day, the king of Babylon gave him some money to buy the things that he needed. That continued until the day that Jehoiachin died.

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\toc2 Lamentations
\toc3 Lam
\mt1 Lamentations
\s5
\c 1
\m
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\q1 I suffer and groan very much,
\q2 and I faint within my inner self.
\s5
\c 2
\q1
@ -206,7 +206,6 @@
\q1 He has made our kingdom to be completely helpless, and
\q2 he has caused our rulers to lose all honor.
\s5
\q1
\v 3 Because he was extremely angry,
@ -372,7 +371,6 @@
\q1 Our enemies murdered our little children,
\q2 the ones whom we took care of and reared up.
\s5
\c 3
\q1
@ -448,6 +446,7 @@
\q1
\v 21 However, I confidently expect Yahweh to do good things for me again,
\q2 and this I know is true.
\s5
\q1
\v 22 Yahweh never stops faithfully loving us, and he shows his compassion for us forever.
@ -609,7 +608,6 @@
\v 66 Because you are angry with them, pursue them and get rid of them,
\q2 until none of them remain on the earth."
\s5
\c 4
\q1
@ -744,7 +742,6 @@
\q2 But you people who are from Edom, Yahweh will punish you for your sins
\q2 and he will make known to everyone the wicked things you have done.
\s5
\c 5
\q1
@ -827,4 +824,3 @@
\q1
\v 22 Please do that, or is it really true that you have rejected us forever?
\q2 Is it really true that you will never stop being extremely angry with us?

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\toc2 Ezekiel
\toc3 Ezk
\mt1 Ezekiel
\s5
\c 1
\p
@ -66,7 +67,6 @@
\v 28 It shone like a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day.
\p That was the brilliant light that represented the presence of Yahweh. When I saw it, I threw myself flat onto the ground, and I heard him speak!
\s5
\c 2
\p
@ -91,7 +91,6 @@
\v 9 Then, as I watched, I saw his hand that was stretched toward me. In his hand was a scroll.
\v 10 He unrolled the scroll. On both sides of it were written words that expressed sorrow and mourning and words about trouble.
\s5
\c 3
\p
@ -151,7 +150,6 @@
\v 26 Even though they are very rebellious people, I will cause your tongue to stick to the roof of your mouth, with the result that you will be unable to talk and to rebuke them.
\v 27 But then when I speak to you again, I will enable you to talk and tell them 'This is what the Lord Yahweh is saying to you.' The one who wants to hear me will hear me, but the one who ignores the message will come to an end, since they are a rebellious people!"
\s5
\c 4
\p
@ -190,7 +188,6 @@
\v 16 Then he said to me, "Son of man, I will cause the supply of food to Jerusalem to be cut off. Then the people will eat the small amounts of food and drink the small amounts of water that their leaders permit them to have, and they will be very distressed and anxious as they do that,
\v 17 because water and food will be very scarce. They will see each other becoming extremely thin, and they will be appalled; but this will happen because they are being punished for the sins that they have committed."
\s5
\c 5
\p
@ -231,7 +228,6 @@
\v 16 And when I cut off your food supply and cause there to be more famine, it will be as though I am shooting at you with my arrows that will destroy you.
\v 17 So I will cause you to experience a famine, and I will send wild beasts to attack you and your children, and all your children will be killed. You will experience plagues and wars, and I will cause your enemies to attack you with their swords. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\s5
\c 6
\p
@ -246,6 +242,7 @@
\s5
\v 6 Wherever you live, your towns will be ruined and the places where idols were worshiped on the hilltops will be smashed. Your altars will be completely smashed, and everything that you own will become a pile of ruins.
\v 7 Many of your people will be killed right in front of you, and then you will know that I am Yahweh and I do what I say I will do.
\s5
\p
\v 8 But I will allow some of you to remain alive. They will escape death when your enemies scatter you among many other nations.
@ -261,7 +258,6 @@
\v 13 Some of your people's corpses will lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hilltop and on all the mountaintops, under every big tree—at all the places where they burned incense to honor their idols. When this happens you will realize that I, Yahweh, have done this.
\v 14 For I will display my power and cause every area in which they live in your country to become an empty wasteland, from the desert in the far south to the town of Diblah in the far north. Then they will realize that I, Yahweh, have done this.'"
\s5
\c 7
\p
@ -296,6 +292,7 @@
\p
\v 15 When those things happen, your enemies will be outside the city with their swords, and there will be plagues and famines inside the city. Those who are caught outside of the city in the fields will be killed by their enemies' swords, and those who are in the city will die from famines and plagues.
\v 16 Those who survive and escape will flee to the mountains, and they all will moan because of their sins, as pigeons moan.
\s5
\v 17 Because they will be very afraid, all the people's hands will become limp and weak, and their knees will become very weak and unable to hold them up.
\v 18 They will put on clothes made from rough cloth, and they will be terrified. Their faces will show that they are ashamed, and they will shave their heads to show that they are very sad.
@ -316,7 +313,6 @@
\v 26 You will experience many disasters, and you will continually hear rumors about disasters that are happening in other places. People will plead with prophets to tell them what visions they have received, but the prophets will not have received any visions. Priests will no longer teach people the laws that I gave to Moses. Even the wise older people will not have any answers.
\v 27 Your king will mourn, and his son will no longer expect that good things will happen. The hands of people throughout the country will tremble. And I will do to them what they deserve for their wicked behavior. I will judge and condemn them the same way they have judged and condemned others. Then they will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do."
\s5
\c 8
\p
@ -363,7 +359,6 @@
\v 17 He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they are doing? Do you think that it is not a serious thing that these men of Judah are doing, worshiping these detestable things here? But they are doing other terrible things. They are acting violently throughout their country, and continually provoking my anger. Look at them! They are insulting me by their actions of false worship!
\v 18 So I will show them that I am very angry. I will not pity them or act mercifully toward them. And even if they shout loudly to me to help them, I will not pay attention to them."
\s5
\c 9
\p
@ -392,7 +387,6 @@
\p
\v 11 Then the man wearing the linen robe returned, saying, "I have done what you commanded me to do."
\s5
\c 10
\p
@ -439,7 +433,6 @@
\v 21 Each of them had four faces and four wings, and under their wings was what resembled a human's hands.
\v 22 Their faces were the same as the faces that I had seen at the Kebar Canal. Each of them flew straight ahead.
\s5
\c 11
\p
@ -497,7 +490,6 @@
\v 24 In the vision that I had been seeing, God's Spirit lifted me up and brought me back to the exiles in Babylon. Then the vision ended,
\v 25 and I told the exiles everything that Yahweh had shown me in the vision.
\s5
\c 12
\p
@ -561,7 +553,6 @@
\p
\v 28 Therefore say to them, 'This is what Yahweh the Lord says: I will no longer delay causing to happen any of the things that I have prophesied. Whatever I have predicted will soon happen.'"
\s5
\c 13
\p
@ -612,7 +603,6 @@
\v 22 You have discouraged righteous people by telling them lies when I did not do things to cause them to be sad. And you have encouraged wicked people to keep on doing their wicked behavior; if they had turned away from it, they would have continued to live.
\v 23 Therefore, you will no longer falsely say that you have seen visions or tell people what will happen in the future in order to please them. I will rescue my people from being deceived by you. And then you will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.'"
\s5
\c 14
\p
@ -668,7 +658,6 @@
\v 22 But some of your people will remain alive, both adults and children. They will come to you, Ezekiel. And when you see their disgusting behavior and actions, you will realize that I had good reasons for causing the people of Jerusalem to experience those many great disasters that I have sent to them.
\v 23 When you see those things that they do, you will know that there were very good reasons for me to do everything that I caused to happen to them. That is what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare."
\s5
\c 15
\p
@ -686,7 +675,6 @@
\v 7 I will reject them. It will be as though they have escaped from a fire, but there will still be a fire that will burn them up. And when I punish them, you people who remain alive will know that I, Yahweh, have done it.
\v 8 I will cause your country to become a wasteland because your people have not been loyal to me. That is what I, Yahweh, the Lord, say."
\s5
\c 16
\p
@ -703,7 +691,6 @@
\v 6 Then it was as though I passed by and saw you lying in your own blood and kicking. And while you lay there kicking in your own blood, I said to you, "I want you to remain alive!"
\v 7 It was as though I caused you to grow up, like plants in the field grow; you grew up and became tall and became like the most precious jewel of all. You developed into a beautiful woman, but you were still completely naked.
\s5
\p
\v 8 When I saw you several years later, it was as though I spread the cloth of my robe over you to symbolize that I would marry you, with the result that you were no longer naked. I solemnly promised that I would marry you and made a marriage agreement with you, and you became my wife.' That is what Yahweh the Lord says.
@ -724,7 +711,6 @@
\v 15 But it was as though you forgot that I made you beautiful and started acting promiscuous with every man who came along, and they all enjoyed your beauty.
\v 16 It was as though you took some of your clothes to make beautifully decorated the high places, and that is where you slept with those men. Those things should certainly never occur!
\s5
\v 17 You took the fine gold and silver jewelry that I gave you, and you made male idols for yourself, in order to sleep with them.
\v 18 You took some of your embroidered clothes to put on those idols, and you burned oil and incense in front of them to honor them.
@ -824,7 +810,6 @@
\v 62 I will establish my agreement with you, and you will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.
\v 63 Then when I have forgiven you for all your sins, you will think about all the sins that you committed and you will be ashamed. You will never again boast about them, because you will be humiliated." I, the Lord Yahweh, have said so!' This is the Lord Yahweh's declaration."
\s5
\c 17
\p
@ -881,7 +866,6 @@
\v 24 And it will be as though all the trees in the field will know that I, Yahweh, get rid of tall trees and will make little ones grow. I cause big green trees to wither, and I cause dry trees to become green.
\p I, Yahweh have said this, and I will certainly do what I have said that I will do."
\s5
\c 18
\p
@ -1003,7 +987,6 @@
\v 31 Stop doing wicked things; start thinking in a new way. You Israelite people, do you really want me to kill you because you have sinned?
\v 32 I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that I am not pleased if you die. So turn away from your sins and stay alive!"
\s5
\c 19
\p
@ -1079,7 +1062,6 @@
\q1 they will never become scepters for a king.'
\m This funeral song must be sung very sadly."
\s5
\c 20
\p
@ -1184,7 +1166,6 @@
\p
\v 49 Then I said, "Yahweh, my Lord, when I tell things like this to people, they do not believe me. They say about me, 'He is only telling parables.'"
\s5
\c 21
\p
@ -1312,7 +1293,6 @@
\q1 No one will remember them anymore.
\q2 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\s5
\c 22
\p
@ -1359,6 +1339,7 @@
\v 23 Yahweh gave me another message. He said,
\v 24 "Son of man, say to the Israelite people, 'You are disgusting to Yahweh, completely unacceptable to him. So Yahweh is angry with you. There will be no rain in your country.'
\v 25 Their leaders are like lions that tear apart the animals that they have killed. The leaders destroy their people. They steal treasures and other valuable things from people, and they murder many men and make their wives into widows.
\s5
\v 26 Their priests disobey my laws and dishonor my sacred things by saying that there is no difference between things that are sacred and those that are not sacred, and by ignoring my laws about resting on the Sabbath days. As a result, they no longer honor me.
\v 27 Their officials are like wolves that tear apart the animals that they have killed. They murder people in order to get their money.
@ -1372,7 +1353,6 @@
\v 30 I looked among them to find a man who would pray for the people and cause them to repent so that I would not need to destroy them. But I did not find anyone.
\v 31 So because I am very angry with them, I will severely punish them for all the wicked things that they have done. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh the Lord, have said it."
\s5
\c 23
\p
@ -1493,7 +1473,6 @@
\v 48 In that way I will cause them to stop their immoral behavior. This will warn other women to not imitate what you people of Jerusalem are doing.
\v 49 I will punish you people of Jerusalem for your immoral behavior and for worshiping idols. Then you will know that I, Yahweh the Lord, have the power to do what I say that I will do."
\s5
\c 24
\p
@ -1589,7 +1568,6 @@
\v 26 On that day, someone will escape from Jerusalem and come and tell you what has happened there.
\v 27 When that happens, you will be able to speak again without constraint. You two will talk together. You will be a warning to the people; and they will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do."
\s5
\c 25
\p
@ -1626,7 +1604,6 @@
\v 16 Therefore this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: I am about to use my power against the Philistia people. I will get rid of the Kereth people and all those who live along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
\v 17 I will get great revenge on them and show that I am angry with them by the way I punish them. And when I get revenge on them, they will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do."
\s5
\c 26
\p
@ -1678,7 +1655,6 @@
\v 20 then I will bring the people of that city down to be with everyone else who is dead, those who died long ago. I will cause them to live in the place below the earth that is like old ruins, with those who have gone down to that pit previously, and they will never return to the earth, to where people are alive.
\v 21 I will cause them to die in a horrible way, and that will be the end of them. People will search for that city, but it will no longer exist." This is what the Lord Yahweh declares will happen.
\s5
\c 27
\p
@ -1824,7 +1800,6 @@
\q1 now your city has disappeared,
\q2 and it will not exist anymore."
\s5
\c 28
\p
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\v 25 And this is also what Yahweh the Lord says: "I will gather them from distant countries where I have scattered them. And the other peoples will see that I am set apart and honored, when the house of Israel makes their homes in the land I gave my servant Jacob!
\v 26 My people will live safely in Israel; they will build houses and plant vineyards. And when I punish the nearby peoples that despised them, my people will know that it is I, Yahweh their God, who has done this."
\s5
\c 29
\p
@ -2012,7 +1986,6 @@
\p
\v 21 Yahweh said to me, "Again I will make Israel become a mighty nation. When that happens, I will make them listen to what you tell them. Then they will know that all this has happened because I, Yahweh, will have done this."
\s5
\c 30
\p
@ -2079,7 +2052,6 @@
\q2 in the city of Memphis.
\q1 No longer will there be a king in Egypt,
\q2 and I will terrify everyone in the land of Egypt.
\q1
\v 14 I will cause all people to leave the region of Pathros in southern Egypt.
\q2 I will start fires in the city of Zoan in northeast Egypt
@ -2123,7 +2095,6 @@
\v 25 I will cause the king of Babylon to become stronger and stronger, and the king of Egypt to become completely weak. When that happens, when I make the Babylonian army strong, they will use that power to attack Egypt.
\v 26 I will scatter the people of Egypt among the nations. And when that happens, people will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.
\s5
\c 31
\p
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\p
\v 18 This parable is a warning to you people of Egypt. You think that there is no other nation that is as great and glorious as yours is. But your nation will also be destroyed, along with those other nations. Your people will be there among the other people who are not fit to worship me, people who have been killed by their enemies' swords. That is what will happen to the king of Egypt and all his many people." This is what the Lord Yahweh has declared will happen.
\s5
\c 32
\p
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\v 31 The king of Egypt and all his army will see them, and they will be comforted about the death of their many people, because they know that there were other huge groups of people whom their enemies killed.
\v 32 While that king was living, I allowed him to terrify others in many countries, but he and his huge army will be there among other godless people whom their enemies have killed." This will certainly surely happen because the Lord Yahweh has said that it would happen.
\s5
\c 33
\p
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\p
\v 33 The terrible things that I have said will happen to them will surely happen. And then they will know that a prophet has been among them, and that you are that prophet."
\s5
\c 34
\p
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\v 30 Then they will know that I, Yahweh their God, am helping them, and they will know that they, the Israelite people, are my people.
\v 31 It is as though you, my people, are my sheep whom I take care of, and I am your God. That is what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare.'"
\s5
\c 35
\p
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\v 14 So this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: You people who live on Mount Seir and in all the other places in Edom, when I make everyone leave your land, everyone else in the world will rejoice.
\v 15 You were happy when the land of the Israelite people was ruined, so I will do the same thing to your land. When that happens, people will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.'"
\s5
\c 36
\p
@ -2568,7 +2534,6 @@
\v 37 This is also what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: Again I will answer your pleas for me to make your people become as numerous as sheep.
\v 38 I will make them as numerous as the flocks of sheep that will be needed for offerings in Jerusalem during your regular festivals. The cities that are now ruined will be filled with people, and then you will know that I, Yahweh, have done this.'"
\s5
\c 37
\p
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\v 27 My home, where I will live, will be among them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.
\v 28 Then, when my temple is there again among them, the people of nations will know that I, Yahweh, set apart Israel for my honor."
\s5
\c 38
\p
@ -2677,7 +2641,6 @@
\v 22 I will punish you and your soldiers with plagues, and I will kill them. I will send down from the sky, on you and your troops who have come from many lands, huge amounts of rain, hail, and burning sulfur.
\v 23 In this way, I will cause the people of many nations to know that I am very great, and I will show them my holiness. And they will see who I am and they will know that I am Yahweh.'"
\s5
\c 39
\p
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\v 28 The Israelite people will know that I, Yahweh, have done this. They will know that because I forced them to go to other countries, and then I gathered them together in their own country. I will not leave any of them in those countries.
\v 29 I will no longer turn away from them; I will give my Spirit to the Israelite people. This will certainly happen because I, Yahweh the Lord, have said it."
\s5
\c 40
\p
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\v 3 When he took me there, I saw a man who looked as if he had been made of bronze. He was standing inside the city gate, and he was holding a linen cord and a measuring stick in his hand.
\v 4 He said to me, "Son of man, look carefully at everything that I am going to show you, and pay attention to everything that I say and everything that I wll show you, because that is why God brought you here. And then later you must tell the Israelite people everything that you have seen here."
\s5
\p
\v 5 In the vision I saw that there was a wall that completely surrounded the temple area. The measuring stick in the man's hand was three and one-tenth meters long. He measured the wall and it was three and one-tenth meters thick and three and one-tenth meters high.
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\v 15 The distance from the entrance of the gate to the far end of its portico was twenty-seven meters.
\v 16 There were narrow windows in the walls of all the alcoves, and also in the inner walls between the alcoves. The portico also had these same windows on its inner side. The wall that ran between the alcoves was decorated with carvings of palm trees.
\s5
\p
\v 17 Then the man brought me to the temple's outer courtyard. There I saw some rooms, and a stone pavement in the courtyard. There were thirty rooms facing the courtyard.
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\v 42 There were also four tables of cut stone for the preparation of the offerings that were to be completely burned, four-fifths of a meter long on each side and one-half meter high. The priests would put on those stone tables the tools for slaughtering all the animals.
\v 43 The meat for the offerings would be placed on those stone tables. There were hooks on which the meat was hung, each with two prongs, each eight centimeters long, fastened to the walls of the porticos.
\s5
\p
\v 44 Outside two of the inner gateways, on the inner courtyard side, there were rooms for those who led in singing during the worship, one on the north side and one on the south side.
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\v 48 Then he brought me to the portico of the sanctuary and measured the doorposts and their walls on each side of the entrance; they were about two and three-quarters meters thick. The doorway was seven meters wide, and the sides on each side of it were one and three-fifths meters wide.
\v 49 The portico was eleven meters wide, and its depth was six meters on each side. There were steps leading up to it, and there were columns on each side of the portico.
\s5
\c 41
\p
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\p The outer walls of the holy place, of the very holy place, and the portico,
\v 16 the inner walls above and below the narrow windows, and the galleries on all the storys—all these things were covered with thin panels of wood.
\v 17 All the walls inside the temple were decorated with carvings of winged creatures and palm trees; between each figure of a winged creature was a carving of a palm tree.
\s5
\v 18-19 Each winged creature had two faces. One face was the face of a human, and one was the face of a lion. Those figures were carved on the walls all around the inside of the temple, and each face looked at the carving of a palm tree.
\v 20 They covered all the walls, from the floor to the wall above the entryway.
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\v 25 On these doors there were carvings of winged creatures and palm trees. There was also a wooden roof over the front portico of the sanctuary.
\v 26 On the side walls of the portico were narrow windows with figures of palm trees carved on the sides of the windows. The side rooms around the temple also had projecting roofs.
\s5
\c 42
\p
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\s5
\v 20 He measured the wall that separated what was sacred from the areas that were not sacred on four sides. The wall was five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide.
\s5
\c 43
\p
@ -3005,7 +2964,6 @@
\v 26 For seven days the priests will consecrate the altar, so I will accept the altar. By doing that they will set it apart for my honor.
\v 27 At the end of those seven days, starting on the following day, the priests will continue to put on the altar offerings to be completely burned and offerings to promise friendship with me. Then I will accept you. That it what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare."
\s5
\c 44
\p
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\v 30 The best fruits of the first part of each harvest and all the other special gifts will belong to the priests. You must give them the first part of your ground flour, in order that I will bless the people who live in your house.
\v 31 Priests must not eat the flesh of any bird or animal that is found dead or that has been killed by wild animals.
\s5
\c 45
\p
@ -3133,7 +3090,6 @@
\p
\v 25 During the seven days of the festival celebrating when the Israelites lived in tents during the exodus from Egypt, which starts on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of each year, the ruler must provide the same things for offerings to make it possible for God to accept the people, for offerings to be completely burned, for offerings of things made from grain, and for offerings of olive oil.
\s5
\c 46
\p
@ -3184,7 +3140,6 @@
\v 23 Around the inside of each of these enclosed areas was a stone ledge, with places to make fires all around under the ledge.
\v 24 The man said to me, "These are the kitchens where the descendants of Levi who work in the temple will cook the sacrifices that the people bring."
\s5
\c 47
\p
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\p
\v 15 These will be the boundaries of the land:
\q On the north side, it will extend from the Mediterranean Sea east along the road to Hethlon, and then on to Zedad,
\q
\v 16 to Berothah, and then on to Sibraim, which is on the border between Damascus and Hamath. The boundary will run as far as Hazer Hattikon, which is on the border of the region of Hauran.
\v 17 So the boundary will extend from the Mediterranean Sea to Hazar Enan on the border between Hamath to the north and Damascus to the south. That will be the northern boundary.
@ -3239,7 +3193,6 @@
\v 22 You must assign the land as a permanent possession for yourselves and also for any foreigners who are living and raising their children among you. You must consider them to be like native born Israelites, and they must be assigned land among the tribes of Israel.
\v 23 Wherever foreigners are living, you must give them some land to belong to them permanently.' That is what the Lord Yahweh declares."
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\c 48
\p
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\p
\v 35 The distance around the city would be nine and three-quarters kilometers.
\p From that time on, the name of the city will be "Yahweh is there."

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\toc2 Daniel
\toc3 Dan
\mt1 DANIEL
\s5
\c 1
\p
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\p
\v 21 Daniel remained there serving the king more than sixty years until the first year that Cyrus became king.
\s5
\c 2
\p
@ -91,6 +91,7 @@
\v 14 Arioch, the commander of the king's guards, came with soldiers to kill everyone in Babylon who was considered to be wise. So Daniel spoke to him very wisely and tactfully.
\v 15 Daniel asked the captain Arioch, "Why has the king made a decree that must be carried out so quickly?" So Arioch told Daniel all that had happened.
\v 16 Daniel went to talk with the king and requested an appointment with the king so that he could tell the king what the dream was and what it meant.
\s5
\p
\v 17 Daniel went to his house and he told his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah what had happened.
@ -101,6 +102,7 @@
\v 20 saying,
\q1 "We praise the name of the true God forever
\q2 because he owns all wisdom and power.
\s5
\q1
\v 21 He makes the time move forward,
@ -143,6 +145,7 @@ to those who understand.
\p
\v 29 O king, while you were sleeping, you dreamed about events that will happen in the future. The one who reveals mysteries has shown you what is going to happen.
\v 30 It is not because I am wiser than anyone else on earth that I know the meaning of this mysterious dream. It is because God wanted you to understand your deep thoughts hidden in the vision he gave you.
\s5
\p
\v 31 O king, in your vision you saw in front of you a huge and terrifying statue of a man. It was shining very brightly, and it was frightening and awesome.
@ -170,6 +173,7 @@ to those who understand.
\v 41 The feet and toes of the statue that you saw were a mixture of iron and clay, showing that the kingdom they represent will later be divided.
\v 42 Some parts of that kingdom will be as strong as iron, but some parts will not remain together, just as iron and clay do not stay together when mixed.
\v 43 The mixture of iron and clay in the statue also means that this kingdom will come apart, because the different peoples will not work together, just as clay does not stick to iron.
\s5
\p
\v 44 But while those kings are ruling, God who rules in heaven will establish a kingdom that will never end. No one will ever defeat its king. He will completely destroy all those kingdoms, but his kingdom will remain forever.
@ -185,7 +189,6 @@ to those who understand.
\v 48 Then the king gave many gifts to Daniel, and he also appointed him to rule over the entire province of Babylon. He made him to be the chief governor over all the wisest men in Babylon.
\v 49 Daniel asked the king to appoint Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to serve in important positions as administrators in the province of Babylon. But Daniel remained in the king's palace and served the king there.
\s5
\c 3
\p
@ -253,12 +256,12 @@ to those who understand.
\s5
\p
\v 28 Then Nebuchadnezzar said, "We must all praise the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! He sent one of his messengers to rescue these three men who worship him and trust in him. They ignored the king's command and refused to worship any other god but their own God, even if it cost them their lives.
\s5
\v 29 Therefore I am now making this decree: 'If any people from any nation, or those who speak any language, say anything against the God who is worshiped by Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they will be torn to pieces and their houses will be torn down and made into piles of garbage. This decree is made because there is no other god who can rescue people like this!'"
\p
\v 30 Then the king gave Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego positions of greater importance within the province of Babylon.
\s5
\c 4
\p
@ -362,7 +365,6 @@ to those who understand.
\v 36 When I was able to think correctly again, I was honored again; and for the glory of my kingdom, my splendor and the shining brightness of my reign were brought back to my kingdom again. My advisors returned to me, and I became greater and more powerful than I was before.
\v 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and honor God, the king who rules in heaven. All of his actions are just and right. And he is able to make the proud humble.
\s5
\c 5
\p
@ -386,6 +388,7 @@ to those who understand.
\p
\v 8 But when all those wise men came in, none of them could read the writing or tell him what it meant.
\v 9 So King Belshazzar became more afraid. His face was changed and he looked different. None of his officials knew how they could help him.
\s5
\p
\v 10 The queen came to the place where they were eating. She heard what the king had said and that his nobles did not know how to help him. She said, "O king, may you live forever! Do not be upset about this or let this change the way you look.
@ -438,13 +441,13 @@ to those who understand.
\v 30 But that same night soldiers from Media entered the city and killed Belshazzar, king of Babylonia.
\v 31 Darius, king of Media, became the king of Babylonia when he was sixty-two years old.
\s5
\c 6
\p
\v 1 King Darius decided to divide his kingdom into 120 provinces. He appointed a governor to rule each province.
\v 2 The king also appointed three administrators, one of whom was Daniel. These chief administrators were to supervise the provincial governors, to give oversight so that the king's orders were followed, and to ensure that the king would not have anything stolen from his treasuries.
\v 3 Daniel was a very capable leader and an exceptional person, and he distinguished himself among the chief administrators. The king made plans to appoint Daniel over his entire kingdom.
\s5
\v 4 Then the other administrators and the governors became jealous. So they began to search to find some way that they could criticize the work Daniel did when he was working for the king. But he always did his work faithfully and honestly. They could not find anything to criticize. He was honest and worked hard.
\v 5 They began their plot against Daniel, "The only way we can find a reason to criticize Daniel would be to use his obedience to the law of his God against him."
@ -462,6 +465,7 @@ to those who understand.
\p
\v 10 When Daniel found out that the king had written and signed that law, he went home, knelt in his upstairs room, and prayed. The room had a window that looked toward Jerusalem and the windows were open. Anyone could see that he was praying. This is what he did every day, three times a day.
\v 11 The officials followed their plot against Daniel, and they found him praying and asking God for help.
\s5
\v 12 So they returned to the king and said to him, "Is it true that you wrote a law stating that for the next thirty days people may pray only to you, and that if anyone prays to anyone else, either to a human or to a god, he will be thrown into a pit of lions?"
\p The king replied, "Yes, that is the law that I wrote. It is a law in the lands of Media and Persia which cannot be changed."
@ -474,6 +478,7 @@ to those who understand.
\s5
\p
\v 15 In the evening, many of those who formed the plot against Daniel spoke to the king, "You know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is that no change can be made to the king's commands, and no one can change it."
\s5
\p
\v 16 Hearing this, the king gave the order and his servants brought Daniel and threw him into a pit where the lions were. Before they threw him in, the king said to Daniel, "I hope your God, whom you worship all the time, will rescue you!"
@ -521,7 +526,6 @@ to those who understand.
\p
\v 28 So Daniel was very successful all during the time that Darius ruled and during the time that Cyrus, the king of Persia, ruled.
\s5
\c 7
\p
@ -563,6 +567,7 @@ to those who understand.
\q2 and a hundred million other people were standing in front of him.
\q1 The court was called into session,
\q2 and they opened the books.
\s5
\p
\v 11 While I was watching, I could hear the little horn speaking very boastfully. As I continued to watch, the fourth animal was killed. Its corpse was thrown into a fire and completely burned.
@ -577,6 +582,7 @@ to those who understand.
\p
\v 15 As for me, Daniel, I was very sad by what I had seen in that vision; I was so troubled, I did not know what to think about it.
\v 16 I went to one of those who were standing in front of the throne of God, and I asked him to tell me what it meant.
\s5
\p
\v 17 He said, 'The four large animals represent four kings who will come to power on the earth.
@ -606,7 +612,6 @@ to those who understand.
\p
\v 28 That is what I saw in my vision. I, Daniel, was terrified, with the result that my face became pale. But I did not tell anyone about the vision that I had seen."
\s5
\c 8
\p
@ -625,6 +630,7 @@ to those who understand.
\s5
\v 7 The goat struck the ram furiously and broke off its two horns. The goat knocked the ram down to the ground and trampled on it. No one could rescue the ram from the goat's power.
\v 8 The goat became very powerful. But when its power was very great, its great horn was broken off. Four other distinctive horns grew up in its place. Each one pointed to one of the four winds in the sky: North, south, east, and west.
\s5
\p
\v 9 Then from one of those four horns appeared a little horn. It became very great and pointed toward the south and then toward the east and then toward the beautiful land of Israel.
@ -633,6 +639,7 @@ to those who understand.
\s5
\v 11 It set itself up to be as great as the commander of the army of heaven, and it took away the daily offerings of sacrifices from him, and it also defiled the place of his temple.
\v 12 Because of rebellion, the army of heaven will falter, and the constant burnt offerings will be taken away. It will throw truth to the ground. The bad things it does will succeed.
\s5
\p
\v 13 Then I heard two angels who were talking to each other. One of them asked, "How long will the things that were in this vision continue? How long will the man who rebels against God and causes the temple to be defiled be able to prevent priests from offering sacrifices? How long will he trample on the temple and on the armies of heaven?"
@ -660,6 +667,7 @@ to those who understand.
\v 22 As for the four horns that grew after the first horn was broken off, they represent four kingdoms into which that first kingdom will be divided. Those four kingdoms will not be as strong as the first kingdom.
\p
\v 23 But then the time will come for those kingdoms to end. This will be after those wicked leaders will have done all the evil that God will allow them to do. Then one of those kingdoms will have a king rise up who will be very proud and very intelligent in doing evil.
\s5
\v 24 He will become very powerful, but it will not be because of what he himself does. He will destroy things in many places, and he will succeed in everything he does. He will get rid of many brave soldiers and the people who are holy.
\v 25 Because he is very cunning, he will succeed by deceiving others. He will become very arrogant, and he will destroy many people without warning. He will even rebel against God, the greatest king, who will destroy him without any human power.
@ -672,7 +680,6 @@ to those who understand.
\p
\v 27 Then I, Daniel, was overcome and lay in bed weak for several days. Then I arose and returned to doing the work that the king had given to me, but I was perplexed about the vision. No one could understand it.
\s5
\c 9
\p
@ -688,6 +695,7 @@ to those who understand.
\s5
\v 5 But we have sinned and done things that are wrong. We have done wicked things, and we have rebelled against you. We have turned away and disobeyed your commands.
\v 6 Your prophets spoke for you, giving your messages to our kings, to our other rulers, to our other ancestors, and to all the Israelite people, but we did not listen to them.
\s5
\pi
\v 7 Lord, you act justly. However, we are covered in shame. This is true for the people of Judah who live in Jerusalem and who live in other places in Judea. It is also true about your people the Jews, that you scattered to other countries because we were very unfaithful to you.
@ -708,6 +716,7 @@ to those who understand.
\pi
\v 15 Lord our God, you brought your people out of Egypt by your great power, and by doing that you have caused people from that time until the present time to know that you are great even though we have sinned and done wicked things.
\v 16 But now, because everything you do is righteous, we request you not to be angry with Jerusalem any longer, O Lord. Jerusalem is your city, and your temple was built there on your sacred hill. Now all the people who live in nearby countries despise Jerusalem because of our sins and because of the evil things that our ancestors did.
\s5
\pi
\v 17 Our God, I, your servant, ask you to listen to my prayer and my requests. For your own sake, act kindly toward your sanctuary in Jerusalem, which has been destroyed by the armies of Babylonia.
@ -735,7 +744,6 @@ to those who understand.
\s5
\v 27 That ruler will make a covenant with many people. He will do what he promised for seven years. But when that time is half finished, he will prevent priests from giving any more offerings and sacrifices to God. After this ruler does these disgusting things, someone will pollute the temple by putting an idol in the very holy place. It will stay there until God completely destroys the one who put it there."
\s5
\c 10
\p
@ -767,6 +775,7 @@ to those who understand.
\p
\v 12 Then he said to me, "Daniel, do not be afraid. God has heard what you have prayed ever since the first day that you determined to humble yourself in order to understand the vision. I have come to you because of what you prayed.
\v 13 The evil spirit who rules the kingdom of Persia resisted me for twenty-one days, and I had to stay there for that time with the various kings over whom the Persian king was ruling. But Michael, who is one of God's chief angels, came to help me. I left him there in Persia to resist that evil spirit.
\s5
\v 14 I have come here to help you understand what will happen to the Israelite people in the future. Do not forget that the vision you saw is about things that will happen in the future, and not about things that will happen very soon."
\p
@ -785,7 +794,6 @@ to those who understand.
\p
\v 20-21 Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? It is to reveal to you what is written in the book which reveals God's truth. But now I must return to fight against the evil spirit who rules the kingdom of Persia. After I have defeated him, the evil angel who guards Greece will appear and I must defeat him. Michael, who guards you Israelite people, will certainly help me, but there is no one else to help me."
\s5
\c 11
\p
@ -801,6 +809,7 @@ to those who understand.
\s5
\v 5 Then the king of the South will become very powerful. But one of his army generals will become more powerful than he is and will also become a powerful ruler.
\v 6 At the right time, they will make an agreement. The daughter of the king of the South will come to the king of the North to make the agreement secure. But she will lose her power and will come to nothing—she and all who accompanied her, and her father, as well as the king of the North and his children.
\s5
\p
\v 7 Soon after that, one of her relatives will take power in her place, and his army will attack the army of the king of the North. They will enter the fortress of the soldiers and defeat them.
@ -814,6 +823,7 @@ to those who understand.
\p
\v 11 Then the king of the South, having become very angry, will march with his army north and fight against a great army. The king of the North will gather together a very large army, but the army of the king of the South will defeat them.
\v 12 The king of the South will become very proud because his army will defeat a very large number of soldiers and will kill many of his enemies. But he will not succeed.
\s5
\v 13 The king of the North will again gather together an army that will be bigger than the one that he had before. After a few years, the king of the North will come again with a large army and a lot of equipment for fighting battles.
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\s5
\v 42 He will invade other countries and conquer them. He will also defeat the people of Egypt.
\v 43 The army of the North will take away the treasuries of gold and silver, and the riches of Egypt. The Libyans and the Ethiopians will serve the king of the North.
\s5
\v 44 But he will become very frightened when he hears reports about what is happening in the east and in the north. So he will become very angry and will send his army to fight furiously and to kill many of their enemies.
\v 45 The king will set up his royal tents in the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the hill in Jerusalem, the location of the temple. But someone will kill him there, and there will be no one to help him."
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\p
\v 1 The angel also said to me, "After those things happen, the great angel Michael, who protects the Israelite people, will appear. Then there will be a time when there will be great troubles. The troubles will be greater than any troubles since any nation began. At that time, all of your people whose names have been written in the book will be saved.
\v 2 Many of those who have died will become alive again. Some of them will live in everlasting life, and some in shame and everlasting contempt.
\s5
\v 3 Those who were wise will shine as brightly as the sky. Those who have shown to others the way to live righteously will shine forever like the stars.
\v 4 But as for you, Daniel, close up the scroll in which you are writing and seal it until the time of the end. Before that happens, many people will travel here and there, learning more and more about many things."
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\v 12 God will be pleased with those who remain faithful until the end of 1,335 days.
\p
\v 13 So now I say to you, continue to faithfully trust God until your life on earth ends. You will die, but when everything ends, you will receive your reward from God."

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\toc2 Hosea
\toc3 Hos
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\c 1
\p
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\v 10 One day in the future, the people of Israel will be as numerous as the grains of sand by the sea. No one will be able to count them. I have said to Israel, 'You are not my people,'—but one day I will say to them, 'You are the people whom I will protect and love.'
\v 11 On that day I, Yahweh, will gather all the people of Judah and bring them together with all the people of Israel. They will choose from among themselves a single leader, and they will go out of that land in which they were held as exiles. On that day they will say, 'Great is the day of Jezreel!' (Jezreel means, 'God plants his people in his land.')
\s5
\c 2
\q1
@ -118,9 +118,9 @@ I will make her like a woman dying from thirst in the desert.
\q I will persuade her to love me again.
\v 15 I will give her vineyards back to her once more,
\q2 and in the Valley of Achor I will cause her to hope once more.
\q1 She will answer me with love and delight, as it was back in the first days when we first loved each other—
\q1 when I set her free, and she came up out of Egypt.
\s5
\q1
\v 16 At that time,
@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ I will make her like a woman dying from thirst in the desert.
\q1
\v 17 I will not allow Israel to speak the names of the images of Baal that she used to worship.
\q2 My people will forget the names of those Baals and their idols, and my people Israel will never worship them again.
\s5
\q1
\v 18 At that time I will make a covenant for them:
@ -167,7 +168,6 @@ I will make her like a woman dying from thirst in the desert.
\q1 I will now call by a new name: 'You are my People'.
\q2 They will say to me, 'You are our God.'"
\s5
\c 3
\p
@ -181,7 +181,6 @@ I will make her like a woman dying from thirst in the desert.
\v 4 When I do these things, this is to show that the people of Israel will live for a long time and not have any king ruling over them. They will have no prince, no sacrifices or pillars set up for worship, ephods or idols in their houses.
\v 5 After some time, the people of Israel will return to Yahweh; they will hope that he will receive them back. They will hope to have a descendant of David for their king again. In the later time, they will come to Yahweh to honor him and tremble before him because of his goodness to them.
\s5
\c 4
\q1
@ -267,12 +266,12 @@ I will make her like a woman dying from thirst in the desert.
\s5
\q1
\v 15 Israel, you have left me and gone to idols.
\q1 But I hope that Judah will not do the same thing.
\q2 You people of Judah, do not go to Gilgal. Do not go up to Beth Aven to worship idols there.
\q1 Do not make solemn oaths, calling on me to make good on your promises, adding to your vows the words, 'As Yahweh lives!"
\v 16 Israel is as stubborn as a young cow.
\q2 Can I now feed them as if they were little lambs in a meadow?
\s5
\q1
\v 17 Ephraim has gone to join idols.
@ -283,7 +282,6 @@ I will make her like a woman dying from thirst in the desert.
\v 19 Someone will attack them; he will be like a whirlwind that lifts them up and carries them away to another place.
\q2 Only then will they be ashamed because they gave offerings to the idols."
\s5
\c 5
\q1
@ -365,7 +363,6 @@ I will make her like a woman dying from thirst in the desert.
\q2 from there I will wait for them to admit that they have sinned;
\q1 I will wait for them to come and ask me to help them."
\s5
\c 6
\q1
@ -411,6 +408,7 @@ I will make her like a woman dying from thirst in the desert.
\v 7 But like Adam, the first man,
\q2 the covenant that they made with me and that I, Yahweh, made with them—they broke it.
\q2 When they did that, they were not faithful to me.
\s5
\q1
\v 8 Gilead is a city of people who do wicked things;
@ -434,7 +432,6 @@ I will make her like a woman dying from thirst in the desert.
\q1 that is what is coming for you, people of Judah.
\q1 That will be the day when I bring back the blessings and riches of my people once more."
\s5
\c 7
\q1
@ -471,6 +468,7 @@ I will make her like a woman dying from thirst in the desert.
\q2 that they kill all their rulers.
\q1 In the end, all their kings were killed;
\q2 not one of them called on me, Yahweh, to help."
\s5
\q1
\v 8 "Israel joins with other peoples,
@ -512,6 +510,7 @@ I will make her like a woman dying from thirst in the desert.
\q1
\v 15 Even though I trained them and helped them become strong,
\q2 even now they are planning to do evil against me.
\s5
\q1
\v 16 They go this way and that, but never to me, God Most High.
@ -520,7 +519,6 @@ I will make her like a woman dying from thirst in the desert.
they will die because they have insulted me.
\q1 This is why the people in Egypt will insult them."
\s5
\c 8
\q1
@ -586,7 +584,6 @@ they will die because they have insulted me.
\q1 but I, Yahweh, am not pleased with those sacrifices.
\q2 I will think about their sins and will punish the people for them.
\q1 I will make them go back to Egypt.
\q1
\v 14 And why has this happened?
\q2 The people of Israel have forgotten me, the God who made them a nation. Instead of honoring me, they have built huge homes to live in.
@ -594,7 +591,6 @@ they will die because they have insulted me.
\q2 So this is what I, Yahweh, will do:
\q1 I will send a fire that will destroy all their palaces and all their fortified cities."
\s5
\c 9
\q1
@ -674,7 +670,6 @@ they will die because they have insulted me.
\v 13 I have seen the people of Israel;
\q2 they were like Tyre; they were like a tree planted in a beautiful meadow.
\q1 But they will have to lead their own children out to their enemies, who will slaughter them."
\q1
\v 14 Hosea says, Yahweh, give them—
\q2 what should you give them?
@ -701,7 +696,6 @@ they will die because they have insulted me.
\q2 because they have not obeyed him,
\q1 and they will wander from one nation to another.
\s5
\c 10
\q1
@ -726,7 +720,6 @@ they will die because they have insulted me.
\q2 and because their promises are not kept,
\q1 their sort of justice kills people, as poisonous weeds in a field would do.
\s5
\q1
\v 5 Those people of Samaria tremble with fear because of what happened to the calf idols at Beth Aven.
@ -784,6 +777,7 @@ they will die because they have insulted me.
\q2 You told lies, and now you must suffer the results of the lies you told.
\q1 You have trusted in your own abilities and wisdom,
\q2 and you have relied on the soldiers in your armies.
\s5
\q1
\v 14 The sound of war will be among your people;
@ -796,7 +790,6 @@ they will die because they have insulted me.
\q1 When the battle begins at dawn,
\q2 the king of Israel will be destroyed; the enemy will kill him."
\s5
\c 11
\q1
@ -867,7 +860,6 @@ they will die because they have insulted me.
\v 12 "The people of Israel have continually lied to me.
\q2 But the people of Judah they still obey me and are faithful to me, the Holy One."
\s5
\c 12
\q1
@ -881,6 +873,7 @@ they will die because they have insulted me.
\v 2 Yahweh is also accusing the people of Judah of breaking his covenant.
\q2 He will punish those descendants of Jacob for what they have done.
\q1 He will pay them back; he will give them what they deserve.
\s5
\q1
\v 3 When Jacob was in his mother's womb, he grabbed his brother Esau's heel because he wanted to take his brother's place and be the firstborn.
@ -942,7 +935,6 @@ they will die because they have insulted me.
\q2 their Lord says that they are guilty of the death of many, and that their guilt remains on them.
\q2 He will pay them back because they have insulted him with their shameful deeds.
\s5
\c 13
\q1
@ -958,6 +950,7 @@ they will die because they have insulted me.
\q2 but those statues are made only by craftsmen.
\q1 But other people see
\q2 that the men of Israel sacrifice to these calf-idols and kiss them to worship them.
\s5
\q1
\v 3 So the people of Israel will disappear
@ -999,7 +992,6 @@ they will die because they have insulted me.
\v 10 You no longer have any king
\q2 who can save you in any of your cities.
\q1 You no longer have any of the rulers whom you asked me to give you.
\q1
\v 11 When I gave you a king, I gave him to you because I was angry with you.
\q1 And because I was angry with you, I took your kings away.
@ -1011,6 +1003,7 @@ they will die because they have insulted me.
\v 13 You are like a baby ready to be born,
\q2 but you are foolish,
\q1 because you are like a child who refuses to be born.
\s5
\q1
\v 14 Will I really keep you from dying?
@ -1033,7 +1026,6 @@ they will die because they have insulted me.
\q1 they will thrown their children far down to the ground and kill them;
\q2 they will rip open their pregnant women."
\s5
\c 14
\q1
@ -1087,4 +1079,3 @@ they will die because they have insulted me.
\q1 The way in which Yahweh wants us to live is right.
\q2 Those who do what is right live by them.
\q2 The rebellious people, however, sin, unable to obey him.

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\toc2 Joel
\toc3 Jol
\mt1 Joel
\s5
\c 1
\p
\v 1 I am Joel son of Pethuel. This is a message that Yahweh gave to me.
\q1
\v 2 You leaders of Israel, and everyone else who lives in this country, listen to this message!
\q2 Nothing like this has ever happened during the time that we have lived
@ -108,10 +108,8 @@
\q2 because all the streams have dried up.
\q2 The dryness is like a fire burning up the wilderness pastures.
\s5
\c 2
\q1
\v 1 Blow trumpets on Mount Zion,
\q2 God's sacred hill in Jerusalem!
@ -218,7 +216,6 @@
\q1 do not allow them to ridicule us and say,
\q2 'Why has their God abandoned them?'"
\s5
\q1
\v 18 But Yahweh showed that he was concerned about his people
@ -240,7 +237,6 @@
\q1 There they will all die, and their bodies will stink."
\q2 God will certainly do wonderful things.
\s5
\q2
\v 21 Yahweh will indeed do wonderful things!
@ -278,7 +274,6 @@
\q1 Never again will I let others shame you."
\s5
\q1
\v 28 "Some time later, I will give my Spirit to many people.
\q2 You sons and daughters will proclaim messages that come directly from me.
@ -302,10 +297,8 @@
\q2 I promise that some people in Jerusalem will escape those disasters;
\q2 those whom I have chosen will survive."
\s5
\c 3
\p
\v 1 Yahweh says this:
\q1 "At that time, I will bring back the people whom their enemies took away from Jerusalem and from other places in Judah.
@ -332,7 +325,6 @@
\v 8 Then I will cause some of your sons and your daughters to be sold to the people of Judah! And they will be sold to the Sabea people , who live far away. That will certainly happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\s5
\q1
\v 9 Proclaim to the people of all nations,
\q2 "Prepare for a war!
@ -376,7 +368,6 @@
\q2 and his voice will cause the sky and the earth to shake.
\q1 But Yahweh will protect his people;
\q2 he will be like a strong wall behind which the people of Israel will be protected.
\q1
\v 17 Yahweh says, "At that time, you Israelite people will know that I am Yahweh, your God.
\q2 I live on Zion, the hill I have set apart for myself.
@ -400,4 +391,3 @@
\q1
\v 21 I, Yahweh, live on Mount Zion in Jerusalem,
\q2 and I will get revenge on the people of Egypt and Edom who killed many of my people."

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\toc2 Amos
\toc3 Amo
\mt1 Amos
\s5
\c 1
\p
@ -18,7 +19,6 @@
\q2 because Yahweh will order the rain not to fall."
\s5
\p
\v 3 This is also what Yahweh said to me:
\q1 "I will punish the people of Damascus, the capital of Aram, because of the many sins that they have committed;
@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
\q2 The people of Aram will be captured and taken to the region of Kir."
\s5
\p
\v 6 Yahweh also said this to me:
\q1 "I will punish the people of the cities of Philistia;
@ -56,7 +55,6 @@
\q2 and all the people of Philistia who are still alive will be killed."
\s5
\p
\v 9 Yahweh also said this to me:
\q1 "I will punish the people of the city of Tyre because of the many sins that their people have committed;
@ -68,7 +66,6 @@
\q2 and also destroy its fortresses."
\s5
\p
\v 11 Yahweh also said this to me:
\q1 "I will punish the people of Edom because of the many sins that their people have committed;
@ -82,7 +79,6 @@
\q2 and completely burn the fortresses of Bozrah, the biggest city in Edom."
\s5
\p
\v 13 Yahweh also said this to me:
\q1 "I will punish the people of Ammon because of the many sins that they have committed;
@ -99,10 +95,8 @@
\q1
\v 15 After the battle, the king of Ammon and his officials will go into exile."
\s5
\c 2
\p
\v 1 Yahweh also said this:
\q1 "I will punish the people of Moab because of the many sins that they have committed;
@ -120,7 +114,6 @@
\q2 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!"
\s5
\p
\v 4 Yahweh also said this:
\q1 "I will punish the people of Judah because of the many sins that they have committed;
@ -133,7 +126,6 @@
\v 5 So I will cause a fire to completely burn everything in Judah, including the fortresses in Jerusalem."
\s5
\p
\v 6 Yahweh also said this:
\q1 "I will punish the people of Israel because of the many sins that they have committed;
@ -198,10 +190,8 @@
\q2 when they try to flee on the day that I get rid of them.
\q1 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\s5
\c 3
\p
\v 1 "You people of Israel, I brought all your ancestors out of Egypt;
\q2 so listen to what I am saying about you.
@ -212,7 +202,6 @@
\q2 for the sins that you have committed."
\s5
\q1
\v 3 Two people certainly cannot walk together
\q2 if they have not already agreed what place they will start walking from.
@ -246,7 +235,6 @@
\q2 even though they terrify people.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 Proclaim to the people who guard the strongholds in Ashdod,
\q2 and to those who protect the fortresses in the land of Egypt, and say this,
@ -287,10 +275,8 @@
\q2 Beautiful big houses and houses that are decorated with ivory will be destroyed.
\q1 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!"
\s5
\c 4
\q1
\v 1 You wealthy women of Samaria who have grown fat like the fat cows of the region of Bashan.
\q2 You oppress poor people,
@ -380,10 +366,8 @@
\q2 and even walk on the highest mountains on the earth!
\q2 I am Yahweh, commander of the angel armies!"
\s5
\c 5
\p
\v 1 You people of Israel, listen to this funeral song that I will sing about you:
\q1
@ -487,7 +471,6 @@
\q1 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!"
\s5
\q1
\v 18 Terrible things will happen to you who want Yahweh to punish his enemies,
\q2 because that will be a day of darkness, not of light.
@ -534,7 +517,6 @@
\v 27 For I will now force you to go to a country that is far beyond Damascus!
\q1 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, have said it!"
\s5
\c 6
\q1
@ -571,7 +553,6 @@
\q1
\v 7 Your feasting and lounging on soft couches will soon end,
\q2 and you will be among the first ones to be forced by your enemies to go into exile.
\p
\v 8 Yahweh the Lord has solemnly declared this:
\q1 "I hate the people of Israel because they are very proud;
@ -607,10 +588,8 @@
\q1 they will oppress you all the way from Hamath Pass in the northwest
\q2 to the brook of the Arabah.
\s5
\c 7
\p
\v 1 Yahweh our God showed me in a vision that he was going to send locusts to destroy our crops. It was going to happen right after the king's share of the hay had been harvested and before the rest of the hay was ready to be harvested.
\v 2 In the vision I saw those locusts come, and they ate everything that was green. Then I cried out, "Yahweh our Lord, please forgive us! We Israelite people are very helpless; how will we be able to survive ?"
@ -639,7 +618,6 @@
\q2 and they will get rid of King Jeroboam and all his descendants."
\s5
\p
\v 10 Then Amaziah the priest at Bethel, sent a message to Jeroboam, the king of Israel. In the message he said, "Amos is plotting against you among the Israelite people. I am worried that the people of this country will not know that he is wrong.
\v 11 This is what he is saying:
@ -669,10 +647,8 @@
\q1 and you yourself will die in a foreign country.
\q1 And the people of Israel will certainly have to leave their country and go into exile.'"
\s5
\c 8
\p
\v 1 Yahweh showed me in a vision a basket full of ripe fruit.
\v 2 He asked me, "Amos, what do you see?"
@ -682,7 +658,6 @@
\v 3 Soon the people will be wailing instead of singing in the temple. There will be corpses everywhere, and people will say nothing as they remove them. These things will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!"
\s5
\q1
\v 4 It is as though you people were trampling on the needy people,
\q2 and you destroy the poor people.
@ -748,10 +723,8 @@
\q1 they will all die;
\q2 they will never get up again."
\s5
\c 9
\p
\v 1 Yahweh showed me another vision. In the vision, I saw him standing next to the altar. He said,
\q1 "Strike the tops of the pillars of the temple,
@ -814,7 +787,6 @@
\q1 your enemies will kill you with their swords."
\s5
\q1
\v 11 "The kingdom over which King David ruled has been destroyed, like a house that collapsed and then became ruins.
\q2 But on that day I will cause it to become a kingdom again.
@ -846,4 +818,3 @@
\q2 the land that I gave to your ancestors;
\q1 never again will you be forced to leave it.
\q2 That is what will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."

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\toc2 Obadiah
\toc3 Oba
\mt1 Obadiah
\s5
\c 1
\p
\v 1 This is a message that Yahweh our God gave to me, Obadiah, about the Edom people .
\p Yahweh our God has told me this about the people of Edom:
@ -53,7 +53,6 @@
\q2 all you people who are descendants of Esau will be wiped out."
\s5
\q1
\v 10 "You acted cruelly to your relatives who are descendants of Jacob, the twin brother of your ancestor Esau.
\q2 So now you will be disgraced, and you will be destroyed forever.
@ -80,7 +79,6 @@
\q2 when they were experiencing those disasters."
\s5
\q1
\v 15 "There will soon be the time when I, Yahweh, will judge and punish all the nations.
\q2 And you people of Edom will experience the same disasters that you caused others to experience.
@ -115,4 +113,3 @@
\q1
\v 21 The army of Jerusalem will attack Edom and conquer it,
\q2 and Yahweh will be their king.

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\toc2 Jonah
\toc3 Jon
\mt1 JONAH
\s5
\c 1
\p
\v 1 One day Yahweh said to the prophet Jonah son of Amittai,
\v 2 "I have seen how wicked the people are who live in the great city of Nineveh. Therefore go there and warn the people that I am planning to destroy their city because of their sins."
\v 3 But instead of going to Nineveh, Jonah went in the direction of the city of Tarshish, to get away from Yahweh. He went down to the city of Joppa. There he paid the money to travel on a ship that was going to the city of Tarshish, and he got on.
\s5
\p
\v 4 Then he went down to a lower deck, lay down, and went to sleep. But Yahweh caused a very strong wind to blow, and there was such a violent storm that the sailors thought that the ship would break apart.
\v 5 The sailors were very frightened. Because of that, they each started to pray to their own gods to save them. Then they threw the cargo into the sea to make the ship lighter so that it would not sink easily.
\s5
\p
\v 6 Then the captain went down to where Jonah was sleeping soundly. He awoke him and said to him, "How can you sleep during a storm like this? Get up and pray to your god! Perhaps he will pity us and save us, so that we will not drown!"
\p
\v 7 Then the sailors said to each other, "We need to cast lots, to determine who has caused all this trouble!" So they did that, and the lot indicated Jonah.
\s5
\p
\v 8 So various ones of them asked him, "Who is the one who has caused us all this trouble?" "What work do you do?" "Where are you coming from?" "What country and what people do you belong to?"
\v 9 Jonah replied, "I am a Hebrew. I worship Yahweh God, who lives in heaven. He is the one who made the sea and the land.
\v 10 I am running away from Yahweh, he is the one who called me to be a prophet." After the sailors heard that, they were terrified. So they said to him, "Do you realize what trouble you have caused?"
\s5
\p
\v 11 The storm kept getting worse and the waves kept getting bigger. So one of the sailors asked Jonah, "What should we do with you in order to make the sea become calm for us?"
\v 12 He replied, "Pick me up and throw me into the sea. If you do that, it will become calm for you. I know that this terrible storm happened because I did not do what Yahweh told me to do."
\p
\v 13 But the sailors did not want to do that. Instead, they tried hard to row the ship back to the land. But they could not do that, because the storm continued to get worse.
\s5
\p
\v 14 Therefore they prayed to Yahweh, and one of them prayed, "O Yahweh, please do not say we are guilty if we make this man die; please do not kill us. O Yahweh, you have done what you wanted to do."
\v 15 Then they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea. Then the sea became calm.
\v 16 When that happened, the sailors became greatly awed at Yahweh's power. So they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and they strongly promised him that they would do things that would please him.
\s5
\p
\v 17 While they were doing that, Yahweh sent a huge fish that swallowed Jonah. Then Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.
\s5
\c 2
\p
\v 1 While he was inside the huge fish, Jonah prayed to Yahweh God, whom he worshiped.
\v 2 Jonah said,
\pi "Yahweh, when I was greatly distressed here, I prayed to you, and you heard what I prayed. When I was about to descend way down into the place where dead people go, you heard me when I called out for you to help me.
\s5
\pi
\v 3 You threw me down into the deep water, into the bottom of the sea. The currents you made in the sea swirled around me, and the huge waves crashed above me.
@ -59,18 +66,19 @@
\pi
\v 6 I sank down to where the mountains start rising from the bottom of the sea. I thought that forever it would be as though my body would be in a prison inside the earth below me.
\pi But you, Yahweh God, whom I worship, rescued me from going down to the place of the dead!
\s5
\pi
\v 7 When I was almost dead, Yahweh, I thought about you. You heard my prayer, up there where you are, in your holy temple.
\pi
\v 8 All those who worship worthless idols are rejecting you, the one who could act faithfully toward them.
\s5
\pi
\v 9 But I will sing to thank you, and I will offer a sacrifice to you. I will surely do what I have solemnly promised to do. Yahweh, you are the one who is able to save us."
\p
\v 10 Then Yahweh commanded the huge fish to vomit out Jonah, and the fish vomited out Jonah onto the dry land.
\s5
\c 3
\p
@ -97,7 +105,6 @@
\p
\v 10 When they all did that, God saw what they were doing, and he saw that they had stopped doing evil actions. So he pitied them, and he did not get rid of them as he had threatened to do.
\s5
\c 4
\p
@ -124,4 +131,3 @@
\p
\v 10 But Yahweh said to him, "You were concerned about that vine when I caused it to wither, even though you did not take care of it, and you did not make it grow. It just grew up during one night and it completely withered at the end of the next night.
\v 11 But there are more than 120,000 people in Nineveh, that huge city, who cannot tell right from wrong, and there are also many cattle. So is it not right for me to be concerned about those people, and not want to destroy them?"

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\toc2 Micah
\toc3 Mic
\mt1 Micah
\s5
\c 1
\p
\v 1 Yahweh gave Micah, who was from Moresheth in Judah, these messages in visions about Samaria and Jerusalem during the time when Jotham, and then Ahaz, and then Hezekiah were the kings of Judah.
\s5
\q1
\v 2 You people everywhere on the earth, pay attention to this.
\q2 Yahweh our God is accusing you from his holy temple in heaven.
@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
\q2 their enemies will take away those idols and sell them to pay prostitutes in other countries.
\s5
\q1
\v 8 Because Samaria will be destroyed, I will weep and wail.
\q2 I will walk around barefoot and naked.
@ -94,10 +93,8 @@
\v 16 You people of Judah, shave your heads and go into mourning,
\q2 because the children whom you love will soon go into exile.
\s5
\c 2
\q1
\v 1 Terrible things will happen to you who lie awake at night,
\q2 planning to do wicked things.
@ -127,7 +124,6 @@
\v 5 So when it is the time for the land to be given back to you people who belong to Yahweh,
\q2 there will be no one alive among you rich families to receive back any of that land.
\s5
\q1
\v 6 The people who heard me say that replied to me,
@ -159,7 +155,6 @@
\q2 saying, 'I will preach that you should drink plenty of wine and other alcoholic drinks!'
\q2 That is the kind of prophet who would please you."
\s5
\q1
\v 12 "But on that day, you descendants of Jacob, I will bring back from exile the Israelite people who have survived.
@ -173,10 +168,8 @@
\q1 Your king will lead them;
\q2 it is I, Yahweh, who will be their king!"
\s5
\c 3
\p
\v 1 Then I said, "You Israelite leaders, listen to what I say!
\q1 You should certainly know what things are right to do
@ -245,10 +238,8 @@
\q1 it will become a heap of ruins.
\q2 The top of the hill, where the temple is now, will be covered with trees.
\s5
\c 4
\p
\v 1 Yahweh says that his temple will be set on the top of a mountain,
\q1 and that mountain will be the most important mountain on all the earth;
@ -282,7 +273,6 @@
\v 5 Many of the people of other nations will worship their own gods,
\q2 but we will worship Yahweh our God always, forever.
\s5
\p
\v 6 Yahweh says, "There will soon be a time when I will gather the people whom I have punished,
@ -334,7 +324,6 @@
\q1 Then you will take from your enemies the valuable things that they have taken from other countries,
\q2 and I will cause you to dedicate those things to me, the one who is the Lord of all the people on the earth."
\s5
\c 5
\q1
@ -344,7 +333,6 @@
\q2 Soon they will strike your leader on his face with a rod.
\s5
\q1
\v 2 But you people of Bethlehem in the district of Ephrathah,
\q2 even though your town is a very small one among all the towns in Judah,
@ -365,7 +353,6 @@
\q2 so no one will dare to attack Jerusalem.
\q2
\v 5 And he will cause things to go well with his people.
\q1 When the army of Assyria attacks our country
\q2 and breaks though our fortresses,
\q1 we will appoint seven or eight leaders to lead our army to fight against them.
@ -414,10 +401,8 @@
\v 15 Because I will be very angry,
\q2 I will also punish the people of all the nations who have not obeyed me."
\s5
\c 6
\p
\v 1 Pay attention to what Yahweh will say:
\q1 Micah says to Yahweh, "Stand up in court and accuse the Israelites.
@ -461,7 +446,6 @@
\q2 and he wants us to live humbly while we fellowship with him, our God.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 God says this: "I am Yahweh, so if you are wise, you should honor me.
\q2 I am calling out to you people of Jerusalem to tell you this:
@ -507,10 +491,8 @@
\q1 So I will destroy your country,
\q2 and I will cause the other peoples to despise you, my own people."
\s5
\c 7
\q1
\v 1 I am very miserable!
\q1 I am like someone who is hungry, who searches for fruit to eat
@ -550,7 +532,6 @@
\q1
\v 7 As for me, I wait for Yahweh to help me.
\q2 I confidently expect that God, my Savior, will answer me when I pray.
\q1
\v 8 You who are our enemies,
\q2 do not gloat about what has happened to us,
@ -590,7 +571,6 @@
\v 13 But the other countries on the earth will become desolate
\q2 because of the evil deeds that their people have done.
\s5
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh, protect your people as a shepherd protects his sheep with his staff.
@ -635,4 +615,3 @@
\q1
\v 20 You will show that you faithfully do what you promised for us and faithfully love us,
\q2 just as you solemnly promised long ago to our ancestors Abraham and Jacob that you would do.

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\toc2 Nahum
\toc3 Nam
\mt1 Nahum
\s5
\c 1
\q1
@ -29,7 +30,6 @@
\q2 in the fields in the region of Bashan and on the slopes of Mount Carmel,
\q2 and he causes the flowers in Lebanon to fade.
\q1
\v 5 When he appears, it is as though the mountains shake and the hills melt;
\q2 the earth quakes, and the people on the earth tremble.
@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
\q1
\s5
\v 7 But he is good;
\q2 he protects us, his people, when we experience troubles.
\q2 He takes care of those who trust in him.
@ -58,7 +57,6 @@
\q2 He will not need to strike you two times to destroy you;
\q2 he will destroy you by striking you only once.
\q1
\v 10 It will be as though his enemies are tangled in thorns
\q2 and they will stagger like people who have drunk a lot of wine.
\q2 It will be as though they will be burned up like dry stubble.
@ -74,7 +72,6 @@
\q2 I have already punished you,
\q2 but I will not punish you again.
\q1
\v 13 Now I will cause the people of Assyria to no longer enslave you;
it will be as though I will tear off the shackles on your hands and feet."
@ -97,7 +94,6 @@
\q1 because your wicked enemies will not invade your country again,
\q2 because they will be completely destroyed.
\s5
\c 2
\q1
@ -127,7 +123,6 @@
\v 6 The enemy soldiers will force open the city gates on the rivers;
\q2 the palace will collapse.
\q1
\v 7 The queen will have her clothes stripped off her by enemy soldiers,
\q2 and her slave girls will moan like doves
\q2 and beat their breasts to show that they are very sad.
@ -138,7 +133,6 @@
\q2 The officials will shout, "Stop! Stop!"
\q2 but the people will not even look back as they run away.
\q1
\v 9 The enemy attackers say to each other,
\q2 "Seize the silver!
\q2 Grab the gold!
@ -168,7 +162,6 @@
\q2 Your messengers will never again take messages to other nations, demanding that
\q2 their armies surrender to them."
\s5
\c 3
\q1
@ -193,12 +186,10 @@
\q2 by having their skirts lifted high,
\q2 with the result that people can see their naked bodies.
\q1
\v 6 I will cause others to throw garbage at you;
\q2 I will show others that I despise you very much,
\q2 and I will cause everyone to ridicule you in public.
\q1
\v 7 All those who see you will turn their backs to you and say,
\q2 'Nineveh is ruined,
\q2 but absolutely no one will mourn for it.'
@ -224,7 +215,6 @@ there was no limit to their power.
\q2 each official in Thebes to become his slave.
\q2 All the leaders of Thebes were fastened by chains.
\q1
\v 11 You people of Nineveh will similarly become dazed and drunk,
\q2 and you will search for places to hide
\q2 to escape from your enemies.
@ -235,7 +225,6 @@ there was no limit to their power.
\q2 like the first figs that fall right into your mouths when you shake the tree.
\q2 This is how easily your city will be captured.
\q1
\v 13 Look at your soldiers!
\q2 They will be like weak women!
\q2 The gates of your city will be opened wide
@ -249,7 +238,6 @@ there was no limit to their power.
\q2 Dig up clay and trample it to make it soft,
\q2 and put it into molds to make bricks to repair the walls!
\q1
\v 15 Nevertheless, your enemies will burn your city;
\q2 they will kill you with their swords;
\q2 they will kill you as locusts destroy crops.
@ -262,7 +250,6 @@ there was no limit to their power.
\q2 those merchants will take the valuable things and disappear
\q2 like locusts that strip the leaves from plants and then fly away.
\q1
\v 17 Your leaders are also like a swarm of locusts
\q2 that crowd together on the fences on a cold day,
\q2 and then fly away when the sun comes up,
@ -274,10 +261,8 @@ there was no limit to their power.
\q2 your important people will lie down and rest forever.
\q2 Your people will be scattered over the mountains,
\q2 and there will be no one to gather them together.
\v 19 You are like someone who has a wound that cannot be healed;
\q2 it will be a wound that causes him to die.
\q2 And all those who hear about what has happened to you will clap their hands joyfully.
\q2 They will say, "Everyone has suffered because he continually acted very cruelly
\q2 toward us."

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\toc2 Habakkuk
\toc3 Hab
\mt1 Habakkuk
\s5
\c 1
\p
@ -94,7 +95,6 @@
\v 17 Will you allow them to continue to conquer people forever?
\q2 Will you allow them to destroy people of other nations without any mercy for anyone?"
\s5
\c 2
\q1
@ -214,7 +214,6 @@
\v 20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple;
\q2 everyone on the earth should be silent in his presence!"
\s5
\c 3
\m
@ -325,4 +324,3 @@
\q2 he makes me walk on my high hills.
\q (This message is for the choir director:
\q2 When this prayer is sung, it is to be accompanied by people playing stringed instruments.)

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\toc2 Zephaniah
\toc3 Zep
\mt1 Zephaniah
\s5
\c 1
\p
@ -20,7 +21,6 @@ Yahweh gave this message during the time when King Amon's son Josiah was the kin
\q2 so that there will be no more wicked people on the earth."
\s5
\q1
\v 4 "These are some of the things that I will do:
\q2 I will punish the people who live in Jerusalem and other places in Judah,
@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ Yahweh gave this message during the time when King Amon's son Josiah was the kin
\q2 he will send a fire to burn up the entire world,
\q1 and he will completely get rid, in a most terrifying way, of all the wicked people who live on the earth.
\s5
\c 2
\q1
@ -169,7 +168,6 @@ Yahweh gave this message during the time when King Amon's son Josiah was the kin
\s5
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh says that he will also slaughter the people of Ethiopia.
\q1
\v 13 Yahweh will punish and destroy Assyria,
\q2 that land northeast of us, and cause its capital Nineveh
@ -193,7 +191,6 @@ Yahweh gave this message during the time when King Amon's son Josiah was the kin
\q1 And everyone who passes by there will hiss and scorn that city,
\q2 and shake their fists to show that they detest that city very much.
\s5
\c 3
\q1
@ -311,4 +308,3 @@ Yahweh gave this message during the time when King Amon's son Josiah was the kin
\q2 among all the nations of the earth.
\q1 You will see when I bring your people home again."
\q2 This is what Yahweh, has declared!

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\toc2 Haggai
\toc3 Hag
\mt1 Haggai
\s5
\c 1
\p
@ -39,7 +40,6 @@
\v 14 So Yahweh motivated Zerubbabel and Joshua and the other people to want to rebuild the temple of their God, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies. So they gathered together and started to work to rebuild it.
\v 15 They started that work on the twenty-fourth day of the same month in which Yahweh had spoken to Haggai.
\s5
\c 2
\p
@ -87,7 +87,6 @@
\p But, from now on, I will bless you!'"
\s5
\p
\v 20 On that same day, Yahweh gave another message to Haggai.
\v 21 He said, "Tell Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, that I am going to shake the sky and the earth.
@ -96,4 +95,3 @@
\s5
\p
\v 23 Zerubbabel, you will become my servant on that day. And I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, declare that like kings wear signet rings to show that they have authority to rule people, I will appoint you and cause you to have authority to rule. I will do that because I have chosen you. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, have said it."

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\toc2 Zechariah
\toc3 Zec
\mt1 Zechariah
\s5
\c 1
\p
\v 1 When Darius had been the emperor of Persia for two years, in the eighth month his reign, Yahweh gave Zechariah the prophet, son of Berekiah and grandson of Iddo the prophet, this message:
\p
@ -18,11 +18,9 @@
\v 4 Do not be like your ancestors. Prophets, who have now died, continually proclaimed to your ancestors that they should stop doing the evil things that they were always doing. But they refused to pay attention to what I said.
\v 5 Your ancestors have died and are now in their graves. Even the prophets did not live forever either.
\v 6 But the commands and the decrees that I had instructed my servants the prophets to tell them—your ancestors did not obey them, so I punished them.
So then they repented and said that I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, had done to them what they deserved for their evil behavior, just like I had said I would do.'"
\s5
\p
\v 7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, Yahweh gave another message to me.
\p
@ -45,7 +43,6 @@ So then they repented and said that I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, ha
\s5
\p
\v 14 Then the angel who had been talking with me said to me, "Proclaim this to the people of Jerusalem: Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says that he is very concerned about the people who live on Mount Zion and in the other parts of Jerusalem.
\v 15 And he is very angry with the nations that are proud and feel safe. He was only a little bit angry with Judah, but they caused them to suffer much more.
\s5
@ -54,7 +51,6 @@ he will go back to Jerusalem and help the people. It will be as if he himself ha
\v 17 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, also said to tell people in his cities in Judah that they will soon be very prosperous again.
He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusalem as his special city."
\s5
\p
\v 18 Then I looked up and saw four animal horns in front of me.
@ -67,7 +63,6 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
\v 21 I asked, "What are those men coming to do?"
\p He replied, "The nations that those horns represent scattered the people of Judah, so they suffered greatly. But these blacksmiths are coming to frighten and destroy those nations and to throw down their horns, their power—all those nations who had attacked the land of Judah."
\s5
\c 2
\p
@ -79,7 +74,6 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
\p
\v 3 Then the angel who had been talking to me started to leave, and another angel walked toward him.
\v 4 The second angel said to him, "Run and tell that young man with the surveyor's line: On that day there will be very many people and livestock in Jerusalem, so they will not all be able to live inside the city walls; many will live outside the walls in the open country.
\v 5 Yahweh says that he himself will be like a wall of fire around the city, and he will be among the people with his glory."
\s5
@ -102,10 +96,8 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
\v 12 The people of Judah will be a very special part of his own land, and Jerusalem will again be the city that he has chosen.
\v 13 Everyone, everywhere, should be silent in the presence of Yahweh, because he is about to come down again from where he lives in heaven to do great things for us.
\s5
\c 3
\p
\v 1 Then Yahweh showed me Joshua, the high priest, who was standing in front of the angel that Yahweh had sent. And Satan was standing at Joshua's right side, ready to accuse him of having sinned.
\v 2 But the angel of Yahweh said to Satan, "Satan, may Yahweh rebuke you! He has chosen Jerusalem to be his special city, and may he rebuke you! This man, Joshua, has been brought back from Babylonia; he is certainly like a burning stick that someone has snatched from a fire."
@ -132,10 +124,8 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
\p
\v 10 At that time, each of you will invite his friends to come and sit under his grapevine and under his fig tree. That is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, declares."
\s5
\c 4
\p
\v 1 Then the angel who had been talking with me returned, and he called to me while I was thinking deeply, as though I had been asleep.
\v 2 He asked me, "What do you see?"
@ -158,7 +148,6 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
\p
\v 8 Then Yahweh gave me another message.
\v 9 He said to me, "Zerubbabel himself laid some of the stones for the foundation of the temple, and he will put some of the last stones in their places." Then I said to the other men with him, "When that happens, the people will know that it is Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, who has sent me to you.
\p
\v 10 The people who are mocking the slow way in which they are building the temple again—these same people will be glad when they see Zerubbabel holding a plumb line in his hand.
\p The seven lamps represent the eyes of Yahweh, who looks back and forth at everything that happens all over the earth."
@ -174,10 +163,8 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
\p
\v 14 So he said, "They represent the two men whom the Lord who rules the whole earth has appointed."
\s5
\c 5
\p
\v 1 I looked up again, and I saw a scroll that was flying through the air.
\p
@ -190,7 +177,6 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
\v 4 The Commander of the angel armies says, 'I will send this scroll to the places where thieves live and to the houses of those who use my name when they call on me to witness that they are telling the truth. This scroll will stay in their houses until those houses and all their wood and stones are destroyed.'"
\s5
\p
\v 5 Then the angel who had been talking to me came closer to me and said, "Look up and see what is coming!"
\p
@ -210,10 +196,8 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
\p
\v 11 He replied, "They are taking it to Babylonia to build a temple for it. When the temple is finished, they will set the barrel there on a pedestal for people to worship it."
\s5
\c 6
\p
\v 1 I looked up again, and I saw four chariots coming toward me. They were coming between two mountains that were made of bronze.
\v 2 The first chariot was pulled by red horses, the second chariot was pulled by black horses,
@ -232,7 +216,6 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
\v 8 Then the angel called to me and said, "Look, the chariots that have gone north will mollify the Spirit of Yahweh by punishing the people in that region."
\s5
\p
\v 9 Then Yahweh gave me another message.
\v 10 He said, "Today Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah will be bringing some silver and gold from the people who were exiled in Babylon. As soon as they arrive, go to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah.
@ -246,10 +229,8 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
\v 14 The crown was handed over to Heldai, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen son of Zephaniah, and they were to place it in the house of Yahweh, as a way to honor them."
\v 15 People who are living far away will come and help to build Yahweh's temple. When that happens, you people will know that Yahweh, the Commander of the angel armies, have sent me to you people. That will happen if all of you faithfully obey Yahweh, your God.
\s5
\c 7
\p
\v 1 When Darius had been the emperor for almost four years, on the fourth day of Kislev (which was the ninth month in their calendar), Yahweh gave me another message.
\v 2 The people of the city of Bethel sent two men, Sharezer and Regem-Melek,, along with some other men, to the temple of Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, to request that Yahweh be kind to them.
@ -278,7 +259,6 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
\v 13 In those times, when Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, called to the people, they refused to listen. So he said, "In exactly the same way, I will refuse to listen when they call to me.
\v 14 And I will scatter them among many nations, nations that they have never been to before. I will scatter them as a storm scatters leaves. After they are gone, their own land will be empty, with no one living there. No one will travel through it and no one will come back to it, because they have turned it, their most pleasant land, into a wilderness."
\s5
\c 8
\p
@ -335,7 +315,6 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
\v 23 Yahweh, the Commander of the angel armies, also says this: "At that time, this is what will happen everywhere: For every Jewish person, there will be ten foreigners, people who speak a different language, who will come and grab the fringe of his robe. They will say to him, 'We have heard people say that God is with you. So allow us to go with you to Jerusalem to worship him.' People from every nation and language will do this."
\s5
\c 9
\p
@ -346,7 +325,6 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
\v 3 The people in Tyre have built a high wall around their city. They piled up huge amounts of silver and gold like other people pile up soil when they dig in the streets.
\v 4 But I, Yahweh, will make them lose everything, including their ships in which their men fight on the sea. Their city will burn to the ground.
\s5
\v 5 The people in the city of Ashkelon will see that happen, and they will become very afraid. The people in the city of Gaza will shake because they are terrified, and the people in the city of Ekron will shake too, because they no longer hope to escape enemies. The king of Gaza will die; no one will live any longer in Ashkelon.
\v 6 Yahweh says, "Foreigners will occupy the city of Ashdod. I will no longer allow the people in all those cities of Philistia to be proud.
@ -362,32 +340,26 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
\q he will be gentle,
\q and he will be riding on a donkey,
\q on a young female donkey.
\v 10 I will destroy the chariots in the region of Ephraim that are used in war and all the horses in Jerusalem that they take into battle. I will break all the bows they use in wars.
\q Your king will proclaim that he will cause things to go well and peacefully among the nations. He will rule the area from the Mediterranean Sea to the Dead Sea, and from the Euphrates River to the most distant places on the earth.
\s5
\v 11 As for you, my people of Jerusalem, because of the blood that flowed when I made my covenant with you, I will free your people whom they took to other countries, where it was as though they were prisoners in a waterless pit.
\v 12 You people who were prisoners in those countries who still believe that I will help you, return to Judah, for I will defend you there. Today I declare that I will give you two blessings for each of the troubles that you have experienced.
\v 13 I will cause Judah to be like my bow, and I will cause Israel to be like my arrow. I will enable you young men of Jerusalem to fight against the soldiers of Greece; you will be like a warrior's sword."
\s5
\v 14 One day Yahweh will appear in the sky above his people, and the arrows that he shoots will be like lightning bolts. Yahweh our Lord will blow his trumpet, and he will march with the powerful storms that come from the land of Teman in the south.
\v 15 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, will protect his people; the soldiers of Judah will attack and defeat their enemies who attack them using slings and stones. Those soldiers of Judah will drink and celebrate and shout like people who are drunk; they will be as full of wine as the bowl that holds the blood of the animals priest kill at the altar—the blood that the priests sprinkle on the corners of the altar.
\s5
\v 16 On that day, Yahweh our God will save his people like a shepherd saves his flock of sheep from danger. In our land, they will be like jewels that sparkle in a crown.
\v 17 They will be delightful and beautiful. The young men will become strong from eating grain, and the young women will become strong from drinking new wine.
\s5
\c 10
\p
\v 1 Ask Yahweh to cause rain to fall in the springtime, because he is the one who makes the clouds from which the rain falls in storms. He causes showers to fall on us, and he causes crops to grow well in the fields.
\v 2 What people think that the idols in their houses say is only nonsense, and people who say that they can interpret dreams tell only lies. When they tell people things to comfort them, what they say is useless, so the people who consult them are like lost sheep; they are in danger because they have no one to protect them like sheep with no shepherd.
\s5
@ -403,7 +375,6 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
\s5
\v 8 I will signal for my people to return from far away, and I will gather them together in their own country. I will rescue them, and they will become very numerous as they were previously.
\v 9 I have caused them to be scattered among many peoples, but in those distant countries they will think about me again. They and their children will remain alive and return to Judah.
\v 10 I will bring them back from Egypt and from Assyria; I will bring them back to the regions of Gilead and Lebanon, but there not be enough space for them all to live there.
@ -411,7 +382,6 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
\v 11 I will go before them through their sufferings, as if I were walking through a sea, but I will calm those waves and end their sufferings, as if I were drying up the Nile River. I will defeat the proud soldiers of Assyria, and I will cause Egypt to no longer be powerful.
\v 12 I will enable my people to be strong, and they will honor me and obey me. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\s5
\c 11
\p
@ -421,7 +391,6 @@ He will encourage the people of Jerusalem again, and he will again choose Jerusa
Listen to the lions roar; they roar because the thick forest where they live near the Jordan River has been ruined.
\s5
\p
\v 4 This is what Yahweh my God said to me: "I want you to supervise this flock of sheep until the flock perishes.
\v 5 The dealers in sheep will kill the sheep, and no one will punish them. Those who sell the sheep will say, 'I praise Yahweh, because I will become rich!' And the shepherds whom the owners hire do not feel sorry for the sheep.
@ -451,19 +420,16 @@ Listen to the lions roar; they roar because the thick forest where they live nea
\p
\v 15 Then Yahweh said to me, "Take again the things that a foolish shepherd uses,
\v 16 because I am going to appoint a new shepherd for the people, one who will not take care of my people. He will be a foolish shepherd: He will ignore the dying sheep and those that have gotten lost. As for the healthy sheep, he will not feed them; instead, he will butcher them for his own food and will tear off their hooves.
\s5
\s5
\v 17 But terrible things will happen to that foolish shepherd who abandons the flock.
May his enemies strike his arm and his right eye with their swords. May he have no more strength in his arm, and may his right eye become completely blind."
\s5
\c 12
\p
\v 1 This is a message from Yahweh concerning Israel—Yahweh, the one who stretched out the sky, who created the earth, and who gave life to human beings. This is what he says:
\v 2 "I will soon cause Jerusalem to be like a cup full of very strong alcoholic drink, and the people of other nations who drink it will stagger around. The people of Judah will drink it, too, for they also will suffer when the enemy besieges Jerusalem.
\v 3 At that time, the armies of all the peoples will gather to attack Jerusalem, but I will cause Jerusalem to be like a very heavy rock, and all who try to lift it will be badly injured. This will happen when the armies of all the world's nations attack Jerusalem.
\s5
@ -481,7 +447,6 @@ May his enemies strike his arm and his right eye with their swords. May he have
\v 9 "At that time, I will start to destroy all the armies that attack Jerusalem."
\s5
\p
\v 10 "I, Yahweh, will cause the descendants of David to have mercy on others, and to beg me to have mercy on themselves. They will gaze at me, whom they pierced." They will cry bitterly, as people cry for a firstborn son, an only son, who has died.
\v 11 At that time, many people in Jerusalem will be crying bitterly, as people cry at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
@ -491,12 +456,10 @@ May his enemies strike his arm and his right eye with their swords. May he have
\v 13 The male descendants of Levi will mourn by themselves, and their wives will mourn by themselves; the male descendants of Shimei will mourn by themselves, and their wives will mourn by themselves.
\v 14 All the clans will mourn separately, their males by themselves, and their wives by themselves."
\s5
\c 13
\p
\v 1 At that time it will be as though there is a spring of water that will continuously flow to cleanse the descendants of King David and all the other people in Jerusalem from the guilt of the sins that they have committed, especially from becoming unacceptable to Yahweh by worshiping idols.
\p
\v 2 Yahweh, the Commander of angel armies, says, "At that time, I will prevent people from even mentioning the names of the idols in their country, and no one will worship them anymore. I will also drive away from the land all the people who falsely claim that they are prophets; I will also drive away the evil spirit that leads them to tell the people false messages from me.
@ -524,10 +487,8 @@ Only one-third of the people in Judah will remain alive.
I will purify them as someone purifies gold or silver by putting it into a very hot fire.
Then my people will call to me for help, and I will answer them. I will tell them that they are my people, and they will say that I, Yahweh, am the God they worship and obey.
\s5
\c 14
\p
\v 1 Listen! It will soon be the time when Yahweh will judge everyone. At that time, you, the people of Jerusalem, will watch your enemies divide what you owned among themselves.
\p
@ -577,4 +538,3 @@ Then my people will call to me for help, and I will answer them. I will tell the
\p
\v 20 At that time, the words "Dedicated to Yahweh" will be written on the bells that are fastened to the horses. The cooking pots in the courtyard of the temple will belong to Yahweh, like the bowls that are in front of the altar.
\v 21 Every pot in Jerusalem and everywhere else in Judah will be dedicated to Yahweh, the Commander of the angel armies. So everyone who offers sacrifices there in Jerusalem will be able to take some of the meat that has been brought for sacrifices and cook it in their own pots. And at that time, people will no longer buy or sell things in the courtyard of the temple of Yahweh, the Commander of the angel armies.

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\toc2 Malachi
\toc3 Mal
\mt1 Malachi
\s5
\c 1
\p
\v 1 This is a message that Yahweh gave to Malachi for the Israelites.
\p
\v 2-3 Yahweh says, "I have loved you." But I, Malachi, hear you people reply, "How have you shown us that you love us?"
\p Yahweh replies,
@ -66,7 +66,6 @@
\pi "I will curse anyone who tries to cheat me by swearing that he will bring to me a perfect animal from his herd, and who then brings me one that has defects. If anyone does that, I will punish him, because I am a great king, and people of the other nations honor me, but you do not!"
\m This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says.
\s5
\c 2
\p
@ -115,10 +114,8 @@
\v 17 You have made Yahweh lose his paitence with you by saying all those disgusting things. But you dare to ask, "How have we made him impatient?"
\p The answer is that you have said that Yahweh is pleased with all those who do what is evil, that he actually views them as good. And you have also made him impatient by always saying, "Why does God not act justly toward us?"
\s5
\c 3
\p
\v 1 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says this:
\pi "Look, I will soon send a messenger to you, who will get you ready to welcome me. I, the Lord, whom you say you desire to come, will appear suddenly in my temple. A messenger will come, whom Yahweh had promised in the covenant that you say you take pleasure in. I myself am coming." This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says.
@ -170,14 +167,11 @@
\pi "They will be my people. On the day that I punish the wicked people among you, I will not punish them. I will be just like a father who does not punish his son who obeys him.
\v 18 When that happens, you will again see that the manner in which I treat righteous people is different from the manner in which I treat wicked people. You will see that the manner in which I act toward those who worship me is different from the manner in which I act toward those who do not."
\s5
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\p
\v 1 This is also what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says: "There will be a time when I will judge and punish all the proud people and evildoers in Israel. When that happens, it will be like a day that they burn the useless remains of crops in the fields. Those people will burn up completely—as roots and branches and everything else on a tree burns completely in a very hot fire.
\v 2 But for you who honor me, I, who always act righteously, will come to you and heal you, as the sun rises in the morning. You will be as happy as young calves when they leave their stalls to play in the fields.
\v 3 On the day when I judge the wicked, you will celebrate. It will be as if you had walked all over them." This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, promises.
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\v 5 Listen to this: One day I will send to you the prophet Elijah. He will arrive before the great and dreadful day when I, Yahweh, will judge everyone and punish those who deserve punishment.
\v 6 Because of what Elijah will preach, parents and their children join together in loving each other again. If that does not happen, I will come and destroy your country."

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\v 24 When Joseph got up from sleep, he did what the angel had commanded him to do. He began to live with Mary as his wife.
\v 25 But he did not sleep with her until she had given birth to a son. And Joseph named him Jesus.
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\v 11 They found the house, entered it, and saw the child and his mother, Mary. They bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasure boxes and they gave him gold, expensive frankincense, and myrrh.
\v 12 Then God warned them in a dream not to return to King Herod. So they left for their country, but instead of traveling back on the same road, they went on a different road.
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\v 13 After the men who studied the stars left Bethlehem, an angel from the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. He said, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee into the country of Egypt. Stay there until I tell you that you should leave, because King Herod is about to send soldiers to look for the child so that they can kill him."
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\v 20 "Get up and take the child and his mother and go back to the country of Israel to live, because the people who were trying to kill the child have died."
\v 21 So Joseph took the child and his mother, and they went back to Israel.
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\v 22 When Joseph heard that Archaelaus now ruled in the province of Judea instead of his father, King Herod the Great, he was afraid to go there. Then God instructed Joseph in a dream what to do, so Joseph, Mary, and the baby went to the district of Galilee.
\v 23 They went to the town of Nazareth to live there. The result was that what the prophets had said long ago came true: "People will say that he is from Nazareth."
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\v 5 People who lived in the city of Jerusalem, many people who lived in other places in the district of Judea, and many others who lived near the Jordan River came to John to hear him preach.
\v 6 After they heard him, they openly confessed their sins, and then he baptized them in the Jordan River.
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\v 7 But John saw that many Pharisees and Sadducees were coming for him to baptize them. He said to them, "You people are the children of poisonous snakes! No one warned you that one day God will punish everyone who sins, did they? Do not think that you can escape from him!
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\p He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire.
\v 12 He is holding his winnowing fork ready to separate the good grain from the bad chaff. He is ready to clear out all the bad chaff from where he has threshed the grain. He will take the righteous people home, as a farmer puts his wheat into his storehouse, but he will burn the wicked people, like one burns the chaff, in a fire that never goes out."
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\v 13 During that time, Jesus went from the district of Galilee to the Jordan River, where John was. He did this so John could baptize him.
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\v 16 After that Jesus immediately came up out of the water. Just then, it was as though the sky was opened and Jesus saw God's Spirit coming down and sitting on him, in the form of a dove.
\v 17 Then God spoke from heaven and said, "This is my Son. I love him, and I am very pleased with him."
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\v 17 At that time, while Jesus was in the city of Capernaum, he began to preach to the people, "The rule of God from heaven is near, and he will judge you when he rules. So stop sinning!"
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\v 18 One day while Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two men, Simon, who was later called Peter, and Andrew, his younger brother. They were casting their fishing net into the water because they caught and sold fish.
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\v 10 God is pleased with people who live righteously; he is honored when their righteous lives are the reason why evil people insult and treat them badly.
\q God rules over these righteous people from heaven.
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\v 11 God is pleased with you when other people insult you for my sake, and he is honored when they do evil things to you and when they tell lies about you, saying that you are evil.
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and rescue us when Satan tries to harm us.'
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\v 14 "Forgive the people who sin against you, because, if you do, God, your Father who is in heaven, will forgive your sins.
@ -388,14 +383,12 @@ and rescue us when Satan tries to harm us.'
\v 17 Instead, each of you, when you keep from eating food, should comb your hair and wash your face as usual
\v 18 in order that other people will not notice that you are fasting. But God, your Father, whom no one can see will observe that you are not eating food. He sees you even though no one else sees you, and he will reward you.
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\v 19 "Do not selfishly accumulate large quantities of money and material goods for yourselves on this earth, because the earth is where everything perishes—where moths ruin clothing, rust destroys metals, and thieves steal what belongs to other people.
\v 20 Instead, do deeds that will please God so that you store up treasures in heaven. Nothing perishes in heaven. In heaven no moths can ruin clothing, there is no rust, and there are no thieves who could steal.
\v 21 Remember that whatever is most important to you, that is what you will be thinking about.
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\v 22 "Your eyes are like a lamp for your body because they enable you to see things. So if you see things as God sees them, it will be as if your whole body were full of light.
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\p
\v 24 "No one is able to serve two different masters at the same time. If he tried to do that, he would hate one of them and love the other one, or he would be loyal to one of them and despise the other one. Similarly, you cannot worship God and money at the same time.
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\v 25 "That is why I tell you that you should not worry about things that you need in order to live. Do not worry about whether you will have enough food to eat and things to drink, or enough clothes to wear. The way you conduct your lives is much more important than those things.
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\v 30 God makes the wild plants very beautiful, but they grow in the field for only a short time. One day they grow, and the next day people will throw them into an oven to burn them. But you are more important to God than wild plants are, and you live much longer. So trust in God, you who have so little faith!
\v 31 So do not worry and say, 'Will we have anything to eat?' or 'Will we have anything to drink?' or 'Will we have clothes to wear?'
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\v 32 Those who do not know God are always worrying about things like that. But God, your Father who is in heaven, knows that you need all those things.
\v 33 Instead, make it the most important thing that God should rule over the entire world and that everyone should do what he requires. If you do that, he will give you all the things that you need.
\v 34 So do not be worried about what will happen to you the next day, because when that day comes, you will have enough to be concerned about. So do not worry ahead of time.
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\v 19 Workers chop down and burn up all the trees that do not produce good fruit.
\v 20 By seeing what plants produce, you know what kind of plants they are. Similarly, when you see what the people who come to you do, you will know if they truly produce good or not.
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\v 21 "Even though many people habitually call me Lord, pretending that they have my authority, God will not agree to rule from heaven over some of them, because they do not do what he desires. My Father will agree to rule over only those who do what he wants.
\v 22 On the day that God judges everyone, many people will say to me, 'Lord, we spoke God's message as your representatives! As your representatives we drove out demons from people! And as your representatives, many times we performed mighty deeds!'
\v 23 Then I will publicly say to them, 'I have never admitted that you belonged to me. Go away from me, you who do what is evil!'
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\v 24 "So then, anyone who hears what I say and does what I command will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
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\v 26 On the other hand, anyone who hears what I say but does not obey me will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
\v 27 When the rain fell, and the river flooded, and the winds blew and beat against that house, it crashed down and broke completely apart because it was built on sand. So you should obey what I have told you."
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\v 28 When Jesus finished teaching all those things, the crowds who had heard him were amazed by how he taught.
\v 29 He taught like a teacher who relies on what he himself knows. He did not teach like those who taught the Jewish laws, who repeated the different things that other men had taught.
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\v 21 Another man who was one of Jesus' disciples said to him, "Lord, permit me first to go home. After my father dies I will bury him, and then I will come with you."
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\v 22 But Jesus said to him, "Come with me now. The people who are as good as dead, let them wait for their own people to die."
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\v 23 Then Jesus got into the boat and his disciples followed him.
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\v 33 The men who were tending the pigs became afraid and ran into the town and reported everything that had happened, including what had happened to the two men whom demons had controlled.
\v 34 Then it seemed as if all the people who lived in that town went to meet Jesus. When they saw him and the two men whom demons had controlled, they pleaded with Jesus to leave their region.
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\v 16 People do not sew a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old garment to mend a hole. If they did that, when they washed the garment, the patch would shrink and tear the garment, and the hole would become bigger.
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\v 17 Neither does anyone pour fresh grape juice into old skin bags to store it. If anyone did that, those skin bags would tear when the juice became wine. The bags would be ruined, and the wine would be spilled on the ground. Instead, people put new wine into new skin bags, and the bags will stretch when the wine ferments. In this way, both the wine and the bags will be safe."
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\v 11 In any town or village that you enter, find a person who wants you to stay in his home.
\v 12 As you go into that house, call upon God to do good to the people who live there. Stay in that home until you leave that town or village.
\v 13 If the people who live in that house receive you well, God will indeed do good to them. But if they do not receive you well, then your prayer will not help them, and God will not do them good.
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\v 14 If the people who live in any house or town do not welcome you, nor listen to your message, leave that place. As you leave, shake off the dust from your feet. By doing that, you will warn them that God will reject them as they rejected what you said.
\v 15 Note this carefully: At the time when God judges all people, he will punish the wicked people who lived in Sodom and Gomorrah. But if the people of any city reject you, God will punish them even more severely.
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\v 42 Note this: Suppose people see that you are thirsty and give you a drink of cold water because they know that you are one of my disciples, even if you are not an important person at all. God will certainly reward people who do that."
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\v 11 "Note this: Of all the people who have ever lived, God does not consider any of them to be greater than John the Baptizer. At the same time, God considers those that are not important in the kingdom he rules from heaven to be greater than John.
\v 12 From the time that John the Baptizer preached until now, some people have been trying to make God rule from heaven in their own way, and they have been using force for this purpose.
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\v 13 Everything that I am saying about John is just what you can read in what the prophets have written and what the law has been saying until the time of John the Baptizer.
\v 14 Not only that, but if you are willing to try to understand this, I will tell you that John is in fact the second Elijah, the prophet who was to come in the future.
\v 15 If you want to understand this, you must think carefully about what I have just said.
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\v 16 "But you and the other people who are alive now, you are like children who are playing games in the marketplace. Some of them call to their friends,
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\v 18 I say this because you are dissatisfied with both John and me! When John came and preached to you, he did not eat good food and did not drink wine, like most people do. But you rejected him and said, 'A demon is controlling him!'
\v 19 I, the Son of Man, was not like John. I eat the same food and drink wine as other people do. But you also reject me and say, 'Look! This man eats too much food and drinks too much wine, and he is friends with tax collectors and other sinners!' But anyone who is truly wise will show it by doing good deeds."
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\v 20 In the towns where Jesus had performed most of his miracles, the people there still refused to turn to God. So he began to rebuke them by saying to them,
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If I had done these same miracles in Sodom of long ago, those wicked people would certainly have stopped sinning, and their city would have been here even today. But you have not stopped sinning.
\v 24 Let me tell you this: God will punish the wicked people who lived in Sodom, but he will punish you even more severely on the final day when he judges all people."
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\v 25 At that time Jesus prayed, "Father, you rule over everything in heaven and on the earth. I thank you that you have prevented people who think that they are wise and well educated from knowing these things. Instead, you have revealed them to people who accept your truth just as little childen believe what an adult tells them.
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\v 28 Come to me, all you people who are very weary of trying to obey all the laws your leaders say you should. I will let you rest from all that.
\v 29 Submit to me, like an ox to its yoke, and learn what I have to teach you. I am gentle and humble, and you will truly rest.
\v 30 For the load I will give you is light, and you will carry it easily."
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\v 5 Also, surely you have read what Moses wrote, when he said that even though the priests, by working in the temple on our Sabbath day, are not obeying the Jewish day of rest laws, they are not guilty.
\v 6 Let me tell you what this means: I have come to you, and I am more important than the temple.
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\v 7 You should think about these words of God in the scriptures: 'I want you to act mercifully toward people, and not just offer sacrifices.' If you understood what that means, you would not condemn my disciples, who have done no wrong.
\v 8 I am the Son of Man, and I have the authority to tell people what they can do on the Sabbath day."
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\q I will put my Spirit in him,
\q and he will bring justice and salvation to the non-Jews.
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\v 19 He will not quarrel with people, neither will he shout.
\q And he will not shout in the streets.
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\v 20 He will be gentle with the weak people;
\q If a person is barely alive, he will not kill him.
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\v 33 "When you see some fruit from a tree, you decide whether the fruit is good or bad. If it is good, then you know that its tree is also good. If I am doing good things, then you should know whether or not I am good.
\v 34 You are like the children of poisonous snakes! You cannot say anything good because you are evil. What a person says shows what is inside him.
\v 35 Good people speak good things. That is because it is like they have stored up all these good things in a safe place and can bring them out at any time. But evil people speak evil things. That is because it is like they have stored up all these evil things and bring them out at any time from the place where they store them.
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\v 36 I tell you that on the day when God judges, he will make people recall every useless word they have spoken, and he will judge the people by what they have said.
\v 37 God will either declare that you are righteous based on the words that you have spoken, or else he will condemn you based on what you have said."
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\v 38 Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the Jewish laws responded to Jesus, "Teacher, we want to see you perform a miracle that will convince us that God sent you."
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\v 42 The queen from Sheba, south of Israel, who lived long ago, came from a distant region in order to listen to King Solomon teach many wise things. Now I have come to you, and I am far more important than Solomon was, but you have not stopped sinning. So when God judges everyone, the queen of Sheba will stand in front of him beside you people, and she will condemn you.
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\v 43 "Sometimes when an evil spirit leaves a person, it wanders around in desolate areas, seeking someone in whom it can rest. If it does not find anyone,
\v 44 it says to itself, 'I will return to the person in whom I used to live.' So it goes back and finds that the Spirit of God is not in control of that person's life. The person's life is like a house that has been swept clean and everything put in order, but it is empty.
\v 45 Then this evil spirit goes and gets seven other spirits that are even more evil, and they all enter that person and begin living there. So although that person's condition was bad before, it becomes much worse. That is what you wicked people who have heard me teach will experience."
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\v 46 While Jesus was still speaking to the crowd, his mother and his younger brothers arrived. They stood outside the house, and they wanted to speak with him.
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\v 49 He then pointed toward his disciples and said, "These are ones who take the place of my mother and my brothers.
\v 50 Those who do what God my Father who is in heaven wants take the place of my brother, my sister, or my mother."
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\v 16 "But as for you, God has made you able because you realize what I have done and
because you understand what I say.
\v 17 Note this: Many prophets and righteous people who lived long ago longed to see what you are seeing me do, but they did not see it. They longed to hear the things that you have been hearing me say, but they did not hear what you hear me say.
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\v 18 "Now listen to me explain the parable I told you.
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\v 20 Some people hear God's message and immediately accept it joyfully. They are like the rocky places where some seeds fell.
\v 21 But because it does not penetrate deeply into their hearts, they believe it for only a short time. They are like the plants that did not have deep roots. When others treat them badly and make them suffer because they believe in what I have told them, they sin by refusing to believe in it any longer.
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\v 22 Some people hear God's message, but they desire to be rich, so they worry only about money and what they can buy with money. As a result, they forget God's message and they do not do the things that God wants them to do. These people are like the soil that had the roots of thorny weeds in it.
\v 23 But some people hear my message and understand it. Some of them do many things that please God, some do even more things that please God, and some do very many things that please God. They are like the good soil where some of the seeds fell."
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\v 24 Jesus also told the crowd another parable. He said, "When God rules from heaven, it will be like a landowner who sent his servants to sow good seed in his field.
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\p They said to him, "Yes, we understand them."
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\v 52 Then he said, "Those teachers and interpeters who understand these parables and act accordingly under the rule of God from heaven are like a house owner who shares both new things and old things out of his storage room."
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\v 53 When Jesus had finished telling these parables, he took the disciples and left that area.
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\v 57 The people there refused to accept that Jesus had such authority. So Jesus said to them, "People honor me and other prophets everywhere else we go, but in our hometowns we are not honored, and even our own families do not honor us!"
\v 58 Jesus did not perform many miracles there because the people did not believe that he had such authority.
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\v 36 The sick people kept begging him to allow them to touch him or even only the edge of his robe so that they would be healed. Everyone who touched him or his robe were healed.
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\v 39 After Jesus sent the crowd away, he and the disciples got in a boat and sailed around the lake to the region of Magadan.
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\v 22 But Peter took Jesus aside and began to scold him for saying these things. He said, "Lord, may God never permit that to happen to you! That must certainly not happen!"
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\v 23 Then Jesus turned to look at Peter, and he said to him, "Get out of my sight, because Satan is speaking through you. You are trying to get me to sin. You are not thinking what God thinks, but only what people think!"
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\v 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to trust me and go where I am going, he must put away his own desires and purposes, and he must take up his own cross, and go where I go.
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\v 27 Listen carefully. I, the Son of Man, will leave this earth, but I will return, and the angels of heaven will accompany me. At that time I will have the glorious light that my Father has, and I will reward everyone according to what they did when they were alive in this world.
\v 28 Listen carefully! Some of you who are here now will see me, the Son of Man, when I come to begin my rule as king!"
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\p Then Jesus said to him, "So citizens of their own country do not need to pay taxes.
\v 27 But go ahead and pay the tax for us so that the temple tax collectors will not become angry with us. In order to get the money to pay it, go to the Sea of Galilee, cast your fish line and hook, and take the first fish that you catch. When you open its mouth, you will find a silver coin that is worth enough to pay the tax for you and me. Take that coin and give it to the temple tax collectors."
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\v 30 But many people who are important in this life now will be unimportant at that future time, and many people who are unimportant now will be important at that future time."
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\v 15 I certainly have a right to spend my money as I desire, do I not? You should not be envious about my being generous!'
\v 16 Similarly, God will reward well some people who seem to be less important now, and he will not reward some people who seem to be more important now."
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\v 17 When Jesus was walking on the road up to Jerusalem along with the twelve disciples, he took them to a place by themselves in order that he could talk to them privately. Then he said to them,
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\v 27 Yes, and everyone among you who wants God to consider him to be the most important must become a servant for the rest of you.
\v 28 You should imitate me. Even though I am the Son of Man, I did not come for others to serve me. On the contrary, I came in order to serve them and to allow them to kill me, so that my dying would be like a payment to rescue many people from being punished for their sins."
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\v 29 As they were leaving the city of Jericho, a large crowd of people followed them.
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\v 33 They said to him, "Lord, heal our eyes so that we can see!"
\v 34 Jesus felt sorry for them and touched their eyes. Immediately they were able to see, and they went after Jesus.
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\v 3 If anyone says anything to you about your doing that, tell him, 'The Lord needs them.' He will then allow you to lead them away."
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\v 4-5 When all this happened, what one of the prophets had written came true. That prophet had written, "Tell the people who live in Jerusalem, 'Look! Your king is coming to you! He will come humbly. He will show that he is humble, because he will be riding on a colt, the offspring of a donkey.'"
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\v 11 The crowd that was already following him answered, "This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee!"
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\v 12 Then Jesus went into the temple courtyard and chased out all of those who were buying and selling things there. He also overturned the tables of those who were changing Roman coins for temple tax money, and he overturned the seats of those who were selling pigeons for sacrifices.
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\v 17 Then Jesus left the city. The disciples went with him to the village of Bethany, and they stayed there that night.
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\v 18 Early the next morning when they were returning to the city, Jesus was hungry.
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\v 21 Jesus said to them, "Think about this: If you believe that God has power to do what you ask him to and you do not doubt that, you will be able to do things like what I have done to this fig tree. You will even be able to do marvelous deeds like saying to that hill over there, 'Uproot yourself and throw yourself into the sea,' and it will happen!
\v 22 In addition to that, whenever you ask God for something when you pray to him, if you believe that he will give it to you, you will receive it from him."
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\v 23 After that, Jesus went into the temple courtyard. While he was teaching the people, the chief priests and the elders of the people approached him. They asked, "By what authority are you doing these things? Who authorized you to do what you did here yesterday?"
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\v 27 So they answered Jesus, "We do not know where John got his authority from."
\p Then Jesus said to them, "Because you did not answer my question, I will not tell you who gave me the right to do the things I did here yesterday."
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\v 28 "Tell me what you think about what I am about to tell you. There was a man who had two sons. He went to his older son and said, 'My son, go and work in my vineyard today!'
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\p This is true, even though you condemn those people because they ignore the law of Moses.
\v 32 I say this to you because, even though John the Baptizer explained to you how to live in the right way, you did not believe his message. But tax collectors and prostitutes believed his message, and they turned away from their sinful behavior. In contrast, even though you saw that they changed, you refused to stop sinning, and you did not believe John's message."
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\v 33 "Listen to another parable that I will tell you. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He built a fence around it. He made a place to collect the juice that would come out of the grapes. He also built a tower in which someone could sit to guard that vineyard. He rented the vineyard to some men who would care for it and give him some of the grapes in return. Then he went away to another country.
@ -1741,7 +1707,6 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
\v 45 When the chief priests and the elders who were Pharisees heard this parable, they realized that he was talking about them.
\v 46 They wanted to seize him, but they did not do so because they were afraid of what the crowds would do if they did that, because the crowds considered that Jesus was a prophet.
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\v 13 Then the king said to his servants, 'Tie this person's feet and hands and throw him outside where there is total darkness, where people cry out and gnash their teeth because of the pain they are in.'"
\v 14 Then Jesus said, "The point of this parable is that God has invited many to come to him, but only a few people are the ones whom he has chosen to be there."
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\v 15 After Jesus said that, the Pharisees met together in order to plan how they could cause him to say something that would enable them to accuse him.
@ -1789,7 +1753,6 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
\p Then he said to them, "So give to the government what they require, and give to God what he requires."
\v 22 When those men heard Jesus say that, they marveled that his answer did not enable anyone to accuse him. Then they left Jesus.
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\v 23 During that same day, some Sadducees came to Jesus. They are a Jewish group who do not believe that people will become alive again after they die. They asked Jesus,
@ -1827,7 +1790,6 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
\v 39 The next most important commandment that everyone must surely obey is: 'You must love the people you come in contact with as much as you love yourself.'
\v 40 These two commandments are the basis of every law that Moses wrote in the scriptures and also of all that the prophets wrote."
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\v 41 While the Pharisees were still gathered together near Jesus, he asked them,
@ -1843,7 +1805,6 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
\v 45 So, since King David called the Christ 'my Lord,' then the Christ cannot be just someone descended from David! He must be much greater than David!"
\v 46 No one who heard what Jesus said was able to think of even one word to say to him in response. After that day no one dared to ask him another question to try to trap him.
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\v 38 So listen to this: Your city will become an uninhabited place.
\v 39 Keep this in mind: You will see me again only when I return, when you say about me, 'God is truly pleased with this man who comes with God's authority.'"
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\p
\v 1 Jesus left the temple courtyard. As he was walking along, his disciples came to him and began talking about how beautiful the temple buildings were.
\v 2 He said to them, "I tell you the truth about these buildings that you are seeing: an army will completely destroy them. They will throw down every stone in these buildings. Not one stone will remain on top of another stone."
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\p
\v 3 Later, as Jesus was sitting alone on the slope of the Mount of Olives, the disciples went to him and asked him, "When will this happen to the buildings of the temple? And what will happen to show that you are about to come again, and to show that this world is about to end?"
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\v 13 But all those who keep on believing to the end of their lives, God will save them.
\v 14 Furthermore, believers will preach the good news about how God is ruling in every part of the world, in order to announce it to all the nations. Then the end of the world will come.
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\p
\v 15 "But before the world ends, the disgusting person who will defile the holy temple and cause people to abandon it will stand in the temple. Daniel the prophet spoke and wrote about that long ago. May everyone who reads this pay attention, because I am warning you.
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\v 21 because people will suffer very severely when those things happen. People have never suffered that severely since God created the world until now, and no one will ever suffer like that again.
\v 22 If God had not decided to shorten that time when people will suffer so much, everyone would die. But he has decided to shorten it because he is concerned about the people whom he has chosen.
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\v 23 "At that time, if someone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or if someone says, 'There is the Christ!' do not believe it!
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\v 27 because just like lightning flashes from the east to the west and people see it, in the same way, when the Son of Man returns again, everyone will see.
\v 28 It will be clear to everyone just as when you see vultures gathering, you know that an animal carcass is there.
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\v 29 "Immediately after people have suffered during that time, the sun will become dark. The moon will not shine. The stars will fall from the sky. And God will shake all things in the sky loose from their place.
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\v 30 After that, everyone will see the Son of Man appear in the sky. Then unbelieving people from all peoples on earth will wail because they will be afraid. They will see me, the Son of Man, coming on the clouds with power and great glory.
\v 31 He will send his angels to the earth from everywhere in the heavens. When they hear the trumpet's loud blast, they will gather together God's people—the ones he has chosen—from across the whole earth.
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\v 32 "Now be sure to learn something from how fig trees grow. When the branches of a fig tree become tender and its leaves begin to sprout, you know that summer is near.
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\v 34 Keep this in mind: Some of the people of this generation will still be alive when these things happen.
\v 35 You can be certain that these things that I have told you about will happen. The earth and sky will disappear one day, but what I say will always be true.
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\v 36 "But no other person, nor even any angel in heaven, nor even the Son, knows the day or the hour when these things will happen. Only God the Father knows.
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\v 43 You know that if the owner of a house knew at what time in the night thieves would come, he would be awake and prevent the thieves from breaking in. Similarly, the Son of Man will come as unexpectedly as a thief.
\v 44 So you need to be ready because the Son of Man will return to the earth at a time when you do not expect him to come.
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\v 45 "Think about what every faithful and wise servant is like. The house owner appoints one servant to supervise the other servants. He tells him to give them food at the proper times. Then he leaves on a long trip.
@ -2030,7 +1983,6 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
\v 50 Then the house owner will come back at a time when the servant does not expect him.
\v 51 He will punish that servant severely and he will put him where the hypocrites are put. In that place the people cry and grind their teeth because they suffer very much.
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\p
@ -2058,7 +2010,6 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
\p
\v 13 Then Jesus continued by saying, "So, in order that this does not happen to you, stay prepared because you do not know when it will be."
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\v 14 "When the Son of Man returns from heaven as king, it will be like a man who was about to go on a long journey. He called his servants together and gave them each some of his wealth to invest and gain more money for him.
@ -2097,7 +2048,6 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
\v 29 To those who use well what they have received, God will give more, and they will have plenty. But from those who do not use well what they have received, even what they already have will be taken away.
\v 30 Furthermore, throw that worthless servant outside into the darkness, where he will be with those who are wailing and grinding their teeth in pain.'
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\v 31 "When the Son of Man comes again in his brilliant light and brings all his angels, he will sit as king on his throne to judge everyone.
@ -2132,7 +2082,6 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
\p
\v 46 "Then those people on my left will go away to the place where God will punish them forever, but the people good in God's sight will go to where they will live forever with God."
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@ -2145,7 +2094,6 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
\v 4 There they planned how they could arrest Jesus in some tricky way so that they could have him executed.
\v 5 But they said, "We must not do it during the Passover festival, because if we do it then, the people might riot."
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\v 6 While Jesus and his disciples were in the village of Bethany, they ate in the home of Simon, whom Jesus had healed of leprosy.
@ -2162,14 +2110,12 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
\v 12 When she poured this perfume on my body, it was as if she knew that I am going to die soon. And it is as if she had anointed my body for being buried.
\v 13 I will tell you this: Wherever in the entire world people preach the good news about me, they will tell what this woman has done, and as a result, people will always remember her."
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\v 14 Then Judas Iscariot, even though he was one of the twelve disciples, went to the chief priests.
\v 15 He asked them, "If I enable you to arrest Jesus, how much money are you willing to give me?" They agreed to give him thirty silver coins. So they counted out the coins and gave them to him.
\v 16 From that time Judas watched for an opportunity when they could arrest Jesus.
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\v 17 On the first day of the week-long Festival of Bread with No Yeast, the disciples went to Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to prepare the meal for the Passover Celebration so that we can eat it with you?"
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\v 30 After they sang a hymn, they started out toward the Mount of Olives.
\p
\v 31 On the way, Jesus told them, "This night all of you will desert me because of what will happen to me! This is certain to happen because these words that God said are written in the scriptures:
\q 'I will cause men to kill the shepherd,
@ -2240,7 +2185,6 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
\v 45 Then he returned to all the disciples. He woke them up and said to them, "I am disappointed that you are still sleeping and resting! Look! Someone is about to enable sinful men to arrest me, the Son of Man!
\v 46 Get up! Let us go to meet them! Here comes the one who is enabling them to arrest me!"
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\v 47 While Jesus was still speaking, Judas arrived. Even though he was one of the twelve disciples, he came to enable Jesus' enemies to arrest him. A large crowd carrying swords and clubs was coming with him. The chief priests and elders had sent them.
@ -2262,7 +2206,6 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
\v 55 At that time Jesus said to the crowd that was seizing him, "You have come here to seize me with swords and clubs, as if I were a bandit! Day after day I sat in the temple courtyard, teaching the people. Why did you not arrest me then?
\v 56 But all this is happening to fulfill what the prophets have written in the scriptures about me." Then all of the disciples deserted Jesus and ran away.
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\v 57 The men who had arrested Jesus took him to the house where Caiaphas, the high priest, lived. The men who taught the Jewish laws and the Jewish elders had already gathered there.
@ -2291,7 +2234,6 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
\v 67 Then some of them spat in his face. Others struck him with their fists. Others slapped him
\v 68 and said, "Since you claim that you are the Christ, tell us who hit you!"
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\v 69 Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant girl came up to him and looked at him. She said, "You also were with Jesus, that man from the district of Galilee!"
@ -2337,7 +2279,6 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
\v 9 By buying that field, they made come true these words that the prophet Jeremiah had written long ago: "They took the thirty silver coins—that was what the leaders of Israel decided that he was worth—
\v 10 and with that money they bought the field of the potter. They did that as the Lord had commanded me."
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\v 11 Then Jesus stood in front of the governor. The governor asked him, "Do you say you are the king of the Jews?"
@ -2380,7 +2321,6 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
\v 25 And all the people answered, "May we be guilty for causing him to die, and may our children be guilty, too!"
\v 26 Then he ordered the soldiers to release Barabbas for them. But he ordered that his soldiers whip Jesus. And then he turned Jesus over to the soldiers for them to nail Jesus to a cross.
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\v 27 Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the soldiers' barracks. The whole cohort gathered around him.
@ -2481,7 +2421,6 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
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\v 8 So the women left the tomb quickly. They were afraid, but they were also very joyful. They ran to tell the disciples what had happened.
\v 9 Suddenly, as they were running, Jesus appeared to them. He said, "Greetings to you!" The women came close to him. They knelt down and clasped his feet and worshiped him.
\v 10 Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid! Go and tell all my disciples that they should go to Galilee. They will see me there."
@ -2506,4 +2445,3 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
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\v 20 Teach them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember that I will be with you always, until the end of this age."

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\v 4 The messenger that Isaiah wrote about was John. People called him "The Baptizer." John was in the wilderness; he was baptizing people and telling them, "Be sorry that you have sinned, and decide to stop it, so that God may forgive you. Then I will baptize you."
\v 5 A great number of people from the district of Judea and the city of Jerusalem went out to the wilderness to hear John speak. Many of those who heard him agreed that they had sinned. Then John baptized them in the Jordan River.
\v 6 John wore rough clothes made of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate grasshoppers and honey that he found in that wilderness area.
@ -105,7 +105,6 @@
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\v 45 The man did not follow Jesus' instruction. He began telling many people about how Jesus had healed him. As a result, Jesus was no longer able to enter towns publicly because the crowds of people would surround him. Instead, he remained outside the towns in places where no one lived. But people kept coming to him from all over that region.
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\p
@ -142,6 +141,7 @@
\p
\v 15 Later, Jesus was eating a meal in Levi's house. Many sinners and men who collected taxes were eating with Jesus and his disciples.
\v 16 Men who taught the Jewish laws and who were members of the Pharisee sect saw that Jesus was eating with sinners and men who collected taxes. They asked Jesus' disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with sinners and men who collect taxes?"
\s5
\p
\v 17 After Jesus heard what they were asking, he said to the men who taught the Jewish laws, "Healthy people do not need a doctor. On the contrary, it is those who are sick who need a doctor. I did not come to invite those who think they are righteous to come me, but those who know that they have sinned."
@ -159,6 +159,7 @@
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\v 22 Similarly, people do not put new wine into old skin bags to store it. If they did, the new wine will burst the skin bags because they would not stretch when the wine ferments and expands. As a result both the wine and the skin bags would be ruined! On the contrary, people must put new wine into new skin bags!"
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\v 23 On one Sabbath, Jesus was walking through some grain fields with his disciples. As they were walking along through the grain fields, the disciples were plucking some of the heads of grain.
@ -173,7 +174,6 @@
\v 27 Jesus said to them further, "The Sabbath was established for the needs of people. People were not made in order to meet the requirements of the Sabbath!
\v 28 So, to be clear, the Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath!"
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@ -246,7 +246,6 @@
\v 34 After he looked around at those who sat with him, he said, "Look here! You are my mother and my siblings.
\v 35 Those who do what God wants are my brother, my sister, or my mother!"
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@ -337,7 +336,6 @@
\p
\v 41 They were terrified. They said to one another, "Who is this man? Even the wind and the waves obey him!"
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\p
@ -432,11 +430,8 @@ He replied, "My name is Legion because there are many of us evil spirits in this
\v 42 At once the girl got up and walked around. (It was not surprising that she could walk, because she was twelve years old.) When this happened, all who were present were greatly amazed.
\v 43 Jesus ordered them strictly, "Do not tell anyone about what I have done!" Then he told them to give the girl something to eat.
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\p
\v 1 Jesus left Capernaum and went to his hometown, Nazareth. His disciples went with him.
\v 2 On the Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and taught the people. Many who were listening to him were amazed. They wondered where he gained all his wisdom and the power to perform miracles.
@ -557,17 +552,16 @@ They went and found out and then they told him, "We have only five flat loaves a
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\v 56 In whatever village, town or place in the countryside where he went, they would bring to the marketplaces those who were sick. Then the sick people would beg Jesus to let them touch him or even the edge of his clothes in order that Jesus might heal them. All those who touched him or his robe were healed.
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\p
\v 1 One day some Pharisees and some men who teach the Jewish laws who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus.
\s5
\v 2 The Pharisees saw that the disciples often ate without washing their hands first.
\v 3-4 They and all of the other Jews strictly observe their traditions that their ancestors taught. Specifically, they wash in a special way their cups, pots, kettles, containers, and beds in order that using these things will not make God reject them.
For example, they refuse to eat until they first wash their hands with a special ritual, especially after they return from buying things in the marketplace. There are many other such traditions that they accept and try to obey.
\s5
\p
\v 5 That day, those Pharisees and men who taught the Jewish laws saw that some of his disciples were eating food with hands that they had not washed using the special ritual. So they questioned Jesus and said, "Your disciples disobey the traditions of our elders! Why do they eat food if they have not washed their hands using our ritual!"
@ -641,7 +635,6 @@ For example, they refuse to eat until they first wash their hands with a special
\v 36 Jesus told the people not to tell anyone what he had done. But although he ordered them and others repeatedly not to tell anyone about it, they kept talking about it all the more.
\v 37 People who heard about it were utterly amazed and were saying, "Everything he has done is wonderful! Besides doing other amazing things, he enables deaf people to hear! And he enables those who cannot speak to speak!"
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@ -735,7 +728,6 @@ Peter replied to him, "You are the Christ."
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\v 38 And think about this: Those who refuse to say that they belong to me, and who reject what I say in these days when many people have turned away from God and are very sinful, I, the Son of Man, will also refuse to say that they belong to me when I come back with the holy angels and have the glory that my Father has!"
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@ -804,7 +796,6 @@ He replied, "This started to happen when he was a child.
\p
\v 29 He said to them, "You can force this kind of evil spirit out only by prayer. There is no other way."
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\v 30 After Jesus and his disciples left that region, they traveled through Galilee. Jesus did not want anyone else to know where he was.
@ -850,7 +841,6 @@ He replied, "This started to happen when he was a child.
\v 49 "For God will put fire on everyone, just like people put salt on their food.
\v 50 Salt is useful to put on food, but you cannot make it taste salty again if it becomes flavorless. We are to be like salt that adds flavor to food. And live in peace with one another."
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\p
@ -877,7 +867,6 @@ He replied, "This started to happen when he was a child.
\v 11 He said to them, "God considers that any man who divorces his wife and marries another woman is committing adultery.
\v 12 God also considers a woman who divorces her husband and marries another man to be committing adultery."
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\v 13 Now people were bringing children to Jesus so that he would touch and bless them. But the disciples scolded those people.
@ -887,7 +876,6 @@ He replied, "This started to happen when he was a child.
\v 15 Note this: Those who do not welcome God as their king in the same manner as children would will certainly not become one of God's people."
\v 16 Then he embraced the children. He also put his hands on them and called on God to do good to them.
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\v 17 As Jesus was starting to travel again with his disciples, a man ran up to him. He knelt before Jesus and asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to have eternal life?"
@ -975,7 +963,6 @@ The blind man said to him, "Teacher, I want to be able to see again!"
\p
\v 52 Jesus said to him, "I am healing you because you believed in me. So you may go!" He could see immediately. And he went with Jesus along the road.
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@ -1050,7 +1037,6 @@ The blind man said to him, "Teacher, I want to be able to see again!"
\p
Then Jesus said to them, "Because you did not answer my question, I will not tell you who authorized me to do those things here yesterday."
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\p
@ -1138,7 +1124,6 @@ They replied, "It is a picture and the name of Caesar."
\v 39 They like to sit in the most important seats in the synagogues. At festivals, they like to sit in the seats where the most honored people sit.
\v 40 They swindle the houses and property of widows by cheating them. Then they pretend that they are good by praying long prayers in public. God will certainly punish them severely!"
\s5
\p
\v 41 Later, Jesus sat down in the temple area opposite the boxes in which people put offerings. As he was sitting there, he watched as they put money in one of the boxes. Many rich people put in large amounts of money.
@ -1204,7 +1189,6 @@ They replied, "It is a picture and the name of Caesar."
\v 26 Then people will see me, the Son of Man, coming through the clouds powerfully and gloriously.
\v 27 Then I will send out my angels so they can gather together the people whom God has chosen from everywhere, from the most remote places on earth.
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\v 28 "Now I want you to learn something from how fig trees grow. When their branches become tender and their leaves begin to sprout, you know that summer is near for us.
@ -1433,6 +1417,7 @@ But they shouted even louder, "Crucify him!"
\v 22 The soldiers brought them both to a place that they call Golgotha. That name means, "A place like a skull."
\v 23 Then they tried to give Jesus wine that was mixed with myrrh. But he refused to drink it.
\v 24 Some of the soldiers took his clothes. Then they nailed him to a cross. Afterwards, they divided his clothes among themselves by gambling for them.
\s5
\p
\v 25 It was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified him.
@ -1508,7 +1493,6 @@ But they shouted even louder, "Crucify him!"
\s5
\v 14 Later Jesus appeared to the eleven apostles while they were eating. He scolded them because they had stubbornly refused to believe the reports of those who saw him after he had become alive again.
\p
\v 15 He said to them, "Go into the whole world and preach the good news to everyone!
\v 16 God will save everyone who believes your message and who is baptized. He will condemn everyone who does not believe.
@ -1521,4 +1505,3 @@ But they shouted even louder, "Crucify him!"
\p
\v 19 After the Lord Jesus had said this to the disciples, God took him up into heaven. Then he sat down on his throne beside God at the place of highest honor at his right hand, to rule with him.
\v 20 As for the disciples, they went out from Jerusalem, and then they preached everywhere. Wherever they went, the Lord enabled them to perform miracles. By doing that, he showed people that God's message is true.

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\v 2 We heard about these things from people who saw them happen, from the time everything first started happening. These people taught others about God's message.
\v 3 I myself have carefully studied everything that these people wrote and taught. So I decided that it would also be good for me to write for you, noble Theophilus, an accurate account of these matters.
\v 4 I am doing this so that you may know that what you have been taught about these things is true.
\s5
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\v 5 When King Herod ruled the province of Judea, there was a Jewish priest named Zechariah. He belonged to the group of priests called the Abijah group. He and his wife Elizabeth were both descended from Aaron.
\v 6 God considered that both of them were righteous because they always obeyed without fault everything that God had commanded.
\v 7 But they had no children because Elizabeth was unable to bear children. Furthermore, she and her husband were very old.
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\v 8 One day Zechariah was serving as a priest in the temple in Jerusalem during his group's regular time of service there.
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\v 14 You will be very happy, and many other people will also be happy because he is born.
\v 15 God will consider him to be very important. He must never drink wine or any other alcoholic drink. He will be empowered by the Holy Spirit even before he is born.
\s5
\v 16 He will persuade many descendants of Israel to stop sinning and start obeying the Lord their God again.
\v 17 Your son will go in advance of the Lord as his forerunner and will be powerful in his spirit like the prophet Elijah was. He will cause parents to love their children again. He will cause many people who do not obey God to live wisely and to obey him as righteous people do. He will do this in order to cause many people to be ready when the Lord comes."
@ -50,6 +53,7 @@
\v 22 When he came out, he was not able to speak to them. Because he could not talk, he made motions with his hands to try to explain what had happened. Then they realized that he had seen a vision from God while he was in the temple.
\p
\v 23 When Zechariah's time to work as a priest in the temple was finished, he left Jerusalem and went to his home.
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\v 24 Some time after this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, but she did not go out in public for five months.
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\p
\v 34 Then Mary said to the angel, "How can this happen, since I am a virgin?"
\v 35 The angel replied, "The Holy Spirit will come to you and the power of God will cover you. So the baby you will bear will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God.
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\v 36 And listen to this. Your relative Elizabeth is pregnant with a son even though she is very old. And though people thought that she could not bear children, she has now been pregnant for almost six months.
\v 37 For God can do anything!"
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\q "Oh, how I praise the Lord!
\q \v 47 I feel very joyful about God,
\q who is the one who saves me.
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\q \v 48 I was only his lowly servant girl, but he did not forget me.
\q So from now on, people living in all time periods will say that God has blessed me.
\q \v 49 They will say this because of the great things that God, the Powerful One, has done for me.
\q His name is holy!
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\q \v 50 He acts mercifully from one generation to the next toward those who respect him.
\q \v 51 He shows people that he is very powerful.
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\p
\v 57 When it was time for Elizabeth to bear her child, she bore a son.
\v 58 Her neighbors and relatives heard how the Lord had been so kind to her, and they were happy along with Elizabeth.
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\v 59 On the eighth day after this, people gathered together for the ceremony to circumcise the baby. Since his father's name was Zechariah, they wanted to give the baby the same name.
\v 60 But his mother said, "No, his name must be John!"
@ -131,6 +139,7 @@
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\v 62 Then they made motions with their hands to his father, for him to indicate what name he wanted to be given to his son.
\v 63 So he signaled that they should give him a tablet to write on. When they gave him one, he wrote on it, "His name is John." All those who were there were surprised!
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\v 64 Immediately Zechariah was able to speak again, and he began praising God.
\v 65 Everyone who lived nearby was completely awed by what God had done. They told many other people about what had happened and the news spread all over the highlands of Judea.
@ -175,7 +184,6 @@
\p
\v 80 Over time, Zechariah and Elizabeth's baby boy grew up and became spiritually strong. Then he lived in a desolate region and was still living there when he began to preach publicly to God's people, Israel.
\s5
\c 2
\p
@ -188,6 +196,7 @@
\s5
\v 6-7 When they arrived in Bethlehem, there was no place for them to stay in a place where visitors usually stayed. So they had to stay in a place where animals slept overnight. While they were there the time came for Mary to give birth and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in wide strips of cloth and laid him down where the food was kept for the animals inside the barn.
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\p
\v 8 That night there were some shepherds who were taking care of their sheep in the fields near Bethlehem.
@ -207,6 +216,7 @@
\p
\v 15 After the angels left them and returned to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, "We should go right now to Bethlehem to see this wonderful thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about!"
\v 16 So they went quickly and when they had found the place where Mary and Joseph were staying, they saw the baby lying in a feeding place for animals.
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\v 17 After seeing him, they told everyone what had been told to them about this child.
\v 18 All the people who heard what the shepherds said to them were amazed.
@ -242,7 +252,6 @@
\q1
\v 32 He will be like a light that will reveal your truth to the Gentiles, and he will bring honor to the Israelite people."
\s5
\p
\v 33 Jesus' father and mother were very amazed at what Simeon said about him. Then Simeon blessed them, and said to Jesus' mother, Mary,
@ -266,6 +275,7 @@
\v 42 So when Jesus was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem for the festival as they always did.
\v 43 When all the days for the festival had ended, his parents started to return home, but Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know he was still there.
\v 44 They assumed that he was with the other people who were traveling with them. After walking a whole day's journey, they started to look for him among their relatives and friends.
\s5
\v 45 When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for him.
\v 46 After three days they found him in the temple courtyard, sitting in the midst of the Jewish religious teachers. He was listening to them teach, and he was asking them questions.
@ -275,12 +285,12 @@
\v 48 When his parents saw him, they were very surprised. His mother said to him, "My son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been very worried as we have been searching for you!"
\v 49 He said to them, "Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that I needed to be involved in what my Father does?"
\v 50 But they did not understand the meaning of what he said to them.
\s5
\v 51 Then he returned with them to Nazareth and he always obeyed them. His mother kept thinking deeply about all those things.
\p
\v 52 As the years passed, Jesus continued to become wiser and he grew taller. God and people continued to approve of him more and more.
\s5
\c 3
\p
@ -376,16 +386,17 @@ He said to them, "Do not force people to give you money by threatening them, and
\v 37 Lamech was the son of Methuselah. Methuselah was the son of Enoch. Enoch was the son of Jared. Jared was the son of Mahalalel. Mahalalel was the son of Cainan.
\v 38 Cainan was the son of Enos. Enos was the son of Seth. Seth was the son of Adam. Adam was the son of God, the man God created.
\s5
\c 4
\p
\v 1 Then Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan River, and the Holy Spirit led him into the wilderness.
\v 2 The Holy Spirit led him around in the wilderness for forty days. While he was there, the devil kept tempting him. During the entire time Jesus was in the wilderness he did not eat anything, so when the forty days were over, he was very hungry.
\s5
\v 3 Then the devil said to Jesus, "If you really are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread for you to eat!"
\p
\v 4 Jesus replied, "No, I will not do that, because it is written in the scriptures, 'People need more than just food in order to live.'"
\s5
\p
\v 5 Then the devil took Jesus up to the top of a high mountain and showed him in an instant all the nations in the world.
@ -409,6 +420,7 @@ He said to them, "Do not force people to give you money by threatening them, and
\v 12 But Jesus replied, "No, I will not do that, because it is written in the scriptures: 'Do not try to test the Lord your God.'"
\p
\v 13 Then, after the devil had finished trying to tempt Jesus in many ways, he left him until a later time.
\s5
\p
\v 14 After this, Jesus left the wilderness and returned to the district of Galilee. The Holy Spirit was empowering him. Throughout that region, people heard about Jesus and told others about him.
@ -444,6 +456,7 @@ He said to them, "Do not force people to give you money by threatening them, and
\v 25 But think about this: There were many widows in Israel during the time when the prophet Elijah lived, when there was a great famine throughout the country because there had been no rain for three and half years.
\v 26 But God did not send Elijah to help any of those Israelite widows. God sent him to the town of Zarephath near the city of Sidon to help a widow.
\v 27 There were also many Israelite lepers in Israel during the time when the prophet Elisha lived. But Elisha did not heal any of them. He healed only Naaman, a man from Syria."
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\v 28 When all the people in the synagogue heard him say that, they were very angry.
\v 29 So they all got up and shoved him out of the city. They took him to the top of the hill outside their city in order to throw him off the cliff and kill him.
@ -453,9 +466,11 @@ He said to them, "Do not force people to give you money by threatening them, and
\p
\v 31 One day he went down to Capernaum, a city in the district of Galilee. On the next Sabbath, he taught the people in the synagogue.
\v 32 They were continually amazed at what he was teaching, because he spoke with confidence.
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\v 33 That day, there was a man in the synagogue who was controlled by an evil spirit. The man shouted very loudly,
\v 34 "Ha! Jesus, from Nazareth! Evil spirits have nothing to do with you! Have you come to destroy us all? I know who you are. You are the Holy One from God!"
\s5
\p
\v 35 Jesus rebuked the evil spirit, saying, "Be quiet and come out of him!" The demon threw the man down on the ground in the midst of the people and came out of him without harming him.
@ -479,7 +494,6 @@ He said to them, "Do not force people to give you money by threatening them, and
\v 43 But he said to them, "I must tell people in other cities also the message about how God is going to rule everyone, because that is what I was sent to do."
\v 44 So he kept preaching in the synagogues in various towns in the province of Judea.
\s5
\c 5
\p
@ -526,6 +540,7 @@ He said to them, "Do not force people to give you money by threatening them, and
\v 20 When Jesus perceived that they believed that he could heal the man, he said to him, "Friend, I forgive your sins!"
\p
\v 21 The men who were expert teachers of the Jewish laws and the rest of the Pharisees began to think to themselves, "This man is proud and insults God by saying that! We all know that nobody except God can forgive sins!"
\s5
\p
\v 22 Jesus knew what they were thinking. So he said to them, "You should not question within yourselves about what I said! Consider this:
@ -567,7 +582,6 @@ He said to them, "Do not force people to give you money by threatening them, and
\p
\v 39 Furthermore, those who have drunk only old wine are content with that. They do not want to drink the new wine, because they say, 'The old wine is good!'"
\s5
\c 6
\p
@ -611,6 +625,7 @@ He said to them, "Do not force people to give you money by threatening them, and
\v 20 Then he looked at his disciples and said, "It is very good for you who are poor, because God is ruling you.
\v 21 It is very good for you who are hungry now, because God will give you everything you need.
\p It is very good for you who are grieving now, because God will someday make you laugh with joy.
\s5
\p
\v 22 It is very good when other people hate you, when they reject you, when they insult you and say that you are evil because you follow me, the Son of Man.
@ -624,6 +639,7 @@ He said to them, "Do not force people to give you money by threatening them, and
\s5
\v 26 How sad it is when everyone says good things about you. In the same way, their ancestors used to say good things about men who falsely claimed to be God's prophets.
\s5
\p
\v 27 "But I say this to each of you who are listening to what I say: Love your enemies, not only your friends! Do good things for those who hate you!
@ -678,7 +694,6 @@ He said to them, "Do not force people to give you money by threatening them, and
\s5
\v 49 But some people who hear my teachings do not obey them. They are like a man who built a house on top of the ground without building a foundation. When the river flooded, the house collapsed immediately and was completely ruined."
\s5
\c 7
\p
@ -699,7 +714,6 @@ He said to them, "Do not force people to give you money by threatening them, and
\s5
\p
\v 9 When Jesus heard what the officer had said, he was amazed at him. Then he turned to the crowd that was with him and said, "I tell you, I have not found any Israelite who trusts me as much as this Gentile does!"
\v 10 When those people who had come from the centurion returned to his house, they found out that the slave was in good health again.
\p
@ -789,7 +803,6 @@ Jesus said to him, "You are correct."
\p
\v 50 But Jesus said to the woman, "Because you have believed in me, God has saved you. May God give you peace as you go!"
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\c 8
\p
@ -906,6 +919,7 @@ As everyone around Jesus was saying they had not touched him, Peter said, "Maste
\s5
\v 47 And when the woman realized that she could not hide, she came trembling to him and she lay facedown on the ground before him. As the other people were listening, she told Jesus why she had touched him and that she had been healed immediately.
\v 48 And Jesus said to her, "My dear woman, because you believed that I could heal you, you are now well. Now go on your way, and may God's peace be with you."
\s5
\p
\v 49 While he was still speaking to her, a man from Jairus' house came and said to Jairus, "Your daughter has died. So do not bother the teacher anymore!"
@ -922,7 +936,6 @@ As everyone around Jesus was saying they had not touched him, Peter said, "Maste
\v 55 And immediately her spirit returned to her body and she got up. Jesus told them to give her something to eat.
\v 56 And her parents were amazed, but Jesus told them not to tell anyone else yet what had happened.
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\c 9
\p
@ -1067,12 +1080,12 @@ But that person said, "Lord, let me first go home and bury my father after he di
\p
\v 62 Jesus said to him, "Anyone who starts plowing his field and then looks behind him is not able to serve God when he rules everything as king."
\s5
\c 10
\p
\v 1 After that, the Lord Jesus appointed seventy other people to go preach. He prepared to send them out in pairs to go ahead of him to every town and village where he intended to go.
\v 2 He said to them, "The harvest is certainly plentiful, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord of the harvest and plead with him to send more workers to reap his harvest.
\s5
\v 3 Go now, but remember that I am sending you out to tell my message to people who will try to get rid of you. You will be like lambs among wolves.
\v 4 Do not take along any money. Do not take a traveler's bag. Do not take extra shoes. Do not stop to greet people along the way.
@ -1163,7 +1176,6 @@ Jesus said to him, "Yes, so now you should go and act like that toward everyone
\v 41 But the Lord replied, "Martha, Martha, you are very worried about many things.
\v 42 But the only thing that is truly necessary is to listen to what I am teaching. Mary has made the best choice. The blessing that she is receiving from doing that will not be taken away from her."
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\c 11
\p
@ -1231,7 +1243,6 @@ Jesus said to him, "Yes, so now you should go and act like that toward everyone
\v 29 As more and more people were coming to join the crowd around Jesus, he said, "The people living at this time are evil people. Many of you want me to perform a miracle as proof that I have come from God. But the only proof that you will receive is a miracle like what happened to Jonah.
\v 30 Just as the miracle that God did for Jonah long ago was a testimony to the people from the city of Nineveh, so God will do a similar miracle for the Son of Man that will be a testimony to you people living now.
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\v 31 Long ago the Queen of Sheba traveled a very long distance to hear Solomon speak wise things. And now someone who is much greater than Solomon is here, but you have not really listened to what I say. Therefore, at the time when God will judge all people, this queen will stand there and condemn the people alive now.
@ -1286,7 +1297,6 @@ Jesus said to him, "Yes, so now you should go and act like that toward everyone
\v 53 After Jesus finished saying those things, he left there. Then the men who taught the Jewish laws and the Pharisees began to act in a very hostile way toward him. They intensely questioned him about many things.
\v 54 They kept waiting for him to say something wrong for which they could accuse him.
\s5
\c 12
\p
@ -1413,7 +1423,6 @@ Jesus said to him, "Yes, so now you should go and act like that toward everyone
\v 58 You should try to settle things with someone who has accused you while you are still on the way to the court. If he forces you to go to the judge, the judge could decide that you are guilty and turn you over to the court officer. Then that officer will put you in prison.
\v 59 I tell you that if you go to prison, you will never get out until you are able to pay every bit of what the judge says you owe."
\s5
\c 13
\p
@ -1498,7 +1507,6 @@ But he will reply, 'No, I will not open it, because I do not know you, and I do
\v 34 "Oh, people of Jerusalem! You killed the prophets who lived long ago and you killed others whom God sent to you by throwing stones at them. Many times I wanted to gather you together to protect you like a hen gathers her young chicks under her wings. But you did not want me to do that.
\v 35 Now look! God will no longer protect you, people of Jerusalem. I will also tell you this: I will enter your city only once more. After that, you will not see me until the time when I return, when you will say about me, 'May God bless this man who comes with God's authority!'"
\s5
\c 14
\p
@ -1577,7 +1585,6 @@ But he will reply, 'No, I will not open it, because I do not know you, and I do
\v 34 Jesus also said, "You are like salt, which is very useful. But if salt were to lose its saltiness, could it ever be made to taste salty again?
\v 35 If salt does not taste salty anymore, it is no longer any good even for the soil or manure heap. People just throw it away. Every one of you should think carefully about what you just heard me say!"
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\c 15
\p
@ -1645,7 +1652,6 @@ But he will reply, 'No, I will not open it, because I do not know you, and I do
\v 31 But his father said to him, 'My son, you are always with me, and all that I own is yours.
\v 32 But it is right for us to rejoice and celebrate, because it is as though your brother was dead and is alive again! It is as though he was lost and has now been found!'"
\s5
\c 16
\p
@ -1725,7 +1731,6 @@ The man replied, 'I owe you 22,000 liters of wheat.' The manager said to him, 'T
\p
\v 31 Abraham said to him, 'No! If they do not listen to what Moses and the prophets wrote, even if someone would rise from among the dead and go warn them, they would still not be convinced that they should turn from their sinful behavior.'"
\s5
\c 17
\p
@ -1908,7 +1913,6 @@ He replied, "Lord, I want you to enable me to see!"
\v 42 Jesus said to him, "Then see! Because you have trusted in me, I have healed you!"
\v 43 Immediately he was able to see. And he went with Jesus, praising God. And when all the people there saw this, they also praised God.
\s5
\c 19
\p
@ -2022,7 +2026,6 @@ He replied, "Lord, I want you to enable me to see!"
\v 47 Each day during that week Jesus was teaching people in the temple courtyard. The chief priests, the teachers of religious laws, and other Jewish leaders were trying to find a way to kill him.
\v 48 But they did not find any way to do it, because all the people were eager to hear him.
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\c 20
\p
@ -2076,6 +2079,7 @@ When the people listening to Jesus heard this, they said, "May a situation like
\p
\v 19 The chief priests and the teachers of the Jewish laws realized that he was accusing them when he told the story about those wicked men. So they immediately tried to find a way to arrest him, but they did not arrest him, because they were afraid of what the people would do if they did so.
\v 20 So they watched him carefully. They also sent spies who pretended to be sincere. But they really wanted to get Jesus to say something wrong for which they could accuse him. They wanted to be able to turn him over to the governor of the province.
\s5
\v 21 So one of the spies asked him, "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right. You tell the truth even if important people do not like it. You teach truthfully what God wants us to do.
\v 22 So tell us what you think about this matter: Is it right that we pay taxes to the Roman government, or not?"
@ -2137,15 +2141,14 @@ So they showed him a coin and said, "It has the picture and name of Caesar, the
\v 46 "Beware that you do not act like the men who teach our Jewish laws. They like to put on long robes and walk around to make people think that they are very important. They also like people to greet them respectfully in the marketplaces. They like to sit in the most important places in the synagogues. At dinner parties they like to sit in the seats where the most honored people sit.
\v 47 They also steal all the property of widows. Then they pray for a long time in public. God will certainly punish them very severely."
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\c 21
\p
\v 1 Jesus looked up from where he was sitting and saw rich people putting their gifts into the temple offering box.
\v 2 He also saw a poor widow put in two small coins of very little value.
\v 3 And he said to his disciples, "The truth is that this poor widow has put into the offering box more money than all these rich people.
\v 4 For they all have a lot of money, but they gave only a small part of it. But this widow, who is very poor, has given all the money that she had to buy what she needed.
\s5
\p
\v 5 Some of Jesus' disciples were talking about how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and decorations that people had given. But Jesus said,
@ -2205,10 +2208,12 @@ So they showed him a coin and said, "It has the picture and name of Caesar, the
\s5
\v 32 I am telling you the truth: This generation of people will not come to an end before all these things that I have just now described happen.
\v 33 The sky and the earth will come to an end, but what I tell you will never come to an end.
\s5
\p
\v 34 "Be very careful to control yourselves. Do not go to parties where people are acting immorally or getting drunk. And do not carry the cares of this life with you. If you live this way, you will stop waiting for me to return. And then, at that moment, I will surprise you when I come. I will come so suddenly it will be like what happens when an animal trap springs closed without warning.
\v 35 Indeed, I will return without warning, and that day will come when you are not ready to see me.
\s5
\v 36 So you must be always ready for my coming. And always pray that you may be able to go through all these hard things in safety, and that I, the Son of Man, declare you innocent when I come to judge the world."
@ -2217,7 +2222,6 @@ So they showed him a coin and said, "It has the picture and name of Caesar, the
\v 37 Each day Jesus was teaching people in the temple. But every evening he went out of the city and stayed all night on the Mount of Olives.
\v 38 And early every morning all the people came to the temple to listen to him.
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\c 22
\p
@ -2228,6 +2232,7 @@ So they showed him a coin and said, "It has the picture and name of Caesar, the
\p
\v 3 Then Satan entered into Judas, the one called Iscariot, who was one of the twelve disciples.
\v 4 He went and talked with the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard about how he might turn Jesus over to them.
\s5
\v 5 They were very pleased that he wanted to do that. They offered to pay him money for doing it.
\v 6 So Judas agreed, and then he started looking for a way to help them arrest Jesus when there was no crowd around him.
@ -2254,7 +2259,6 @@ So they showed him a coin and said, "It has the picture and name of Caesar, the
\v 15 He said to them, "I have wanted very much to eat this Passover meal with you before I suffer and die.
\v 16 I tell you, I will not eat it again until I do so when God rules everyone everywhere, when he finishes what he started to do in the Passover."
\s5
\v 17 Then he took a cup of wine and thanked God for it. He said, "Take this, and share it among yourselves.
\v 18 For I tell you that I will not drink any of this wine again until God rules everyone everywhere."
@ -2262,6 +2266,7 @@ So they showed him a coin and said, "It has the picture and name of Caesar, the
\s5
\v 19 Then he took some bread and thanked God for it. He broke it into pieces and gave it to them to eat. As he did so, he said, "This bread is my body, which I am about to sacrifice for you. Do this later to honor me."
\v 20 In the same way, after they had eaten the meal, he took the cup of wine and said, "This is the new covenant I will make using my own blood, which will pour out for you.
\s5
\v 21 But, look! The person who will hand me over to my enemies is here eating with me.
\v 22 Indeed, I, the Son of Man, will die, because that is what God has planned. But how terrible it will be for the man who hands me over to my enemies!"
@ -2276,23 +2281,19 @@ So they showed him a coin and said, "It has the picture and name of Caesar, the
\s5
\v 26 But you should not be like those rulers! Instead, the most honored persons among you should act as if they were the youngest, and the one who leads must act like a servant.
\v 27 For you know that the important person is the one who eats at the table, not the servant who brings the food. But I am your servant.
\s5
\p
\v 28 "You are the persons who have stayed with me during all the hard things I have suffered.
\v 29 So now, I will make you powerful officials when God rules everyone, just as my Father appointed me to rule as a king.
\v 30 You will sit and eat and drink with me when I become king. In fact, you will sit on thrones to judge the people of the twelve tribes of Israel.
\s5
\p
\v 31 "Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked God to let him test you like someone shakes grain in a sieve, and God has permitted him to do it.
\v 32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that you will not completely stop believing in me. So when you come back to me, give courage again to these men, your brothers.
\s5
\p
\v 33 Peter said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison; I am willing to die with you!"
@ -2335,6 +2336,7 @@ He replied, "Enough. Do not talk like this any longer."
\p
\v 47 While Jesus was still speaking, a crowd of people came to him. Judas, one of the twelve disciples, was leading them. He came up to Jesus to kiss him.
\v 48 But Jesus said to him, "Judas, will you really kiss me, the Son of Man, in order to hand me over to my enemies?"
\s5
\p
\v 49 When the disciples realized what was happening, they said, "Lord, shall we strike them with our swords?"
@ -2344,6 +2346,7 @@ He replied, "Enough. Do not talk like this any longer."
\s5
\v 52-53 Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guards, and the Jewish elders who had come to arrest him, "It is surprising that you have come here with swords and clubs to arrest me, as if I were a robber. For many days I was with you in the temple, but you did not try to arrest me at all! But this is the time you are doing what you want. It is also the time when Satan is doing the evil things as he wants to do."
\s5
\p
\v 54 They seized Jesus and led him away. They brought him to the high priest's house. Peter followed them far behind.
@ -2391,7 +2394,6 @@ But he replied, "If I say that I am he, you will not believe me.
He answered, "Yes, it is just like you say."
\v 71 Then they said to each other, "We certainly do not need any more people to testify against him! We ourselves have heard him say that he is equal to God!"
\s5
\c 23
\p
@ -2494,6 +2496,7 @@ Jesus replied, "Yes, it is just as you have asked me."
\p
\v 44 Then it was about noontime. But it became dark over all the land until three o'clock in the afternoon.
\v 45 There was no light from the sun. And the thick curtain that closed off the most holy place in the temple split into two pieces.
\s5
\v 46 When that happened, Jesus shouted loudly, "Father, I put my spirit into your care!" After he said that, he stopped breathing and died.
\p
@ -2516,10 +2519,8 @@ Jesus replied, "Yes, it is just as you have asked me."
\v 55 The women who had come with Jesus from the district of Galilee followed Joseph and the men who were with him. They saw the burial chamber, and they saw how the men laid Jesus' body inside it.
\v 56 Then the women went back to where they were staying in order to get spices and ointments to put on Jesus' body. However, they did no work on the Sabbath, just as the Jewish law required.
\s5
\c 24
\p
\v 1 Before dawn on Sunday those women went to the burial chamber. They took with them the spices that they had prepared to put on the body of Jesus.
\v 2 When they arrived, they discovered that somebody had rolled the stone away from the entrance to the burial chamber.
@ -2541,7 +2542,6 @@ Jesus replied, "Yes, it is just as you have asked me."
\s5
\v 11 But the apostles dismissed their words as nonsense.
\v 12 However, Peter got up and ran to the burial chamber anyway. He stooped down and looked inside. He saw the linen cloths in which Jesus' body had been wrapped, but Jesus was not there. So, wondering what had happened, he went home.
\p
\s5
@ -2630,4 +2630,3 @@ They replied, "The things that happened to Jesus, the man from Nazareth, who was
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\v 52 After they worshiped him, they returned to Jerusalem very joyfully.
\v 53 Each day they went into the temple courtyard, and spent a lot of time praising God.

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\v 9 This was the true light that shines upon everyone, and that light was coming into the world.
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\p
\v 10 The Word was in the world and, although he had made the world, none of its people knew who he was.
@ -93,6 +95,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 40 One of those two disciples who followed Jesus was named Andrew; he was Simon Peter's brother.
\v 41 Andrew first went off to find his brother Simon. When he came to him, he said, "We have found the Messiah (which means Christ)!"
\v 42 Andrew took Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked intently at Peter, and said, "You are Simon. Your father's name is John. You will be given the name Cephas." Cephas is an Aramaic name that means 'solid rock.' (Peter means the same thing in Greek.)
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\v 43 The next day Jesus decided to leave the Jordan River valley. He went to the region around Galilee and found a man named Philip. Jesus said to him, "Come with me."
@ -114,6 +117,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\p
\v 1 Three days later, there was a wedding in Cana, a city in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was there.
\v 2 They also invited Jesus and his disciples to the wedding.
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\v 3 They served wine to those attending the wedding and they drank all the wine they had. Jesus' mother said to him, "They are out of wine."
\v 4 Jesus said to her, "Madam, what does that have to do with me? The chosen time to begin my most important work has not come yet."
@ -161,7 +165,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 24 Nevertheless, Jesus knew what people were like, and because he knew them so well, he did not trust them.
\v 25 He did not need anyone to tell him how evil people were. He knew everything about them.
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\c 3
\p
@ -193,7 +196,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 14 Long ago Moses, when he was in the wilderness during the Exodus, lifted up a poisonous snake on a pole and all who looked up at it were saved. In the same way, the Son of Man must be lifted up
\v 15 so that whoever looks up and trusts in him will have eternal life.
\s5
\p
\v 16 God loved the world in this way: He gave his only Son, so that anyone who trusts in him would not die, but would have everlasting life.
@ -205,7 +207,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 20 Everyone who does wicked deeds hates the light, and they never will come to it because the light exposes what they do and reveals how wicked they are.
\v 21 But those who do what is good and true come to the light so that what they do may be seen by all and so that all might know that they were obeying God when they did these things.
\s5
\p
\v 22 After those things happened, Jesus and his disciples went to the region of Judea. He stayed there a while with his disciples and he baptized many people.
@ -236,10 +237,8 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 35 The Father loves the Son and he puts everything under his power.
\v 36 Whoever trusts in God's Son has everlasting life. Whoever does not obey the Son of God can never have everlasting life, and the righteous fury of God for every sin which that person has done will remain upon him forever."
\s5
\c 4
\p
\v 1 Jesus got a report about the Pharisees. They found out that Jesus was gaining more followers than John the Baptizer and that he was baptizing more people than John was.
\v 2 But Jesus himself was not personally doing the work of baptizing; his disciples were doing that.
@ -257,9 +256,11 @@ John answered, "No."
\s5
\v 9 The woman said to him, "I am surprised that you, a Jew, are asking me, a woman from Samaria, for a drink." (She was surprised that he spoke to her because it was common practice for Jews to have nothing to do with people from Samaria.)
\v 10 Jesus replied to her, "If you had known the gift that God wants to give you and if you had known who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked me for a drink, and I would have given you living water."
\s5
\v 11 "Sir, you do not have a bucket or a rope with which to draw the water up out of the well, and this well is deep. Where would you get this living water?
\v 12 You cannot be greater than our father Jacob. He dug this well that we use today, and he drank from it himself, as did his children and his animals."
\s5
\v 13 Jesus replied to her, "Everyone who drinks water from this well will be thirsty again,
\v 14 but those who drink the water I will give them will never be thirsty again. The water I give will become a spring of water that fills them up and brings them everlasting life."
@ -281,6 +282,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\s5
\v 21 Jesus said to her, "Madam, believe me when I say that a time is coming when neither here on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will people worship the Father.
\v 22 You people in Samaria worship what you do not know. We Jewish worshipers know whom we worship because salvation comes from the Jews.
\s5
\v 23 The time is coming and has now arrived when those who truly worship God will worship the Father spiritually and in truth. The Father searches for such people so that they may worship him in this way.
\v 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship him spiritually, and the truth must lead them in worship."
@ -298,6 +300,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 28 The woman left her water jar there and went back into town. She said to the people of the town,
\v 29 "Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Can that man be the Christ?"
\v 30 Many people started heading out of town, going where Jesus was.
\s5
\p
\v 31 His disciples, who had just returned with the food, urged him, "Teacher, eat something."
@ -325,10 +328,9 @@ John answered, "No."
\s5
\p
\v 43 After those two days in Samaria, Jesus and his disciples left and went to the region of Galilee.
\v 44 (Jesus himself confirmed that a prophet receives honor in many places but never in the place where he grew up.)
\v 45 However, when he arrived in Galilee, many of the people there welcomed him. They knew who he was because they saw all the things he had done in Jerusalem during the recent Passover Festival that was held there.
\s5
\v 46 Jesus went back again to Cana in Galilee. (That was where he had turned the water into wine.) There was an official of the king who lived in Capernaum just twenty-seven kilometers away, and his son was very sick.
\v 47 When that man heard that Jesus had come back to Galilee from Judea, he went to Jesus in Cana and begged him, "Come down to Capernaum and heal my son. He is about to die!"
@ -347,10 +349,8 @@ John answered, "No."
\p
\v 54 That was the second time Jesus did something to prove to people who he was. He did it during the time that he came to the region of Galilee, having traveled there from Judea.
\s5
\c 5
\p
\v 1 Then the time came for another Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem for it.
\v 2 There is in Jerusalem beside one of the gates going into the city, a place called the Sheep Gate. At that gate there is a pool called Bethesda (as it said in Aramaic). Next to the pool are five roofed porches or colonnades.
@ -375,10 +375,12 @@ John answered, "No."
\s5
\v 12 They asked him, "Who was that man?"
\v 13 Now although Jesus had healed the man, the man did not know his name. After healing him, Jesus had left the man and disappeared into the crowd.
\s5
\p
\v 14 Later, Jesus found the man in the temple and said to him, "See, you are well now. Do not sin anymore, so nothing worse will happen to you."
\v 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that the man who had healed him was Jesus.
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\v 16 So the Jews began efforts to stop Jesus because he was doing marvelous things and was showing his power and because he often did those works on the Sabbath day.
\v 17 Jesus gave this answer to them, "My Father is working even now, and I am also working."
@ -393,17 +395,22 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 21 As the Father raises up those who have died and gives them life again, so I, the Son, give life to anyone I want.
\v 22 The Father judges no one, but has given over all judgment to me,
\v 23 so that all people may honor me, the Son, in the same way that they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor me cannot honor the Father.
\s5
\v 24 I am telling you the truth: Anyone who hears my message and trusts that God sent me has eternal life and will not come into God's judgment. Instead, he has gone from being dead to being alive.
\s5
\p
\v 25 I am telling you the truth: A time is coming when those who have died will hear my voice, that of me, the Son of God, and those who hear me will live.
\s5
\v 26 For as the Father is able to cause people to live, in the same way he has given power to me, the Son, to cause them to live.
\v 27 The Father has given me authority to do whatever he knows is just, because I am the Son of Man.
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\v 28 Do not be surprised at this because there will be a time when all people who have died will hear me call,
\v 29 and they will come out of their graves. God will raise to everlasting life those who have done good. But those who have done evil—God will raise them up, but only to condemn them and punish them forever.
\s5
\v 30 I can do nothing on my own. Whatever I hear from the Father, that is how I judge, and I judge in a just manner. I judge justly because I do not try to do what I want, but what the Father wants, he who sent me here.
\p
@ -414,10 +421,12 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 33 You sent messengers to John the Baptizer, and he told you the truth about me.
\v 34 I do not actually need for him or anyone else to be a witness about me, but I am saying these things so that God can save you.
\v 35 John the Baptizer was a burning and shining lamp, and you were glad to rejoice for a while in his light.
\s5
\v 36 However, the witness I give about myself is even greater than the witness John gave about me. All the things that the Father has allowed me to do—I do those things every day, and you see me doing them—those things tell much about who I am; they explain my purpose for coming here. They are proof that the Father has sent me.
\v 37 The Father who sent me, he is the one who has given testimony about me. You have never heard his voice and you have never seen him physically.
\v 38 The proof that you do not have his word living in you is that you do not trust me, the one he sent.
\s5
\v 39 You carefully study the scriptures because you think that by studying them you will find eternal life, and those scriptures tell about me.
\v 40 Yet still you refuse to come to me in order that you might receive everlasting life from me.
@ -426,6 +435,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\p
\v 41 If people praise me or congratulate me, I ignore them.
\v 42 I know this about you, you do not love God.
\s5
\v 43 I have come with my Father's authority, but still you do not welcome me or trust me. If someone else came with his own authority, you would listen to him.
\v 44 How can you trust in me when you work so hard for others among yourselves to honor you? Yet all the while, you refuse to seek the true honor that comes from the one and only God.
@ -436,7 +446,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 46 If you had accepted what Moses said, you would have received what I said as the truth.
\v 47 Since you did not even believe in what Moses wrote, how could you possibly trust what I have said to you!"
\s5
\c 6
\p
@ -498,6 +507,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\s5
\v 30 So they said to him, "Then perform another miracle to prove who you are so that we can see it and believe that you came from God. What will you do for us?
\v 31 Our ancestors ate manna, just as the scriptures say: 'God gave them bread out of the heavens to eat.'"
\s5
\p
\v 32 Jesus said to them, "I am telling you the truth: It was not Moses who gave your ancestors that bread from heaven. No, it was my Father, the same one who is giving you the true bread from heaven.
@ -546,6 +556,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 54 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood will live forever, and I will make them alive again at the last day
\v 55 because my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.
\v 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood will be joined to me, and I will be joined to him.
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\v 57 My Father, who makes everyone alive, has sent me, and I live because my Father has made me able to. In the same way, those who feed on me will live forever because of what I will do for them.
\v 58 I am the true bread that comes down from heaven. Anyone who eats me—this bread—will never die, but will live forever! What I do is not like what happened to your ancestors because they ate the manna and then died."
@ -576,10 +587,8 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 70 Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve disciples? Yet one of you is a devil!"
\v 71 He was talking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. Even though Judas was one of the twelve, he was also the one who would later betray Jesus.
\s5
\c 7
\p
\v 1 After this, Jesus went to other areas in the region of Galilee. He avoided traveling to Judea because the Jewish authorities were searching for a way to charge him with a crime and to have him put to death.
\v 2 Now it was time for the Jewish Festival of Shelters. This was a time to remember when the Jewish people lived in tents during the Exodus long ago.
@ -605,6 +614,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\s5
\v 12 Among the crowds, many people were quietly speaking with each other about Jesus. Some were saying, "He is a good man!" Others were saying instead, "No! He is deceiving and misleading the crowds!"
\v 13 Because they were afraid of the Jewish enemies of Jesus, no one spoke of him in a public place where other people could overhear what they were saying.
\s5
\p
\v 14 When the Festival of Shelters was about half over, Jesus went to the temple courtyard and started to teach there.
@ -614,6 +624,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\s5
\v 17 If anyone chooses to do what God wants, he will find out if what I teach comes from God or if I speak only by my own authority.
\v 18 Anyone who speaks on his own authority speaks so others will honor only him. However, if a servant works hard to honor the person who sent him, to give him a good reputation as a man of integrity, there is no fault in that kind of a servant.
\s5
\v 19 Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you does what the law demands. You are the ones plotting to murder me right now!
\p
@ -686,11 +697,11 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 50 Then Nicodemus spoke. (He was the one who had gone to see Jesus at night to speak with him, and he was one of the Pharisees.) He said to them,
\v 51 "Our Jewish law does not permit us to condemn a man before we have listened to him. First, we give him a hearing, and we must learn about what he has done."
\v 52 They replied to him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search carefully and read what is written in the scriptures! You will find that no prophet comes from Galilee."
\s5
\p
\v 53 [Then they all left and went to their own homes.
\s5
\c 8
\p
@ -754,7 +765,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 29 He who sent me is with me, and he has not left me alone because I do only the things that delight him."
\v 30 As Jesus was saying these things, many more people trusted in him.
\s5
\p
\v 31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who now were saying that they trusted in him, "If you listen to all I teach you and live by it in everything you do, you are truly my disciples.
@ -765,6 +775,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 34 Jesus replied, "I am telling you the truth: All who sin obey their sinful desires just as a slave is forced to obey his master.
\v 35 Slaves will not remain as permanent members of a family but may be set free to return home or sold. However, a son is a member of the family forever.
\v 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be absolutely free.
\s5
\v 37 I know that you are in Abraham's family; you are his descendants. Yet, your people are trying to put me to death. You will not trust anything I say.
\v 38 I tell you all about the wonders and wisdom my Father has shown me, but you are only doing what your father told you to do."
@ -810,7 +821,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 58 Jesus said to them, "I am telling you the truth, before Abraham was, I AM."
\v 59 So they picked up stones to put him to death. However, Jesus hid himself, left the temple, and went somewhere else.
\s5
\c 9
\p
@ -836,7 +846,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 11 He replied, "The man called Jesus made some mud and used it like medicine and put it on my eyes. Then he told me to go to the pool of Siloam and wash. So I went there and washed, and then I could see for the first time."
\v 12 They said to him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I do not know."
\s5
\p
\v 13 Some of the people there took the man to a gathering of the Pharisees.
@ -893,7 +902,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 40 Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard him say this, and they asked Jesus, "Are we also blind?"
\v 41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no guilt. However, because you now defend yourself and say, 'We see,' your guilt is staying with you.
\s5
\c 10
\p
@ -912,6 +920,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\s5
\v 7 So Jesus spoke to them again, "I am telling you the truth: I am the gate through which all the sheep enter into the pen.
\v 8 All who came before me, they were thieves and criminals who stole the sheep; but the sheep did not listen to them, and they would not follow them.
\s5
\v 9 I myself am like that gate. If anyone enters through the gate and goes into the pen where the sheep are, he will be safe, and he will go out and find good pasture.
\v 10 The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and that life will be full to overflowing.
@ -937,7 +946,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 20 Many of them said, "A demon is controlling him and has caused him to become crazy. Do not waste time listening to him!"
\v 21 Others said, "What he is saying is not something a man oppressed by a demon would ever say. No demon can open the eyes of a blind man!"
\s5
\p
\v 22 The time for the celebration called the Festival of Dedication had now come, the time when the Jewish people remembered when their ancestors purified the temple in Jerusalem and gave it to God again. It was in the winter.
@ -979,7 +987,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 41 Many people came to him. They were saying, "John the Baptizer never performed a miracle, but this man has performed many miracles! Everything that John said about this man is true!"
\v 42 Many people came to trust him; they put their trust in who he was and in what he would do for them.
\s5
\c 11
\p
@ -1014,7 +1021,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 15 Jesus continued, "But, for your sakes, I am glad that I was not there when he died so that you may see why you can trust in me. Now it is time; let us go to him."
\v 16 Then Thomas, who was called 'The Twin,' said to the rest of the disciples, "Let us also go with Jesus so that we may die with him."
\s5
\p
\v 17 When Jesus arrived in Bethany, he found that Lazarus had already died and had been in the tomb for four days.
@ -1052,13 +1058,13 @@ John answered, "No."
\s5
\v 36 So the Jews said, "See how much he loved Lazarus!"
\v 37 However, some others said, "Did he not open the eyes of the blind man? Why could he not have kept this man from dying?"
\s5
\p
\v 38 Jesus was physically shaken and emotionally upset when he came to the tomb. It was a cave, and the entrance had been covered by a large stone.
\v 39 Jesus gave a command to those standing there, "Take away the stone." However, Martha objected, "Lord, by this time there will be a putrid odor, for he has been dead for four days."
\v 40 Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you the truth when I told you that if you trusted me, you would see who God is and you would know what God can do?"
\s5
\p
\v 41 So they took away the stone. Jesus looked up toward heaven and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
@ -1068,7 +1074,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 43 After he said that, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"
\v 44 The man who had died came out! His hands were still wrapped and his feet were still bound with linen strips of cloth, and there was a cloth wrapped around his face as well. Jesus said to them, "Take off the strips of cloth that bind him and untie him. Let him go."
\s5
\p
\v 45 As a result, many of the Jews who had come to see Mary and who had witnessed what Jesus did, put their trust in him.
@ -1078,7 +1083,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered all the members of the Jewish council together. They were saying to each other, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many miracles.
\v 48 If we allow him to keep doing them, everyone will trust in him and rebel against Rome. Then the Roman army will come and destroy both our temple and our nation!"
\s5
\p
\v 49 One of them on the council was Caiaphas, the high priest for that year. He said to them, "You all know nothing!
@ -1111,6 +1115,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 4 However, one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, (he was the one who broke the trust Jesus had in him, and soon he would give Jesus up to his enemies)—he objected and said,
\v 5 "We should have sold this perfume for three hundred days' wages and given the money to the poor."
\v 6 He said this, not because he cared about the poor people, but because he was a thief. He kept charge of the bag that held their money, but he would take money for his own use whenever he wanted.
\s5
\v 7 Then Jesus said, "Leave her alone! She bought this perfume for the day when I would die and they would bury me.
\v 8 You will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me."
@ -1136,13 +1141,13 @@ John answered, "No."
\s5
\p
\v 16 When this happened, his disciples did not understand that this was a fulfillment of prophecy. However, after Jesus had finished his work and had received again his full powers as God, they looked back and remembered what the prophets had written about him and what people had done to him.
\s5
\p
\v 17 The crowd that was following along with Jesus kept telling others what they had seen: That Jesus had called Lazarus out of the tomb and had made him alive again.
\v 18 The other crowd of people, those who went out of the city gate to meet Jesus, did so because they heard he had done great things to show them his power.
\v 19 So the Pharisees said to each other, "See! We are gaining no advantage here. Look! The whole world is following him!"
\s5
\p
\v 20 Among those who went up to Jerusalem during the Passover Festival were some Greeks.
@ -1161,8 +1166,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\p
\v 27 Now my soul is greatly troubled. Should I say, 'Father, save me from this time when I will suffer and die!'? No, for this is the very reason I came into this world.
\v 28 My Father, show how powerful you are in all you have said, in all you have done, and in all you are!"
\p Then God spoke from heaven, "I have already displayed my nature, my words, and my works; and I will do it again!"
\v 29 The crowd that was there heard the voice of God, but some said it was just thunder. Others said an angel had spoken to Jesus.
@ -1203,7 +1206,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 42 Although this was true, many of the leaders of the Jewish people put their trust in Jesus. Nevertheless, they greatly feared that the Pharisees would ban them from the synagogues, so they did not speak out about trusting in Jesus.
\v 43 They preferred that other people praise and respect them rather than that God would praise them.
\s5
\p
\v 44 Jesus shouted out to the crowd that had gathered, "Those who put their trust in me are not only putting their trust in me but also are putting their trust in the Father who sent me.
@ -1213,12 +1215,12 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 46 I have come into the world as the light of the world; whoever puts his trust in me will not remain in the darkness.
\p
\v 47 I do not judge those who listen to my words but refuse to obey me. I did not come into the world to condemn the world.
\s5
\v 48 Yet, there is something that will condemn those who reject me and do not follow my message. They are condemned by the message I have spoken to them.
\v 49 When I taught about God, I was not merely saying what I thought. The Father, who sent me, gave me clear instructions on what I should say and how I should say it.
\v 50 I know that the Father's most important instructions are the ones that teach people how to live forever, and I have said exactly what my Father has told me to say."
\s5
\c 13
\p
@ -1262,6 +1264,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\p
\v 21 After Jesus said this, he was troubled within himself. He solemnly declared, "I am telling you the truth: One of you is going to hand me over to my enemies."
\v 22 The disciples looked at one another. They were confused about which of them he was talking about.
\s5
\v 23 One of the disciples, John, the one whom Jesus especially loved, was at the table next to Jesus.
\v 24 Simon Peter motioned to John that he should ask Jesus which disciple he was talking about.
@ -1276,7 +1279,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 29 Some thought that because Judas had the money bag, Jesus was telling him to go and buy some things needed for the Passover Festival. Others thought Jesus was telling Judas to give something to the poor.
\v 30 After receiving the bread, immediately Judas went out. It was night.
\s5
\p
\v 31 After Judas left, Jesus said, "Now God will make people know what I, the Son of Man, am doing. I, the Son of Man, will make people know what God is doing as well, and people will praise him for it.
@ -1351,16 +1353,17 @@ John answered, "No."
\p
\v 28 "You heard me say to you that I am going away and will later come back to you. If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going back to the Father because the Father is greater than I am.
\v 29 I have told you these things now before they happen so that, when they do happen, you will continue to trust me.
\s5
\v 30 I will not be able to talk with you much longer because the ruler of this world is coming. However, he has no power over me,
\v 31 and I will do what the Father has commanded me to do. This is so that the world will know forever that I love the Father. Come, let us go from here."
\s5
\c 15
\p
\v 1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
\v 2 Every branch in me that does not grow fruit—my Father cuts it off and takes it away. As for every branch that gives good fruit, he makes it clean by pruning it so that it may produce even more fruit.
\s5
\v 3 You are already pure because of the message I spoke to you.
\v 4 Remain joined to me, and I will remain joined to you. As the branch cannot bear any fruit on its own, neither can you bear fruit unless you stay joined to me and depend upon me for everything."
@ -1392,11 +1395,11 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you for a reason, so that you should go out and bear much fruit and so that your fruit should last forever. As a result, everything you ask the Father in my name, he will do for you.
\v 17 This is what I command you to do: Love one another."
\s5
\p
\v 18 "If the world despises you, you should realize that it hated me first.
\v 19 If you belonged to the unbelievers in this world, the world would love you, and you would love what they love and do what they do. But you do not belong to them; instead, I chose you to come out from among them. That is the reason the unbelievers in this world despise you.
\s5
\v 20 Remember when I taught you this: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' Since they have made me suffer, you can be sure they will make you suffer also. If any of them have received my teachings and followed them, they will also follow what you teach them.
\v 21 The unbelievers in this world will do horrible things to you because you represent me and because they do not know my Father, who has sent me to you.
@ -1412,17 +1415,16 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 26 "When the Helper comes, he is the one who will come from the Father and who will comfort you. He is the Spirit who tells the truth about God and me. He will tell everyone who I am, and he will show everyone all that I have done.
\v 27 You also must tell everyone what you know about me because you have been with me the whole time from the very first days when I began to teach the people and to do miracles."
\s5
\c 16
\p
\v 1 "I told you these things so that you would not stumble or stop trusting in me because of the difficulties you must face.
\v 2 Difficult days are ahead. Your enemies will stop you from worshiping in the synagogues. However, something even worse will happen. The days are coming when people will put you to death and think that they are pleasing God.
\s5
\v 3 They will do this because they have not known the Father or me.
\v 4 I have told you these things so that at the time when these hardships come, you will remember that I warned you. I did not tell you these things at the beginning because I was with you then.
\s5
\p
\v 5 "Now I am going back to the Father. He is the one who sent me. Yet none of you dares to ask me, 'Where are you going?'
@ -1440,10 +1442,9 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 12 "I have many more things I want to tell you. However, if I tell you now, you will not be able to live well knowing these things.
\v 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will lead you into all the truth you need to know. He will not speak from his own authority, but whatever he hears he will tell you, and he will tell you ahead of time about things that will happen.
\v 14 The Spirit will honor me by telling you who I am and showing you what I have done. He will explain to you everything he heard from me.
\s5
\v 15 Everything my Father has belongs to me. That is why I said that the Spirit will take whatever he receives from me and will explain it to you."
\p
\v 16 "In a little while, you will not see me. Then after a little while, you will see me again."
@ -1461,6 +1462,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 22 You, like her, have sorrow now, but I will see you again and God will give you great joy, joy no one can take from you.
\v 23 On that day, you will have no more questions to ask me. I am telling you the truth: Whatever you ask the Father, he will it give it to you when you ask because you are joined to me.
\v 24 Up until now, you have not asked for anything like that. Ask and you will receive it, and God will give you such joy that fills everything.
\s5
\p
\v 25 I have been speaking these things using language of parables and riddles, but there will soon be a time when I will no longer use that kind of language. Instead, I will tell you all about my Father in language that you can clearly understand.
@ -1481,7 +1483,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 32 Look! The time is coming when others will scatter you everywhere! Each one will go toward his own home, and you will leave me. However, I will not be alone because the Father is always with me.
\v 33 I have told you these things so you may have peace in me. In the world you have trials and sorrows, but be brave! I have conquered the world!"
\s5
\c 17
\p
@ -1493,7 +1494,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 4 I have brought all kinds of people to you to show them all about you. I did this by finishing the work you gave me.
\v 5 Father, give me honor by bringing me into your own presence, as we were before the time we created the world."
\s5
\p
\v 6 "Those whom you chose from everyone in this world to belong to me—I have taught them who you really are and what you are like. They belonged to you and you have given them to me. They have believed in what you said to them, and they have obeyed it.
@ -1510,6 +1510,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\p
\v 13 Now I am coming to you, Father. I have said these things while I am here in the world so that I may give them my complete joy.
\v 14 I have spoken your messages to them, and the world has hated them and would not listen to your message. The world hated them because, like me, they do not belong to this world, but they have another home.
\s5
\v 15 I am not asking for you to take them out of this world, but instead for you to protect them from the harm that the evil one can do to them.
\v 16 They do not belong to this world, just as I do not.
@ -1519,14 +1520,15 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 18 As you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world.
\v 19 I am giving myself completely to you for their sakes so that they can truly give themselves to you.
\s5
\p
\v 20 "I am praying not only for these, but also I am praying for those who will trust in me when they hear their message.
\v 21 I pray that they may all be united, just as you and I are united. Father, you are united to me, and I am united to you, and so, may they also be united to us. Do this so that the world will know you sent me.
\s5
\v 22 I have shown them who I am, and they have seen what I have done. I have taught them this so that they may be united together, as you and I are united.
\v 23 I am united with them and you are united with me. I have done this so that they may be perfectly united together and so that the unbelievers may know that you sent me and that you love them, just as you love me.
\s5
\p
\v 24 "Father, I want these whom you have given to me to be with me always where I am so that they can see the splendor and majesty you will give to me when I am with you. You do this because you have loved me from before the time we created the world."
@ -1536,7 +1538,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 25 "O Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these with me here know that you have sent me to them.
\v 26 I have made them know who you are. I will continue to do this so that you may love them like you love me and so that I may be united with them."
\s5
\c 18
\p
@ -1544,6 +1545,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\p
\v 2 Judas, the one who was about to hand Jesus over to his enemies, knew where the place was because Jesus often went there with his disciples.
\v 3 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had ordered some soldiers and officers to go there with Judas. So they went to the garden with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
\s5
\v 4 Jesus knew what was going to happen to him, so he went forward and asked them, "For whom are you looking?"
\v 5 They replied to him, "Jesus the Nazarene." Jesus said to them, "I am that person." (Now Judas, the one who was handing him over, was standing with them.)
@ -1598,6 +1600,7 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 28 Then the soldiers led Jesus from Caiaphas' house to the headquarters of Pilate, the Roman governor. It was early morning. Pilate was not a Jew, so Jesus' accusers thought that if they entered his headquarters, they would defile themselves and be unable to celebrate the Passover Festival. So they did not go in.
\v 29 So Pilate came out to talk to them. He said, "Of what are you accusing this man?"
\v 30 "If this man were not a criminal, we would not have brought him to you!" they replied.
\s5
\v 31 Then Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him by your own law." Then the Jewish leaders said, "We want to execute him, but your Roman law prevents us from doing that."
\v 32 They said this in order to make true what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die.
@ -1618,7 +1621,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 39 However, you Jews have a custom where every year during the Passover Festival, you ask me to release one man who is in prison. So would you like for me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
\v 40 They shouted again, "No, do not release this man, but release Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a leader in a rebellion.
\s5
\c 19
\p
@ -1661,9 +1663,8 @@ John answered, "No."
\p
\v 16 So Pilate handed Jesus over to them, and they took him away.
\q
\p
\s5
\v 17 He went out, carrying his own cross by himself to the place called "The Place of a Skull," which in the Hebrew language is called "Golgotha."
\v 18 There they crucified him, and at the same time they also nailed two other criminals to their crosses. One was on either side, with Jesus in the middle.
@ -1694,7 +1695,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\q
\v 27 And he said to the disciple, "Here is your mother!" So from that very moment, that disciple took her to live in his home.
\s5
\p
\v 28 A little later, Jesus knew that everything that God sent him to do had now been done, and in order to make come true one final thing that the scriptures had foretold, he said, "I am thirsty!"
@ -1726,7 +1726,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 41 Now in the place where Jesus was crucified was a garden, and at the edge of the garden was a new tomb in which no one had been buried.
\v 42 The Passover was about to begin that evening, and they chose the tomb where they would bury Jesus because it was close at hand. That is where they laid the body of Jesus.
\s5
\c 20
\p
@ -1747,10 +1746,9 @@ John answered, "No."
\s5
\v 8 Then the other disciple also went inside; he saw these things and began to believe that Jesus had risen from the dead.
\v 9 They still did not understand the scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead.
\p
\v 10 So the disciples went back to their homes.
\s5
\v 11 Mary was left standing just outside the tomb, weeping. As she wept, she bent down and looked into the tomb.
\v 12 She saw two angels dressed in white robes sitting on the very place where Jesus' body had been, one at the head, the other at the feet.
@ -1773,7 +1771,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\q
\v 18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples and announced, "I have seen the Lord"—and she reported to them what Jesus had said to her.
\s5
\p
\v 19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors were locked, and the disciples were staying inside because they were afraid that the Jewish authorities might arrest them. Suddenly Jesus came and stood in the middle of their group; he said to them, "May God give you peace."
@ -1791,7 +1788,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 25 The other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord."
\q However, he said to them, "Unless I see the marks of the nails in his hands and put my fingers in the holes made by the nails, and unless I put my hand into the gaping wound on his side, I will never put my trust in him."
\s5
\p
\v 26 Eight days later, his disciples were again inside the house, and this time Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them, and he said to them all, "May God give you peace."
@ -1809,7 +1805,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 30 Now Jesus did many other works of power and miracles that proved who he is. The disciples witnessed them, but they were so numerous that I have not written them all down in this book.
\v 31 Nevertheless, I have written these so that you may have complete confidence that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that by trusting in him, you may have eternal life in his name.
\s5
\c 21
\p
@ -1881,4 +1876,3 @@ John answered, "No."
\q Many others know him, and we know that his testimony is true.
\p
\v 25 Jesus did many other things, so many that if they were all written down, I suppose the whole world could not contain the books that would be written.

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\p
\v 15 During those days Peter stood up among his fellow believers. There was a group of about 120 followers of Jesus at that place. He said,
\v 16 "My brothers, there are words about Judas that King David wrote long ago. These words had to come true, and they did, because the Holy Spirit told David what to write.
\s5
\v 17 Although Judas was an apostle like us, he guided the people who arrested Jesus and killed him."
\p
@ -61,7 +63,6 @@
\v 24-25 Then they prayed: "Lord Jesus, Judas stopped being an apostle. He sinned and went to the place where he deserves to be. You know what every man thinks in his own heart, so please show us which of these two men you have chosen to take the place of Judas."
\v 26 Then they cast lots to choose between the two of them, and the lot fell for Matthias, and he became an apostle along with the other eleven apostles.
\s5
\c 2
\p
@ -161,7 +162,6 @@
\v 46 They all agreed that every day they would gather together in the temple area. Then they would share meals with one another in their homes. When they shared their food together, they were happy and shared their food freely.
\v 47 As they did so, they kept praising God, and all the other people in Jerusalem respected them. As those things were happening, every day the Lord Jesus increased the number of people who were being saved from the punishment of their sins.
\s5
\c 3
\p
@ -216,7 +216,6 @@
\v 25 When God strongly promised to bless our ancestors, he also surely promised to bless you. He said to Abraham about the Christ, 'I will bless all the peoples on the earth as a result of what your descendant will do.'"
\v 26 Peter concluded, "So when God sent Jesus, his servant, he sent him first to you Israelites to bless you, in order to stop you doing what is wicked."
\s5
\c 4
\p
@ -224,8 +223,6 @@
\v 2 These men were very angry because the two apostles were teaching the people about Jesus. What they were telling them was that God caused Jesus to become alive again after he had been killed.
\v 3 So these men arrested Peter and John and put them in jail. The Jewish council had to wait until the next day to question Peter and John, because it was already evening.
\v 4 However, many people who had heard Peter speak put their faith in Jesus. The number of men who believed in Jesus increased to about five thousand.
\p
\s5
@ -238,15 +235,14 @@
\v 8 As the Holy Spirit gave Peter power, Peter said to them, "You fellow Israelites who rule us, and all of you other elders, listen to me!
\v 9 Today you are questioning us about a good deed we did for a man who could not walk, and you ask us how he became healed. So let me tell you and all other Israelites this:
\v 10 It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth that this man was healed, so that he is now able to stand before you. It was you who nailed Jesus to a cross and killed him, but God caused him to become alive again.
\s5
\p
\v 11 Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the one of whom the scriptures speak:
\q "The stone that the builders threw away has become the most important stone in the building."
\v 12 Only Jesus can save us, for God has given no other man in the world to us who can save us from the guilt of our sins!"
\s5
\p
\v 13 The Jewish leaders realized that Peter and John were not afraid of them. They also learned that these two men were ordinary people who had not studied in schools. So the leaders were amazed. They knew that these men had spent time with Jesus.
\v 14 They also saw the man who had been healed standing there with the Peter and John, so they were not able to say anything against them.
@ -267,9 +263,8 @@
\p
\v 21 Then the Jewish leaders again told Peter and John not to disobey them, but they decided not to punish them, because all the people in Jerusalem were praising God about what had happened to the man who could not walk.
\v 22 He was more than forty years old, and he was not able to walk since the day that he was born.
\s5
\p
\v 23 After Peter and John left the council, they went to the other believers and told them everything that the chief priests and Jewish elders had said to them.
\v 24 When the believers heard this, they all agreed as they prayed to God together, "O Lord! You made the sky, the earth and the oceans, and everything in them.
@ -277,6 +272,7 @@
\q 'Why did the nations of the world become angry
\q and the Israelite people plan uselessly against God?
\q
\s5
\v 26 The kings in the world prepared to fight God's Ruler,
\q and the rulers joined with them
@ -291,14 +287,10 @@
\p
\v 29 So now, Lord, listen to what they are saying about how they will punish us! Help us who serve you to speak about Jesus to everyone!
\v 30 Use your power to do great miracles of healing, signs and wonders in the name of your holy servant, Jesus!"
\p
\v 31 When the believers had finished praying, the place where they were meeting shook. The Holy Spirit gave them all power to boldly speak the words that God told them to speak, and this is what they did.
\s5
\p
\v 32 The group of people who believed in Jesus were in complete agreement about what they thought and what they wanted. Not one of them said that he alone owned anything. Instead, they shared with one another everything that they had.
\v 33 The apostles continued to strongly tell others that God had caused the Lord Jesus to become alive again. And God was helping all the believers very much.
@ -307,13 +299,10 @@
\v 34-35 Some of the believers who owned land or houses sold their property. Then they would bring the money for what they sold and they would give it to the apostles. Then the apostles would give money to any believer who needed it. So all the believers had what they needed to live on.
\s5
\p
\v 36 Now there was a man named Joseph, who belonged to the tribe of Levi, and who came from the Island of Cyprus. The apostles called him Barnabas; in the language of the Jews that name means a person who always encourages others.
\v 37 He sold a field and brought the money to the apostles for them to give to other believers.
\s5
\c 5
\p
@ -399,7 +388,6 @@
\v 41 So the apostles went out from the council. They were rejoicing because they knew God had honored them by letting people disgrace them because they were following Jesus.
\v 42 Every day after that, the apostles went to the temple area and to various people's houses, and they continued teaching people and telling them that Jesus is the Christ.
\s5
\c 6
\p
@ -437,7 +425,6 @@
\p
\v 15 All the people in the council room stared at Stephen and saw that his face resembled the face of an angel.
\s5
\c 7
\p
@ -513,6 +500,7 @@
\v 35 "This Moses is the one who had tried to help our Israelite people, but whom they rejected by saying, 'No one appointed you ruler and judge!' Moses is the one whom God himself sent to rule them and to free them from being slaves. He is the one whom an angel in the bush commanded to do that.
\v 36 Moses is the one who led our ancestors out from Egypt. He did many kinds of miracles in Egypt in order to show that God was with him, at the Sea of Reeds, and during the forty years that the Israelite people lived in the wilderness.
\v 37 This Moses is the one who said to the Israelite people, 'God will cause another man from among your own people to be a prophet like me for you.'
\s5
\v 38 It was this man Moses who was among the Israelites who were together in the wilderness; he was with the angel who had spoken to him on Mount Sinai. It is Moses to whom God had the angel on Mount Sinai give him our laws, and he was the one who told our ancestors what the angel had said. He was the one who received from God words that tell us how to live eternally and passed them on to us.
\p
@ -563,7 +551,6 @@
\p
\v 60 Then Stephen fell on his knees and cried out, "Lord, do not punish them for this sin!" After he had said this, he died.
\s5
\c 8
\p
@ -572,8 +559,6 @@
\v 3 While they were killing Stephen, Saul was there approving that they should kill Stephen. So Saul also began trying to destroy the group of believers. He entered houses one by one, he dragged away men and women who believed in Jesus, and then he put them into prison.
\s5
\p
\v 4 The believers who had left Jerusalem went to different places, where they continued preaching the message about Jesus.
\v 5 One of those believers, whose name was Philip, went down from Jerusalem to a city in the district of Samaria. There he was telling the people that Jesus is the Christ.
@ -655,7 +640,6 @@
\p
\v 40 Philip then realized that the Spirit had miraculously taken him to the town of Azotus. While he traveled around in that region, he continued proclaiming the message about Jesus in all the towns between the cities of Azotus and Caesarea. And he was still proclaiming it when he finally arrived in Caesarea.
\s5
\c 9
\p
@ -676,7 +660,6 @@
\v 8 Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could not see anything. So the men with him took him by the hand and led him into Damascus.
\v 9 For the next three days Saul could not see anything, and he did not eat or drink anything.
\s5
\p
\v 10 In Damascus there was a follower of Jesus named Ananias. The Lord Jesus made him see a vision and said to him, "Ananias!" He replied, "Lord, I am listening."
@ -698,43 +681,31 @@
\v 19 After Saul ate some food, he became strong again. Saul stayed with the other believers in Damascus for several days.
\s5
\p
\v 20 Right away he began to preach about Jesus in the Jewish synagogues. He told them that Jesus is the Son of God.
\v 21 All the people who heard him preach were amazed. Some of them were saying, "We can hardly believe that this is the same man who pursued the believers in Jerusalem and who has come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests in Jerusalem!"
\v 22 But God enabled Saul to preach to many people even more convincingly. He was proving from the scriptures that Jesus is the Christ. So the Jewish leaders in Damascus could not think how to disprove what he said.
\s5
\p
\v 23 Some time later, the Jewish leaders there plotted to kill him.
\v 24 During each day and night those Jews were continually watching the people passing through the city gates, in order that when they saw Saul they might kill him. However, someone told Saul what they planned to do.
\v 25 So some of those whom he had led to believe in Jesus took him one night to the high stone wall that surrounded the city. They used ropes to lower him in a large basket through an opening in the wall. In this way he escaped from Damascus.
\s5
\p
\v 26 When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to meet with other believers. However, almost all of them continued to be afraid of him, because they did not believe that he had become a believer.
\v 27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. He explained to the apostles how, while Saul was traveling along the road to Damascus, he had seen the Lord Jesus and how the Lord had spoken to him there. He also told them how Saul had preached boldly about Jesus to people in Damascus.
\s5
\v 28 So Saul began to meet with the apostles and other believers throughout Jerusalem, and he spoke boldly to people about the Lord Jesus.
\p
\v 29 Saul was also speaking about Jesus with Jews who spoke Greek, and he was debating with them. But they were continually trying to think of a way to kill him.
\v 30 When the other believers heard that they were planning to kill him, some of them took Saul down to the city of Caesarea. There they put him on a ship going to Tarsus, his hometown.
\s5
\p
\v 31 So the groups of believers throughout the entire regions of Judea, Galilee, and Samaria lived peacefully because no one was persecuting them anymore. The Holy Spirit was strengthening them and encouraging them. They were continuing to honor the Lord Jesus, and the Holy Spirit was enabling many other people to become believers.
\p
\v 32 While Peter was traveling throughout those regions, once he went to the coastal plain to visit the believers who lived in the town of Lydda.
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\v 35 Most of the people who lived in Lydda and on Sharon Plain saw Aeneas after the Lord had healed him, so they believed in the Lord Jesus.
\s5
\p
\v 36 In the town of Joppa there was a believer whose name was Tabitha. Her name in the Greek language was Dorcas. She was always doing good deeds for poor people by giving them things that they needed.
\v 37 During the time that Peter was in Lydda, she became sick and died. Some women there washed her body according to the Jewish custom. Then they covered her body with cloth and placed it in an upstairs room in her house.
\s5
\p
\v 38 Lydda was near the city of Joppa, so when the disciples heard that Peter was still in Lydda, they sent two men to go to Peter. When they arrived where Peter was, they urged him, "Please come immediately with us to Joppa!"
\v 39 Peter got ready right away and went with them. When he arrived at the house in Joppa, they took him to the upstairs room where Dorcas' body was lying. All the widows there stood around him. They were crying and showing him the tunics and other garments that Dorcas had made for people while she was still alive.
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\v 42 Soon people everywhere in Joppa knew about that miracle, and as a result many people believed in the Lord Jesus.
\v 43 Peter stayed in Joppa many days with a man named Simon, who made leather from animal skins.
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\v 39 "We all saw the things Jesus did in Jerusalem and around every part of the country of Israel where he lived. His enemies killed him by nailing him to a wooden cross.
\v 40 Then God raised him back to life on the third day after he died, and he made sure that many people would see him alive after he was brought back to life. People were sure it was him who had died, and now they saw with their own eyes, and were fully convinced, that he was alive again.
\v 41 At that time God did not let everyone see him, only those he selected to spend time with him and to eat a meal together in those first days just after God raised him back to life.
\s5
\v 42 God commanded us to preach to the people and he told us to tell them that he appointed Jesus to be the judge of everyone one day, a day that is sure to come. He will judge all those who will still be living and all those who have died before that time.
\v 43 All the prophets who wrote about him long ago told the people about him. They wrote that if anyone believed in him, God could forgive whatever sins they have done, because of what this man, Jesus, had done for them."
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\v 47 to the other Jewish believers who were there, "God has given them the Holy Spirit just like he gave him to us Jewish believers, so surely all of you would agree that we should baptize these people!"
\v 48 Then Peter told those non-Jewish people that they should be baptized as believers in Jesus Christ. So they baptized all of them. After they were baptized, they requested that Peter stay with them several days. So Peter and the other Jewish believers did that.
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\p
\v 38 "Therefore, my fellow Israelites and other friends, it is important for you to know that God can forgive you for your sins as a result of what Jesus has done. He will even forgive you for those things that you could not be forgiven for by the laws that Moses wrote.
\v 39 All people who believe in Jesus are no longer guilty of any of the things that they have done that displeased God.
\s5
\v 40 So then be careful that God does not judge you, as the prophets said that God would do!
\v 41 The prophet wrote that God said:
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\v 51 As the two apostles were leaving, they shook the dust from their feet to show those leaders that God had rejected them and would punish them. Then they left the city of Antioch and went to the city of Iconium.
\v 52 Meanwhile the believers continued to be filled with joy and with the power of the Holy Spirit.
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\v 18 The people heard what Paul said, but they still thought that they should sacrifice those bulls to worship Paul and Barnabas. But finally, the people decided not to do it.
\s5
\p
\v 19 However, some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and persuaded many of the people of Lystra that the message Paul had been telling them was not true. The people who believed what those Jews said became angry with Paul. They let the Jews throw stones at him until he fell down, unconscious. They all thought that he was dead, so they dragged him outside the city and left him lying there.
\v 20 But some of the believers in Lystra came and stood around Paul, where he was lying on the ground. And Paul became conscious! He stood up and went back into the city with the believers.
\s5
\p The next day, Paul and Barnabas left the city of Lystra and traveled to the city of Derbe.
\v 21 They stayed there several days, and they kept telling the people the good message about Jesus. Many people became believers. After that, Paul and Barnabas started on their way back. They went again to Lystra. Then they went from there to Iconium, and then they went to the city of Antioch in the province of Pisidia.
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\s5
\v 23 Paul and Barnabas chose leaders for each congregation. Before Paul and Barnabas left each place, they gathered the believers together and spent some time praying and fasting. Then Paul and Barnabas entrusted the leaders and other believers to the Lord Jesus, in whom they had believed, in order that he would care for them.
\p
\v 24 After Paul and Barnabas had traveled through the district of Pisidia, they went south to the district of Pamphylia.
\v 25 In that district, they arrived at the town of Perga and preached God's message about the Lord Jesus to the people there. Then they went down to the seacoast at the town of Attalia.
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\v 27 When they arrived in the city of Antioch, they called the believers together. Then Paul and Barnabas told them all that God had helped them to do. Specifically, they told them how God had enabled many non-Jewish people to believe in Jesus.
\v 28 Then Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch with the other believers for a long time.
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\v 40 Paul chose Silas, who had returned to Antioch, to work with him. The believers there prayed to the Lord to ask him to graciously help Paul and Silas. Then the two of them departed from Antioch.
\v 41 Paul continued traveling with Silas through Syria and Cilicia provinces. In those places they were helping the groups of believers to trust strongly in the Lord Jesus.
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\s5
\v 40 After Paul and Silas left the prison, they went to Lydia's house. There they met with her and the other believers. They encouraged the believers to continue trusting in the Lord Jesus, and then the two apostles left the city of Philippi.
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\v 9 The city rulers made Jason and the other believers pay a fine and told them that they would give the money back to them if Paul and Silas did not cause any more trouble. Then the city rulers let Jason and the other believers go.
\s5
\p
\v 10 So that same night, the believers sent Paul and Silas out of Thessalonica to the town of Berea. When Paul and Silas arrived there, they went to the Jewish meeting place.
\v 11 Most of the Jews in Thessalonica had not been willing to listen to God's message, but the Jews who lived in Berea were very willing to listen, so they listened closely to the message about Jesus. Every day they read the scriptures for themselves to find out if what Paul said about Jesus was true.
\v 12 Because of Paul's teaching, many of the Jewish people believed in Jesus, and also some of the important non-Jewish women and many non-Jewish men believed in him.
\s5
\p
\v 13 But then the Jews in Thessalonica heard that Paul was in Berea preaching the message from God about Jesus. So they went to Berea and said things to the people there that made them very angry with Paul.
\v 14 Some of the believers in Berea took Paul to the seacoast to go to another city. But Silas and Timothy stayed in Berea.
\v 15 When Paul and the other men arrived at the coast, they got on a boat and went to the city of Athens. Then Paul said to the men who had come with him, "Tell Silas and Timothy to come to me here in Athens as soon as they can." Then those men left Athens and returned to Berea.
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\v 16 In Athens, Paul waited for Silas and Timothy to come. In the meantime, he walked around in the city. He became very distressed because there were many idols in the city.
\v 17 So he went to the Jewish meeting place and talked about Jesus with the Jews, and also with the Greeks who had accepted what the Jews believe. He also went to the public square every day and talked to the people whom he met there.
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\v 18 Paul met some teachers who liked to talk about what people believe. People called some of them Epicureans, and they called others Stoics. They told Paul what they believed, and they asked him what he believed. Then some of them said to one another, "He is saying something about some strange gods." They said that because Paul was telling them that Jesus had died and then had become alive again.
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\v 19 So they took him to the place where the city leaders met. When they arrived there, they said to Paul, "Please tell us, what is this new message that you are teaching people?
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\v 21 The people of Athens and also the people from other regions who lived there loved to talk about what was new to them.
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\v 22 Then Paul stood up in front of the people and said, "People of Athens, I see that you are very religious.
\v 23 I say that because, while I was walking along I saw the things that you worship, I even saw an altar that had these words that someone had carved on it: THIS HONORS A GOD THAT WE DO NOT KNOW. So now I will tell you about that God whom you worship but you do not know.
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\v 33 After they said that, Paul walked away.
\v 34 However, some of the people went with Paul and believed the message about Jesus. Among those who believed in Jesus was a man named Dionysius, who was a member of the council. Also, there were a woman named Damaris and some other people with them who believed.
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\v 27 When Apollos decided that he would like to go to the region of Achaia, the believers in Ephesus told him that it would be good for him to do that. So they wrote a letter to the believers in Achaia saying that they should welcome Apollos. After he got there, he helped those whom God had kindly enabled to believe in Jesus.
\v 28 Apollos was talking very powerfully with the leaders of the Jews while many other people listened. By reading from the scriptures, he was able to show them that Jesus was the Christ.
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\v 15 But one day as they were doing that, the evil spirit did not come out of that person. Instead, the evil spirit said to them, "I know Jesus, and I know Paul, but no one has given you power to do anything to me!"
\v 16 After saying that, suddenly the man who had the evil spirit jumped on the sons of Sceva. He knocked all of them down and hurt each of them. He tore off their clothes and wounded them. They became frightened and ran out of the house.
\v 17 All the people who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and non-Jews, heard what had happened. They became afraid because they saw that the man with the evil spirit was very strong. At the same time, they honored the name of the Lord Jesus.
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\v 18 At that time, while other believers were listening, many believers told about the evil things that they had been doing.
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\v 37 They all cried a lot, and they hugged Paul and kissed him.
\v 38 They were very sad because he had said that they would never see him again. Then they all went with him to the ship.
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\v 27 When the seven days for purifying themselves were nearly finished, Paul returned to the temple courtyard. Some Jews from Asia saw him there, and they were very angry at him. They called out to many other Jews who were in the temple courtyard to help them take hold of Paul.
\v 28 They shouted, "Fellow Israelites, come and help us to punish this man! This is the one who is teaching people wherever he goes that they should despise the Jewish people. He teaches people that they should no longer obey the laws of Moses nor respect this holy temple. He has even brought non-Jews here into the court of our temple, causing this place to become polluted!"
\v 29 They said these because they had seen Paul walking around in Jerusalem with Trophimus, who was a non-Jew. Their laws did not permit non-Jews to be in the temple, and they thought that Paul had brought Trophimus into the temple courtyard that day.
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\v 30 People all over the city heard that there was trouble at the temple courtyard, and they came running there. They caught Paul and dragged him outside of the temple area. The gates to the temple courtyard were shut, so that the people would not riot inside the temple area.
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\v 39 Paul answered, "No, I am not! I am a Jew. I was born in Tarsus, which is an important city in the province of Cilicia. I request that you let me speak to the people."
\v 40 Then the commander permitted Paul to speak. So Paul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand for the crowd to be quiet. And after the people in the crowd became quiet, Paul spoke to them in their own Hebrew language.
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\v 35 Then the governor said, "When the people who have accused you arrive, I will listen to what each of you says and then I will judge your case." Then he commanded that Paul be guarded in the palace that King Herod the Great had built.
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\v 27 When two years had passed, Porcius Festus became governor in place of Felix. Felix let Paul remain in prison because he wanted to please the Jewish leaders.
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\v 1 Festus began to rule as governor of the province. Three days later, he left the city of Caesarea and went up to Jerusalem.
\v 2 There, the chief priests and other Jewish leaders stood before Festus and said that Paul had done things that were very wrong.
\v 3 They urgently asked Festus to bring Paul to trial in Jerusalem. But they were really planning to attack him on the road and kill him.
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\v 14 King Agrippa and Bernice stayed many days in Caesarea. After some time had passed, Festus told Agrippa about Paul. He said, "There is a man here whom Felix kept in prison.
\v 15 When I went to Jerusalem, the chief priests and the Jewish elders came before me and asked me to condemn him to death.
\v 16 But I told them that when someone has been accused of a serious crime, it is not a custom for Romans to condemn a person immediately. Instead, we allow the accused man to stand face to face with his accusers and defend himself against what they say about him.
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\v 17 So when those Jews came here to Caesarea, I did not delay the trial at all. The day after they arrived, I sat in the judge's seat and ordered the guard to bring in the prisoner.
\v 18 But when the Jewish leaders told me what the prisoner had done wrong, I did not think that anything they said was serious.
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\v 26 But I do not know what exactly I should write to the emperor about him. That is why I have brought him here to speak to you all, and especially to you, King Agrippa! I have done this so that you may question him. Then I may know what to write to the emperor.
\v 27 I think that it would be unreasonable to send a prisoner to the emperor in Rome without telling exactly what were the wrong things people say that he has done."
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\v 17 I will protect you from the people and the non-Jews to whom I will send you,
\v 18 in order to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of the enemy to God. In this way God will forgive their sins and give to them the things that all my people will have forever, the people who belong to me by faith.'
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\v 19 "So, King Agrippa, I did what God told me in a vision to do.
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\v 32 Agrippa said to Festus, "If this man had not appealed to Caesar, he could have been released."
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\v 43 But the army captain wanted to save Paul, so he stopped the soldiers from doing this. Instead, he commanded that everyone who could swim should jump into the water and swim to shore.
\v 44 Then he told the others to hold onto planks or other pieces from the ship and go toward the shore. We did what he said, and in that way all of us arrived safely on land.
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\v 28 Therefore, you should know that God is offering to save the non-Jews, and they will listen."
\v 29 \f + \ft Acts 28:29 - the oldest and most accurate ancient copies of the book of Acts do not include the additional words found in Acts 28:29; and for that reason they are not included here. \f*
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\v 30 For two whole years Paul stayed there in a house that he rented. Many people came to see him, and he received them all gladly and talked with them.
\v 31 He preached and taught people about how God would show himself as king, and he taught them about the Lord Jesus Christ. He did that with great boldness, and no one tried to stop him.

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\v 7 I am writing this letter to all of you in Rome whom God loves and whom he has chosen to become his people. I pray that God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord may continue to act kindly toward you and will continue to cause you to have peace.
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\v 8 As I begin this letter, I thank my God for all you believers in Rome. It is because of what Jesus Christ has done for us that I am able to do that. I thank him because people all over the Roman Empire are talking about how you are trusting in him.
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\v 16 I very confidently proclaim the good news about what Christ has done because this good news is the powerful way in which God saves those who trust in what Christ has done for them. Specifically, God first saves the Jews who believe the good news, and then he saves non-Jews.
\v 17 By means of this good news God reveals how he puts people right with himself. This is like what a prophet wrote long ago in the scriptures: "Those whom God puts right with himself will live because they trust him."
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\v 18 God in heaven makes it clear that he is angry with all who show no respect for him and who do wicked things. He shows them that they deserve for him to punish them. Because they do wicked things, they also keep other people from knowing what is true about God.
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\v 19 All non-Jews can clearly know what God is like, because God himself has revealed this to everyone.
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\v 20 People cannot actually see with their eyes what God is like. But ever since he created the world, the things in it make us understand things about him—for example, he has always been able to do powerful things. Another example is that everyone knows that he is completely different from all that he has created. So no one is able to say truthfully, "We never knew about God."
\v 21 Although non-Jews knew what God is like, they did not honor him as God, nor did they thank him for what he had done. But instead, they began to think foolish things about him, and they were no longer able to understand what he wanted them to know about himself.
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\v 22 Although they claimed that they were wise, they became foolish,
\v 23 and they refused to admit that God is glorious and will never die. Instead, they made and worshiped idols that resembled people who will someday die, and then they made other idols that resembled birds and four-footed animals, and finally they made idols that resembled reptiles.
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\v 24 So God allowed the non-Jews to do immoral sexual things that they strongly desired, things that they thought they had to do, because they wanted so much to do them. As a result, they began to dishonor each other's bodies by their sexual actions.
\v 25 Also, they chose to worship false gods instead of admitting what is true about God. They worshiped things that God created instead of worshiping him, the one who created everything, the one whom we should all praise forever! Amen.
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\v 26 So God allowed the non-Jews to do shameful sexual things that they strongly desired. As a result, many women began sleeping with other women—something that goes against nature.
\v 27 Similarly, many men abandoned their natural relationships with women. Instead, they developed strong sexual desires for each other. They committed homosexual acts with other men, acts that were shameful. As a result, God has punished them by sicknesses in their bodies, which is the direct consequence of that kind of sin.
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\v 28 Furthermore, because they decided that it was not worthwhile to know God, he allowed their own worthless thoughts to completely control them. As a result, they began doing evil things that no one should do.
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\v 32 Although they know that God has declared that those who do such things deserve to be killed, they not only do these kinds of evil things, but they also approve of others who do them.
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\v 1 You may say that God must punish people for doing what he hates. But when you say that, you are really saying that God should punish you because you also have lived the same kind of life. You did the same things they have done.
\v 2 We know very well that God will judge and punish fairly people who do such evil deeds.
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\v 3 So you who say that God should punish others for doing evil deeds, although you do evil deeds yourself, you should certainly not think that you yourself will be able to escape from God when he begins to punish you!
\v 4 And you should not say, "God is acting very tolerantly and patiently toward me, so I do not need to turn away from my sin." You should understand that God is patiently waiting for you to repent from your sins.
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\v 5 But instead, because you are stubborn and refuse to stop sinning, God will punish you even more severely. He will do that at the time when he shows that he is angry and judges all people fairly.
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\v 6 God will pay back everyone according to what they deserve for what they have done.
\v 7 Specifically, some people keep doing good deeds, because they want God to honor them, and they want to live forever with him. God will reward them in this way.
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\v 8 But some people act in selfish ways and refuse to believe that what God says is true, and they do the things that God says are wrong. God will be very angry and will punish them severely.
\v 9 He will cause everyone who habitually does evil deeds to suffer greatly and to have many troubles. This certainly will happen to the Jews who refuse to accept God's message, because God gave them the privilege of being his special people, but it will also happen to the non-Jews.
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\v 10 But God will praise, honor, and give peace to every person who habitually does good deeds. He will certainly do this for the Jews because he chose them as his special people, but he will also do it for the non-Jews.
\v 11 God will do this fairly, because he pays no attention to how important anyone is.
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\v 15 They show that they know in their own minds what God commands in his law, for each person in his very own conscience either accuses himself of bad behavior or defends himself.
\v 16 God will punish them at the time when he will judge people according to what they have thought and done secretly. He will judge people by authorizing Christ Jesus to judge them. This is what I tell people when I preach the good news to them.
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\v 17 Now I have something to say to anyone to whom I am writing who is a Jew: You trust that God will save you because you know the laws that he gave to Moses. You boast that you belong to God.
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\v 25 Any one of you who is circumcised to show that he belongs to God can benefit from that if he obeys the law that he gave to Moses. But if you, a circumcised person, disobey the law, God will consider you to be no better in his sight than someone who is not circumcised.
\v 26 This means that God will certainly consider that even non-Jews who are not circumcised can become his people if they obey the things that he commanded in his laws.
\v 27 These people, who are not circumcised but who still obey God's laws, will declare that God is right when he punishes you, for you are circumcised but still break the law.
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\v 28 It is not those who perform rituals for God who are true Jews, and it is not being circumcised in their bodies that causes God to accept them.
\v 29 On the contrary, we whom God has changed inwardly are the true Jews. God has accepted us and God's Spirit has changed our nature, not because we perform the rituals commanded by the law. Even if other people will not praise us, God will praise us.
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\v 31 If you say that God makes us right with himself because we trust in Christ, does that mean that the law is now useless? Certainly not. Instead, that law is truly valid.
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\v 7 "How fortunate are the people whose sins God has forgiven, whose sins he no longer looks at.
\v 8 How fortunate are the people whose sins he no longer keeps a record of."
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\v 9 Being fortunate like this is not something that only we Jews can experience. No, it is also something that non-Jews can experience. We know this because it is written in the scriptures that Abraham trusted in God, so God considered him to be right with himself.
\v 10 Think about when God did this for Abraham. He did it before Abraham was circumcised, not after.
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\v 11 God commanded that Abraham be circumcised many years after God had already accepted him. Circumcision was the mark that showed that Abraham already was right with God. So we can learn here that God considered Abraham to be the ancestor of everyone who trusts in him, even of those who are not circumcised. In this way, God considers all these people to be right with himself.
\v 12 Likewise, God considers Abraham to be the ancestor of all us who are true Jews, that is, all Jews who not only have the mark of circumcision on their bodies, but—much more importantly—who live like our ancestor Abraham did before he was circumcised, when he was simply trusting in God.
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\v 13 God promised Abraham and his descendants that they would possess the world. But when he promised that, it was not because Abraham was obeying any law. Instead, it was because Abraham believed that God would do what he promised. So God put Abraham right with himself.
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\v 21 He was also convinced that God was able to do whatever he promised that he was going to do.
\v 22 And that is the reason that God considered Abraham to be right with himself.
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\v 23 The words in the scriptures, "God considered him to be right with himself because he trusted in him," are not only about Abraham.
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\v 1 God has put us right with himself because we trust in our Lord Jesus Christ. So we are now at peace with God.
\v 2 Because of what Christ has done for us, it is as if God has opened up a door for us to go to where he will be kind to us. So we rejoice because we are confidently expecting that God will gladly share his greatness with us.
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\v 10 Even when we were his enemies, God made peace with us by of the death of his Son. And now that we have peace with God, it is even more certain that Christ will save us by the fact that he is now alive, when he had been dead.
\v 11 And that is not all! Now we also rejoice because God has made peace between us and him through the death of his Son.
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\v 12 All people are sinful because Adam, the first man whom God created, sinned long ago. Because he sinned, he eventually died. So all people who have lived since then became sinners, and they all die.
\v 13 People in the world sinned before God gave his law to Moses but there was no way to recognize sin against that law.
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\v 16 And there is another way in which God's gift is different from Adam's sin. Because Adam sinned, all people after him have sinned, and so God declared that all people deserve to be punished. But as a kind gift, God offers to put us right with himself.
\v 17 All people die because of what one man, Adam, did. But now many of us experience that God has kindly given us a very great gift—which we do not deserve—and he has put us right with himself. It is also very certain that we will rule with Christ in heaven. This will happen because of what one man, Jesus Christ, did for us.
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\v 1 Someone might say in reply to what I have written that since God has acted kindly toward us, perhaps we should continue to sin in order that his kindness would be the greater.
\v 2 No, certainly not! We are like people who have died, who can no longer do anything evil. So we should not continue to sin.
\v 3 When we were baptized in union with Christ Jesus, God viewed us as dying with Christ on his cross. Do you not know this?
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\v 4 So, when we were baptized, God viewed us as being dead with Christ in his tomb. God the Father used his power to raise Christ from the dead; in the same way, he made it possible for us to live life in a new way.
\v 5 Since God views us as joining with Christ when he died, he will also make us rise with him from the dead.
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\v 8 Since God views us as having died together with Christ when he died, we believe that we will also live with him.
\v 9 We know that since God enabled Christ to live again after he died, Christ will never die again. Nothing will ever be able to make him die again.
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\v 10 When he died, he went free from our sinful world, and he will never die again; but because he lives again, he lives in order to serve God.
\v 11 In the same way, you must view yourselves as God views you: You are dead people, unable to sin any longer; but you are also living people, living to serve God and joined to Christ Jesus.
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\v 12 So when you want to sin, do not allow yourselves to do what you want. Remember that your body will die one day.
\v 13 Do not use any part of your body to do anything wicked. Instead, present yourselves to God as people who are now alive after belonging to the realm of the dead. Use every part of your body for God. Allow him to use you to do righteous things.
\v 14 When you desire to sin, do not do it! The laws that God gave Moses did not enable you to stop sinning. But now God controls you and kindly helps you not to sin.
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\v 17 In the past you sinned in whatever way you wanted to sin—you were slaves of sin. But then you began to sincerely obey what Christ taught you. I thank God for that.
\v 18 So now you do not have to sin any longer; sin is no longer your master. Instead, you are slaves of God, who is righteous.
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\v 19 I am writing to you in a way that ordinary people can understand. In the past you were slaves to your desires so you did all kinds of impure and evil things. But now act justly as God acts, so that he will set you apart for himself as his people.
\v 20 It is true that in the past, you behaved as people who were free from God's power and righteousness (because you did whatever your evil minds told you to do). You did not have to do things that were right.
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\v 22 But now you do not have to sin any longer. You are no longer slaves like that. Instead, you have become slaves of God. In return, he has set you apart as his own people, and he will allow you to live forever, with him.
\v 23 All who do what their evil minds tells them to do receive payment, too, but that payment is death. They will be apart from God forever. But as for God, he pays no wages to his slaves at all. Instead, he gives us a free gift: He allows us to live forever with him, joined to Christ Jesus our Lord.
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\v 1 My fellow believers, you know about laws. So you certainly know that people have to obey laws only while they are alive.
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\v 2 For example, a woman must be faithful to her husband as long as he is alive. But if her husband dies, she does not have to act any longer as if she were married. The law releases her from the marriage.
\v 3 So if she goes to another man while her husband is alive, she will be an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she no longer has to obey that law. Then if she marries another man, she will not be an adulteress.
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\v 7 Since people want to sin more if they know God's laws, does that mean that those laws themselves are evil? No, of course not! The law is not evil! But it is true that I did not really know what sin was until I learned about it in the law. For example, I did not realize that it is evil to desire what is not yours until I learned that the law says, "You must not desire what is not yours."
\v 8 And because of what that commandment stated, my sinful desire to have things that belong to others caused me to covet in many ways. But where there is no law, there is no sin.
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\v 22 In my new attitude I am very happy about the law of God.
\v 23 Nevertheless, I sense that there is a different power that is in my body. It is opposed to what with my mind I desire to do, and it makes me do what my old sinful attitude wants me to do.
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\v 24 When I consider this, I feel that I am a very wretched person. I want someone to set me free from the control of what my body desires in order that I might not be separated from God.
\v 25 I thank God that it is by Jesus Christ our Lord that he sets me free from the control of what my body desires. So with my mind, I on the one hand want to obey God's law. But also, I often let my sinful desires control me because of my old sinful attitude.
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\v 3 We tried to obey God's law in order to live with God, but it was useless to think that we could—we could not stop sinning. So God helped us instead: He sent his own Son into the world in order that his Son might atone for our sin. His Son came having a body that was like the body of us who sin. His Son came to offer himself as a sacrifice for our sin. When he did this, he also showed that our sins are truly wicked, and that anyone who sins deserves to be punished.
\v 4 So we can now fulfill all that God required in his law. We do this, not by our acting the way our old evil attitude desires, but instead by living as God's Spirit desires us to live.
\v 5 People who live by their evil attitudes think about those attitudes. But people who live by what God's Spirit wants think about the things of the Spirit instead.
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\v 26 Similarly, God's Spirit helps us when we are weak. We do not know what is proper for us to pray. But God's Spirit knows; as he prays for us, he groans in a way that cannot be expressed in words.
\v 27 God, who examines our inner attitude and mind, understands what his Spirit desires. His Spirit prays for us who belong to God exactly as God wants him to pray.
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\v 28 And we know that for those who love God, he works out all things that happen to them in a way that does us good. He does this for those whom he has chosen, because that was what he planned to do.
\v 29 God already knew us and decided to make our character become like his Son's character. The result is that Christ is honored as God's firstborn Son among many brothers and sisters.
\v 30 And the ones God decided previously who would be like his Son, he also called them to be with him. And the ones he called to be with him, he also made them to be right with himself. And to the ones whom he has put right with himself, he also will give them honor.
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\v 31 So I will tell you what we must learn from all these things that God does for us. Because God is acting on our behalf, no one can win against us!
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\v 19 Maybe one of you will say to me, "Because God determines ahead of time everything that people do and no one can resist what God has wished, it is not right for God to punish those who sin."
\v 20 I would reply, "You are only a human being, so you have no right to criticize God! He is like a man who makes clay pots. A pot has no right to ask its maker, "Why did you make me like this?"
\v 21 Instead, the potter certainly has the right to take a lump of clay and use part of it to make a beautiful pot that people will value highly—and then use the rest of the clay for a pot that someone will use every day. Certainly God has the same right.
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\v 33 This is what a prophet said would happen:
"Listen! I am placing in Israel one who is like a stone on which people will stumble. What he does will make people angry. Nevertheless, those who believe in him will not be ashamed."
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\v 4 Christ has perfectly obeyed the law in order to put everyone who believes in him right with God. So the law is no longer necessary.
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\v 5 Moses wrote about people who tried to obey all of God's laws: "It is the people who have done perfectly the things that the law requires who will live forever."
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\v 6 But those whom God puts right with himself because they trust in Christ—to them Moses says, "No one should try to go to heaven," that is, in order to bring Christ down to us.
\v 7 Moses also says this to them: "No one should try to go down to where the dead are," that is, in order to bring Christ back from the dead for us.
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\v 8 But instead, those who believe in Christ can say what Moses wrote: "You can find out about God's message very easily. You can speak about it and think about it." This is the message that we proclaim: People must believe in Christ.
\v 9 This message is that if anyone of you confirms that Jesus is Lord, and if you truly believe that God raised him from the dead, he will save you.
\v 10 If people believe these things, God will put them right with himself. And for those who state publicly that Jesus is Lord—God will save them.
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\v 11 It is written in the scriptures about the Christ, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed or ashamed."
\v 12 In this way, God treats the Jews and the non-Jews the same. Because he is the same Lord for all people who believe in him, he greatly helps all who ask him to help them.
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\v 14 Most people have certainly not believed in Christ, and some people might try to explain why they have not done so. They might say, "People certainly cannot ask Christ to help them if they have not first believed in him! And they certainly cannot believe in him if they have not heard about him! And they certainly cannot hear about him if someone does not preach to them about him!
\v 15 And those who could preach to them about Christ, certainly cannot do so if God does not send them. But if some believers preached to them, it would be just like the scriptures say: 'It is wonderful when people come and bring good news!'"
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\v 16 I would reply in this way to those who say such things: God has indeed sent people to preach the message about Christ. But not all the people of Israel have paid attention to the good news! It is like what Isaiah said when he felt very discouraged: "Lord, it seems as if hardly anyone believed what they heard us preach!"
\v 17 So then, I tell you that people are believing in Christ because they hear about him, and people are hearing the message because others are preaching about Christ!
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\v 36 God is the one who created all things. He is also the one who sustains all things. The reason that he created them was that they might praise him. May all people honor him forever. May it be so.
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\v 1 My fellow believers, since God has acted mercifully toward you in so many ways, I appeal to all of you that you present yourselves like a sacrifice that is alive, a sacrifice that you give to God alone and that pleases him. This is the only right way to worship him.
\v 2 Do not let unbelievers guide you in how you behave. Instead, let God change your way of thinking and make it new in order that you may know what he wants you to do, so you may know how to act in ways that please him, the ways in which he himself acts.
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\v 3 Because God has kindly appointed me to be his apostle, which I did not deserve, I say this to every one of you: Do not think you are better than you really are. Instead, think about yourselves in a sensible way, a way that is the same as the way in which God has allowed you to trust in him.
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\v 17 Do not do evil deeds to anyone who has done evil to you. Act in a way that all people will know is good.
\v 18 Live peacefully with other people whenever it is possible, to the extent that you can control the situation.
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\v 19 My fellow believers, whom I love, do not do evil in return when people do evil to you. Instead, allow God to punish them. The scriptures say, "'I will pay back those who do evil. It is my right to pay them back,' says the Lord."
\v 20 Instead of doing evil to those who have done evil to you, do as the scriptures teach: "If your enemies are hungry, feed them. If they are thirsty, give them something to drink. By doing that, you will cause them to feel the pain of shame and perhaps they will change their attitude toward you."
\v 21 Do not let evil deeds that others have done to you overcome you. Instead, do for them better than what they have done to you.
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\v 23-24 I, Paul, am staying in the house of Gaius, and the whole assembly here meets in his house. He also wants you to know that he is sending his greetings to you. Erastus, who manages the city's money, sends his greetings to you also, along with our brother Quartus.
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\v 25 Now to the God who is able to strengthen you spiritually by my proclamation of the good news of Jesus Christ that God did not reveal in any age before our own time—
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\v 27 May God, who alone is wise, be praised forever, because of what Jesus Christ has done for us. May it be so!

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\v 10 My brothers and sisters, I beg you by the authority of Jesus, that you come to an agreement and that you settle your disagreements, and that you no longer divide yourselves into groups. Learn to see things from the same point of view and to work together to accomplish the same task.
\v 11 Those in Chloe's house have reported to me that there are divisions and disagreements among some of you.
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\v 12 This is the problem. Each of you claims to have loyalty to one leader or another. One says, "I am loyal to Paul." Another says, "I am loyal to Apollos." Someone else says, "I am loyal to Peter." And the last one says, "But I am loyal to Christ."
\v 13 But Christ does not divide his loyalty. Paul was not crucified for you. The person who baptized you did not baptize you in the name of Paul.
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\v 24 But for us, we whom God called so we can know him, that message shows that God acted powerfully and wisely by sending Christ to die for us. The good news is not tied to any race or philosophy; in Christ there is no distinction between Jews and all the other nations and races on earth.
\v 25 For the things of God that appears foolish are really wiser that the most brilliant ideas human beings can imagine. And the things of God that appear weakest are stronger than the strongest and greatest human being who ever lived.
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\v 26 Brothers and sisters, look at the kind of person you were when God called you. See how unimportant you were. You were not the wisest of people. You were not important enough for people to obey you. You had no important ancestors.
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\v 1 When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not make beautiful speeches, nor did I repeat to you the things that wise men said. I told you the hidden truths about God.
\v 2 I decided not to talk to you about anything other than Jesus Christ and his death on the cross.
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\v 3 You know how weak I was when I was with you. You know that fear filled my heart, and that you saw me trembling in terror.
\v 4 But you heard my message, and you know that when I spoke to you I did not give carefully planned speeches. Instead, the Spirit of God showed you that I was speaking the truth because of the power of the miracles he did through me.
\v 5 I taught this way so you might trust in God because of his power, and not because of anything having to do with human wisdom.
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\v 6 Now it is to those who trust fully in Christ that we speak. You now have wisdom, and that wisdom has nothing to do with the kings and governors in this life, all of whom will soon pass away.
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\v 14 If what a person builds survives the fire that tests what he built, he will receive a reward for his work,
\v 15 But if the fire burns up all his work, he will lose all his reward, but God can still save him, even though the flames completely devour everything he did.
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\v 16 Surely you know that you are the dwelling place where God lives, that you are his temple. Surely you know that the Spirit of God lives inside you.
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\v 17 That is why I sent Timothy to you. I love him, and he is my faithful child. He will remind you of how I live as I am joined to Christ. I teach the same things everywhere we go and in every church we visit.
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\v 18 Some of you have become proud. You live as though I might not come back to you soon.
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\v 19 But if the Lord wants me to come, I will come to you soon. Then I will learn not only how these arrogant people talk, but I will find out whether they have God's power in them.
\v 20 God's kingdom is not about what you say; it is about God's power.
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\v 12 Some say this: "I am free to do anything I want, because I am joined to Christ." Yes, but because something is permitted does not mean it is good for me. "I am free to do anything I want"—but I will not allow anything to become my master.
\v 13 People also say, "Food is made for a person's body to digest, and a person's body is made to digest food"—but God will soon do away with both food and the body's normal functions. Of course, they are really talking about sleeping with people. However, God did not make our bodies so we could be sexually immoral. But the body is to serve the Lord, and the Lord will provide for the body.
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\v 14 God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will also raise us up by his power to live again.
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\v 15 You should know that your bodies are joined to Christ. Should you take away that which is a part of Christ and join it together with a prostitute? Never!
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\v 16 You understand that anyone who sleeps with a prostitute becomes united with her. It is like the scriptures say about marriage: "The two will become one."
\v 17 And those who are joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
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\v 1 Now, about the question you asked regarding eating food that was offered to idols: We know that people say, "We all have knowledge." But if you think you know a lot, you can become very proud of yourself. But when you love others, you help them grow strong in their faith.
\v 2 The truth is that if someone assumes he knows something, he has not yet learned the humbleness he needs to know.
\v 3 When you love God, God knows you.
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\v 4 Now about eating food sacrificed to idols: Let us begin with this principle: Just as some say, "Idols in this world do not actually exist," and, as Moses taught, "There is only one God." So idols are not real gods; they are not living gods at all.
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\p However, we have not accepted anything from you, even though we were entitled to it. Instead, we endure all kinds of hardships so that we do not make it more difficult for people to believe in the good news about Christ.
\v 13 Certainly you know that those who helped carry out the sacrifices offered to God in the temple received some of those offerings for their own needs. They received some of the food offered to God.
\v 14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who proclaim the good news are to receive their living wages from the good news. They receive part of what is given to God for their needs.
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\v 15 But I have not demanded any of these things for myself. And that is not why I am writing this to you now. I boast that I never demand these things from you, and I would have to stop boasting of you were to pay me, so I would rather die than have you pay me.
\v 16 If I proclaim the good news, I am not doing anything for which I should boast. I feel obliged to preach the good news. I would grieve with many tears if I could not do what God called me to do.
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\v 17 When I preach the good news because I want to, I have a great reward. But even if I only preached because someone forced me to preach, I would still have to preach, because God trusted me to do this work for him.
\v 18 So what is the reward that God gives me? It is that when I preach the good news, I offer it without anyone paying me for it. Instead, I offer it for free so that I can do it without receiving the payment the Lord would allow me to take.
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\v 21 When I was with those who are non-Jews, those who lived apart from the law of Moses, I became like them (though I myself was not outside God's law, and I was obedient to the law of Christ), so that I could persuade those who lived apart from the law to trust in Christ.
\v 22 To those who were weak about rules and laws, I lived as they did, so I persuaded them to trust in Christ. I have lived under rules and with many life-styles and with all kinds of people so that in any way God chose to work, God will rescue some of them.
\v 23 I do all this so I may proclaim the good news about Christ, so that I will also experience the good things the good news brings to us.
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\v 24 You know that when people run in a race, they all run, but only one of them wins the prize. So you also should run to win the prize.
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\v 7 Some of our ancestors also worshiped idols. As the scripture says, "The people sat down to eat and drink and then they rose up to dance wildly in a sexual way."
\v 8 Twenty-three thousand of our Jewish ancestors died in one day because of their sexual immorality.
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\v 9 Let us not test the authority of Christ by disobeying him, as some of our ancestors did, and the result was that poisonous snakes killed them.
\v 10 Do not grumble about what God provides, as some our ancestors did, and the result was that an angel destroyed them.
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\v 5 But if a woman prays or proclaims a message God gave her with her head uncovered, she brings disgrace on herself. For it is exactly the same as if she had shaved her head.
\v 6 If a woman refuses to cover her head, then she should cut her hair short, like a man's. But you know that it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut short or to have her head shaved. So, instead, she should cover her head.
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\v 7 A man should not cover his head because God made him like himself, and the man reflects some of what God himself is like. But women reflect some of what men are like.
\v 8 For God did not make the man Adam from the woman Eve; instead, he made the woman Eve from the man Adam.
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\v 9 It was not the man whom God created to help the woman, but the woman to help the man.
\v 10 This is why women should cover their heads, as a sign of the authority, and because of the angels.
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\v 11 So as we live joined to the Lord, women need men to help them, and men need women to help them.
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\v 20 When you come together you are not eating the Lord's Supper.
\v 21 When you eat, one person brings an entire meal and eats it as soon as he arrives; he does not wait for anyone else. Another person goes hungry while other people drink so much wine that they get drunk.
\v 22 You act as though you did not have houses to eat and drink in! You treat the church with dishonor, and you despise the purpose for which you gather. You humiliate those who are poor. I can say nothing good about this. This is a disgrace.
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\v 23 For I have passed on to you what I received from the Lord, that on the night when the Lord Jesus was handed over to his enemies, he took bread,
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\v 7 God makes it possible for each believer to show that he has some of the Spirit's power; God does this in order to help all believers together to trust him and honor him more.
\v 8 For the Spirit makes one person able to speak a message with great wisdom from God, and he makes another person able to pass on to others some knowledge from God.
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\v 9 To another believer the Spirit gives the gift of trusting God for wonderful things. To still another person he gives the ability to pray to God for him to heal people.
\v 10 The Spirit makes some believers able to do powerful deeds so that people will praise God. As for certain other believers, he makes them able to speak messages from God. The Spirit makes still other believers able to tell spirits who honor God from spirits who do not. To still others, the Spirit gives various kinds of languages in which to speak messages from God, and he makes others able to interpret those messages into our language.
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\v 22 Even the parts that are weak are all still essential to the body as a whole.
\v 23 The parts that we would be ashamed for others to see, we take more care to cover them. In this way we show more respect for them.
\v 24 but God has joined the distinguished parts with the less important ones. And God gives honor to those less presentable parts, because they are part of the body.
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\v 25 God honors the entire body in this way so there is no division in the church, and that members of the body of Christ might care for every member of the body with the same affection, no matter what their purpose or role, gifting or abilities.
\v 26 Because we are one body, when one member suffers, we all suffer. When one member is given honor for something they accomplished for Christ, the entire body rejoices together.
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\v 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and individually, you are all members of it.
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\v 28 God has also given people as gifts to the church. He gave to the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then those who do powerful deeds, those who perform healing, those who provide helps, those who do work of administration, and those who have various kinds of languages that the Spirit has given them.
\v 29 Not all of us are apostles. Not all are prophets. Not all are teachers. Not all do powerful deeds.
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\v 10 But God has been very kind to me, so I am an apostle, and he has done much good through me. Really, I have worked harder than all the other apostles. Still, it was not really I who worked, but God, who gave me the strength.
\v 11 So whether it is the other apostles or I who preached to you, we proclaimed the good news about Christ, and you believed us.
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\v 12 Now some of you are saying that those who are now dead will not rise anymore. This cannot be true, because we have announced to you that Christ rose from the dead.
\v 13 If no one rises from the dead, then God certainly has not raised Christ.
\v 14 And if he has not raised Christ from the dead, then what we preach makes no sense at all, and what you believe about Christ can do nothing for you in your life or in your death.
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\v 15 In addition, people will see that we have told lies about God, if the dead really do not rise again.
\v 16 Again I say, if no one rises from the dead, then God has not even raised Christ.
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\v 35 Someone may ask you, "How can the dead rise? What kind of body could they ever have?"
\v 36 You know nothing! You do not think about the fact that any seed you plant in the ground will not start to grow until it dies.
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\v 37 And what a farmer plants does not look the same as what will come up. It is only a bare seed; it will change into something entirely different.
\v 38 God will give it a new body just as he chooses, and to each seed put into the ground he will give a different body.
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\v 40 There are also different kinds of things in the heavens. The nature of those bodies in the sky is different from the nature of the things on this world.
\v 41 There is one kind of the nature for the bright sun, and another kind for the softer moon. There is still another kind of nature for the stars, but the stars all differ one from another in many ways.
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\v 42 It is the same way when people rise from the dead. What goes into the ground has died, but what rises will never die again.
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\v 47 The first man, Adam, belonged to the earth, for he was made from dust. But the second man, Christ, belongs to heaven.
\v 48 All those who are made from dust are just like Adam, the one who was made from dust. All those who belong to heaven are just like Christ, the man from heaven.
\v 49 Just as God made us like the man who was made from dust, so he will also make us be like the man from heaven.
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\v 50 Now I say this, brothers and sisters, human beings who will die cannot obtain the things that God promises to give all those whom he rules. It is just as the things that die cannot become things that do not die.
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\v 1 Now I wish to answer your questions about the money that we are collecting for the people in Jerusalem who belong to God. You should do exactly what I told the believers in the churches in Galatia to do.
\v 2 Every Sunday, each of you should put some money aside, as you are able, so you will not need any more collections when I come.
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\v 3 You must choose people, whomever you wish, to take your gifts to Jerusalem. And when I arrive, I will send letters with them about your gift.
\v 4 If it is the right thing to do, they will travel together with me to Jerusalem.
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\v 17 I was glad when Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus arrived here from Corinth, because they made up for the fact that you were not here.
\v 18 They encouraged and helped me in my spirit, and they helped you as well. Tell others about how much they helped you.
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\v 19 The churches in Asia send greetings. Aquila and Priscilla send you greetings as you do the work of the Lord, and the other believers that meet in their home do so as well.
\v 20 The rest of the brothers and sisters greet you, too. Greet one another with a kiss of affection.
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\v 21 I, Paul, am writing this sentence with my own hand.
\v 22 If anyone does not love the Lord, let a curse be on him. O Lord, come!
\v 23 May the Lord Jesus' kindness, which we do not deserve, be with you.
\v 24 I send you this reminder that I love all of you, as you all are joined together in Christ Jesus.

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\v 8 Brothers and sisters in Christ, we want you to know about the trouble we had in the province of Asia. That trouble gave us such pain that we could not bear it. We were almost certain that we were going to die.
\v 9 They pronounced the sentence of death on us; we were waiting to be killed. That sentence of death taught us not to rely on our own strength but on God, who raises the dead and brings them back to life.
\v 10 But God rescued us from those terrible dangers, and he promises to rescue us in the future.
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\v 11 He will do this as you help us by praying for us. Now many thank God because he has been so kind to us, since many have prayed for us.
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\v 12 We can very happily say that we have we lived toward all people in an honest and sincere way. We lived in the world as God's own people and we have deep trust in God, that was a gift from him. We do not live in any way that the world values. We do not listen to the world's wisdom when we choose what we will do. Instead, God has made us honest and holy in how we live.
\v 13 You have read my letters. I have written them so you can understand them.
\v 14 You know a little about us already, but on the day when the Lord Jesus returns, I hope that you will be very proud of us in his presence, and we will be very proud of you.
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\v 15 I am so sure that this will be the case that I have wanted to come to you first, so I could visit you twice.
\v 16 I planned to see you both when I was on my way to Macedonia and then when I was coming back from there, so you could send me on my way to Judea.
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\v 17 My mind was made up that this would be the plan. I was not telling you "Yes" and then telling you "No." I was not making my plans like unbelievers often make plans.
\v 18 But God is faithful in guiding us, and we do not confuse you, either. We are making our plans and staying with them.
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\v 19 Our "Yes" comes from the Son of God, Jesus Christ—the one we proclaimed to you; and there has never been any confusion in him—with him there is no "Yes and then No." Instead, it has always been simply "Yes" in him.
\v 20 For the promises of God are "Yes" because they come from him. And we add our confirmation to his "Yes." And we say about God's honor: "It is True! Yes!"
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\v 21 God makes the bond between you and us, and we know that it is Christ who joins us together. Christ is the one who chose us so that we would go out and tell people the good news.
\v 22 He put his official seal on us so people will know he approves of us. And he gave us the Spirit who lives within us as an unbreakable promise that he will do even more things for us.
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\v 23 May God himself assure you about my reason for not coming to you Christians in Corinth: It was so that you would not have to face me giving correction to you.
\v 24 We are not like masters who give you orders about how you must trust in God. However, we want to work with you so you can learn to trust God no matter what happens and have joy in trusting him.
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\v 1 In the last visit I made to Corinth I know that I hurt you very much by what I said to you. I decided this time that I would not make another painful visit to you.
\v 2 I caused you much pain on my last visit, and the people who could cheer me up the most would be the same people whom I hurt when I was there.
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\v 3 I wrote that letter to you so when I came to you, you would not make me feel sad again—you, who should actually make me rejoice! I was sure that we all have the reasons to be joyful.
\v 4 I wrote to you then because I still had much hurt and pain in my heart—I cried many tears for you, and I did not want to hurt you anymore. I want you to know how much I love all of you.
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\v 5 This person who fell into sin—he did not just make me sad by what he did; his sin made all of you sad.
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\v 14 We thank God that we are joined together with Christ, and Christ always leads us in his march of victory. Through our lives and our message, everywhere we go, we are like those who have been near burning incense; but our fragrance does not come from real incense, it comes from knowing Christ, and because we know him we have his fragrant aroma.
\v 15 God smells this same fragrance, and it reminds him of Christ. And those whom God rescues smell this same fragrance in us. Even the people whom God does not rescue smell that aroma that reminds them of Christ.
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\v 16 To those people that God does not rescue, that aroma of Christ is like the smell of a dead person dying once again. But to those whom God is rescuing—they smell Christ, who is alive, coming to make them alive, too. Indeed, no one is able by himself to spread this fragrance!
\v 17 You know that many people go from city to city selling the word of God for money. But we are not like them. We work hard to please God and we do what he wants. And we speak about Christ because we know God sees everything we do, and we announce Christ because we are joined to him.
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\v 1 You know us well, and you should trust us. A stranger might need someone you know to write you a letter to introduce him to you, but you know us very well.
\v 2 You yourselves are like a letter that introduces us to other people, because everyone who knows you can see how much you trust us.
\v 3 The way you live is like a letter that Christ himself has written and that we brought to you. Of course, it is not a letter written with ink or on stone tablets. No, it is a letter that the Spirit of the true God has written on your own hearts.
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\v 4 This is how we trust God, because we are joined to Christ.
\v 5 We are not able to do anything for God in our own strength, so we cannot claim to be able to. Instead, it is God who gives us all we need to serve him.
\v 6 God gave us what we needed to be servants of the new covenant. This covenant does not get its strength from the law that was written down, but from the Spirit of God. The written letter of the law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.
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\v 7 God's law brings death, and he wrote it on stone tablets, and he gave it to Moses. It came with the brilliant light that always shines where God is. And that glory shined on Moses' face; his face shined so brightly that the Israelites could not look at his face. That bright light slowly faded from his face.
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\v 10 When the brilliant light of the law is compared with God's work of putting us right with himself, it is as if the law is not wonderful at all, because what replaced it is so much more wonderful!
\v 11 So you can see that the law, which is passing away, was wonderful, but you can also see that what is replacing it will be even more wonderful; and it will last forever.
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\v 12 Since we apostles trust in God for the future, we have great courage.
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\v 17 Now the word "Lord" here means "the Spirit." Where the Spirit of the Lord is, people become free.
\v 18 But for all of us who believe, we look at him with no veil over our faces, and we reflect his brilliant light more and more. This is what the Lord does; and he is the Spirit.
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\v 11 For those of us who are alive, God is always leading us to face death because we are joined to Jesus, so that when people look at us, they can know that Jesus is alive.
\v 12 So you can see that death is doing its work in us, but that life is working in you.
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\v 13 We trust in God, just as the scriptures say: "I trust in God; this is why I speak." We also trust in God, and we also speak about what he has done for us.
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\v 9 Therefore we make it our goal to obey him, whether we are here or in heaven.
\v 10 For we will all stand before Christ when he sits as the judge of all. He will judge what we did when we were in this life. Christ will give us what we deserve, and he will judge what was good or bad.
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\v 11 Therefore we know what it is to honor the Lord, so we make sure to tell people what kind of God he is. God knows what kind of people we are, and I expect that you also understand whether we are doing good or evil.
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\v 20 So God has appointed us to represent Christ. God pleads with you through us. So we plead with you on Christ's behalf: Through Christ, let him make peace with you and bring you to himself.
\v 21 God made Christ—the one who never sinned—the offering for sin so that when we trust in Christ and believe in him, God makes us right with himself.
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\v 8 Sometimes people honor us; at other times, they dishonor us. Sometimes they say many evil things about us; at other times, they praise us. They accuse us of lying, even though we tell the truth.
\v 9 We live like persons whom nobody knows, but some people know us very well. Some try to kill us for announcing the message about Christ, even though no one legally ever condemns us to death.
\v 10 We live with great sorrow but we always rejoice. We live as some of the poorest people, but we have the treasure of the good news that makes many rich. You can see that we own nothing, but the truth is that all things belong to us.
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\v 11 We have spoken to you very openly and honestly, fellow believers at Corinth. We have freely shown you that we love you.
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\q1 and you will be my sons and daughters."
\m says the all-powerful Lord.
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\v 1 Dear ones, since God has promised to do these things for us, we should stop doing anything with our bodies or minds that keeps us from worshiping God. Let us keep trying to avoid sinning; let us keep honoring God and trembling in his presence.
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\v 2 Open your hearts to us! No matter what you may have heard about us, we have not wronged anyone. And we have never taken advantage of anyone.
\v 3 I do not scold you to condemn you. We love you with all our hearts! We are united in purpose and we will live with you and die with you.
\v 4 Moreover, I trust you very much, and I am very encouraged when I hear how well you are doing. Even when we were going through severe afflictions together, you fill up my joy so that it overflows.
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\v 5 When we came to you in Macedonia, we were exhausted. We had troubles on every side—we faced hardships that other people caused, and we feared many things.
\v 6 But God always comforts us when we are discouraged, and he comforted us at that time by sending Titus to be with us.
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\v 8 I know the letter I wrote to you made you sad, but I do not regret that I wrote it to you. I did have regret when I saw that my letter made you sad, but what I wrote to you was necessary to help you deal with the problems in the church. I knew that your sorrow would last only for a short time.
\v 9 And so now I can rejoice, not because you were sad when you read my letter, but because your sorrow turned you away from the sin that was hurting you so much, and it changed your sadness into a sorrow that God brought to you, a sorrow that gave you so much more than you had lost.
\v 10 This kind of sorrow turns a person away from sin so that God can rescue him; people are glad, in the end, to have had this kind of sorrow. On the other hand, worldly sorrow, a sadness for your sins only because you were caught in them, can lead only to death.
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\v 11 Now think about how much good you wanted to do because you had this sorrow that God gave you. You wanted to show me you were innocent. You were so concerned about that accusation of sin, and you were so worried about how that person had sinned. You wanted justice to be done. In sum, you showed that you were innocent.
\v 12 What I wrote to you was not intended for the wrongdoer, and it was not written either for the one who suffered the wrong, but it was written for you to understand how much you are faithful to us. God knows that you are faithful to us.
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\v 15 Now his love for you has grown because he has seen for himself how much you follow God, and he knows how you welcomed him among yourselves—you welcomed him with fear, because God is holy, and with trembling, because you know God is great.
\v 16 I am filled with joy because I have confidence in you in everything.
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\v 13 All of us here whom God has set apart for himself greet you.
\v 14 May the Lord Jesus Christ act kindly toward you, may God love you, and may the Holy Spirit be with you all.

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\v 1 After fourteen years passed, Barnabas, Titus, and I went up again to Jerusalem.
\v 2 We did this because God had told me we should go. I explained privately to the most important leaders of the believers the content of the good news that I had been proclaiming in the regions of the non-Jews. I did this because I wanted to make sure that they approved of what I had been preaching. I wanted to make sure that I had not been working uselessly.
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\v 3 But those leaders did not even require Titus, who was with me and was an uncircumcised Gentile, to be circumcised.
\v 4 The people who would have required him to be circumcised were not true believers, but they pretended that they were fellow believers. They watched us closely to see how we obey God without following all the Jewish laws and rituals, since we know that Christ Jesus has freed us from those things. These false believers would like to make us like slaves to the law.
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\v 18 If I again believed that God would make me right in his sight because I obey his law, I would be like a man who rebuilds a shaky old building that he had once torn down. Everyone would see that I was breaking God's law.
\v 19 As I was trying to obey God's law, I became like a dead man; it was as if the law had killed me. This happened so that I might live to worship God.
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\v 20 It is as though my old way of life ended when Christ died on the cross. I no longer direct my life. Christ, who lives in my heart, now directs how I live. And whatever I do now while I live, I do it trusting in God's Son. He is the one who loved me and offered himself as the sacrifice to provide God's forgiveness to me.
\v 21 I do not set aside God's kindness, as if keeping the law could make us right with God. Otherwise, Christ would have died on the cross for nothing.
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\v 7 You should realize, therefore, that it is those who trust in Christ to save them whom God has made into descendants of Abraham.
\v 8 Even before God began to make non-Jews good in his sight when they trusted in him, men wrote in the scriptures that he would do this. God announced this good news to Abraham, as we read in the scriptures, "Because of what you have done, I will bless all the peoples in the world."
\v 9 So, we know by this that it is all those who trust in Christ whom God blesses along with Abraham, who also trusted in God.
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\v 10 God curses all those who think they can please God by obeying his law. It is just as you can read in the scriptures, "God will eternally punish everyone who does not continuously and completely obey all the laws that Moses wrote in the book of the law."
\v 11 But God has said that if he declares any people good in his sight, it will not be because they obeyed his law. You can read in the scriptures, "Every person whom God declares to be good will live because he trusts God."
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\p
\v 15 My fellow believers, God's promise is like a contract between two people. After they sign it, no one can cancel it, nor can they add anything to it.
\v 16 God promised to bless Abraham and his special descendant. The scriptures do not say, "your descendants," that is, many people, but instead "your descendant," meaning just one person, Christ.
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\v 17 This is what I am saying. God established an agreement with Abraham that the law which he gave to Moses 430 years later could not cancel.
\v 18 This is because if what God is giving to us forever comes because we keep his law, then he would not be giving it because he had promised to do so. In reality, however, God gave Abraham this gift because he had freely promised to give it.
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\v 17 I say that people have persecuted me for declaring the truth about Jesus, and as a result I have scars on my body, unlike your new teachers. So let no one trouble me about these matters again!
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\v 18 My fellow believers, may our Lord Jesus Christ kindly be good to all of you. Amen!

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\v 15 Because God has done so much for you, and because I heard how you trust in the Lord Jesus and love all whom God has chosen for himself,
\v 16 I have not stopped thanking God for you and praying for you often.
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\v 17 I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father who lives in shining light, may help you think wisely and understand everything about what he reveals to you.
\v 18 I pray that God may teach you about what he wants to do for us, and why we know he is speaking the truth. I pray that we may know how great are the things he promises to give to us and to everyone whom he will choose to belong to himself.
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\v 22 God has put everything under the rule of Christ and appointed Christ to be the head, that is the ruler, over everything in the church,
\v 23 which is also called his body. And the church is filled by Christ, who fills all things in every way.
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\v 1 Before you trusted Christ you were powerless to obey God. You were as helpless as a person who is dead.
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\v 21 Jesus is increasing his family of believers and fitting them together like a temple of stones is built and fit together, increasing as the Lord joins new believers to himself.
\v 22 Jesus is building you up together, both Jews and non-Jews, into one family in which God lives by means of his Spirit.
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\v 8 Although I am the least worthy of all God's people, God has enabled me by his kindness and mercy to proclaim to non-Jews the good news about what Christ has done for us, which is so much that no one can learn all about it.
\v 9 My mission is to explain to everyone what God's plan is, something that God has kept hidden from long ago, from the time when he created everything.
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\v 10 What God has wisely planned he showed to powerful angels in heaven through his people who trust in Christ.
\v 11 That is what God had always planned for eternity, and it is what he accomplished through the work of Christ Jesus our Lord.
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\v 12 So now when we pray, we can come to God confidently and without being afraid, because we trust in Jesus, who has fulfilled God's plan.
\v 13 So I ask that you do not be discouraged because of my suffering many things for you here in prison, which actually end up honoring you.
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\v 14 Because God has done all this for you, I kneel and pray to God our Father.
\v 15 He is the one who gives every family in heaven and on the earth their name.
\v 16 I pray because of his great power that God will give you power and will strengthen you by his Spirit who lives in your spirits.
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\v 17 I pray that Christ may live in your hearts because you trust in him, and that you will be like a firmly rooted tree and a building founded upon stone,
\v 18 so that you may be fully able to understand, along with the all those set apart for God, how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.
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\v 11 He appointed some believers to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some to lead and others to teach the groups of believers.
\v 12 This was to prepare God's people to do God's work and serve others, so that all the people who belong to Christ might become spiritually strong
\v 13 He wants all of us believers to be united together as we all trust in him and grow to fully understand him. He wants us to become mature believers, together, growing to become perfect, as he himself is perfect.
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\v 14 Once we are mature, we will no longer be ignorant of what is true, like little children. We will no longer follow every new teaching, like a boat is blown around by the wind and waves. We will not allow people who teach what is false to trick us and deceive us.
\v 15 Instead, we will speak the truth to one another because we love each other. Then we will grow up in every way and we will become more like Christ, who is the Head of the Church.
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\v 23 You must let God change your spirits and how you think.
\v 24 You must start living like new persons. God has created you as new persons. You are set apart for him. He created you to live in the right way, to be truly dedicated to God.
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\v 25 Therefore, quit lying to one another. As the scripture says, "Speak truthfully to one another because we now are each other's fellow believers." We now belong to one another in God's family.
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\v 3 Do not do any kind of immoral sexual act. Do not do anything that is offensive to God. Do not desire anything other people have. These are sins that should never be done by any of God's people because we are set apart for God, and our lives should bring him honor as we obey him.
\v 4 Do not tell obscene stories to others or say foolish things or joke about committing sins. Such things are not what people who belong to God talk about. Instead, thank God for his love when you talk to others.
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\v 5 You can be sure of this: No person who is sexually immoral or indecent, or who is greedy (for this is the same as worshiping idols) will be among God's people over whom Christ rules as king.
\v 6 Do not let anyone deceive you with false arguments. Because they do these sinful things, God will be angry with the people who disobey him.
\p
\v 7 So do not join with those who do these kinds of sins.
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\v 8 Before you believed in the Lord Jesus, you were living in sinful disobedience, as if a dark night surrounded you all the time. But now live in the light of the Lord.
\v 9 Like light produces good things, so also those who live in the light of Jesus know and do what is good, right, and true.
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\v 15 So be very careful how you live. Do not behave as foolish people do. Instead, behave as wise people do.
\v 16 Use the time you have on earth wisely because the days here are filled with evil.
\v 17 So do not be foolish. Instead, understand what the Lord Jesus wants you to do, and do it!
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\v 18 Do not become drunk by drinking alcoholic drinks, which can ruin your life. Instead, let God's Spirit control what you do at all times.
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\p
\v 22-23 Wives should submit to their own husband's leadership as they do to the Lord Jesus because the husband is the leader of the wife as also Christ is the leader of the worldwide assembly of believers. He is the Savior who has saved all believers from being condemned for their sins.
\v 24 Just as all believers submit themselves to the authority of Christ, the women must submit themselves completely to the authority of their husbands.
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\v 25 Each of you husbands, love your wife as Christ loved all believers and gave up his own life for us on the cross,
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\v 23 I pray that God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ may cause all of you fellow believers to have inner peace, to love each other, and to have faith in God.
\v 24 May God give his grace to all people who love our Lord Jesus Christ without ceasing.

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\v 15 Some people are proclaiming the good news because they are jealous and they want people to honor them rather than me. But others are proclaiming the good news because they want to help people.
\v 16 Those who want to help people proclaim the good news because they love Christ and because they know that God put me to here to explain why the good news is true.
\v 17 But those who are proclaiming the good news about Christ for selfish reasons do not have good reasons for doing so. They believe they are causing me more suffering while I am here in prison.
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\v 18 But it does not matter! People are proclaiming the good news about Christ, either for good reasons or for bad reasons. So I am rejoicing that people are spreading the message about Jesus Christ! And I will continue to rejoice in that!
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\v 26 So you should be happy about me because of Christ Jesus when I am once again with you.
\p
\v 27 Most importantly, behave in front of the people who live around you in a way that shows that you honor the good news about Christ. Do this so that whether or not I come and see you, how you live will make me happy. They should tell me that you together are doing your best to believe and live as the good news teaches us.
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\v 28 Do not let any of those people who are against you frighten you! When you are courageous and you resist them, this will show them that God will destroy them but will save you.
\v 29 God is kind to you: He is allowing you to suffer for Christ as well as to trust in him.
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\v 22 But you know Timothy's proven character, because as a son with a father he served me in the good news.
\v 23 I confidently expect to send Timothy to you as soon as I know what will happen to me.
\v 24 And because I believe that the Lord wants this to happen, I am confident that they will soon release me, and that I will come to you myself.
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\v 25 I believe that I must send Epaphroditus back to you. He is a fellow believer and my fellow worker and soldier for Christ, and your messenger and servant whom you sent to help me in my need.
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\v 4 If anyone could have done enough things to please God, it would have been me.
\p
\v 5 They circumcised me seven days after I was born. I was born as one of the people of Israel. I am from the tribe of Benjamin. You cannot find a person more Hebrew than myself! My ancestors were all Hebrews. And it was as a Pharisee that I obeyed all the laws of Moses and what our ancestors taught about them.
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\v 6 I was so passionate to make people obey the law that I caused believers in Christ to suffer. No one could say that I ever disobeyed the law.
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\v 17 My fellow believers, join with others who follow our example, and watch closely those who live according to the example we gave you.
\v 18 There are many people who say that they believe in Christ, but they really oppose what he did on the cross for us. I have told you about those people many times before, and now I am sad, even crying, as I tell you about them again.
\v 19 God will destroy them in the end because their god is their desire to eat, and they live shamefully and think about things of the earth.
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\v 20 As for us, we are citizens of heaven. It is from heaven that we are eagerly awaiting our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to return.
\v 21 He will change the bodies we have now, weak and humble bodies, into bodies like his own powerful body. He will do this with the same power with which he controls all things.
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\v 22 All of God's people here send their greetings to you. Especially the fellow believers who work in the palace of Caesar, the emperor, send their greetings to you.
\p
\v 23 My desire is that our Lord Jesus Christ will continue to act kindly toward you all.

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\v 2 Desire what Jesus is keeping in heaven to give you; do not desire the things here on earth.
\v 3 For God considers that you have died and no longer belong to this world. He considers that he has hidden you with Christ to keep you safe.
\v 4 When God reveals Christ to everyone on earth in his shining light, then he will also reveal you in that same light, because Christ makes you live!
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\v 5 Therefore, think of the desires you have to do evil things in this world as enemies that must die. You must execute them: Do not try to do sexually immoral or impure acts. Do not think in lustful or evil ways. And do not be greedy, because that is the same as worshiping idols.
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\v 18 I, Paul, greet you now in my own handwriting. Remember me and pray for me in prison. I pray that our Lord Jesus Christ would continue to act graciously toward you all.

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\v 1 I, Paul, am writing this letter. Silas and Timothy are with me. We are sending this letter to you who are the group of believers in the city of Thessalonica who are joined to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. May God be kind to you and give you peace.
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\v 2 We always thank God for you all when we mention you while we pray.
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\v 11 You know also that we behaved toward each one of you as a father who loves his children behaves toward them.
\v 12 We kept strongly exhorting and encouraging you to live like God's people should, because he has called you to become his people to whom he will show himself as king with the most wonderful power.
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\v 13 This is why we always thank God, because when you heard the message that we told to you, you accepted it as the true message, the good message that God gave to us. We ourselves did not invent it. We also thank God that he is changing your lives because you trust this message.
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\v 15 Those Jews had killed the Lord Jesus and many prophets, too. Other unbelieving Jews forced us to leave many towns. They really make God angry, and they work against what is best for all human beings!
\v 16 For example, they try to stop us from telling the good news to non-Jews; they do not want God to save them! They have sinned almost as much as God will allow them to before he punishes them at last!
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\v 17 My fellow believers, when we had to be away from you for a short time, we felt like parents who had lost their children. We strongly desired to be present with you.
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\v 19 Indeed, it is because of you that we hope to do God's work well; it is you who make us proud; it is because of you that we hope to succeed in serving God. It is because of you as well as others that we hope that the Lord Jesus will reward us when he returns to earth.
\v 20 Indeed, it is because of you that even now we are pleased and are joyful!
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\v 4 Remember that when we were present with you, we kept telling you that others would mistreat us. And that is what happened, as you know.
\v 5 This is why I sent Timothy to you, because I could wait no longer to know whether you were still trusting in Christ. I was afraid that Satan, the one who tempts us, had caused you to stop trusting in Christ. I was afraid that everything we had done with you was useless.
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\v 6 But now Timothy has just returned to Silas and me from being with you, and he has told us the good news that you still trust in Christ and that you love him. He told us also that you always happily remember us and that you want very much us to visit you, just as we want to visit you.
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\v 12 As for you, we pray that the Lord Jesus will help you to love each other and other people more and more, just like we continue loving you more and more.
\v 13 We pray that our Lord Jesus will make you strong in your thoughts, feelings, and purposes, so that when you stand before God our Father when Jesus comes back to earth, he will not accuse you of doing any wrong, and you will bring honor to God by the way you have lived your life.
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\v 7 When God chose us believers, he did not want us to be people who behave in a sexually immoral way. On the contrary, he wants us to be people who do not sin.
\v 8 So I warn you that those who disregard this teaching of mine are not just disregarding me, a human being. On the contrary, they are disregarding God, because God commanded it. Remember that God sent his Spirit, who does not sin, to live in you!
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\v 9 I want to urge you again that you should love your fellow believers. You do not really need that anyone write to you about that, because God has already taught you how to love each other,
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\v 11 We urge you also to try hard to attend to your own affairs and to not meddle with the affairs of others. We urge you also to work at your own occupations to earn what you need to live. Remember that we taught you previously to live like that.
\v 12 If you do these things, unbelievers will acknowledge that you behave decently, and you will not have to depend on others to supply what you need.
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\v 13 My fellow believers, we also want you to understand what will happen to our fellow believers who now are dead. You must not be like the unbelievers. They grieve deeply for people who have died because they did not expect them to live again after they had died.
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\v 17 After that, God will take up into the clouds all of us believers who are still living on this earth. He will take us and those other believers who have died, in order that we all might together meet the Lord Jesus in the sky. As a result of that, we all will be with him forever.
\v 18 Because all this is true, encourage each other by sharing this teaching with each other.
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\v 8 But we believers belong to the day, so let us control ourselves. Let us be like soldiers: As they protect their chests with breastplates, let us protect ourselves by trusting in Christ and loving him. As they protect their heads with helmets, let us protect ourselves by expecting Christ to rescue us completely from evil.
\p
\v 9 When God chose us, he did not plan for us to be people whom he will punish. On the contrary, he decided to save us because we trust in what our Lord Jesus Christ has done for us.
\v 10 Jesus died to atone for our sins in order that we might live together with him, whether we are alive or whether we are dead when he returns to earth.
\v 11 Because you know that this is true, continue to encourage each other, as indeed you now are doing.
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\v 12 My fellow believers, we ask that you recognize as leaders those people who work hard for you. This means that you must respect these leaders as fellow believers—you see how hard they work to help you grow in faith. These leaders guide you and they teach you how to live for the Lord.
\v 13 We ask that you honor them because you love them and because of the work they do. We also urge you to live peacefully with each other.
\p
\v 14 My fellow believers, we urge that you warn believers who want to live off what others give them instead of working. Also encourage believers who are fearful, and help all people who are weak in any way. We also urge you to be patient with everyone.
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\v 15 Make sure that none of you does evil deeds to anyone who has done evil to you. On the contrary, you must always try to do good deeds to each other and to everyone else.
\p
\v 16 Be joyful at all times,
\v 17 pray continually,
\v 18 and thank God in all circumstances. God wants you to behave like that because of what Christ Jesus has done for you.
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\v 19 Do not keep God's Spirit from working among you.
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\v 21 On the contrary, evaluate all such messages. Accept the parts that are good and obey them.
\v 22 Do not obey any kind of evil message.
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\v 23 May God give you peace and make you without fault so that you do not sin. May he keep you from sinning in any way until our Lord Jesus Christ comes back to earth.
\v 24 Because God has called you to be his people, you can certainly trust him to keep on helping you in that way.
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\v 25 My fellow believers, pray for me, for Silas, and for Timothy.
\v 26 When you gather together as believers, greet each other affectionately, as fellow believers should.
\v 27 Make certain that you read this letter to all the believers who are among you. When I tell you this, it is the same as if the Lord were speaking to you!
\v 28 May our Lord Jesus Christ continue to act kindly toward you all.

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\v 8 It is then that God will allow this man, who rejects God's laws completely, to show himself to everyone in the world. Then the Lord Jesus will speak a single command that will destroy him. Just by showing himself to everyone when he returns, Jesus will cause that man to become completely powerless.
\p
\v 9 But before Jesus destroys him, Satan will give that man very great power. As a result, he will do all kinds of supernatural miracles and amazing deeds, and many people will believe that God was making him able to do those things.
\v 10 And by doing wicked deeds, that man will completely deceive those who are doomed to perish. He will be able to deceive them because they did not agree to love the true message about how Jesus could save them.
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\p I pray that our Lord Jesus will continue to help you all.
\v 17 Now I have taken the pen from my scribe, and I, Paul, am sending this greeting to you as I write this myself. I do this in all my letters in order that you may know that it is truly I who have sent this letter. This is how I always end my letters.
\v 18 I pray that our Lord Jesus Christ will continue to act kindly to you all.

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\v 14 And it was not Adam that the snake deceived. It was the woman whom he completely deceived, so that she sinned.
\v 15 But God will save women as they bear children, if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.
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\c 3
\p
\v 1 You should rely on what I tell you here: If someone desires very much to oversee believers, he wants to do something really excellent.
\v 2 For that reason, however, an overseer must be someone whom no one accuses of anything bad. He must have only one wife. He must not do anything to excess; he must think in wise ways. He must behave well, and he must welcome strangers. He must be able to teach others.
\v 3 He must not be an alcoholic and not quick to fight. Instead, he must be patient and peaceful with others. And he should not be greedy for money.
\s5
\v 4 He should control the people in his own home well. His children should obey him with respect.
\v 5 I say this because if a man does not even know how to control the people in his own house, how can he care for an assembly of God's people?
\s5
\v 6 A new believer should not be be an overseer, because he might think that he is better than other people. If that happened, God might punish him like he punished the devil.
\v 7 Those outside of the church must also think well of him. Otherwise he might be shamed and the devil might persuade him to sin.
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\p
\v 8 Deacons, in the same way, should be people whom others respect. They should be sincere when they speak. They should not drink too much wine, and they must not be greedy for money.
\v 9 They should believe in the true things that God has told us, and at the same time know what is right, and then do it.
\v 10 Find these qualities in them first, and then choose them to serve because no one can find anything wrong with them.
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\v 11 In the same way, other people should respect deacons' wives. Their wives should not talk badly about other people. They must not do anything to excess, and they must be honest in everything they do.
\v 12 A deacon must have only one wife and must control his children and his possessions well.
\v 13 Good deacons are men whom the other believers highly respect. They come to trust in Christ Jesus very much.
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\q People in many parts of the world believed in him.
\q God took him up to himself and gave him his power."
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\v 11 Declare and teach these things to the believers.
\p
\v 12 Do not allow anyone to say that you are useless because you are young. Instead, show other believers how to live. Show them this by how you speak, by how you live, by how you love, by how you trust God, and by how you keep from committing evil deeds.
\v 13 Until I come to you, see to it that you read God's word to the believers in public, and that you explain and teach it to the believers.
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\v 14 Be sure to use the gift that is in you, what God gave to you when the elders laid hands on you and spoke God's messages to you.
\v 15 Be sure to do all these things and live according to them. In this way, all the believers will see that you are doing them better and better.
\p
\v 16 Control yourself very carefully and do everything that we teach. Keep doing these things. If you do so, you will save yourself and the people who listen to you.
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\v 15 I write these things because some younger widows have already left the way of Christ to follow Satan.
\p
\v 16 If any believing woman has widows among her relatives, let her help them, so those widows will not be a burden to the church. In this way the church will be able to help real widows.
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\p
\v 17 Let the believers give double honor to the elders who lead them well, especially to the elders who preach and teach God's word.
\v 18 For the scripture says, "You shall not keep the ox from eating the grain that he is treading out" and "The laborer deserves to get his pay."
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\p
\v 21 God, Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels see me as I solemnly command you to do these things. Be sure that you do not judge anyone before you should. Be sure that you do not favor one person over another when you lead the believers.
\p
\v 22 When you want someone to begin to serve the believers, make no decision too quickly, so you do not choose them too soon. And do not be a partner with anyone in sinning. You must keep yourself without fault.
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\v 24 The sins of some people are clear to everyone, and the church does not need much time to judge them. But the church does not discover some sins until later.
\v 25 In the same way, some good deeds are clear to everybody, but even the other good deeds will become clear at some time in the future.
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\p
\v 20 Timothy, faithfully proclaim the true message that Jesus has given to you. Avoid the people who want to chatter about things that are not important to God. Avoid the people who say that they have true knowledge but who say things that are against the true things we teach.
\v 21 Certain men teach these things and so they stop believing the truth. May God be kind to you all.

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\v 17 On the contrary, when he came here to Rome, he kept searching for me until he found me.
\v 18 May the Lord be kind to Onesiphorus on the final day. You know all the ways that he helped me in Ephesus.
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\v 1 You are like a son to me. So I urge also that you let God empower you as a result of Christ Jesus acting kindly toward you.
\v 2 Teach other people what you have heard from me. What you heard from me was also learned by many others who have faith and who are also faithful. Give my teaching to faithful men, men you can trust, with the hope that they too could teach others like they were taught by you.
\s5
\p
\v 3 Endure as I do what we suffer for Christ Jesus, like a good soldier endures what he suffers.
\v 4 You know that soldiers, in order to please their captain, do not become involved in civilian affairs.
\v 5 Likewise, athletes competing in games cannot win unless they obey the rules.
\s5
\v 6 And the farmer who works hard must receive his share of the crops first.
\v 7 Think about what I have just written, because if you do, the Lord will enable you to understand everything that you need to understand.
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\v 16 Stay away from people who talk in ways that insult God, because this kind of talk dishonors God more and more.
\v 17 This kind of words will spread like an infectious disease. Hymenaeus and Philetus are two examples of men who talk like this.
\v 18 These men have stopped believing. They say that the resurrection of the dead has already happened. In this way they convince some Christians to stop trusting in Christ.
\s5
\v 19 However, the truth about God still exists. It is like a firm foundation of a building on which someone has written these words: "The Lord knows those who belong to him" and "Everyone who says he belongs to the Lord must stop doing wicked deeds."
\p
\v 20 In a wealthy person's house there are not only utensils made of gold and of silver, but also utensils made of wood and of clay. The gold and silver utensils are used on special occasions. But the wood and clay utensils are used in ordinary times.
\v 21 Therefore, those who rid themselves of what is evil in their lives will be able to work well for the Lord. They will be like utensils ready to do any kind of good work. They will become very useful to the Master to do special work for him, every good deed, in fact.
\s5
\v 22 Do not keep on wanting the sinful things that young people usually desire. Instead, try to do right things. Try to trust in God and love him. Try to live in peace. Stay together with the people who worship the Lord sincerely.
\p
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\v 25 That is, they should gently instruct the people who argue against them. Perhaps God may give them the opportunity to repent and come to know the truth.
\v 26 In that way they may think correctly and be like people who have escaped from a trap set by the devil. It is the devil who has deceived them in order to get them to do what he wishes them to do.
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\v 16 All the scriptures come from God's Spirit, so we should read them in order to teach the truth about God. We should also read them in order to persuade people to believe the truth. Also to correct people when they sin. Also to teach people how to do what is right.
\v 17 We should do these things so that God can train every believer and give him what he needs in order to do every kind of good thing.
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\p
\v 1 When Christ Jesus comes soon to rule, he will judge those who still live and those who died. And now he and God are watching me as I command you
\v 2 to proclaim the message about Christ. Be ready to do this when it is easy to do so and also when it is not easy. Convince people about what is right when they have done wrong. Warn them not to sin. Encourage them to follow Christ. Do these things as you teach them, and always be willing to wait for them to do better.
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\v 3 I tell you these things because the time will come when people among us will not follow what God truly teaches. Instead, they will find many men who will teach that it is good to do anything they wish to do. In this way, they will always be looking for something new and different to learn.
\v 4 They will stop listening to the truth, and they will pay attention to foolish stories.
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\s5
\v 17 But the Lord stood with me and helped me. He made me strong, so that I fully spoke his word and so that all the Gentiles listened to it. In this way God saved me from dying.
\v 18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil thing they do. He will bring me safely to where he rules in heaven. May people praise him forever. Amen.
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\p
\v 19 Greet Priscilla and Aquila. Greet the people in the home of Onesiphorus.
\v 20 Erastus stayed in the city of Corinth. As for Trophimus, I left him in the city of Miletus because he was sick.
\v 21 Try to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, also Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.
\v 22 May the Lord be with your spirit. May he be kind to all of you.

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\v 8 Rather than that, he must welcome strangers and love the things that are good. He must always act sensibly and treat other people in a fair and honest manner. He must always act in a way that is right for someone who is devoted to God and he must always control his emotions.
\v 9 He must always believe the true things we have taught him, and he must live according to them. He must do this in order to persuade people to live like this too, and in order to correct people if they do not want to live like this.
\p
\s5
\v 10 I tell you these things because there are many people who refuse to obey those who are in authority over them. What these people say has no value. They persuade people to believe wrong things. The people who are the most like this are the ones who tell all followers of Christ to become circumcised.
\v 11 You and the leaders whom you appoint should prevent such people from teaching the believers. They are teaching things that they should not teach, causing entire families to believe wrong things. They only do it so that people will give them money. This is very shameful!
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\v 9 As for those believers who are slaves, teach them that they should always submit to their masters. Tell them to live in a way that pleases their masters in every way, and to not be argumentative with them.
\v 10 They must not steal even little things from their masters; instead, they should be faithful to them, and they should do everything in a way that leads people to admire all that we teach about God, who saves us.
\p
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\v 11 The believers should behave in these good ways because God is offering to save everyone as a gift that no one deserves.
\v 12 When God saves us as a free gift, he also trains us to stop doing what is wrong and what people of the world want to do. He teaches us to be sensible, to do what is right, and to obey God while we live during this present time.
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\p
\v 15 Titus, speak about these things. Urge our brothers and sisters to live as I have described and correct them when they do not, using your right to command them if necessary. Make sure that everyone pays attention to what you say.
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\v 15 Titus, all those who are with me greet you! Please greet our friends there who love us as fellow believers. May God continue to show great kindness to all of you.

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\v 23 Epaphras, who is suffering with me in prison because he is joined to Christ Jesus, sends his greetings to you.
\v 24 Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, who are my other fellow workers, also send their greetings to you.
\v 25 I pray that the Lord Jesus Christ will continue to be kind to you.

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\v 14 The angels are only spirits whom God has sent out to serve and care for believers whom God will soon save completely, as he has promised to do for them.
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\v 9 However, we do know about Jesus, who appeared in this life as a little less important than the angels. Because he suffered and died, God has made him the most important of all. He has made Jesus king over everything because Jesus died for all mankind. It was because God was so kind to us that this happened.
\p
\v 10 It was proper that God should make Jesus complete in every way by suffering and dying for us. God is the one who created all things, and he is the one for whom all things exist. And Jesus is the one who enables God to save people.
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\q "I will trust him."
\p And in another scripture passage, Christ said about those who are like his children,
\q "I and the children whom God has given me are here."
\p
\v 14 So since those whom God calls his children are all human beings, Jesus also became a human being just like them. The devil has the power to cause people to be afraid to die, but Christ became human so that by his dying and defeating death he might make the devil powerless.
\v 15 Jesus did this in order to free all of us who, all our lives, could not rid ourselves of the fear of death.
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\v 17 So God had to make Jesus to be exactly like us, like his human "brothers." He became a high priest who acts mercifully to all people and who acts faithfully for God, so he could die for the people's sins and make a way for God to forgive them.
\v 18 Jesus is able to help those who are tempted to sin because he himself suffered and was tempted to sin, just as we are tempted to sin.
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\v 7 The Holy Spirit caused the psalmist to write these words in the scriptures to the Israelites:
\q "Now, when you hear God speak to you,
\v 8 do not refuse to obey him, and do not let your desires be more important that what God says, for if you do, you would be just like your ancestors long ago, when they turned away from God and did not obey him.
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\v 9 Your ancestors repeatedly tested me, to see whether I would be patient with them, even though for forty years they saw all the amazing things I did.
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\p
\v 11 I was angry with them and solemnly declared, 'They will not enter the land of Canaan where I would let them rest!'"
\s5
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\v 12 So, fellow believers, be careful that none of you stops trusting in Christ because of evil in your heart, which would cause you to reject the only God who actually lives.
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\v 15 The psalmist wrote in the scripture that God said,
\q "If you hear me speaking to you today, do not stubbornly disobey me as your ancestors did when they rebelled against me."
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\v 16 Who were the ones who rebelled against God even though they heard him speak to them? It was all of God's people who Moses led out of Egypt.
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\v 18 And remember about whom God solemnly declared, "They will not enter the land where I would let them rest." It was those Israelites who disobeyed God.
\v 19 So, from that example we know that it was because they did not keep trusting in God that they were unable to enter the land where God would allow them to rest.
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\v 5 But note again what God said about the Israelites in the passage that I quoted previously:
\q "They will not enter the land where I would let them rest."
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\v 6 Some people still enter God's rest. But the Israelites who first heard God promise that they would rest—they did not enter that place of resting, because they refused to believe God.
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\c 6
\p
\v 1-3 So, we must not keep discussing what we first learned about Christ, things that all believers must learn at first. Some of these things are how to stop doing sinful deeds, those that lead to death, and how to start trusting in God. There are also important things we teach: various kinds of baptism, why we often pray while putting our hands on each other; and also about how God will raise us all from the dead and judge everyone in a way that will last forever. Indeed, we will discuss these things again later, if God gives us the chance to do it. But now we must discuss things that are harder to understand; these are things that will help us to trust in Christ in all times, no matter what happens.
\s5
\v 4 I will explain why it is important to do this. Some people have at one time understood the message about Christ. They learned what it was like for God to forgive them and for Christ to love them, and they received gifts from the Holy Spirit.
\v 5 They found for themselves that God's message is good, and they learned how God will work powerfully in the future.
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\v 11 We greatly desire that all of you continue to show the same effort you are showing now, so that to the very end of your lives you will be sure you will receive all that God promised to give you.
\v 12 I do not want you to be lazy. Instead, I want you to do what other believers have done, those who are receiving what God promised them because they trusted in him and were patient.
\s5
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\v 13 When God promised to do great things for Abraham, there was no one greater than himself whom he could ask to force himself to do those things. So he asked himself.
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\v 19 Yes, we confidently expect to receive what God has promised to do for us. It is as if we were a ship whose anchor is holding us firmly in one place. The one we confidently expect to hold us is Jesus, because he has gone into God's very presence. This is why he is just like the high priests who go behind the curtain into the innermost part of the temple, where God is present.
\v 20 Jesus went into God's presence ahead of us to allow us to enter in that same place with God, too. Jesus has become a high priest forever, in the way that Melchizedek was a high priest.
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\v 13 Since God said that he was making a new covenant, we know that he considered that the first covenant was no longer in use, and that it would soon disappear.
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\v 4 There was an altar in the holy place that was covered with gold. It was used for burning incense. The sacred chest was also there. All its sides were covered with gold. In the holy place was the golden pot which contained pieces of the food they called manna. Inside the chest there was also Aaron's walking stick that had budded to prove that he was God's true priest. Inside the chest were also the stone tablets on which God had written the Ten Commandments.
\v 5 On top of the chest were figures of winged creatures that symbolized God's glory. Their wings overshadowed the sacred chest's lid. This sacred chest was where the high priest sprinkled the blood to atone for the sins of the people. I cannot now write about these things in detail.
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\v 6 After they have arranged all these things in this way, the Jewish priests habitually go into the outer room of the tent to do their tasks.
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\v 9 This was a symbol for the time in which we are now living. The gifts and sacrifices offered in the sacred tent cannot make people always know right from wrong or always do right from their hearts in a way that pleases God.
\v 10 Those rules about what to eat and drink and about what to wash—all those rules are no longer any good because God has made a new covenant with us. This new covenant is a much better system.
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\v 11 But when Christ came as our high priest, he brought the good things that we have now. Then he went into God's presence in heaven, which is like the sacred tent, but it is not part of the world that God created. It is better than the tent Moses set up here on earth because it is perfect.
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\v 13 The priests sprinkle on the people the blood of goats and bulls with the ashes of the calf that was burned in offering. This act of worship, this sprinking of blood, was the way they were made pure so they could worship God.
\v 14 Since all this was true, we see now how much more God has accomplished by the blood of Christ! By the power of God's eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as the perfect sacrifice for our sins. Now we can serve the living God and no longer do the things that lead to death.
\p
\v 15 By dying for us, Christ made for God a new covenant with us. We were trying to please God by means of the first covenant, but we were still guilty of having sinned. When he died, he freed us from having to die for our own sins. As a result, all of us whom God has called to know him will receive what he has promised to give us forever.
\s5
\v 16 A covenant is like a will. In the case of a will, in order to put its provisions into effect, someone must prove that the one who made it has died.
\v 17 A will goes into effect only when the one who makes the will has died. It is not in effect when the one who made it is still alive.
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\v 21 Likewise, he sprinkled that blood on the sacred tent and on every object that they used in working there.
\v 22 It was by sprinkling blood that they cleansed almost everything. That was what was stated in God's laws. If blood does not flow when they sacrifice an animal, God does not forgive the sins of those people.
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\v 23 So by animal sacrifices it was necessary for the priests to cleanse the things that symbolized what Christ does in heaven. But God has to cleanse the things in heaven by means of much better sacrifices than those.
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\v 27 All people must die once, and after that God will judge them for their sins.
\v 28 Likewise, when Christ died, God offered him once to be a sacrifice, to punish him in the place of the many people who had sinned. He will come to earth a second time, not in order to sacrifice himself again for those who have sinned, but in order to save us who wait for him and expect him to come.
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\v 9 So do not let other people persuade you to believe other things about God, strange things that you have not learned from us. For example, do not let anything make you obey various rules about what to eat and what not to eat. These rules cannot help us.
\p
\v 10 Those who serve in the sacred tent have no right to eat at the sacred altar where we worship Christ.
\v 11 After the high priest brings into the very holy place the blood of animals that they have sacrificed to atone for sins, other people burn the bodies of those animals outside the camp.
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\v 24 Tell all your spiritual leaders and all your other fellow believers who belong to God in your city that I greet them. The believers in this area who have come from Italy greet you also.
\p
\v 25 May God continue to love you and protect you by his kindness.

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\v 10 Those who disobey only one of God's laws, even if they obey all his other laws, God considers to be as guilty as anyone who has disobeyed all of his laws.
\v 11 For example, God said, "Do not commit adultery," but he also said, "Do not murder anyone." So if you do not commit adultery but you murder someone, you have become a person who disobeys God's laws.
\s5
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\v 12 Always speak and act as the people whom God will judge using his law, not the law that condemns us, but the law that sets us free from being punished for our sins.
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\v 14 My brothers and sisters, some people say, "I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ," but they do not do good things. What they say will do them no good. If they only believe with words, God will certainly not save them.
\v 15 To illustrate, suppose that a brother or sister is continually lacking clothes or food for each day.
\v 16 And suppose one of you says to them, "Do not worry, go away, get warm, and find the food you need!" But if you do not give them the things that they need for their bodies, then that will be no help to them!
\v 17 Similarly, if you do not do good deeds to help others, what you say about believing in Christ is as useless as a dead person! You do not really believe in Christ.
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\p
\v 19 My brothers and sisters, if anyone of you stops obeying the true message from God, some other person among you should persuade that person to once again do what God has told us to do. If he stops doing what is wrong,
\v 20 all of you should remember that because of that other person, God will save the sinner from spiritual death and will forgive his many sins.

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\v 18 I say that because Christ died once for the sake of people who have sinned. He was a righteous person who died for unrighteous people. He died in order that he might bring us to God. During the time that he had an ordinary body, he was killed, but God's Spirit caused him to become alive again.
\v 19 The Spirit also enabled him to go proclaim God's victory to the evil spirits whom God had imprisoned.
\v 20 Long ago, during the time that Noah was building a big boat, those evil spirits disobeyed God when he waited patiently to see if people would turn from their evil behavior. Only a few people were saved in that boat. Specifically, God brought only eight persons safely through the waters of the flood, while all the others drowned in it.
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\v 21 That water represents the water in which we are baptized, by which God saves us because he raised Jesus Christ from the dead. This water, of course, removes no dirt from our bodies. Instead, it shows that we are requesting God to assure us that he has removed our guilt for having sinned.
\v 22 Christ has gone into heaven and is ruling in the place of highest honor next to God the Father, after he caused all the evil and powerful spirit beings to be made obedient to him.
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\p
\v 1 Therefore, because Christ suffered in his body, you also be willing to suffer. Those who suffer in their bodies have stopped their sinning.
\v 2 As a result, during their remaining time here on earth, they do not do the things that sinful people desire to do, but instead they do the things that God wants them to do.
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\v 3 I say that to you because you have already spent too much of your time here on earth doing what the people who do not know God like to do. In the past you committed all kinds of sexually immoral acts, you got drunk and then participated in orgies and carousing, and you worshiped idols, which is disgusting to God.
\v 4 Now your friends are surprised that you do not join with them anymore when they do these things. As a result, they say bad things about you.
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\v 7 All things on this earth will soon come to an end. Therefore, keep thinking sensibly and control what you think so that you can pray well.
\v 8 Most importantly of all, love each other sincerely, because if we love others we will not try to find out what they have done wrong.
\v 9 Provide food and a place to sleep for those Christian travelers who come among you, and do it without complaining.
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\v 10 Believers should all use the gifts that God has given them to serve others. They should manage well the various gifts that God has kindly given them.
\v 11 Those who speak to the assembly of believers should do that as if they were speaking the very words of God. Those who do kind deeds for others should do it with the strength that God gives them, in order that you might honor God as Jesus Christ enables us to do so. May we all praise God because he has all authority to rule everything forever. May it be so!
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\v 12 You whom I love, do not be surprised about the painful things that you are suffering because you belong to Christ. Those things are testing you as people test metal by putting it into a fire. Do not think that something strange is happening to you.
\v 13 Instead, rejoice that you are suffering the same kinds of things that Christ endured. Rejoice when you suffer, in order that you may also be very glad when Christ returns and shows everyone how glorious he is.
\v 14 If others insult you because you believe in Christ, God is pleased with you, because it shows that the Spirit of God, the Spirit who reveals how great God is, lives within you.
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\v 15 If you suffer, do not let it be because you murdered anyone, or stole anything, or did some other kind of evil thing, or because you interfered in someone else's affairs.
\v 16 But if you suffer because you are a Christian, do not be ashamed about it. Instead, praise God that you are suffering because you belong to Christ.
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\v 17 I say this because it is now time for God to begin judging people, and first he will judge those who belong to him. Since he will judge us believers first, think about the terrible things that will happen to those who do not obey the good news that comes from him!
\v 18 That will be as it is written in the scriptures:
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\v 19 Therefore, those who suffer because God wishes it should trust God to keep them—God is the one who created them and he is the one who always does what he promises to do. And so they should continue to do what is right.
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\v 8 Always be alert and pay attention because the devil, who is your enemy, is going around looking for people to destroy. He is like a lion that roars as it prowls around, seeking someone to kill and devour.
\v 9 You must resist him by continuing to firmly trust in Christ and his message, remembering that your fellow believers all over the world are suffering similar hardships.
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\v 10 God is the one who kindly helps us in every situation, and he is the one who chose us to share his eternal glory in heaven because we are joined to Christ. And after you have suffered for a while because of things that people do to harm you, he will remove your spiritual defects, he will strengthen you to trust him more, and he will support you in every way.
\v 11 I pray that he will rule powerfully forever. May it be so!
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\v 13 In this city that we sometimes call "Babylon," the believers, whom God has chosen to belong to him just like he chose you, send you their greetings. Mark, who is like a son to me, also sends you his greetings.
\v 14 Greet each other with a kiss on the cheek to show that you love each other. I pray that God will give peace to all of you who are joined to Christ.

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\v 20 It is important that you understand that no prophet could interpret by his own imagination.
\v 21 No prophecies come from the decision of a human being. Those who spoke messages from God did so when the Holy Spirit helped them do it. Therefore the Spirit must also help us understand what they mean.
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\v 17 Therefore, dear friends, since you already know about these false teachers, guard against them. Do not let these wicked people deceive you by telling you things that are wrong. Do not let them persuade you to doubt what you now firmly believe.
\v 18 Instead, live in such a manner that you experience more and more our Savior Jesus Christ acting kindly toward you, and that you get to know him better and better.
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\v 2 Jesus Christ voluntarily sacrificed his own life for us, so that as a result God forgives our sins. Yes, God is able to forgive our sins, but not only ours. He is also able to forgive the sins of people everywhere!
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\v 3 I will tell you how we can be sure that we know God. If we obey what he commands us to do, that shows us that we are joined together with him.
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\v 4 Those who say "We know God" and do not obey what God commands us to do, are liars. They are not conducting their lives according to God's true message.
\v 5 But those who obey what God commands, they experience all the love that God has for them to experience. This is how we can be sure that we are joined with God.
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\v 7 Dear friends, I am not writing that you must do something new. Instead, I am writing something that you have known to do since you first believed in Christ. This is part of the message that you have always heard.
\v 8 But I will say something again to you on this same topic: I can say that I am telling you to do something new. It is new because what Christ did was new, and what you are doing is new. This is because you are ceasing to do evil and you are doing more and more good. It is like when night passes away and day dawns, the true day of Christ.
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\v 9 Those who claim that they are like people who live in the light, but who hate any of their fellow believers, are still like people who live in darkness.
\v 10 But those who love their fellow believers behave like people who are living in the light; they have no reason to sin.
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\v 15 Do not behave like the people in the world who do not honor God. Do not desire the things they want to have. If anyone lives like they live, they are proving they do not love God our Father.
\v 16 I am writing this because all the wrong things that people do, all the things that people see and try to obtain for themselves, and all the things that they boast about—all these things have nothing to do with our Father in heaven. They belong to the world.
\v 17 The people in the world who do not honor God, along with everything that they desire, will disappear. But those who do what God wants them to do will live forever!
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\v 18 We know that if a person is a child of God, he does not keep sinning again and again. Instead, the Son of God protects him so that Satan, the evil one, does not harm him.
\v 19 We know that we belong to God, and we know that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
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\v 20 We also know that the Son of God has come among us and has enabled us to understand the truth; we are joined to him who is true, God's Son Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is truly God, and he is the one who enables us to have eternal life.
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\v 21 I say to you who are very dear to me, guard yourselves from worshiping gods that have no real power.

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\v 12 Even though I have much more that I want to tell you, I have decided not to say it in a letter. Instead, I expect to be with you soon and talk directly with you. Then we can be completely joyful together.
\v 13 Your fellow believers in the congregation here, whom God has also chosen, all greet you.

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\v 13 When I began to write this letter, I had much more that I intended to tell you. But now I do not want to say it in a letter.
\v 14 Instead, I expect to come and see you soon. Then we will talk directly with one another.
\v 15 May God give his peace to you. The friends here send you greetings. Please give our greetings to all our friends there, personally and by name.

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\v 11 God will punish very severely those who do these things. They behave like Cain did. They commit the same sin as the sin Balaam committed for money, and they will die like Korah, who rebelled against Moses.
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\v 12 These people are like rocks under the water that ships crash against. When they share in your love feasts, they have no shame because they eat only to please themselves. They are like clouds that give no rain, clouds that the wind pushes along. They do no good deeds, for they are like trees in late autumn that bear no fruit. They are like people who have died two times; they are like trees that have been uprooted.
\v 13 They do not control themselves. They are like the sea's strong waves in a storm, and they pollute others with their shame, just as the waves bring up foam and dirt onto the beaches. They are like stars that do not stay where they should in the sky. God will put them in very great darkness forever.
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\v 24 God is able to keep you trusting in him. He will also take you into his presence, where there is brilliant light. You will rejoice very much and be free from sin.
\v 25 He is the only true God. He has saved us as a result of what Jesus Christ our Lord did for us. God was glorious, great, and mighty, and he ruled with great authority before time began. He is still like that, and he will remain like that forever! Amen!

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\v 19 So write down what you have seen. And write down what is happening now. And write down what will happen in the future.
\v 20 The meaning of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars represent the angels who watch over the seven groups of believers in Asia, and the seven lampstands represent the seven groups that are there.
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\v 28 I do all of this with the authority my Father gave me, and I will give the morning star to those who rule with me so that we may have great joy in our victory.
\v 29 Everyone who wants to understand must listen carefully to the message that God's Spirit is saying to the groups of believers assembled together.'
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\v 21 I will permit everyone who conquers Satan to sit and rule with me on my throne, just as I conquered Satan and now sit and rule with my Father on his throne.
\v 22 Everyone who wants to understand must listen carefully to the message that God's Spirit is saying to the groups of believers assembled together.'"
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\v 1 After these things I, John, saw in the vision that there was a door open in heaven. The one whose voice was like a loud trumpet, the one who had spoken to me previously, said to me, "Come up here! I will show you events that must happen later."
\v 2 Immediately I experienced that God's Spirit was specially controlling me. There was a throne there in heaven, and on the throne someone was sitting and ruling.
\v 3 His appearance shone like a brilliant crystalline jasper jewel and like a brilliant red carnelian jewel. Around the throne was a rainbow that shone like a brilliant green emerald jewel.
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\v 4 Around the throne there were twenty-four other thrones. On these thrones twenty-four elders were sitting. They were wearing pure white garments and had golden crowns on their heads.
\v 5 From the throne there came lightning and rumblings and thundering. In front of the throne were burning seven torches, which represent the seven spirits of God.
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\v 6 In front of the throne there was also what looked like a sea made of glass. It was clear, like crystal. On each of the four sides of the throne there was a living creature. Each one was covered with eyes in front and behind.
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\v 7-8 The first living creature was like a lion. The second living creature was like an ox. The third living creature had a face like a man's face. The fourth living creature was like an eagle that was flying. Each of the four living creatures had six wings. These wings were covered with eyes both top and bottom. Day and night they constantly say:
\q1 "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, who rules over all.
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\v 14 The four living creatures said, "May it be so!" Then the elders prostrated themselves on the ground and worshiped God and the lamb.
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\v 1 I saw the Lamb open the first of the seven seals of the scroll. Then one of the four living creatures said in a voice as loud as thunder, "Come!"
\v 2 and a white horse appeared. There was someone riding it, and he had a bow and arrows. God gave him a wreath of leaves to wear on his head to show that he was to conquer evil. He went out to continue to do battle and to win.
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\v 3 Then the one looking like a Lamb opened the second seal, and I heard the second living creature say, "Come!"
\v 4 When he said that, a red horse appeared. There was also someone riding it, and God had given him the power to cause people to no longer live peacefully, but instead to kill each other. For this purpose he carried a large sword.
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\v 5 Then the Lamb opened the third seal, and I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" This time I saw a black horse appear. There was someone riding it, and he had a pair of balance scales in his hand.
\v 6 Then I heard a voice that sounded like it was coming from among the four living creatures. It said to the person on the horse, "Make it happen that one liter of wheat will cost so much that a man must work a whole day to earn enough money to buy it. Also make it happen that three liters of barley will sell for the same price. But do not reduce the supply of olive oil or wine."
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\v 7 Then the Lamb opened the fourth seal, and I heard the fourth living creature say, "Come!"
\v 8 This time I saw a pale horse appear. Someone was riding it; his name was "The one who causes people to die." Someone else was following him; this person's name was "The place where dead people go." God gave these two persons power to kill one-fourth of all people on earth. They could kill them with weapons, or with famine, or with sickness, or with wild animals.
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\v 9 Then the Lamb opened the fifth seal, and I saw under the altar in heaven the spirits of God's servants whom others had killed because these servants had believed God's message, the message to which God himself bore witness.
\v 10 They loudly asked God, "Sovereign Lord, you are holy and true. How long will it be before you condemn and punish the people on earth who murdered us?"
\v 11 Then God gave to each of them a white robe, and he told them to be patient a little longer. They should be patient until the number of those who also served the Lord with them—who were their brothers and sisters in Christ—would be killed just like they themselves had been killed because of their faith.
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\v 12 Then I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, and the earth shook violently. The sun became as black as cloth made of black wool. The whole moon became red like blood.
\v 13 Stars fell to the earth in great numbers, just as immature figs fall when a fig tree shakes in a strong wind.
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\v 16 They shouted to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us so that the one who sits on the throne will not be able to see us, and so that the Lamb will not be able to punish us!
\v 17 This is the terrible day on which they will punish us. No one will be able to survive!"
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\v 1 After this I saw four angels standing on the earth. One was standing at the north, one at the east, one at the south, and one at the west. They were keeping back the winds from blowing and destroying things on the earth, on the ocean, or even on any tree.
\v 2 Then I saw another angel come up from the east. He was carrying God's seal. With this seal God, who is all-powerful, marks his own people to protect them. This angel called out with a loud voice to the four angels whom God had told to harm the earth and the ocean.
\v 3 He said to them, "Do not harm the earth or the ocean or the trees until we have marked the servants of our God on their foreheads."
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\v 16 As a result, they will never again be hungry. They will never again be thirsty. The sun will never again beat on them, nor will any heat scorch them.
\v 17 This is because the Lamb who is at the throne will take care of them, just as a shepherd takes care of his sheep. He will guide them to the source of eternal life, just as a shepherd leads his sheep to springs of water. God will cause them to no longer be sad. It will be as if he were wiping away all tears from their eyes."
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\v 12 Then the fourth angel blew his trumpet, and God struck the sun, the moon, and the stars so that they lost their light for one-third of the time. The sun did not shine during one-third of the day, and the moon and stars did not shine during one-third of the night.
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\v 13 As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying high in the sky shouting in a loud voice, "Terrible things will happen to the people who live on the earth when the three remaining angels blow their trumpets! They are about to blow them!"
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\v 20 But the rest of the people, those who were not killed by the plagues of fire and smoke and burning sulfur, did not turn from the sinful things they were doing. They did not stop worshiping demons or the idols that they themselves had made of gold, of silver, of bronze, of stone, and of wood. The people did not stop worshiping them, even though they were idols that could not see, hear, or walk.
\v 21 They did not stop murdering people, or practicing sorcery, or acting in sexually immoral ways, or stealing things.
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\v 1 In the vision I saw another mighty angel come down out of heaven. A cloud surrounded him. There was a rainbow over his head. His face shone like the sun. His legs looked like columns of fire.
\v 2 He had in his hand a small scroll that was open. He set his right foot on the ocean and his left foot on the land.
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\v 3 He shouted something with a loud voice, a voice like the roar of a lion. When he shouted, it thundered seven times; in the thunder were words that I could understand.
\v 4 I was about to write the words that I heard, but a voice from heaven said to me, "Keep secret what the thunder said! Do not write it down!"
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\v 5 Then the angel whom I had seen standing on the ocean and the land raised his right hand toward heaven,
\v 6 and he asked the one who lives forever—the one who created heaven and everything that is in it, who created the earth and everything that is on it, and who created the ocean and everything that is in it—to say that what he was going to say was true. The angel said that God would no longer delay in doing what he had planned to do.
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\v 8 The one whom I had heard speak from heaven spoke to me again. He said, "Go and take the open scroll from the hand of the angel who is standing on the ocean and on the land."
\v 9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, "Take it and eat it. In your mouth it will taste sweet like honey, but it will make your stomach bitter."
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\v 10 I took the little scroll from the angel's hand and ate it. In my mouth it tasted sweet like honey, but then it made my stomach bitter.
\v 11 Then someone said to me, "You must speak God's messages again about many people, nations, languages, and kings."
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\v 19 Then God opened his temple in heaven, and I saw in it the sacred chest. Lightning was flashing; it was thundering and rumbling; the earth shook, and large hailstones fell from the sky.
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\v 1 Then something very important appeared in the sky. It was a woman, whose clothing was the sun. The moon was under her feet. On her head was a wreath of victory that was made of twelve stars.
\v 2 She was about to deliver a child, and she cried out because she was suffering pain.
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\v 3 Something else very unusual appeared in the sky. It was a huge red dragon. It had seven heads and ten horns. On each of its heads was a royal crown.
\v 4 The dragon's tail dragged a third of the stars from the sky and threw them to the earth. The dragon set himself in front of the woman who was about to give birth in order that he might eat her child as soon as it was born.
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\v 5 Then she gave birth to a son who is destined to rule all the nations with complete authority as if he were using an iron rod. God snatched away her child and took him to his throne.
\v 6 But the woman fled into the wilderness. She has a place there that God has prepared for her in order that he may take care of her for 1,260 days.
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\v 7 Then there was a battle in heaven. Michael and the angels that he commanded fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought back against Michael and his angels.
\v 8 But the dragon did not win the battle; nor did God allow the dragon and his angels to stay in heaven any longer.
\v 9 Instead, God threw the huge dragon out of heaven. The dragon is the ancient serpent, the one whose names are the Devil and Satan. He is the one who deceives people all over the earth. He was thrown to the earth along with all his angels.
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\v 10 Then I heard someone in heaven shout loudly,
\q1 "Now our God has saved his people by his power, and he rules all people!
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\v 13 When the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to a son.
\v 14 But God gave to the woman two wings like the wings of a very large eagle in order that she might fly into the wilderness. There is a place there that God had prepared for her. There God took care of her for three and one-half years. The serpent, that is, the dragon, was not able to reach her there.
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\v 15 Then the serpent poured water like a river from his mouth toward the woman in order to sweep her away with the water.
\v 16 But the ground helped the woman by opening up and swallowing the river that the dragon poured out from his mouth.
\v 17 Then the dragon was very angry with the woman, so he went away to fight against the rest of her descendants. They are the people who obey God's commandments and who speak the truth about Jesus.
\v 18 Then the dragon stood on the ocean shore.
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\v 1 Then I saw a beast come up out of the ocean. It had ten horns and seven heads. On each of its horns there was a royal crown. On each of its heads there was a name that insulted God.
\v 2 This beast was like a leopard. But its feet were like the feet of a bear, and its mouth was like the mouth of a lion. The dragon made the beast very powerful. He gave him the authority to rule over people as king.
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\v 3 One of the heads of the beast looked as if someone had wounded it so that it died. But its wound had healed.
As a result, all the people of the earth marveled at the beast and followed it.
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\v 18 You must think wisely to understand the meaning of the mark. Anyone who thinks wisely should understand that the number represents mankind. It is 666.
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\v 19 So the angel swung his sickle on the earth. Then he threw the grapes into the huge place where God will angrily punish.
\v 20 God trampled the grapes in the winepress outside the city, and blood came out! The blood flowed in a stream so deep that it reached up to the bridles of the horses and extended for three hundred kilometers.
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\v 2 I saw what looked like an ocean made of glass mixed with fire. I also saw the people who had overcome the beast by not worshiping it or its image and by not allowing its servant to mark them with the number that represents the beast's name. They were standing by the ocean (that was as clear as glass), and they were holding the harps that God gave them.
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\v 3 They were singing a song like God's servant Moses sang long ago. They sang this to praise the Lamb in this way:
\q1 "Lord God, who rules over everything,
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\v 20 Also as a result of the earthquake, every island disappeared, and the mountains became flat land.
\v 21 Huge hailstones, each weighing thirty-three kilograms, fell from the sky onto the people. Then people blasphemed God because he had punished them in this terrible way, and because the hailstones were very large.
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\v 6 I saw that the woman had become drunk because she had drunk the blood of God's people, those who had suffered for proclaiming the truth about Jesus. When I saw her, I was completely amazed.
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\v 7 The angel said to me, "Do not be amazed. I will explain to you the hidden meaning of the woman and of the beast on which she rides, the beast with the seven heads and the ten horns.
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\v 18 The prostitute that you saw represents the very evil city whose leaders rule over the kings of the earth."
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\v 5 It is as though their sins have been piled up to heaven and God remembers them, so now he will punish them."
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\v 6 To the angels whom God assigned to punish Babylon, Jesus said, "Pay back the people of that city to the same extent that they harmed other people. Cause them to suffer twice as much as they caused other people to suffer.
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\v 7 To the same extent that Babylon, like a woman, has honored herself and done the things she wanted to do, to that extent torment her and cause her to grieve. Do that because in her mind she thought, 'I rule as a queen! I am not a widow, and I will never mourn as widows do!'
\v 8 So in one day, terrible calamities will come upon her. The people in that city will die, others will mourn for them, people will be hungry because there will be no food, and the city will burn up. The Lord God is able to punish her because he is mighty."
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\v 9 The kings on earth who have acted immorally with her and have done just what they wanted to do with her will weep and mourn for her when they see the smoke of the fire that will burn there.
\v 10 They will stand far away from Babylon because they will be afraid that they will suffer just as she does. They will say, "How terrible it is for Babylon, that strong city! God is punishing her suddenly and swiftly!"
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\v 11 The merchants of the earth will weep and will mourn for her because no one in her will ever again buy the things that they have to sell.
\v 12-13 They sell ornaments made of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls. They sell expensive cloth made of fine linen and silk, expensive cloth that is dyed purple and crimson. They sell all kinds of rare wood, all kinds of items made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron, and marble. They sell cinnamon, spice, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, and grain. They sell cattle, sheep, horses, and chariots. They even sell human beings as slaves.
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\v 14 The good things you people longed to have are gone! All your luxurious and splendid possessions have vanished! They will be gone forever!
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\v 15 The merchants who sold these things and who had become rich will stand far away because they will be afraid that they will suffer just as the city has. They will weep and mourn,
\v 16 and they will say, "Terrible things have happened to that great city! That city was like a woman dressed in clothes made of fine linen cloth and expensive cloth dyed purple and crimson, and adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls.
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\v 21 Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large stone for grinding grain, and he threw it into the ocean. Then he said, "You people in the great city of Babylon, God will throw down your city so that it will disappear just as that stone disappeared in the ocean! Your city will be gone forever!
\v 22 In your city, there will never again be anyone playing harps, singing, playing flutes, or blowing trumpets. There will no longer be any skilled workers making things. There will never again be people grinding grain at the mills.
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\v 23 No lamp will ever again shine there. There will never again be the happy voices of any bridegroom and his bride. God will destroy your city because your merchants were the most important men in the world. You used witchcraft to deceive all the people of the nations.
\v 24 You are also responsible for killing the prophets and others of God's people. Indeed, you are guilty of every murder committed on the earth!"
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\v 14 All the unbelievers—those who had been in the place where they waited after they died—were thrown into the burning lake. The burning lake is the place in which people die the second time.
\v 15 God also threw the people whose names were not in the book, the book where God has written the names of the people who have eternal life, into the lake of fire.
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\v 26 They will bring the glorious treasure of all the nations into the city.
\v 27 Nothing that is morally impure, no one who does deeds that God considers detestable, and no one who tells lies will ever enter that city. Only those people whose names are written in the book that belongs to the Lamb, the book that has the names of people who have eternal life, will be there.
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\v 11 Since that time is near, if those who act in an evil manner want to continue to act that way, let them continue to do so. God will soon pay them back for that. If those who are vile want to continue to be vile, let them continue to do so. God will soon pay them back for that. Those who are acting righteously should continue to act righteously. Those who are perfect should continue to be perfect."
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\v 12 Jesus says to all people: "Listen! I am coming soon! And I will pay back and punish or reward everyone according to what each one has done.
\v 13 I am the one who began all things and the one who will cause all things to end. I am before all things and I am at the end of all things.
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\v 16 "I, Jesus, sent my angel in order that he might say to you people who are the groups of believers that all these things are true. I am the descendant of King David whom the prophets promised would come. I am the one who is like the bright morning star."
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\v 17 God's Spirit and his people, who are like the bride of Christ, say to each one who desires to believe, "Come!" Whoever hears this should also say to each one who desires to believe, "Come!" The people who want to come should come! Everyone who desires the water that enables people to live forever should take it as a free gift!
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\v 18 I, John, solemnly warn everyone who hears the message about what I have foretold in this book: If anyone adds anything to this message, God will punish him in the ways that this book tells about.
\v 19 If anyone takes away any of the message about what I have foretold in this book, God will take away that person's right to eat fruit from the tree that enables people to live forever. He will also take away that person's right to enter God's city. Both these things are described in this book.
\s5
\p
\v 20 Jesus, who says that all these things are true, says, "Certainly I am coming soon!" I, John, reply, "May it be so! Lord Jesus, come!"
\p
\v 21 I pray that our Lord Jesus will continue to act kindly to all of you who are God's people. Amen!

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# Unlocked Dynamic Bible
*an unrestricted Bible intended for translation into any language*
This work is based on *A Translation For Translators* by Ellis W. Deibler, Jr., which is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://git.door43.org/Door43/T4T).
# License
## Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
This is a human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the [license](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
### You are free to:
* **Share** — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
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The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
### Under the following conditions:
* **Attribution** — You must attribute the work as follows: "Original work of the Unlocked Dynamic Bible in English available at https://unfoldingword.org/udb/". Attribution statements in derivative works should not in any way suggest that we endorse you or your use of this work.
* **ShareAlike** — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
**No additional restrictions** — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
### Notices:
You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.
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# Unlocked Dynamic Bible - English
a Bible intended to be freely available for people to translate into any language
## Overview
The Unlocked Dynamic Bibel (UDB) is an open-licensed translation of the Bible based on *A Translation For Translators* by Ellis W. Deibler, Jr., which is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://git.door43.org/Door43/T4T). The UDB is intended to provide a simple, clear presentation of the meaning of the Bible without using any figures of speech, English idioms, or difficult grammar.
This repository contains the USFM source files for the Unlocked Dynamic Bible.
## Viewing
To read or print the formatted UDB, see the UDB project on [Bible in Every Language] (https://bibleineverylanguage.org/index.php/translations/).
To view the repository of the Unlocked *Literal* Bible, go to [WycliffeAssociates/en_ulb] (https://git.door43.org/WycliffeAssociates/en_ulb).
## Contributors
If you are a contributor to this UDB project, please add your name to the contributor
field in the [manifest.yaml] (https://git.door43.org/WycliffeAssociates/en_udb/src/branch/master/manifest.yaml) file.
If you will be editing this UDB, please see [Introduction to the UDB] (https://git.door43.org/WycliffeAssociates/en_udb/src/branch/master/00-About_the_UDB/UDB-1-Intro.md) and [Decisions Concerning th UDB] (https://git.door43.org/WycliffeAssociates/en_udb/src/branch/master/00-About_the_UDB/UDB-2-Decisions.md).

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